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'War on Terror' is not about 'Islamofascism' – Please get with the real agenda you people!
Zahir Ebrahim, Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Saturday, March 21, 2009 | Confirmation Postscript September 24, 2010 | Must Read Postscript-2 July 03, 2011
The following report (excerpted) was published by Prisonplanet last week, March 13, 2009 [1]:
Police Trained Nationwide That Informed Americans Are Domestic Terrorists
Written Friday, March 13, 2009 by Paul Joseph Watson, Kurt Nimmo & Alex Jones
'Law enforcement across the country are being educated that informed Americans who know their rights are dangerous and that cops are their enemy.
The MIAC report specifically describes supporters of presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as "militia" influenced terrorists and instructs the Missouri police to be on the lookout for supporters displaying bumper stickers and other paraphernalia associated with the Constitutional, Campaign for Liberty, and Libertarian parties.
The MIAC report does not concentrate on Muslim terrorists, but rather on the so-called "militia movement" and conflates it with supporters of Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, the so-called patriot movement and other political activist organizations opposed to the North American Union and the New World Order.
Police are educated in the document that people are are anti-abortion, own gold, display an assortment of U.S. flags, or even those that talk about the film Zeitgeist, view the police as their "enemy" and conflates them with domestic terrorists like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph and other domestic militia groups who have been charged with plotting terrorist attacks.
However, the conflation of banal sectors of society such as people who own gold, fly flags, display bumper stickers or who support mainstream political candidates such as Bob Barr, and the guilt-by-association smear that they are likely to be dangerous and potential terrorists, is a staggering alarm bell which indicates police are being trained that ordinary Americans, not radicalized Mexican race hate groups or Al-Qaeda suicide bomber cells, are the number one domestic threat in the war on terror.
Indeed, the MIAC report is just the latest in a series of similar threat assessment documents that list average American citizens as dangerous extremists and potential terrorists.
We discovered that similar propaganda was being disseminated from the very top in September 2006 when it was revealed that the Bush administration had been targeting "conspiracy theorists" as terrorist recruiters.
President Bush himself gave speeches about a White House "strategy paper" that formed "an unclassified version of the strategy we've been pursuing since September the 11th, 2001," that takes into account, "the changing nature of this enemy."'
Indeed, "the changing nature of this enemy"! As already footnoted in 2008, [2] [3] the following is what I had presciently written in my maiden book Prisoners of the Cave, Chapter 5, [4] in April 2003, as bombing of Iraq was in full "shock and awe" and the FBI had thoughtfully "dared to knock on my door" [5] instead, chasing down all the brown-skin "Muslim terrorists" in town.
Written April 2003 by Zahir Ebrahim
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So now that we have launched the imperial adventure, how do we stay the course? How do we prevent the good conscionable people from rising up when they learn the truth through what will invariably leak in from foreign press and other alternate media?
Well, start curtailing civil liberties, one at a time, for if we do it all at once, people might rise up and object too loudly – much like that frog who can escape from sudden boiling water but not from gradually heated water raised to a boiling point over time. So how to curtail civil liberties in stages and present a persistent danger to enable it?
Invent a fifth column and declare a perpetual war against them. Invent the TIPS hotline and set neighbor against neighbor, creating a climate of fear and nervousness, requiring more laws to find the culprits. The media totes the line, and people go along. Machiavelli take notes!
So now we have our internal enemy to scare the people with. How about that external enemy? Don't we need both perception of threats to successfully mobilize the public for an imperial adventure and contain dissent? For "Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization" is the gospel according to ZB.
Brilliant! Create an axis of evil deemed to possess such weapons of mass destruction that people would forget about their own country's immense store of the most deadly and vile weapons of mass destruction, invent 'fictitious facts' and 'fictitious linkages' and 'fictitious reports' and present them to the UN Security Council and to the American public, and try to rally a 'coalition of the coerced' to prosecute the 'fictitious war' to prevent any 'fictitious future threats'.
Now after 22 days of sustained bombing the already impoverished Iraq, a country that has lived through hellish 12 incredibly long years of devastating sanctions and bombed out industrial and civil infrastructure from the first Gulf war, no weapons of mass destruction are found. So just in case before someone is thoughtful enough to ask where are those touted and much feared Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and to find the next pretext to attack the next new country in the new axis of evil (now that Iraq has been flagged with the stars and stripes), the war Secretary Rumsfeld comes out and says "all of these weapons have been smuggled into Syria!" And the media dutifully informs us as if it has been eye witnessed by Rumsfeld himself!
How about if one alleges that all of these WMDs have been smuggled into Rumsfeld's closet? Would the media report that? In fact there is far more evidence for looking into Rumsfeld's closet because he was seen shaking the hands of Sadaam Hussain as far back as 1984, whereas the Syrian leadership has since 1978 been politically at loggerheads with Baghdad, ever since Sadaam came to power. They only did limited trading between 1997 – 2002 under the supervised UN's oil for food program (source DemocracyNow), and the current Syrian president only took office in July 2000 after his predecessor died. There is no empirical evidence of collusion between the two countries, nor has any been presented as the rhetoric against Syria is ratcheted up. But evidence of course is immaterial, because the real goal is to keep making up pretexts.
The pretext to go to war on Iraq itself was as phony as a child telling a lie about the cookie jar when the crumbs are all over his clothes – except in this case it is a grown up General trying to annihilate an entire people by his deceit. Much has been written about the absence of any linkage between 9-11 and Iraq, the fake reports and fake and plagiarized evidence that the Secretary of State waved in the UN Security council that was collected from the Ph.D. thesis of a student from data 12 years old, or the aluminum tubes and what not. All put to a lie by the UN experts testimony Hans Blix et al., Scott Ritter, Dennis Halliday, Hans Von Sponeck, all of whom repeatedly stated that not only has Iraq been disarmed, but it does not even possess adequate means for self defense, the 12 long years of sanctions having taken its massive inhuman civilian toll. In the first 8 years of the sanctions alone, 1.2 million died, including 567,000 – 750,000 children according to the UN. When Madeleine Albright, Clinton's Secretary of State was asked about the horrible price the children of Iraq were paying because of the sanctions with more than 5000 dying each month, she had remarked "we think the price is worth it". Muslim babies are worth it? And that from a Jew who cry over their own and vow never again?
Why are criminals like that not challenged in the media and are allowed to rule the 'free world'? Why does the obsequious world watch silently? Has the entire planet been castrated? With the rise of "modernity" and the inter-linking of economies and destinies of peoples, it is far easier to annihilate and destroy than it has ever been in the history of the planet. And we call this progress of the Western civilization! Progress that is aimed at the conquest of the Orient!
See the UN reports compiled by Ramsey Clark in "the children are dying – The impact of sanctions on Iraq", and look at those pictures of young babies and children, victims of the barbaric economic sanctions and DU munitions. Or hear Barbara Lubin, Executive Director of MECA (Middle East Children's Alliance) describe her eyewitnesses account of misery and suffering visited upon the Iraqi children due to lack of simple medicines over the past 12 years! The US bombed Iraq's entire civilian infrastructure, against the international conduct and rules of war where civilian facilities are protected from destruction. In a 1999 Wall Street Journal article,
"After eight years of enforcing a no fly zone in northern [and southern] Iraq, few military targets remain. 'We're down to the last outhouse,'"
Now look what Protocol 1, Part 1V, Section 1, Chapter 111, Article 54 of the Geneva Conventions 1977, to which the United States is a signatory, and hence obligated to implement according to the laws of its own Constitution, states:
"Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited. It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable to the agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies, and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of destroying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive."
So it is not enough that America is patently guilty of heinous war crimes against the civilian population of Iraq in her disingenuous attempts to contain Sadaam Hussain that she herself installed and actively supported for decades, now she maintains that a totally devastated bombed out nation is such a threat to her that it must be invaded? The sole superpower in the world that has an annual defense budget of $400 billion, ten times the size of its nearest potential challenger, is so scared that she even feels threatened by a totally devastated people? Come on, I have a bridge I would like to sell you! One of administration's own George Tenet, the Director of CIA, testified before Congress about Iraq's threat level to the US: almost zero, unless Iraq is attacked first. Iraq's own neighbors repeatedly stated they are not threatened by Iraq.
But so little rational and factual discussions made it into the mainstream TV coverage, forget any follow-ups or analysis, and never mind raising the fundamental question why should Iraq be disarmed when Israel poses the larger threat in the Middle East, as testified by all its neighbors, and is known to possess ~200 – 300 nuclear weapons? The discussions on television news programs always, always revolved around "how" to attack Iraq, the pros and cons of various gee-whiz methods, and never around "why" to attack Iraq. The morality of hitting a severely and deliberately weakened opponent who did nothing to you, who cannot defend itself because you deliberately disarmed it of even its self defense capacity, and hitting with a "Shock and Awe" campaign of cruise missiles and long distance bombers on cities populated with innocent men women and children, is never raised. Have cowardice and immorality only become words in a dictionary never to be uttered? Not a word about this is to be heard from any of the champions of freedom who support this war. And war it ain't, but a slaughter of sitting ducks, except that it is people and their properties and their histories. "Slaughter on Iraq" is a better moniker.
It is also mind boggling that the administration can be so arrogant in their power, that they don't even want to take the time to lie properly – the US public is in their pocket, the media is in their pocket, and the world does not matter since they wield the biggest sticks. Several US policy analyst even openly argue that the UN structure is antiquated because it was made at a time when the world power was shared by the victors of WWII, and does not take the new realities of a single global superpower into account.
Hence note the exemption that US has claimed for itself from the International court of justice, any crime it commits on the world scene it is exempted from prosecution for it. Any charges, if someone may be so bold to make, have to be referred back to the US courts. How convenient that the perpetuators should try themselves!
It is all there, in black and white and color, many snippets of it sometimes even present in the mainstream media. But with no one to follow up, analyze, dissect, and assimilate the widely spread out information, provide historical context, question official assertions presented as evidence, and journalist all vying with each other to get in bed with the military for that first shot at made for TV story, and the 15 second attention span of the TV audience systematically dumbed down over the past years, the real story is quietly allowed to die away. Whereas the media was fixated by former President Clinton's personal fantasy world with weeks of sustained sensationalistic coverage about stains on dresses, no one wants to dig into the real "fiction" being perpetuated on the entire American people, and indeed on the entire world. Michael Moore was brazen enough to point out this "world of fiction" so eloquently even in the brief 45 second Oscar acceptance speech he gave for his "Bowling for Columbine" documentary, in front of a TV audience of a billion viewers. The entire world probably cheered, but most in the audience booed him.
If the poor performance of the mainstream news media is not evidence of their direct (and not just inadvertent) collusion in orchestrating and culminating this "Slaughter on Iraq", then I don't know what constitutes evidence. Not only are they complicit in war crimes against the people of Iraq, but because of the fact that they are charged with a specific charter under the Constitution to monitor the centers of power in order to safe guard the proper functioning of democracy and for which they are offered the protection of free speech, they are also guilty of subverting democracy itself. Hence guilty of treasonable offense against their own nation, the people of America. This theme of their culpability permeates the book because of the singular importance of their role in a country like America, where the public is not only constitutionally empowered to make or break administrations, but has in practice demonstrated their ability to eviscerate malignant tumors from their midst when properly informed.
So now, with the media's active connivance at not telling the true story, the State has succeeded in creating both an internal and an external threat to scare the public into rallying around the flag: "United We Stand". Just as ZB quite candidly stated, is required to get the people in a democracy to tow the line! But you be the judge!
Wow, even ZB might not have imagined such a brilliant execution. Or did he? As cited earlier, he is known to have taken credit for the fall of the Soviet Union by "giving to the USSR its Vietnam War" in Afghanistan at the expense of devastating an entire nation without much compunction. Also see his NSC Memorandum No 46, where he argues on how and why to prevent any alliance of the blacks in America and the African nations from developing, to gain further insight into the thinking that goes behind making empires. Perhaps he might be next in line for the Nobel Peace Prize, the former President that he worked for already got his award where no one thought of asking the former President about the blood of Muslims upon his hands for signing off on "giving to the USSR its Vietnam War" in Afghanistan.
The fictitious Fifth Column: Islam under attack
Yes this also explains why all of a sudden, we see an entire sacred religion along with its billion plus followers being systematically demonized, misunderstandings perpetuated, and a climate of fear created around them. While there has always been some bias in covering Islam by the Western media, especially in the US media as documented by Edward Said in "Covering Islam", there was never this vitriolic virulence that we see today. Through confluence of interests, the extreme right-wing Evangelical Christian coalition being a major backer of the Republican Party and their present influence in the White House being considerable, had one of its leaders easily come out accusing the noble prophet of Islam as a terrorist and other unmentionable name callings. No pundit in the mainstream media even raised their customary "anti-Semitic" slogans to protest this outrage that I am aware of – perhaps they are not aware that the Prophet of Islam is also a Semite! Or is it only certain kinds of anti-Semitism they are against?
And great, inflame the passions of the masses in the Muslim countries by abusing their sacred Prophet. When they take out protest processions and burn a few effigies and flags, then we can conveniently show those images on all mainstream media and label them as those "barbaric and terrorist" Muslims – and extract our PR mileage that these Muslims are not developed like us Westerners, it is okay to kill them. Nothing new here, standard US army issue for dehumanizing your enemy so that it becomes easier to tolerate and indeed perpetuate their subjugation, humiliation, and exploitation in the oldest colonial style known to man – then we incredulously ask "why do they hate us"?
There is now a sustained and deliberate attack against Islam and Muslims by the Christian far right in the US. People like Franklin Graham – who works for Reverend Dr. Marion "Pat" Robertson of the 700 club often seen on CBN television spewing out hateful messages of his own against the Muslims – openly call Islam a "very wicked and evil religion." While these bigoted Christian fanatics might believe so, and perhaps privately shared these tortuous views in the past amongst themselves, the public utterances of these derogatory islamaphobic rhetoric betray the primacy of their arrogance. Namely, that now, since they are in power in the White House controlling the reins of the world's only superpower, let's also redraw the religious map of the Muslims while they were redrawing their political and cultural maps, as their new found 'la mission civilisatrice' in a revived 'Crusade'. The inadvertent slip of labeling this fictitious "war on terrorism" as a "Crusade" by George Bush, and one of the battle field monsters in the US military arsenal being called the "Crusader", are telling signs of the psychology and alliances of the "civilized" barbarians unloading their 'white mans burden' from 20,000 feet upon the defenseless Iraq and Afghani Muslims. Franklin Graham was subsequently invited to the Pentagon to lead a Good Friday service despite strong protests from many quarters and was instead strongly endorsed by the Secretary of State Colin Powell! I am not sure why the world is tolerating this spectacle, obsequencing itself toward the new 'Mecca'.
And now these same guys are going to Iraq to provide "humanitarian" aid to the Iraqis! In an interview on Pacifica, one of the missionaries from this group despite repeated questioning whether he would repudiate Franklin Graham's malicious attacks on Islam, continued to dodge the question by saying how could he repudiate someone else's statements! He further stated that their mission in Iraq was to show the people of Iraq that "God loves them" by giving the people free packets of food. This bringing "Jesus" to the 'infidels' effort is being headed by the Christian fundamentalist son of the famous American Evangelical icon Rev. Billy Graham who has presided over religious functions in the White House for so many American Presidents. One does not even have to exclaim: beware the Christian missionaries bearing gifts! They are in for some rude awakening. So little do they know or understand of Islam, Muslims, or the Middle East, let alone about Iraqis and their ravaged land, the cradle of human civilization. Shame!
Then there are people like Daniel Pipes who have for years argued that Muslims in America should be put under surveillance and that at least 10% – 15% of these Muslims of America could be potential killers! And the White House just nominated him to serve on the Board of Directors for US Peace Institute! All these guys have the tacit blessings of the government to drum up fear and hatred against the Muslims. Even the Republican Party leaders now openly betray their true sentiments. Shawn Steele, the former Chairman of California's State Republican Party, offered perhaps the most extreme example of this. While giving a pro-war rallying speech at the University of Southern California, he stated the following which needs no further comment:
"The Islamic community has a cancer growing inside of it – which hates Jews, hates freedom, and hates Western society. The disease of Islam must be rectified – it's kill or be killed."
All of these atrocious statements coming from very powerful people, are again eerily reminiscent of Nazi Germany's verbal vituperative onslaught on the Jews, followed by its actual implementation through systematic and ever increasing harassment by the Brown Shirts. Albeit I hope this will not happen here in the USA, it is possible one might find bands of vigilantes, feeling compelled to follow the guidance of their erstwhile leaders, physically harassing the Muslims, attacking their homes, their mosques, and their businesses. It would be laughable to imagine this would occur in the twenty first century in America, were it not so tragic that it actually is occurring, and there is no uproar in the mass media about such an assault on Islam and the Muslims. Quite reflective of course of the government's behavior overseas. Ideological Allies! This tacit affirmation by the mainstream media of this hate mongering through their deafening silence, and should it lead to actual physical violence upon the Muslims in the USA, will be further grounds for their indictment for war crimes against their own people. Thanks to Pacifica, which is the only independent grass-roots funded public media that is courageously speaking out against fascism in America. If there was a Nobel prize for standing up to fascism, Pacifica and its programmers would be the first in line.
Why are Muslims under attack?
Let's return to the favorite question of this essay, the 'why', and ask, why is this happening to the Muslims in the US at this time, and why now? The malevolence for Islam in the hearts of the bigoted fanatics is nothing new. Then why all of a sudden is it finding this virulent expression? Doesn't the US already have its hands full with battles of conquest overseas? Commonsense would dictate that they should not take on domestic problems at the same time. Furthermore, ZB's framework has nothing to do with religion, it is all about resource, economic, and political hegemony. So why target the entire 6 – 8 million Muslims living peacefully in this country and make them objects of FBI investigations, map out their mosques, interview their members, monitor their communications and their finances, take down their credit card numbers, examine their wallets upon exit and ingress into the country, and who knows what else they are doing? Perhaps the government is thinking, that surely the Muslims have the motive, aren't we bombing their people, they will react and do something criminal and terroristic, and we have to protect the good people of the United States?
First of all, there is an adequate statistical sampling of terrorists and criminals in every ethnic group in America, including the majority, their most infamous one being Tim McVeigh. What about Alqaeeda, maybe some of them are really hiding in the mosque? If they were, the government would know exactly who they are and what their phone number and SS numbers is, because remember they trained them. The testimony provided by an ex. US official of the US embassy in Riyadh Saudi Arabia is quite telling. I heard him on Pacifica, describing how he was a visa officer and he would get these strange type of people applying for US visas in Saudi Arabia, from all different parts of the Arab world. Upon being asked the usual questions why they wanted to visit America, they would say strange things like: to attend a technical conference, and upon further inquiry have no clue about that subject area. So he would reject their visa application. Having rejected one too many visas, he was called up before his superiors and told to give out the visas regardless! So he issued the same people US visas the next time they visited, after already having rejected them the first time as dubious customers! Later he figured out these were the CIA operatives recruited from around the world and trained in the US for various "freedom fighting" activities. Their identities, mug shots, finger prints, dental profiles, DNA profiles, urine samples etc. are probably all on record with the government. It was reported that the CIA/FBI even had an informant working within the inner circles of the hijackers of 9/11 for what that's worth. Suffice it to say, the government is not really looking for terrorists in the mosques any more than they are looking for them in synagogues, or churches, or temples.
Stifling activist dissent is the real reason
Okay, what is the answer? Muslims of America make a very convenient fifth column to be vigilant against, to be investigated and dug out of their mosques, requiring new laws for surveillance and new powers for security agencies. To successfully deploy this, any and all confluence of interests are being employed, including the hatred and arrogance of the ultra right-wing Christian fanatics who seek Armageddon to get closer to Jesus.
How convenient! Muzzling the dissent of the very vocal minority of brave activists, and the likes of Daniel Ellsberg that might rise up to challenge the oppression and destruction of innocent people around the world in the process of executing this American global conquest, would require some draconian measures. Why? In order to curb their civil rights and create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation so that they would not be vocal in their protests, lest they are able to successfully mobilize and dethrone the emperor! Well the persecution of the "fictitious fifth columnist" is conveniently giving the perpetuators of world conquest the much needed despotic laws to control and contain any sort of public outrage.
These oppressive laws via the USA Patriot Act 1 passed by Congress in the wake of 9/11 without any debate, and now its even more oppressive successor Patriot Act 2 waiting in the wings for an opportune time, and the concomitant erosion of civil liberties, is really intended for the rest of the US population, and not so much for any "fictitious danger" from the "fictitious fifth columnists".
It is a preemptive strike at domestic dissent, consistent with the doctrine of preemptive strike at imperial targets abroad. Both are part of the same foreign policy agenda, as per ZB's "Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization."
Test this hypothesis yourself. How much danger are the Muslims to the state in the prosecution of their global hegemonic plans, and how much danger are the activists? In fact, any terrorism done by any Muslim in the US would play right into the hands of the state, now wouldn't it? But a Daniel Ellsberg or two leaking out privileged information from the "inside" like the infamous "Pentagon Papers", that can provide concrete evidence of lying and deceit of the kind impeachments are made of, difficult to wriggle out from, can put a quick stop to the grandiose expansion plans of the state, now couldn't it? Or a mass mobilizations against the war as witnessed during Vietnam might awaken the real sleeping giant, the good hearted but dormant public, mightn't it? Richard Nixon, October 15, 1969, inside the White House, talking to Henry Kissinger, while a million people protesting outside the White House, briefly contemplates dropping an atomic bomb on Vietnam, but allows sanity to prevail because of his fear of what the million marchers might do to him.
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It gives me no pleasure to pen this footnote to history. And just as the "changing nature of this enemy" was eventually going to transform into the patriotic American activist, was palpably obvious as hell to me in 2003, it is also blatantly obvious today that the 'one-world' government [6] under construction will lead to the extermination of several billion people on the planet.
For heaven's sake get with the latent reality you peoples – for hell on earth is guaranteed for its vast 'untermensch' majority. And that may well include you if you are not of the right stock and breeding, regardless of where you might be living on the planet and how much money you might have. Accurately gauge the present apathetic state [7] of our collective voluntary servitude, [8] the level of deception [9] that is deflecting attention from the real criminals, [10] and overcome it. [11]
Postscript-2 Saturday, July 03, 2011
Yet more confirmation, full disclosure by a law enforcement insider of 18 years. [14] Was it rocket science in 2001-2003 that these people remained silent when they were calling Muslims "terrorist" and raining "shock and awe" upon us? No, it was not. It was only the banality of evil. Now they come for thee. Write all the "Bewares" yout want in 2011 – they rush to town with their urgent news after all the barbers and saints in town already know it!
Beware of Homeland Security Training for Local Law Enforcement, by An Insider
By James Wesley, Rawles on March 30, 2011 8:28 PM
I've been in law enforcement for the past 18 years. I have attended a variety of training over those years. During the 1990s, most training I attended was community-oriented, sponsored by local agencies or private companies specializing in police training. Themes common to training of the past included topics such as Constitutional rights, community partnerships, youth-oriented programs and problem-oriented policing.
During the past several years, I have witnessed a dramatic shift in the focus of law enforcement training. Law enforcement courses have moved away from a local community focus to a federally dominated model of complete social control. Most training I have attended over the past two years have been sponsored by Department of Homeland Security (DHS), namely the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
No matter what topic the training session concerns, every DHS sponsored course I have attended over the past few years never fails to branch off into warnings about potential domestic terrorists in the community. While this may sound like a valid officer and community safety issue, you may be disturbed to learn how our Federal government describes a typical domestic terrorist.
These federal trainers describe the dangers of "extremists" and "militia groups" roaming the community and hiding in plain sight, ready to attack. Officers are instructed how to recognize these domestic terrorists by their behavior, views and common characteristics. State data bases are kept to track suspected domestic terrorists and officers are instructed on reporting procedures to state and federal agencies. The state I work in, like many others, have what is known as a "fusion center" that compiles a watch list of suspicious people.
So how does a person qualify as a potential domestic terrorist? Based on the training I have attended, here are characteristics that qualify:
- Expressions of libertarian philosophies (statements, bumper stickers)
- Second Amendment-oriented views (NRA or gun club membership, holding a CCW permit)
- Survivalist literature (fictional books such as "Patriots" and "One Second After" are mentioned by name)
- Self-sufficiency (stockpiling food, ammo, hand tools, medical supplies)
- Fear of economic collapse (buying gold and barter items)
- Religious views concerning the book of Revelation (apocalypse, anti-Christ)
- Expressed fears of Big Brother or big government
- Homeschooling
- Declarations of Constitutional rights and civil liberties
- Belief in a New World Order conspiracy
A recent training session I attended encouraged law enforcement agencies to work with business owners to alert police when customers appear to be stockpiling items. An example was given that a federal agent was monitoring customers at a well known hunting and fishing retail outlet and noting who was purchasing certain items. This is something to remember the next time you purchase a case of ammo at one of these popular outdoor sports retail stores.
Methods of developing evidence of terrorist activity from virtually any search have also been discussed. Various common materials which may be associated with homemade explosives are listed, such as lengths of pipe, gunpowder, matches, flammable liquids and fireworks. Officers are told when these items are found, they can be listed as "bomb making materials". The training even goes so far as to instruct officers that the items are cleverly disguised as legitimate, such as gasoline stored near a lawn mower, pipes stored in a shop building or gunpowder stored with reloading materials.
One course I attended used the example of a person employed as a plumber being the target of a search warrant. In this example, the officers were told how to use his employment as a plumber as further evidence of terrorism. The suspect's employment would be described as an elaborate scheme to justify possessing pipes and chemicals so as to have bomb making materials readily available. Based on this example, all plumbers are potential pipe bomb makers. All gun dealers are plotting to provide arms to gangs or terrorists. All pest control companies are preparing mass poisonings. By using this logic, simply having the ability to do something criminal automatically makes the person guilty of plotting the crime. With all the various methods of manufacturing methamphetamine, it would also be easy to claim that a disassembled clandestine drug lab was located during the search. In other words, it is easy to frame anyone for possessing bomb making materials (or other crimes) if the officer knows what items to list in the report and how to link these items to terrorism.
Another common tactic used in DHS sponsored training is the slander of certain ideologies by linking an erroneous characteristic to a particular group. Here are some examples:
- These groups hold the anniversaries of certain dates as significant such a Ruby Ridge, Waco and Hitler's birthday
- They oppose abortion, support gun rights and are affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan
- They are fearful of big government, espouse support for the Constitution and want to kill police officers
- These groups collect firearms, survivalist books and explosives
- These extremists read books such as Patriots, One Second After and The Anarchist Cookbook
- They are religious zealots, reading the book of Revelation, speak of the second coming of Christ and plan mass murders to summon the end of the world
- These people grow their own food, raise livestock and plot attacks on commercial food production facilities
Do you see how this tactic works? List common characteristics of libertarian/conservative minded people, then throw in a slanderous accusation. If A and B apply, then you should automatically presume C applies as well. If they were disturbed by the incidents at Ruby Ridge and Waco, then obviously they must celebrate Hitler's birthday. Officers are being conditioned to assume criminal and terroristic views when politically-incorrect views are observed. As simple-minded and ridiculous as this line of thinking is, there are some officers who unfortunately buy into this.
Another training session I attended two years ago discussed the dangerous of people who have strong views of the U.S. Constitution. One trainer made the statement that "these people actually believe the Second Amendment gives them the personal right to own a gun." Of course, the trainer failed to mention that our Founding Fathers, as well as recent Supreme Court rulings, verify this view as being completely accurate. The obvious attempt here was to suggest to officers that the Second Amendment does not apply to individual gun ownership and to be suspicious of anyone who holds such a view. It was also stressed to be cautious of anyone who quotes the Constitution and even worse, actually possesses a copy of this radical document. Incredibly, in the United States of America today belief in our founding legal principles is now grounds for being labeled a domestic terrorism. Imagine how they would respond to some of the known statements of Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry or George Mason concerning the issue of individual liberty and limited government. It is true that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
There are several things that we, the patriotic, self-sufficient defenders of liberty can do to counter this effort. First, get involved in local elections. Elect county sheriffs who will not fall for such propaganda nor go along with oppressive federal agendas. Elect city council members who will not tolerate such behavior by their city police department. Elect state representatives who will hold state agencies accountable for participating in such tactics. Bring these issues up during elections, demand a public statement on their position on such propaganda and a promise to stand against these efforts while in office.
Second, get to know your local law enforcement officers. It is much more difficult for DHS to brainwash officers against people they personally know. When you are viewed as a neighbor, friend or fellow Christian, these officers are far less likely to submit your name to a terrorist watch list or view you as a potential terrorist. We want local officers to be personally offended when they hear members of their community slandered in such ways.
Third, always be friendly and courteous when speaking to your local officers. Even if that officer has fallen for this propaganda, be sure not to resemble the negative stereotypes labeled to us. After the fifth, sixth or maybe tenth time he deals with one of us, he or she may come to realize we are of no threat to law enforcement or anyone for that matter. Eventually, the officer may attend one of these training sessions, hear the propaganda and say to himself, "This isn't true, I've dealt with many people like this, they are God-fearing, liberty loving Americans, they are not the enemy!"
I hope you find this information useful. Please remember that there are many people in law enforcement that have not, and will never, fall for DHS propaganda. Some of the most patriotic defenders of liberty and believers in self-sufficiency can be found in law enforcement. Officers like me will continue to do our part to fight tyranny from within while the general public can do its part by electing liberty-minded candidates to office and educating their friends and neighbors about issues important to all of us.
Postscript Friday, September 24, 2010
The following ABC News report of September 22, 2010, titled: "Significant Developments in Terror Threats Since 9/11, Officials Say", demonstrates that the baby-step implementation of Police State USA is moving right along without interruption. It expounds the terror threats in the usual Newspeak – the neologism of George Orwell from "1984" [12]. The Realityspeak, my antonym to designate modern times when Alice is wide awake, has already been expounded above. Here is the same echo of Newspeak, resoundingly reverberating since 9/11 in incestuous self-reinforcements, from President Obama's Administration, excerpted [13]:
Significant Developments in Terror Threats Since 9/11, Officials Say
Napolitano, Mueller, Leiter Discuss Increased Tempo of Attacks Against U.S.
Sept. 22, 2010
'The nation's top counterterrorism officials were blunt. The threat from within—of Americans willing to commit terrorist acts— is growing. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told a congressional hearing today that a spike in recent terrorism cases is direct evidence of the evolving threat.
"Groups affiliated with al Qaeda are now actively targeting the United States and looking to use Americans or Westerners who are able to remain undetected by heightened security measures," Mueller said. "It appears domestic extremism and radicalization appears to have become more pronounced based on the number of disruptions and incidents."
Mueller appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee along with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and National Counterterrorism Chief Michael Leiter.
"Homegrown terrorists represent a new and changing facet of the terrorist threat." Napolitano said, "To be clear, by homegrown, I mean terrorist operatives who are U.S. persons, and who were radicalized in the United States."
The officials all pointed to a series of recent incidents that show that al Qaeda, its affiliates and associates were more active than ever.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), the chairman of the committee said, "These attacks and others show the full range of threats we now face from lone wolves."
Leiter, the head of the National Counterterrorism Center, said that the vast array of terrorist propaganda on the Internet was having an influence in driving individuals in the United States to turn to potential acts of terrorism.
Describing the power of the Internet and its use as a recruiting tool, Leiter said, "A blend of al Qaeda inspiration, perceived victimization, and glorification of past plotting, has become increasingly accessible through the Internet, and English-language websites are tailored to address the unique concerns of US-based extremists."'
[1] http://www.prisonplanet.com/police-trained-nationwide-that-informed-americans-are-domestic-terrorists.html
[2] http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/09/responseto-how-gop-policestate.html
[3] http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/03/warningamerica-nuking-iran-imminent.html#Al-Qaeda-operatives-who-look-western
[4] http://prisonersofthecave.blogspot.com/2007/04/chapter-5.html
[5] http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/12/they-dared-to-knock-on-my-door.html
[6] http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/12/responseto-ft-gideon-rachman-worldgov.html
[7] http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/02/why-not-be-anostrich-feb132009.html
[8] http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/09/happy-happy-in-hope-voluntary-servitude.html
[9] http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/12/ali-baba-in-mumbai-eid2008-reflections.html
[10] http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/03/newsflash-financialterrorism-mar2009.html
[11] http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/03/open-letter-aitzaz-ahsan-mar162009.html
[12] http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2010/09/911-imperial-mobilization-redux.html#1984-OCEANIA-is-at-perpetual-war-with-the-dark-murdering-armies-of-EURASIA
[13] http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=11699198
[14] http://www.survivalblog.com/2011/03/beware_of_homeland_security_tr.html
Culled from mainstream news sources to demonstrate that the veracity of what was written in April 2003 wasn't rooted in mysticism, only in the understanding of Machiavellian political science.
Related News added April 02, 2010, updated April 14, 2010: Using this pretext of "Al Qaeda who allegedly tried to blow up an airliner Christmas Day with a bomb hidden in his underwear", we create this exercise: Personal traits will be used to screen U.S.-bound air passengers, LA Times April 02, 2010, to really create justification for this: LAX to get more full-body screening machines, LA Times March 13, 2010 :
'Californians, get ready for your close-up. More of those controversial new full-body airport screening machines are headed for a few LAX terminals in the next two weeks. In all, new units are going online at 11 U.S. airports, including three in the Golden State. The 11 airports chosen in the latest deployment were selected based on the risk of terrorist attacks and how quickly the units could be installed with the least amount of construction, TSA spokeswoman Suzanne Trevino said.'
From ubiquitous Al-Qaeda operatives who look western, to wondrous breast implants packed with explosives which could be used by terrorists to blow up an airliner – one continuous obedience training through fear conditioning, no? Convince People of Absurdities and get them Acquiescing to Atrocities: The Enduring Power of Machiavellian Political Science! Now CNN is even attempting to rewrite the history of the American Civil War as between "domestic terrorists" and the virtuous North:
'Even if you're a relative of one of the 9/11 hijackers, that man was an out-and-out terrorist, and nothing you can say will change that. And if your great-great-great-granddaddy was a Confederate who stood up for Southern ideals, he too was a terrorist. They are the same. As a matter of conscience, I will not justify, understand or accept the atrocious view of Muslim terrorists that their actions represent a just war. They are reprehensible, and their actions a sin against humanity. And I will never, under any circumstances, cast Confederates as heroic figures who should be honored and revered. No — they were, and forever will be, domestic terrorists.' — Were Confederate soldiers terrorists? Roland S. Martin, CNN
What length the government is going to make us afraid of the perpetual threat from Al-Qaeeda in order to demonize domestic dissent! Wow, you diabolically brilliant "Islamofascists" ; you have miraculously transformed a vibrant and prosperous United States into a 1984-like police-state in less than a decade:
Related News added March 26, 2010: The McCain-Lieberman Police State Act, by Stephen Lendman http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/03/26/the-mccain-lieberman-police-state-act
'If enacted, it will advance what this writer addressed in a December 2007 article titled, "Police State America – A Look Back and Ahead," covering numerous Bush administration laws, Executive Orders (EOs), National and Homeland Security Presidential Directives, edicts, and various illegal acts targeting designated domestic and foreign adversaries, dissent, civil liberties, human rights, and other democratic freedoms.'
Related News added March 08, 2010: Dissenters To Be Detained As "Enemy Belligerents"? Prisonplanet.com http://www.prisonplanet.com/dissenters-to-be-detained-as-enemy-belligerents.html ; A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully, Marc Ambinder March 5, 2010, The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/03/a-detention-bill-you-ought-to-read-more-carefully/37116
'Since the establishment media is convinced that tea party members, 9/11 truthers, libertarians, Ron Paul supporters, and basically anyone with a dissenting political opinion is a likely domestic terrorist, they should be celebrating the fact that a new bill would allow the government to detain such people as "enemy belligerents" indefinitely and without trial based on their "suspected activity". The "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday with little fanfare, "sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning," writes the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder.'
(There is no distinction between U.S. persons–visa holders or citizens–and non-U.S. Persons.)
FAST: The Future Attribute Screening Technology Homeland Security
Related Video link added March 01, 2010: "Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and PATRIOT ACT", Campaign for Liberty talk, a must watch for those Americans still caught in the conventional mindset of mainstream news (pt1, pt2, pt3) ;
this scribe is un-impressed however that it took the courageous American Judge who routinely appeared on FOX News – the jingoist television channel that led the US invasion of Iraq on WMD pretext, and the perpetual War on Terror on 'invasion from abroad' pretext – more than 6 years to catch up to this plebeian scribe ;
neither this lauded Judge, nor his famous patron saint, the Hon. Ron Paul, can still assert 9 years into the "New Pearl Harbor", that that the terrorist invasion on 911 could not possibly have been an invasion from abroad, please see: My beef with the stellar congressman Hon. Ron Paul and Open Letter to Hon. Ron Paul Supporters ;
this scribe presciently predicts that both will self-glorifyingly do so however in another 20, or perhaps a 100 years in the centralized world government, just as is boldly narrated today by even all and sundry chiefs of empire what is already an irreversible fait accompli: how the native American Indians were diabolically distributed the small pox laden blankets in a genocidal bio-warfare to exterminate them from their own soil, how the Gulf of Tonkin was diabolically fabricated to create a genocidal war on Vietnam, how the diabolical invasion of Iraq to destroy an entire nation was only "intelligence failure", etceteras ;
the criminal absurdity of all this is the number of thinking Americans who are routinely taken in by such dissent heroes, such as the 911 Truth legions of die hard supporters of Ron Paul when the glorified Congressman outright denies the very axiomatic premise for their existence – the burlesque logic of this is only understandable in Alice in Wonderland ;
Related News Added Feb. 01, 2010: "Presidential assassinations of U.S. citizens" By Glenn Greenwald, Salon Jan 27, 2010 http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2010/01/27/yemen/index.html
'Just think about this for a minute. Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, has claimed the authority to order American citizens murdered based solely on the unverified, uncharged, unchecked claim that they are associated with Terrorism and pose "a continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons and interests." They're entitled to no charges, no trial, no ability to contest the accusations. Amazingly, the Bush administration's policy of merely imprisoning foreign nationals (along with a couple of American citizens) without charges — based solely on the President's claim that they were Terrorists — produced intense controversy for years. That, one will recall, was a grave assault on the Constitution. Shouldn't Obama's policy of ordering American citizens assassinated without any due process or checks of any kind — not imprisoned, but killed — produce at least as much controversy? … Who knows what the truth is here? That's why we have what are called "trials" — or at least some process — before we assume that government accusations are true and then mete out punishment accordingly. As Marcy Wheeler notes, the U.S. Government has not only repeatedly made false accusations of Terrorism against foreign nationals in the past, but against U.S. citizens as well. She observes: "I guess the tenuousness of those ties don't really matter, when the President can dial up the assassination of an American citizen."'
Related News Added Feb 01, 2010: "Terrorists 'plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies' to foil new airport scanners", Daily Mail 30th January 2010 — http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247338/Terrorists-plan-attack-Britain-bombs-INSIDE-bodies-foil-new-airport-scanners.html
"One security source said: 'If the terrorists are talking about this, we need to be ready and do all we can to counter the threat.' … These include high specification X-ray equipment that could identify body bombs. But one source with expertise in the field said: 'They can make as many pieces of security equipment as they like but there is no one magic answer that can spot every single potential terrorist passing through.' Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Commons Counter-Terrorism Sub-Committee, said: 'Our enemies are constantly evolving their techniques to try to defeat our methods of detection. 'This is one of the most savage forms that extremists could use, and while we are redeveloping travel security we have got to take this new development into account.'"
Related News Added Feb 01, 2010: "Airports Could Get Mind-Reading Scanners" By Bill Christensen, Technovelgy.com, 28 January 2010http://www.livescience.com/technology/mind-reader-scanner-100128.html ; Also see: "Swine Flu: The Ultimate Revolution in the Making" October 1, 2009 http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/10/swine-flu-ultimate-revolution.html
'"The reaction could be a darting of the eyes, an increased heartbeat, a nervous twitch or faster breathing, he said. The WeCU system would use humans to do some of the observing but would rely mostly on hidden cameras or covert biometric sensors that can detect a slight rise in body temperature and heart rate," as reported in Raw Story.'
Related Video link added 02/22/2010: "Patriot Act Being Used Against a 16 Year Old Boy & its Own Citizens" 'Granville County, NC — On March 5 at about 10:00 PM, ten heavily armed FBI agents, accompanied by three local police officers, stormed into the home of an American family and arrested a 16 year old boy… The family has been told they have no rights to see their child and, under the USA PATRIOT ACT, the child has no rights to even defend himself. They claim the Constitution does not apply to this 16 year old, natural born, American citizen.' Amanda Lamb reporting for WRAL, 5 March 2009 (4 minutes) Also WRAL report Mom says Patriot Act stripped son of due process Ashton Lundeby, Video: http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/5050332/
Related Video link added 10/18/09: "There is definitely a threat from within … to weed these people out that are sleepers in our society" — Counter-Terrorism Expert on the Colbert Report, February 02, 2009 (5 minutes) http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/217341/february-02-2009/nailed–em—amtrak-photographer
Related Video link added 10/25/09: "What is iwatch: It's a way to report suspicious behavior or activity that relates to terrorism. Terrorism is a crime! It is our shared responsibility to keep America safe" — Voices in paid propaganda advert for TIPS, renamed iWATCH (82 seconds)
Related Video link added 10/25/09: iWatch/iReport "What you have just seen is an example of how your community, local law enforcement, and federal agencies can work together by sharing information to prevent terrorist attacks. The iwatch program depends on you. If you see suspicious behavior, call the number below, or visit the iwatch website. Your community needs your vigilance so we can stop terrorism, before it happens." — Brilliant Big-Brother Community Training Film for TIPS, renamed iWATCH (7 minutes)
Postscript Source URL: https://bloghumanbeingsfirst.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/postscript-war-on-terror-is-not-about-islamofascism-%E2%80%93-please-get-with-the-real-agenda-you-people/
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Source PDF: http://humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/war-on-terror-not-about-islamofascism-postscript-july032011.pdf
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley ( http://tinyurl.com/zahir-patents ), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org. Verbatim reproduction license at http://humanbeingsfirst.org#Copyright.
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Who Sang The Express (radio)? Reflection Eternal
Release Date: 2000
length: 4:14
[Talib Kweli]
"There comes a time-"
Hi-Tek, who we rockin wit?
"In every young mans life when-"
That's right we rockin with the best
"He must go out into the world"
Ya ya ya yo yo
[Verse 1]
I don't just spit, I hauck loogies on these emcee floozies
Y'all beggars can't afford to be choosy
Wanna bubble like jacuzzis, act bouigey, you watchin to many movies
These cats is fruity and got it mixed up like smoothies
Who are we? Yours truly, fist in the air like Huey
Smoke 'em one-by-one like Lucy's, then we skate like 'ooty
Just because yur rhymes is booty don't mean you "The shit"
Yo my style is universal, I get around like orbit
I got this all up in my veins, so fuck what you sayin
Your stuck in the same frame of mind, ain't no duckin my rain
When it's times for storms to brew, I'm _Warning_ you like Notorious
Before we bust, I won't be courteous
Even if ya moms is in the audience, I'm still the goriest
Road warrior, whose story is more glorious than Euphoria
And you got it all up in you, and ain't nobody stoppin you
If you don't believe us you could check out how we rock for you
Can't stop, don't stop
Rockin to the rhythem cuz I
I get down and (Brooklyn)
I get down and (to put it down)
I get down and I (Like UNI)
I get down (The uptown)
Gets down and sha-na-na
Can't stop, don't stop
Rockin to the rhythem cuz I
I get down and (Cincinnati)
I get down and (Madtown)
I get down and (Detroit)
I get down and (Chicago)
Ah ah ah, sha-na-na
[Verse 2]
Kweli, that's me, the king, the emcee
Rhyme, get mine on the T-O-P
Can another emcee ever FUCK with me?
(Hell no!) "Y'all niggas Tickle Me like Elmo"
Yo I got hip-hop on deadlock
You wanna pose like models, you catchin headshots
My roots extend to bedrock I stay grounded
The perfect balance, I found it
And I got everybody feelin it
My aura shine like ice and ain't nobody stealin it
Ain't no need to say "Run your jewels" when I'm revealin it (True)
And droppin it, on your stupid ass and not concealin it (Put it on 'em)
Cats want you in the dark, no switch that
In fact them cats want you in the pitch black
Where the light switch at? This shit's wack
You try to get some "Get Back," that's how a bitch act
So sit back and observe these gentlemen
With that melanin, we see through the swine like gelatin
So never question my relevance, manifestin all elements
Take hip-hop and develop it, by injectin intelligence
Wackness, you don't just smell of it, you reek in it
We stay feakin it, so the title we keepin it
Hi-Tek is the best kept secret since Diamond D
Kweli consider me the opitimy of emcee
So you know what that mean to me - eternally we stand out
And make them other dudes look like scenery
"Won't stop"
"Doin it..real"
[Havoc (Mobb Deep)] "Hip-Hop..."
Cuz we can't stop, don't stop
Rockin to the rhythem cuz I
I get down and (Zimbabwe)
I get down and (Nigeria)
I get down and (In Japan)
I get down and (And Cuba gets down)
Sha-na-na (And Jamaica gets down)
[Verse 3]
Its the Reflection Eternal ('Ternal)
To universal for rehearsal
No commercials, still we make shit pop like kernals
From Quinn Shore to Myrtle
Whether you stay sober or more pissy than a urinal
My illness is terminal, it's disgustin
The way we be, shuttin down the function
I make my name end any emcee discussion (Who?)
Outta whose whips more fatter, who rock the most ice
While my subject matter shatter your whole concept of nice
You can look throughout history books to see whose liver
I'm prehistoric, got the Eye of the Sabertooth Tiger too
Rip into the flesh of the track
Counterattack before you act with insight
I see clear you blind as a bat
Dwellin in caves, tellin the slaves what'chu think they wanna hear
I swear, my aunt told me the definition of fear is
'Fuck everything and run,' that's what you did
But the party just begun and we rockin 'til we see the sun
Can't stop
"Make a choice"
Don't stop
[Talib (BlackStar)] "Brooklyn, New York City"
Won't stop
Cuz I, I get down and (Everybody)
I get down and..
Can't stop
Don't stop
Yo we won't stop
"Southeast to west-"
Cuz I, get down and
Get down and
Get down and
Can't stop, don't stop
Rockin to the rhythem cuz I
I get down and (Atlanta gets down)
I get down and (L.A. get down)
I get down and (Illadelph get down, and the Bay)
It's like sha-na-na
Can't stop..


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lungs are especially sensitive to the harmful effects of air pollution, because
they breathe rapidly and inhale a high concentration of pollution relative to
their weight.
Use care when you take your young child outdoors, especially for
physical activities. When children exercise, they breathe more heavily than
normal. Also, they breathe more through their mouths than their noses.
This allows pollution to be inhaled more deeply into the lungs where it can
cause permanent damage.
CitationsEnvironmental Protection Agency (2011). Air Quality Index (AQI): A guide to air quality and your health. Available online: http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.aqi.
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Cedric The Entertainer Returns to DPAC on December 1
Biggest Night for Laugh Out Loud Comedy
September 20, 2012 (Durham, NC) - Charismatic actor and comedian Cedric the Entertainer and friends come to DPAC, Durham Performing Arts Center, on December 1, 2012.
Tickets go on sale September 28 at 10am:
• Online at DPACnc.com
• DPAC Ticket Center: 919.680.2787, 123 Vivian Street, Durham, NC
• Ticketmaster.com / Ticketmaster Charge by phone at 800.745.3000
Friends of DPAC members may place their orders on September 26. Joining Friends of DPAC is free, and you can register at www.DPACnc.com/friendofdpac.
"More and more we're seeing the biggest stars come back to DPAC for encore performances. Our sellout show with Cedric two years ago was one of the funniest nights ever at DPAC and comedy fans can expect this return engagement to be the best. With DPAC's intimate seating plus large video screens, there is no better theater in America for comedy," said Bob Klaus, GM for DPAC.
Cedric's universal appeal, versatility, and tremendous career successes spanning television, live performances and film have solidified his standing as one of the premier entertainers in the world. He is best known for his many crowd-pleasing performances in such hit films as Barbershop, Be Cool, Madagascar, Intolerable Cruelty and Johnson Family Vacation to name a few. He most recently co-starred in DreamWorks Animation's box office hit Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted; as a regular cast member of the mega-hit franchise, Cedric once again lent his voice as "Maurice" (the lemur). Also, Cedric starred in the political drama Grass Roots directed by Steven Gyllenhaal, as well as making a brief featured appearance with Christina Ricci in the romantic comedy All's Faire in Love: Romance Has a Renaissance.
In July 2006, Cedric's first-ever HBO Comedy Special, Cedric The Entertainer: Taking You Higher, was the highest rated special of that year for the network. In November 2008, Cedric made his Broadway debut in David Mamet's masterpiece American Buffalo where his performance was singled out for critical praise.
Some notable career accolades for the multi-talented funny man include: nabbing The AFTRA Award of Excellence in Television Programming for his Fox Television series "Cedric The Entertainer Presents..."; a record-breaking four consecutive NAACP Image Awards for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series" for his portrayal of the lovable "Coach Cedric Robinson" on the WB's #1-rated The Steve Harvey Show, which ran for six seasons; his first comedy book, Grown-Ass Man, was released in January of 2002 and sold out across the country. In 2001, a viewing audience of over 144 million saw Cedric star in the Bud Light commercial that landed in the #1 spot during the Super Bowl broadcast (subsequently, USA Today dubbed him "Madison Avenue's Most Valuable Player"). In 1994, Cedric received The Richard Pryor Comic of the Year Award from Black Entertainment Television for his ground-breaking work as host of Def Comedy Jam and BET's Comic View (1994-95).
The 2011 launch of his WHOCed designer hat line marks yet another facet of the busy and creative comedy star's career.
In June 2012, Cedric's new comedy series The Soul Man debuted. It is a spin-off of Hot in Cleveland based on the funny quirky character "Reverend Boyce 'The Voice' Ballentine" a former R & B music star turned minister that Cedric portrayed last year on the hit "Hot" series. Popular comedic actress Niecy Nash shares the spotlight on the new sitcom co-starring as his wife "Lolli". The Soul Man is created by Cedric and Suzanne Martin (Hot in Cleveland).
As a philanthropist, Cedric founded The Cedric the Entertainer Charitable Foundation which provides scholarships and outreach programs to enhance the lives of inner-city youth and their families in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri. He plans to extend the foundation nationally. (Cedric has awarded over 100 scholarships and countless incentives through his foundation).


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The southern-most Whitsunday Islands, Keswick Island is situated 32 kilometres from Mackay and is accessible via the water from the Mackay Marina, or by air. Most of the island is national park and sub-tropical rainforest and fringed by white sandy shorelines, with coral reefs within swimming distance, perfect for snorkelling. Or, hike within the blue gum forests of Brampton Island, keeping an eye out for koalas along the southern entrance to the Whitsunday Passage, and view flatback and green turtles nesting and hatching on nearby Carlisle Island.


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Boston opens arms to those stranded, separated in marathon blasts' aftermath
BOSTON -- Large cities are not always known for being warm and welcoming, but this one reacted to Monday's marathon bombing by offering refuge -- places to stay warm, make phone calls to loved ones, charge cell phones, eat or drink, or just collect themselves.
The response from Bostonians was hailed by people who came from across the world for the Boston Marathon, and Bostonians themselves said they would have done anything to lend a hand during the disaster.
On Tuesday, when a swath of the Back Bay remained blocked off for an investigation, stories started to spread of strangers helping others.
Matt Phillips of Australia had finished the marathon and walked a few blocks down Boylston Street and into the Capital Grille, where David Morelli, a sales representative from Marblehead, Mass., helped get Phillips some food and a few of the restaurant's tablecloths to keep himself warm.
Then the bombs went off. Phillips couldn't find his wife and daughter -- and without an ability to call while overseas, they had virtually no way to connect.
Morelli, who had been having lunch at the time of the blasts, ensured he'd find them. "I said, 'I'll stick by you. I'll help you. I won't abandon you,'" he said.
"I was so nervous for him, I felt compelled to hang with him no matter what," Morelli said. "I kept saying sorry, that Boston's not normally like this."
It was, by his estimate, an hour and a half until Phillips found out his wife, Suzy, and daughter, Annabel, were OK -- by looking on Facebook on someone else's cellphone. The family's hotel room at the Mandarin Oriental, directly across the street from the second explosion, was off limits, so the family began walking to an acquaintance's house in South Boston.
That's when another stranger helped. Mary Ann Calnan, a lawyer, was leaving her workplace near the Park Plaza Hotel about five blocks away nearly three hours after the bombings when she saw the Phillipses walking down the sidewalk. They didn't realize how far they had to walk, especially after the marathon. She gave them a ride but also offered them a place to stay for the night or a ride back to their hotel the next day.
"They were so drained, I can't imagine what it was like for them," said Calnan, a Lynn, Mass., resident.
Tracy Cronin, a nurse, was watching the marathon from outside her Commonwealth Avenue apartment, near a bend in the course just before the final stretch. She offered runners clothes, food, drink, outlets to charge phones -- whatever was needed.
"It was amazing to see people come together, but you just go into a different mode when something like that happens," she said. "Everyone's main focus was just to help everybody. It was amazing to see the community come together like that."
At the Westin, just off Copley Square, guests offered a hotel room to two people without a place to stay who were resting on couches in the lobby. Allan Gauthier, a runner from Vancouver, B.C., offered one of his two beds, and two businessmen with two rooms offered one of theirs. Gauthier was turning to leave when another guest brought the stranded travelers more pillows and blankets.
"I said, 'they're already taken care of,'" he said, commending everyone for rushing to help.
A couple from outside Chicago, Michael and Regina Friedman, crossed the finish line only about two minutes before the first explosion. Unable to make it back to their hotel on the other side of Boylston Street, they ended up at the Park Plaza Hotel. They also were given food, clothing, showers and anything else they needed.
"They just took us under their wing," Michael Friedman said.
A woman injured in the explosions who was carried to safety by a man in uniform is asking for a little more help: She'd like to know the identity of her savior.
A Tufts Medical Center spokeswoman declined to give the victim's name, but she delivered her message to the media Tuesday afternoon.
The woman suffered injuries to her lower body in one of the two blasts, when a man wearing a uniform swooped down, picked her up and carried her to get help. The Good Samaritan is possibly named Sgt. Tyler and may be a former Marine.
He has a scar on his left arm and told the woman, "You'll have a scar like mine, but you'll be OK," said Tufts spokeswoman Brooke Tyson Hynes.
The woman wants to thank the man, whom she credits with saving her life.
"This is important to her recovery," Hynes said.
At the Prudential Center, the mall just off Boylston Street about half a block from the second bomb, Betty and Jeff Stieglitz, a couple from Indiana, became separated in the chaos that immediately followed the blasts. Employees in the food court said Tuesday that many were worried about a bomb in the Prudential Tower above the mall, so many instinctively ran out toward Boylston Street.
Someone yelled something about guns, Betty Stieglitz said, and the couple became separated. "When they say 'guns,' you bet I'm going to go," she said.
Strangers told Betty they'd stay with her until she found her husband. People tripped over one another in the rush to leave, but even they helped one another up, she said.
The city's kindness was appreciated by visitors.
"We were quite surprised" at how hospitable the city was overall, said Vincent Han, a runner from the Los Angeles area.
"It's very different from Southern California," said Grace Kim, another runner from his group.
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Incoming Year 8 Information
Welcome Primary School Pupils
Our School
Find your way
The School Day
Super Subject Section
Clubs and Societies
School Uniform
School Rules
Helpful Advice
1. Welcome Girls and Boys
Hello everyone,
This site is here for you to help you get to know our school a little bit better.
Don't be worried about moving from your primary school to secondary school. This is an exciting time and we can't wait to meet you and take you on the St. Catherine's College journey.
We have included important information and things that we thought you would want to find out more about.
We know this is a big change for you and we want you to get to know our school as soon as possible.
In this site you will find out more about what happens in our school every day, new subjects you will study, clubs you can join as well as some helpful hints to help make your big move as easy as possible.
If you find that we have not answered your question, please visit our FAQs section or email us your question in the contact section and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Let's get ready to start your St. Cat's experience!
Try not to worry about coming to our school. It takes everyone a while to get used to new classes and new buildings. Everyone gets lost at some stage - even the teachers!
We all understand how it feels to be new in our school and everyone here in St. Catherine's College will want to help you settle in to our school as quickly as possible.
You will get opportunities to visit our school during special workshops as well as Open Night, which is a very special day in our school. You will be given a full tour of the whole school and will soon know it better than our sixth form pupils.
If you are ever unsure or worried there will always be another pupil or a teacher who is ready to help so don't be afraid to ask.
Click on the link below to see some important areas around our school and even some pupils hard at work.
Our school is located in the heart of Armagh City
We have students from all over the area so getting to our school will be easy.
Buses come to our school from all over. A few places are listed below:
• Portadown
• Lurgan
• Dungannon
• Moy
• Tullysaran
• Eglish
• Loughgall
• Caledon
• Cullyhanna
• Markethill
• Crossmaglen
• Middletown
Don't be worried about travelling to our school. We will explain everything you need to know when you visit our school with your parents in June before you start.
The School day begins at 8.55am and finishes at 3.25pm.
Each class lasts between 35-60 minutes and there are 10 periods in the day including lunch.
The School Day
In Year 8 you will study many new subjects. As well as familiar subjects like English, Science, Maths and Religion you will be studying new subjects like Spanish, French, Technology and Learning for Life and Work.
In Year 8 pupils study the following subjects
• English
• Maths
• History
• Physical Education
• Geography
• Music
• Art
• Drama
• Science
• Irish
• French
• Spanish
• Technology
• Home Economics
• Learning for Life and work
Click on each subject to find out more about it.
We have lots of extra curricular activities you can get involved in.
No matter what you are interested in we have many different clubs and societies that will help you get more involved in school. It is a great way to help you settle in and meet new friends.
In September you will get the chance to take part in our clubs and societies day and see exactly what each club has to offer.
Some of the clubs and societies that are available to you are listed below.
If you are interested in any of them you can sign up during the clubs and societies day in September.
Our School Uniform is green and yellow. You can see all details of the school uniform below.
Indoor Uniform
Pleated/checked skirt (Official School Skirt)
School Pullover
Yellow Blouse (to be worn inside skirt)
School Tie
School Pullover
Black Trousers
School Tie (Clip on)
Dark Socks
Green Knee Socks or Tights
Black Shoes only
Black Shoes
(Shoes should be no higher than 1½ inches)
(No platforms or slingbacks for safety reasons )
(Trainers must not be worn unless a medical note is submitted).
School Blazer
School Blazer (to be worn at all times)
White Shirt
P.E. Uniform
Official school P.E. Kit
St. Catherine's College is a safe and happy place. We are very proud of our school and hope you will be very happy here too. All pupils in our school follow our Code of Conduct. This is set of rules that allows you to be respected and protected.
All pupils are expected to be mannerly, kind and respectful to others.
Click here to find out more about the Code of Conduct
Basically you need to remember the following:
• Be in school by 8.50 am
• Be punctual to every lesson
• Be prepared for every class
• Wear the correct uniform every day
• Complete all class work and homework on time
• Show respect to all teachers and pupils
Some of our Year 8 pupils would like to give you advice about coming to our school. They were all once in your position and know how if feels to leave primary school and go through the same journey.
Read some of their advice below:
1. "There are so many new opportunities and adventures when you start a new school like St. Catherine's. My advice to new Year 8 pupils is try not to be afraid as going to St. Catherine's College when you leave primary school is like starting a new chapter in your favourite book".
2. "My first impression of St. Catherine's was that I will grow up here, make new friends here and more importantly, I will learn here. That was nearly four months ago and I now feel like I am part of one big community. Each day is a new adventure".
3. "When I first came to St. Catherine's I felt scared and I wasn't sure where to go. This soon passed and I now have lots of friends and all the teachers are really nice. I love St. Catherine's because you get to do things that you didn't do in primary school like experiments and cooking. Good luck. I hope you like St. Catherine's as much as I do".
4. "My favourite thing about St. Catherine's is that there are so many interesting subjects. You have your own timetable and feel grown up. There are also lots of clubs to join so you can become part of the school community".
5. "My first impression of St. Catherine's was that it was really big and I was always going to get lost. I didn't think I would be able to cope with all the homework but I use my homework diary and this allows me to be more organised. On your first day try to make new friends and just be yourself. Don't be scared. It is a great school!".
6. "I would tell new pupils that they should enjoy every moment as it all goes so fast. My favourite subject is Geography because it is lots of fun and we always learn new things".
7. "My favourite thing about St. Catherine's is coming to school everyday to learn something new in each subject. I would advise all pupils try not to be shy or nervous because everyone is friendly and willing to help you. You will have a great time in St. Catherine's".
8. "My favourite thing about going to St. Catherine's is that the day goes so quickly and I have learnt so many new things. There are lots of clubs you can join and all the girls in my class are really friendly".
9. "I would advise new pupils not to worry about leaving primary school. You will make new friends straight away and if you get lost just ask someone where your class is and they will help you. My favourite subjects are Art, Science, History and Drama. All the teachers in school are really nice. Enjoy every moment".
10. "St. Catherine's is a brilliant school with lots of opportunities. The teachers are all lovely and encourage everyone to do well. The subjects I have this year are all fun and interesting".


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A California man was mauled to death in a driveway by four pit bulls belonging to a neighbor. KSEE's Angela Greenwood reports.
A man near Fresno, Calif., was mauled to death by four pit bulls that have since been taken away as authorities on Thursday investigated what happened.
The man was found dead Tuesday night in the driveway of a home in Selma. Animal control officers later impounded four pit bulls, six pit bull puppies and two other dogs at a house next door, NBC affiliate KSEE TV reported.
Neither the victim nor the dogs' owner were identified.
A neighbor said he wasn't surprised, saying that the pit bulls had killed his own dog about a month ago.
"They come in our front yard and will come in our driveway," Blake Anderson told KSEE. "I couldn't even get out of my car one time. There were like four of them, so yeah it's ridiculous."
Anderson said the owner should be held responsible for letting the dogs run free.
Authorities would not confirm if the owner will face any charges.
Liberty Animal Control Services, which handles pet issues in the area, said it had not received any earlier calls about the pit bulls.
"The owner of the animals was cooperative. He did sign all the animals over to Liberty Animal Control Services, where they will not be returned to the owner," Liberty director Daniel Bailey told KSEE.
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Posted by GINA KOLATA on March 02, 2016
Exercise has long been touted as the panacea for everything that ails you. For better health, simply walk for 20 or 30 minutes a day, boosters say — and you don't even have to do it all at once. Count a few minutes here and a few there, and just add them up. Or wear a pedometer and keep track of your steps. However you manage it, you will lose weight, get your blood pressure under control and reduce your risk of osteoporosis.
If only it were so simple. While exercise has undeniable benefits, many, if not most, of its powers have been oversold. Sure, it can be fun. It can make you feel energized. And it may lift your mood. But before you turn to a fitness program as the solution to your particular health or weight concern, consider what science has found.
Moderate exercise, such as walking, can reduce the risk of diabetes in obese and sedentary people whose blood sugar is starting to rise. That outcome was shown in a large federal study in which participants were randomly assigned either to an exercise and dietprogram, to take a diabetes drug or to serve as controls. Despite trying hard, those who dieted and worked out lost very little weight. But they did manage to maintain a regular walking program, and fewer of them went on to develop diabetes.
Exercise also may reduce the risk of heart disease, though the evidence is surprisingly mixed. There seems to be a threshold effect: Most of the heart protection appears to be realized by people who go from being sedentary to being moderately active, usually by walking regularly. More intense exercise has been shown to provide only slightly greater benefits. Yet the data from several large studies have not always been clear, because those who exercise tend to be very different from those who do not.
Active people are much less likely to smoke; they're thinner and they eat differently than their sedentary peers. They also tend to be more educated, and education is one of the strongest predictors of good health in general and a longer life. As a result, it is impossible to know with confidence whether exercise prevents heart disease or whether people who are less likely to get heart disease are also more likely to be exercising.
Scientists have much the same problem evaluating exercise and cancer. The same sort of studies that were done for heart disease find that people who exercised had lower rates of colon and breast cancer. But whether that result is cause or effect is not well established.
Exercise is often said to stave off osteoporosis. Yet even weight-bearing activities like walking, running or lifting weights has not been shown to have that effect. Still, in rigorous studies in which elderly people were randomly assigned either to exercise or maintain their normal routine, the exercisers were less likely to fall, perhaps because they got stronger or developed better balance. Since falls can lead to fractures in people with osteoporosis, exercise may prevent broken bones — but only indirectly.
And what about weight loss? Lifting weights builds muscles but will not make you burn more calories. The muscle you gain is minuscule compared with the total amount of skeletal muscle in the body. And muscle has a very low metabolic rate when it's at rest. (You can't flex your biceps all the time.)
Jack Wilmore, an exercise physiologist at Texas A & M University, calculated that the average amount of muscle that men gained after a serious 12-week weight-lifting program was 2 kilograms, or 4.4 pounds. That added muscle would increase the metabolic rate by only 24 calories a day.
Exercise alone, in the absence of weight loss, has not been shown to reduce blood pressure. Nor does it make much difference in cholesterol levels. Weight loss can lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, but if you want to lose weight, you have to diet as well as exercise. Exercise alone has not been shown to bring sustained weight loss.Just ask Steven Blair, an exercise researcher at the University of South Carolina. He runs every day and even runs marathons. But, he adds, "I was short, fat and bald when I started running, and I'm still short, fat and bald. Weight control is difficult for me. I fight the losing battle."
The difficulty, Dr. Blair says, is that it's much easier to eat 1,000 calories than to burn off 1,000 calories with exercise. As he relates, "An old football coach used to say, 'I have all my assistants running five miles a day, but they eat 10 miles a day.'"
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In Her Shoes
Maggie May (Cameron Diaz) and Rose (Toni Collette) Feller may have been best friends all their lives, but the sisters are also polar opposites, as different from each other as night and day. Head-turner Maggie is an amoral, academic underachiever who always relied on her womanly wiles and sticky fingers to get whatever she wants. Her older sister Rose, on the other hand, is a relatively mature Plain Jane who excelled in school but never had much luck when it came to guys.
As a result, Rose is enjoying a flourishing career at a Philadelphia law firm while her ne'er-do-well sibling is still living at home and chronically unemployed. Yet, what binds the two together is a scarring childhood trauma which ripped the rest of their relatives apart.
For their mom perished in a suspicious car accident when Maggie was only six, and their maternal grandmother, Ella (Shirley MacLaine) reacted by blaming her son-in-law, Michael (Ken Howard), for her daughter's untimely death. Their dad responded by ending all contact with that side of the family, and by misleading his little girls into believing that Ella had also passed away.
To make matters worse, today, Michael is remarried to Sydelle (Candace Azzara), a selfish shrew who clearly favors her own daughter, Marcia (Jackie Geary), over her step-daughters. And when Maggie shows up drunk in the middle of the night after an impromptu liaison with a cute classmate (Anson Mount ) at her 10th high school reunion, Marcia seizes on the lush's inebriated state as an excuse to throw her out of the house.
Against her better judgment, Rose comes to the rescue, allowing her little sister to crash at her place, never suspecting that the shameless flirt would even think about seducing Jim (Richard Burgi), the handsome hunk she has just started a relationship with. But after catching them in a compromising position, she decides that such a transgression is unforgivable, and kicks Maggie out on the spot.
This over-plotted point of departure sets up the convoluted premise of In Her Shoes, as messy a dysfunctional family drama as any soap opera fan could hope to find. Directed by Oscar-winner Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential), the movie is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Jennifer Weiner.
As adapted to celluloid, the sisters' seismic sibling rivalry sits at the center of the story, though the attention-deficit production is littered with far too many secondary themes and supporting characters to keep track of, a common problem encountered in bringing books to the big screen. For when Maggie relocates to Florida, she moves in with her long-lost grandma, finally finding her purpose in life working with the very colorful residents of this overpopulated retirement community.
Simultaneously, back in Philly, morose Rose finds herself being chased by Simon (Mark Feuerstein), a patient suitor who isn't bothered by the fact that his former colleague has quit her prestigious position at the firm to become a professional dog walker. While waiting for Simon to pop the question, the innumerable loose ends are addressed to ensure that their storybook wedding will be attended by an estranged sister, an absentee grandmother, an evil step-mom, a weak-willed father, plus plenty of the entertaining second bananas we've gotten to know along the way. Cluttered and predictable, but laced with laughs and enough of an emotional payoff to make it all worthwhile.
Very Good (3 stars)
Rated PG-13 for sex, expletives, and mature themes.
Running time: 130 minutes
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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