Feeling Better

Posted by kevin kovach on July 21, 2009 at 9:03am

This is just some info that might help people.These are some things that I have noticed that actually make me feel better, I thought I would share with you.!. Be nice to everyone around you, go out of your way to do nice things for people. help people.2. Think nice.3. Think positive.4. Think responsible.5. Respect for all.6. Patience.7. Try to relax the best way you know how.8. Try to do things that make you happy.Ok, these are some of the things I found that make me feel worse.1. Violence.2. Aggression.3. Lies.4. Breaking the law in any shape or form.5. Negativity, IE.. Negative thinking, pessimism.6. Any type of drugs or alcohol, cigarettes.Now if you'll notice these things that make me feel better are all positive and the things that make me feel worse are all negative... So I hope this helps anyone, it seems to help me.

CIA claims of cancelled campaign are hogwash

Posted by ron on July 21, 2009 at 5:16am

Assassinations anyone?CIA claims of cancelled campaign are hogwashBy Eric Margolis, Sun MediaLast Updated: 19th July 2009, 12:04amhttp://www.ottawasun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2009/07/19/10183171.html#emailCIA director Leon Panetta just told Congress he cancelled a secret operation to assassinate al-Qaida leaders. The CIA campaign, authorized in 2001, had not yet become operational, claimed Panetta.I respect Panetta, but his claim is humbug. The U.S. has been trying to kill al-Qaida personnel (real and imagined) since the Clinton administration. These efforts continue under President Barack Obama. Claims by Congress it was never informed are hogwash.The CIA and Pentagon have been in the assassination business since the early 1950s, using American hit teams or third parties. For example, a CIA-organized attempt to assassinate Lebanon's leading Shia cleric, Muhammad Fadlallah, using a truck bomb, failed, but killed 83 civilians and wounded 240.In 1975, I was approached to join the Church Committee of the U.S. Congress investigating CIA's attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro, Congo's Patrice Lumumba, Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem, and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. asAdd to America's hit list Saddam Hussein, Afghanistan's Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Indonesia's Sukarno, Chile's Marxist leaders and, very likely, Yasser Arafat.Libya's Moammar Khadaffy led me by the hand through the ruins of his private quarters, showing me where a 2,000-pound U.S. bomb hit his bedroom, killing his infant daughter. Most Pakistanis believe, rightly or wrongly, the U.S. played a role in the assassination of President Zia ul-Haq.To quote Josef Stalin's favourite saying, "No man. No problem."Assassination was outlawed in the U.S. in 1976, but that did not stop attempts by its last three administrations to emulate Israel's Mossad in the "targeted killing" of enemies. The George W. Bush administration, and now the Obama White House, sidestepped American law by saying the U.S. was at war, and thus legally killing "enemy combatants." But Congress never declared war.Cheney's squadWashington is buzzing about a secret death squad run by Dick Cheney when he was vice-president and his protege, the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. This gung-ho general led the Pentagon's super secret Special Operations Command, which has become a major rival to the CIA in the business of "wet affairs" (as the KGB used to call assassinations) and covert raids.Democrats are all over Cheney on the death squad issue, as are some Republicans -- in order to shield Bush. But the orders likely came from Bush, who bears ultimate responsibility.Americans are now being deluged by sordid scandals from the Bush years about torture, kidnapping, brutal secret prisons, brainwashing, mass surveillance of American's phones, e-mail, and banking.In 2001, as this column previously reported, U.S. Special Forces oversaw the murder at Dasht-e-Leili, Afghanistan, of thousands of captured Taliban fighters by Uzbek forces of the Communist warlord, Rashid Dostum.CIA was paying Dostum, a notorious war criminal from the 1980s, millions to fight Taliban. Dostum is poised to become vice-president of the U.S.-installed government of President Hamid Karzai. Bush hushed up this major war crime.America is hardly alone in trying to rub out enemies or those who thwart its designs. Britain's MI-6 and France's SDECE were notorious for sending out assassins. The late chief of SDECE told me how he had been ordered by then-president Francois Mitterrand to kill Libya's Khadaffy. Israel's hit teams are feared around the globe.DisgraceHistory shows that state-directed murder is more often than not counterproductive and inevitably runs out of control, disgracing nations and organizations that practise it.But U.S. assassins are still at work. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. drones are killing tribesmen almost daily. Over 90% are civilians. Americans have a curious notion that killing people from the air is not murder or even a crime, but somehow clean.U.S. Predator attacks are illegal and violate U.S. and international law. Pakistan's government, against which no war has been declared, is not even asked permission or warned of the attacks.Dropping 2,000-pound bombs on apartment buildings in Gaza or Predator raids on Pakistan's tribal territory are as much murder as exploding car bombs or suicide bombers.

From the Canadian Government: repared for the International Security Research and Outreach Programme International Security Bureau

Posted by ron on July 21, 2009 at 3:45am

http://www.international.gc.ca/arms-armes/isrop-prisi/research-recherche/humanitarian-humanitaire/mchale2003/index.aspx?lang=en

The Challenge of Exotic Weapons

Chris McHale

March 2003

Prepared for the International Security Research and Outreach Programme International Security Bureau

Because of my anti war stance and peace stance I am prevented from recieving job calls in the USA. Add this as a list of war crimes to the prior Bush Adminhttp://loveangell.ning.com/profile/RonAngell http://worldwidebusiness.ning.com/profile/ron http://community.mae.pennnet.com/profile/ron78 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/538388503This is why the USA is attacking the Middle East.. The USA has been taken over- by the North Koreans/China/Russia via very little known mind weapons. This was done with the help of the Traitors and human rights violators- George H Bush, George W. Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, William J Rigby, Daniel J Rigby, Karl Rove,All the US Govt is controlled to a very very high degreeHere is what has happened. In 1999 Tom Bearden- A scientist who worked on the manhattan project explains the largest threat back then was mind control by the Russians.This is what happened.http://community.mae.pennnet.com/forum/topics/frost-sullivan-russian http://community.mae.pennnet.com/profile/RichardBernierResume: http://rpangell.u.yuku.com/blog/post/id/35I am a member of http://www.ae911truth.org My profile is here: http://www.ae911truth.org/profile.php?uid=991993 http://www.ae911truth.org/supporters.php?g=ENGPROF http://www.mindcontrol-victims.eu/http://mcvictimsworld.ning.com/profile/ronangellhttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/ron http://asianvictimsassociation.ning.com/profile/ronInvolute Tech Incorporated-Fort Myers FloridaI am looking for a job in the alternative energy field that will allow to use my Civil Engineering skills, physics and science background, and people skills.I worked at Energy Conversion Devices Inc in Troy Michigan under Stan Ovshinksy and Dr. Guha in amorphous photovoltaic solar cell development. My job was to bring cell efficiency up to above 90% and bring the stability of the PIN cells up. Dr. Guha did this with doping the layers with Boron. I ran the machine in the lab to make the cells and then test them. The best cell was 98% efficient.http://www.ovonic.com/Resume of Ron Angellhttp://worldwidebusiness.ning.com/forum/attachment/download?id=2798084%3AUploadedFi38%3A7770ElevenLettersOfReferencehttp://worldwidebusiness.ning.com/forum/attachment/download?id=2798084%3AUploadedFi38%3A7771Secure Background Check through Career Builderhttps://secure.entersect.net/surecheck/act_login.cfm?UserDID=UD34B6P3FW0VP646XW&JSVID=RP082307796E-mail addresses:ronLight523@worldwidebusiness.ning.comrpangell@umich.eduFull Background Check on Ronald Angellhttps://secure.entersect.net/surecheck/main.cfm?go=FullReportChicago Public Schools Letters Recognition- Renaud Beaudoin,2005,

Team Spirit Award Chicago Board of Trade, 2000University of Michigan Engineering Degree, 1989,

Presidential Academic Fitness Award, 1984,

Certificate of Recognition State of Michigan Competitive ScholarshipProgram, 1984,

Presidential Academic Fitness Award Explaination, 1984,

National Honor Society, 1983,

Boy's State Attendant- Lansing MI, 1983,

"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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#602 Sen. Adams: possible evidence from attacks

Posted by treelaw45 TI on July 21, 2009 at 2:50am

#602 Sen. Adams: possible evidence from attacksDuring the all Night MEDUSA-like attack I suffered that had the same attack mode sound as LRAD I was showing sign that could be considered evidence. Only this attack was microwave as only I could hear the sound similar to blasting crickets.It was non-lethal I didn't die and it most very agitating. It seemed to attack my nervous system. I was doubling over with abdominal pain and could here the partially digested food gurgle through me. I t wasn't long until after a few trips to the bathroom that my body had been emptied. I could see the possibility that if a crowd was attacked that the targeted individuals would need to leave if for nothing else to defecate. If that wasn't possible like in a prison yard stand off it could result in some soiled clothing.Since the microwave sound was deafening and my abdomen was effected I wonder if this was a full body assault of were both areas attacked. V2K was heard all through the attack in the form of threats and laughter at my attack and later a psychological attack that they were coming to shoot and kill me. For the death threat part it was only V2K the vehicle beside my house that had a mounted MEDUSA weapon had ripped out from beside my home so the loud blasting crickets had ended.At that point I still had effects that could be considered evidence. I was still bent over and shaking, and my urine was brown. I am not sure if this was because of dehydration or minor bleeding in my urine. I only went to the hospital because I thought I finally had evidence of an attack. I have documented records form the hospitals and East bay mental health that I claimed I had been attacked by a radiation attack.Other evidence from this type of attack would also be that Athletes foot stopped for two weeks and I believe all bacteria in my body was killed because my stool was orange for that time. One TI pointed out that people given the date rape drug also have orange stool for a period. this is possible because I was given two pills to calm me and later thought I woke being involuntarily committed. It turned out that it was one day and four hours. I can prove this with conflicting records. They went through great pains to alter dates to get away with this but it was new years day so I kept looking until I found the evidence of the cover up.On the way to the hospital a call came into the ambulance and it was diverted to and obscure hospital keeping me in my congressional district. They asked me if it was OK and I agreed. at that time I had no idea doctors and hospitals could be complicit in my attack.Other attacks might be harder to prove and I have heard of testing that can prove this.Other attacks have been what I consider a microwave possibly a silent MEDUSA attack to the head and maybe the body. this attack is almost unbearable and two people I believe attacked with this raced off until they crashed not knowing why they did it. One had visited his father at my home and walked out the door and did this. He had consumed some alcohol and promised me he wouldn't drive. Yet he did this. the other possible attack was the son of a woman who had spoken with me at a town council meeting on police abuse and corruption.In the hospital while under going psychological threats via V2K I was also attacked with what has been described by the Army ind Donald Friedman's FOIA request on non-lethal weapons as a infra-sound or ultra sound attack that made me laugh uncontrollable. The purpose was to make me appear delusional I believe but of course seems harmless. they did this as a Cat-scan was being performed and I had difficulty keeping still.One other attack that may show evidence is the heat attack that raises body temperature about 5 degrees causing intense sweating and disorientation.It can only be used for a short duration obviously and was also described in the FOIA request of Donald Friedman.I have an extreme aversion to heat and where shorts and a sleeveless shirt almost tear round in the northeast. I have heard other TI complain of this also. This function of V2K is to send shock waves from the outside of the head to arrive at the cholia in the center of our brain. This is also the location of the part of the brain that regulates our body temperature. It is hard to say with all of the different attacks. the MEDUSA-like attack was by far the highest level of energy directed at me and for a long time.Walking around in the cool and cold weather also does help me look sane and may have been a desired effect. If others are dealing with this effect and have a fan on them all the time please speak up it may be a common long term effect of certain types of attacks and might be considered evidence.My plea to gather evidence then on 1-1-2001 was covered up. Records claim my urine was normal in color when it was clearly brown and I pointed this out as the evidence to my attacks and wanted this analyzed.Peter Rosenholm

This is why the USA is attacking the Middle East.. The USA has been taken over- by the North Koreans/China/Russia

Posted by ron on July 20, 2009 at 5:47am

http://loveangell.ning.com/profile/RonAngell http://worldwidebusiness.ning.com/profile/ron http://community.mae.pennnet.com/profile/ron78 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/538388503This is why the USA is attacking the Middle East.. The USA has been taken over- by the North Koreans/China/Russia via very little known mind weapons. This was done with the help of the Traitors and human rights violators- George H Bush, George W. Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, William J Rigby, Daniel J Rigby, Karl Rove,All the US Govt is controlled to a very very high degreeHere is what has happened. In 1999 Tom Bearden- A scientist who worked on the manhattan project explains the largest threat back then was mind control by the Russians.This is what happened.http://community.mae.pennnet.com/forum/topics/frost-sullivan-russian http://community.mae.pennnet.com/profile/RichardBernierResume: http://rpangell.u.yuku.com/blog/post/id/35I am a member of http://www.ae911truth.org My profile is here: http://www.ae911truth.org/profile.php?uid=991993 http://www.ae911truth.org/supporters.php?g=ENGPROF http://www.mindcontrol-victims.eu/http://mcvictimsworld.ning.com/profile/ronangellhttps://peacepink.ning.com/profile/ron http://asianvictimsassociation.ning.com/profile/ronInvolute Tech Incorporated-Fort Myers FloridaI am looking for a job in the alternative energy field that will allow to use my Civil Engineering skills, physics and science background, and people skills.I worked at Energy Conversion Devices Inc in Troy Michigan under Stan Ovshinksy and Dr. Guha in amorphous photovoltaic solar cell development. My job was to bring cell efficiency up to above 90% and bring the stability of the PIN cells up. Dr. Guha did this with doping the layers with Boron. I ran the machine in the lab to make the cells and then test them. The best cell was 98% efficient.http://www.ovonic.com/Resume of Ron Angellhttp://worldwidebusiness.ning.com/forum/attachment/download?id=2798084%3AUploadedFi38%3A7770ElevenLettersOfReferencehttp://worldwidebusiness.ning.com/forum/attachment/download?id=2798084%3AUploadedFi38%3A7771Secure Background Check through Career Builderhttps://secure.entersect.net/surecheck/act_login.cfm?UserDID=UD34B6P3FW0VP646XW&JSVID=RP082307796E-mail addresses:ronLight523@worldwidebusiness.ning.comrpangell@umich.eduFull Background Check on Ronald Angellhttps://secure.entersect.net/surecheck/main.cfm?go=FullReportChicago Public Schools Letters Recognition- Renaud Beaudoin,2005,

Team Spirit Award Chicago Board of Trade, 2000University of Michigan Engineering Degree, 1989,

Presidential Academic Fitness Award, 1984,

Certificate of Recognition State of Michigan Competitive ScholarshipProgram, 1984,

Presidential Academic Fitness Award Explaination, 1984,

National Honor Society, 1983,

Boy's State Attendant- Lansing MI, 1983,

"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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FREEDOM FIGHTERS FOR AMERICA RADIO

Posted by FREEDOM FIGHTERS FOR AMERICA on July 20, 2009 at 1:00am

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FREEDOM FIGHTERS FOR AMERICA RADIO

Posted by FREEDOM FIGHTERS FOR AMERICA on July 19, 2009 at 11:02am

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Walter Cronkite & others, view of the 'new world order'

Posted by Citizens That Know on July 19, 2009 at 7:00am

Walter Cronkite & others, view of the 'new world order',Full article at 'Citizens That Know'Knowing, as I do, now, that it is foolish to buy into the personas or appearances of anything presented by the media, I find myself questioning whether to trust 'ol' Walt', the fatherly gent who used to reliably deliver the news to us right in our living rooms. Doesn't he sound like the depressive men that came of age in the 1950's, coming out of WW II and getting the jobs, the homes and starting families? Many of us born into this era, were handed off to MKUltra programs. Maybe it was a suave, serious, familiar sounding depressive and everyman like ol' walt who sealed the deal, convincing unsuspecting citizens, and now war veterans, that they were acting to support the common good against the Russians, 'facists' or other mean, nasty dictatosr from getting technological edge over the good ol' US of A? Did Walt report on Operation Paperclip?This man has just gotten top headlines simply for dying at a ripe old age, instead of committing suicide like a lot of citizens whose lives are destroyed by neighborhood vigilantes. Well, maybe we better pause and look at this and see what this media identity really was delivering to the American public.

ESPIONAGE CASES - UNITED STATES, WIRELESS PATENTS TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, FEDERAL HATE CRIMES

Posted by Metric Clay on July 19, 2009 at 6:17am

ESPIONAGE CASES - UNITED STATESTable of Contentshttp://intellit.muskingum.edu/spycases_folder/spycasesustoc.htmlNeal H. Petersen, comp. and ed., "Counterintelligence and Internal Security," American Intelligence, 1775-1990: A Bibliographic Guide (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 1992), pp. 152-211, has extensive (over 1,000) listings in the general area of spying in and against the United States. The listings below focus on (a) particularly useful sources in the area and/or (b) those published since the late 1980s.Broader counterintelligence and counterespionage activities are covered under the topic headings of "Counterintelligence" and "FBI."British espionage cases can be located from the "UK Spy Cases" Table of Contents.See also the entries under "Soviet Spies."The Washington Post has a collection of materials on spy cases and other espionage related matters at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/nationalsecurity/spying/.General Materials:A - H I - OP - ZWeinstein and Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood (1998)Soviet A-Bomb SpiesVenona:Introduction to Venona The Venona MaterialsAlger Hiss and Whittaker ChambersElizabeth BentleyIndividual Espionage Cases:Mitchell and Martin (1960) Miller (1985)Pollard (1985) Howard (1985)Walker (1985) Chin (1985)Pelton (1986) Ames (1994)Nicholson (1996) Pitts (1996)Peter Lee (1997) Squillacote (1997)Groat (1998) Boone (1998)Wen Ho Lee (1999) Wispelaere (1999)Faget (2000) Trofimoff (2000)Hanssen (2001) Regan (2001)Montes (2001) Smith-Leung (2003)Guantanamo Bay (2003) Franklin (2004)Keyser (2004) Aragoncillo (2005)Chi Mak (2005) China Spies (2008)Myers (2009)Others (alphabetically, by name):A BC - F G - JK LM - R S - ZChinese Espionage (from 1998)Cuban Espionage in Florida (from 1998)Treason GenerallyReturn to FBI Table of ContentsReturn to Counterintelligence Table of ContentsReturn to Soviet SpiesReturn to Main Table of ContentsNews on Patents and Wireless TechnologyFeatured ArticlesWireless Living »From Inform | 2009-07-07 08:15:15http://www.wirelesslicenses.com/National Security Agencyhttp://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/nsa.html1. Origins 1914-19522. Vulnerability 1952-19583. Expansion 1958-19624. Maturity 1962-19675. Confrontation 1967-19756. Uncovered 1975-20017. Rebirth 2001-20038. Sources9. LinksOrigins1914 - World War I began the modern era of code-breaking and intelligence gathering. Major Ralph Van Deman, the "father of American intelligence," created the Military Intelligence Section in the Army General Staff, and a Cipher Bureau (MI-8) within this section.1918 - America's first transatlantic radio intercept station was built on Gillin Farm in Houlton, Maine, just before the end of WWI .1920 - Herbert Osborne Yardley created the Black Chamber and began to monitor international cables, despite the Radio Communication Act of 1912 that guaranteed secrecy. This cable monitoring would become Operation Shamrock in 1945, administered in secret by the Signal Intelligence Service, then by the Army Security Agency in Sept. 1945, by the Armed Forces Security Agency in 1949, and by the NSA in 1952. It would be the largest intercept program in US history until officially ended in 1975.1921 - Washington Conference was one of the greatest triumphs of Yardley's Black Chamber, decrypting Japanese cables indicating Japan was willing to accept the 5-5-3 ratio in capital ships.1922 - Navy developed its own code bureau, the Code and Signal Section of the Naval Communications Service, that on July 1 became OP-20-G (G section of the 20th Division of the Office of Chief of Naval Operations).1924 - Navy's Laurance Safford organized a radio intelligence division in the OP-20-G, called Room 2646.1926 - Black Chamber assisted in the detection and location of rum-runners and smugglers with Victor Weiskopf in the Justice Department.1929 - Black Chamber closed by Henry Stimson Oct. 31, stopped the reading of secret Japanese diplomatic cables, declared "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.''1930 - William F. Friedman created the Signal Intelligence Service Apr. 24 within the Army's Signal Corps and improved sigint with the new mechanical cipher machines and with aerial photography.1936 - ONI uncovered the Japanese spy ring of Toshio Miyazaki in California, arrested Harry Thompson, a young ensign who had been recruited by Miyazaki to spy on the Navy.1939 - World War II was a victory for military intelligence agencies, the SIS cryptographers at Arlington Hall, the Navy's OP-20-G that broke the Japanese Purple code, the OSS of William Donovan, the Bell Labs digital SIGSALY system, the Dayton NCR Navy Bombes, the cooperation with the British Tizard Mission and Bletchley Park to break the Ultra cipher and develop radar.ASA field station antenna array at Helemano, Hawaii 19501945 - The SIS was reorganized in 1943 as the Signal Security Service, then as the Signal Security Agency, and on Sept. 15 became a new agency, the Army Security Agency (ASA) with the mandate to establish a worldwide network of listening stations. Vint Hill Farms Station in Warrenton VA had been a listening station during WWII for the Signal Intelligence Service, became an ASA station intercepting Russian radio transmissions.1946 - May 2 study "Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship" by the AAF research and engineering division of Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica (that soon became RAND Corp.), proposed a spy satellite in space.1947 - National Security Act of July 26 created the National Military Establishment (DOD), the CIA, the NSC, an independent Air Force, and a cabinet-level Secretary of Defense. Cold War created insecurity and the need for new defense technologies, the rocket and guided missile, jet aircraft, A-bombs.1949 - May 20 the Secretary of Defense signed a secret order creating the Armed Forces Security Agency to oversee the military intelligence agencies (Army Security Agency, Naval Security Group, and Air Force Security Service) but interservice rivalry continued; growing national fear of communist subversion, Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon, first Russian A-bomb tested.1950 - National Security Council Intelligence Directive No. 9 of March 10 created the United States Communications Intelligence Board1950 - Korean War that started June 25 was an intelligence failure, led to reorganization that would create the NSA.1952 - President Harry Truman on Oct. 24 signed a secret 8-page memo that created the National Security Agency (NSA) under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense. Gen. Ralph Julian Canine was first director. The agency was located in Arlington Hall VA and the Naval Security Station in DC until moving to new HQ at Fort Meade MD in 1956. The NSA began as a secret agency that specialized in code-breaking and signal intelligence. From its predecessor, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the NSA inherited the Shamrock program of monitoring international cables that Herbert Osborne Yardley's Black Chamber had started in 1920.So you’ve got this new cable modem and a steady Internet connection from a decent, reasonably priced provider. You might have even gotten a television service from the same provider and like to enjoy some of the new episodes of Lost or 24 while you’re surfing the web. Your problem? Your television’s downstairs and your desktop is upstairs. You have a laptop, so what do you do? Buy a wireless router so you can surf while you watch. Unfortunately, like all things digital, electronic, or technological, it ...Continue reading... | 0 comments Be the first to rate this [?]PCI clarifies procedures to secure WiFi »From SC Magazine | 2009-07-17 16:02:08With a new guidance document, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council aims to clarify what retailers must do to secure their WiFi networks.In the past, retailers may have read the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) and for certain sections wondered, "What does this mean and what do I have to do?" PCI is aiming to answer those questions with special guidance documents aimed at clarifying especially confusing parts of the standards. On Thursday, PCI published the first informational document that it hopes will clarify ...Continue reading... | 0 comments Be the first to rate this [?]What Hardware is Needed For a Network? »From isnare | 2009-07-17 07:04:49As you?re probably already aware there is more than one type of network that can be created; but if it is a network to a computer that you want to install and need to know what special hardware you need, read on.Firstly, if you want to get a wireless network hooked up you will need a wireless network card and a router. If you have internet access at the moment, the same cable that you currently use to feed the Internet through your computer will go into the ...Continue reading... | 0 comments Be the first to rate this [?]Nvidia wins round against Rambus in patent fight »From Reuters US Online Report Technology News | 2009-07-14 21:50:27SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday tentatively invalidated several Rambus Inc patents key to the microchip designer's disputes against graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. The patent office "has now initially rejected all of the patent claims asserted by Rambus against Nvidia in the ITC," or U.S. International Trade Commission, Nvidia general counsel David Shannon said in a statement. Rambus replied that the game is hardly over. "The recent action by the (patent office) to re-examine Rambus patents is part of the process ...Continue reading... | 0 comments Be the first to rate this [?]1 2 3 4 5 Related ArticlesGoogle to Face Personalized Search Suit »IT Business Edge 7/17/2009 11:59:50 AMAccording to InformationWeek, Personalized User Model is suing Google for willful patent infringement.. . . PUM alleges that Google infringes on...IUPUI Reaches Stem Cell Technology Licensing Deal »Inside Indiana Business 7/17/2009 11:14:46 AMIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has licensed stem cell technology to a Wisconsin firm. Cellular Dynamics International...RIM Agrees To Pay $267 Million To Visto In Patents Case »Information Week 7/17/2009 10:46:57 AMResearch in Motion's long running patents litigation with Visto Corporation is expected to be settled during the week of July 20 with RIM paying...Patent filed for hurricane fighting machines »Caribbean360.com 7/17/2009 10:40:07 AMA device to disarm hurricanes? Sounds like good stuff for movies, right? Actually, a group of inventors in the United States, including Microsoft...IBM sued over DRAM patents »TG Daily 7/17/2009 10:09:51 AMA law suit started in a Delaware district court alleging that IBM has breached a number of patents relating to dynamic random access memory...Azure Dynamics Awarded Two New Patents »NBC 10 Quincy (WGEM) 7/17/2009 9:41:09 AMOAK PARK, MI, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Azure Dynamics Corporation - ("Azure") or (the "Company"), a leading developer of state-of-the-art ...Hosted by Back to Google NewsSenate votes big expansion of federal hate crimesBy JIM ABRAMS (AP) – 1 day agoWASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday approved the most sweeping expansion of federal hate crimes law since Congress responded four decades ago to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.The legislation, backed by President Barack Obama, would extend federal protections granted under the 1968 hate crimes law to cover those physically attacked because of their gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability."This bill simply recognizes that there is a difference between assaulting someone to steal his money, or doing so because he is gay, or disabled, or Latino or Muslim," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said.Voice vote passage came immediately after supporters cleared a 60-vote procedural hurdle imposed by Republicans trying to block consideration of the legislation. That vote was 63-28.The hate crimes bill was offered as an amendment to a must-pass defense spending bill that the Senate is expected to finish some time next week. Several Republican amendments to the hate crimes legislation still could be considered on Monday, but Thursday's vote determined that it will be part of the defense bill when it passes.The 1968 hate crimes act covers violence related to a person's race, color, religion or national origin. Federal involvement is confined to a narrow range of circumstances, such as when the victim is using a public facility or attending a public school, serving on a jury or participating in a government program.The proposed legislation, in addition to expanding the categories covered, ends the "federally protected activities" requirement.Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., now being treated for cancer and unable to be on hand for the debate, first proposed the bill in 1997. While coming close on several occasions, he has never been able to overcome opposition from those who contend it infringes on states' rights and First Amendment rights to free speech. Former President George W. Bush said he would veto the bill if it reached his desk.This time, however, pro-bill Democrats control both houses of Congress and Obama is a strong supporter. Attorney General Eric Holder has urged Congress to give his department authority to prosecute cases of violence based on sexual orientation, gender or disability.The measure still has a way to go. Obama has told Congress he will veto the defense bill if it includes more money for an F-22 fighter program he is trying to terminate. The House in April passed a similar hate crimes bill, but did it as independent legislation not tied to a larger bill.The Senate bill, also sponsored by Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., only authorizes federal prosecutions of hate crimes when the state or local authorities are unwilling or unable to do so. It provides $5 million in grants to state and local law enforcement officials who have trouble meeting the costs of investigating and prosecuting these crimes.Reid, D-Nev., recalled that Laramie, Wyo., was overwhelmed by the costs of pursuing the case against Matthew Shepard, the gay college student killed in 1998 whose name is attached to the bill. "When this bill becomes law, that will never happen again in Laramie, Wyo., or anyplace else in the country."Supporters also emphasized that prosecutions under the bill can occur only when bodily injury is involved, and no minister or protester could be targeted for expressing opposition to homosexuality, even if their statements are followed by another person committing a violent action.To emphasize the point, the Senate passed provisions restating that the bill does not prohibit constitutionally protected speech and that free speech is guaranteed unless it is intended to plan or prepare for an act of violence.The Traditional Values Coalition had expressed concern in a letter to senators that a pastor could be prosecuted for "conspiracy to commit a hate crime" if a sermon resulted in a person acting aggressively against someone based on sexual orientation.Another opponent, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said it was "patently offensive" that violence against one class of victims would be considered worse than violence against others. "We cannot have a colorblind society if we continue to write color-conscious laws," he said. "It violates all the principles of equal justice under the law."Some 45 states have hate crimes statutes on their books, and about half the states have laws covering crimes based on sexual orientation.The FBI receives reports of nearly 8,000 hate crimes every year. Of those, about 15 percent are linked to sexual orientation, which ranks third after those involving race and religion.The Senate hate crimes bill is S. 909.On the Net:Congress: http://thomas.loc.govCopyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.Add News to your Google HomepageMap©2009 Google - About Google News - Blog - Help Center - Help for Publishers - Terms of Use - Privacy Policy - Google Home

HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVE FOR FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IN DEAD 19

Posted by Metric Clay on July 18, 2009 at 4:33am

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Quotes on suffering

Posted by SheriGrutz on July 18, 2009 at 2:48am

The only cure for grief is action. -- George Henry LewesIn this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world. --Jesus ChristIt is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, “God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.” --John G. LakeIf thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? --Thomas à KempisGod will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars. -- Elbert HubbardDeep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. -- George EliotIt is through much tribulation that we enter the kingdom of Heaven. --The Apostle PaulDifficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. -- Isak DinesenNo man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. --Bram StokerThe deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? --Kahlil GibranThe will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger. --Elisabeth ElliotPain is never permanent. --Teresa of Avila

Stockholm syndrome

Posted by SheriGrutz on July 18, 2009 at 2:35am

The Stockholm Syndrome comes into play when a captive cannot escape and is isolated and threatened with death, but is shown token acts of kindness by the captor. It typically takes about three or four days for the psychological shift to take hold.A strategy of trying to keep your captor happy in order to stay alive becomes an obsessive identification with the likes and dislikes of the captor which has the result of warping your own psyche in such a way that you come to sympathize with your tormenter!The syndrome explains what happens in hostage-taking situations, but can also be used to understand the behavior of battered spouses, members of religious cults, Holocaust victims, household pets, and perhaps even users of Internet Explorer. I think it may also help explain the popularity of government and of the mass institutionalization of young people.

from The Psychology of Torture by Sam Vaknin

Posted by SheriGrutz on July 18, 2009 at 2:23am

There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed – one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He does so publicly, deliberately, repeatedly and, often, sadistically and sexually, with undisguised pleasure. Hence the all-pervasive, long-lasting, and, frequently, irreversible effects and outcomes of torture.In a way, the torture victim's own body is rendered his worse enemy. It is corporeal agony that compels the sufferer to mutate, his identity to fragment, his ideals and principles to crumble. The body becomes an accomplice of the tormentor, an uninterruptible channel of communication, a treasonous, poisoned territory.It fosters a humiliating dependency of the abused on the perpetrator. Bodily needs denied – sleep, toilet, food, water – are wrongly perceived by the victim as the direct causes of his degradation and dehumanization. As he sees it, he is rendered bestial not by the sadistic bullies around him but by his own flesh.The concept of "body" can easily be extended to "family", or "home". Torture is often applied to kin and kith, compatriots, or colleagues. This intends to disrupt the continuity of "surroundings, habits, appearance, relations with others", as the CIA put it in one of its manuals. A sense of cohesive self-identity depends crucially on the familiar and the continuous. By attacking both one's biological body and one's "social body", the victim's psyche is strained to the point of dissociation.Beatrice Patsalides describes this transmogrification thus in "Ethics of the Unspeakable: Torture Survivors in Psychoanalytic Treatment":"As the gap between the 'I' and the 'me' deepens, dissociation and alienation increase. The subject that, under torture, was forced into the position of pure object has lost his or her sense of interiority, intimacy, and privacy. Time is experienced now, in the present only, and perspective – that which allows for a sense of relativity – is foreclosed. Thoughts and dreams attack the mind and invade the body as if the protective skin that normally contains our thoughts, gives us space to breathe in between the thought and the thing being thought about, and separates between inside and outside, past and present, me and you, was lost."Torture robs the victim of the most basic modes of relating to reality and, thus, is the equivalent of cognitive death. Space and time are warped by sleep deprivation. The self ("I") is shattered. The tortured have nothing familiar to hold on to: family, home, personal belongings, loved ones, language, name. Gradually, they lose their mental resilience and sense of freedom. They feel alien – unable to communicate, relate, attach, or empathize with others.Torture splinters early childhood grandiose narcissistic fantasies of uniqueness, omnipotence, invulnerability, and impenetrability. But it enhances the fantasy of merger with an idealized and omnipotent (though not benign) other – the inflicter of agony. The twin processes of individuation and separation are reversed.Torture is the ultimate act of perverted intimacy. The torturer invades the victim's body, pervades his psyche, and possesses his mind. Deprived of contact with others and starved for human interactions, the prey bonds with the predator. "Traumatic bonding", akin to the Stockholm Syndrome, is about hope and the search for meaning in the brutal and indifferent and nightmarish universe of the torture cell.The abuser becomes the black hole at the center of the victim's surrealistic galaxy, sucking in the sufferer's universal need for solace. The victim tries to "control" his tormentor by becoming one with him (introjecting him) and by appealing to the monster's presumably dormant humanity and empathy.This bonding is especially strong when the torturer and the tortured form a dyad and "collaborate" in the rituals and acts of torture (for instance, when the victim is coerced into selecting the torture implements and the types of torment to be inflicted, or to choose between two evils).The psychologist Shirley Spitz offers this powerful overview of the contradictory nature of torture in a seminar titled "The Psychology of Torture" (1989):"Torture is an obscenity in that it joins what is most private with what is most public. Torture entails all the isolation and extreme solitude of privacy with none of the usual security embodied therein... Torture entails at the same time all the self-exposure of the utterly public with none of its possibilities for camaraderie or shared experience. (The presence of an all powerful other with whom to merge, without the security of the other's benign intentions.)A further obscenity of torture is the inversion it makes of intimate human relationships. The interrogation is a form of social encounter in which the normal rules of communicating, of relating, of intimacy are manipulated. Dependency needs are elicited by the interrogator, but not so they may be met as in close relationships, but to weaken and confuse. Independence that is offered in return for 'betrayal' is a lie. Silence is intentionally misinterpreted either as confirmation of information or as guilt for 'complicity'.Torture combines complete humiliating exposure with utter devastating isolation. The final products and outcome of torture are a scarred and often shattered victim and an empty display of the fiction of power."Obsessed by endless ruminations, demented by pain and a continuum of sleeplessness – the victim regresses, shedding all but the most primitive defense mechanisms: splitting, narcissism, dissociation, Projective Identification, introjection, and cognitive dissonance. The victim constructs an alternative world, often suffering from depersonalization and derealization, hallucinations, ideas of reference, delusions, and psychotic episodes.Sometimes the victim comes to crave pain – very much as self-mutilators do – because it is a proof and a reminder of his individuated existence otherwise blurred by the incessant torture. Pain shields the sufferer from disintegration and capitulation. It preserves the veracity of his unthinkable and unspeakable experiences.This dual process of the victim's alienation and addiction to anguish complements the perpetrator's view of his quarry as "inhuman", or "subhuman". The torturer assumes the position of the sole authority, the exclusive fount of meaning and interpretation, the source of both evil and good.Torture is about reprogramming the victim to succumb to an alternative exegesis of the world, proffered by the abuser. It is an act of deep, indelible, traumatic indoctrination. The abused also swallows whole and assimilates the torturer's negative view of him and often, as a result, is rendered suicidal, self-destructive, or self-defeating.Thus, torture has no cut-off date. The sounds, the voices, the smells, the sensations reverberate long after the episode has ended – both in nightmares and in waking moments. The victim's ability to trust other people – i.e., to assume that their motives are at least rational, if not necessarily benign – has been irrevocably undermined. Social institutions are perceived as precariously poised on the verge of an ominous, Kafkaesque mutation. Nothing is either safe, or credible anymore.Victims typically react by undulating between emotional numbing and increased arousal: insomnia, irritability, restlessness, and attention deficits. Recollections of the traumatic events intrude in the form of dreams, night terrors, flashbacks, and distressing associations.The tortured develop compulsive rituals to fend off obsessive thoughts. Other psychological sequelae reported include cognitive impairment, reduced capacity to learn, memory disorders, sexual dysfunction, social withdrawal, inability to maintain long-term relationships, or even mere intimacy, phobias, ideas of reference and superstitions, delusions, hallucinations, psychotic microepisodes, and emotional flatness.

A letter from Sister Dianna Ortiz

Posted by SheriGrutz on July 18, 2009 at 1:48am

Dear President Obama,On November 2, 1989, I was burned with cigarettes more than 111 times. I was raped over and over again--and this was only the beginning.During the past few years, I have had ample reason to reflect on the life of an extraordinary man, Jean Amery, an Austrian philosopher who was tortured by the Nazis. I was first introduced to his writings shortly after my own torture in Guatemala. Like many who have survived this unspeakable horror, I emerged from that clandestine prison lost and broken--a body without a soul. Gone was the God to whom I had committed my life. Gone was trust, the very idea of justice betrayed. Gone was all that I had believed in. Everything that defined me as a human being ceased to exist.Amery's words, odd as this may seem, brought some comfort: "Anyone who has been tortured remains tortured." "Anyone who has suffered torture never again will be at ease in the world...faith in humanity, already cracked by the first slap in the face, then demolished by torture, is never acquired again."These words seemed written just for me. Somehow, somewhere on this earth was another person who understood what I had learned at the cruel hands of my torturers. For a moment at least, it gave me peace of mind. It was only years later that I would understand the fundamental meaning of Amery's words: "Anyone who has suffered torture, never again will be at ease in the world." And it was years after this understanding that I would learn that Jean Amery had killed himself.Mr. President, from anonymous graves, voices still cry out. From clandestine prisons, in the midst of indescribable pain, we, my sisters and brothers, beg you to hear. Will you listen to what we alone know of this crime against humanity--what we know from the inside out?Please hear us! Torture does not end with the release from some clandestine prison. It is not something we "get over." Simply, "looking forward" is not an option for us. Torture is a permanent invasion of our minds and our souls. Surviving is far worse that the actual physical torture itself. Those wounds heal in time--but the memories cling to us. Psychological torture is time without end. No one fully recovers from torture. The damage can never be undone.What is our claim to speak with authority on this subject? We have been beaten, hanged by wrists, arms, or legs, burned by electrical devices or cigarettes, bitten by humans and dogs, cut or stabbed with knives or machetes. And this is only a sample of what has been done to us. Each mark, visible or invisible, is a permanent reminder of what was done to us--a reminder that in so many cases fills us with embarrassment and even shame. What a cruel irony that it is the tortured one and not the torturer who feels shame.And what an irony it is that today in the United States, the tortured so often are told that what they experienced was not even cruel and unusual, let alone torture. What an irony that those who oppose torture, oppose the violation of U.S law by acts of non-violent civil resistance can be sent to prison while those who ordered this brutality walk free, receiving the de facto impunity implied in your call to "look forward" and only forward.Mr. President, there is ample reason to believe that important members of the previous administration may well have violated the law. Is it not your responsibility and that of the Attorney General to investigate that possibility? And if the law was violated, is it not your responsibility to hold perpetrators accountable, no matter how exalted their previous positions?We who have paid the dreadful price of torture beseech you to determine just what happened to law and morality during the past eight years and to make those findings public. It is only by an independent investigation that we will learn the truth, and, if that investigation warrants, it will be by prosecution that we may hold to account those who violated the law and despoiled our national honor. Getting things right in the future depends on knowing what went wrong in the past. You know this when it comes to the economy. You know this when it comes to a health care system. How can you not know it when it comes to human rights?Mr. President, on behalf of those who know this cruel subject so well, I ask you to act in service to the truth and to the principle that no matter how high the position held nor how much power accrues to it, its incumbent must be held accountable to the law. As I hope you will agree, sir, to do less is to betray the very idea of justice.Thank you for reading my letter

NAACP USING CELL PHONES TO FIGHT RACISM STUMBLE, HOUSTON COMPUTER ADMINISTRATOR PRISON HACKING COMPUTER, CONGRESSIONAL VOTES LISTS, TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

Posted by Metric Clay on July 17, 2009 at 6:55am

July 14, 2009Your request is being processed...This is the print preview: Back to normal view »NAACP Using Cell Phones To Fight Racismdigg Share this on Facebook Huffpost - NAACP Using Cell Phones To Fight Racism stumble reddit del.ico.us ShareThis RSShttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/naacp-using-cell-phones-t_n_230984.html?view=printDEEPTI HAJELA | July 13, 2009 04:05 PM EST | APCompare other versions »Compare and versionsI Like ItI Don’t Like ItRead More: Naacp, NAACP And Technology, NAACP Anti-Racism Program, NewsParticipants in the 100th annual NAACP Convention cheer and hold signs during a speech in New York, Monday, July 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)NEW YORK — Combining its century-old mission of fighting for equality with the instantaneous reach of modern-day technology, the NAACP has launched a program that lets people use their cell phones to report incidents of police misconduct.The "rapid response system" was officially launched Monday as part of the annual convention for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This year, the organization is marking the centennial of its founding in New York City in 1909.The system allows people who capture photos or video of incidents of alleged police misconduct on their cell phones to send it through a Web browser to the organization or upload it through a computer. A form will then be transmitted to the sender, who can use it to provide more information about an incident."Technology has basically put a video camera in the pocket of every child in this country over the age of 12 and most grown-ups as well," said Benjamin Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP.He said the information gathered would be used in several ways. Some video could be used immediately, to present footage for a situation the organization wants to highlight. Another purpose would be to compile a database of incidents that could show a history of discriminatory patterns and practices in particular law enforcement jurisdictions _ information the group could take to the Justice Department.The head of the Justice Department, Attorney General Eric Holder, praised the NAACP's dedication to championing equality but acknowledged the work left to be done."We must resist the temptation to conclude that our nation has fulfilled its promise of equality based on one moment or on one election," he said, in reference to Barack Obama being elected president."The efforts to harmonize our laws with our best ideals is not yet done," he said.Monique Morris, the group's vice president of advocacy and research, said the ease of reporting an incident will help give a clearer picture of the prevalence of misconduct."What this database will provide is a more accurate account in real time of what's happening in our communities," she said.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, July 15, 2009WWW.USDOJ.GOVCRM(202) 514-2007TDD (202) 514-1888http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/July/09-crm-684.htmlHouston Computer Administrator Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Hacking Former Employer’s Computer NetworkThe former director of information technology for a non-profit organ and tissue donation center was sentenced today to two years in prison for hacking into her former employer’s computer network.Danielle Duann, 51, of Houston, pleaded guilty on April 30, 2009, to a one-count criminal indictment charging her with unauthorized computer access. Duann was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David Hittner in the Southern District of Texas. In addition to the two-year prison term, Judge Hittner sentenced Duann to a three-year period of supervised release following completion of her prison sentence, and ordered her to pay $94,222 in restitution to compensate her former employer for the damage that resulted from her actions.In pleading guilty, Duann admitted to illegally accessing the computer network of LifeGift Organ Donation Center and then intentionally deleting organ donation database records, accounting invoice files, database and accounting software applications and various backup files, without authorization. LifeGift is the sole provider of organ procurement services for more than 200 hospitals throughout 109 counties in North, Southeast and West Texas.According to court documents, LifeGift terminated Duann from her position as their director of information technology on Nov. 7, 2005, and revoked all of her previous administrative rights and access to the LifeGift computer network. In pleading guilty, Duann admitted that beginning on the evening of Nov. 7, 2005, and continuing until Nov. 8, 2005, she repeatedly gained unauthorized access to the LifeGift computer network via a remote connection from her home and intentionally caused damage by deleting numerous database files and software applications, as well as their backups, related to LifeGift’s organ and tissue recovery operations.Duann further admitted that in an attempt to conceal her activities, she disabled the computer logging functions on several LifeGift computer servers and erased the computer logs that recorded her remote access to the LifeGift networkThis case was investigated by the FBI and is being jointly prosecuted by Trial Attorney Thomas Dukes of the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Bret W. Davis of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas.###09-684presented by:Brain Injury Association of AmericaJuly 14, 2009In this MegaVote for Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District:http://capwiz.com/bia/issues/votes/?votenum=217&chamber=S&congress=1111Recent Congressional Votes -* Senate: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010* Senate: Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010* House: Enhancing Small Business Research and Innovation Act* House: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010* House: Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriation, 2010* House: Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2010Upcoming Congressional Bills -* Senate: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010* House: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010* House: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2010Recent Senate VotesLegislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010 - Vote Passed (67-25, 7 Not Voting)The Senate passed this $3.1 billion bill to fund the legislative branch, which includes a provision to post Senate expenses online for the public to access.Sen. Thad Cochran voted YES......send e-mail or see bioSen. Roger Wicker voted YES......send e-mail or see bioDepartment of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010 - Vote Passed (84-6, 10 Not Voting)On Thursday, the Senate passed this $42.9 billion bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for Fiscal Year 2010, which includes a provision requiring at least 700 miles of a border fence with Mexico be completed by 2010.Sen. Thad Cochran voted YES......send e-mail or see bioSen. Roger Wicker voted YES......send e-mail or see bioRecent House VotesEnhancing Small Business Research and Innovation Act - Vote Passed (386-41, 5 Not Voting)On Wednesday, the House voted to reauthorize two federal programs that provide research and development grants to entrepreneurs.Rep. Gregg Harper voted YES......send e-mail or see bioAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - Vote Passed (266-160, 6 Not Voting)The House approved this $123.8 billion bill to fund the USDA, FDA and other related agencies and programs.Rep. Gregg Harper voted YES......send e-mail or see bioDepartment of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriation, 2010 - Vote Passed (318-106, 8 Not Voting)This $48.8 billion bill funding the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for Fiscal Year 2010 was passed on Thursday.Rep. Gregg Harper voted YES......send e-mail or see bioMilitary Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2010 - Vote Passed (415-3, 14 Not Voting)The House passed this $133.7 billion bill funding veterans programs and military construction.Rep. Gregg Harper voted YES......send e-mail or see bioUpcoming VotesNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 - S.1390The Senate is scheduled to work on this bill to set funding levels for the military and authorize Department of Defense programs.Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - H.R.___The House is scheduled to vote on this bill funding the Department of Energy, Army Corps of Engineers and related agencies and programs.Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2010 - H.R.3170The House is expected to vote on this bill funding the Treasury Department, the executive branch, the judicial branch, the District of Columbia and independent agencies."We must acknowledge the great lapse in moral judgment that allowed [the Transatlantic Slave Trade] to happen. We must urge present and future generations to avoid repeating history. We must acknowledge the contributions that enslaved Africans made to civilization. And countries that prospered from the slave trade must examine the origins of present-day social inequality and work to unravel mistrust between communities. Above all, even as we mourn the atrocities committed against the countless victims, we take heart from the courage of slaves who rose up to overcome the system which oppressed them."Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonListen to the Drumbeat (Video)http://www.un.org/en/slavery/#videoBROADCAST QUALITY DOWNLOAD (MPEG-2 with 8 MBPS)The three-minute video invites viewers to organize events on 25 March in Commemoration of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It moves across cultures to show how the trade has influenced countries and artistic genres all over the world. A big bang on a drum symbolizes the beginning of the trade. From that point, we follow the dances and polyphonic rhythms of the African continent to a range of musics and dances in the Americas. From cow bells to talking drums, from mystic drums to candomblé, from ngoni to berimbau, the fighting and mystic spirit of drums accompanied enslaved black people everywhere, and the dance moves and sounds have remained almost intact. In Asia, in the Americas, in the Middle East, in Europe, rituals of African slaves and their soulful drumming touched all civilizations.With salsa, rumba, blues, jazz, rock and roll, hip hop, and fusion but also Asian drumming, qawwali and ghazals, drums were never silenced. They brought the capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian art form that makes a ritual of movements from martial arts marked by fluid acrobatic play and feints.The drum beat, slow and fast at times like a West African tempo from the Gold Coast, sad or joyful from tango to meringue, remains consistent in its universal appeal. Indeed, drums continue to carry to men and women of all color and creed a message that all understand: it is the soothing or haunting sound of freedom, even when journeys are harsh or long. Everywhere, drums give birth to a simple truth: every time you beat the drum, you break the silence.

From Don- A former Intelligence community worker working for Science Applications International Corporation

Posted by ron on July 16, 2009 at 6:26am

From Don- A former Intelligence community worker working for Science Applications International CorporationThere's more going on here than people know; Josef Mengele still lives :(http://www.theominousparallels.blogspot.com/The Ominous Parallels ReportThe Ominous Parallels is a web site that discusses how The United States government uses organized Harassment and Torture perpetrated by the National Security Agency [NSA], Science Application International Corporation [SAIC] and other government agency's using Military grade Psychological Operations and Direct Energy Weapons against United States citizens, and other countries citizens from around the world.http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/expose_2007/episode204/watch.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7238049 http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=science_applications_international_corporation_(saic)As a former Intelligence community worker working for Science Applications International Corporation I've come under covert-overt attack by the National Security Apparatus for whistle-blowing that the office I worked in located at Dulles, VA right beside the airport for Science Applications International Corporation was empty on the morning of the 11th of September 2001.Since leaving Science Applications International Corporation I've been under constant surveillance, constant harassment by the U.S. Government, its agency's and Science Application International Corporation.The Ominous Parallels website discusses the specifics concerning these covert types of harassment - active measures that I've been exposed to and have experienced; moreover, the specifics of how these operations work.For emphasis, this includes methodologies of psychological torture via direct energy weapons and covert operations. Philippe Sands book titled "The Torture Team" is profound as it speaks to these methodologies that I have experienced as a TI.As a TI I know that the torture at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are a "by-product" of something much more sinister that is going on in our world. My hope is that one day these programs will be exposed and to that end The Ominous Parallels website seeks to educate the public about these kinds of weapons, operations, players and the effect it is having on our world.More important is how the inhumane actions of our government parallels that of Nazi Germany between 1933 - 1945.This is REAL; TIs need some kind of safe haven!Love "Light" and Energy_Donhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/13743356/CoVeR-lEtTeR-the-OmInOuS-Parallels http://www.scribd.com/doc/13743550/The-OmInOuS-Parallels [Read with discernment]http://www.scribd.com/doc/13743647/NeWs-SiNcE-rEpOrT-rElEaSei

They want us to remember

Posted by SheriGrutz on July 16, 2009 at 1:24am

We give them bits and pieces of our past in our memories, our dreamsand with what we tell others, and they need this information to form acomposite of picture of us as criminals, or as sex slaves, any way to frameus over and over again to justify and satisfy their need to know, which is why theDJ yesterday said, “We have some bush coming up...and who doesn’tlike a new bush?” This is a reference to what a drunk man said to mewhen I was 13 years old and they want to know if I did anything sexuallywith him or if anything happened with the kids I was babysitting for, theywant to reframe the scene of the crime, and to do this, they drop commentsor suggestions that will get me thinking along those terms. They areworking for the government, these reporters and DJ’s, because thegovernment are the main players in wanting us to remember, or, forinstance, they want to create a sex slave in me, so they will use all kindsof moments from the past that I’m supposed to draw up as reference andas definition of who I am, so that I accept the plans they have for me.The goal at all times is to use our own minds to control us, to seek waysin which they use dreams, memories, emotions, thoughts, voices, anythingthat can be turned on us in a way of creating the scenario they are lookingfor.

Woody Guthrie's Birthday, Bastille Day- July 14th

Posted by Citizens That Know on July 15, 2009 at 12:30pm

A nice website dedicated to Woody Guthrie, the American folk legend. A great song writer. Very prolific. Some of his lyrics were set to contemporary music recently on a CD 'Wonderwheel'.Woody Guthrie.orgPhotos show his anti-fascist sentiment. Why are we still fighting fascists? It's because it's a social system arranged around psychological disorder, not a political philosophy. It will and has had many faces. We have not been looking at the correct issue. This is the basis for Citizens That Know.

A 'tweeter' following Citizens That Know, involved in spy games or a spy?

Posted by Citizens That Know on July 15, 2009 at 3:00am

I thought this person may be one of many posters on tweeter that seem to be engaged in playing a 'spy game'. Are they playing, training, professional or perpetrating? I sincerely do not know. Just learned of it.Posts on 'black bagging', low altitude satellites, 'The Encyclopedia of Espionage', etc.Here is the RSS feed for the person w/CIA avatar and username, 'onemorespy'-http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/56553569.rss

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