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Inspired by Philipp K. Dick's novels, the investigative eye of INJAZTIGATOR takes a closer look not on the past as in the previous albums "Return to a Past Future " (2010) and "The Grammar of Life" (2006) but rather at the scenario of a failed Utopia.
The third INJAZTIGATOR album (2013) takes us into a dark, dusty and rusty town in the future, which has gone astray. There is darkness, rumbling, rustling, and everything is about to fall apart.
The audience slips into the skin of a DYSTOPIA resident, finding himself, like an AUTOMAN, locked in the UNDERWORLD made of endless labyrinths, externally commanded and closely surveiled by the IRON CORE. Everyday tasks are executed by the CAREBOYS. Communication is taken over by the CYCLONECTOR and residents are monitored by the INFRADRONE. The system cannot be saved, ressources are getting scarce and the city is going to pieces… But there is hope, hope of redemption – SOONDAI.
"Welcome to Dystopia" is a direct, unrefined, raw and edgy album. It shows the quartet from a new side, raw, rocky and metallic. The album would have been tagged as Jazz Rock 30 years ago. However today, it is a blend of Industrial- Electric Jazz, does it require to be classified. Ten new seething, scratching, wheezing, rasping, steaming, pulsing and magnetising tracks.
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Molly Auclair joined GMRI's education department in September 2013, as a LabVenture! Fellow, and began a full-time role as a Science Education Specialist for the PowerHouse program the following February. In her role, Molly works with students and teachers throughout Maine to ignite the curiosity, ambition, and problem-solving potential of our next generation.
Before joining GMRI, Molly worked at both the Baxter State Park and the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, as an Environmental Educator for AmeriCorps and the Maine Conservation Corps. She received her BS in Biology and German Studies from Guilford College, and her MS in Marine Science from the University of New England, where she was also an NSF GK-12 Graduate Fellow. Her field research includes grey whale acoustics, saltmarsh ecology, and Great Blue Heron nesting behavior.
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LES COMBES, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI showed last year that he knows how to keep busy on vacation, and he's demonstrating that ability again this year.
During last year's vacation here in the Italian Alps, he reportedly wrote some of his first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est (God Is Love).
This year, among other things, he found time to work on a book, to visit the famed St. Bernard's kennel at an Augustinian monastery in Switzerland, to lead a prayer vigil for Mideast peace (see article below) and to attend a retirement party for longtime papal spokesman Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls at the Salesian-owned chalet in Les Combes where the Pope vacationed from July 11-28.
Being pope means Benedict, a theologian and scholar, can teach millions more people than ever before, but it has put a crimp in his publishing schedule.
For the second year in a row, rumors were floating around that the Pope was using his July vacation in the northern Italian Alps to work on a book he has been writing, on and off, for three or four years.
As he returned to Les Combes July 21 after a walk in
"Yes, I am trying to write a book," he said, smiling.
"But it is better not to talk about it. One needs to be cautious when attempting something, because it is possible it will never come to completion," he said.
Benedict would not explain the subject matter, but the 2006 rumor was that he is trying to complete a major work on Christology, discussing various aspects of Catholic faith in Jesus Christ.
Earlier in his Alpine vacation,
the Pope made a brief visit to
News of the Holy Father's July 18 excursion came from Benedict himself.
Returning to Les Combes, the Pope told reporters he had gone first to a
convent of Benedictine nuns at
"We had a lovely meeting with the
Benedictine sisters and we prayed together," the Holy Father said. "Then we
went to the
Meeting Benedict shortly after 8 p.m., the reporters asked if he had a chance to visit the kennels where, for more than three centuries, the Augustinians raised Saint Bernard dogs and trained them to assist in mountain rescues.
Smiling, the Pope said yes, adding that the dogs "were very good, very brave."
The Holy Father's return to
Members of the papal entourage told reporters that about 200 tourists were at the Augustinian monastery and were shocked when they saw the Pope come out. He stopped to shake hands and to bless children.
The Augustinians had announced in 2004 that they could no longer afford to raise Saint Bernards and were planning to auction off the animals. After a public uproar, particularly because the dogs are an important symbol for local tourism, a Swiss association assumed financial responsibility for the kennel.
On July 27, Benedict attended a
simple farewell party in honor of Navarro-Valls,
director of the
Persons accompanying Benedict on his vacation attended the party, including those in charge of his security.
The Pope arrived around 7:30 p.m., reported Salvatore Mazza, special correspondent of the Italian newspaper Avvenire, to bid farewell to Navarro-Valls, to whom he addressed words of esteem and affection.
The Holy Father took advantage of the occasion to thank his "guardian angels" for their work to ensure a peaceful vacation for him.
Peaceful it may have been, but it certainly wasn't idle!
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Ford Makes it Easier to Avoid Texting While Driving With New SYNC Features
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Bluetooth standard called MAP (Message Access Profile), which enables the phone and SYNC to exchange message data. SYNC is an open platform, which means that the architecture is flexible and "open" for new applications to be developed for it. The text message readback feature is part of SYNC. But, so far, only Research in Motion has integrated the appropriate Bluetooth profile that enables Blackberry devices to communicate with SYNC.
Ford SYNC was co-developed by Ford and Microsoft and introduced in 2007 on the 2008 model year Focus. It is now available across almost all of Ford's product line. Microsoft provides the software based on its Windows Embedded Automotive platform, and then Ford develops and integrates all the capabilities and applications on that platform. It partners with other companies for some of those applications, including Nuance, based in Burlington, MA., for voice recognition and TeleNav, based in Sunnyvale, CA., for navigation data.
Hall indicated that it is important for the automaker to determine what applications are available on the SYNC, and what gets locked out while the car's being driven.
"We own the in-vehicle experience, therefore it will be up to us to evaluate and determine what apps are accessible through SYNC," Hall says.
It makes sense to me, since, as Toyota's recent troubles with brakes revealed, the carmaker will be held responsible if something goes wrong.
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City officials are trying to reassure residents that their tap water is perfectly safe even though some water is coming out brown.
The fire hydrant in front of Elizabeth Bustillo's Kingwood home Tuesday morning spewed that kind of water as did her sink and bathtub.
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MANY of Oxfordshire's students who put in hours of hard work against the odds had an extra reason to cheer yesterday.
Among them was heart patient Alex Humm, who is off to study medicine after securing the grades he needed despite having a pace-maker fitted during last year's exams.
The 18-year-old Fitzharrys pupil from Abingdon got an A* and two As in chemistry, maths and biology to secure a place at the University of Sheffield.
When he was 13 Alex had open heart surgery to fix a faulty valve and it was then he decided he wanted to become a doctor.
He said: "It changed my life."
Headteacher Jonathan Dennett said: "It is a great achievement. It shows how he has taken things in his stride."
- Harry Gable
Cerebral palsy sufferer Harry Gable paid tribute to Larkmead School after he achieved two A*s and an A in English Literature, religious studies, and history.
The 18-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, will now study history and politics at Oxford Brookes. He said: "Larkmead made me feel no different and they have made me concentrate on my education. Now we are seeing the results of that."
- Waheed Isam
A year ago Waheed Islam, 18, of Marsh Road, Cowley, was considering dropping out of school after receiving disappointing results. He had got two Us and an E in his AS-Levels at Oxford Spires Academy but decided to start all over again.
He completed two years' worth of work in the past year to get an A and two Bs in a business dual award and economics.
Mr Islam, who will now study financial economics at the University of Leicester, said: "I realised that I needed good grades to get into university."
Didcot's St Birinus School student Joshua Pike struggled with language when he was younger as he has Asperger's Syndrome.
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But the 18-year-old from Didcot got an A* in maths, an A* in further maths, an A in chemistry, a B grade in French and is off to Cardiff University to study maths and French. He said: "The staff at St Birinus treated me like any typical student."
Amy Preece, 18, got into her top choice of university despite losing her father, Andrew, to cancer in February last year.
The Oxford Academy student from Rose Hill will begin a degree in fashion design at Bucks New University in September after getting Ds in maths and history and an E in art.
She said: "It was hard work but I had a lot of support from teachers and staff."
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According to Forbes, coach Pete Carroll is the third highest-paid football coach in this country and tied with Larry Brown as the fourth highest-paid coach of any sport. The magazine's annual survey of coaching salaries found that Bill Belichick of the Patriots and Mike Shanahan of
the Broncos Washington were the only two football coaches whose pay surpasses the $7 million Forbes said Carroll will earn.
Phil Jackson of the Lakers tops all coaches, according to the magazine.
A couple of things to consider. Carroll's salary comes on top of the $12 million Seattle already owes Jim Mora after letting him go one-quarter of the way into a four-year contract.
Second, it is interesting that two of the three highest-paid coaches in the NFL are in their first year on the current job. More than anything, the lack of top-end contracts reflects the fact that prominent coaches such as Mike Holmgren, Tony Dungy and Bill Cowher aren't on the sidelines as well as the recent trend of hiring younger coaches without previous head-coaching experience. The success of coaches like Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh spurred other teams to look to get younger (and perhaps not coincidentally, cheaper). Guys like Josh McDaniels (Denver) andEric Mangini (with the New York Jets, not the Cleveland Browns). It will be interesting to see whether it becomes en vogue to hire a coach with some profile and swagger.
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by Christopher Freeburn | October 30, 2013 9:06 am
[1]Lots of pink slips are going out at one of the leading global financial news services[2].
On Tuesday, Thomson Reuters (TRI[3]) announced that it will eliminate 3,000 jobs as it looks to cut costs. That layoffs amount to about 5% of the company's current payroll and are part of CEO James Smith's strategy to streamline its product lines and concentrate on higher-growth markets, USA TODAY notes.
In February, the company said it would shed 2,500 workers as it struggled to compete with rivals like News Corp.'s (NWSA[4]) Dow Jones and Bloomberg.
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Shares of Thomson Reuters rose slightly in Wednesday morning trading.
The company joins a number of large companies that have recently announced large job cuts. In August, the nation's leading mortgage lender Wells Fargo (WFC[5]) said it would cut 2,300 jobs from its mortgage unit[6].
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With Neil Patrick Harris passing the Hedwig torch — er wig — over to Andrew Rannells on Aug. 20, the Girls actor has hit the late night circuit to promote his turn as the East German punk rocker. He stopped by The Tonight Show last night to chat with Jimmy Fallon about taking on the role.
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I see lots of players on the House MD Critical Cases Facebook fan page asking for gauze, tongue depressors, etc. Here's what you need to know to collect the items you need:
First, it's important to know which supplies match up to which "body system," as follows:
Glandular (Green) - IV Bags
Digestive (Purple) - Tongue Depressors
Heart (Red) - Oxygen Masks
Chemical (Yellow) - Syringes
Body (Blue) - Gauze
Head/Brain (White) - Thermometers
Based on that information, there are essentially 5 ways to gain these supplies:
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2. When looking through your friends ("colleagues") list in your bottom navigation panel, it shows their specialty on the bottom of their icon. If you visit that friend and complete the cooperative investigation (meaning that you find all 10 items within the 60-second time limit), you will receive 3 energy points and whichever supply corresponds to their specialty. Example: you visit a friend who is a heart specialist and find all 10 items within the 60-second time limit. You will receive 3 energy points and an oxygen mask.
3. When a friend has visited you, in your bottom navigation panel, there will be a flashlight floating in the upper right-hand corner of their icon. When you click to visit that friend, you will receive a message saying "Dr. [insert name here] found clues in your ICU investigation. Can you find 10 more?" If you find all 10 items within the 60-second time limit from your own investigation, you will receive 3 energy points and whichever supply corresponds with that friend's specialty. Example: a heart-specialist friend has visited you and found 10 items within the 60-second time limit. When you see their icon in your bottom navigation panel, they have a flashlight floating in the upper right-hand corner. You click on the icon and get the message that your friend has found items and asking you to find 10 more. You find all 10 within the 60-second time limit and you receive 3 energy points along with an oxygen mask.
4. On your bottom navigation panel, click the third icon which looks like a red and gray box. Choose whichever supply you need and click the left button on the bottom of the icon. This will allow you to request that supply from friends.
5. Send whichever gift you're in need of. When you first open the game, you have the option to send gifts to friends. If your level is high enough to unlock the type of supply you're looking for, send it to friends. Example: When you send an oxygen mask to someone, they will receive a message stating "[Insert name here] sent the following message: I sent you an oxygen mask." They will have the option to accept. Once they accept, they will get a new message: "[Insert name here] sent you a gift of oxygen mask. Send a gift back to [insert name here]?" By sending out the supplies you need, you will receive them back, assuming your friend accepts and sends a gift back. This works not only for supplies that correspond with body systems but also with coffees and med packs.
6. Please note that only colleagues (friends who have been added to the game) can send you supplies, those who are not friends cannot send them to you. Therefore, posting randomly on the Facebook fan page that you need gauze, etc. will not get you anywhere except maybe getting several people to send you friend requests. If you need more friends that play the game, the Facebook fan page is a great place to find them as there are always people posting "add me." The page can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/HouseMDGame
I hope this is helpful! If anyone can think of something I missed, please let me know and I will edit to include it!


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Paralympics blog - Race-ready as opening ceremony looms
Shropshire paralympics coach Chris Furber, who works with the British para-cycling team, blogs from London 2012 as he settles into village and prepares for the opening ceremony.
We have had two full days at London 2012 and the para-cycling team are settling into village life nicely. We have found all the good places to eat and are comfortable with the route over to the velodrome and how to get about.
Before major track cycling events there are always warm-up sessions on the track so that everyone can get use to the surroundings.
- Paralympics blog - Final preparations for London 2012
We have 2 hrs each day to get our final training done but we have to share our session with other nations. Here in London we are on the track with the Netherlands, New Zealand, Argentina and Russia.
The Dutch and the Kiwis are well know to us and the coaches are brilliant so it's easy to co-ordinate efforts for each of our riders. The Russians and Argentineans don't tend to communicate to much when they go on the track so it's a bit of a guessing game for us as coaches and the riders are playing 'dodgems' in order to avoid collisions.
All athletes 'taper' for major events, that is to say that the volume of training goes down in the last 10-14 days prior to competition to ensure that when they race they are as fresh as possible.
It's always a fine balancing act between doing enough to keep them in top condition, but not too much. Athlete feedback is vital in this process so the riders feed back to us on how they feel all the time.
During this phase we also decide what 'gear' the riders will race on. A track bike only has one gear, so it's important to select the right chainring and sprocket for race day.
Our final track session before competition was this morning and the park is now on lock down for the opening ceremony.
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Timeline in the Phil Spector murder case:
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–March 11: Sheriff's officials discount suicide. Spector sends an e-mail to friends calling the shooting "an accidental suicide."
–June 4: Spector tells Esquire Magazine, "She kissed the gun. I have no idea why."
–Sept. 22: Coroner rules the death a homicide.
–Nov. 20: Spector is charged with murder and pleads not guilty.
–Aug. 24: New York lawyer Bruce Cutler takes over defense after first team is fired and second team resigns.
–Sept. 27: Spector is indicted on a murder charge.
–Feb. 3: Clarkson's mother sues Spector for wrongful death.
–April 25: Opening statements begin in Spector's first trial.
–Aug. 27: Cutler, often absent from the trial to tape a TV show, formally leaves the defense team.
–Sept. 10: Jurors begin deliberations.
–Sept. 18: Foreman reports an impasse.
–Sept. 20: Judge withdraws one instruction and issues another, and jury resumes deliberations.
–Sept. 26: The judge declares a mistrial because the jury could not reach a verdict.
–Oct. 29: Opening statements begin in the retrial with new defense attorney Doron Weinberg.
–Feb. 19: The jury tours Spector's home.
–April 13: The jury convicts Spector of second-degree murder and personal use of a firearm. He is jailed immediately.
–May 29: Spector is scheduled to be sentenced.


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Jill Kelley Helped Muslim Nations, Hezbollah Infiltrate Central Command, MacDill Base; "Go To Girl" For Muslim Parties w/ Generals
By Debbie Schlussel
November 15, 2012, - 12:08 pm
Jill Khawam Kelley was the hand-picked lobbyist for Muslim nations and their agenda at Central Command.
Kelley, who is part of the soap opera that the Petraeus scandal spawned, was in charge of hosting parties and social events to push the Islamic agenda of Middle Eastern countries. She was seen by Muslim Mid-East nations, especially Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, as the "go to" woman to push their agenda on top American generals. She was a lobbyist for their cause and, yet, wasn't required to register as a lobbyist, like all others who host lavish parties for top American officials, like she did, in an attempt to influence U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Gen. David Petraeus w/ the Arab Nations' Agent of Influence @ Central Command, Jill Kelley
Kelley, a dhimmi Christian Arab of Lebanese descent, was well known in the Muslim Arab embassies of Washington for doing their bidding and hosting their parties at and near MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where our nation's top generals are based. It's where Central Command–the U.S. Armed Forces' leadership over wars and military personnel Middle East–is headquartered.
When a friend of mine said that he thought the financially troubled Khawam sisters, Kelley and Natalie Khawam, were spies for Lebanon and the Arab world, I originally expressed skepticism. I believed that these twin sisters with obvious twin nose jobs were merely bimbo gold diggers in slutty outfits, who used their Delilah ways to first nab rich husbands, and then nab idiotic top American generals to participate in Lifetime-Channel-worthy bitter child custody disputes. But then I learned that Ms. Kelley, who was until this week under the radar, was quietly involved in pushing the agenda of Muslim Arab nations on our nation's top generals with whom she'd grown close by design. I don't think it's a coincidence that Ms. Kelley got her hooks into our two top generals in the Middle East, David Petraeus and John Allen. I'm now convinced that my friend, lawyer Gary Welsh of Advance Indiana, who has excellent instincts, was correct.
I've long written about the infiltration of Central Command at MacDill Air Base in Tampa by Islamic terrorists. Islamic Jihad founder and convicted Islamic terrorist, Sami Al-Arian, was an instructor on the Middle East to our top generals at MacDill Air Force Base AT THE VERY SAME TIME that he was planning mergers and terrorist attacks in Israel with "the brothers of HAMAS" and while he was bringing Muslim illegal alien Islamic terrorists to the U.S. Al-Arian's friend and co-conspirator, Ramadan Abdullah Shallah (one of those Al-Arian brought here), who became the Secretary-General of the worldwide Islamic Jihad terrorist group, was also a lecturer at MacDill and also taught our top generals his poisonous views on the Middle East and Israel. FBI and INS agents who investigated Shallah and Al-Arian were alarmed at the influence these two top Islamic terrorists had over CentCom. They were also alarmed to find many books on the inner workings of MacDill in Shallah's house when they raided it.
So when people ask me how I think these women were able to insert themselves into top generals' lives and topple them (along with, apparently, the men they married), I think back to the fact that our top generals gladly allowed top terrorists to infiltrate Central Command as alleged "professors" on the Middle East. And when generals like Petraeus and Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. openly attack Israel and America's relationship with Israel, people like Jill Khawam Kelley and Al-Arian and Shallah are the reason why. Khawam Kelley isn't an innocent socialite. She's an agent of influence for Arab Muslim nations.
The Washington Post reports:
A military officer who is a former member of Petraeus's staff said Kelley was a "self-appointed" go-between for Central Command officers with Lebanese and other Middle Eastern officials. . . . At the parties Jill Kelley hosted at her Tampa mansion, guests were frequently treated to the indulgences of celebrity life: valet parking, string quartets on the lawn, premium cigars and champagne, and caviar-laden buffets.The Wall Street Journal reports:
The main recipients of the largess were military brass — including some of the nation's most senior commanders — based at nearby MacDill Air Force Base.
Kelley flaunted her access to these military VIPs. . . . The investigations of Petraeus's and Allen's actions, nonetheless, have raised questions about how Kelley, a woman with no formal military role, cultivated such close ties to two of the nation's most revered generals.
One former aide to Allen, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the case, suggested that Kelley had become a de facto social ambassador among high-ranking personnel at MacDill, home to the U.S. Central Command and Special Operations Command.
Middle Eastern diplomats in Washington also knew Ms. Kelley, who came from a Lebanese immigrant family and who helped arrange social activities when dignitaries from the region visited Tampa, diplomats said. She also sometimes attended parties at Washington embassies.I guarantee you that Jill Khawam Kelley wasn't hosting visits from dignitaries from Israel. And, other than those from Israel, every single "Middle Eastern diplomat" in Washington is a Muslim, most of them Muslim Arabs. And all of them Muslims with an agenda that is anti-Israel and anti-Western. And definitely not in America's best interests. They come to Tampa for one reason and one reason only–to ingratiate themselves with the top military brass at CentCom at MacDill.
And Jill Khawam Kelley was their social director in that mission.
Kelley's sister, Natalie Khawam, was married to a top Bush administration official, Grayson Wolfe, Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction at the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and frequently accompanied him on trips to the Middle East, including to Pakistan. Before that position, Wolfe was the Bush-installed Manager of the Private Sector Development Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq. How many of the Khawam's insider Arab Muslim friends did he give sweetheart contracts to?
Before It's News has more and asks more questions about the consulting and contracting firm that Wolfe now heads. Although they are now embroiled in a bitter custody fight over their son, you have to wonder what influence Khawam had on him and what was done in the Middle East. She recently sued her former employer, a Jewish lawyer, Barry Cohen, but gave up after her lawsuit was shown to be phony. Cohen struck back and found that Khawam engaged in bankruptcy fraud.
My friend wasn't so far-fetched when he insisted the Khawam chicks are modern day Mata Haris for the Muslim Arabs.
Just look at what they've accomplished for the Muslim Mid-East, all of it under the radar . . . until Paula Broadwell had the stupidity to send her threatening e-mails and Jill Khawam Kelley had the stupidity of complaining about it to shirtless FBI agent Frederic Humphries.
Jill Kelley Helped Muslim Nations, Hezbollah Infiltrate Central Command, MacDill Base; "Go To Girl" For Muslim Parties w/ Generals
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Sad, I guess the world has changed, in my military days(dark ages) we recognized the "good from the bad" if we didn't we had some mature officers who clued us in, the rate of fools have increased with our population growth.I'm old with many opinions few solutions.
11-16-2012, 03:01 PM #3Woman in Petraeus scandal visited White HouseJill Kelley visited the White House three times this year | The Daily Caller
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An Obama administration official says a Tampa Bay socialite whose emails triggered the eventual downfall of CIA director David Petraeus visited the White House three times this year with her sister, twice eating in the Executive Mansion mess.
The official says that Jill Kelley, who initiated an investigation that ultimately unveiled Petraeus' extramarital affair, and her sister had two "courtesy" meals at the White House mess as guests of a mid-level White House aide. Kelley and her family also received a White House tour. The visits occurred during the past three months.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because those visitor records have not yet been made public.
The official said the White House aide who hosted her met the Kelley family at MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa.
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Why Paula Broadwell Sent Those Emails
It wasnt jealousy
by Justin Raimondo, November 16, 2012
When it comes to grandstanding, few politicians can outdo Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. A few hours before the Presidents first press conference since the election, this duo had one of their own, demanding a "Water-gate"-like special congressional investigation into the attack on our Benghazi CIA secret prison "consulate." As if at least three congressional committees looking into the matter isnt enough, they want another one just to make sure it comes to the right conclusions.
And what are those conclusions? Its the same Fox News party line that weve been hearing since Day One: according to the wingnuts, the President and his administration deliberately withheld military and security support from the "consulate," and ordered rescue teams to stand down while Ambassador Chris Stevens, and three others, were sacrificed on the altar of the Presidents reelection campaign.
You may ask: why would Obama, then-CIA chief Gen. David Petraeus, and the Pentagon pull such a deadly and heinous betrayal? Although it is never said out loud except by the nuttiest of the wingnuts the clear implication is that the White House is inhabited by traitors. It all makes perfect "sense" if you fervently believe the President is a secret Muslim.
For those whose ears arent quite attuned to the dog whistling of the Fox News/Karl Rove media combine, we have Charles Krauthammer, who gives essentially the same tired old story a conspiratorial twist (with a dash of scandal): the administration, he avers, was holding the knowledge of his affair with Paula Broadwell over Petraeuss head, supposedly forcing him to testify at a Sept. 13 congressional briefing that the "Innocence of Muslims" video was a significant factor in the Benghazi attack. Obama isnt just a secret Muslim, you see: hes a blackmailer, too.
Its truly a sickening and singularly unconvincing narrative, not least because these three stooges of the War Party McCain, Graham, and Krauthammer all hailed the US intervention in Libya, while criticizing the President for being too "late and slow" about it. When radical Islamists allied with al-Qaeda were installed in Tripoli and Benghazi by NATO air power and mobs of howling savages on the ground, the War Party personified by this tiresome trio were over the moon. Now theyre complaining about the consequences of our great "victory" "its a good day for Libya, America, and the world," Krauthammer crowed at the time. But was it?
When it comes to the Benghazi attack, all parties agree on one thing: the security arrangements provided for the CIA station/consulate were inadequate. Unarmed security guards employed by an obscure UK-based firm nobody had ever heard of, and the "protection" afforded by the February 17 Brigade, a key militia group that led the uprising against Qaddafi in Benghazi and was being "trained" by the CIA, were all the protection they had. Perhaps the State Department was confident the February 17 gang would defend them if attacked. The only problem was that the Brigade, itself a radical Islamist outfit, did nothing while the Ansar al-Sharia group another, even more hard-line Islamist "militia" stormed the diplomatic compound, and, later, the CIA station a mile or so away. Indeed, the consulate "guards" alerted the attackers as to the whereabouts of Ambassador Stevens and his staff, who had fled to the nearby CIA station after the initial assault.
Those "guards" came from a small outfit known as Blue Mountain Security. This was mainly a travel company catering to adventurous tourists until the "liberation" of Libya, when they managed to get around Libyan regulations on foreign security providers by partnering up with a "local" security organization. Except it wasnt at all local: the Eclipse Group is a shadowy organization run by Iran-Contra co-conspirator and neocon loony Duane Clarridge, who boasts of running his own "private" CIA. It was this group, which just happened to have a license to operate in Libya, that gave Blue Mountain access to the Libyan security market.
Isnt it funny how neocons turn up in the weirdest places? All you have to do is probe a bit beneath the surface of practically any foreign policy disaster, and there they are, like bugs scittering away in droves the deeper one digs.
Speaking of neocons, we now know the identity of the Shirtless Guy, the FBI agent whose dogged pursuit of the source of those "harassing" emails led to the exposure of Petraeuss affair with Paula Broadwell and the CIA chiefs downfall:
"The agent, Frederick W. Humphries II, 47, is also described by former colleagues as relentless in his pursuit of what he sees as wrongdoing, which appears to describe his role in the F.B.I. investigation involving Mr. Petraeus. Suspecting that the case involved serious security issues and was being stalled, possibly for political reasons a suspicion his superiors say was unjustified he took his concerns to Congressional Republicans.
Fred is a passionate kind of guy, one former colleague said. Hes kind of an obsessive type. If he locked his teeth onto something, hed be a bulldog."
Humphries, a former Army captain and military intelligence officer, is a friend of Jill Kelley, the woman whose "cyber-stalking" complaint triggered the investigation that eventually uncovered the Petraeus- Broadwell liaison. He reportedly became so "obsessed" by the case that his superiors forbade him from getting involved in it, and so he went around them: to the Republican congressional leadership, which spilled the beans to the top guns at the FBI. From there it went to DNI James Clapper, who insisted Petraeus resign. Humphries was convinced "the case was being stalled for political reasons," according to the Times: an earlier Times account attributed his impatience to his "worldview."
What "worldview" is that? The Times describes his "conservative political views," and a look at his background should give us a few clues.
To begin with, he was instrumental in the investigation that foiled the so-called Millennium terrorist plot of 1990. Current headlines describe him as a "hero." However, other cases in which he figured prominently paint a definitely unheroic portrait of a man consumed by hatred of Muslims. In 2007, Humphries went after Youssef Megahed, a USF student arrested in South Carolina while on a road trip with a newly acquired friend, Ahmed Mohamed. They had been pulled over for speeding and the police found suspicious items in the car: PVC pipes filled with potassium nitrate. Mohamed said they were "model rockets," while the government admitted they were "low explosives."
The two were charged with illegal transportation of explosive materials and possession of destructive devices, but neither was convicted on those counts. However, Mohamed got a 15-year sentence for a Youtube video explaining how to convert a toy car remote control device into a detonator.
Megahed was acquitted of all charges, but the fanatical Humphries pursued him, and he was re-arrested, this time on suspicion of posing a terrorist threat. "We felt that Mr. Megahed was willingly providing assistance to Mr. Mohamed, who is a self-professed terrorist," averred Humphries at the trial. What was the evidence against Megahed? As Megaheds lawyer put it:
"The only thing the government did and I think its important for people to understand this is they put on a supervisory FBI agent who testified about what other people investigated, and they put on a forensics computer examiner who basically said, Heres Youssefs history on his computer, without giving context to either of those. And when we pointed out and were able to discuss what these two witnesses the actual context of the allegations against Youssef, it became crystal clear that there was nothing there. There was simply no basis to the charges against Youssef."
In short, Humphriess testimony and that of the "forensics expert" was pure innuendo, which is why the judge threw it out and freed Megahed. This should give us some idea of the "worldview" espoused by Petraeuss pursuer.
This story says Humphries gave a talk on Afghanistan at the "FBI Citizens Academy," and that his friend, Jill Kelley another key catalyst in the outing of Petraeus also attended. Other news outlets are claiming they met there for the first time. In any case, the two became close although the shirtless picture Humphries sent her is said to be non-sexual in nature and when Kelley started receiving anonymous emails warning her to stay away from Petraeus she went to Humphries. He became convinced he had uncovered a grave security threat because the emailer seemed to have inside knowledge of the movements of both Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, the top US commander in Afghanistan.
Ms. Kelley is fast eclipsing Broadwell as the central player in this drama, which many have compared to a soap opera but which may in fact be more akin to a spy thriller.
Kelley, 37, is married to Scott Kelley, a surgeon at a hospital in Tampa, Florida: the couple lives in a $1.5 million mansion "a stones throw" away from MacDill Air Force Base, headquarters of CENTCOM. The daughter of Lebanese parents who came to the US in the 1970s "due to political disputes," according to Al Arabiya, her family is Maronite Christian. Kelley was described by a onetime member of Petraeuss staff as a "self-appointed go-between for Central Command officers with Lebanese and other Middle Eastern government officials."
One cant help wondering: which Middle Eastern governments?
Kelley and her husband moved to Tampa a decade ago, and she soon became the center of a social whirlwind involving top CENTCOM officers, including Petraeus and Allen. Famous for her lavish parties, with white tents on her manicured lawn and valet parking, she was known as the unofficial "social liaison" for MacDill and the surrounding community. (Although if you were anything less than a colonel, you could forget about getting an invite to one of her sparkling galas). She worked hard at becoming a fixture, even getting a special pass to MacDill which allowed her to breeze in and out: the pass, as you might imagine, has since been revoked.
A sumptuous mansion, a Mercedes and a BMG in the driveway, a reputation as a socialite with rather expensive tastes these insignia of wealth hid a miasma of debt, foreclosures, and creditor lawsuits that belied the glossy surface of her life. As USA Today reports:
"The $2.1 million purchase of a three-story office building downtown ended in foreclosure. The couple defaulted on a $250,000 line of credit and owe thousands on credit cards.
"Chase Bank sued for $25,880 in 2010.
"FIA Card Services sued in February for $79,876, including more than $75,000 in cash advances on a Visa Signature card.
"Regions Bank sued in August 2010 after the Kelleys failed to make payments on $250,000 borrowed July 19, 2005. The bank ultimately settled for $85,000 and required the Kelleys to pay $850 a month toward the debt."
There was also a seemingly dubious cancer charity run by Jill and her husband, which also lists her twin sister, Natalie, as an officer. Almost half the money raised went to expenses: no one knows where the other half went. More recently, Kelley attended the Tampa GOP convention, where she met a New York City businessman who was convinced by her that she could get him a no bid coal gasification contract with the South Korean government: the hook was her relationship with Petraeus, which she said would guarantee the contract. He flew her to New York to discuss the details, but soon discovered she had no idea what she was talking about after she demanded an $80 million payment.
Sister Natalie Khawam is also quite the card: police records indicate at least half a dozen calls from Ms. Khawam concerning alleged prowlers, unwanted visits from supposed agents of her ex-boyfriend, and other domestic dramas. The boyfriend may be her ex-husband, or perhaps lobbyist Gerald Harrington, a bigtime Democratic party contributor and military lobbyist associated with Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and John Kerry. Khazams bankruptcy records indicate Harrington "loaned" her $300,000. In another weird twist, both Petraeus and Allen intervened in a child custody case involving Khawam and her ex-husband: both sent letters to the judge praising her to the skies.
However, as the Tampa Bay Times put it:
"The court had a different opinion. Ms. Khawam appears to lack any appreciation or respect for the importance of honesty and integrity in her interactions with her family, employers, and others with whom she comes in contact, a judge wrote after a litany of hearings and psychological evaluations. The court fully expects that Ms. Khawams pattern of misrepresentations about virtually everything, including the most important aspects of her life, will continue indefinitely."
Millions of dollars in debt, Khazam moved into the Tampa Bay mansion with her sister. The two made a formidable team as they carved out a niche at the intersection of Tampas social elite and MacDills military brass. Kelley, says the Tampa Bay Times, was "determined to make her footprint" after moving to Tampa in 2003, and was apparently very clear on setting up shop as close to MacDill as possible. She "knocked on doors up and down Bayshore Boulevard, asking homeowners if their house was for sale. She wanted the prestigious address, and she got it. In June 2004, the couple paid $1.5 million for a 4,800-square-foot brick mansion with stately white pillars and a view of Hillsborough Bay, just six miles from MacDill Air Force Base."
They became renown for the untrammeled extravagance of their parties, where "there was always more than anybody could possibly eat," according to one guest. Behind the façade of wealth and self-assurance, however, the sisters were slowly sinking into an ocean of debt and accompanying litigation.
When we put what we know about the Kelley household together, we come up with a clear pattern and set of motivations pointing to an ulterior motive behind all this frenetic socializing and status-seeking:
1) To say they were living beyond their means is a bit of an understatement: saddled with an enormous debt the mortgage on their house was in serious arrears one has to wonder where they got all the money for this constant round of entertaining.
2) Jill Kelley made a "determined" effort to buy a house at a prestigious address minutes away from MacDill. She was very specific about where she wanted to live, almost as if she were setting up a "scene" but to what purpose?
3) Kelley waged an aggressive campaign to embed herself and her family into the social life of MacDill, cultivating top-ranking officers such as Petraeus and Allen, continuing her relationship with these two after they left the area. At every charity event, every "outreach" effort by MacDill to the local community, there she was, right in the center of things. Her whole life revolved around these activities: it was, in effect, her job.
4) As Petraeuss former staff member phrases her job description, she was a "self-appointed go-between for Central Command officers with Lebanese and other Middle Eastern government officials."
Lebanons Christian Maronite community has a long history of persecution at the hands of Muslim radicals, and also one of political extremism in their own ranks. The violently anti-Muslim Phalangist movement, which engaged in several massacres, has its base in the Maronite community: they were the main pogromists at Sabra and Shatilla. Allied with the Israelis, the Maronites fought and continue to fight against the Muslim majority: the links between the Phalangists and other Christian extremist groups and Israeli intelligence is well-documented.
Enter FBI agent and anti-Muslim fanatic Humphries, on a crusade to save the West from infiltration, who believed the investigation into the "harassing" emails was being suppressed by the Obama administration, and you have all the ingredients of a political and ideological vendetta aimed at bringing down not only Petraeus but also That Secret Muslim in the White House.
A whole section of the loony-tunes right-wing in this country fervently believes the US government has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. And their paranoia is completely nonpartisan: Frank Gaffney, of the vehemently pro-Israel Center for Security Policy, and the equally nutty and voluble David Horowitz former New Leftist Black Panther groupie turned right-wing conspiracy theorist have both been pushing for years the crazy notion that the Bush administration was infested with Muslim fifth columnists. Their prime target: none other than Grover Norquist, the libertarian anti-tax advocate who is married to a Palestinian woman, and, among his other subversive activities, helped found a free market institute aimed at the Islamic world.
If Humphriess "worldview" was similar to or even shaped by these nutballs, then his actions make perfect "sense": after all, the investigation into the emails was faltering, in his view, and what else could it be but those evil fifth columnists who had squelched the probe? Yet he wasnt going to relent: this one wasnt going to get away like Megahed did. He would go over their heads, expose the terrorist conspiracy, and as in the Millennium case be hailed as a hero.
However, instead of going to the Justice Department, or the chair of a congressional intelligence committee, he turned to the Republicans, and specifically House majority leader Rep. Eric Cantor. It was the tag team of Humphries, Kelley, and Cantor who revealed Petraeuss secret to the world although Kelley didnt count on the FBI going into her emails and there discovering hundreds of pages of email between her and Gen. Allen.
Which leads us to the question: why did Broadwell send the harassing emails, warning Allen off of Kelley and telling the latter to back off from Petraeus? The sex-obsessed American media is naturally focusing on the salacious aspects of Laffaire Petraeus, but the reality is that neither Petraeus nor Allen was likely romantically involved with the Lebanese spitfire. I would suggest it wasnt jealousy that motivated Broadwell, it was a desire to protect her lover and Gen. Allen from falling into a trap: instead, she set if off by her actions. This wasnt a love triangle it was a failed counterintelligence operation, and the end of a tragic love story in which the beloved was unknowingly betrayed by her lover.
We are now being treated to the spectacle of the whole "anti-terrorist" wingnut media machine pumping out the narrative of a craven and traitorous White House supposedly covering up the "real" story of what happened in Benghazi. In typical neocon style, this narrative summed up by Krauthammers "blackmail" thesis is not only a lie, it is the exact opposite of the truth. Far from being blackmailed by the administration, Petraeus was set up and hung out to dry by a murky cabal on the other end of the political spectrum.
I would note that at both ends of the twin scandals roiling official Washington Benghazi and the Petraeus affair we find similar catalytic elements of a definitely neoconnish complexion. At the Benghazi end, we have the Blue Mountain/Eclipse Group/Duane Clarridge connection, and on the Petreaus side we have the Humphries/Kelley/Cantor cabal, with hints of involvement by a certain "Middle Eastern government" thrown in for good measure.
Is that a coincidence, or what?
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Jill Kelley Flew with Top Brass on Mini-Air Force One at Tax Payer Expense
Kurt Nimmo
November 22, 2012
Another fine example of the sort of every-day squandering of tax payer money by government. Public servants take the sort of behavior government socialite Jill Kelley and the Pentagon engaged in for granted, thats why it will continue unabated short of drastic measures on the part of citizens. We witnessed a prime example of this mindset the other day when public employees demanded Congress leave them out of any budget cutting considerations now that the fiscal cliff (more like an abyss) rapidly approaches.
From a local television station in Tampa, Florida:
Not only did Jill Kelley have MacDills top brass over at her house, but 10 News has learned she also took multiple flights on military aircraft at taxpayer expense.You know, sort of like the trillions of dollars they were unable to find the day before the attacks of September 11, 2001.
In at least one instance, Kelley flew to the nations capital with General John Allen, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan.
Top officers have access to VIP planes like the C-40, a sort of mini-Air Force One with special communications gear. Theres also a modified corporate jet, the C-37A, reserved for high-level officers.
10 News has made numerous requests for flight records to see just how many times Kelley has flown on government-owned planes, but so far the Pentagon says it has not been able to track down the answer.
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Press TV: Coup and counter-coup in Washington
Coup and counter-coup in Washington
General David Petraeus, former CIA director
By Webster G. Tarpley and Press TV
The pro-Obama group wants to avoid large conventional commitments. They want to rely on cyber-warfare, drones, assassinations, bombing, raids by special forces, and economic warfare in the form of trade sanctions and technology embargoes.
Sometimes, generals purge politicians. In 1648, during the English Civil War, Colonel Pride and his troops removed those members of the Long Parliament who opposed military domination; the puppets who remained were called the Rump Parliament.
This year, a cabal of generals evidently believed it could secure the White House for Mitt Romney by staging the Benghazi incident and using it as the signal for a cold coup under cover of elections probably including computer-generated election fraud to bring down Obama. They guessed wrong.
Politicians sometimes purge generals. When the French Secret Army Organization (OAS) staged a putsch in Algiers in April 1961 to prevent the independence of Algeria, President de Gaulle had to round up and jail a number of generals and other officers. The Obama administration and its establishment controllers appear to be ousting a number of intelligence and military officials who took part in illegal operations to replace Obama with Romney. These sackings are being presented to the public under the guise of soap opera sexual infractions or expense account padding, in the hope of hiding some real mechanisms of power from the popular gaze. The outgoing US military cabal favors the extension of colonial wars, like those in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as an attack on Iran. Good riddance.
General Petraeus: Neocon Who Sought War with Iran
The most spectacular example is the fall of General David Petraeus, the CIA director, and one of the leading US advocates of an early war with Iran. The heads of several other rogue figures are rolling. The result is one of those rare moments when parts of the rogue network or invisible government can be observed by those who have enough knowledge to understand what they are seeing. But the firings have only scratched the surface.
The Romney backers were made up of neocons, Bush holdovers, and members of the Mormon Mafia in the intelligence community a relatively narrow base. The Obama supporters were the Brzezinski-Nye soft power group and military opposed to the Iran war. The neocons and reactionary Mormons wanted to restore aggressive war and wholesale bombing as the preferred option for US foreign policy. Although they love drones and assassinations, they want to keep significant US conventional forces in the Middle East.
The pro-Obama group wants to avoid large conventional commitments. They want to rely on cyber-warfare, drones, assassinations, bombing, raids by special forces, and economic warfare in the form of trade sanctions and technology embargoes. When they want to destroy a country like Syria, they do not favor direct US invasion or bombing, but rather seek to use proxies like Turkey and the al-Qaeda patsy network to get the double benefit of weakening both ally and enemy. Above all, they love color revolutions and soft-power subversion.
Benghazi, September 11: CIA assets kill US envoy while CIA team is ordered to stand down and other CIA assets fail to interveneThe Benghazi consulate was prevalently a CIA post, with significant military capabilities. Ambassador Stevens had strong CIA connections and served as a liaison with the al-Qaeda-linked terrorists of the Benghazi-Derna-Tobruk corridor, whom the CIA is using for the attack on Syria. His last conversation with a Turkish diplomat was evidently a discussion on this topic.
Stevens and others thought they had nothing to fear because their relations with the Islamist fighters were so cordial. The attack that killed Stevens was carried out by forces under the control of Sufiyan Qumu (also Kumu or Gumu), who had been held in Guantanamo for several years and released as a CIA asset for the overthrow of Gaddafi. A significant group of CIA paramilitaries stationed nearby was ordered to stand down by the CIA command structure.
Another CIA asset, the February 17 Martyrs Brigade, which had in the summer of 2011 assassinated General Younes in order to help the CIA operative General Hifter to take control of the rebel army, had contracted to provide additional security, but also did not intervene. General Petraeus went to the movies that night. On September 14, Petraeus told the House Intelligence committee that the Benghazi incident had been spontaneous, a demonstration gone violent.
This is the line which Susan Rice mouthed on television in mid-September. (She should be fired for other reasons.) The Obama administration was in any case eager to hide the fact that it had turned Libya over to al-Qaeda. The goal of Benghazi was an early October surprise to Carterize Obama, and the CIA was commanded by Petraeus.
Petraeus arrived at the CIA on September 6, 2011. Within a month, a new provocation was launched against Iran in the form of absurd accusations that members of the Quds Force were plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington, DC. Intelligence community conduit David Ignatius wrote at the time that a big reason the implausible plot story gained credibility was the fact the CIA [meaning Petraeus] and other intelligence agencies gathered information corroborating the informants juicy allegations implicating the Quds Force and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
In reality, the patsies involved came from the Drug Enforcement Administration and/or the Mujaheddin e-Khalq (MEK), an anti-Iranian terrorist force maintained by the US in Iraq. The MEK has now been rewarded by being removed from the State Departments list of terrorist organizations. (David Ignatius, Those Keystone Iranians: Why Such a Crude at Assassination Plot?, Washington Post, October 12, 2011) The goal of the operation was to abort possible diplomatic solutions to tensions between NATO and Iran.
In Washington, the neocon Petraeus was always considered as General Betray-US, Bushs warlord and the key front man for the Iraq surge. He was the darling of the civilian chickenhawk neocons, who saw in him a presidential vehicle to return to power after the debacles in Afghanistan and Iraq. Petraeus neocon sherpas were Frederick Kagan and Max Boot, who also helped him to refurbish his image concerning Israel.
Obama was always afraid that Petraeus would run for president, and when Romney took the nomination, feared that Petraeus might be a candidate for vice president.
Like General George Marshall on the evening of December 6, 1941 who stayed conveniently out of the loop under various pretexts because he wanted the Pearl Harbor attack to occur as a means of damaging President Roosevelt Petraeus was at the movies during the Benghazi attack, attending a private screening at the Canadian Embassy of the movie Argo with Ben Afflek, which deals with a 1979 covert CIA operation in Tehran.
The Night of the Long Knives
The hatred of key members of the US officer corps for Obama was illustrated through the comments of Petraeus friend, the warmonger General Stanley McChrystal, who was ousted in June 2010. In addition to Petraeus, the following officers are also either sacked or the object of scandals or investigations:
Marine General John R. Allen is in trouble. Currently the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, Allen had been slated to take over from Admiral Stavridis as NATO Supreme Commander, but Obama has now put this nomination on hold. Allen is accused of having an improper relationship with the Tampa, Florida hostess and socialite Jill Kelley, originally of the Lebanese Khawam family. Mrs. Kelley had insinuated herself into the social circle of generals at McDill Air Force Base, the location of the US Central command. Allen and Petraeus both wrote letters to a judge supporting Kelleys twin sister in a child custody fight. According to some accounts, Allen sent either 30,000 pages or 30,000 e-mails to Kelly over a few years. Allen denies wrongdoing, but the handwriting is on the wall.
General Carter Ham, commander of US Africom, whose area of responsibility includes Libya, manifestly failed to send forces to stop the attack on the Benghazi consulate and CIA post. Panetta announced on October 18 that Ham was being replaced. The official line is that Ham decided to retire of his own volition. There were many days of confusion in Washington about his leaving.
Admiral James G. Stavridis, the outgoing NATO Supreme Commander, has been officially reprimanded by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus for lavish spending on his personal lifestyle, including a junket to a wine dinner in France. He will soon leave his post.
General William E. Kip Ward, who commanded US Africom from October 2007 to March 2011, presided over the preparation and launching of the attack on Libya. On the surface, Ward is accused of spending several hundred thousand dollars of government money and resources on family members, luxury junkets, and flights. He had been under investigation for a year and a half, but it was announced on November 13 that he would be fined $82,000 and demoted from full general to lieutenant general, reducing his pension.
Lieutenant General Patrick J. OReilly, the Director of the Pentagons Missile Defense Agency, has also been reprimanded by the Defense Departments Inspector General for intimidating and humiliating subordinates, thus creating a work environment characterized by one subordinate as management by blowtorch and pliers. (Washington Post, November 15, 2012) OReilly is being ousted from his post before the conclusion of the usual four year tenure, and demoted to major general. His departure was deplored on the floor of Congress by Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama, a reactionary and racist Republican.
Rear Admiral Chuck Gaouette was the commander of the USS Stennis carrier battle group, currently stationed in the Arabian Sea, near Iran and other possible targets for aggression and/or Gulf of Tonkin provocations. Gaouette is currently being investigated for inappropriate leadership judgment while on station in the Middle East.
Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair, second in command of the 82nd Airborne Division stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and a key man for Afghanistan logistics, is accused of raping and having an adulterous affair with a female captain he had gotten transferred to his command. The prosecution has already sabotaged its own case, raising the chances that the case will be thrown out of court, while charges of pornography and alcoholism on duty may have been invented, pointing once again to a political motive. Press accounts feature Sinclairs assertion, Im a general. Ill do whatever the [expletive] I want.
Commander Joseph E. Darlak, commanding officer of the frigate USS Vandegrifft and two other senior officers having been removed after a drunken orgy during a visit to the port of Vladivostok, Russia. Details are sketchy, but the goal of the escapade might well have been a provocation against the Putin government. According to one account, over 20 top naval officers have been fired during 2012.
Christopher E. Kubasik was fired as president and Chief Operating Officer of Lockheed Martin Corp., the top US defense contractor in 2008 and 2009. Lockheed Chairman Rob Stevens had allegedly requested an ethics investigation, which revealed a sexual affair with a subordinate. Lockheeds electronic warfare and cyber warfare capabilities are formidable.
Naturally, it is impossible to know at this time how many of these cases are actually based on the reasons stated, and how many actually involve complicity with operations targeting the White House.
On the Thursday after the presidential vote, Defense Secretary Panetta ordered Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey, an ally of Obama, to conduct a wide-ranging review of misconduct by senior military officers. The general public is supposed to think that this review will be mainly concerned with wrongdoing such as adultery, sexual harassment, embezzlement, and the like. But the reality is most likely a purge of officers associated with the pro-Romney coup machinations of September-October 2012.
With all these figures removed, it is likely to be more difficult for Israels Netanyahu to launch his war against Iran in the way that had been planned. He has therefore fallen back on the option of starting a smaller war in Gaza as a means of stabilizing the US-UK-Israel war party while other options are sought. The rogue network, now a wounded beast, must be counted doubly dangerous.
The Mata Haris
Mata Haris method was to seduce French generals and send their secrets to Berlin. The cover story for Petraeus ouster involves his affair with Paula Broadwell, who fraternized extensively with the general in Afghanistan while she was preparing a fawning campaign biography of the general entitled All In: The Education of General David Petraeus not to be confused with Flauberts LEducation sentimentale.
Broadwell is a lieutenant colonel of military intelligence with a background at the Joint Special Operations Command and, according to some accounts, a knowledge of Arabic.
She says she has a top secret security clearance and then some. She has hobnobbed at the Obama White House and with Karl Rove. By all indications, and whether she knew it or not, she was deployed to embroil Petraeus with a view to bringing him down, and she succeeded. When the dalliance became known to the FBI and thence leaked to GOP Congressmen Reichert and Cantor, Petraeus was told he had to resign by intelligence czar James Clapper, a creature of Obama.
Jill Kelley and her twin sister Natalie Khawam are also redolent of the intelligence community. Their focus was evidently to lead both Petraeus and Allen onto the flypaper.
The Rogue Network Down but Not Out
The US rogue network has been exceptionally active since the attacks of September 11, 2001 in which the rogues were heavily implicated. In the spring of 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney argued unsuccessfully for an attack on Syria on behalf of the rogue network whose spokesman he was. In August-September 2007, a B-52 bomber loaded with six nuclear cruise missiles was in effect hijacked by the rogue network taken out of legal US command and flown from North Dakota to Louisiana, presumably on its way to a bombing mission in the Middle East. The B-52 was stopped at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. Months later, Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff T. Michael Moseley for poor management of nuclear weapons. A special board under James R. Schlesinger studied nuclear safety, and doubtless also whom to fire. For knowledgeable observers, a window into the rogue network had been opened.
On Christmas Day, 2009, the Nigerian underwear bomber Mutallab attempted to blow up a passenger airliner in the skies over Detroit. During the first week of January, Richard Wolffe of MSNBC reported that the Obama White House had concluded that certain federal officials had acted to prevent Mutallabs operation from being shut down because they wanted to damage the Obama administration. Still later, Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy told a House committee that the State Department had wanted to revoke Mutallabs visa, but had been prevented from doing so by another (unnamed) federal agency, under the pretext that the Nigerian suicide bomber was being tailed. The Obama administration cravenly backed off further public investigation of this incident, allowing the rogue network to strike again in Benghazi.
(All these events are described on Tarpley.net )
ORCA: Why the Pro-Romney Vote Fraud Did Not Materialize
The purge of so many Romney supporters from the intelligence community and from the military may explain why the expected computer-generated Republican election fraud failed to materialize in the expected dimensions in so many states. Tagg Romney and his associates, many of them investors in Bain Capital, had notoriously bought control of voting machines in almost a score of states, including Ohio. What frustrated the design to steal the election? Perhaps this operation was disrupted and aborted by investigations conveniently timed and targeting some of the main pro-Romney intelligence and military figures in the rogue network.
The answer may also be related to the apparent failure of ORCA, Romneys data-mining and data management operation, which was supposed to help GOP volunteers get out the vote, but which may have possessed additional and more sinister dimensions. But, as David Gewirtz of ZDNet wrote on November 13, ORCA got harpooned. ORCA beached. It flopped. It died in the sun. It failed oh-so-bad. And with it failed the hope of Romneys backers that they could seize the White House.
The current scandals are extraordinary because they cast light on the rogue network or invisible government of the United States, a topic which is usually strictly taboo for the mass media. For this reason, David Ignatius of the Washington Post, considered close to the intelligence community, is already a warning that it is time to call a halt.
Sunlight, Ignatius warns, can be toxic under the wrong circumstances.
For a reminder of why its dangerous, take a look at The Crucible and the Lessons of History, Ignatius concludes. (David Ignatius, A Modern Witch Hunt, Washington Post, November 18, 2012) In other words, time to stop the purges before they threaten to engulf the entire rogue network and thus the entire establishment.
Patriotic citizens and those who want peace, by contrast, must hope that the revelations go on and on.
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Tokie G. Fujimoto, 91, of Hilo died April 4 at the Hale Anuenue Restorative Care Center. Born in Paauhau, she was a retired audit clerk for Sears, Roebuck and Company and a member and former secretary at the Church of the Holy Cross in Hilo. Private services. No flowers. No koden. Survived by daughters Donna (Thomas) Ai of Pearl City, Carlyn Fujimoto of Waipahu; brother Robert (June) Gyotoku of Honolulu; sister Thelma Shimomura of Honolulu; sisters-in-law Fumiyo Matsuno of Hilo, Miyoko (Noburo) Tanita of Hilo; two grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.
Mark Lee Hanson, 63, of Kailua-Kona, died May 2. Born in Newport Beach, Calif., she worked as a sportfishing captain for most of his life. In later years he worked as crane operator. He moved to Maui in 1967, and to the Big Island in 1977. Survived by daughter Alana Hanson of Kailua-Kona; son Kelly Prouty of Kailua-Kona and three grandchildren. Private services will be held. Arrangements by A Hui Hou Crematory's Funeral Home of West Hawaii.
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Crisp offense has Wildcats optimistic
DHS should be in hunt for Kaw Valley League crown
Last season, De Soto soccer coach Mike Murphy was concerned about his offense's ability to attack with a purpose. Too often he watched as his team seemed to waste scoring opportunities, appearing satisfied to just clear the ball out.
But after watching the 2003 edition of Wildcats play Saturday against alumni, he had to be wearing a smile. In fact, what was once listed as a weakness could now be considered a strength.
"Our ball movement and passing are very, very much improved," he said. "After watching them Saturday, I think our offense will go about their business this season. We're going to move the ball with more purpose and efficiency."
De Soto should enjoy a more productive offensive year in 2003, mainly because of the experience. Murphy welcomes back six starters and eight lettermen.
He also welcomes back senior midfielder Josh Arnold, who played soccer his freshman and sophomore seasons before running cross country last season.
"His return is vital to the success of our team," Murphy said. "He is a great leader with a lot of drive. Arnold is so competitive. He's just an all-around good player."
Arnold will team up with sophomore Lance Williams, another former cross country runner, and junior Kyle Bray to work the midfield in Murphy's newly adopted 5-3-2 formation.
Murphy said the cross country experience would be beneficial for the Wildcats, especially in the midfield positions.
"There is a lot of running required at the midfield position," he said. "You have to be able to run up and give the offense some support. And then if your opponent makes a run on you, the midfielder has to be able to get back and lend support to the defense. It's such an exhausting position."
Murphy's plans include shuffling several players in to help Arnold and Williams out at the right and left midfield positions.
Taking over at the center midfield position will be Bray, whom Murphy described fearless and aggressive, traits he claimed were crucial to that position.
That move allowed senior Jesse Smith, De Soto's all-time leading goal scorer in recent history, to move to forward where he can concentrate on doing what he's good at -- scoring goals.
Murphy, who has compiled a 34-18-3 record in his previous three years at De Soto, hoped the change would allow Smith to go after the single-season scoring record.
"Every team needs a player like him," the coach said. "He's the guy you call on when you need a goal. You want the ball at his feet."
At goalkeeper, Sean Karashin returns for his senior season after splitting time with Harley Mostaffa last season. Last season's playing time was an opportunity to reward Karashin for his performance on the junior varsity team his freshman and sophomore season and acclimate to playing varsity, Murphy said.
"Sean is a great goalkeeper to have in the game when you're playing against a team that likes to take a lot of shots," Murphy said. "Because he'll block those shots for you."
Another senior who will be relied on for his defensive skills is James Azeltine, who was all-league defender a year ago.
He will handle the sweeper position for Murphy this year as De Soto's top defender. Murphy said Azeltine was aggressive and had excellent ball skills and good feet, the perfect combination for a player who is the last line of defense.
Tyler Maniez will be called on to fill in wherever he is needed again this year. The senior was named all-Kaw Valley as a utility player last season.
"He's so invaluable to us," Murphy said. "He's been a sweeper, midfielder and forward for us. Tyler has been named all league at some level (first team, second team or honorable mention) every year he's played for us."
Senior Graham Power will be looked on to score a goal or two for the Wildcats this season, and Murphy has been impressed with senior newcomer Bryan Buser's performance in camp.
Juniors Zach Bader, Scott Baldwin and Ben Moon were all expected to contribute in some way this season.
Although Smith was lethal with the ball on his foot, Murphy looked to other players to help out with the scoring and other roles of responsibility.
"I want everybody to be able to take the role of a leader," Murphy said. "If the game is down to the final seconds and a player has the ball on their foot, they have to be able to get the job done."
De Soto should contend for the Kaw Valley League title, Murphy said. Other top teams included Mill Valley and Lansing.
Mill Valley's enrollment would almost certainly make it a 5A school, and Lansing could also slip into the higher class, Murphy said. Regional competition would still be tough because of the presence of KC Christian, the defending 4A state champion.
Still, Murphy said if his team worked hard and played well at the right time, it could have a very big year.
"We've shown we can play with all those teams," he said.
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European courts recently ruled that EU citizens had a "right to be forgotten" by Google, giving them the ability to tell the company to remove pages with their names from search result.
Now the company has seemingly found a way to make sure those requests backfire in spectacular fashion. According to Quartz, Google has started the process with requests most likely to anger news outlets, like deletion requests for news articles that name certain people. That's sparked a new round of furious articles from newspapers and other outlets, who are upset over the prospect of censorship.
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Tibetans have an unlikely source to thank for their high-altitude lifestyle
For most humans, life at high altitude is a challenge. But scientists have found that Tibetans, whose country lies miles above sea level, are able to thrive in the thin air thanks to a large dose of Neanderthal DNA. National Geographic says Tibetans once mixed with Denisovans, close relatives of Neanderthals, giving them a gene that keeps the body from pumping out extra hemoglobin at high altitudes.
While that response keeps up oxygen levels, it also greatly increases the risk of a heart attack. The heart-healthy Tibetan genome is probably 30,000 to 40,000 years old, according to scientists. And it's only one of the many new bits of Neanderthal DNA that have been discovered among human genes in recent months.
Colombia fights World Cup deaths and disorder with an alcohol ban
In the early days of the World Cup, as the Colombian national team became one of the highlights of the tournament, alcohol-fueled deaths and arrests marred the joyous celebrations in Bogota. Now, governments in some cities have banned alcohol during Colombia's games.
PRI's The World found that the crackdown has saved lives but has also damaged businesses that were depending on big World Cup revenues. Unlike in the United States, where bars held huge viewing parties and raked in the profits, Colombians abandoned their country's now-dry establishments. The result has been dismal profits, made even worse by the big upgrades many bars and resautrants made in preparation for the games.
If the Queen isn't available, perhaps Sherlock will do
Former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was reportedly a huge movie buff, so this latest news about the UK's off-beat diplomacy with the Communist country might actually make sense. The Guardian reports that the British government shipped out an episode of the BBC's "Sherlock" TV show, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, to Pyongyang for a film festival in 2012.
They apparently hoped to "show a different perspective of the outside world than they are normally shown." But it may not have been only Cumberbatch's star power that influenced the decision: the UK's Foreign Office only had to pay about $500 for the rights to the show, much less than an ambassador's flight from London to Pyongyang.
Taking 'not in my backyard' to the next level
This week, anti-immigration protesters in Murrieta, California, successfully blocked busloads of undocumented immigrants, mostly women and children, from entering a Homeland Security facility in the town. The protesters were fighting against the arrival of the migrants from other states like Texas, which has seen a recent surge in illegal crossings, who they say will take jobs and negatively impact local services.
PRI's The World looked at the charged atmosphere in the city near San Diego, where a town meeting held in the evening after the showdown was filled with outrage at the new arrivals. The Homeland Security buses were rerouted to San Diego after drivers were unable to enter the processing facility.
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Billy Eichner returns for a third season of his delightful and deranged Fuse game show Funny or Die's Billy on the Street (March 12, 11 p.m.), in which he accosts passers-by on the street and pressures them to answer random questions about pop culture for such lofty prizes as a dollar bill. He'll bring along some notable celebrity guests as his partners-in-quiz this season (including Lena Dunham and Paul Rudd), but for your first look at the premiere, Eichner wants you to check out his favorite part of the show, the lightning round. "As you'll see this season," he says, "it gets personal as I start to ask people what they think of my career, not just other celebrities." And as you'll see, if he's been taking any anger management classes, they totally aren't working at all.


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