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Here's a thought Tracy - "WAKE UP!!" The FBI was in the business of protecting the FBI, killing those who needed to be killed, and leaving a history of worthless evidence...
I'm terribly sorry to have to tell you this Tracy... but there is no Santa or Easter bunny and the FBI does nothing "exhaustively" but Cover it's A$$....
They don't automatically get the benfit of the doubt Tracy, in fact, given their track record - it is terribly important that everything from the FBI is checked against the reality...
It is really sad to see grown men so completely blinded to the realities of the FBI, CIA, SS and military from the late 30's to the present. Snowden didn't expose anything NEW... this has been going on for 80 years... // Joseph
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see posts # 936,937. and 938 above // gaal
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FBI informant system called a failure
House report finds no prrof against Bulger---------------------------------------------------------------------
By Ralph Ranalli, Boston Globe Staff, 11/21/2003
Ending a two-year investigation into the 40-year history of the FBI's organized-crime informant program in New England, a congressional committee has branded the program as "one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement" and has vowed to turn its attention to nationwide FBI management practices.
The report by the House Committee on Government Reform charges that, as a result of the ultrasecret informant program, FBI agents became corrupt, encouraged perjury in death penalty cases, let innocent men languish and die in prison, and allowed people to be murdered, all in the name of protecting informants.
The report states that continued vigilance over the FBI's use of informants is essential in an era "when the United States is faced by threats from international terrorism, and a number of law enforcement tools are being justifiably strengthened."
"The results of the committee's investigation make clear that the FBI must improve management of its informant programs to ensure that agents are not corrupted," the report states. "The Committee will examine the current FBI's management, security and discipline to prevent similar events in the future."
The report also states that the committee failed to substantiate allegations that one of the probe's key witnesses, former Senate president William M. Bulger, received any favors from the FBI or used his power to punish those who investigated his informant brother, South Boston underworld boss James "Whitey" Bulger.
It does, however, allege that some of William Bulger's testimony before the committee was inconsistent with the testimony of other witnesses.
Titled "Everything Secret Degenerates: The FBI's Use of Murderers as Informants," the report also faulted the US Department of Justice for not doing more to aid the congressional probe and obstructing its work.
"Throughout the Committee's investigation, it encountered an institutional reluctance to accept oversight," the report states. "The Committee has concluded that the Justice Department failed to take responsibilities to assist Congress as seriously as it should have."
The critical report is the latest fallout from the Boston FBI informant scandal, which has been unfolding for more than five years. Related events have included the imprisonment of a decorated former FBI agent for racketeering, the release of innocent men who were wrongly imprisoned for more than 30 years, and protected FBI informants and witnesses being exposed as serial murderers.
The scandal prompted Janet Reno, in one of her last acts as US attorney general, to adopt tough new informant guidelines in January 2001. Among other changes, the new rules gave Justice Department lawyers a role in monitoring the FBI's use of informants.
In response to the report, an FBI spokesman in Washington said yesterday that, under Director Robert Mueller, the agency has not only embraced the Reno reforms, but has gone beyond them to completely "reengineer" the agency's informant programs with improved training, record-keeping, and accountability.
"When Director Mueller was brought on board, his intent was to change the direction of the FBI and move it into the 21st century," spokesman Edwin Cogswell said. "While the FBI recognizes that there have been instances of misconduct by a few FBI employees, it also recognizes the importance of human-source information in terrorism, criminal, and counterintelligence investigations."
In making its case against the FBI's past practices with informants, the 141-page report went back more than 40 years, focusing on the efforts of agents to recruit and protect informants and witnesses with violent and murderous pasts, such as underworld hit man Joseph "The Animal" Barboza.
To illustrate, the report recounted a tape-recorded conversation between Barboza and New England mob boss Raymond L. S. Patriarca in which Barboza said he planned to kill a rival by burning down his apartment building, even though the man's mother was likely to be inside.
The FBI later used Barboza as a witness to frame four men for the 1965 murder of small-time criminal Edward "Teddy" Deegan. Two of those men died in prison, while the other two, Joseph Salvati and Peter Limone, have been released in recent years after spending more than 30 years in prison. Part of the reason they were framed, the report concluded, was to protect other FBI informants.
"The use of murderers as government informants created problems that were, and continue to be, extremely harmful to the administration of justice," the report states.
While also extremely critical of the Boston FBI's use of two other informants who have been charged with numerous murders, Stephen Flemmi and James "Whitey" Bulger, the committee was less harsh with Bulger's brother William, who has long been rumored to have had a closer relationship with his criminal sibling.
The committee appeared to take at face value William Bulger's representations under oath that he did not use his power to punish law enforcement authorities who pursued his brother, or to aid FBI agent John Connolly, his brother's chief handler with the bureau.
"This is an exoneration," William Bulger's attorney, Thomas Kiley, said yesterday. "This report gives the lie to all of the street legends that people have passed along forever."
Kiley called it unfortunate that the committee spent so much time pursuing his client that it may have distracted them from their legitimate inquiry into FBI wrongdoing.
"All we are is a sideshow to a very critical report on the way that the FBI conducted its business over the years," Kiley said.
The committee report does say that it was "concerned about the factual accuracy" in two areas of William Bulger's testimony, including his assertion that he was not contacted by the FBI about his fugitive brother's whereabouts until years after he disappeared in 1995. That testimony was contradicted by the statements of retired FBI agent John Gamel, who told the Globe that he had spoken with William Bulger shortly after Whitey Bulger's indictment in January 1995 on racketeering charges.
Overall, the report called the informant scandal the inevitable result of the government's use of an "ends justifies the means" approach to law enforcement. ***
"No one disputes the proposition that destroying organized crime in the United States was an important law enforcement objective," the report states, referring to the use of Irish gangsters to inform on their rivals in the Italian Mafia. "However, the steps that were taken may have been more injurious than the results obtained."______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
***COVER UP HARVEY AND LEE >> PROTECT THE GOVERNMENT ,gaal
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You have your opinion of the FBI, that is fine. I don't agree that the FBI is engaging in fabrication of evidence on a large scale. // PARNELL
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SOME LIVE IN A CLOSED BOX //gaal
############################################################Inside the Terror Factory
Award-winning journalist Trevor Aaronson digs deep into the FBI’s massive efforts to create fake terrorist plots.
—By Trevor Aaronson
| Fri Jan. 11, 2013 7:01 AM EST
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/terror-factory-fbi-trevor-aaronson-book
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“The FBI is Responsible for More Terrorism Plots in the U.S. More Than Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab, the ‘Islamic State’, More Than All Of Them Combined”
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http://www.counterpunch.org/author/paul-craig-roberts/
by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/11/30/fabricating-terror/
Why does the FBI orchestrate fake terror plots?
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FBI arrests Rochester man in fabricated ISIS "terror plot"
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/09/18/roch-s18.html
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FBI Frames Muslim-American After He Refuses to Be a ‘Terrorist Informant’
http://theantimedia.org/fbi-frames-black-muslim-american-refuses-terrorist-informant/
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CAIR said in its release that it was concerned about the FBI’s use of confidential informants to entrap alleged terror suspects, and included information from a study by Project SALAM and the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms which concluded that 94 percent of all terrorist plots were fabricated or provoked by the FBI.
##################################################FBI halts terror plot dreamed up by the FBI, then claims victory against terrorism
Sunday, April 05, 2015 by: J. D. Heyes
The FBI and, indeed, the whole of the U.S. intelligence community, is under fire once more for fabricating "terrorist" attacks and then "thwarting" them before they take place, as a means of further empowering the surveillance state and power of the federal government.
According to NBC News, FBI agents have arrested an Ohio man who allegedly was attempting to set up an ISIS cell in the United States and planning an attack against the U.S. Capitol Building. However, U.S. officials also told NBC News that there was never any danger because the government set up the whole thing.
NBC News provided additional details:
Christopher Lee Cornell, 20, of Green Township, near Cincinnati, was arrested after he bought two M-15 semi-automatic rifles and about 600 rounds of ammunition as the undercover operative watched, according to an FBI affidavit.
Government officials said Cornell never purchased any pipe bomb components. "There was never a danger to the public," one official said.
Cornell faces a preliminary court hearing Jan. 22 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati. He will face charges of attempting to kill a U.S. government officer and possession of a firearm in furtherance of an attempted crime of violence.
FBI officials say they got on to Cornell after being tipped by an informant in August that he was posting comments under the alias "Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah" on Twitter in support of ISIS. Shortly thereafter, the FBI sent an operative undercover to meet with him.
Set up by the FBI - never would have happened, otherwise
Court documents say that, during a meeting with the FBI's operative, Cornell said he wished "to go forward with violent jihad" and that was something encouraged by Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. born Muslic cleric who was killed by an American drone strike in September 2011, becoming the first U.S. citizen known publicly to have been added to the U.S. kill-or-capture list of terrorist suspects.
The FBI alleges that Cornell made it perfectly clear that he wanted to create an ISIS cell in the United States. The agency says Cornell told the undercover agent in a text message: "I believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves."
NBC News further noted:
Later, in a meeting in November, the FBI said, Cornell said he wanted to "build, plant, and detonate pipe bombs at and near the U.S. Capitol," then "shoot and kill employees and officials."
Critics say that the FBI is intentionally ginning up terrorist threats so that the agency, along with the intel community at large, as well as friendly lawmakers, can justify higher intelligence budgets and more draconian surveillance and arrest measures.
As noted on Activist Post:
The FBI is at it again. Creating fake terror plots to justify their existence. And this plot hits on all the themes one would expect from a good fake terror plot.
The FBI initially found a patsy by trolling Twitter for support of ISIS. That's exciting because finding someone retarded enough to admit support for them is really difficult. Then they sent an in-house jihadist to team up with the patsy to plan a grand terror attack on the nation's Capitol. Heroically, the moment the 20-year-old patsy said he would "go forward with violent jihad" the FBI steps in and declares a victory in the war on terror.
History of "abuse" under "guise of counterterrorism"
The FBI has been "staging" false terror attacks for some time:
-- In September 2011, Britain's The Guardian newspaper reported on "fake terror plots" and "paid informants" to "entrap" "terrorist" suspects. That story is here.
-- Activist Post reported on a phony FBI "terror plot" in October 2012; that post is here.
-- In November 2011, Reuters reported on another lone wolf patsy here.
-- The ACLU has been following the FBI's "record of extraordinary abuse... under the guise of counterterrorism after 9/11." That report is here.
Sources:
http://www.nbcnews.com
http://www.activistpost.com
http://www.theguardian.com
http://www.activistpost.com
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The Chicago-based cases are not an aberration. Across the country, federal investigations have targeted people with intellectual or mental disabilities, and many relied on secret evidence, according to "The Illusion of Justice," a 2014 report from Human Rights Watch and Columbia Law School. "At times, in aggressively pursuing terrorism threats before they even materialize, U.S. law enforcement overstepped its role by effectively participating in developing terrorism plots," the report concluded.
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Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD
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French children don't need medications to control their behavior.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Post published by Marilyn Wedge Ph.D. on Mar 08, 2012 in Suffer the Childrenposted in fair useIn the United States, at least 9 percent of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is less than .5 percent. How has the epidemic of ADHD—firmly established in the U.S.—almost completely passed over children in France?
Is ADHD a biological-neurological disorder? Surprisingly, the answer to this question depends on whether you live in France or in the U.S. In the United States, child psychiatrists consider ADHD to be a biological disorder with biological causes. The preferred treatment is also biological—psycho stimulant medications such as Ritalin and Adderall.
French child psychiatrists, on the other hand, view ADHD as a medical condition that has psycho-social and situational causes. Instead of treating children's focusing and behavioral problems with drugs, French doctors prefer to look for the underlying issue that is causing the child distress—not in the child's brain but in the child's social context. They then choose to treat the underlying social context problem with psychotherapy or family counseling. This is a very different way of seeing things from the American tendency to attribute all symptoms to a biological dysfunction such as a chemical imbalance in the child's brain.
French child psychiatrists don't use the same system of classification of childhood emotional problems as American psychiatrists. They do not use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM. According to Sociologist Manuel Vallee, the French Federation of Psychiatry developed an alternative classification system as a resistance to the influence of the DSM-3. This alternative was the CFTMEA (Classification Française des Troubles Mentaux de L'Enfant et de L'Adolescent), first released in 1983, and updated in 1988 and 2000. The focus of CFTMEA is on identifying and addressing the underlying psychosocial causes of children's symptoms, not on finding the best pharmacological bandaids with which to mask symptoms.
To the extent that French clinicians are successful at finding and repairing what has gone awry in the child's social context, fewer children qualify for the ADHD diagnosis. Moreover, the definition of ADHD is not as broad as in the American system, which, in my view, tends to "pathologize" much of what is normal childhood behavior. The DSM specifically does not consider underlying causes. It thus leads clinicians to give the ADHD diagnosis to a much larger number of symptomatic children, while also encouraging them to treat those children with pharmaceuticals.
The French holistic, psychosocial approach also allows for considering nutritional causes for ADHD-type symptoms—specifically the fact that the behavior of some children is worsened after eating foods with artificial colors, certain preservatives, and/or allergens. Clinicians who work with troubled children in this country—not to mention parents of many ADHD kids—are well aware that dietary interventions can sometimes help a child's problem. In the U.S., the strict focus on pharmaceutical treatment of ADHD, however, encourages clinicians to ignore the influence of dietary factors on children's behavior.
And then, of course, there are the vastly different philosophies of child-rearing in the U.S. and France. These divergent philosophies could account for why French children are generally better-behaved than their American counterparts. Pamela Druckerman highlights the divergent parenting styles in her recent book, Bringing up Bébé. I believe her insights are relevant to a discussion of why French children are not diagnosed with ADHD in anything like the numbers we are seeing in the U.S.
From the time their children are born, French parents provide them with a firm cadre—the word means "frame" or "structure." Children are not allowed, for example, to snack whenever they want. Mealtimes are at four specific times of the day. French children learn to wait patiently for meals, rather than eating snack foods whenever they feel like it. French babies, too, are expected to conform to limits set by parents and not by their crying selves. French parents let their babies "cry it out" (for no more than a few minutes of course) if they are not sleeping through the night at the age of four months.
French parents, Druckerman observes, love their children just as much as American parents. They give them piano lessons, take them to sports practice, and encourage them to make the most of their talents. But French parents have a different philosophy of discipline. Consistently enforced limits, in the French view, make children feel safe and secure. Clear limits, they believe, actually make a child feel happier and safer—something that is congruent with my own experience as both a therapist and a parent. Finally, French parents believe that hearing the word "no" rescues children from the "tyranny of their own desires." And spanking, when used judiciously, is not considered child abuse in France. (Author's note: I am not personally in favor of spanking children).
As a therapist who works with children, it makes perfect sense to me that French children don't need medications to control their behavior because they learn self-control early in their lives. The children grow up in families in which the rules are well-understood, and a clear family hierarchy is firmly in place. In French families, as Druckerman describes them, parents are firmly in charge of their kids—instead of the American family style, in which the situation is all too often vice versa.
Copyright © Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D.
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Media Will Not Have Access To Jade Helm 15 Military Exercise
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Global Research, July 11, 2015U.S. military officials have now stated that journalists will not be allowed to embed with the military for the upcoming Jade Helm 15 exercise.
One week before the controversial Jade Helm 15 military exercise is scheduled to begin, U.S. military officials announced that journalists will not be allowed to embed with the military. Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria, a spokesman for Army Special Operations Command, told The Washington Post that embedded journalists will not be allowed but later in the summer the Army might allow “a small number of journalists to view selected portions of the exercise.”
In late March Truth In Media’s Barry Donegan reported on Jade Helm:
Throughout July and September of this year, the US Army’s Special Operations Command will conduct Operation Jade Helm, a covert warfare training exercise set to take place on civilian territory amid 17 Texas cities.that Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force and Marines special operators will be taking part in the program and will attempt to blend in with civilians to test their covert warfare capabilities.U.S. Soldiers with Special Operations Command, Europe, 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Detachment Alpha 0114 participate with their Hungarian counterparts in small arms training at Szolnok Air Base, Hungary, July 13, 2012. This partnership development program in various locations in Hungary is designed to foster good communication and relationships in preparation for upcoming joint deployments to Afghanistan.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Tyler Placie/Released)the fact that Texas’ own Alex Jonespurported to be part of Operation Jade Helm’s documentation, which lists Texas and Utah as hostile territory, along with a part of Southern California which appears to be listed as an “insurgent pocket.” Jones characterized the effort as an invasion of Texas and claimed that the program is an attempt to prepare for the implementation of martial law in places like Texas and Utah where large numbers of citizens associate with right-leaning groups like the Tea Party. Operation Jade Helm’s documents also refer to coordination between the military and law enforcement, raising concerns that some elements of the training exercise might run afoul of the, which bans the military from participating in law enforcement activities on US soil.The exercise is scheduled to run from July 15 through September 15.
All requests from the media for interviews and coverage of U.S. Army Special Operations Command personnel, organizations and events are assessed for feasibility and granted when and where possible,”Lt. Col. Lastoria told The Post on Wednesday.“We are dedicated to communicating with the public, while balancing that against the application of operations security and other factors.Lastoria also said it would not be possible to allow a journalist to travel with Special Operations forces in the field. Despite this, The Post reports that media has previously been granted access to Special Ops for reports and books, including the 2011 book “The Wrong War,” by Bing West, and the 2013 work “One Hundred Victories,” by Linda Robinson.
Lt. Col. Lastoria claims that Jade Helm will not be as large as initially described in training materials. The exercise will include around 200 Special Operations forces and 300 additional support personnel. The length of the exercise, number of personnel and labeling of areas as “hostile” has stoked the flames of Americans’ distrust in government.
In late April Texas Governor Greg Abbot sent a letter to Major General Gerald Betty of the Texas State Guard, ordering the Texas military to monitor the federal troops throughout the two month exercise.
“DURING THE TRAINING OPERATION, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT TEXANS KNOW THEIR SAFETY, CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHT AND CIVIL LIBERTIES WILL NOT BE INFRINGED. I AM DIRECTING THE TEXAS STATE GUARD TO MONITOR OPERATION JADE HELM 15.” – TEXAS GOVERNOR GREG ABBOTTDespite Abbot’s actions many Texans still seem to doubt that Jade Helm is a standard training exercise. Speaking in Bastrop, Texas (one of the sites of Jade Helm exercises), Lt. Col. Lastoria attempted to quell the fears of the community. The Post reports that Lastoria stressed that the scenario was fictional.
Jade Helm is intended to simulate U.S. Special Forces helping resistance fighters restore democracy in an imaginary country. The operation’s logo, which features a Dutch wooden shoe, is meant to represent anti-Nazi resistance in World War II Europe.Only 60 of the 1,200 troops are scheduled to be in Bastrop for the training, the majority said to be at Camp Swift, a large Army National Guard base in Bastrop, as well as private property.
In April the Houston Chronicle reported that two Texas counties, Victoria and Goliad, cancelled their portions of the exercise without explanation.
Whether or not Operation Jade Helm ends up being a hostile takeover or simply overblown fears, there does exist a precedent for the U.S. government targeting its own citizens. Documents like the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) report and other documents from the Department of Homeland Security have many Americans asking why everyday, constitutionally protected behavior and thought is becoming criminalized. Many 2nd Amendment supporters and libertarian activists see the federal government as a grave danger to personal liberties.
What are your thoughts? Is Jade Helm a concern or just another conspiracy theory lacking evidence? Leave your thoughts below.
Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist, community activist, gardener and promoter from Houston, Texas. He is the founder of The Houston Free Thinkers, and The Conscious Resistance Network. Broze also hosts a weekly podcast under the name the Conscious Resistance Live. His writing can be found on TheConsciousResistance.com , The Liberty Beat, the Anti-Media, Activist Post, and Ben Swann.comDerrick Broze will be in Bastrop, Texas reporting on the beginning of the Jade Helm exercise. For updates follow him on twitter: @DBrozeLiveFree -
Prime Minister Tsipras’ Bailout Reform Package: An Act of Treason against the Greek People
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Global ResearchAfter having launched a Referendum to refute and refuse the debt bailout agreement put together by the Troika, Prime Minister Tsipras together with his newly instated Finance Minister, comes up four days latter with an austerity package broadly similar to the one which was turned down by the Greek government in June.
This about-turn had been carefully engineered. The Greek people were misled and deceived. The Referendum was an outright ”ritual of democracy”.
Tsipras had made a deal with the creditors. He was in favor of accepting the demands of the creditors all along.
Tsipras led the “NO” campaign while having already decided that in the wake of the Referendum, he would say YES to the creditors and cave in to their demands. This is tantamount to an Act of Treason.
There was no attempt by the Tsipras government in the immediate wake of the Referendum to renegotiate or extend the deadline on behalf of the Greek people in response to the NO Vote. On Monday morning, the day following the Referendum, Yanis Varoufakis who had led the negotiations with the Troika resigned as Finance minister. Did he wilfully resign or was he “dismissed” to facilitate an agreement with the Troika?
Creditors are known to influence appointments to key ministerial positions.(e.g. South Korea, December 1997 at the height of the Asian Crisis, the Finance minister and the Head of the Central Bank are dismissed on the orders of Washington).
Varoufakis was hastily replaced by Euclid Tsakalotos, who took office on Monday morning. His appointment as Finance Minister and chief negotiator (which must have been known well in advance) was broadly welcomed by the EU political and financial establishment.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras together with his new finance minister then held meetings throughout Monday both with Syriza and the opposition. And by the end of the day, a “joint statement” was speedily signed “by almost the entire political spectrum backing his efforts to seek a new deal from the country’s creditors.”
Tsipras later told Parliament that his government had been forced to cave in to the demands of the creditors. He also said that the referendum did not authorise the government to envisage the Grexit, namely an exit from the eurozone.
What he failed to mention is that the NO Vote gave him a political mandate to renegotiate the deal on behalf of the Greek people with a view to at least alleviating the deadly impacts of the proposed austerity measures.
By Thursday, a document of 13-pages containing concrete reforms and austerity measures was sent to the Troika. The initiative was intended, according to media reports ”to act as a foundation to free up a new three-year, 53.5-billion euro bailout package to save the nation from bankruptcy”.
These proposals outlined in the 13 page document spell disaster for Greece
They involve massive tax hikes, a drastic reduction in public sector wages, cuts in pensions including an increase in the retirement age to 67, the privatization of state assets including public utilities and infrastructure: “The government will look at selling off state assets and will get the ball rolling on privatizing the electricity grid company, regional airports and ports including Pireaus and Thessaloniki.”
Neoliberalism and deadly “economic medicine” carried out by a Leftist Party. Below are some of the highlights of these proposals: (emphasis added)
The proposals include aslew of tax hikes including a 23 per cent value added tax on restaurants and catering, a reduced 13 per cent tax on basic foodstuffs, energy hotels and waterand a so-called “super reduced” rate of 6 per cent on such things as pharmaceuticals, books and theatre — perhaps appropriate for a country that pioneered drama. The new tax levels will kick into gear this October.[These tax hikes will kill the Tourist industry and trigger bankruptcies of local restaurants and hotels]Moreover, special tax breaks for the country’s islands — popular tourist magnets — will be scrapped.Only the most remote islands will get to keep the coveted tax breaks.Military spending will be slashed by 100 million euros this year and double that in 2016.Corporate tax will increase from 26 to 28 per cent and farmers will lose preferential tax treatment and fuel subsidies.[This will trigger bankruptcy of farmers]The government is looking at reforms that would bring permanent savings of 1/4- 1/2 per cent of gross domestic product in 2015 and 1 per cent of GDP in 2016 and beyond.Measures aimed at achieving those numbers include discouraging early retirement and standardizing the retirement age to 67 by 2022 — except for those performing “arduous jobs” and mothers raising kids with a disability.[delaying retirement also contributes to increasing youth unemployment]Social pensions will be better targeted, while supplementary pension funds will be financed by employees’ own contributions. Perks such as a solidarity fund will be gradually phased out and health contributions for pensioners will jump from 4 to 6 per cent on average. More reforms will kick in to make the pension system more sustainable, including an overhaul of pension contributions for all self-employed. [Drastic reduction in social benefits will trigger mass poverty]Authorities will shape up public sector wages to ensure that they’re on a downward trajectory by 2019 and that they fit “the skill, performance and responsibility” of staff{Destruction of the public sector]…Amendments on insolvency laws will aim to get debtors to pay up loans, while consultants will help on how to deal with bad loans. Steps will also be taken get foreign investors to pour their money into Greek banks.The government will open restricted professions such as engineers, notaries and court bailiffs. It will draw up laws aimed at getting rid of red tape and making it easier to get business licenses, while reforming the gas market.The government will look at selling off state assets and will get the ball rolling on privatizing the electricity grid company, regional airports and ports including Pireaus and Thessaloniki.[A piece of cake for foreign investors, who will acquire the country's public utilities and infrastructure]What is not explicitly mentioned in the 13 page document is the logic of “vulture investment”, leading to the eventual demise of “Greek capitalism” including its banking and commercial shipping industry.
(The essential elements of both the joint statement and the 13 page document were no doubt drafted prior to the Referendum).
Who are the Main Actors?
The Troika is acting on behalf of the creditor institutions. They do not call the shots. The ECB is integrated by individuals who are in close liaison with major banking interests including JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs.
Similarly, the Washington based IMF (which essentially is a debt collecting bureaucracy) is part of what is called the Washington consensus, with links to the US Treasury, Washington’s economic think tanks and of course Wall Street.
Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director, left
There were divisions within the Tsipras government’s negotiating team. What has to be emphasized is the fact that no concessions were granted by the creditors at any stage of the negotiations.
In February, former Finance Minister Varoufakis had intimated that Greece would meet its debt obligations but would not be able to abide by the drastic austerity measures required by the creditors, including massive lay offs of public sector employees, reform of pensions and social security, etc.
These reforms will not only exacerbate the economic and social crisis, the resulting economic stagnation will also contribute to increasing the sovereign debt. And that is what the creditors are seeking.
Unemployment according to official statistics is currently of the order 26%. Youth unemployment is at 50%. The real rate of unemployment is significantly larger than the figure published by the government.
Debt Conditionalities
What must be understood is that creditors are not necessarily strung on outright reimbursement of sovereign debt. Quite the opposite. Their objective is to make the debt go up through so-called debt rescheduling, which essentially allows them to lend more money to the debtor. This new money then facilitates the process of debt servicing. “We will lend you the money and with the money we lend you, you will pay us back.” New loans to pay back old debts.
This procedure has been routinely applied as part of the IMF-World Bank structural adjustment program (SAP) for more than thirty years. The debt burden goes up. The country is increasingly in a straightjacket. The creditors call the shots on macro-economic reform.
In this regard Tsipras’ new request is for the granting of a package of 53.5 billion euros, most of which will be used to service its debt. Most of the money will not enter the country. This money will be granted by Greece’s creditors in exchange for a dramatic reform package.
Debt and the Real Economy
What has to be addressed is the relationship between debt collection in monetary terms and the real economy.
The creditors will use Greece’s multibillion debt obligations as means to impose deadly macro-economic reforms which will serve to destabilize the national economy and further impoverish the population. These are referred to by the IMF as “policy conditionalities’, which enable the creditors to essentially dictate economic and social policy.
The creditors are largely interested in acquiring real wealth within the national economy, namely the acquisition of Greece’s national banking institutions, its public enterprises, its agricultural land, etc.
The Tsipras 13 page document spells disaster: a further process of impoverishment, the take over of the country’s public assets and infrastructure, bankruptcy of farmers and small businesses, the influx of foreign investors who will buy up the country’s wealth at rockbottom prices.
The substance of the Tsipras proposal was endorsed on Friday July 10 by the Greek parliament in a vote of 251 in favor, 32 against and 8 abstentions. There was a significant movement against the proposal from with Syriza.
The 13 page document outlining government reform and austerity proposals is slated to be used in negotiations with Greece’s creditors over the weekend.
What is at stake in the proposed reform package is an engineered process of impoverishment, the demise of social programs and a de facto bankruptcy program intended to spearhead national and regional level enterprises into bankruptcy.
Greece’s acceptance of the creditors demands is tantamount to foregoing its sovereignty as a nation state.
The economic and social consequences are likely to be devastating.
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New Mexico Cops Bummed They Can't Just Steal People's Money Anymore
Asset forfeiture has accounted for more than 20% of police dept. operating budgets—and that's now banned.
By Phillip Smith
A New Mexico law that has just gone into effect bars police from seizing people's property without first convicting them of a crime, and the cops are already complaining. Equally bad, the cops say, is that when seizures are allowed, the money will now go to the state's general fund instead of to the law enforcement agency that seized it.
As the Farmington Daily Times reported, law enforcement is already yearning for the good old days. Without that incentive, they may just seize less stuff, and they might even reduce drug law enforcement, they said.
"We're going to try not to seize," said Farmington Police Chief Steve Hebbe, warning that "I don't think that they anticipated how much it's going to hit local law enforcement, and we're still trying to figure out how bad it's going to hit us."
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We all have a responsibility to watch this film.
The War You Don't See. (Updated after being censored on YouTube)By John Pilger. John Pilger Website & You TubeYou TuibeSaturday, Oct 12, 2013Editor's second update: John Pilger's film documentary, "The War You Don't See" has been repeatedly censored and taken off the internet by those who don't want it to be seen. But it's like the Whac-a-Mole game and it keeps popping up. The movie and DVD are censored in US theatres with the DVD only available in England and Australia. The last time we published it was in September, 2011 and that was censored by Vimeo. We found it again today on You Tube and republish with this update on Axis of Logic.
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Editor's update: September, 2011. Axis of Logic reader and friend, "The Dream," found the first copy of this powerful John Pilger film documentary for publication on Axis of Logic. After only one month, the film was removed by our source, Vimeo in an act of brazen censorship (see copy of the removed video below). The banning of the film in every form in the US is a testament to its power.
Anyway, Dream kindly found another copy for us to replace the first. Not if but when they remove this one, he promises to find us another. Essentially, our enemies in the media war are confronted with a mallet & mole game, hammering down one mole only to have another pop up! Thanks to all fighters out there are working to keep the truth revealed and powerful. A big thanks to The Dream!
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Editor's Note: Up until now we have only been able to publish the trailer for this movie. John Pilger's film documentary has been widely censored in the United States. But our intrepid Axis readers who offer penetrating insights in our Readers Comment section, The Black Widow and The Dream found it on Vimeo after a long and tedious search. We are grateful to them for finding the full movie and sending it to us. The Dream reports that it is listed as "See the Video Free Online" in many places on the web, only to find that it had been removed. Pilger's film is definitely one that you'll want to see and one the real state terrorists don't want you to see. A description of the film can be found below the video.
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John Pilger says in the film:
"We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home... In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us... Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power."see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDutkYQF9d8
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In English with Portuguese subtitles
Em inglês com legendas portuguesasIn an extraordinary alliance of TV and cinema, John Pilger's new film, 'The War You Don't See', opened in the UK mid-December. Having premiered at The Barbican on Tuesday 7 December 2010, the first Pilger film since 2007 started its UK run at Curzon Soho in London on Sunday 12 December.
On Tuesday 14 December, ITV1 broadcast 'The War You Don't See' at 10.35pm and on Sunday 10 April 2011, the Australian broadcaster SBS aired the film nationally. The DVD is now available to buy in the UK and in Australia.
'The War You Don't See' was nominated for the 'Documentary Award' at the 2011 One World Media Awards.
Further UK screenings with Q&As will take place on Sunday 15 May at Hampstead Everyman, Monday 23 May at Clapham Picturehouse, Sunday 10 July at Duke of York's Picturehouse in Brighton and Sunday 21 August at Cameo Picturehouse in Edinburgh.
The film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an 'electronic battlefield' in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims. But who is the real enemy?
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1 ) "Lee" was deep deep deep undercover.
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2 ) "Lee" didn't exist.
I choose the latter.
--Tommy
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- The reason for nose distortion in a photo that could be widely disseminated would be two Oswalds.
- The reason for the problems in the military records (just one example Felde) would be the existence of two Oswalds. ,gaal
- Hargrove QUOTING ARMSTRONG below
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Marine Corps Unit Diaries
On October 26 the name Lee H. Oswald first appears in the Marine Corps Unit
Diaries at boot camp #257 56-27
NOTE: The Marine Corps Unit Diaries list the name, rank, service number, and mili-
tary occupation specialty (MOS) of servicemen assigned to a particular location. The
Diaries also record changes in assignments, activities and duties. The Diaries allow us
to see, by name, rank, and serial number, the names of Marines who served with Harvey
Oswald at a particular location, and the names of Marines who served with Lee Oswald
at a particular location.
The Marine Corps Unit Rosters, which are similar to the Diaries, list the name, rank,
service number, and military occupation specialty ( MOS) of officers and enlisted person-
nel at a particular location.
Unit Diary #257-56 p. 1521 also lists the names of the three Dallas recruits who
traveled to San Diego with Oswald-Donald G. Davis, Donald M. Elam, and Pleas G.
Scott. A recruit named "Alexander D. Felde," with whom Harvey Oswald would spend
the next 10 months, is also listed in the same diary. 56-28
The Marine Corps assigned service numbers in numerical order to recruits who
enlisted at the same enlistment center. Recruits from the same town, who enlisted
within days of each other, had similar service numbers. Alexander D. Felde's service
number was 1641924, and is between Marine recruits with service numbers 1641923 and
1641927 (Leo C. King, Richard Rasmussen, Peter J. Scifo, and Joseph D. Socha). All of
these recruits, including Felde, were from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area and all en-
listed between October 22nd and October 24th, 1956.
Following the assassination the FBI interviewed Allen Robert Felde (on June
26, 1964) and reported, "He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at Milwaukee,
147Wisconsin in October, 1956. He met Lee Harvey Oswald as a United States Marine
Corps recruit about October 23, 1956 while both of them were assigned to Platoon 2060,
2nd Battalion, MCRD, San Diego."26 56-28 Allen Felde and Harvey Oswald's photographs
appear in the Platoon 2060 yearbook, along with the young men who enlisted in Dal-
las with Oswald and accompanied him on the flight to San Diego, (Scott, Elam, and
Davis).
Felde told the FBI he and Oswald were together through boot camp, ITR train-
ing, A & P School in Jacksonville, and Aviation Electronics School in Memphis, TN.
Marine Corps Unit Diaries confirm that Oswald and Felde were together at all of these
locations except one (the one exception is Memphis-there are no Marine Corps Unit
Diaries available for Memphis), but the diaries list Felde's name as "Alexander D.
Felde" (instead of Allen R. Felde). It is almost certain that Alexander D. Felde· and
Allen R. Felde are the same person, yet the first names and middle initials are differ-
ent. After the assassination Felde was the only Marine interviewed by the FBI who had known
Oswald in both boot camp and ITR training, and his statements about Oswald are significant.
Neither the FBI nor Warren Commission interviewed Davis, Scott or Elam,
but the FBI interviewed another recruit pictured in the Platoon 2060 book, Allen R.
Felde. Felde told the FBI that he and Oswald were stationed together in boot camp at
San Diego until January 1957, and then transferred to Camp Pendleton for combat
training. Marine Corps Unit Diary 8-57, pg. 29 for January 18, 1957 and the unit roster
confirm Felde's statement.3
January- following Harvey Oswald from boot camp thru ITR
Following boot camp eight Marines from Platoon 2060, including Oswald, were
transferred to Camp Pendleton, California for infantry training (ITR). Those eight
Marines were Lee Harvey Oswald, Hubert C. Cooley, Gerald R. Crowley,* Alexander
D. (Allen R.) Felde, Keith W. Marr, Carl G. Salway, Peter J. Scifo, Jr., and Robert W.
Smith. Marine Corps Unit Diary #16-57, pg. 925 listed their transfer as "tempduins"
(temporary duty under instruction),4 and they were assigned to the 2nd Infantry Train-
ing Regiment (ITR).
NOTE: Gerald R. Crowley should not be confused with Ronald Crawley, who knew
Oswald in Japan
The 8-man squad shared the same tent at Camp Pendleton and spent a lot of
time together. Felde said that Oswald continually discussed politics, in which none of
the young Marines had any interest, and he soon discovered that Oswald was "left-
winged."
On their first weekend leave the entire 8-man squad shared a taxicab to Tijuana,
Mexico. Oswald left the group and was not seen again until the squad returned to
Camp Pendleton on Sunday evening. Felde said that on at least four other occasions,
when members of his squad took leave and rode a bus to Los Angeles, Oswald de-
parted and was not seen again until they returned to Camp Pendleton.5 Felde was the
only Marine interviewed by the FBI who went through boot camp and infantry train-
ing (ITR) with Lee Harvey Oswald, yet he was not interviewed by the Warren Commission.
[ . . . ]
The Diaries, however, do not cover three very important locations in 1957,
which conflict with the memories of Marines who were with Harvey Oswald:
In March, April, and May 1957 Allen Felde was with Harvey Oswald at Camp
Pendleton in California (The Marine Corps Unit Diaries for Camp Pendleton end
on February 26, 1957). 57-08/09
In May, June, and July 1957 Allen Felde and Harvey Oswald were stationed in
Jacksonville, FL (The Marine Corps Unit Diaries for Jacksonville end on May 3,
1957).57-08/09
From late July thru early September 1957 Allen Felde and Harvey Oswald were
attending aviation electronics school in Memphis, TN. (There are no Marine Corps
Unit Diaries for Memphis). 57-08/09
March/ April- Harvey and Felde at Camp Pendleton, CA
Shortly after the assassination FBI Special Agent (SA) Robert Schoenecker
interviewed Allen Felde in Milwaukee, WI and reported:
"Both men (Felde and Lee Harvey Oswald) were stationed at San Diego (Boot
Camp) until January, 1957, at which time Felde stated that they were trans-
ferred to Camp Pendleton (ITR training) for combat training. This combat
training lasted until May 1957." ..... until May 1957 32 57-08
SA Schoenecker reported, "Oswald impressed Felde as being 'left-winged.'
Oswald continually discussed politics and wrote to US senators, particularly Senator
Thurmond. Oswald condemned people of wealth and championed the cause of the
working man."33 57-08109 Schoenecker's report was given to the Warren Commission and
published as CE 1962 in Volume 23, pp. 797-798), yet the Commission ignored Felde's
statement and offered no explanation as to how Oswald could have been in Florida and Califor-
nia at the same time.
Further confirmation that Harvey Oswald was in California until May 1957
came from Oswald himself. After his arrest on November 22, 1963 the Dallas Police
found a 7 -page handwritten account of his background among his possessions. Oswald
w:rote that he had served in San Diego, Calif. from October 1956 to April 1957 and at
Camp Pendleton (California) in April and May 1957.34
Finally, Allen Felde's arrival at Jacksonville in May was confirmed by the Ma-
rine Corps records, the Marine Corps Unit Diaries, and the Marine Corps Unit Rosters.
57-16 These records help to establish the whereabouts of Harvey Oswald (thru his Ma-
rine Corps assignments with Felde) and Lee Oswald from late 1956 thru September
1957.
The FBI, following a now familiar pattern of ignoring troublesome witnesses,
ignored Allen Felde's statement and failed to question a single Marine about Harvey
Oswald's presence in Camp Pendleton thru April 1957. The Warren Commission, for
their part, ignored the evidence before them that placed Lee Harvey Oswald in Camp
Pendleton during April and May. They simply reviewed "Lee Harvey Oswald's" Ma-
rine Corps records and concluded that he was in Jacksonville, Florida in March and
April. 1957, and avoided the conflict. 35
May- Harvey Oswald and Allen Felde arrive in Jacksonville
(May 2, 1957)
Marine Corps Unit Diaries for Jacksonville, Florida prior to May 2, 1957 do not
contain the name of Allen Felde. Felde's name first appears in the Marine Corps Unit
Roster for Jacksonville on May 3, 1957. He told SA Robert Schoenecker that he was
attending the Aviation Fundamentals School during this time.36 57-16 Felde was pro-
moted to Private First Class (PFC) and the following day his assignment at Jackson-
ville was extended for 7 weeks, until July 22, 1957.37 These entries agree with the
statement Felde gave to FBI agent Robert Schoenecker who reported, "During May
1957, Oswald and Felde were transferred to the A&P School at Jacksonville,
Florida ...... " 38
NOTE: Marine Corps Unit Diary 104-57, pp. 719 and 724 shows that Allen Felde
arrived in Jacksonville on May 2, 1957, while Marine Corps Unit Diary 105-57, p.
722 shows that Camarata, Bandoni, Brereton, Schrand, Powers, and Lee Oswald
departed for Biloxi on May 2. 1957.39 In other words, Harvey Oswald and Allen Felde
arrived at Jacksonville as Lee Oswald and his group were leaving Jacksonville.
Unfortunately, FBI agent Schoenecker reported nothing about Felde or
Oswald's activities in Jacksonville during the months of May, June, or July 1957 (The
Marine Corps Unit Diaries for Jacksonville end on May 3, 1957). If Marine Corps Unit
Diaries or Rosters existed for Jacksonville in May, June, and July 1957, we would prob-
ably see entries for Allen Felde and Lee Harvey Oswald.
. . . .
FBI agent Schoenecker reported, without realizing that Allen Felde's state-
ments referred to Harvey Oswald, "During May 1957, Oswald and Felde were trans-
ferred to the A&P School at Jacksonville, Florida and in approximately July 1957 they
(he and Oswald) were both sent to Aviation Electronics School in Memphis. Once again
Allen Felde's statement agrees with the Marine Corps Unit Diaries which confirm that
he and Oswald were in Jacksonville until July 1957, and not in Biloxi nor on leave.43
By the end of July 1957 Allen Felde and Harvey Oswald had been together for
nine months-through boot camp, (October thru December 1956-San Diego) ITR train-
ing (January thru April1957-Camp Pendleton, California) and Jacksonville (May thru
July 1957). Felde's claim that he was with Oswald in California until May, and was with
Oswald in Jacksonville until July, conflicts with all known Warren Commission, FBI,
and Marine Corps records (except, of course, the Marine Corps Unit Diaries).
Allen Felde's 10-month association with Harvey Oswald, and their assignment
in Memphis, TN, was undoubtedly the reason Felde was never allowed to testify be-
fore the Warren Commission. This is probably the reason he disappeared and why
many capable researchers have failed to locate him. I tracked Felde to Arizona by using
a social security number issued to him in Wisconsin. In the late 1980's Felde changed
his social security number and continued living at the same address, but denied that he
was the "Allen Felde" who had served in the Marines with Lee Harvey Oswald.
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--Misc. excerpts above from pages 147-163 from John Armstrong's Harvey and Lee.
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So now you're saying that "Lee" didn't work a forty-hour-a-week job while "Harvey" was in Russia. How convenient for the H&L crowd. No pay stubs, no job applications, etc. Nice
// GRAVES ...+++ ..... I call him "Lee Harvey Oswald" because that's who he was. // GRAVES (guess case re H & L is closed to you ,yet you didn't fully comprehend the FELDE DATA,gaal)
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Never did Armstrong say LEE had a Job in this period, never...so its not a NOW type of change sir. , Its like your making things up , criticizing for criticism sake.
AS to the photo there seems to be a distortion of the nose area. // gaal
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GRAVES HITS WALL OF FELDE FACTS (FAILS).
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So "Lee" Oswald would say to them, "Oh, that's a different Lee Oswald from Fort Worth who defected to Russia. We just both happen be former marines from Fort Worth who have the same name and look a lot alike sometimes, for example in this FWST photo of him that looks like me."
LOL
--Tommy
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them ?? Besides police ,who is the THEM ?? Police would have a visit from intell services and told to remove records in an anti-communist intell operation.
Besides police ,who is the THEM ?? Lee is running around in CIA directed activities that sometime connect with MK ultra operations. I will tell you were Lee was ( besides pg 343 to 420 H & L) when you tell me were the MK ultra files are located. ,gaal
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Irregularities Relating to Naval Intelligence files on Oswald
see http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2011/10/irregularities-relating-to-naval.html
OK, Gaal, I'm gonna rephrase it so you can understand.
So "Lee" Oswald would say to friends and acquaintances and complete strangers who had read the newspaper articles (in whichever city) about his defecting to Russia, "Oh, no, that's not me. That's a different Lee Harvey Oswald who defected to Russia. We just both happen be former marines from Fort Worth who happen to have the same name and happen to look a lot alike sometimes, for example in this FWST photo of him that looks like me."
--Tommy
OK,
GaalGRAVES, I'm gonna rephrase it so you can understand.He is leaving his friends to move around in operational activities (as I have stated previously).
Do you oddly believe LEE works 9 to 5 in the Harvey Russia period ?? Did anyone ever say that ??
Complete strangers will have to have LEE use the last name Oswald and then remember the story with a poor quality altered photo. When LEE says Oswald he is in intell operational mode.
Common casual meetings for daily activities and the first name Lee is used.,gaal
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BTW >>>>> McGill university is in Canada and a second set of MK ultra files probably exist in the UK.
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So "Lee" Oswald would say to them, "Oh, that's a different Lee Oswald from Fort Worth who defected to Russia. We just both happen be former marines from Fort Worth who have the same name and look a lot alike sometimes, for example in this FWST photo of him that looks like me."
LOL
--Tommy
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them ?? Besides police ,who is the THEM ?? Police would have a visit from intell services and told to remove records in an anti-communist intell operation.
Besides police ,who is the THEM ?? Lee is running around in CIA directed activities that sometime connect with MK ultra operations. I will tell you were Lee was ( besides pg 343 to 420 H & L) when you tell me were the MK ultra files are located. ,gaal
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Irregularities Relating to Naval Intelligence files on Oswald
see http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2011/10/irregularities-relating-to-naval.html
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Why did the bad guys need to publish a photo of "Lee Harvey Oswald" or any photo for that matter in the newspaper story about "Harvey's" defection to Russia? Why not publish only the text of the article?
--Tommy
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Lee could have been seen/identified inadvertently in a public fashion and the altered photo could help with mollifying the public misstep. gaal
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the why of it
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Answer: We don't know where "Lee" was, so he must have been hiding in CIA safe houses.
LOL
--Tommy
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Gee you didn't read my reply. He appeared in several places. Well LEE is ultra deep CIA operative...were else could he live ? His counterpart is in the public/GRU/KGB/STATE DEPT/Media view.
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MK ULTRA HAD A NUIMBER OF SAFEHOUSES
Adele Edisen - JFK Assassination Debate - The Education Forum
Apr 10, 2004 - 15 posts - 8 authorsPage 1 of 2 - Adele Edisen - posted in JFK Assassination Debate: One of the most important figures in the events surrounding the assassination ... -
If one reads all the thread its possible to not be .....,gaal
Barking mad...! // Laverick (unrelated people can look alike -try this phrase in GOOGLE,some below,gaal)
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I notice no one will answer Tommy's poignant question. What did 'Lee' tell his friends and family whilst 'Harvey' was in the USSR? // Laverick (per H & L book the family is IN on it, moved around a lot, NEW friends didn't know about Russian LHO. A truly poignant idea is reading and retaining the material presented in the H & L book which is this threads theme. gaal)
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AS long as LEE didn't get photographed/filmed in a public source, then LEE could do things like incriminating Castro gun running , ect. gaal
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Portraits of People Who Look Alike But Aren’t Related At All
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http://petapixel.com...related-at-all/
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40 People Who Look So Much Like Celebrities It’s Scary
http://www.buzzfeed....ties#.ixlZzrEqK
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the why of it
Where was "Lee" living when "Harvey" defected to the U.S.S.R.?
How much longer did "Lee" continue living there after the story about "Lee Harvey Oswald of Fort Worth" hit the Fort Worth Star Telegram and the front page of other U.S. newspapers on October 31, 1959? https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IrwyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4eoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3310,5481990&dq=lee+oswald+russia&hl=en
Exactly how much did "Lee" and family move around after "Harvey" defected to the U.S.S.R.?
Where did "Lee" / they live during this migratory period?
--Tommy
Since you have the book H & L you should know Lee locations are mentioned on pages from 343 to 420. I suspect LEE was at a number of CIA safe houses located throughout the USA, ,gaal
Golly some of the Anti- H & L people believe 'the' LHO didn't live at the rooming house. Were was he ?? .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01i19qog8Pw
"They seek him here,
They seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere,
Is he is heaven?
Or is he in hell?
That demmed elusive pimpernel."
Classic poem performed by Anthony Andrews as Sir Percy Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Heroes, Rogues, and Spies - Page 63 - Google Books Result
Turner spoke with U.S. Secret Service agent Calvin Rice and told him about ... that she and several men met in November of 1963 at a CIA safe house in Miami.- Unethical human experimentation in the United States ...
From 1963 to 1966, Saul Krugman of New York University promised the parents of ... In 1986 the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce ..... consisted of a web of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco, Marin, and New York ...
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Does the CIA really have safe houses all over the world, just like in the movie Safe House? (QUORA)Jim Gordon, Third generation to serve in the US m... (more) Third generation to serve in the US military, grew up on air bases, served (USAF 1966-70 VN); US Dept of State foreign service, 1974-84, commissioned officer; worked in international aviation and political-military affairs; congressional editor, Aviation Wk. & Space Tech.; lived on a couple of Navy bases overseas, too.
Yes, the CIA and other intelligence services are constantly adding to their safe-house inventories, and discarding others.No, the locations in the movie were not representative of the places used as safe houses.
A safe house would have one usual function:
to allow clandestine meetings between case officers and agents,
and another possible but definitely more unusual function:
as a refuge for persons being pursued.
The equipment and infrastructure installed in the places shown in the movie were grossly excessive, involving complicated and potentially compromising installation and construction projects, and the removal of the equipment and modifications when the location is no longer needed or is compromised. The removal would also be very obvious and could compromise the meetings held in the location, even after the fact.
There was a useful Quora Q&A at What are the steps necessary to create a safe house?
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If one reads all the thread its possible to not be .....,gaal
Barking mad...! // Laverick (unrelated people can look alike -try this phrase in GOOGLE,some below,gaal)
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I notice no one will answer Tommy's poignant question. What did 'Lee' tell his friends and family whilst 'Harvey' was in the USSR? // Laverick (per H & L book the family is IN on it, moved around a lot, NEW friends didn't know about Russian LHO. A truly poignant idea is reading and retaining the material presented in the H & L book which is this threads theme. gaal)
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AS long as LEE didn't get photographed/filmed in a public source, then LEE could do things like incriminating Castro gun running , ect. gaal
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40 People Who Look So Much Like Celebrities It’s Scary
http://www.buzzfeed....ties#.ixlZzrEqK
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the why of it
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English votes for English laws: Nicola Sturgeon brands government proposals 'unacceptable'
David Cameron had pledged to introduce the policy within his first 100 days in office
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called plans to implement
The SNP leader has written to the Scottish Secretary to demand that Westminster fully engages with their Scottish counterparts over the proposals, arguing that there is a “clear Scottish interest in the outcome of the discussions.”
In the letter, Ms Sturgeon has called for greater clarity as to how legislation is assessed as applying to Scotland. She says that of the 20 laws passed by the last parliament and marked as not applying to Scotland, 13 of them were relevant to the region.
Under ‘Evel’, it is proposed that English MPs should be given the power to veto legislation that applies only to English issues. David Cameron has promised that he will implement plans for the policy within his first 100 days in office
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On Thursday, Leader of the Commons, Chris Grayling said that a Commons vote on the issue would not be held until September at the earliest.
Read more
Second referendum on Scotland's independent could be held if Evel is introduced
Evel plans could face legal challenge
Scotland 'may cut money to the Queen'Ms Sturgeon wrote: She wrote: "I hope that Chris's announcement that the vote in the Commons will be delayed until September will enable further consideration including full engagement
with the Scottish Government.
"There is a clear Scottish interest in Evel because of the impact it will have, and the proposals, as they currently stand, are unacceptable.
"Of the 20 Bills listed by the UK Government as not extending to Scotland, no fewer than 13 of them did.
"Several of these Bills covered important areas such as charities, criminal justice and anti-slavery measures and had significant impacts on Scotland, over and above the Barnett implications that might flow from legislation.
"No doubt the UK Government will be considering the assessment when preparing your legislation but the Scottish Government has a direct interest in how the UK Government makes a judgement as to whether it considers Evel applies."
Ms Sturgeon has previously suggested that a second referendum on Scottish independence could be held if the Conservative government’s plans to introduce ‘English votes for English laws’ go ahead.
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Child Hood Abuse Survivor Faces Jail NHS DRUG INDUCED PSYCOSIS
The horrors of prescribed medication in the UK for Joanne Peacher NHS Nightmare
The horrors of prescribed medication in the UK – how Police lock up people who allege they are raped by nuns and priests without investigating those allegations – even when they are made aware that prescribed medication is causing these survivors of satanic ritual abuse to hear voices which tell them what to do – https://butlincat.wordpress.com/…/joanne-peacher-in-need-o…/
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Calling the immediate release of all people in prisons and mental health institutions with drug induced symptoms without insight or intent to cause loss, injury or harm such as Joanne Peacher wife of Andy Peacher of http://freedomtalkradio.co.uk/
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Here is another gem, from Gregory Stock, former director of the program in Medicine, Technology, and Society at the UCLA School of Medicine:
“Even if half the world’s species were lost [during genetic experiments], enormous diversity would still remain. When those in the distant future look back on this period of history, they will likely see it not as the era when the natural environment was impoverished, but as the age when a plethora of new forms—some biological, some technological, some a combination of the two—burst onto the scene. We best serve ourselves, as well as future generations, by focusing on the short-term consequences of our actions rather than our vague notions about the needs of the distant future.”
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Vaccines: an ideal covert op to genetically re-engineer humans
Vaccines: an ideal covert op to genetically re-engineer humans
Why is the government so maniacal about injecting vaccines?
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Winter is coming: Earth awaits ‘mini ice age’ in 15 years, solar cycle study suggests
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Steve,
OK, find any two different people in the world and using the techniques you mentioned make a composite image for us.
Maybe someone can. Of note with photoshop Canadian Ulric Collette has created high internet interest with blended relatives.
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Just mixing photos,
Look Alikes: Grandmother And Granddaughter Are Mirror Images Of Each Other (PHOTO)
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/07/look-alikes-grandmother-granddaughter-at-20_n_3225886.html
also see
https://www.behance.net/gallery/16737099/Concept-of-Two-Two-Minds-Think-Alike
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Another Unreported Plot To Increase Censorship
War criminal Tony Blair has often said that one of his biggest mistakes was to create the Freedom of Information Act. And no wonder, since our one-time Prime Minister had a preference for secrecy. Since its birth, the FoI Act has been widely and effectively used by citizens and journalists alike.
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This Chart Sums Up How Depressing the 2000s Were for Americans
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Steve,
OK, find any two different people in the world and using the techniques you mentioned make a composite image for us.
Im not a photographic expert. There are some fantastic uses of negatives on the net. By different, H & L people mean "could be brothers" separated by at most two years. gaal
oh are not you a photographer ??
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Another good one (if you can find it) is "Photo Fakery" by Dino Brugioni -- he used to head up photo interpretation at the CIA. see // https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t932546/
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Portraits of People Who Look Alike But Aren’t Related At All
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http://petapixel.com/2012/12/12/portraits-of-people-who-look-alike-but-arent-related-at-all/
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40 People Who Look So Much Like Celebrities It’s Scary
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/40-people-who-look-just-like-celebrities#.ixlZzrEqK
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Steve,
Photoshop didn't exist when your composite image was allegedly created. So if you want to make an image using my photo go ahead but it won't prove anything.
Golly gee I didn't know that ...Oh wait I did , I did. The CIA technical division had the best photographic people in the world. Im sure they could manipulate negatives of two 'near' identical people to make one reasonable photo. GAAL
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- www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTIdtj0XmOMMar 21, 2011 - Uploaded by Bilal SMany people don't have photoshop...so heres a video on how to merge two photos without photoshop ...
- ILFORD PHOTO - Combining NegativesThis technique involves exposing two images onto the same sheet of paper – for ... to make one picture; you can use the same negative, and expose it twice, or two ... valuable if you are using two negatives shot in different lighting conditions.
- The Delights of Seeing: Sandwich Negatives and Multiple ...At several key stages transitions are used - blending scenes into one ... The figure and the bottom of this miniature has a demons face merging out of his stomach. ... This image was created by having the camera on a tripod and using a slow ...
Harvey and Lee: John Armstrong
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Hundreds of Wall Street Execs Went to Prison During the Last Fraud-Fueled Bank Crisis
September 17, 2013
by Joshua HollandWilliam Black: Sure. The savings and loan debacle was one-seventieth the size of the current crisis, both in terms of losses and the amount of fraud. In that crisis, the savings and loan regulators made over 30,000 criminal referrals, and this produced over 1,000 felony convictions in cases designated as "major" by the Department of Justice. But even that understates the degree of prioritization, because we, the regulators, worked very closely with the FBI and the Justice Department to create a list of the top 100 — the 100 worst fraud schemes. They involved roughly 300 savings and loans and 600 individuals, and virtually all of those people were prosecuted. We had a 90 percent conviction rate, which is the greatest success against elite white-collar crime (in terms of prosecution) in history.
In the current crisis, that same agency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, which was supposed to regulate, among others, Countrywide, Washington Mutual and IndyMac — which collectively made hundreds of thousands of fraudulent mortgage loans — made zero criminal referrals.
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Does Wall Street Call the Shots at the FBI?
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Global Research, May 13, 2015
http://www.globalresearch.ca/does-wall-street-call-the-shots-at-the-fbi/5449217?print=1http://www.globalresearch.ca/does-wall-street-call-the-shots-at-the-fbi/5449217?print=1
Kevin Marino, Attorney for Sergey Aleynikov, Believes the FBI Was Doing the Bidding of Goldman Sachs
It is clear to most Americans that Wall Street’s financing of presidential and congressional campaigns is creating too many pals wearing blindfolds about epic corruption on Wall Street. The President, subject to Senate confirmation, selects the U.S. Treasury Secretary, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission – all of whom regulate Wall Street, for better or worse. Given that Wall Street collapsed the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has been perpetually charged with new crimes ever since, there is the strong suggestion that regulation isn’t strong enough.
The President also selects the U.S. Attorney General at the Justice Department, the office that can bring criminal charges against Wall Street. But according to a January 2013 report by the PBS program, Frontline, in the years following the 2008 collapse there was no serious effort at the Justice Department to indict the miscreants. The exchange went as follows between Frontline producer and investigator, Martin Smith, and Lanny Breuer, then head of the Criminal Division at the Justice Department:
MARTIN SMITH: "We spoke to a couple of sources from within the Criminal Division, and they reported that when it came to Wall Street, there were no investigations going on. There were no subpoenas, no document reviews, no wiretaps."
LANNY BREUER: "Well, I don’t know who you spoke with because we have looked hard at the very types of matters that you’re talking about."
MARTIN SMITH: "These sources said that at the weekly indictment approval meetings that there was no case ever mentioned that was even close to indicting Wall Street for financial crimes."
Now, concerns are growing that the corrupting tentacles of Wall Street may reach into the FBI. The two cases raising alarms are the recent arrest of Navinder Singh Sarao in the U.K. on charges that he was a key contributor to the Flash Crash in the U.S. stock market on May 6, 2010 – a case brought five years after the fact and an earlier government report that placed the blame on a mutual fund company; and the manner in which the FBI appears to have done the bidding of Goldman Sachs in the relentless prosecution of Sergey Aleynikov, a former computer programmer at Goldman, who was alleged to have violated Federal law by downloading a small amount of computer code before he left for another job.
In the Sarao case, the 36-year old is sitting in jail in the U.K., unable to make bail because the U.S. has frozen all of his assets worldwide while the sum of $7.6 million has been set for his bail. As we previously reported, the decidedly questionable case against Sarao for manipulating the market is based solely on an FBI affidavit signed by one agent, which relies heavily on testimony from an unnamed "consulting group" and an unnamed "academic researcher."
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FBI keeps lid on sniper plot to kill 'Occupy Wall Street ... (PLOT TO KILL OCCUPY WALL STREET LEADERS)
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