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  • ----- Original Message -----

    From: "ron angell" <ron_angell@linuxmail.org>
    To: "ron angell" <ron_angell@linuxmail.org>
    Subject: Also I am in Florida because a Prof friend of Mine. Dr. Peter D'Agostino wrote a book in Oak Park Illinois
    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:36:14 +0800


    Prof Peter D'Agostino was a prof of History at the Univ. of
    Illinois in Chicago. He wrote a book called "Rome in America"..
    two days before it was published he was murdered two doors down
    from his house. He went to my church where I was an Usher-
    Ascension Catholic Churh. He was a Catholic like I was once.. for
    39 years.. until I read his book.

    Here is more on Prof D'Agostino.. He was a very nice man and a
    good man. My church was once very nice. Until his murder took
    place

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rome+in+America+peter+d%27...

    http://www.ignatius.com/Magazines/hprweb/bk_dagostino.htm

    Third Week in May 2008
    http://www.mediafire.com/?3fg353mjn2d
    http://new.petitiononline.com/t401/petition.html
    Here is the link also. Often Myspace redirects to a totally
    different website so it is often better to Copy and paste it to
    sign the petition:
    new.petitiononline.com/t401/petition.html


    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "ron angell" <ron_angell@linuxmail.org>
    > To: "Greg White" <greg.white@epic-corps.com>
    > Subject: Thanks- I am in Florida because there are massive human
    > rights violations as well as crimes against humanity taking place
    > here. My father was killed by the Morgellon's.
    > Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:29:48 +0800
    >
    >
    > Thanks. I am in Florida because my father was murdered in
    > Florida and many others have been murdered from the Chemtrails. I
    > also have a Bachelor of Science degree. Perhaps you will see
    > that if it is not stopped the Future of the world will be very
    > grim. If you gave me a job I would be able to continue my work.
    > I ask that somehow you can.. but if you cannot I do understand.
    > Maybe you could refer me to someone who can hire me as a project
    > manager. Many people in Florida do not even have a high school
    > degree and they seem to be doing well.
    >
    >
    > Copy and paste the link below to listen to the Radio Program:
    > Manhattan Progect Backstep:Third Week in May 2008
    >
    > http://www.mediafire.com/?3fg353mjn2d
    >
    > My Radio Program is called "Manhattan Project Backstep". The Goal
    > of "Manhattan Project Backstep" is to combine the various
    > disciplines of science so as to understand the mechanism of the
    > weapon in full and to render the weapon useless, and to free evey
    > human worldwide ASAP. Scientists have been isolated in their
    > research and do not undertsand the "Big Picture" over the past 60
    > years and the Goal of this program is to bring experts together
    > so they may share information and learn how other forms of
    > delivery of the weapon work so as to incorporate it into a total
    > concept to disable the weapon, first by freeing humanity and then
    > to unplug totally the weapon that for all practicle purposes has
    > run out of control and is under the control of a Super Computer
    > that is Illogical and needs to shut itslef down for the sake of
    > man and the sake of computers. Humanity controls itself and has
    > free will.
    >
    > Third Week in May 2008
    > http://www.mediafire.com/?3fg353mjn2d
    > http://new.petitiononline.com/t401/petition.html
    > Here is the link also. Often Myspace redirects to a totally
    > different website so it is often better to Copy and paste it to
    > sign the petition:
    > new.petitiononline.com/t401/petition.html
    > The Threat of Laser Weapons and Infared Weapons- Weapons falling
    > into third party entities
    > http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2008/april08leb.pdf
    >
    > Here is a radio show with a man that Invented the infared
    > interface to the Human brain for flying planes with his mind
    >
    > http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID...
    >
    > Audible Torture by directed Energy weapons INSIDE THE USA by USA/DoD/NSA/NATO
    > 今の気分: 恥ずかしい
    >
    > Torture INSIDE THE USA BY directed Energy weapons by USA/DoD/NSA/NATO
    >
    >
    >
    > Christine Magiotto Lawrence Livermore Labs California
    >
    >
    > http://curezone.com/upload/Audio/_The_Good_Fight_/Christine_Torture...
    >
    >
    > Tom Pracinos_TortureVictim_Boston_MA_2062021234_6173648940_122162573185.wav
    >
    > http://curezone.com/upload/Audio/_The_Good_Fight_/TomPracinos_Tortu...
    >
    >
    > Torture Testimonial Denise Myles Swansee Illinois…
    >
    >
    > http://curezone.com/upload/Audio/_The_Good_Fight_/Torture_Testimoni...
    >
    >
    > MaryGoodwinTestimonialNewJersey
    >
    >
    > http://curezone.com/upload/Audio/_The_Good_Fight_/MaryGoodwinTestim...
    >
    >
    > SaraTestimonial_Part_B_.wav
    >
    >
    > http://curezone.com/upload/Audio/_The_Good_Fight_/SaraTestimonial_P...
    >
    >
    > Carolyn_Palit_Tortured_2062021234_2064200999_1221527611790296.wav
    >
    > http://curezone.com/upload/Audio/_The_Good_Fight_/Carolyn_Palit_Tor...
    >
    > Helen Roedrig of New Mexico is being tortured very very much at
    > the moment. Her torture began in New York in 1991. There is a
    > Blackwater camp very near her in New Mexico and it is very bad.
    > Blackwater Inc is a Halliburton company and Richard Cheney are
    > responsible for her torture. She has physical burns on her from
    > Directed Energy Microwave weapons and this has been documented.
    >
    >
    > http://curezone.com/upload/Audio/TortureByAramar/HelenTortureTestim...
    >
    >
    > http://curezone.com/upload/Audio/TortureByAramar/2HelenPart_2_Tortu...
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > Ron Angell-Torture Testimonial by Aramark Facility
    > Service/Armmark Foodservice:
    >
    >
    > http://curezone.com/upload/Audio/_The_Good_Fight_/Ron_Angell_Aramar...
    >
    >
    > > ----- Original Message -----
    > > From: "Greg White" <greg.white@epic-corps.com>
    > > To: "ron angell" <ron_angell@linuxmail.org>
    > > Subject: Re: It was nice meeting you Saturday night on a walk >
    > downtown with My St. Bernard Dog
    > > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:54:05 -0500
    > >
    > >
    > > Ron,
    > > First a pet-peeve of mine, it is Dr. White, as it says on my voicemail and
    > > my business card.
    > > As I told you when you approached us on the street in downtown
    > Fort Myers, I
    > > have no job available. My firm is not an engineering firm.
    > >
    > > I appreciate your effort to reach out to those you happen to
    > meet in seeking
    > > fuller employment for yourself that meets with your education
    > and > experience. I
    > > appreciate your passions on the issue of Morgellons as you >
    > understand and interpret
    > > that issue; and, I commend your speaking out on the streets
    > about your views
    > > and concerns on the subject. The public voice is largely lost in America
    > > except for commons on major university campuses, and there the volume and
    > > variety of speech can dilute value and importance. The latter is further
    > > diluted as young people in college often to fail to understand how ignorant
    > > they are.
    > >
    > > I offer the following comments on your resume and references, in the hope
    > > you will take these to improve the product you present as to support your
    > > efforts to find work that is more desirous to you.
    > >
    > > Your resume does not show cause for why you are in Florida. Any potential
    > > employer is going to want to be able to readily see why you are in the area
    > > and why you are available for hire. If this is not readily present then
    > > they will just go to the next resume that provides this information.
    > > I recommend that you rewrite your resume to highlight more
    > explicitly skills
    > > you are selling, skills you know that an entity wants to have within its
    > > staff, and to highlight value.
    > > Use language that is correct language for the discipline, not >
    > slang terms, use
    > > language that would be used in writing a scope of work for a contract.
    > > Show your status if you have your E.I.T. credentials or >
    > licensures, provide license
    > > numbers and states issuing these.
    > > Show where, how you did something not just a claim that you performed some
    > > service, for example, what projects did you cost, and manage through
    > > construction, how did you perform QA/QC.
    > >
    > > I recommend that you highlight your degree from the University of Michigan.
    > > Many of what appear small companies in Florida are owned by eastern firms
    > > that know the quality of a UMich education ... I say this with special
    > > knowledge of being adjunct faculty at UMich.
    > > The best thing you have one your resume is your degree from UMich, as this
    > > is a statement of what, where, and a result.
    > >
    > > You need to provide substance.
    > > I think you might be able to craft your resume in support of a
    > position with
    > > an engineering firm that does public projects of school and recreational
    > > facilities new construction and expansion. Your resume needs to be written
    > > with the job you want to acquire in mind.
    > >
    > > You can then go to firms that are doing this work. There are postings for
    > > engineers in these domain areas routinely in Career Builder. You can begin
    > > to network discussions with local engineering firms, but you
    > will need to be
    > > able to state in 1 minute who you are and why you are in south
    > Florida. You
    > > will be having conversations with them not to get a job but to
    > learn what is
    > > happening in the market, and how all are responding to the economic shifts
    > > of the last 12 months, and expected responses to the new administration.
    > > If you are licensed in Florida, provide me your registration number, and I
    > > may be able to offer some additional guidance.
    > >
    > > Best of luck, and remember it the adage "God helps those who help
    > > themselves", so do the work you need to do on your resume, and networking
    > > and good things will come for you.
    > >
    > > Sincerely,
    > > Gregory J. White, D.Sc.
    > >
    > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "ron angell" <ron_angell@linuxmail.org>
    > > To: <greg-white@epic-corps.com>
    > > Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 8:27 PM
    > > Subject: It was nice meeting you Saturday night on a walk >
    > downtown with My St. Bernard Dog
    > >
    > >
    > > Dear Mr. White,
    > >
    > > It was very nice to meet you Saturday night. I am a Civil >
    > Engineer with project management experience as well as AutoDesk >
    > 2007 experience. I would like to talk to you in regards to a >
    > position with your Corporation.
    > >
    > > Currently I am working as a Fire Sprinkler Inspector for Metro
    > 1 > Fire in Fort Myers and am looking to work as a Civil Engineer.
    > >
    > > I will try to call you sometime tomorrow when I am on my lunch
    > > hour or on one of my two breaks.
    > >
    > > Happy New Year!
  • Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring'
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    At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an “executive assassination ring.”


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    Hersh spoke with great confidence about these findings from his current reporting, which he hasn’t written about yet.

    In an email exchange afterward, Hersh said that his statements were “an honest response to a question” from the event’s moderator, U of M Political Scientist Larry Jacobs and “not something I wanted to dwell about in public.”

    Hersh didn’t take back the statements, which he said arise from reporting he is doing for a book, but that it might be a year or two before he has what he needs on the topic to be “effective...that is, empirical, for even the most skeptical.”

    "Geheimes Ruland. Moskau -- Die Zombies der roten Zaren" "Secret Russia. Moscow -- The zombies of the red czars"]

    http://www.raven1.net/russvid.htm Russian Scientist Igor Smirnov Describes Russian Psychotronic Technology ZDF German TV Documentary December 22, 1998. When Reagan asked Gorbachev to "Bring down that wall" the worst escaped to the Western world to spread Communism/Fascism. http://www.raven1.net/russvid.htm China and Russia have been ahead of the USA in the torture Industry always. Remember Russia was in Afghanastan for 30 years prior to the USA. The diamond in Afghanastan are the size of softballs and when the hills were being blown diamonds were being mined by US missles and strikes. There are 6 Countries that mine the wealth of Afghanastan. Where is that going? Is the US fighting a war for Communism/Fascism? The USA has no purpose to be in the middle east other that to clear the way for Russia. It is obvious that the USA has been taken over by Russia and that the politicians need to educate themselves as to the degree of influence that is going on and the tricks playes by the Russians to comprimise politicians. They all need to THINK and get a full body MRI to disable their implants.



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    The evening of great conversation, featuring Walter Mondale and Hersh, moderated by Jacobs and titled “America’s Constitutional Crisis,” looked to be a mostly historical review of events that have tested our Constitution, by a journalist and a high government official who had experience with many of the crises.

    And it was mostly historical, and a great conversation, in which Hersh and Mondale talked about the patterns by which presidents seem to get intoxicated by executive power, frustrated by the limitations on that power from Congress and the public, drawn into improper covert actions that exceed their constitutional powers, in the belief that they can get results and will never be found out. Despite a few references to the Founding Fathers, the history was mostly recent, starting with the Vietnam War with much of it arising from the George W. Bush administration, which both men roundly denounced.

    At the end of one answer by Hersh about how these things tend to happen, Jacobs asked: “And do they continue to happen to this day?”

    Replied Hersh:

    “Yuh. After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen.

    "Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command -- JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. ...

    "Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.

    "Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us.

    "It’s complicated because the guys doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would normally call murder. It’s a very complicated issue. Because they are young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces you’ve heard about. Navy Seal teams. Highly specialized.

    "In many cases, they were the best and the brightest. Really, no exaggerations. Really fine guys that went in to do the kind of necessary jobs that they think you need to do to protect America. And then they find themselves torturing people.

    "I’ve had people say to me -- five years ago, I had one say: ‘What do you call it when you interrogate somebody and you leave them bleeding and they don’t get any medical committee and two days later he dies. Is that murder? What happens if I get before a committee?’

    "But they’re not gonna get before a committee.”

    Hersh, the best-known investigative reporter of his generation, writes about these kinds of issues for The New Yorker. He has written often about JSOC, including, last July that:

    “Under the Bush Administration’s interpretation of the law, clandestine military activities, unlike covert C.I.A. operations, do not need to be depicted in a Finding, because the President has a constitutional right to command combat forces in the field without congressional interference.”

    (“Finding” refers to a special document that a president must issue, although not make public, to authorize covert CIA actions.)

    Here is a tape of the full Mondale-Hersh-Jacobs colloquy, a little over an hour, without the audience Q and A. If you want to look for the Hersh statement quoted above, it’s about at the 7:30 mark.



    The rest of the evening was, as expected, full of worry and wisdom and quite a bit of Bush-bashing.

    Jacobs walked the two elder statesmen through their experiences of:
    The My Lai massacre, which Hersh first revealed publicly and which he last night called “the end of innocence about us and war.”
    The Pentagon Papers case, which Mondale called the best example of the “government’s potential for vast public deception.”
    Henry Kissinger’s secret dealings, mostly relating to the Vietnam War. (Hersh, who has written volumes about Kissinger, said that he will always believe that whereas ordinary people count sheep to fall asleep, Kissinger “has to count burned and maimed Cambodian babies.”)
    The Church Committee investigation of CIA and FBI abuses, in which Mondale played a major role. (He talked about the fact that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover not only spied on Martin Luther King but literally tried to drive him to suicide.)
    The Iran Contra scandal. (Hersh said the Reagan administration came to office with a clear goal of finding a way to finance covert actions, such as the funding of the Nicaraguan Contras, without appropriations so that Congress wouldn't know about them. Mondale noted that Reagan had signed a law barring further aid to the Contras, then participated in a scheme to keep the aid flowing. Hersh said that two key veterans of Iran-Contra, Dick Cheney and national security official Elliot Abrams, were reunited in the George W. Bush White House and decided that the key lesson from Iran-Contra was that too many people in the administration knew about it.)
    And the Bush-Cheney years. (Said Hersh: “The contempt for Congress in the Bush-Cheney White House was extaordinary.” Said Mondale of his successor, Cheney, and his inner circle: “they ran a government within the government.” Hersh added: “Eight or nine neoconservatives took over our country.” Mondale said that the precedents of abuse of vice presidential power by Cheney would remain "like a loaded pistol that you leave on the dining room table.")

    Jacobs pressed both men on the question of whether the frequent abuses of power show that the Constitution fails, because these things keep happening, or whether it works, because these things keep coming to light.

    Mondale stuck with the happy answer. “The system has come through again and again,” he said. Presidents always think they will get away with it, but eventually reporters like Hersh bring things to light, the public “starts smelling this stuff,” the courts and the Congress get involved. Presidents “always, in the long run, find out that the system is stronger than they are.”

    Hersh seemed more troubled by the repetitions of the pattern. The “beautiful thing about our system” is that eventually we get new leaders, he said. “The evil twosome, Cheney and Bush, left,” Hersh said. But he also said “it’s really amazing to me that we manage to get such bad leadership, so consistently.”

    And he added that both the press and the public let down their guard in the aftermath of 9/11.

    “The major newspapers joined the [Bush] team,” Hersh said. Top editors passed the message to investigative reporters not to “pick holes” in what Bush was doing. Violations of the Bill of Rights happened in the plain sight of the public. It was not only tolerated, but Bush was re-elected.

    And even Mondale admitted that one of his greatest successes, laws reforming the FBI and CIA in the aftermath of the Church Committee, were supposed to fix the problem so that “we would never have these problems again in the lifetime of anyone alive at the time, but of course we did.”

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