Published: Saturday, 26 April 2014 Written by Chip Tatum 

Las Vegas – Federal authorities have been placed on alert as a Secret Federal Grand Jury has convened somewhere in the U.S. to consider charges that Sands CEO, Sheldon Alderson, has personal involvement of crimes admitted to by the Sands Corporation.

Sands is a group of Nevada based, International gaming companies.

The possibility of this scenario came to my attention while being held in Miami Federal Detention Center. The Federal prisoner in the cell next to mine came to me for advice. He had been approached by the Las Vegas FBI with the requirement to testify against his former associate, Sheldon Adelson, or face additional prosecution which could land him in Federal Prison for an additional 25 years. He further explained that his other former associates were being summoned to testify. He feared for his life and the life of his wife. Alderson is known for biting when cornered. And he has a very long reach.

I advised my neighbor that to spend 25 years more in Federal prison was a death sentence for him as his health was poor to begin with and the health care system was very poor in prison.

I received a message early this week that the process has begun. My friend, since released from Federal Prison after serving his term, was taken back into federal custody by authorities. His wife has been placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program to protect her from any attempts to silence her and her husband by the Adelson Organization.

A little history concerning the Adelson Organization is appropriate here for those of you who are unaware of his empire.

Federal Money Laundering charges where settled by the Sands Corporation in August 2013. Sands Corporation agreed to repay the federal government more than $47 million to resolve a money-laundering investigation which cast an unwanted glare on Mr. Adelson and his gambling empire. See Article

However, during the course of the investigation, numerous references to additional activities by the Gaming Boss and his staff led prosecutors to open investigations into those and other activities. His involvement in the Payday Loans arena and processing of internet gaming proceeds came into focus. Credible sources from within the Department of Justice have stated that investigations have proven fruitful to the point that a Federal Grand Jury has been convened in secret.

At the Federal level, Grand Juries can, and do, investigate criminal activity, especially organized crime.

Due to the Gaming Bosses purported past activities and tie into organized crime, Grand Jury witnesses have been entered into the Witness Protection Program, and stepped-up surveillance of the targets is in place.

Sources from within the Adelson organization have stated that, “There is a lot of movement going on. Attorneys and political contacts are involved in moving monies, selling assets, and preparing a backup to move them to a safe jurisdiction”. It is reported that the Adelson organization is using Israeli contacts to arrange flight to one of nine destinations. Negotiations with those countries are currently underway. These actions on the part of Adelson’s employees indicate that there may be an attempt to flee prosecution on the Adelson organization’s part.

Federal officials have beefed up surveillance of the members of the Adelson organization. “He has the contacts and ability to move quickly”, a Federal source has stated. Adelson has a fleet of Boeing 747′s and other aircraft with the ability to fly to hundreds of international destinations, including the destination on the top of Adelson’s amnesty list, China

Sources tell us that among Federal criminal violations currently being considered are:

• 18 U.S.C. § 201 Bribery 18 U.S.C. § 1961–1968 RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act,)
• 18 U.S.C. § 1956 Money Laundering• 18 U.S. Code § 1343 Wire Fraud
• 18 U.S.C. § 158 et seq. Human Trafficking
• 22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq. Violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)
• 26 U.S. Code § 7201 - Attempt to evade or defeat tax

But the goings on behind the closed doors of the grand jury room have remained a secret.

Grand juries — first recognized in the Magna Carta, the English legal charter, in 1215 — have been around for centuries. But their procedures are unfamiliar to most people outside the legal system. The concept of the grand jury was so firmly established in the law that the Founding Fathers provided for grand juries in the Bill of Rights. The Fifth Amendment says that “no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury…”

There are several reasons why grand jury proceedings are a secret. Witnesses appearing before a grand jury have a right to an attorney, but the lawyer must stay outside the room. Like trial juries, grand jury deliberations are conducted in secret. Only the grand jury, the prosecutor, the witness under examination, the court reporter and an interpreter (if one is required) may be present in the grand jury room. But unlike a trial jury, a grand jury does not determine guilt or innocence — only whether there’s probable cause to believe a person or persons committed a crime. Whereas a trial jury reaches a verdict on whether the accused is convicted or acquitted, a grand jury can decide whether to bring charges via a written indictment. The federal grand jury hears evidence presented by a federal prosecutor. Download the Federal Grand Jury Handbook

The grand jury has no investigative staff of its own, so it relies on the prosecutor’s information and expertise. The prosecutor shapes the case before the grand jury, deciding which witnesses will be called and what evidence to present. The grand jury may ask to call additional witnesses if necessary. It is customary for the prosecutor to question a witness first, followed by a grand jury foreperson. Then, other members of the grand jury may question the witness. Often the jurors will ask the prosecutor to ask a question, rather than asking it themselves. A witness may ask to leave the room to speak with their attorney but the lawyer is then at a disadvantage, having not heard the proceedings. A witness may also invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and refuse to answer a question.

Federal grand juries are composed of 16 to 23 individuals selected at random “from a fair cross section of the community” in the district in which the grand jury convenes, according to the Federal Grand Jury Handbook. The names are generally drawn from lists of registered voters. Twelve of the minimum 16 members required to be present must vote in favor of an indictment before it can be returned.

The Grand Jury is set to hear testimony from a large number of witnesses. The witnesses being brought in from around the world include former associates of Adelson. Many former associates are serving time in Federal Prison, State Prison and/or are in the Witness Protection Program. On specific information received, the U.S. has summoned foreign and domestic officials who were found receiving monies for favors from Adelson and his special interest group. Several foreign law enforcement officers and politicians involved with Adelson in various illegal activities have also been summoned.

http://chiptatum.com/index.php/articles/22-time-running-out-on-nevada-crime-boss-sheldon-adelson-looking-at-options

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He reads just like the typical common-or-garden Global Bankster-Gangster from the Syndicate we all know and love…

I’ve noticed in the past that a variety of people in the news – for some reason or another - had frequented these “gaming rooms” prior to their notoriety. The thought crossed my mind a while back, that these gaming rooms were perhaps recruiting spots for the CIA, seeking a specific profile aka easily influenced, controlled and manipulative profiles. It was only a fleeting thought at the time…

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Harry Reid’s Curious Soft Spot for Sheldon Adelson

May 8, 2014

6/09/2014 @ 12:12PM

Few of us are inclined to look a gift horse in the mouth, and that applies in spades to journalists running with a sensational news story. But even by normal media standards, recent reports about the bones of 796 babies being found in the septic tank of an Irish orphanage betray a degree of cynicism and irresponsibility rarely surpassed by allegedly reputable news organizations.

Although the media attributed the “dumped in a septic tank” allegation to Catherine Corless, a local amateur historian, she denies making it. Her attempt to correct the record was reported by the Irish Times newspaper on Saturday (see here) but has been almost entirely ignored by the same global media that so gleefully recycled the original suggestion. That suggestion, which seems to have first surfaced in the Mail on Sunday, a London-based newspaper, reflected appallingly on the Sisters of Bon Secours, the order of Catholic nuns at the center of the scandal.

An image was created of satanic depravity: wicked-witch nuns shoveling tiny human forms into a maelstrom of excrement and urine. In reality the odds that anything like this happened are vanishingly small.

Today the Irish Times has published a reader’s letter that has further undercut the story. Finbar McCormick, a professor of geography at Queen’s University Belfast, sharply admonished the media for describing the children’s last resting place as a septic tank. He added: “The structure as described is much more likely to be a shaft burial vault, a common method of burial used in the recent past and still used today in many part of Europe.

“In the 19th century, deep brick-lined shafts were constructed and covered with a large slab which often doubled as a flatly laid headstone. These were common in 19th-century urban cemeteries…..Such tombs are still used extensively in Mediterranean countries. I recently saw such structures being constructed in a churchyard in Croatia. The shaft was made of concrete blocks, plastered internally and roofed with large concrete slabs

Celtic cross: Some get a better send-off than others. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Many maternity hospitals in Ireland had a communal burial place for stillborn children or those who died soon after birth. These were sometimes in a nearby graveyard but more often in a special area within the grounds of the hospital.”

For anyone familiar with Ireland (I was brought up there in the 1950s and 1960s), the story of nuns consciously throwing babies into a septic tank never made sense. Although many of the nuns may have been holier-than-thou harridans, they were nothing if not God-fearing and therefore unlikely to treat human remains with the sort of outright blasphemy implied in the septic tank story.

So what are we left with? One fact seems beyond dispute: conditions in Irish orphanages up to the 1960s (when the orphanage at the center of the uproar was shut down) were positively Dickensian. Certainly the death rate at many was shockingly high. But who should be blamed? A major part of the problem would appear to have been the pervasive poverty of the time. Because they were so desperately underfunded, Irish orphanages were disgracefully overcrowded, which meant that when one baby caught an infection, they all caught it. Not the least of the hazards was tuberculosis, a then incurable disease that spread like wildfire in overcrowded conditions.

The nuns who ran the orphanage have long since gone to their reward but if they could speak they would no doubt claim they were doing their best in appalling conditions. Certainly it is reasonable to suggest that Irish society generally had much to answer for. As for the nuns, they were so young when they entered religious life — typically in their late teens or early 20s — that they had little understanding of the secular world and were evidently short on managerial skills. Less forgivably, however, they took a highly puritanical attitude to the “fallen women” who had the misfortune to come under their purview. Allegedly they even — in some cases at least — banned the use of anesthetics in childbirth, the better to ensure that mothers would atone for the “sin” of having an out-of-wedlock child.

At the end of the day, the verifiable facts that have emerged so far amount merely to a strong story for the media of one small country.

The one “fact” that turned all this from a disturbing national story into a screaming global sensation is one that is almost certainly false.

There is a moral here for those who are increasingly bewildered by the modern world: the global media are becoming less and less accountable. Sometimes the truth eventually does come out, or at least some of us have sufficient knowledge to suspect the facts are misstated. But very often readers do not have the experience and worldly wisdom to see through the nonsense, particularly in interpreting reported developments in nations whose cultures diverge sharply from those of the West (I am thinking in particular of East Asia, a region about which on the basis of 27 years of residence I can claim some knowledge ).

While we are constantly assured that we live in an Information Age, in reality the noise to signal ratio in our media has probably never been higher. This is an age of disinformation.

Postscript, June 12

Even by the normal standards of internet discourse, this commentary has elicited an extraordinary outburst of vituperation and incivility. Some reader responses have been overtly mendacious and many have been malevolently misleading. In an effort to discredit me, one interlocutor has even attributed to me the absurd view that there is no evidence of human remains at the site in Tuam where the orphanage was located. Do I have to state that I have always believed the media are reliable in reporting such evidence? The larger question is why would anyone make up something out of whole cloth if he or she is sincerely concerned to promote some larger truth? (Incidentally I am in general agreement with the mainstream press on most other aspects of the story, most notably the point that the death rate at Tuam was disgracefully high. This is merely to state the obvious but where internet commentary is concerned if you don’t state the obvious you can count on someone — probably someone hiding behind a cloak of anonymity — to pop up to accuse you of denying the obvious.)

Let’s sum up. The accuracy of the facts I reported remains unquestioned (Professor McCormick and Catherine Corless have been quoted accurately, as can be established by checking out the two Irish Times links included above).

Now let’s consider my interlocutors’ contributions. Although they have a point when they say that Catherine Corless’s comments have been inconsistent, they cannot gainsay the fact that her settled position as of today is the one I have quoted above.

 My interlocutors have done little to challenge Finbar McCormick’s expert testimony. True, they have produced a map on which a sewage tank is marked but contrary to their contention this proves nothing. Given that an institution – a so-called workhouse for the indigent – already existed at the site as far back as the nineteenth century, the existence of a cesspit in close proximity to the building was entirely to be expected.

Basically we are still left with a totally confused picture. But even if we are to assume that the babies’ last resting place was a disused sewage tank, this does not justify the sensational “dumping babies bodies in a septic tank” allegation that made this story a global sensation. On the whole I agree with Andrew Brown, a commentator on religious matters, who has written a thoughtful and balanced commentary for the London Guardian. As he points out, for those who want to dismiss the nuns as wicked witches, the problem is chronology. He comments: “If the bodies were placed in a sewage tank long after it had been drained and disused, this would seem much less shocking. That less shocking story is at least plausible.”

In defending the global headlines, the media have to prove that the nuns consciously shoveled babies’ bodies into a hell-brew of human waste. This sets the evidential bar rather high:

1. The media have to show that the bodies were “dumped.”
2. They have to show that the place where these bodies were “dumped” was indeed a sewage tank.
3. They have to show that the sewage tank was still being use for its original purpose at the time the bodies were placed in it.
4. They have to show that the nuns were conscious of the utterly blasphemous nature of what they were allegedly doing.

My point remains that though many of the nuns may have been holier-than-thou harridans, blasphemy is unlikely to have figured in their agenda. No one has come even close to substantiating the implied charge of blasphemy and I don’t think anyone ever will.

My case rests. The image of nuns consciously dumping babies in a septic tank is one of the most irresponsible press hoaxes of modern times.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/06/09/that-story-about-irish-babies-in-a-septic-tank-is-a-media-hoax/

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Same Media That Ignored Kermit Gosnell Pushed Hoax of Babies Buried in Mass Grave in Septic Tank

by Wesley J. Smith | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 6/21/14

Remember when the media ignored en masse the mass murderers/late term abortions of the monster Kermit Gosnell? Remember the empty seats at the trial? Remember the important stories that were never written?

In that highly newsworthy circumstance, the media knew what it didn’t want you to know.

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But notice how quickly this same media spread the word–nay, ​breathlessly reported one unsubstantiated local Ireland story–that the bodies of long-dead babies were found discarded in a septic tank at a long closed home for unwed mothers run by nuns.

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Example, the Washington Post...

In a town in western Ireland, where castle ruins pepper green landscapes, there’s a six-foot stone wall that once surrounded a place called the Home. Between 1925 and 1961, thousands of “fallen women” and their “illegitimate” children passed through the Home, run by the Bon Secours nuns in Tuam. Many of the women, after paying a penance of indentured servitude for their out-of-wedlock pregnancy, left the Home for work and lives in other parts of Ireland and beyond.

Some of their children were not so fortunate. More than five decades after the Home was closed and destroyed — where a housing development and children’s play ground now stands — what happened to nearly 800 of those abandoned children has perhaps now emerged: Their bodies were piled into a massive septic tank sitting in the back of the structure and forgotten, with neither gravestones nor coffins.

One itty-bitty problem: It isn’t true.

From a commentary in Forbes by Eamonn Fingleton

Today the Irish Times has published a reader’s letter that has further undercut the story. Finbar McCormick, a professor of geography at Queen’s University Belfast, sharply admonished the media for describing the children’s last resting place as a septic tank. He added: “The structure as described is much more likely to be a shaft burial vault, a common method of burial used in the recent past and still used today in many parts of Europe…

The one “fact” that turned all this from a disturbing national story into a screaming global sensation is one that is almost certainly false.

The Post (which ran two stories on the “septic tank” babies) and other outlets have been forced to issue correctives.

So we are left with an interesting question: Why would real murders of babies–that took place in the present day–be all but ignored, while a false report of disrespectfully discarded bodies from many decades ago be reported high profile internationally?

Answer: The former story reflected badly on abortion, so beloved by most in the media, while the latter validated their anti-Catholic bigotry–particularly their disdain for that church’s views toward sexual morality and pro-life activism.

This is one example of why the public’s trust in the media is in the, well, septic tank. They earn every ounce of our disdain.

LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a bioethics attorney who blogs at Human Exeptionalism.

http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/21/same-media-that-ignored-kermit-gosnell-pushed-hoax-of-babies-buried-in-mass-grave-in-septic-tank/

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Original English Newspaper Source w/ pictures that didn’t fit the reporters biased story-line:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2645870/Mass-grave-contains-bodies-800-babies-site-Irish-home-unmarried-mothers.html

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Analysis:

• The person originating the story, Catherine Corless, denies making any references to a septic tank and never used verbiage like “dump the bodies”.
• Other locals prayed at and decorated the graves for years, and apparently did not find anything shocking about the mass graves apart from the fact that it is, well, a grave.
• The shocking aspect of the story comes specifically and singly from the idea that someone found a septic tank an appropriate burial method. Remove that, and all you have is a mass grave in a country where misery was common, properly cared for by the locals.

The average number of deaths over the period in question was 18-20 per year. That is about 1-2 per month, in depression and war years, in one of Europe’s poorest countries, in institutions where “TB was rife?” And that’s a scandal? I would say the nuns did a pretty good job under very difficult conditions. Try looking at the number of people who die from Cross Infection in hospitals, not decades ago, but today! That’s if they recorded them as well as this Children’s Home did…

The Irish News (sourced in Forbes article) every baby in question had a certificate of death. They were registered and recorded with the Government authorities of the time. Does that sound like dead bodies being secretly and unceremoniously dumped?

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I grew up in Ireland (like the Forbes author) and knew many people who walked a mile or more to school in the fifties – hail rain or snow with no shoes and that was after milking the cows at the crack of dawn. We got free education from the nuns. Many people, especially the media, tend to write from a perspective of life today. The reality is that Ireland was a former English colony until the 1920′s – the horrific conditions of the indigenous Irish Catholics was “beyond the pale” – one can thank the Royal Crown and their aristocratic absentee Land Lords for a history of raw and naked callousness and cruelty.  Ireland has 32 counties. It was only between 1922-1939 that 26 counties of Ireland became a Free State and a Republic much later. 6 counties in the North still belong to the Royal Crown.ression – Beyond the Pale: Around 1450 the English control in Ireland was reduced to a 20 mile wide strip around Dublin (didn’t last long), known as the Pale. The English defended the area, and as such the Irish were unable to completely drive the English off the island. The Pale was surrounded with a fence to keep out the Irish. The 3 major English Lords whose estates were within the Pale formed alliances with some of the neighbouring Irish and became very powerful. Outside the Pale (particularly Munster), former Norman Lords had practically become Irish, and many of them joined with the native Irish in their hatred of the English (this was stopped by the statue of kilkenny, penal laws etc. because if we all got along where would that have left the kings/queens and their treasury…these globalists need strife and destabilization in order to survive in their ongoing land grabs and mining deals.  To travel outside of the boundary, beyond the pale, was to leave behind all the rules and institutions of English society, which the English considered synonymous with civilization itself. IOW, to live outside or beyond the pale was, in their opinion, to be outside of civilization,  that is, uncivilized and with no expectation of civilized treatment. Use the search engine here and type in Irish Famine and Irish Slavery only two of the many atrocities committed by the English against the Irish. It’s only in the past 30 yrs that Ireland has become modernized. Only those people who have lived under the English Empire can really understand what I’m talking about…the history books are much too kind to these parasites.

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Note: They could have just sent them babies to be incinerated for fuel at a local hospital with other medical waste and avoided burying their tiny bodies at all – Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals , right? And hardly a word about it – any word of the investigation one might wonder. And were we given the names of the babies? Death certificates? Were the deaths of little babies reported to the local government to be registered? No!

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (R) is decorated with a medal presented to him by his then-deputy Izzat al-Duri in Baghdad, May 12, 1999. (photo by RETUERS)

Reports about the June 21 clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and fighters from the Naqshbandi Order organization, led by former Iraqi Vice President Izzat al-Duri, have surprised no one.

In fact, a battle among the armed factions fighting the Iraqi army in Sunni cities and towns was expected to break out as soon as things relatively settled down and the gunmen’s influence in Iraq’s Sunni areas was established.

Although news reports indicate that the latest battles in the neighborhoods of al-Riyadh, al-Rashad and Hawija (all in Kirkuk province) happened because those areas refused to pledge allegiance to ISIS, well-informed sources told Al-Monitor that the conflict arose because ISIS sought to kill a number of tribal leaders who have deep connections in the region, most prominently the al-Asi family, which leads the al-Obaida tribe in Hawija.

This incident suggests that the temporary alliance between ISIS and the armed Sunni factions, which revived their role in the Fallujah battles earlier this year, is fragile and can explode at any moment.

There is one central goal common among ISIS, the Sunni factions, the clans, the clerics and the politicians: ending control by the central Iraqi government on Sunni cities and towns. Uniting these disparate groups are the grievances expressed in the Sunni demonstrations, which went on for more than a year, regarding the practices of the Iraqi government.

But after those forces achieved this goal, with victory spreading gradually from Fallujah, Mosul and Tikrit tp areas in Diyala and Kirkuk, the future has become very complex.

A prominent figure in the military council formed in April 2013 after the Hawija massacre and including fighters from Sunni groups and tribes admits that the differences between Sunni fighters and ISIS may explode. However, the essence of these differences is not ideological but related to the objectives of the latest military move. According to observers, the Sunni groups, though in agreement on the need to impose change by force, have many different aims:

• ISIS seeks to establish a state stretching from Iraq to Syria. It will not allow any political solution that preserves the borders of present-day Iraq, nor will it allow armed and political parties to take over the Sunni areas of Iraq. ISIS will be ready to fight a bloody war to defend its interests, a war no different from the one being fought against Syrian Sunni factions such as Jabhat al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army.
• Salafist factions such as the Mujahideen Army and the Ansar al-Sunna may agree with ISIS’ goals but are closer to adopting a Sunni solution inside Iraq that doesn’t involve expanding into Syrian territory. The Salafists may support a solution that ensures the establishment of an independent Sunni state.
• Groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood (the Iraqi Hamas) have close ties to the Islamic Party and support forming a Sunni province, like the Kurdistan Region, linked to the central government in Baghdad but independent from it in terms of the military, laws and managing the economy.
• Mixed factions, which include Salafists, nationalists and former officers of the previous military (such as the Islamic Army, the “1920 Revolution Brigades” and tribal fighters), reject Iraq’s division and the formation of a Sunni province. They want a political change in Iraq that ensures the identity of the Sunni areas.
• Baathist factions linked to the Baath party (such as the Army of the Naqshbandi Order) seek to restore Baath rule in Iraq. They believe that Iraq is currently being ruled by Iran and that there is no solution but toppling the current rule and establishing a new order.

Forces with such disparate goals can never agree on a final settlement. But they can unite, like they are today, on the idea of an armed rebellion, which is actually happening on the ground.

The differing goals point to the inherent complexities of any settlement that could be adopted politically, regionally and internationally on the mechanisms of dealing with the Sunni areas, whether they become an independent region, they form a state with a confederal relationship with Baghdad, all provinces become regions, broad powers are granted to decentralized provinces without declaring them separate regions or the situation remains as it is now and political, legal, and constitutional reforms are implemented in Baghdad to address the demands of the Sunni population.

The question that will be raised in the coming weeks in Iraq, particularly by regional and international parties concerned with the effects of the current Iraqi crisis, is the following: With whom are we going to close the deal?

Of course, ideas for a settlement will become clearer with the participation of traditional Sunni politicians, especially those who have found themselves seats in parliament as legitimate representatives of their cities.

But the crisis has moved beyond the scope of Sunni politicians. They are very far from controlling the Sunni situation, which is expected to spawn new leaders that reflect the map of the armed factions on the ground. These leaders will fight to represent the Sunnis in any talks, and may fight land battles over the shape of the outcome.

Today, there is another fundamental question that can be raised: Will there be a prolonged conflict between the different armed Sunni factions and ISIS before the emergence of a regional, international and Iraqi political vision? The answer depends on the Sunni-Sunni understandings that preceded the military action. Was there an agreement on how to manage the next stage, or was the ultimate goal to start a rebellion?

Most likely, the Sunni political, tribal and religious forces, to which the armed factions are linked, may have agreed early on about how to conduct the dialogue after the rebellion. If so, they can reach an agreement on the formula for the solution, but they are unlikely to have made such an agreement with ISIS. Even less likely is that ISIS, the military force with the biggest presence on the ground, would reach an agreement with the other Sunnis in the future.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/06/iraq-isis-sunnis-clash-future.html#ixzz35jAg7FD0

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ISIS are heavily armed mercenary death-terror squads streaming in from NATO terriroty in Turkey and funded by the Sauds, Qatar, and Kuwait. heavily armed sectarian militants streaming from NATO territory in Turkey and edging ever closer to Baghdad.
Obama should have nipped all of this in the bud when informed by  by intelligence prior to establishing a safe haven (they also have one in Syria where they can pop back and forth when things get too hot). Now these mercenaries are in the middle of populations of people and as much more difficult to kill. Meanwhile Christians and other ethnic minorites are being cleased by fleeing their homes, business’, or by death. The only entity left untouched is Oil….the same thing happened in the Balkans where the first thing these mercenaries did was to protect the oil and the mines….and speaking of Balkanization…

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Read Seymour Hersh’s 2007 New Yorker article titled, “”The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?“

“Either it is a public entity subject to public records laws, or what it is doing is illegal”

by Mikael Thalen June 26, 2014

A regional SWAT team in Massachusetts is refusing to release information on raid statistics due to its belief that it is a private organization.

After being petitioned by the ACLU, the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (NEMLEC), the group that overseas the SWAT team, claimed it was not subject to public records laws.

“When we asked NEMLEC for records about their SWAT policies and deployments, we were startled to receive this response: we don’t have to give you documents because we aren’t government agencies,” the ACLU blog, PrivacySOS, revealed.

Although claiming to be a private entity, the group seemingly has no issue with using government grants and public funds to purchase and maintain armored vehicles and military equipment.

“NEMLEC can’t have it both ways,” said Jessie Rossman, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Massachusetts. “Either it is a public entity subject to public records laws, or what it is doing is illegal.”

The ACLU immediately responded by filing suit against NEMLEC, asking the Suffolk County Superior Court to order the group to release all relevant documents including training materials, incident reports and deployment statistics.

“The public deserves to know about law enforcement operations that are taking place in their communities with their money and in their name,” said ACLU of Massachusetts executive director Carol Rose. “If police agencies hide behind a wall of secrecy, the public cannot judge for itself whether officials are acting appropriately or whether policy changes are needed.”

According to Boston.com, Wilmington Police Chief Michael Begonis, the current president of NEMLEC, has declined media requests for comment.

The records request was part of a nation-wide effort by the ACLU to document the rapid militarization of police as tools of war make their way onto American streets. The report, entitled “War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing,” examined more than 800 SWAT deployments from 2011 to 2012.

“Our analysis shows that the militarization of American policing is evident in the training that police officers receive, which encourages them to adopt a ‘warrior’ mentality and think of the people they are supposed to serve as enemies, as well as in the equipment they use, such as battering rams, flashbang grenades, and APCs,” the report states.

Although 2013 produced the “lowest level of law enforcement fatalities in six decades” according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, police agencies continue to claim that violence is increasing, even as overall violent crime hits the lowest levels since World War II.

Despite this, SWAT raids have increased from 3,000 a year to more than 80,000 in just the last three decades. The increase in raids, primarily against drug offenders, continues to produce horrific outcomes for innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire.

Just last May, a 19-month-old toddler was placed in a medically-induced coma after a SWAT team’s flashbang grenade landed in his crib. After finding absolutely no drugs in the residence, the child was taken to a local hospital where doctors are working to close the massive hole in his chest.

Similarly, a 12-year-old girl in Billings Montana suffered second degree burns in 2012 from a flashbang grenade after police mistakenly claimed the residence was home to a meth lab.

That same year, police in Lebanon, Tennessee shot a 61-year-old man to death in a raid on the wrong home.  infowars

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Do they swear on the Constitution?

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Honest men and women do not wear face masks in the conduct of their normal daily business, other than maybe respirators in areas with dust or hazardous chemicals in the atmosphere, or when it is super-cold outside.

Honest men and women are not afraid to be seen going about their daily routines. They have no need for disguises.

Yet, here we have what probably passes for a typical SWAT team:

Black helmets, black uniforms, masked faces. Where have we seen that before?

 ABACA An image taken from a video that allegedly shows militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) executing a group of Iraqi soldiers. nydailynews.com (Propaganda? One wonders did they execute the soldiers or enlist them.)

 

Other then the weapons, the main difference between a SWAT team and the SS seems to be that the SS saw no need to hide their faces.

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Note: I’ve never been a great fan of the ACLU but I fully support this recent endeavor.

The Real History of the American Strategy for Iraq and the Middle East

Image Credits: Ijanderson977 via Wikimedia Commons

June 26, 2014 by Ed Morrissey

The Supreme Court dropped a huge bomb on the Obama administration, unanimously rebuking the President for arrogating to himself the determination of when Congress is in session for the purpose of making recess appointments. According to reports on the opinion, the court may have taken a middle path on what a recess actually is, toning down one appellate court ruling that only allowed for recess appointments between formal sessions:

The US Supreme Court today limited a president’s power to make recess appointments when the White House and the Senate are controlled by opposite parties, scaling back a presidential authority as old as the republic.

The case arose from a political dispute between President Obama and Senate Republicans, who claimed he had no authority to put three people on the National Labor Relations Board in January 2012 when the Senate was out of town.

He used a president’s power, granted by the Constitution, to “fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate.” But the Republicans said the Senate was not in recess at the time the appointments were made, because every three days a senator went into the chamber, gaveled it to order, and then immediately called a recess.

By a unanimous vote, the Supreme Court agreed that the Senate was not in recess, holding that it’s up to both houses of Congress to define when they’re in session or in recess. As a result of the decision, the Senate can frustrate a president’s ability to make recess appointments simply by holding periodic pro forma sessions, a tactic used in recent years by both political parties.

According to NBC’s Pete Williams, the opinion provides a timeframe for Congress and the White House to follow in the future:

That will certainly make it easier to play keep-away from the President. A minority on the court wanted to limit the recess power to strictly the period between sessions, as did one appellate court, but in the end a 5-4 majority decided to allow for a looser interpretation of “recess.” Certainly, if Congress wants to stop recess appointments from being made, it will be fairly easy to gavel into session every nine days.

The question will now be what happens to the NLRB rulings during the period when recess appointments provided a quorum. The answer appears to be that they can be successfully challenged and set aside. That was the context of the challenge to the recess appointments in the first place — lawsuits against regulation created in that period that alleged they were illegitimate. This ruling means that the Supreme Court unanimously agrees on that point, a severe rebuke to the “constitutional scholar” President and his abuse of power. More practically, though, the recent appointments to the NLRB can reconstitute that regulation if they wish, so the victory may be short lived for the plaintiffs.

Update: The decision in NLRB v Noel Canning et al can be found here.

Supreme Court decision

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/26/breaking-supreme-court-unanimously-rejects-obama-recess-appointments/

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A unanimous indictment of Obama’s abuse of power. – Obama Inc. won’t care. He’s been ignoring Congress (the people’s reps) for years. Now he’ll just ignore the Supreme Court.

posted at 10:41 am on June 26, 2014 by Noah Rothman

Lois Lerner – Internal Revenue Service

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A handful of former IRS executive Lois Lerner’s emails released by the House Ways and Means Committee seem to be serving as a Rorschach test for political actors and members of the press alike. For some, the early reaction to those emails revealed more about an individual’s thinking about the IRS scandal, and the Republican-led House committees, than it did about the alleged misconduct of one of the country’s most powerful law enforcement agencies.

On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee released emails sent by Lois Lerner to a colleague reveal that she received information about Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) which led her to inquire about referring him and an unnamed organization soliciting him for a paid speech for an audit. After somehow receiving an event invitation meant for Grassley in which the event planners offered to pay for the senator’s wife to attend, Lerner asked her colleague if she could take action on the apparent infraction.

“Looked like they were inappropriately offering to pay for his wife,” Lerner observed in a message to her colleague, Matthew Giuliano.

Giuliano replied by informing Lerner that, not only was it not an infraction but that the incident she wanted to investigate had not yet even occurred. Partisan conservatives and liberals jumped on the email exchange, each using it to support their preconceived conclusions about the IRS scandal. But the emails inspired more questions than they provided answers.

Powerline Blog’s John Hinderaker cautioned conservatives to keep their powder dry. He wrote that Lerner did not appear to be looking to target Grassley specifically, but rather the organization which was holding the event to which he was invited. “Maybe this is an instance of Lerner being trigger-happy when it comes to going after conservative c3s and c4s,” he wrote, noting that the organization’s name was redacted from the released emails. “We can’t judge that without knowing more about the organization.”

“I don’t see any indication that she wanted to throw a Republican senator in jail, and in the absence of more information, I don’t see any evidence that she wanted to persecute a conservative organization, either,” Hinderaker continued.

This is not to say that there is nothing curious about this email exchange. It does suggest that Lerner had what you might call an itchy trigger finger, particularly when it comes to conservatives. Furthermore, in conjunction with the revelation that Lerner half-joked with colleagues about taking a position with the repurposed Obama campaign organization Organizing for Action, it does indicate that Lerner frequently deferred to her partisan instincts.

Over at The Federalist, Sean Davis expressed frustration at those members of the political media establishment who were dismissing the relevance of this disclosure. He specifically cites Slate’s David Weigel who seemed unconcerned about the revelations in this email in part because Lerner did not act on her apparent desire to audit either Grassley or the unnamed group that corresponded with him.

“Intimidation is only wrong once its threats are carried out,” Davis wrote sarcastically. “Abuse of power only counts as abuse when you can find a visible bruise.”

It is hard to fault Davis here for expressing his indignation over some prominent reporters’ seemingly boundless ability to extend those in positions of authority the benefit of the doubt. It becomes more difficult to attribute Weigel’s instinctive dismissal of the latest revelations about the IRS to the languid cynicism that so often accompanies proximity to Washington when one sees that his colleagues in the political press do not share his indifference.

“This does not help her case, which is already pretty bad to begin with,” CNN’s John King observed on Thursday.

“It fuels the speculation that there was actually a political witch-hunt which was motivated by politics,” Politico’s Manu Raju agreed. “It’s exactly what the administration does not want.”

“Makes it hard for the White House to say ‘This is Republicans trying to make a big partisan issue out of a mistake,’” King noted.

“And it raises the question of if this is something that’s in the emails that we have, what’s in the emails that have disappeared, that don’t exist anymore?” Associated Press reporter Julie Pace observed. “And it provides some actual tangible fodder for these hearings that are going to be happening on the Hill.”

Pace’s point is the most important. The emails themselves are not especially damning, but they support the central narrative surrounding the IRS scandal; namely, that political considerations came into play in the application of tax law. Moreover, this email exchange validates the concerns of those who wonder whether Lerner’s missing emails contain information critical to the investigation into this scandal.

It is events like these lead nearly three quarters of the country to support the congressional investigation into the IRS’s alleged abuses. Those in the press like Weigel who reacted with reflexive nonchalance to the latest emails now appear to be out on a limb. The slow drip of developments surrounding the IRS scandal is growing into a torrent, and events are happening faster than they can be explained away.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/26/lois-lerner-irs-cnn-reporters-draft/

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Since the IRS took an ax and gave the hard drive forty whacks there’s noting left but to waterboard Lois Lerner…

Thaddeus Baklinski

NAIROBI, Kenya, April 1, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops is demanding answers about a national tetanus vaccine campaign that they say is suspiciously like campaigns run in other countries where a birth control agent was covertly mixed in.

Run by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, (Rockefeller, Gates, Buffett, Bono, et al) the Kenya campaign exclusively targets Kenyan women of childbearing age (14-49), and excludes boys and men and younger girls who are also at risk from tetanus infection.

The bishops’ statement notes that in the Philippines, Nicaragua, and Mexico, the tetanus vaccine was “laced with Beta human chorionic gonadotropin (b-HCG) sub unit … to vaccinate women against future pregnancy.”

When injected as a vaccine to a non-pregnant woman, this Beta HCG sub unit combined with tetanus toxoid develops antibodies against tetanus and HCG so that if a woman’s egg becomes fertilized, her own natural HCG will be destroyed rendering her permanently infertile, the bishops explain. In this situation tetanus vaccination has been used as a birth control method.

“The ongoing tetanus vaccination campaign bears the hallmarks of the programmes that were carried out in Philippines, Mexico and Nicaragua. We are not certain that the vaccines being administered in Kenya are free of this hormone,” the bishops state.

The bishops are seeking answers to the following questions:

• Is there a tetanus crisis on women of child bearing age in Kenya? If this is so, why has it not been declared?
• Why does the campaign target women of 14 – 49 years?
• Why has the campaign left out young girls, boys and men even if they are all prone to tetanus?
• In the midst of so many life threatening diseases in Kenya, why has tetanus been prioritized?

The Kenyan bishops also question why the campaign has had limited public input, unlike other national health initiatives where the public can ask questions, and no consultation with the Catholic Church at all, despite the Church being heavily involved in the provision of medical services.

“There has not been adequate stakeholder engagement for consultation both in the preparation and implementation of the campaign. The Catholic Church has not been engaged unlike other public health initiatives where we have been invited to participate as a key stakeholder,” the bishops state.

The Catholic Church in Kenya maintains an extensive network of health facilities, including 54 hospitals, 83 health centers, 311 dispensaries and 17 medical training institutions.

In the statement the bishops acknowledge that maternal and neonatal care is imperative in the prevention of death, but maintain that adequate and clear information should be provided to the general public to avoid misinformation and propaganda in regard to this vaccine.

“The sanctity of Life and the dignity of the human person must always be priorities in health care,” the bishops state.

“The Catholic Church, in the absence of proper and adequate information, will not shy away from raising moral questions on matters affecting human life,” they conclude.

The full text of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops statement is available here.

source: lifesitenews

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Kenyan Gov. Response – the usual … “save the children”

October 8, 2014 By 21wire

“Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Current Ebola outbreak predicted and fictionalized as “flu”!

Rockefeller Foundation fictional scenario depicts pandemic to be used for “top-down government control”

By Shepard Ambellas
Intellihub.com

A Rockefeller Foundation white paper published in May of 2010 titled, Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development, takes a look at hypothetical future scenarios which may be used to benefit privy globalist corporations, businessmen and organizations at a later time.

Shockingly published in the Scenario Narratives section on page 18, titled Lock Step, the Rockefeller Foundation nearly hit the nail on the head with their futuristic and fictitious scenario. I mean what are the chances? Come on. It literally follows lockstep.

An excerpt from page 18 reads:

“In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1, this new influenza strain originating from wild geese was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults. The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers.

The pandemic blanketed the planet though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wildfire in the absence of official containment protocols. But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’s initial policy of “strongly discouraging” citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders. However, a few countries did fare better China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter post-pandemic recovery.”

Basically, the publication is insinuating that a new world will be formed after a pandemic strikes, allowing “top-down government control” and “more authoritarian leadership”. And you know what? They may not be that far off.

The white paper goes on to fantasize how the Chinese government best dealt with the pandemic as their quarantine and forced detention methods were stringent.

Youtube – Published on Oct 6, 2014 – Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development – http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/…

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Ladies and gentlemen, this paper lays out the elites entire plan to cull a good chunk of the Earth’s population which was also pointed out in my film Shade (2013).

Source: Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development – The Rockefeller Foundation – Read original article and more on this subject at Intellihub.com

http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/10/08/rockefeller-foundations-futurist-paper-details-ebola-plot/

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Related (aldous huxley – obsessed with eugenics, wells, rhodes, wolfe, webbs, maynard keynes.. et al):

http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/?s=fabian+socialists

http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/leonard-woolf-as-an-architect-of-the-league-of-nations/

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“It is vital to understand that the New World Order is inextricably tied to the Fabian Socialists which formed in England during the later part of the 1800s and their intricate plans for a global fascist-socialistic society. In fact, there is no New World Order outside of the Fabian Socialist agenda. “

In his book The New Despotism, Lord Hewart, written in 1929, revealed the serious nature of the Fabians involvement in the British government: “A mass of evidence establishes the fact that there is in existence a persistent and well-contrived system, intending to produce, and in practice producing, a despotic power which at one and the same time places Government departments beyond the sovereignty of Parliament and beyond the jurisdiction of the Courts.” http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/the-crimes-of-the-fabian-socialist-nwo/

Youtube published on Oct 18, 2014 – One of NYPD’s finest arrests a man for playing in the subway after he recites the law word for word that allows him to perform for donations….

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Kalleen was charged with loitering and spent a night in a police holding cell. The video went viral and into the media – the NYPD issued a statement indicating that the officer involved will not face disciplinary measures, but will be retrained.

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Followup – Buskers Rally:

http://time.com/3528961/new-york-subway-performers-rally-for-arrested-musician/#3528961/new-york-subway-performers-rally-for-arrested-musician/

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Note: I’ve been a Manhatten commuter for years and don’t have a problem with buskers nor do other commuters I know. Performers very rarely (if ever) get in your face – the hats on the ground – if you want to contribute feel free – otherwise – walk (or run) on… Listening to buskers is just part of the subway and has been for eons…

FYI: In his day Ben Franklin was a street performer!

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/22/2014

Correlation is not causation but this is uncanny…

Charts: Bloomberg

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-22/it-all-about-ebola-after-all

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A picture can say a thousands words.

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Excerpt….

[...] 3.But what is the link between Ebola and Money-ebola? One suspects the breakdown of constraints on the behaviour of big Pharmacological companies . Control measures like vaccines and basic research is not being done. Even if known, it is not implemented. Remember HIV?

There is the horrible suspicion that they have an effective vaccine against Ebola, but it is too cheap to make a profit.

The Clipboard man below is not worried. He is vaccinated. 

Clipboard guy pics  – google

4. Where are our Champions of Immortality?

Especially L Craig Venter. He has the resources to solve the vaccine problem within about a week:

See http://www.jcvi.org/cms/home/ An humongous concentration of capital and skill (Note how L Craig Venter has morphed into J Craig Venter)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1279988/Artificial-life-created-Craig-Venter–wipe-humanity.html

http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2010/09/mexican-gulf-oil-spill.html

Or perhaps they have already done so . While killing of most of the human race is seen as an attractive option by the-end-justifies-the-means mob , it has already been tried.

It didn’t work then , and it won’t work now.

https://www.academia.edu/8871698/Ebola_and_Money

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Youtube – published on Oct 18, 2014 – …

“clipboard guy”

staged event? vaccinated already?

The corporate media “investigated” and discovered the clipboard guy was needed to direct the medics onto the plane – yet the protective covering appears to  give them adequate flexibility – it’s not like they were going through a maze…

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Patients tried to flee in panic shouting ‘Ebola!’ when medics in Biohazard suits brought elderly woman into London hospital to be tested for the disease.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2802706/patients-tried-flee-pani…

youtube – published on Oct 22, 2014…

The police were found laughing on a global news network/caught by infowars which they’re calling a false flag- theatre starts around 1:15 – certainly weird police behavior considering they’re in a tense crisis situation but since I didn’t see it in context myself don’t know what was going on…maybe a performance for the cameras…

Parliament Hill wasn’t the only attack site. A few blocks away the Rideau Mall was also under lockdown at the same time due to another shooting. There are 2 and possibly 3 shooting sites which apparently happened simultaneously.

By Jamie Schram, Frank Rosario and Shawn Cohen

October 23, 2014

NY POST – page six

By Emily Smith

 R.I.P     (image: hronicleherald )

It pulls on the heart strings.

May God always hold him in the palm of His hand.

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/24/2014 09:11 -0400

If there was one theme from last night’s Cuomo/De Blasio Ebola press conference it was ‘how everyone has been preparing for months’ for Ebola. We can all be reassured, right? Wrong! As The Daily Mail reports (and these stunning photos show), the police officers involved in securing Dr. Spencer tossed their gloves, masks and the caution tape used to block off access to his apartment in a public trash can.

[Video at site

Not just any trash can, but one on a public street corner…

While it is unclear whether the police entered the apartment (which is now locked down and isolated), some are suggesting that for the sake of safety – not to mention public sanity – it would have made sense to discard of these masks and gloves and tape in a biohazard bag.

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Seems like not everyone has been preparing for months (since August) for Ebola… no matter, we are all assured by Cuomo’s reassuring words that Ebola is very hard to catch (just don’t tell the hundreds of healthcare workers who have been infected despit all their precautions).

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-24/nypd-stunner-cops-exit-ebola-victim-appartment-dump-gloves-masks-sidewalk-trash-can

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I remain convinced it  was a staged PR fear-mongering performance drill – test run…. See Ebola strikes NYC: Doctor Home from Guinea Tests Positive for Deadly Virus

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/28/2014

Black Friday is the day when the trademark US consumerism takes center stage for its annual manic, full-frontal exposure around the globe. Here is what it looked like around the US…

People buying TVs

Thanksgiving Day shoppers line up to start shopping at a Target store in Chicago

People carry shoes in Macy’s during Black Friday sales in New York

Shoppers line up outside Best Buy before the store opens in Newport, New Jersey

People line up outside before the Toys R Us store opened in Times Square

Women try on shoes in Macy’s to kick off Black Friday sales in New York

Shoppers wait to enter Macy’s to kick off Black Friday sales in New York

A girl chooses an item from Disney’s Princess toy line up to purchase at the Toys R Us store in Times Square

A shopper carries a TV outside a Best Buy store in Newport, New Jersey.

Shoppers enter Best Buy as the store opens in Newport, New Jersey

People look in the window before the Toys R Us store opened in Times Square.

A girl poses with an Olaf plush toy from Disney’s Frozen toy line at the Toys R Us store in Times Square.

Thanksgiving Day shoppers ride an escalator while shopping at a Target store in Chicago

Thanksgiving Day shoppers carry televisions at a Target store in Chicago

A woman lines up outside before the Toys R Us store opens in Times Square.

Shoppers line up outside Best Buy before the store opens in Newport, New Jersey

A girl looks at items from Disney’s Frozen toy line at the Toys R Us store in Times Square.

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Here is what happened in the UK earlier today:

Black Friday hops the pond: Shoppers compete to purchase retail items on “Black Friday” at an Asda superstore in Wembley.

Shoppers wrestle over a television as they compete to purchase retail items on “Black Friday” at an Asda superstore in Wembley, north London November 28

… And Brazil:

Here, shoppers crowd outside a store before it opens on “Black Friday” in Sao Paulo.

Photos: Reuters

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-28/2014-black-friday-frenzy-america-goes-shopping-photos

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BestBuys website just died.

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“A loose network led by African Americans in the film and arts world has emerged from the fog of tear gas to call for a quiet riot in response: a boycott of Black Friday shopping.” source

This plan; crafted by the rich, spoilt Hollywood crowd will only hurt those financially less fortunate. If you want to call a boycott don’t choose the biggest markdown day of the year. Not very bright!

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FYI: Stores lose money on Black Friday! Every shopper who stays home for a Black Friday boycott puts money in the large retailer’s pockets. The only way to hurt the big retailers is to convince a large number of people to not spend at all or to greatly reduce spending during the holidays.

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It only hurts those less well-off. If one insists on a boycott – then shop locally and support your own community. Unfortunately it’lll take a long time to get Fergusion back on it’s feet since outsiders were permitted to destroy it.

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And will these ultra rich celebrities (leaders and politicians) really want to forgo their share of stocks, bonds, dividends, marketing packages and endorsement packages by encouraging consumers not to consume their products when they discover (if they don’t already know) how it will effect their pockets…don’t think so. They say they’re anti-capitalist – yet we haven’t practiced capitalism for decades – the nwo robber barons switched to “access to market share” some decades back hence the invasion of every country on earth and the gradual increase of monoplies in order to exclude competition. Bottomline: if you can stand the crowds – shop ’til you drop on black Friday…

•  Greater Manchester Police chief said mayhem was ‘totally predictable’ but that stores did not have enough staff
•  Manchester police made three arrests after being called to 7 Tesco stores – one had to be closed after 36 minutes
•  One man arrested on suspicion of assault allegedly told staff member in Salford he would ‘smash their face in’
•  A woman was injured by a falling TV at Tesco store in Stretford, while a female worker left work with a black eye
•  Desperate customers were seen brawling over a Blaupunkt HD TV in Tesco which had been slashed by just £60
•  Scotland Yard confirmed officers were called to three Tesco stores in Willesden, Surrey Quays and EdmontonByEmma Glanfieldand Steph Cockroftand Jennifer Smith for MailOnline

Scenes of violence and chaos broke out across the UK today as millions of customers behaving ‘like animals’ flooded shops and supermarkets to try and get their hands on cut-price goods during the Black Friday sales.

Police were called to dozens of supermarkets as the midnight sales descended into chaos, with shoppers resorting to wrestling one another on the shop floor as they competed for TVs discounted by as little as £60.

One Tesco store in Manchester had to be closed just 36 minutes after opening due to fighting, while another customer was arrested on suspicion of assault in the Salford branch after allegedly telling a staff member that he would ‘smash their face in’.

Two other customers were arrested for public order offences by officers in Manchester, who dealt with some of the worst scenes of violence on the biggest day of discount shopping in the year.

As the discounting frenzy reached fever pitch, there were also reports of staff being left in tears in Cardiff, while another female staff member was apparently given a black eye following a melée in Stretford.

Shoppers in Bristol grappled over a TV which have been reduced from £399 to £249 at the Tesco store in Eastville during today’s Black Friday sales

The four determined shoppers were involved in a tug of war-style tussle as they all tried to claim one of the 50inch Blaupunkt TVs

The disagreement was just one of many which unfolded in Tesco stores across the country as shoppers desperately tried to get their hands on some of the Black Friday bargains

The row broke out as customers pounced on a fresh delivery of discount TVs, which arrived at the Bristol store just after midnight

The shoppers were seen pushing and fighting one another on the shop floor as they tried to get their hands on the reduced item

Shoppers scramble to get their hands on televisions, cooking appliances and other goods at Asda in Wembley, north London, this morning

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More pictures and videos at:  dailymail.co.uk 

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Plumbers gotta shop too…:)

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Watch it all happen on short video’s at site – pretty wild – wouldn’t want to be there for sure!

November 27, 2014  Alex Heber

There’s concern this morning that a pregnant American corn snake is on the loose in Queensland, Australia, and a search is being mounted to find it before she gives birth.

Sunshine Coast snake catcher Ritchie Gilbert told Business Insider he was sent a number of photos from a local vet to help identify the snake on Wednesday.

The snake was spotted in an elderly couple’s backyard two days ago. Gilbert said a carer saw the snake and didn’t recognise it so decided to photograph it for identification.

“One of the photos showed that she was a gravid, which is a pregnant female,” Gilbert said.

“Given the state she was in, in one of the photos, she was lying on her side which is what pregnant snakes do before they drop their eggs.”

Gilbert estimated the snake will lay the eggs “within a week or two” and once that happens it’s very difficult to locate them as snakes are “generally pretty good at hiding the eggs”.

He said while the snake isn’t venomous it does need to be located. Like rabbits or cane toads, introduced species can throw the natural environment off balance, causing problems for native wildlife and agriculture.

“The problem with that is she’s a grade one bio security threat. They eat a lot of native wildlife and like any introduced species they are a threat,” he said.

Corn snakes are native of the southeastern and central United States, and they are extremely popular with snake traders because of their harmless to humans and simple diet. The fact that they normally eat small rabbits and rats makes it easier to look after them at home.

In the UK, there is a dedicated website for corn snake owners.

Australia, being an island continent, has an eco-system that is especially vulnerable to shocks from the introduction of foreign flora and fauna. It’s the reason that the country has such strict quarantine procedures at its airports – a foreign insect or egg that stows away in a holidaymaker’s luggage could wreak havoc on the environment if it makes it into the wild and multiplies.

Gilbert said the snake is quite valuable and there could be someone out there trying to get it back.

“I have no idea how people smuggle them in but there’s an illegal black market breeding program going on and it seems to be going on all the time,” he said.

“A baby can be sold for about $800. The snake could be worth $24,000 if she has 30 eggs,” he estimated.

Gilbert said he has contacted bio security authorities in Queensland to help investigate.

A spokesperson for the agency said they are investigating the threat now and will have a comment shortly.

Gilbert posted this on Facebook overnight:

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Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 added 3 new photos.

Local Business · 11,245 Likes

· November 25 at 11:56pm ·

This article originally appeared at Business Insider Australia. Copyright 2014.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/reptile-hunters-are-chasing-a-pregnant-american-corn-snake-on-the-loose-in-queensland-2014-11#ixzz3KPxemIIz

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That’s a bad snake alright – kill one and it’s a $7,500 fine and 18 months in jail – better to let it bite you and hope you survive otherwise a great business venture if you want to take the risk – too risky for yours truly. Anyway I hope they find it.