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September Song
A Review of "The New Pearl Harbor"
By Marc Estrin
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
David Ray Griffin
Olive Branch Press, 2004
Paper, 214 pp, $15.00
The official story goes something like this:
With no actionable warning from intelligence agencies, four planes were hijacked by terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001. Two crashed into the Word Trade Center, which then collapsed, and shortly thereafter, the third into the Pentagon. The last plane went down in Pennsylvania after a struggle between passengers and hijackers. Air defense arrived too late to stop the catastrophes. Responding to this attack on the homeland, the president declared a global war on terror which may last for generations until evil is finally eradicated, the security of America firmly established, and the world made safe for freedom and democracy.
In The New Pearl Harbor, David Ray Griffin compiles the evidence that every single assertion in the official story is implausible or impossible, and that something other must explain the inconsistencies and contra-factual assertions.
The implications of the accumulated evidence is that the Bush administration was complicit in the events of September 11th, and not merely a victim of structural problems or incompetence on the part of the intelligence establishment. In a nuanced discussion of "complicity", Griffin distinguishes eight possible levels, from the lying about events to maximize political ends, through intentionally allowing expected attacks, to actual involvement in the planning of them.
Griffin does not make specific accusations, nor does he hypothesize a "true" version of what happened. But he does demand unflinching investigations of all the contradictions, clear reporting of the results, and most difficult, a courageous drawing of conclusions, no matter how "unthinkable" or outrageous they may appear.
Excellent review of Griffin's tour de force by the intrepid Counterpunch crew, one of the few lefty journals willing to even look at that day.
In the months since the book was published, we have been swamped with news from the 9/11 Commission concerning both domestic and foreign intelligence which indicated a large and imminent attack on the United States. But the Commission, its members appointed by President Bush, is focusing on the future. According to Vice-Chair Lee Hamilton, "We're not interested in trying to assess blame…" Their goal is to understand what happened so as to restructure intelligence so that such "a breakdown" may not happen again. Given this limited mandate, almost none of the contradictions Griffin raises is likely to be discussed, or its ramifications analyzed before the case is closed.
The first part of The New Pearl Harbor looks in detail at the timeline and events of 9/11 itself. How is it, Griffin asks, that even the first airplane was not intercepted — given standard procedures, operating normally many times a year, for off-course or otherwise anomalous aircraft? The FAA, NORAD, and the NMCC (National Military Command Center at the Pentagon) have a clear and working set of standard operating procedures which on September 11th, and on that day only, failed to operate. Griffin lays them out, along with the strange, and changing official excuses for their "failure". Continue reading
A US military intelligence team code-named "Able Danger" identified Mohamed Atta and three other alleged 9/11 hijackers as potential terrorists in the summer of 2000, at a time when Atta was living in Florida, according to yesterday's New York Times .
But the Times story obscures at least as much as it reveals.
The 9/11 Commission was made aware of the Able Danger program in 2003, but failed to mention it in its 2004 report.
The Times calls yesterday's revelation "the first assertion that Mr. Atta… was identified by any American government agency as a potential threat before the Sept. 11 attacks." In fact, such assertions date back to German press reports of September 2001 and October 2002, when several German newspapers reported that the CIA had Atta under observation during the first six months of 2000, while he was still living in Germany.
According to the German reports of Sept. 2001, the CIA in 2000 watched as Atta "bought chemicals" in Frankfurt and later tracked him to Berlin, where he received an entry visa from the US consulate in May 2000.
(According to official US timelines of his activities, Atta entered the United States for the first time in June 2000, although witness accounts reported in local papers after 9/11 place him in Florida months earlier.)
The CIA did not inform German authorities about its surveillance of Atta on their soil in 2000, and the Germans learned about it only after the 9/11/01 attacks. The German authorities themselves also… Continue reading
Despite Pentagon stonewalling and intimidation of whistleblowers, the story that a hardline Republican congressman says is "bigger than Watergate" refuses to go away.
Five former operatives of a US military intelligence project say they identified Mohamed Atta and three other men later alleged to have been the lead 9/11 hijackers as suspected al Qaeda terrorists working in the United States more than a year before September 11, 2001. The five whistleblowers say their superiors at the US Special Operations Command chose to suppress the information and keep it from law enforcement authorities, thus protecting Atta and Co. – at the very least in effect, if not as a matter of intent. They were forced to destroy their data on Atta; and their program, Able Danger, was killed by the Bush administration prior to September 11.
Years after the destruction of the World Trade Center, they told their story to the 9/11 Commission, only to be soundly ignored. When they finally came forward as whistleblowers last year, they were placed under gag orders by the Pentagon. The most prominent of them, Col. Anthony Shaffer, was investigated on charges that he stole pens and overcharged the Defense Department for $67 in phone calls. He claims the investigation of him to date has cost the taxpayers $2 million.
That, at any rate, is the Able Danger saga as we know it so far.
In the latest wrinkle, blog reporter Rory O'Connor (Mar 1, archived below) says a Pentagon inspector general's investigation has identified… Continue reading
By Michael Powell
Washington Post
September 8, 2006
He felt no shiver of doubt in those first terrible hours.
He watched the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and assumed al-Qaeda had wreaked terrible vengeance. He listened to anchors and military experts and assumed the facts of Sept. 11, 2001, were as stated on the screen.
It was a year before David Ray Griffin, an eminent liberal theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He wondered why Bush listened to a child's story while the nation was attacked and how Osama bin Laden, America's Public Enemy No. 1, escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora.
He wondered why 110-story towers crashed and military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded, much less cashiered.
"To me, the report read as a cartoon." White-haired and courtly, Griffin sits on a couch in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, unspooling words in that reasonable Presbyterian minister's voice. "It's a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives."
Such as?
"There was massive complicity in this attack by U.S. government operatives."
If that feels like a skip off the cliff of established reality, more Americans are in free fall than you might guess. There are few more startling measures of American distrust of leaders than the widespread belief that the Bush administration had a hand in the attacks of Sept.…Continue reading
CounterPunch July 16, 2007
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the
US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.
Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form
of "executive orders" that are triggered whenever Bush declares a
national emergency. Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff,
former Republican senator Rick Santorum and others suggest that Americans might
expect a series of staged, or false flag, "terrorist" events in the
near future.
Many attentive people believe that the reason the Bush administration will
not bow to expert advice and public opinion and begin withdrawing US troops
from Iraq is that the administration intends to rescue its unpopular position
with false flag operations that can be used to expand the war to Iran.
Too much is going wrong for the Bush administration: the failure of its Middle
East wars, Republican senators jumping ship, Turkish troops massed on northern
Iraq's border poised for an invasion to deal with Kurds, and a majority of Americans
favoring the impeachment of Cheney and a near-majority favoring Bush's impeachment.
The Bush administration desperately needs dramatic events to scare the American
people and the Congress back in line with the militarist-police state that Bush
and Cheney have fostered.
William Norman Grigg recently wrote that the GOP is "praying for a terrorist
strike" to save the party from electoral wipeout in 2008.
Chertoff, Cheney, the neocon nazis, and Mossad would have no qualms about saving
the bacon for the Republicans, who have enabled Bush to start two unjustified
wars, with Iran waiting in the wings to be attacked in a third war.…
Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11
By Robert Fisk
Published: 25 August 2007
Each time I lecture abroad on the Middle East, there is always someone in the audience — just one — whom I call the "raver". Apologies here to all the men and women who come to my talks with bright and pertinent questions — often quite humbling ones for me as a journalist — and which show that they understand the Middle East tragedy a lot better than the journalists who report it. But the "raver" is real. He has turned up in corporeal form in Stockholm and in Oxford, in Sao Paulo and in Yerevan, in Cairo, in Los Angeles and, in female form, in Barcelona. No matter the country, there will always be a "raver".
Robert Fisk, award winning journalist, for the Independent in London; described by the NY Times as "the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain"; frequent contributor to Amy Goodman's Democracy Now, a man so famous he has become a verb in his own lifetime, and he's is a 9/11 truther!
In this article, Fisk complains about the ill-behaved 9/11 truthers who shout out questions about the 9/11 cover up at various speaking venues, but this complaint may be just to give himself some cover. Without that shield, he would be immediately denounced and marginalized, (he may be anyway) but he goes on to mention the dirth of plane parts at the Pentagon,… Continue reading
Will DOJ Look into the First Death of a U.S. 9/11 Researcher?
By Sander Hicks
October 14, 2007
From 9/24 to 10/1/07 I traveled throughout Louisiana and Texas, with reporter Jordan Green, investigating the death of 9/11 researcher Dr. David Graham.
Our suspicions were validated: there's a huge story here. It's almost overwhelming. The best way to summarize is to publish my complaint filed last week with the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General.
If you support an investigation into the death of Dr. Graham, please say so, in the comments section, at the end. (Please send me your email, too, I may be doing some sort of activism around this. Mine is sander [at] voxpopnet.net)
October 11th, 2007
Office of the Inspector General
Department of Justice
1425 New York Ave NW
Suite 7100
Washington, DC 20005
Dear Inspector,
I am writing to request a special investigation into possible FBI corruption inside the Shreveport, LA. office. I have been researching the strange death of Dr. David M. Graham since I was passed his unpublished manuscript, last spring. This case is of the utmost importance, and is about to receive serious media attention.
A week ago, I returned from a fact-finding mission in Shreveport, New Orleans and Houston. Alongside reporter Jordan Green, I met many of Dr. Graham's surviving friends and coworkers. Every one of them indicated that Dr.… Continue reading
December 27, 2007
By Paul Craig Roberts
"They're locking them up today
They're throwing away the key
I wonder who it'll be tomorrow, you or me?"
The Red Telephone (LOVE, 1967)
At Christmas time it has been my habit to write a column in remembrance of
the many innocent people in prisons whose lives have been stolen by the US criminal
justice (sic) system that is as inhumane as it is indifferent to justice. Usually
I retell the cases of William Strong and Christophe Gaynor, two men framed in
the state of Virginia by prosecutors and judges as wicked and corrupt as any
who served Hitler or Stalin.
This year is different. All Americans are now imprisoned in a world of lies
and deception created by the Bush Regime and the two complicit parties of Congress,
by federal judges too timid or ignorant to recognize a rogue regime running
roughshod over the Constitution, by a bought and paid for media that serves
as propagandists for a regime of war criminals, and by a public who have forsaken
their Founding Fathers.
Americans are also imprisoned by fear, a false fear created by the hoax of
"terrorism." It has turned out that headline terrorist events since
9/11 have been orchestrated by the US government. For example, the alleged terrorist
plot to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower was the brainchild of a FBI agent who
searched out a few disaffected people to give lip service to the plot devised
by the FBI agent.… Continue reading
Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
January 17, 2008
"The US Director of National Intelligence asserts that the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, were caused by weak domestic wiretapping laws," David Edwards and Mike Sheehan write for Raw Story. "Vice Admiral Mike McConnell, former head of the National Security Agency who was appointed DNI in 2007 by President Bush, spoke today to a group of students in St. Mary's City, Missouri, about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a federal statute that outlines procedures for electronic surveillance by the US intelligence community."
According to McConnell, "alleged 9/11 conspirator Mohamed Atta" was able to pull of his dastardly deed because he was "invisible to your intelligence" after he entered the United States. "He's now a US person," said McConnell, with all the rights and privileges of ordinary American citizens.
Inside the US, McConnell continued, Atta would be "invisible to your intelligence community. As long he doesn't break the law, law enforcement can't conduct surveillance, [because] they don't have probable cause."
Terror network al-Qaeda understood that, McConnell then said, "and that's why 9/11 happened, in my view."
Sure, and big fat chartreuse raspberries grow on the dark side of the Moon.
In fact, the NSA has snooped the American public at large for decades now. Mr. McConnell needs to find a computer and do a Google search of the word SHAMROCK. It was a massive snoop program predating the NSA, created by Truman in 1952. SHAMROCK snooped all telegraph data entering and… Continue reading
Kevin Fenton
More material has been added covering the NSA's surveillance of Ahmed al-Hada, father-in-law of alleged Pentagon hijacker Khalid Almihdhar. Both President Bush and Vice President Cheney used the non-exploitation of calls between his phone in Yemen and the hijackers in the US to justify the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program in January 2006. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell attributed the failure to trace the calls to a 1981 executive order earlier this year, and Mukasey bizarrely then claimed that one of the calls was between the US and Afghanistan, rather than Yemen. This confused the media somewhat, and a group of congressmen asked Mukasey for an explanation.
There are additional entries about the day of 9/11. A senior official later disputed Richard Clarke's account of the day's events, some Pentagon security cameras did not show the crash site, and the fighters who later responded to the Pentagon attack attended anti-terrorism training earlier in the day. There is a dispute over which gate American 11 left from at Boston airport, where suspicious passengers arrived on September 10, when Larry Silverstein's publicist cancelled an appointment at the WTC for 9/11. Other entries point out United 93's autopilot was turned off, top air force officials continued with a meeting when they learned the WTC had been hit, and crew on United 93 had previously attended antiterrorism training. Pilots on American 77, American 11 and United 93, were allocated… Continue reading
The Spy Who Loves Us
Pay no mind to the Mossad agent on the line.
by Philip Giraldi
June 2, 2008 Issue, The American Conservative
After Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1986, the U.S. negotiated an understanding with Israel—a "gentlemen's agreement" —stipulating that neither nation would thenceforth conduct espionage operations in the other's territory without consent. But the agreement was a sham from the beginning. The Israeli government didn't even honor its commitments in the aftermath of the Pollard case, failing to return the estimated 360 cubic feet of stolen information to enable the U.S. to conduct a damage assessment. The United States, for its part, continued to recruit and run agents inside Israel throughout the 1980s and 1990s. And it was known within the intelligence and counterintelligence communities that Israel did the same in the United States. David Szady, the FBI's assistant director for counterintelligence, was so dismayed by the level of Israeli spying in the late '90s that he called in the head of the Israeli Embassy's Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Activities (Mossad) office and told him, "Knock it off."
Pollard's name was in the news again on April 22, when former U.S. Army weapons engineer Ben-Ami Kadish was arrested for passing secrets to Israel. Kadish had been an agent run by Yosef Yagur, who directed Pollard. Yagur, under cover as a science attaché at the Israeli Consulate General in New York, fled the U.S. in 1985 after Pollard was… Continue reading
Peter Dale Scott
August 17, 2008
Recently I published two articles pointing to suggestive similarities between the recurring deep events in recent American history — those events which, because of their intelligence aspects, are ignored, misrepresented, or covered up in the American media. The first article pointed to overall similarities in many deep events since World War II. The second pointed to surprising points of comparison in the two deep events which were followed shortly by major U.S. wars: the John F. Kennedy assassination and 9/11. In the background of all these events, I suggested, was recurring evidence of the milieu "combining intelligence officials with elements from the drug-trafficking underworld."1
Inthis essay I shall first attempt to lay out the complex geography ornetwork of that milieu, which I call the global drug connection, andits connections to what has been called an "alternative" or "shadow" CIA. I shall then show how this network, of banks, financial agents of influence, and the alternative CIA,contributed to the infrastructure of the Kennedy assassination and aseries of other, superficially unrelated, major deep events.
In this narrative, the names of individuals, their institutions, and their connections arerelatively unimportant. What matters is to see that such a milieu existed; that it was on-going, well-connected, and protected; and that, with increasing independence from governmental restraint, it played a role in major deep events in the last half century.
This of course strengthens the important hypothesis to be investigated,that this on-going milieu may also have contributed to the… Continue reading
by Reprehensor
Sunday, January 04, 2009
(James Bamford has done another great deed for the public by revealing the extent of the NSA's wiretapping on U.S. soil, and how the NSA sub-contracts the vast majority of its work to Israeli high-tech firms bristling with "former" Israeli military intelligence agents, and in the case of Verint, a company with serious corruption issues. It was Bamford who popularized the existence of Operation Northwoods in his 2001 book, Body of Secrets. In The Shadow Factory, he sheds light in the secret rooms of Verizon and AT&T, and shows the NSA to be a very poor custodian of the nation's security.)
Bamford Brings the Goods
On October 14, 2008, James Bamford talked about some of the shocking research in his new book on Democracy Now!, with Amy Goodman:
Along with the mass surveillance being conducted on all U.S. users of AT&T and Verizon by Narus and Verint, (according to Bamford), two other Israeli-owned companies, Amdocs and NICE Systems, have their fingers in the wiretapping pie as well.
Christopher Ketcham preceded Bamford in September, with with the article "Trojan
Horse," that focuses on Verint, Amdocs, and CALEA (the legislation which
brought all of these problems into existence):
"Together, Verint and Amdocs form part of the backbone of the government's domestic intelligence surveillance technology. Both companies are based in Israel — having arisen to prominence from that country's cornering of the information technology market — and are heavily funded by the Israeli government,… Continue reading
March 2, 2009 — Washington, DC ( electionfraudnews.com )
I first wrote about Susan Lindauer's struggle against the Bush-Cheney regime in October 2007, " American Cassandra: Susan Lindauer's Story ." This was initially published in "Scoop" Independent Media ( complete series ) and carried by a wide variety of concerned Internet news sites and blogs. This interview follows the full dismissal of charges against her just before President Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009. This is the first in-depth interview that Lindauer has offered regarding 9/11. Below is part one of the interview.
I asked Ms. Lindauer to make her own statement about why she's willing to go into detail now about 9/11 and the government's handling of pre-9/11 intelligence.
For five years, I was the poster child for President Bush's retaliation against Americans who opposed his War Policy in Iraq. In March, 2004 the Justice Department indicted me for acting as an "unregistered Iraqi Agent" (not espionage), because I delivered a prescient letter to my second cousin, Andy Card, former Chief of Staff to President Bush, warning of the dire consequences of War. More dangerously, I had decided to talk. In February, 2004 I approached the senior staff of Senators Trent Lott and John McCain and asked to testify in front of the new blue ribbon Presidential Commission on Iraqi Pre-War Intelligence. Within a month, I was astounded to wake up one morning to hear FBI agents pounding on the door of my house in Maryland with an arrest… Continue reading
by Reprehensor
Images and Words
Anthony Hall is like many other 9/11 skeptics. At some point, after examining the events of 9/11 and the international consequences of that foul deed, (particularly the
consequences that befell countries with a predominantly Arab/Muslim population), Mr. Hall decided to speak out. The difference between Hall and most 9/11 skeptics, is that Mr. Hall is a sitting academic at a university in Lethbridge, Alberta, in Canada.
Hall joined a growing list of Canadian academics who have chosen to speak out publicly; John McMurtry , Graeme MacQueen , Michael Keefer , and of course, Michel Chossudovsky , a pioneer in 9/11 skepticism.
He made his debut as a skeptic of the 9/11 Official Conspiracy Theory (OCT) on September 6, 2008 in Edmonton, Alberta, with a reading of his paper, The Lies and Crimes of 911 . The paper is an excellent introduction to a series of complex, related studies, that encompass globalization, US imperial tendencies, and false-flag terrorism. Hall is well-versed in these issues, and won an Alberta Book Award for his volume, The American Empire and the Fourth World .
The cover features provocative imagery; Apache-like helicopters in place of stars on the American flag, giving no doubt as to Hall's intent. The image is a very un-subtle, ironic reinterpretation of one of the prime symbols of the American dream; the very banner of Liberty itself is subverted to shock the viewer into a reevaluation of the iconic Red, White and Blue. Just as… Continue reading
by Lisa Pease
August 21, 2009
Consortium News
In any kind of major transnational event, there is the historical truth, what actually happened, and the political truth, what must have happened for the nations involved to continue on as before.
Sometimes, these accounts match; other times, these "truths" are wildly divergent, which appears to be the case with the Lockerbie bombing.
On Thursday, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of planting a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103 which exploded over the hills over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, was released. The Scottish authorities said they were letting al-Megrahi go free on "compassionate grounds" because he was terminally ill from cancer.
This decision caused an uproar in the United States. Obama administration officials lodged angry protests; family members of the victims decried the move, and TV pundits joined in the lamentations. But what do they really know about the Lockerbie bombing, beyond what they've read in the last few days?
The truth about what happened at Lockerbie appears quite a bit more complex than the cookie-cutter version presented by the mainstream media. Several longtime observers of the al-Megrahi case have concluded that it has always been weak, at best.
According to British journalist Hugh Miles in a 2007 article for London Review of Books, many "lawyers, politicians, diplomats and relatives of Lockerbie victims now believe that the former Libyan intelligence officer is innocent."
Miles quoted Robert Black QC, an Edinburgh University professor emeritus of Scottish… Continue reading
by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed
New Internationalist.org
Islamic fundamentalist militants are the enemies of Israel and Western governments, right? Think again. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed reports.
Once upon a time, the CIA trained, financed and supported Osama bin Laden and his mujahidin networks in Afghanistan to repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the end of the Cold War, bin Laden turned against the West and we no longer had any use for him. His persistent terrorist attacks against us for more than a decade, culminating in 9/11, provoked our own response, in the form of the 'War on Terror'. This is the official narrative. And it's false. Not only did Western intelligence services continue to foster Islamist extremist and terrorist groups connected to al-Qaeda after the Cold War; they continued to do so even after 9/11.
The CIA's jihad
The story begins in the summer of 1979, six months before the Soviet invasion, when the CIA had already begun financing elements of an emerging Islamist mujahidin force inside Afghanistan. The idea, according to former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and former CIA Director Robert Gates, was to increase the probability of a Soviet invasion, and entrap 'the Soviets into a Vietnamese quagmire'.1
Osama bin Laden arrived in the country later that year, sent by then-Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal, where he set up the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) which helped finance, recruit and train mujahidin fighters.2 Bin Laden, the MAK, and the Afghan mujahidin in total received… Continue reading
January 08, 2010
by Paul Craig Roberts
Information ClearingHouse.info
What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida's expertise in pulling off 9/11.
If we are to believe the U.S. government, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged al-Qaida "mastermind" behind 9/11, outwitted the CIA, the NSA, indeed all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies as well as those of all U.S. allies including Mossad, the National Security Council, NORAD, Air Traffic Control, Airport Security four times on one morning, and Dick Cheney, and with untrained and inexperienced pilots pulled off skilled piloting feats of crashing hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, where a battery of state of the art air defenses somehow failed to function.
After such amazing success, al-Qaida would have attracted the best minds in the business, but, instead, it has been reduced to amateur stunts.
The Underwear Bomb plot is being played to the hilt on the TV media and especially on Fox "news." After reading recently that The Washington Post allowed a lobbyist to write a news story that preached the lobbyist's interest, I wondered if the manufacturers of full body scanners were behind the heavy coverage of the Underwear Bomber, if not behind the plot itself. In America, everything is for sale. Integrity is gone with the wind.
Recently I read a column by an author who has a "convenience theory" about the Underwear Bomber being a Nigerian allegedly trained by al-Qaida in Yemen.…Continue reading


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#84 to #3 - imofcnotharveydent (09/08/2013) [-]
because a heart transplant where you've gotten enough debt to just go and off yourself is much better right?
#92 to #86 - imofcnotharveydent (09/08/2013) [-]
>Implying I need that when I have (at least very close too) free healthcare
>Implying regular people can afford that **** on a long term basis.
>Implying regular people can afford that **** on a long term basis.
#95 to #94 - imofcnotharveydent (09/08/2013) [-]
I have no need to, since It's free as long as i contribute trough taxes
#72 to #6 - useroftheLOLZ (09/08/2013) [-]
Paying out of pocket for your heart transplant is better than Dying because you needed that heart transplant within a specific timeframe
Reply-5#67 to #6 - hawaiianhappysauce (09/08/2013) [-]
That only concerns 25% of Americans. The rest of Americans who own private insurance and make middle class income can afford it. And here in america, if you are not making enough money to support yourself then it's your fault.
Reply+3#71 to #67 - shakalakaboomboom (09/08/2013) [-]
"Only concerns 25%"??? Do you know how many people that is considering the size of the population in America
#74 to #71 - hawaiianhappysauce (09/08/2013) [-]
A huge chunk of them are illegal immigrants, about 4% of the population. Another 8% are people in poverty who have no insurance. The other 13% are people who can afford insurance, but cannot afford to pay the deductible (it is a heart transplant which is a large insurance claim and will probably have a high deductible). I would say another 25% of the countries population could afford the deductible but they would have to cut back on things to catch up on their debts (like mortgage payments, car payments, etc). The rest could pull it off and live comfortably still.
#81 to #74 - shakalakaboomboom (09/08/2013) [-]
I'm not asking for who they are or where they are from, but they are still human and deserve treatment
#90 to #81 - hawaiianhappysauce (09/08/2013) [-]
Heart transplants are not a cheap operation. Also, quite a few people go to the emergency room anyway and since it's illegal for hospitals to provide treatment they get operations anyway. So in america everyone is entitled to treatment, but when those people don't pay the bill is footed by everyone else through higher premiums.
The smartest system I've seen for healthcare is implemented in Massachusetts, where if you have private insurance then you don't go on the government plan. If you do have a government plan then you do not receive any tax returns. Here in Massachusetts basically every citizen has insurance.
The smartest system I've seen for healthcare is implemented in Massachusetts, where if you have private insurance then you don't go on the government plan. If you do have a government plan then you do not receive any tax returns. Here in Massachusetts basically every citizen has insurance.
#96 to #90 - shakalakaboomboom (09/08/2013) [-]
We are not talking about just one state though but an entire country and If 25% of the population can't afford health care in what is considered to be the most powerful country in the world then you have a problem
#98 to #96 - hawaiianhappysauce (09/08/2013) [-]
America is a capitalist country. If you work hard then you get get more out of life. Poor people don't work hard, illegal immigrants are breaking the law. I tried to be reasonable with you but you are obviously a liberal ******** and no matter how hard I try to explain why certain people cannot afford a ******* HEART TRANSPLANT, AN EXPENSIVE PROCEDURE, you will always respond with "but those poor poor people deserve help." Well you know what? Maybe those poor people shouldn't have taken dope in High School. Maybe they should have paid attention in school. Maybe they shouldn't have had unprotected sex at age 14. The ******* problem with this country is that no one is willing to take responsibility anymore, it's always someone else at fault. I spent my life working hard, doing well in school, overachieving, I don't see why MY taxpaying money should go to people who DON'T WORK, who AREN'T CITIZENS, or who DON'T work as hard as me.
Don't bother replying to me because I'm done listening to your ignorance.
Don't bother replying to me because I'm done listening to your ignorance.
#110 to #98 - makonendrak (09/09/2013) [-]
You're kind of a self-entitled prick, aren't you?
#109 to #98 - shakalakaboomboom (09/09/2013) [-]
Oh please you sound like you are from the 1920's, there are a huge amount of people who are born into poverty and never get a chance to prove themselves, others just get unlucky and could lose their money investing in the wrong brand and others may have mental issues and are not given the support needed the fact is you started your argument with "That only concerns 25% of Americans", here is a tip for you in the future never become a lawyer if that is how you are going to start your case because from then on you are trying to clime a 90 degrees slope
Reply+10#44 to #6 - hybridxproject (09/08/2013) [-]
Reply-12#24 to #6 - deliveryman (09/08/2013) [-]
well if he dies within the six months...
Reply+1#89 to #24 - edlias (09/08/2013) [-]
Its also done based on priority. If you're going to die within six months without a new heart you will be higher priority than someone who can go a few years. My grandmas hip was so bad she got hip replacement surgery within two months compared to someone else I know who had to wait eight months.
#34 to #33 - deliveryman (09/08/2013) [-]
What? if he's waiting for a heart transplant and he dies because it wasn't transplanted in time then the transplant should have been done sooner and it would have saved his life. The six month waiting time is ridiculous if you still get the same results as you would have without getting one at all.


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February 11, 2014
Justin Rose
MARK STEVENS: Like to welcome Justin Rose to the Northern Trust Open. You're making your ninth start at Riviera and just your second of the 2014 PGA TOUR season. Want to talk about your thoughts coming into this week, and then we'll have some questions.
JUSTIN ROSE: Absolutely. Well, nine years, that's crazy. I knew I was familiar with Riviera but I didn't realize I had played that many times. It's a great place for me to start the true 2014 calendar year but good to be back playing. I've had a long time off now.
I played a lot of golf late into the season last year and if I'm honest, I played a little bit injured, a little bit hurt. I was hoping that the Christmas break would clean things up but I had to work a little bit harder at my fitness than that but it's really good to be back out and really looking forward to start the year here at Riviera.
Q. Can you just update us on the injury and how you're feeling?
JUSTIN ROSE: I'm feeling good. Like I said, a lot of hard work went into me being here. It was a race against time to really get back playing and get back strong, and if I'm honest, I've only really been hitting balls, drivers, for about a week, ten days now. So it really has been down to the wire.
But I figured that I wanted to get out and play, and if I wanted to play well in the near future, I thought it was important for me to get out and play some competitive golf. My game's felt really good at home. I'm swinging it really nicely and everything technically looks really good. Had an opportunity to spend a lot of opportunity on my short game, but when you get a scorecard in your hand everything is a little different. So I wanted so make sure I got my season underway.
Q. What was the diagnosis?
JUSTIN ROSE: Basically tendonitis of the right supraspinatus. I think basically more an overuse injury than anything else. Like I said, I played pretty much from October last year with it not perfect. I assumed a little bit of rest over Christmas would heal it but it didn't really and that's when I knew I needed to put a little bit of extra time into it, but nothing serious, nothing torn, no surgery required, nothing like that. So that was the good news.
Q. Talk about your experiences playing this course, and usually the weather's been awful the last several years but it's supposed to be great this week.
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, I watched from afar last year, and I've always played Riviera with typically soft greens and I think last year for the first time in a long time, it got really firm if I'm right in saying.
Like I said, I didn't play, but that makes this course a challenge and you know one that I enjoy but for me, I've always felt like I've played well at Riviera. I've never really contended to win because I've never been able to putt four rounds together here but I think I shot everything from 64, 65, 66, 67‑‑ I think I've had all the numbers but I've never put four together.
But it is a course I enjoy. It's a course that suits my eye, and hopefully four rounds can be strung together this week.
Q. How high do those numbers go?
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, I'm trying to set my intention a little better than that but they probably go up towards the 77 number probably. I think I've spread the map here.
Q. You said there was sort of a rush to get back to play. Do you feel like heading into the Masters, it's important to play a certain number of events or to feel like you're getting in contention going into that? Is that kind of what you mean by saying rushed?
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, exactly. If you want to play well in Florida, it might start now. If you want to play well at Augusta, it might start now. If you want to play well this week, it definitely starts now. You definitely can't do it sitting at home.
Like I said, I work really hard every day diligently, did my rehab, didn't miss a session. Just did everything I could to get ready to play this week; and that was my goal and my intent, and it's nice to be here.
Q. A few years ago at Humana, you talked about being between two worlds; you said you missed tea here. Now as the U.S. Open Champion, do you feel like you're just as much a part of America as of Great Britain?
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, I think so. I found a good tea at Starbucks now (laughter). And I can say the word "acclimated" instead of "acclimatized," so I think I'm getting there (laughter).
Yeah, I'm definitely comfortable on this tour. I've got a lot of friends out here. This is where I've made the majority of my golf now, really since I would say 2005. It's where my head's been at. Always felt like that was going to be the transition for me to win Majors was going to be for me to do well on this tour and that's how it worked out.
Once I started winning on the PGA TOUR, that was the breakthrough I needed to get my confidence going to contend in majors and Ryder Cups and things like that. Maybe it took a couple years longer than I would have hoped, but the transition, the progression was as I intended it to be by playing my golf in the States.
Q. From playing late last year, did you do anything that might have tweaked it or exacerbated the situation?
JUSTIN ROSE: If I trace it, I threw a ball to my caddie at The Barclays. I threw a ball 60,70 yards behind the fairway when I was playing with Tiger in the third round and I really kind of hurt it at that time and managed to play my way through the rest of the round and the rest of the week. Actually I nearly won the tournament there, and it settled down quite quickly. But I think that was the moment where it just never‑‑ it started to flare up from that point on the rest of the year.
Q. 60 or 70 yards?
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, just threw it to far really. Speaking to people, when you throw an object that has no weight like that, your body doesn't really‑‑ the deceleration or whatever is what it has a hard time with.
Q. Where was he standing?
JUSTIN ROSE: He was down the fairway, and he had stayed back to rake a bunker or something. I was on the green and threw it back to him and etc., etc. But that was the moment where I felt I did something.
Q. How do you feel then about the Match Play next week? Any consideration?
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, my intent is to play, absolutely. My intent is to play four in a row now. So the Match Play is interesting; if you go really deep into the match play, I think that might alter my Florida schedule a little bit. I feel like that week can be half a week off or it can be a very intense week. You almost play that one by ear. I certainly don't want to over‑golf myself straightaway after coming off not playing much golf, but certainly my intent is to play next week.
Q. Sorry to jump ahead, but Doral just re‑opened and I understand you were very interested in the re‑design of that and went out and walked with the architects. Is that something you've taken more of an interest in as you've gotten older in your career, golf course architecture?
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, absolutely, something I'm very interested in. I've always said if I wasn't a golfer, I'd like to be an architect and that's more coming from sort of building houses or designing houses, kind of always enjoyed that process.
But naturally there's a fit there with golf course design. I was probably keen to make sure they didn't change it too much after having won there in 2012.
But clearly there's been some big changes. My caddie actually has already gone down and walked the course and seen it, and I think that to live up to its name of the Blue Monster, I think it definitely needed some revamping and certainly the resort did, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they have gone.
Gil has always done a great job I think. I like their ideas and their thought process on the golf course and how they wanted to make it a more exciting finish. Obviously 18 has always been a dramatic hole, but leading into 18, having another two or three other holes down the stretch that were going to be exciting risk/reward holes.
Q. What's your assessment of this course from that point of view?
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, I love this course, from a classic point of view, I think it's just got‑‑ the rough doesn't seem to be up. It's a really good iron play course. You have to work the ball off the tee, which again, I really enjoy, and it's just got a very unique look to it. Some of those sort of old white, sort of gnarly looking trees into the bottom end of the golf course makes it look quite a dramatic‑‑ and the bunkering is also very rugged‑looking. So to the eye, it's a pretty golf course.
Q. With the U.S. Open going back‑to‑back Men's and Women's, they might ask the guys to limit shots in the practice rounds to help save the course; how do you think that will go over in terms of preparation?
JUSTIN ROSE: I'm not sure. I mean, guys want to be prepared 100 percent. So I don't think people are going‑‑ might be respectful and not just hit pointless shots but I think guys are going to do whatever they need to do to be ready to play a major championship and I think that's going to be the way it's going to be.
So I don't quite now. I haven't played Pinehurst. I don't know how the green complexes are. Obviously I know there's a lot of run‑offs and I'm sure there's going to be a lot of use of the netting at the bottom of slopes with collection areas and stuff like that, but I've also heard that the fairways are going to be a lot wider than a typical U.S. Open, which means that the spread of divots typically on the fairway might be less of a problem than on a 20‑yard wide fairway in a normal U.S. Open so that might be a good thing.
Q. Can you talk about the experience of being a Major Champion, and has it been any different than you thought it might be as far as your time and just the feeling of it?
JUSTIN ROSE: I'm certainly living with it now in the sense that it feels six sort of eight months down the track, I feel very comfortable with it and there's definitely an adjustment period with it, absolutely. I thought it was difficult for me to be prepared for The Open Championship.
The Majors come around so quickly that when you win one, it's just shown me how impressive it is for some guys who have competed week‑after‑week and have won Majors are and are back in it the next time, how impressive that is to win it, deal with everything that comes along with winning it, keep your preparation, keep your practice going and keep your mind‑set going, especially in the summer.
I feel like if you win Augusta, you have a few months to really get rid of that feeling but June, July, August come around so fast that I think should I put myself in position to win another one this year, I'll understand what I should and what I shouldn't do immediately afterwards and what I'm going to have to do to keep my head in a good position to compete in the upcoming Majors because it's a very condensed time of year.
So that was a big learning process for me but it's all been great. I still catch myself smiling at home when I see the trophy, and you know, you get very comfortable with it in your house. The thought of losing it makes you want to prepare harder for the U.S. Open again this year.
Q. You just said that there's this adjustment period after winning The Open and the things you now know that you should do or shouldn't do. Can you give us some examples of what those are and also, how long was the adjustment period before you got back to where you felt like you were comfortable competing again?
JUSTIN ROSE: I would say it took me from the U.S. Open to The Barclays, probably to however long that is, probably six, eight weeks, that I felt I was actually ready to play again‑‑ before I was back in the moment.
You know, going home to the U.K. after winning was always going to be a big return after winning the U.S. Open. So that was probably‑‑ I don't think I could have avoided much there to be honest with you. But just not‑‑ I think‑‑ it sounds weird, you can't enjoy it too much in that period of time. You almost have to say, I'm just going to really curb all the celebrations and the true enjoyment until the end of the season. If you let yourself go too much down the celebration path, I think it's very hard to get back into the present quick enough to play good golf three weeks later.
Q. So you understand why it took Adam so long to go back to Australia?
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, absolutely. I think that's probably a smart move obviously in hindsight, but for him, clearly there weren't any reasons for him to go golf‑wise until then. But clearly that also looked like a huge homecoming and great for the game down there. There's a lot of distraction that goes with it, but like I said, it's something you would very happily deal with it again.
Q. And your focus coming into this year, obviously everybody says they come to an event their playing‑‑ your focus long term, is it Florida, Augusta, defending the U.S. Open and where are you‑‑ what's your immediate focus?
JUSTIN ROSE: My immediate focus is just continuing to improve as a golfer and really have the discipline every week to go out and execute my skill set, which I believe is growing and getting stronger every week. So that's how I'm going to play my best golf. That's how I'm going to contend in Majors.
Certainly I want to be 100 percent come April. And I think that that's what I'm working towards, but I know I can play good golf starting Thursday and I know I can play good golf in Florida and I know I can play good golf in the Majors.
But it's every day that I'm focused on, really, and working hard. This year for me is about just doing all the right things. I don't have to change anything this year. I'm not trying to do anything different this year. I'm just trying to putt into practice everything that I've learned the last ten years, because I think my game is right there.
Q. Graeme had said at the end of last year that given the depth and the competition, that there's going to be a couple of big names left off this Ryder Cup Team. It's getting harder and harder to make it. Do you agree with that and does that concern you at all?
JUSTIN ROSE: Yeah, it could be the same way with the U.S. Team the way things are shaping up. They are both kind of very similar in a sense.
That just shows you the depth of the TOUR I suppose. There's now 20 to 30 guys who can make a Ryder Cup Team, as opposed to 15 possibly on both tours. Captain's picks might be even tighter than they normal are.
At the end of the day, you know, The Ryder Cup is‑‑ it's about on the week, I think. Form often doesn't mean that much; it's which team gets inspired. It's which team gets the MoJo going I suppose. But either way, it will be a tightly‑fought qualification process and it will be a tightly‑fought match imagine.
Q. Do you have any good Paul McGinley stories?
JUSTIN ROSE: I mean, not really. I know that he's just‑‑ he seems to be on it, on every decision. His thinking, he seems to be ahead of the game from a preparation point of view. He seems to be, you know, doesn't want to be bothering the players. He did quite a few things with us six, eight months ago because he didn't want to bother anybody the last four or five months running into it, just let us play and let us focus on getting on the team.
So far I think he's done a great job as a captain.
MARK STEVENS: Thanks for your time, Justin. Best of luck this week.
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Paranormal phenomena reported in the Yuba-Sutter area are quite diverse. Ghosts are most commonly reported in Marysville, which contains many of the most storied historic buildings in the area.
Allegedly Haunted Places in Marysville
- Amicus Books Literary Arts Center and Bookstore
- Bok Kai Temple
- Brick Coffeehouse Café
- Forbes House
- Mary Aaron Memorial Museum
- Marysville City Cemetery
- Silver Dollar Saloon
- TJ North's
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- Cemeteries in general
- Pinky's Bar and Grill in Verona
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A story called "Milk Bottles," published in the book Spooky California: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore, retold by S. E. Schlosser, is set in Yuba City. It tells of "a small, thin woman with dark hair, a narrow face, and faded blue eyes" who kept asking a local merchant for milk during the Great Depression and then taking the milk without paying for it. On the third day, the merchant followed the woman, who went to the city cemetery and then vanished into a grave. A baby's cry emanated from the grave. The merchant called the police, who dug up the grave and found the woman dead in her coffin, holding two full milk bottles and a still-living baby, whom the merchant then adopted.
UFO Sightings
The Yuba-Sutter area is in the center of an area called "Triangle Alley," extending from Redding through Sacramento and south to Sonora. It is said that triangle-shaped UFOs are regularly reported in the sky above Triangle Alley. An episode of UFO Hunters on the History Channel described the reported sightings.
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"Marysville's Haunted History" by Nancy Pasternack, Appeal-Democrat, October 31, 2008
Serial Killer Juan Vallejo Corona and His Connection to the Silver Dollar Saloon
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Pinky's on the River—River Tales to Tell by Nancy Bradley, Sacramento Press, January 22, 2009
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Miss Piggy. She's funny, she's tough, she makes bold fashion choices, and she has an unshakable devotion to her man... er, frog.
2. You are an actress and writer, what is your favorite part about both activities?
Nostalgia is my favorite emotion, and I find myself drawn to objects and fashion inspired by my fantastic childhood. This
I had a funny personal blog (about acting) that was doing well, but then my agent kindly let me know that I should maybe cut it out since it was possible for a potential client to not hire me for fear that I'd blog about my my on-set work in a negative way. Around that same time I was reading like 20 personal style blogs because I love clothes and I love blogging. One day I was like, "Gosh, some of these are sooooooo serious. Fashion isn't always so serious! It's whimsical and funny and sometimes ridiculous. I need a place where I can be all of those things!" I killed the other blog, bought a domain name, and Adored Austin rose from the ashes!
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It's important to me that people know that I don't take myself too seriously. I write exactly how I talk to my best friend, and I'm not trying to do serious journalism over there. I feel so blessed to be a part of this awesome group of women who does these things and/ or reads these things, and I have some exciting developments coming up for Adored Austin for 2010.And also, going back to question one, I know that Miss Piggy isn't actually a person, so if you have to make me choose someone else that is actually human, I will choose Punky Brewster. Starting in season two, though, because for all of season one she only wears jeans and the same t-shirt every day. Boring!


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Consultants who reviewed the 2011 Mecklenburg County property revaluation delivered their final report to county officials on Friday. That means it's now up to county commissioners to decide how the county responds to the consultants' findings of flaws in the revaluation. Commissioners will take up the issue The issue is on the agenda at Tuesday's county commission meeting.
Pearson's Appraisal Service says in the report that it found "inequities" in valuations of similar properties in sample neighborhoods it studied, including some around Lake Norman and in south Charlotte. Pearson's recommends that the county conduct a broader review to find out if more neighborhoods also saw discrepancies.
Some critics say the county needs to completely re-do the revaluation, and refund any excess taxes that might have been paid. A re-do also could result in higher valuations for some property.
The consultants also are recommending changes in customer service at the County Assessor's Office. And they found problems with valuations in commercial neighborhoods they looked at.
Jim Bensman, a former Cornelius commissioner who has pressed the county to study and fix problems with the revaluation, says Pearson's report "substantiates most of what we have been saying for over a year."
In an email to followers, Mr. Bensman called for major changes in the assessor's office, including reassignment of firing of Tax Assessor Garrett Alexander. "In order for there to be any confidence in whatever corrective actions are decided upon, there have to be major changes in the personnel involved," Mr. Bensman said.
He also called for appointment of an independent citizens' committee, perhaps the existing Citizen Revaluation Advisory Committee, to oversee whatever corrective actions the county might take.
"I believe the stage is set for this issue to be resolved. It will be time consuming and expensive for the County to repair the damage," Mr. Bensman said.
Cornelius Mayor and state Senator-elect Jeff Tarte has said state legislators already are drafting legislation that would allow Mecklenburg County to re-do the 2011 revaluation.
Nov. 15, 2012, "If county won't fix flaw reval, legislature will, Tarte says."
Download a copy of the report and summary letter on the county website.
See also the full agenda for Tuesday's Mecklenburg County Commission meeting at MecklenburgCountyNC.gov.


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