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	Mayor Mary Manross on Scottsdale's Photo Enforcement Program In the space of 2 years, the accident rate on Scottsdale's Loop 101 Freeway more than doubled. So in January 2006, with the cooperation of the State of Arizona, Scottsdale began a nine-month demonstration program using fixed speed enforcement cameras on the portion of the Loop 101 Freeway within the city limits. The city completed the initial phase of the demonstration project in October 2006, covered the cameras, but continued to collect data on the speed of traffic when cameras were not in use. A preliminary report issued by Dr. Simon Washington of Arizona State University showed that the cameras had lowered average speeds and dramatically reduced the overall number and severity of collisions. Following the report, the city asked Gov. Janet Napolitano to allow the state of assume control of the program. The Governor responded that the state needed additional time to determine how a statewide photo enforcement program would work, and she asked Scottsdale to resume photo enforcement on the Loop 101 until June 30. The City Council agreed, and the program was reactivated in February of 2007. The city has since transferred administration of the program to DPS. On Nov. 15th, 2007, the Arizona Department of Public Safety unveiled a new, statewide photo enforcement program which claims to be the first statewide program in the country. The program would only affect traffic enforcement on Arizona highways -- not on surface roads through the state's cities and towns.
	Ortega Highway Construction The 3 year nightmare. What is the Ortega Highway Safety Improvement Project? Ortega Highway, was constructed in the 1930's for recreational purposes, primarily to provide access to beaches in Orange County, Lake Elsinore, and various recreational areas in the Cleveland National Forest. Ortega Highway is a two-lane mountainous road with curves and steep slopes, and runs parallel to San Juan Creek. In the early 1930s, Ortega Highway carried about 200 vehicles per day. Today, with the growth of urban centers, it carries an increasing number of commuters and truck traffic averaging10,000 vehicles per day. Project Goal: • To improve roadway safety and highway drainage Project Area: Improved Sight Visibility Caltrans Ortega Highway Safety Improvement Project will take place on a three-mile section from San Juan Hot Springs and the Orange County line. This stretch of road has a section of narrow lanes, limited turn-out areas and high accident rates. Project Features • Adding 4-foot shoulders to each side of the Highway • Adding safety enhancements to reduce road closures due to rock slides • Place rumble strips in the median • Improving motorists sight distances by removing protruding rock walls • Widening the existing 10-foot lanes to standard 12-foot lanes • Improving drainage facilities into San Juan Creek • Improve turnouts and add two new turnouts, one in each direction Status: Construction is expected to begin in February 2007 and is anticipated to last 3 years. Funding Source: Project is funded by the State Highway Operation Protection Program. Construction cost is $40 million. Project Partners: Federal Highway Administration, United States Forest Service and California Highway Patrol Why is this project necessary? Safety is Caltrans number one priority. The goal is to reduce accidents and to save lives. The project will improve sight distance, and provide more room for motorists to safely maneuver within the project area. What will happen to traffic during construction? Full closures will take place during nighttime hours of 8:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. Ortega Highway will be reduced to one lane for the duration of the project within the project area. During the day, flagging operations will be in place and priority will be given to westbound morning commute traffic and eastbound evening commute traffic. Motorists should expect long delays and are encouraged to use alternate routes. The Ortega Highway Safety Improvement Project will target a three-mile section between San Juan Hot Springs and the Orange County line. Public Outreach: Caltrans has a comprehensive public outreach planned to keep motorists, residents, businesses and elected officials informed about this project. Community Open Houses will be scheduled in February for both Lake Elsinore and San Juan Capistrano. In addition, briefings and speaking engagements are available to provide interested groups with schedules, traffic management efforts and updates on construction activities. Contact Information: Department of Transportation, District 12 3337 Michelson Drive, Suite 380, Irvine, CA 92612-8894 PHONE (949) 724-2000 FAX (949) 724-2030 For more information about the project scope of work, please contact the toll free Orange County Transportation Helpline at (800) 724-0353 or log onto the caltrans website at: http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist12
	Texas State Technical College STARS www.tstc.edu Come discover Texas State Technical College! TSTC offers more than 100 advanced technical AAS degree programs and certificates throughout Texas and online. Programs, courses, and customized workforce training are available in IT and telecommunications, agriculture, engineering and manufacturing, health and sciences, business, commerce and service, and transportation and aviation. Discover TSTC and discover yourself. When you discover Texas State Technical Colleges, you make a discovery that can positively impact the very future of your life. With TSTC, you can discover a quick route to a great career, high quality education and high salaries, excellent faculty and small classes, hands-on real world training, and job opportunities. Discover TSTC and discover possibilities previously unrealized. TSTC can change your future. Discover Your Career in Agriculture! According to the American Farm Bureau, agriculture generates approximately 22 million jobs in the United States and most of these are located off the farm. Today's science-based agriculture careers include aquaculture, the cultivation of water plants and the harvest of aquatic animals for human use; and turf management, the design and maintenance of turf grass, golf course, landscape and plant management. You have choices. Texas State Technical Colleges offers a associate's degree or certificates to prepare you for careers in Agriculture and Golf Course & Landscape Management. Discover Your Career in IT & Telecommunications! As American businesses position themselves to compete in the global economy, the need for high-speed communication systems increases. Today, new communication systems must transmit and share information instantaneously and often over long distances. Computers and telecommunication devices are the cornerstones of new communication systems. Whether it is programming the computer, networking computers, video teleconferencing, designing publications, interactive videos or Web pages, TSTC can teach you the skills that keep the world connected. You have choices. Texas State Technical Colleges offers a associate's degree or certificates to prepare you for careers in Advertising Design & Print,Business/Office Systems, Computer Hardware Systems, Computer Programming & Software Engineering, Computer Systems Desktop Support, Digital Media & Design, Game Design & Development, Geographic Information Systems, Home Technology Integration, Media Communications & Information, Network Security, Networking & Systems Administration, Telecommunications, and Web Development/e-Commerce. Discover Your Career in Engineering & Manufacturing! Engineering and manufacturing are the backbone of America's workforce and development. 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TSTC has the health and science programs that can provide you with the skills you need so you can complete your education and enter the field fast. Texas State Technical Colleges offers a associate's degree or certificates to prepare you for careers in Biomedical Equipment, Chemical/Environmental, Dental Assistant, Dental Hygiene, Dental Laboratory, Emergency Medical, Environmental Health & Safety, Health Information, Medical Assistant, Medical Information Specialist/Transcriptionist, Nurse Assistant, Pharmacy Technician, RN Nursing Preparatory, Surgical Technology, and Vocational Nursing. Discover Your Career in Business, Commerce & Service! In today's fast-paced business climate, companies must move quickly and have skilled, well-trained professionals that can keep them running smoothly. If you would like to work in a career field with exciting opportunities and rewarding challenges, then consider a career in business, commerce or service. You have choices. With a certificate or associate's degree from TSTC, you can gain the real technical skills needed today. Texas State Technical Colleges offers a associate's degree or certificates to prepare you for careers in Advertising Design & Print, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration, Business/Office Systems, Construction, Food Service/Culinary Arts, Golf Course & Landscape Management, Media Communications & Information, Professional Office Operations, and Teacher Assistant. Discover Your Career in Transportation & Aviation! Without an efficient system to transport goods and services, the U.S. economy would grind to a halt. Our transportation system gives us a higher quality of life and makes possible the modern systems of manufacturing and commerce. And, whether traveling the highways or the airways, we all rely on a safe and efficient transportation system. Today's systems are technically advanced and require skilled technicians to keep them operating smoothly. You have choices. 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	Sarbazan Youth Monarchist Youth Monarchy in Iran Dear Senator John McCain: I have no doubt that you are aware the cleric regime in Iran is incompetent to govern Iran and ignoring the current affairs of international politics, as well as, economic issues. Also, the cleric regime is ignoring especial economic needs of Iranian people. Interestingly, the cleric regime in Iran without any kind of hesitation and publicly is spreading fanatic Islamic values to peaceful nations by using coercive method which has threaten safety and security of other nations. The cleric regime has relied on terrorist entities as a tool to create chaos. The cleric regime is in process of enriching uranium to make nuclear bombs with intention of black mailing regional nations and causing chaos in stability of Middle East. Despite all difficulties that Iranian people are enduring in Iran, Iranian people are peaceful loving and friends of Republican Party. Particularly, it was evident, after 9/11 fiasco, Iranian people hold vigil at night and were holding candles in solidarity with American people and shared their pain. It has been very long time since Iranian people, especially youth generation, endeavoring to establish a democratic state in Iran. Most importantly, from time, President George BUSH took in office; he boosted morale of Iranian people to work harder for freedom of Iran. Subsequently, Iranian people inside of Iran and outside of Iran have made bridge with each other to work toward liberation of Iran. Sarbazan Youth Monarchist Youth Monarchy in Iran is following command of His Majesty Crown Prince Reza PAHLAVI Heir to Throne of Iran and with assistance of Madam Shirin NESHAT daughter of belated Major-General Ali NESHAT from an elite infantry unit of Immortal Guard to use civil disobedience to topple the current state and to form a state with consent and will of Iranian people which is moving Iran toward democracy, peace and prosperity. Sarbazan Youth Monarchist Youth Monarchy in Iran requires assistance of politicians who want to help Iranian to move Iran toward peace please. The cleric regime is using oil revenue toward harboring terrorism by providing terrorist training to terrorist agents in Iran under disguise of religion. Than, the cleric regime is deploying their terrorist agents to the neighboring nations like Iraq and Afghanistan in order to cause chaos. Consequently, the cleric regime in this proxy war is under minding the US and has threatened the US interest in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have no doubt that the US administration prefer a secular state is formed in Iran which is respecting rule of law and a political party is forming a government with consent of Iranian people and their agenda refrains from engaging in any kind of terrorist activities. Since, the US administration and Iranian people have one common goal; it would be wise, as well as, beneficial for the US administration to hold hands with Iranian people in order to prevent country like the cleric regime in Iran, Syria, and Lebanon to spread their diabolic agenda. Sarbazan Youth Monarchist Youth Monarchy in Iran is taking this golden moment and declares its solidarity with Senator John McCain, and looking forward for a moment when John McCain will be elected to President Office and John McCain with American people would help Sarbazan Youth Monarchist Youth Monarchy in Iran to liberate Iran form hands of an illegitimate state in Iran. Thank you, Kind regards Signed Sarbazan Youth Monarchist Youth Monarchy in Iran
	Mark S. Towers Operations Executive with over 29 years of broad management with functional expertise in: project management, safety, information systems, logistics, and training. Successful in maximizing operations utilizing diverse workforces in highly visible Domestic and International environments. Provided effective specialized engineering, scientific, and technical services to the Department of Defense, National Nuclear Security Administration, and Department of Energy. Operations and Program/Project Management Facilitated successful multidisciplinary strategic plan activities. Managed multiple projects simultaneously, delivered on time and under budget. Provided responsive technical consulting on complex projects. Created comprehensive and realistic project plans using Primavera Project Planner and Microsoft Project. Devised and modified procedures to solve the most complex technical problems related to computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time and form of desired results. Oversaw projects with budgets ranging from $ 1M to $ 5M. Served customers in the areas of test and evaluation, data management, and systems engineering and information technology. Experienced with DoD acquisition program management. Safety Management Recognized authority in Safety Management arena. Assured high explosive safety in accordance with the Department of Energy Explosives Safety Manual. Hazardous Material (HAZMAT) Subject Matter Expert (SME). Implemented OSHA General Industry and Construction Regulations. Attained over 5 Million Safe Work Hours with no reportable incidents. Logistics Management Created detailed specifications from which programs were written. Led Petroleum Distribution Organizations and Laboratory activities, both in the field and in garrison, with distinction. Formulated systems scope and objectives integrating logistical organization business plans and industry requirements. Significantly improved supply chain management processes. Recognized Life Cycle and Acquisition Program Management Expert. Led productive Procurement Planning Processes. Developed requirements, test, and evaluation plans. Cited for developing testable and valid program requirements. Training Management Effectively trained organizations through professional skills development programs. Innovated multi-craft Nuclear Plant Crews Development Plans. Mentored selected United States Army commissioned officers negotiating professional management development programs as a United States Army Combined Arms Services Support Systems Staff Group Leader for 2 years. Successfully met State of New Mexico higher education accreditation requirements and taught professional licensing courses.
	Blast rocks quiet Easton neighborhood The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass. www.enterprisenews.com Story published Sept. 11, 2007 Blast rocks quiet Easton neighborhood By Vicki-Ann Downing ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER EASTON — Keith Muise was just opening a can of paint in a house on Jenny Lind Street on Monday morning when he saw a yellow flash and heard an explosion that rocked the building and knocked out the windows around him. Muise ran outside. Next door, the white house at 39 Jenny Lind St., at the corner of Seaver Street, lay in ruins. It looked like the first floor had exploded and the rest of the house had fallen on top of it, said Muise, 39. One young man, a student at Stonehill College, was lying on the grass, Muise said. Two others were crawling out of the rubble. They wanted to go back inside to search for belongings, Muise said. He joined others in pushing the students to safety minutes before a second explosion resounded and caused the ruined house to burst into flames. "I can't believe those kids were able to crawl out of there the way they did," a shaken Muise said. "I was amazed. No one went in there (to rescue them). There wasn't time for anybody to get in there." The blast, at 11:09 a.m., was felt for blocks. It destroyed a rental house owned by Robert and Jennifer Lincoln of Seaver Street and sent seven people, including four Stonehill students, two gas company workers and a police officer working a private detail, to area hospitals. Bob Hennessey, 50, of Hanson, a contractor working at a house across Seaver Street, reported hearing "a big whoosh" before the explosion. "I just ran down the driveway yelling, 'There's kids in there,'" Hennessey said. "I was so worried because I saw people dropping their kids off at that house on Labor Day weekend. I thought we had a major tragedy on our hands." At the back of the ruined house, Hennessey saw a fourth student trapped amid debris and helped to pull him out, he said. Moments later, a second explosion ignited a fire that sent curls of burning material throughout the thickly settled neighborhood, located behind Immaculate Conception Church in North Easton. Police Chief Thomas F. Kominsky said he arrived five minutes after the explosion and found the scene so hot he could not get within 150 feet of it. "It really is a miracle" the students survived, said the Rev. John Denning, vice president for student affairs at Stonehill, who surveyed the scene Monday with Stonehill President Mark T. Cregan. Injured were Matthew Tarulli, 19, a junior football player from Saddle Brook, N.J.; Nick Balsamo, 21, and Daniel Kavanaugh, 21, both of Wallingford, Conn.; and John Hurley, 21, whose hometown could not be determined. Balsamo, Kavanaugh and Hurley were released Monday afternoon after treatment at Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton. Tarulli was admitted to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, but expected to be released by today, said Cregan, who visited him. Two other students who also rented the four-bedroom apartment house were on campus when the explosion occurred. One, Rob Gilbreth, 20, a junior from Franklin, N.H., who returned to the scene, said the students lost everything, including thousands of dollars in clothing and two plasma televisions. The college was working to find housing for the students and to provide them with stipends to buy needed items. Don DiNunno, a spokesman for Bay State Gas. Co., said the work on Seaver Street was part of "an aggressive program" to replace older gas mains. Crews have been replacing lines in Easton all summer. On Monday morning, four workers from a Bay State Gas Co. subcontractor were on Seaver Street, tying the new main into each home, including the one that exploded, DiNunno said. A Bay State Gas Co. employee was also moving the home's gas meter from the basement to the outdoors, DiNunno said. Both the Bay State Gas employee and a subcontractor working in the trench were injured, said DiNunno, who did not provide their names. The subcontractor was believed to be at a Boston hospital. DiNunno said the cause of the explosion will not be known until investigators from the state Fire Marshal's office, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and local officials complete their review. Two police officers were injured, said Kominsky. Leonard Coe, who was working a paid detail for Bay State Gas, eventually was sent to the hospital for treatment, Kominsky said. The other, Lonnie Ataman, was injured when responding.
	20080416 Mikulski slams White House over DOJ COPS funding [Postscript: By way of the wonders of technology -- the visual and the audio are not well synched. And perhaps that is prophetic -- as upset as Senator Mikulski is in this clip. Listen to the words -- smile at the out of synch technology...] During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on April 16, 2008, Maryland Democrat Senator Barbara Mikulski gave White House budget director Jim Nussle a piece of her mind over the Bush administration's lack of funding for Department of Justice domestic law enforcement programs... Hat TIP: "Think Progress" and "Amanda." Transcript: MIKULSKI: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you very much for calling this hearing. I think it's the essential thing we need to do. Mr. Nussle, I've got to tell you, I'm really disappointed in your testimony. It's been some time that I have heard the kind of tone that has been expressed by a representative of the Bush administration. Your testimony has been disappointing in both tone and substance. I personally take offense at the snarky, scolding, dismissive way that this testimony represents. And I think it's inappropriate. [...] This is an ideological commentary, not the testimony of OMB. So since you're pugnacious, guess what? I'm going to be pretty pugnacious, too, only my pugnaciousness is not going to be directed at the Congress. It's going to be pugnacious about the people I represent. So let's get to it. Pugnacious? You bet. Let's pick up on what Leahy and Harkin said about the Byrne grant. You want the regular order? I am the regular order. I chair CJS. And what this administration has done here has been outrageous. Number one, let's go to safety and security. We have funded the surge of Baghdad, but we have not funded the surge of violent crime in Baltimore, Biloxi, or other places. You have zeroed out the COPS program. You have zeroed out the Byrne grant. When Shelby and Mikulski tried to do something last year in the regular budget, we were told, Eat $3 billion or face a veto threat. So we foraged and we skimped and we squeezed in to be able to make sure that our bill didn't get a veto threat, and we came up with $170 million. You can talk about all your smokestacks and whatever, but you bet there's smoke. There's smoke right here and now, and there is frustration from state and local police officers that say they need help. They need help. And this administration has funded $5 billion over the last couple of years to fund the training of Iraqi police. You bet they need training. But I am telling you, I need the money, Senator Shelby and I need the money to make sure that our local law enforcement, the thin blue line, gets the money that they need to fight violent crime. So I'm going to ask in plain English: If, in fact, we (inaudible) the supplemental, restore the Byrne grants and only the Byrne grants to the needed level of $560 million, will you support it or will we face a veto threat? NUSSLE: Well, Senator, I can only repeat what the president has said. MIKULSKI: The president didn't say anything about this. You think if I went to see the president, he would say, No ? NUSSLE: Senator, I can only repeat what the president said. And his two priorities that he stated were that the bill stay within the $108.1 billion request and that it support the troops. That's what he has said on the topic. Beyond that, I don't believe he has — I think the senator is correct — not spoken directly to those issues. But I also believe that the regular appropriations process is the time and the place to deal with those challenges. And... MIKULSKI: But you eliminated it. You eliminated the COPS program, and you eliminated the Byrne grant program in your regular appropriations request. So you're saying, Don't fund it in the supplemental. The president doesn't request it in the regular order. And now you're telling me you can't accept it in the supplemental because the president didn't talk about it. And when you sent us the CJS president's request, it's not in there for '09. [...] Mr. Chairman, with your cooperation, I hope that we do and fund it. If we're talking about a safe and secure America, I want to make sure the streets of the United States of America are safe and secure. And I will work on a bipartisan basis to do it. BYRD: Senator Murray? MURRAY: Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for having this hearing. And, Mr. Nussle, I share the anger, frustration, I guess pugnaciousness of the senator from Maryland. It is extremely disturbing to me that we are getting an emergency supplemental request for Iraq and Afghanistan five-and-a-half years into this war that's being paid for off the books.
	Pinoy Memories 36 Pinoy Memories - Philippine President Marcos explains his "New Society" plan for the ordinary Filipino since declaring Martial Law through-out the nation on September 21, 1972. Martial law and the New Society: Proclamation of martial law - The spate of bombings and subversive activities led President Marcos to declare that "there is throughout the land a state of anarchy and lawlessness, chaos and disorder, turmoil and destruction of a magnitude equivalent to an actual war between the forces of our duly constituted government and the New People's Army and their satellite organizations...and that public order and safety and security of the nation demand that immediate, swift, decisive and effective action be taken to protect and insure the peace, order and security of the country and its population and to maintain the authority of the government." On September 21, 1972 President Marcos issued Presidential Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under martial law but it was announced only two days later. In proclaiming martial law, President Marcos assured the public that "the proclamation of martial law is not a military takeover" and that civilian government still functions. Initial measures - In his first address to the nation after issuing Proclamation No. 1081, President Marcos said that martial law has two objectives: (1) to save the republic, and (2) to "reform the social, economic and political institutions in our country." In accordance with the two objectives, President Marcos issued general orders and letters of instruction to that effect: General Order No. 1 -- The President proclaimed that he should govern the nation and direct the operations of the Government, including all its agencies and instrumentalities, as Commander-in-Chief of all the armed forces of the Philippines; General Order No. 2 -- The President directed the Secretary of National Defense to arrest or cause the arrest and take into his custody the individuals named in the attached list and to hold them until otherwise so ordered by the President or by his duly designated representative, as well as to arrest or cause the arrest and take into his custody and to hold them otherwise ordered released by him or by his duly authorized representative such persons who may have committed crimes described in the Order; General Order No.3 -- The President ordered that all executive departments, bureaus, offices, agencies and instrumentalities of the National Government, government owned or controlled corporations, as well all governments of all the provinces, cities, municipalities and barrios should continue to function under their present officers and employees, until otherwise ordered by the President or by his duly designated representatives. The President further ordered that the Judiciary should continue to function in accordance with its present organization and personnel, and should try and decide in accordance with existing laws all criminal and civil cases, except certain cases enumerated in the Order. General Order No. 4 -- The President ordered that a curfew be maintained and enforced throughout the Philippines from twelve o'clock midnight until four o'clock in the morning. General Order No. 5 -- All rallies, demonstrations and other forms of group actions including strikes and picketing in vital industries such as in companies engaged in manufacture or processing as well as in production or processing of essential commodities or products for exports, and in companies engaged in banking of any kind, as well as in hospitals and in schools and colleges are prohibited. General Order No. 6 -- No person shall keep, possess or carry outside of his residence any firearm unless such person is duly authorized to keep, possess or carry any such firearm. Letter of Instruction No. 1 -- The President ordered the Press Secretary and the Secretary of National Defense to take over and control or cause the taking over and control of newspapers, magazines, radio and television facilities and all other media of communications for the duration of the national emergency. Letter of Instruction No. 2 -- The President ordered the Secretary of National Defense to take over the management, control and operation of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco), the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), the National Waterworks and Sewerage Authority (Nawasa), the Philippine National Railways (PNR), the Philippine Airlines, Air Manila, Filipinas Orient Airways, and other public utilities. Letter of Instruction No. 3 -- The President ordered the Secretary of National Defense to take over the possession, control, operation of all privately owned aircraft and watercraft of whatever make bearing Philippine registry and to keep such under his custody for the duration of national emergency or until otherwise ordered by the President. Letter of Instruction No. 4 -- The President ordered the Secretary of Foreign Affairs not to issue travel papers such as passports and other like documents to any citizens of the Philippines except to those who are being sent abroad in the service of the Philippines. Letter of Instruction No. 5 -- The President ordered the Secretary of Justice and all subordinate officials under him not to issue any police or immigration clearance to any citizen of the Philippines who may wish to depart for other country. Letter of Instruction No. 6 -- The President ordered the Secretary of Finance and all subordinate officials under him not to issue any tax clearance to any citizen of the Philippines who may wish to depart for other country. Pursuant to General Order No. 1, the following were arrested and detained by the military: Representatives Roque Ablan, Jr.(Ilocos Norte), Rafael Aquino (Sorsogon) and Rolando Puzon; Senators Benigno Aquino, Jr., Jose W. Diokno and Ramon Mitra; Governors Rolando Puzon (Kalinga-Apayao) and Lino Bocalan (Cavite); former Senator Francisco "Soc" Rodrigo; Con Con delegates Napoleon Rama, Enrique Voltaire Garcia, II, Teofisto Guingona, Jr., Bren Guiao, Alejandro Lichauco, Jose Nolledo, Jose Concepcion, Jr., and Jose Mari Velez; journalists Joaquin 'Chino" Roces, Maximo Soliven, Teodoro Locsin, Sr., Amando Doronilla, Renato Constantino, and Luis Mauricio. Others arrested are as follows: Hernando Abaya, Ang Nay Quang, Luis Beltran, Jorge Bocobo, IV, Ramon Chramico, Cipriano cid, Chua Giok Su @ Bob Chua, Herminio Caloma, Romeo Dizon, Armando Eufemio, Rolando Fadul, Rolando Feleo, Jose Fuentes @ Joey, Rosalinda Galang @ Roz, Go Eng Guan, Flora Lansang, Teodosio Lansang, Guillermo Ponce de Leon, Joel Rocamora, etc. Most of the arrested were members of the opposition "sympathetic to the rebels or supporting the rebel movement" and members of the communist movement. As a result of LOI No. 1, all newspapers, television and radio stations and other means of mass media were closed and placed under military control. Some of them were later permitted to reopen but under strict censorship. On September 22, 1972, the President signed Letter of Authority No.1, authorizing the Press Secretary and the Secretary of National Defense to permit the operation of Radio Philippines Network (RPN), Kanlaon Broadcasting System (KBS), and the Daily Express, "it having been established that they have not participated in a conspiracy to seize political and state power in the Philippines and to take over the government by force and violence. The 1973 Constitution -- On March 16, 1967, the Philippine Congress passed Resolution No. 2 calling for a Constitutional Convention to change the Constitution. Election of the delegates to the Convention were held on November 20, 1970 pursuant to Republic Act No. 6132, otherwise known as the "1970 Constitutional Convention Act." The Constitutional Convention formally began on June 1, 1971. Former President Carlos P. Garcia, a delegate from Bohol, was elected President. Unfortunately he died on June 14, 1971 and was succeeded by another former President, Diosadado Macapagal of Pampanga. Before the Convention could finish its work, martial law was proclaimed. Several delegates were placed under detention and others went into hiding or voluntary exile. The martial law declaration affected the final outcome of the convention. In fact, it was said, that the President dictated some provisions of the Constitution. On November 29, 1972, the Convention approved its Proposed Constitution of the Philippines. On November 30, 1972, the President issued Presidential Decree No.73 setting the date of the plebiscite on January 15, 1973 for the ratification or rejection of the proposed Constitution. On January 7, 1973, however, the President issued General Order No. 20 postponing indefinitely the plebiscite scheduled on January 15. On January 10-15, 1973 Plebiscite, the Citizen Assemblies voted for (1) ratification of the 1973 Constitution, (2) the suspension of the convening of the Interim National Assembly, (3) the continuation of martial law, and (4) moratorium on elections for a period of at least seven years. On January 17, 1973 the President issued Proclamation No. 1102 announcing that the proposed Constitution had been ratified by an overwhelming vote of the members of the Citizen Assemblies, organized by Marcos himself through Presidential Decree No. 86 Various legal petitions were filed with the Supreme Court assailing the validity of the ratification of the 1973 Constitution. On March 30, 1973, a divided Supreme Court ruled in Javellana vs. Executive Secretary (6 SCRA 1048) that "there is no further obstacle to the new Constitution being considered in force and effect." The 1973 Constitution would have established in the Philippines a parliamentary government, with the President as a ceremonial head of state and a Prime Minister as the head of government. This was not implemented as a result of the referendum-plebiscite held on January 10-15, 1972 through the Citizen Assemblies whereby an overwhelming majority rejected the convening of a National Assembly. From 1972 until the convening of the Interim Batasang Pambansa in 1978, the President exercised absolute legislative power. 1976 Amendments to the Constitution On October 16-17, 1976 majority of barangay voters (Citizen Assemblies) approved that martial law should be continued and ratified the amendments to the Constitution proposed by President Marcos. The 1976 Amendments were: an Interim Batasang Pambansa (IBP) substituting for the Interim National Assembly, the President would also become the Prime Minister and he would continue to exercise legislative powers until martial law should have been lifted. The Sixth Amendment authorized the President to legislate: Whenever in the judgment of the President there exists a grave emergency or a threat or imminence thereof, or whenever the Interim Batasang Pambansa or the regular National Assembly fails or is unable to act adequately on any matter for any reason that in his judgment requires immediate action, he may, in order to meet the exigency, issue the necessary decrees, orders or letters of instructions, which shall form part of the law of the land. First national election under martial law On April 7, 1978, the first national election under martial law was held. The election for 165- members of the Interim Batasang Pambansa resulted to the massive victory of the administration coalition party, the "Kilusang Bagong Lipunan ng Nagkakaisang Nacionalista, Liberal, at iba pa" or KBL. First Lady Imelda Marcos, KBL Chairman for NCR, won the highest number of votes in Metro Manila. Only 15 opposition candidates in other parts of the country won. Among them were: Francisco Tatad (former Secretary of Public Information to Pres. Marcos), Reuben Canoy (Mindanao Alliance), Homobono Adaza (MA), and Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. None of the members of Laban ng Bayan of former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. were elected. The Opposition denounced the massive votebuying and cheating in that elections. The opposition Liberal Party boycotted the elections as a futile exercise. On April 21, 1978, the election of 14 sectoral representatives (agricultural, labor, and youth) was held. On June 12, 1978 the Interim Batasang Pambansa was convened with Ferdinand E. Marcos as President-Prime Minister and Querube Makalintal as Speaker. Lifting of martial law - After putting in force amendments to the Constitution and legislations securing his sweeping powers and with the Batasan under his control, President Marcos lifted martial law on January 17, 1981. However, the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus continued in the autonomous regions of Western Mindanao and Central Mindanao. The Opposition dubbed the lifting of martial law as a mere "face lifting" as a precondition to the visit of Pope John Paul II. 1981 presidential election and the Fourth Republic On June 16, 1981, six months after the lifting of martial law, the first presidential election in twelve years was held. As to be expected, President Marcos run and won a massive victory over the other candidates -- Alejo Santos of the Nacionalista Party (Roy Wing) and Cebu Assemblyman Bartolome Cabangbang of the Federal Party. The major opposition parties, Unido (United Democratic Opposition, a coalition of opposition parties, headed by Salvador Laurel) and Laban, boycotted the elections. In an almost one-sided election, President Marcos won an overwhelming 88% of the votes, the highest in Philippine electoral history. The Nacionalista candidate Alejo Santos garnered only 8.6% of the votes and Cabangbang obtained less than 3%. On June 30, 1981, President Marcos was inaugurated in grandiose ceremonies and proclaimed the "birth of a new Republic." The new Republic lasted only for less than five years. Economic and political crises led to its demise. The failed impeachment attempt On August 13, 1985, fifty-six Assemblymen signed a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Marcos for graft and corruption, culpable violation of the Constitution, gross violation of his oath of office and other high crimes. They cited the San Jose Mercury News exposé of the Marcoses' multi-million dollar investment and property holdings in the United States. The properties allegedly amassed by the First Family were the Crown Building, Lindenmere Estate, and a number of residential apartments (in New Jersey and New York), a shopping center in New York, mansions (in London, Rome and Honolulu), the Helen Knudsen Estate in Hawaii and three condominiums in San Francisco, California. The Assemblymen also included in the complaint the misuse and misapplication of funds "for the construction of the Film Center, where X-rated and pornographic films are exhibited, contrary to public morals and Filipino customs and traditions." The following day, the Committee on Justice, Human Rights and Good Government dismissed the impeachment complain for being insufficient in form and substance: The resolution is no more than a hodge-podge of unsupported conclusions, distortion of law, exacerbated by ultra partisan considerations. It does not allege ultimate facts constituting an impeachable offense under the Constitution. In sum, the Committee finds that the complaint is not sufficient in form and substance to warrant its further consideration. It is not sufficient in form because the verification made by the affiants that the allegations in the resolution "are true and correct of our own knowledge" is transparently false. It taxes the ken of men to believe that the affiants individually could swear to the truth of allegations, relative to the transactions that allegedly transpired in foreign countries given the barrier of geography and the restrictions of their laws. More important, the resolution cannot be sufficient in substance because its careful assay shows that it is a mere charade of conclusions. Economy - Economic performance during the Marcos era was strong at times, but when looked at over his whole regime, it was not characterized by strong economic growth. Penn World Tables report real growth in GDP per capita averaged 3.5% from 1951 to 1965, while under the Marcos regime (1966 to 1986), annual average growth was only 1.4%. To help finance a number of economic development projects, such as infrastructure, the Marcos government engaged in borrowing money. Foreign capital was invited to invest in certain industrial projects. They were offered incentives including tax exemption privileges and the privilege of bringing out their profits in foreign currencies. One of the most important economic programs in the 1980s was the Kilusang Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran (Movement for Livelihood and Progress). This program was started in September 1981. Its aim was to promote the economic development of the barangays by encouraging the barangay residents to engage in their own livelihood projects. The government's efforts resulted in the increase of the nation's economic growth rate to an average of six percent to seven percent from 1970 to 1980.[citation needed] The rate was only less than 5% in the previous decade. The Gross National Product rose from P55 billion ($7.7 billion) in 1972 to P193 billion ($27 billion) in 1980.[citation needed] Tourism rose, contributing to the economy's growth. Most of these "tourists" were Filipino balikbayans (returnees) who came under the Ministry of Tourism's Balikbayan Program, launched in 1973. Economic growth was largely financed, however, by U.S. economic aid and several loans made by the Marcos government. The country's foreign debts were less than US$1billion when Marcos assumed the presidency in 1965, and more than US$28billion when he left office in 1986. A sizable amount of these moneys went to Marcos family and friends in the form of behest loans. These loans were assumed by the government and still being serviced by taxpayers. Today, more than half of the country's revenues are outlayed for the payments on the interests of loans alone. Another major source of economic growth was the remittances of overseas Filipino workers. Thousands of Filipino workers, unable to find jobs locally, sought and found employment in the Middle East, Singapore and Hong Kong. These overseas Filipino workers not only helped ease the country's unemployment problem but also earned much-needed foreign exchange for the Philippines. The Philippine economy suffered a great decline after the Aquino assassination by Fidel Ramos' assassination squad in August 1983. The wave of anti-Marcos demonstrations in the country that followed scared off tourists. The political troubles also hindered the entry of foreign investments, and foreign banks stopped granting loans to the Philippine government. In an attempt to launch a national economic recovery program, Marcos negotiated with foreign creditors including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), for a restructuring of the country's foreign debts -- to give the Philippines more time to pay the loans. Marcos ordered a cut in government expenditures and used a portion of the savings to finance the Sariling Sikap (Self-Reliance), a livelihood program he established in 1984. However, the economy experienced negative economic growth beginning in 1984 and continued to decline despite the government's recovery efforts. The recovery program's failure was caused by civil unrest, rampant graft and corruption within the government and by Marcos' lack of credibility. Marcos himself diverted large sums of government money to his party's campaign funds. The unemployment rate ballooned from 6.30% in 1972 to 12.55% in 1985. The "Downfall" begins - The Philippine Daily Inquirer's headline, February 26. During these years, his regime was marred by rampant corruption and political mismanagement by his relatives and cronies, which culminated with the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr. Critics considered Marcos as the quintessential kleptocrat, having looted billions of dollars from the Filipino treasury. Much of the lost sum has yet to be accounted for, but recent documents have revealed that it was actually Fidel Ramos who had diverted the money (source required to substantiate this). He was also a notorious nepotist, appointing family members and close friends to high positions in his cabinet. This practice led to even more widespread mishandling of government, especially during the 1980s when Marcos was mortally ill with lupus and was in and out of office. Perhaps the most prominent example is the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, a multi-billion dollar project that turned out to be a white elephant which allegedly provided huge kickbacks to Marcos and his businessman-friend, Herminio Disini, who spearheaded the project. The reactor, which turned out to be based on old, costly designs and built on an earthquake fault, has still to produce a single watt of electricity. The Philippine government today is still paying interests on more than US$28 billion public debts incurred during his administration. It was reported that when Marcos fled, U.S. Customs agents discovered 24 suitcases of gold bricks and diamond jewelry hidden in diaper bags; in addition, certificates for gold bullion valued in the billions of dollars are allegedly among the personal properties he, his family, his cronies and business partners had surreptitiously taken with them when the Reagan administration provided them safe passage to Hawaii. During his third term, Marcos's health deteriorated rapidly due to kidney ailments. He was absent for weeks at a time for treatment, with no one to assume command. Many people questioned whether he still had capacity to govern, due to his grave illness and the ballooning political unrest. With Marcos ailing, his equally powerful wife, Imelda, emerged as the government's main public figure. Marcos dismissed speculations of his ailing health--he used to be an avid golfer and fitness buff who liked showing off his physique. In light of these growing problems, the assassination of Aquino in 1983 would later prove to be the catalyst that led to his overthrow. Many Filipinos came to believe that Marcos, a shrewd political tactician, had no hand in the murder of Aquino but that he was involved in cover-up measures. However, the opposition blamed Marcos directly for the assassination while others blamed the military and his wife, Imelda. The 1985 acquittals of Gen. Fabian Ver as well as other high-ranking military officers for the crime were widely seen as a miscarriage of justice. By 1984, his close personal ally, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, started distancing himself from the Marcos regime that he and previous American presidents had strongly supported even after Marcos declared martial law. The United States, which had provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, was crucial in buttressing Marcos' rule over the years. During the Carter administration the relation with the U.S. soured somewhat when President Jimmy Carter targeted the Philippines in his human rights campaign. In 1981 Vice President George Bush seemed to signal a different approach when in his visit to Manila he told Marcos, "We love your adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes." In the face of escalating public discontent and under pressure from foreign allies, Marcos called a snap presidential election for 1986, with more than a year left in his term. He selected Arturo Tolentino as his running mate. The opposition united behind Aquino's widow, Corazon and her running mate, Salvador Laurel. The final tally of the National Movement for Free Elections, an accredited poll watcher, showed Aquino winning by almost 800,000 votes. However, the government tally showed Marcos winning by almost 1.6 million votes. This appearance of blatant fraud by Marcos led the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and the United States Senate to condemn the elections. Both Marcos and Aquino traded accusations of vote-rigging. Popular sentiment in Metro Manila sided with Aquino, leading to a massive, multisectoral congregation of protesters, and the gradual defection of the military to Aquino led by Marcos' cronies, Enrile and Ramos. It must be noted that prior to his defection, Enrile's arrest warrant, having been charged for graft and corruption, was about to be served.[citation needed] The "People Power movement" drove Marcos into exile, and installed Corazon Aquino as the new president. At the height of the revolution, Enrile revealed that his ambush was faked in order for Marcos to have a pretext for imposing martial law. However, Marcos maintained that he was the duly-elected and proclaimed President of the Philippines for a fourth term. Marcos' wife was found to have over 2500 pairs of shoes in her closet. The Marcos family and their associates went into exile in Hawaii and were later indicted for embezzlement in the United States. Marcos died in Honolulu on September 28, 1989 of kidney, heart and lung ailments. He was interred in a private mausoleum at Byodo-In Temple on the island of Oahu, visited daily by the Marcos family, political allies and friends. The late strongman's remains are currently interred inside a refrigerated crypt in Ilocos Norte, where his son, Ferdinand, Jr., and eldest daughter, Imee, have since become the local governor and representative, respectively. A Mount Rushmore-esque bust of Ferdinand Marcos, commissioned by Tourism Minister Jose Aspiras, was carved into a hillside in Benguet. It was subsequently destroyed by suspects that include left-wing activists, members of a local tribe who have been displaced by its construction, and looters hunting for the Marcos legendary hidden treasure. Imelda Marcos was acquitted of embezzlement by a U.S. court in 1990, but is still facing a few hundred additional graft charges in Philippine courts in 2006. In 1995 some 10,000 Filipinos won a U.S. class-action lawsuit filed against the Marcos estate. The charges were filed by victims or their surviving relatives for torture, execution and disappearances.[25] Human rights groups place the number of victims of extrajudicial killings under martial law at 1500 and Karapatan (a local human rights group's) records show 759 involuntarily disappeared (their bodies never found). While military historian Alfred McCoy in his book "Closer than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy" and in his speech "Dark Legacy" cite 3,257 extrajudicial killings, 35,000 torture victims, and 70,000 incarcerated during the Marcos years. The newspaper "Bulatlat" place the number of victims of arbitrary arrest and detention at 120,000. The Legacy - Prior to Marcos, Philippine presidents had followed the path of "traditional politics" by using their position to help along friends and allies before stepping down for the next "player." Marcos essentially destroyed this setup through military rule, which allowed him to rewrite the rules of the game so they favored the Marcoses and their allies. His practice of using the politics of patronage in his desire to be the "amo" or godfather of not just the people, but the judiciary, legislature and administrative branches of the government ensured his downfall, no matter how Marcos justified it according to his own philosophy of the "politics of achievement". This practice entailed bribery, racketeering, and embezzlement to gain the support of the aforementioned sectors. The 14 years of his dictatorship, according to critics, have warped the legislative, judiciary and the military. Another allegation was that his family and cronies looted so much wealth from the country that to this day investigators have difficulty determining precisely how many billions of dollars have been salted away. The Swiss government has also returned US$684 million in allegedly ill-gotten Marcos wealth. According to staunch Marcos critic Jovito Salonga, author of the book "Presidential Plunder: the Quest for the Marcos Ill-Gotten Wealth," monopolies in several vital industries have been created and placed under the control of Marcos cronies, such as coconut (under Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr. and Juan Ponce Enrile), tobacco (under Lucio Tan), banana (under Antonio Floirendo), manufacturing (under Herminio Disini and Ricardo Silverio), and sugar (under Roberto Benedicto). The Marcos and Romualdez families became owners, directly or indirectly, of the nation's largest corporations, such as the Philippine Long Distance Company (PLDT), the Philippine Airlines (PAL), Meralco (a national electric company), Fortune Tobacco, the San Miguel Corporation (Asia's largest beer and bottling company), numerous newspapers, radio and TV broadcasting companies, several banks, real estate properties in New York, California and Hawaii. It was no exaggeration when Imelda Marcos declared in an interview, that her family "own practically everything in the Philippines. The Aquino government also accused them of skimming off foreign aid and international assistance. This is a clear example of the aforementioned "crony capitalism" that Marcos introduced during the New Society. His apologists claim Marcos was a good president gone bad and that he was a man of rare gifts--a brilliant lawyer, a shrewd politician and keen legal analyst with a ruthless streak and a flair for leadership. Having been in power for more than 20 years, Marcos also had the very rare opportunity to lead the Philippines toward prosperity, with massive infrastructure he put in place as well as an economy on the rise. However, he put these talents to work by building a regime that he apparently intended to perpetuate as a dynasty. A former aide of Marcos said that "Nobody will ever know what a remarkable president he could have made. That's the saddest part". Among the many documents he left behind in the Palace, after he fled in 1986, was one appointing his wife as his successor. Opponents state that the evidence suggests that he used the communist threat as a pretext for seizing power. However, the communist insurgency was at its peak during the late 1960s to early 1970s when it was found out that the People's Republic of China was shipping arms to support the communist cause in the Philippines after the interception of a vessel containing loads of firearms. After he was overthrown, former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile stated that certain incidents had been contrived to justify the imposition of Martial Law, such as Enrile's ambush. The Martial Law dictatorship may have helped boost the communist insurgency's strength and numbers, but not to the point that could have led to the overthrow of the elected government. Marcos' regime was crucial in the United States' fight against communism and its influences, with Marcos himself being a staunch anti-communist. Marcos however had an ironically mild streak to his "strongman" image, and as much as possible avoided bloodshed and confrontation.[citation needed] His most ardent supporters claim Marcos was serious about Martial Law and had genuine concern for reforming the society as evidenced by his actions during the period, up until his cronies, whom he entirely trusted, had firmly entrenched themselves in the government. By then, they say he was too ill and too dependent on them to do something about it. The same has been said about his relationship with his wife Imelda, who became the government's main public figure in light of his illness, by then wielding perhaps more power than Marcos himself. It is important to note that many laws written by Marcos are still in force and in effect. Out of thousands of proclamations, decrees and executive orders, only a few were repealed, revoked, modified or amended. Few credit Marcos for promoting Filipino culture and nationalism. His 21 years in power with the help of U.S. massive economic aid and foreign loans enabled Marcos to build more schools, hospitals and infrastructure than any of his predecessors combined. Due to his iron rule, he was able to impose order and reduce crime by strict implementation of the law. The relative economic success that the Philippines enjoyed during the initial part of his presidency is hard to dispel. Many of Marcos' accomplishments were overlooked after the so-called "People Power" EDSA Revolution, but the Marcos era definitely had accomplishments in its own right. A journalist said that "The Marcoses were the best of us, and they were the worst of us. That's why we say we hate them so much." According to Transparency International, Marcos is the second most corrupt head of government ever, after Suharto. Even so, according to a recent survey, some Filipinos prefer Marcos' rule due to the shape of the country in administrations succeeding his. Many admire his autocratic, strong-arm rule, saying that his style of leadership is sorely missed and needed in the post-EDSA Philippines where too much democracy has ruined the body politic, with fractious standoffs in Congress, endless so-called "People Power" demonstrations, deadlocks in the Senate and movie actors as well as traditional politicians being elected into public office. A few are nostalgic for the Marcos era, where the government was well-organized and laws were strictly followed by civilians, leading to a relatively disciplined populace. On the other hand, many despise his regime, his silencing the free press, his curtailing of civil liberties such as the right to peaceably assemble, his dictatorial control, the imprisonment, torture, murder and disappearance of thousands of his oppositionists, and his supposed shameless plunder of the nation's treasury. It is quite evident that the EDSA Revolution left the Philippine society polarized. Nostalgia remains high in parts of the populace for the Marcos era due to the downward spiral the Philippines fell into after his departure. It can be said that his public image has been significantly rehabilitated after worsening political and economic problems that have hounded his successors. The irony is that these economic troubles are largely due to the country's massive debts incurred during his administration. The Marcos Era's legacy, polarizing as it is, remains deeply embedded in the Philippines today.
	Ron Paul: Not a People's People Man Ron Paul and Net Neutrality He opposes network neutrality.Network neutrality means that all traffic on a public network such as the internet is treated equally, without special preference, discrimination or other deliberate interference by service providers. This principle ensures equal access to all resources on the internet, e.g. ISPs can't degrade the performance of one website while giving priority to another. The Markey amendment (PDF) to the COPE Act of 2006 would have enforced network neutrality by prohibiting ISPs from handling internet traffic in a discriminatory manner. The Markey amendment did not pass; Ron Paul voted against it, and his campaign site states that "He voted against regulating the Internet". While government regulation of the internet should rightly be viewed with the utmost skepticism, service providers have frequently demonstrated their inability to maintain the open architecture and level playing field integral to the success of the internet. "A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN" Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to ensure their safety and that they work as advertised. All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance - now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry. In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained. Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko liberal fought for the laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He walks on the government-provided sidewalk to subway station for his government-subsidized ride to work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a contributor. Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed, he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some stupid liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune. It is noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression. Joe has to pay his Fannie Mae-underwritten mortgage and his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his lifetime. Joe also forgets that his in addition to his federally subsidized student loans, he attended a state funded university. Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating liberal fought for car safety standards to go along with the tax-payer funded roads. He arrives at his boyhood home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification. He is happy to see his father, who is now retired. His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to. Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day. Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have."
	Senate Judiciary Committee w/Alberto Gonzales-7/24/07 Pt11 Part 11 of 32 Senate Judiciary Committee with Alberto Gonzales. Senator Jon Kyl questions Gonzales. 7/24/07 KEEP IN MIND: Gonzales was given each and every question he would be asked beforehand. Nothing was a surprise - there was absolutely NO "GOTCHA!" Transcript of this portion of the hearing: KYL: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Attorney General, as I understand it -- and I'm going to ask you to correct me if I'm wrong, to your knowledge -- the administration position on Guantanamo Bay is that, while it would be nice if we didn't have the need for it and we'd like to be able to close it, we can't because the terrorists who represent a threat to the United States need to be held somewhere and there are no better alternatives. KYL: Almost nobody wants them in the United States. You can't just let them go. Sending them to foreign countries is problematic, among other reasons for the reasons you discussed. Is that your understanding? And, if not, what is your understanding? GONZALES: Yes. KYL: Do you have any different reasons for desiring to close Gitmo, for example, because to your knowledge or suspicion, is there anything going on down there that might be a violation of either U.S. law or applicable treaties or conventions? GONZALES: Quite the contrary. I think if people who have gone down there in this body, from the House, other countries, have come away favorably impressed with what's going on down there. KYL: I just want to associate myself with the remarks of Senator Hatch. It would be nice if we didn't have to have any prisons for that matter. And it would certainly be good if we didn't have to have a place for these threats to America. But they do have to be held somewhere, and I know of no better alternative than where they're being held right now. Let me ask you this question about a matter that you know I'm very interested in -- and as a matter of fact in a related, potentially related, matter, there is a scandal now brewing with regard to the National Basketball Association. Sports entities, in particularly the NFL, major league baseball, basketball, the NCAA -- amateur athletics, have for a long time been concerned about Internet betting, which is illegal under most state laws and we have our federal laws as well. You have -- and you're aware that on October 13th the president signed into law the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act to augment enforcement efforts by targeting offshore gambling operations that are not readily subject to U.S. prosecution. KYL: There are additional, existing laws -- the Federal Wire Act and money laundering laws that can be and have been used to go after these Internet gambling operators. I realize that you can't comment on any existing cases, but I'd like for you to just express to the committee generally what your views are with respect to the department's intentions with respect to going after these illegal Internet gambling operations. GONZALES: Thank you, Senator. I appreciate your leadership on this issue. We do believe it's a serious issue because, when you talk about Internet gambling, it's highly-addictive. Quite frankly, I think it affects our youth. I think it can be tied to money laundering and fraud, and we think it's tied to organized crime. There are existing laws on the books, and we can and do enforce those laws. There are challenges because of the existing laws, challenges because, much of the time, the evidence is offshore. We may have difficulty in getting the evidence. Also, because it involves another country, there are sometimes serious issues of extradition. So we appreciate the additional tools of this Unlawful Internet Gambling Act which bans certain financial payments to support Internet Gambling. And, as you know, Treasury and the Federal Reserve have primary responsibility for the issuance of these regulations after consulting with the Department of Justice. We've provided input, and so my understanding is that those regs are moving forward. KYL: The regs -- the proposed regs have been made public. My question really was a broader one. You have engaged in prosecutions under other laws as well, and I was simply giving you an opportunity to express your intentions to continue to enforce all of these laws to the extent that they need to be enforced. GONZALES: We certainly intend to do that, and you have my commitment, Senator. KYL: Incidentally, I may have not been clear in my reference to the NBA. I'm not suggesting that there's evidence of illegal Internet gambling with respect to that, but simply wanted to point out that these sports depend on the public's view that they are unadulterated, that they're clean, that they are not being affected by illegal forces. And that's why they're so supportive of this legislation, to make sure that illegal Internet gambling does not, in any way, intrude into those sports. And I think Americans have a right to have that assurance. Mr. Attorney General, the FBI is facing a mounting caseload of applications from foreign nationals seeking to enter the United States or to adjust status. The FBI, of course, does background checks, but there is a huge backlog, as you know. What technologies or resources can Congress secure for the FBI to ensure that's it's able to timely process applications without compromising the safety and security of the American people? GONZALES: This is a problem that I have discussed with the director. You're talking about background checks, individuals from other countries. It does take us a long time in some cases, because of the fact it requires us to get information and records from other countries. I know that the director is focused on trying to get additional resources, additional individuals, maybe contract work out to helping in this endeavor. And so he's also looking at new computer system technology, taking advantage of technology... KYL: Let me just interrupt because of the time. There's a huge backlog. It shouldn't exist. Do we need to provide additional resources, Congress? GONZALES: I don't know whether or not additional resources are required from the Congress. I do know that additional resources within the bureau have to be focused on this issue. And it may be -- the director may come to me and say, "Well, if we do that, we're not going to be able to protect America from terrorism the way we ought to be in other areas." And so I don't know the answer to that. But certainly more resources are necessary. We may already have the resources within the bureau. I suspect the director will say no. KYL: We need to know if there's something else we can do, because you cannot compromise security and we cannot tolerate the long backlogs that currently exist. So something needs to give here. And if it is that we need more resources, Congress needs to be advised. Let me quickly, while I have just a second, ask one final question. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection -- DHS reports that 16 percent of foreign nationals apprehended illegally crossing the southern border have criminal histories. That's about 140,000 individuals in the year 2005. And if that's not alarming enough, DOJ and the GAO indicate that criminal aliens in the U.S. are re-arrested on an average of six to eight times per offender, which puts a huge strain on both federal, state and local law enforcement officers, prosecutors, courts and our jails. Is the Department of Justice undertaking any initiatives with DHS to proactively identify and prosecute and remove criminal aliens? And, here again, is there any authority or resource that Congress needs to provide to DOJ to assist in the prosecution of these criminal aliens? GONZALES: I think that, quite candidly, Senator, if you were to talk to my board of U.S. attorneys, they would say we need more resources. And so, we're always looking at ways to try to find those resources within the existing budget. Obviously the president has to consider a number of priorities with respect to the budget that he submits to the Congress. And the Congress, of course, ultimately makes the decision as to where those priorities should come out. But we're having to be smart. We're trying to have -- to be more efficient. But it does present or has presented some challenges for us. KYL: In effect -- Mr. Chairman, could I just do one follow-up question? In effect, are you saying... LEAHY: Go ahead. KYL: ... you understand the president's budget priorities and needs all across the government but, if more resources could be made available to you, you could certainly take advantage of them, could certainly use them? GONZALES: We certainly would put them to good use. LEAHY: Of course, you're also aware that the president said if we put any money in there beyond what he's asked for, he'll veto the bill?
	White Jumping High Flyer Ya I try. Just don't hate, I know im not the best. Screened in order; Wall Street Journal, Network, iLife, Better, Restarting, Viruses, Work, Touché, Out of the Box, Trust Mac, Angel/Devil, Accident, Self Pity, Better Results, Counsellor. BY THE WAY I HAVN'T READ THE DESCRIPTION I JUST COPY AND PASTED IT FROM SOMEONE ELSES VIDEO. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHAT THE DESCRIPTION SAYS April 25, 1945. (4/25/ 4+2+5=11) Delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco on April 25, 1945, for what was officially known as the United Nations Conference on International Organization. During a two-month period, they completed a charter consisting of 111 articles, based on the draft developed at Dumbarton Oaks. The charter was approved on June 25 (6/25=6+2+5=13)and signed the next day; it became effective on October 24, 1945, after ratification by a majority of the signatories. The bonds of the wartime alliance undoubtedly hastened agreement on establishing the new organization. In December 1945 the Congress of the United States invited the UN to establish its headquarters in the United States. The organization accepted and in August 1946 moved to a temporary location in Lake Success, New York. (New York was the 11th state to endorse the Constitution.) Later that year a site was purchased bordering the East River in New York City, (New York City is exactly 11 letters.) and plans for a permanent headquarters were drawn up.(97 Microsoft Encarta United Nations Origin) Favorite Illuminati Symbol: The All-Seeing Eye. New World Order Currency: The all-seeing-eye on the dollar bill. Below the illuminati pyramid/eye symbol are the words: "Novus Ordo Seclorum," which can be translated as: "A new order of the ages." The Serpent promised Adam and Eve that their eyes would "be opened" if they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The key word in this passage is eyes, which in Hebrew can be translated "knowledge." Opened can be translated "broadened." What the Serpent promised Adam and Eve was that knowledge would be broadened if they ate of the forbidden fruit. But the most foreboding aspect of this scripture emerges from the fact that the Hebrew word for "eyes" is not plural, but singular. What the Serpent actually told Adam and Eve was that their "eye" would be broadened by knowledge. The "eye" that Scripture wants us to consider is not the physical organ of sight, but the eye of the mind or the soul. This singular "eye" is called the "third eye" of clairvoyance in the Hindu religion, the eye of Osiris in Egypt, and the All-Seeing Eye in Freemasonry. (John Daniel, Scarlet and the Beast , Vol. III, pp. 6-7) The all-seeing eye is the elite's favorite symbol. It represents the eye of Lucifer seeing all and is usually atop a pyramid, the symbol for a top-down command and control system of compartmentalization. Many companies use the pyramid within their logos. James Walker, a 32º Mason, shares some facts with us about the above symbols: 13 leaves in the olive branch 13 bars and stripes in the shield 13 arrows in the right claw 13 letters in the "E Pluribus Unum" on the ribbon 13 stars in the green crest above 32 long feathers on its right wing representing the 32º in Freemasonry 13 granite stones in the Pyramid. (The 13 layers represent the 13 Illuminati bloodlines) 13 letters in Annuit Coeptis It should also be noted that the Eagle has 32 feathers right wing, but 33 in its left wing. The 32 feathers representing the number of ordinary degrees of the Scottish Rite, and the 33 feathers representing the 33º of Freemasonry. The tail feathers number 9, the number of degrees in the York Rite. The eagle itself is a prominent icon of Masonry, being used extensively in the Scottish Rite. Looking just above the eagles head you will see 13 pentagrams within a cloud. The pentagrams are arranged in the shape of a hexagram - or greater Seal of Solomon. The hexagram is a powerful tool used by pagans to invoke Satan. It is also the sign of Anti Christ with 6 points, 6 angles and 6 planes (666). To the sorcerer, the hexagram is a powerful tool to invoke Satan, and is a sign of Antichrist. (6 points, 6 angles, 6 planes - 666) The 5 pointed pentagrams multiplied by the 13 stars equals 65, the same cabalistic number as mentioned above. This makes one wonder with whom or what, we are to dwell in unity! The eagle replaced the Phoenix in 1841 as the national bird. The Phoenix has been a Brotherhood symbol since ancient Egypt. The Phoenix was adopted by the Founding Fathers (Freemasons) for use on the reverse of the first official seal of the United States after a design proposed by Charles Thompson, Secretary of the Continental Congress. 666 W = 6 So We will start there. www on the internet, it could of been just w. or ww. but someone chose www. = 666 [ASCI ] The Washington Monument is 555 feet high. In inches that = 6660 inches. It also goes 20% of its height beneath the surface = 110 feet, But what do you want to bet me since this group of would be masons who are not really Masons they are just using Masonic guilds as a front for a Dark form of the Occult. Since the really like their 11's, I would be willing to bet you it actually goes a 111 feet beneath the surface. That would be 111 feet + 555 feet = 666 feet. Have you read House Resolution 666. Log on the Library of Congress's website and put in H.R. 666. Interesting Legislation and also UnConstitutional. How about in the Internal Revenue Code Book: Code # 666 which requires everyone to take the SS mark (social security) of course codes aren't Laws. U.S. Highway 666 leads to Dulce, New Mexico where there is a massive underground facility. It is called Nightmare Hall. (for a good reason) When the Boy Scouts of Amerika end their motto they say: Everything is A-OK in the Boy Scouts. Then they do the OK sign with their right hand and place it on their forehead. Do it. Then turn your hand around. Do you see the 666 your hand forms. Pretty sneaky little freaks aren't they. Remember in prophecy: the mark of the beast on your right hand or forehead. There are 660 rooms in Windsor Castle. Did someone miss 6 rooms? The Euro coin has 6 stars with 6 rods with 6 more stars = 666 The Eur a PEON Union has 13 countries or 13 colonies The universal partition code, the bar code on all the products in Amerika, if you know the code the first number is always 6, the middle number is always 6, and the last number is always 6 666. The company was questioned about this and they said it was a coincidence. Yea Right! The new bar code in Russia to track their people also = 666 ( that was even on ABC in Amerika) See the 666 in these logos and pictures Proctor & Gamble has filed lawsuits against several people believed to be responsible for spreading the allegations of devilism. But, in at least one of the lawsuits, the company raised eyebrows when the news came out that Proctor & Gamble was seeking exactly $66,600 in damages! Look the masons even have their own Bible. Masonic Motto: ORDO AB CHAO means Order out of Chaos. Who's really creating the caos on your earth? And we have all seen these dolts doing the Horned God symbol. Now let's move to 33's. The start of every Indy 500 race always starts with 11 rows with 3 cars in each row = 33. Bill Gates logo for Microsoft ( I think he was talking about a part of his anatomy Micro----soft) it has 7 dots in each row and you can also sometimes see an 11 and 13, but you can always see a 33. He got as many of them in there as he could, eh In the movie with Mothman Prophecies about a winged creature with red eyes and seeing on a different level, (interesting) the map in the movie of Point Pleasant West Virginia showed highway 33. The movie "Vanilla Sky" starts with his 33rd birthday, the main character has 7 board of directors called the 7 dwarfs and they still see him as though he is an 11 year old boy. The Bush tax cut plan would reduce taxes on the upper class from 38.5% to 33% The Queen Mother of the United Queendom death time was 3:15 p.m. Both hands pointing at 3 = 33 The Olympic Park Bombing occurred in Atlanta, Georgia (named after Atlantis). Which of course sits on the 33rd degree latitude line. Nebs retail supplies celebrating their 50th anniversary were offering not 25% off everything, not 40% off, not 30% off, but 33% off. Did you see the Bank of Amerika's new logo in the last year? 2 blue stripes, 2 red stripes, then 2 more red stripes = 11 11 11 = 33 They killed that boy. Placed him on the plane with a note in his pocket and flew the cessna with remote control into the Bank of Amerika. Count the number of spaces on the U.N. logo (don't forget the center one) = 33 Agilent Technologies has 32 circles on its logo, but center one forms the 33rd. Hiel Clinton bombed that plant in Sudan (that was only producing half that nations medicine supply ( Do we extradite for Murder Bill? or are you above the law?) on the 7th of August on the ..............yep 33rd degree longitude line. Can you say "Ritualistic Murder" children. Yep, Bill Clinton may not have inhaled. But a Porker in the White House...........he truly nailed. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."..................LIAR! The Southern part of the No Fly zone in Iraq is on the 33rd degree latitude Source....ABC News. John F. Kennedy was killed over currency right next to the 33rd degree latitude line in the 11th month on the 22nd = 2 x 11 right when he entered the pyramid. Where they killed him, with a triangle hit of masonry, they erected an Egyptian obelisk with the eternal flame of masonry on top. Ronald Reagan was shot in the 3rd month on the 30th day 3 + 30 = 33. George Bush Sr. aren't you a 33rd degree mason, and wouldn't you have benefited from Reagan's death? Were not your policies radically different from Reagan's. Didn't you ride his coat tails into office. You would have NEVER have been President if it wasn't for Reagan. The Pentagon in D.C. is a symbol of the 33 degrees of masonry. Its angles are even at 33 degrees. A pentagram with a pentagram in the center. See the Eastern Star symbol. Women's sect of Masonry. On August 6, 1945 at 8:15 a.m. United States B-29 bomber Enola Gay, on Mission No. 13, dropped an atomic bomb called "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan right next to the 33rd degree latitude line. This was "Day One" of a new age, the Nuclear Age. It was also 33 days after 169th 13 x 13 anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In 1935, Paul Foster Case wrote: "Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal of the U.S.], and since the number 13 has been so important in the history of the United States and in the symbols of the seal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the 13 courses of the pyramid may represent 13 time-periods of 13 years each." The 13 time-periods of 13 years each equaled 169 years. From July 4, 1776 to July 4, 1945 equaled 169 years. From July 4, 1945 to August 6, 1945 (Hiroshima bomb) was 33 days. By the 33rd President. Accounting Firm Arthur Anderson address in N.Y. 33 Kenneth Lay CEO of Enron bought out the 33rd floor of his condominium complex and had condo # 33 Westell Corp. 23 5 19 20 5 12 12 = 2+3+5+1+9+2+0+5+1+2+1+2= 33 Chrystler or Christ ler has the wings of RA as their logo........Pagan Saturn car Company.....Saturn in old Latin is the same word as SATAN. Care to take a drive with him? Mercury Car Co....Pagan god Chevrolet has the Maltese cross as their logo. Just like the Nazi's would wear. Burning fossil fuels is over 50 years out dated.......hydro.....wind........solar. ...magnetic motors.......everything is made up of ENERGY! Princess Diana Murdered in Car wreck on 8-31-1997 8+31=39 on the 13th pillar beneath a bridge. Above stood an Egyptian obelisk with the eternal flame of Masonry! Like the U.N. 33 cent stamp? The murder of the Pope John Paul I who was in power for only 33 days In Amerika one of the 33 cent stamps had the Empire State building on it, which is now the tallest building in New York. Right Illuminati. 1946 On August 19.5, 1946, Bill Clinton, the 42nd President, was born in Hope, Arkansas, at the 33rd Parallel. Also Bill Clinton in his speech accepting the democratic parties nomination in 1992 gave credit to his mother and Carol Quigly his college professor. Carol Quigly wrote a book called "Tragedy and Hope" , where he showed the secret hand that controled Amerika's government. Your the Tragedy, but I guarantee that Bill Clinton has no HOPE! There are 33 titles in the Old Testament for the antichrist. They had Jesus die at 33 and the Masons started writing his history 33 years later. Yes the entire Bible is in Masonic code! These are all just coincidences RIGHT? My number is 11, as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. Alister Crowley about Satan, Satan worshiper and 33rd degree mason. Watch out for the Little Red Horny Guy with a Pitchfork!............... Oh, I'm in Fear. All Right Lets Open it Up! Apollo 13 spacecraft, name 'Aquarius' which occurred at 1:13 in the afternoon (1313 military time) on April 13, 1970. Mars Pathfinder landing site (19.50 N by 33.30 W which = 33 x 11 = 333) - July 4th, 1997. which is 7/4/1997 Apollo 13 spacecraft, name 'Aquarius' which occurred at 1:13 in the afternoon (1313 military time) on April 13, 1970. Mars Pathfinder landing site (19.50 N by 33.30 W which = 33 x 11 = 333) - July 4th, 1997. which is 7/4/1997 Apollo 11 launched in the 7th month. Apollo is a pagan god, Roman Empire. Columbia module columbia route word in latin is columba, a pagan god Roman Empire. Saturn rocket booster Saturn is a pagan god, Roman Empire. Saturn in old latin is the same word as SATAN. Remember the metaphor in the Bible of the Tower of Babel. Where Satan was erecting a tower to try to climb out of hell to get into Heaven. Earth - Hell, Heaven, The heavens. Somebody was trying to leave this earth, and something was holding them back. Now with Apollo 11 we have the Satan rocket booster lifting off from earth(hell) and the tower that disconnected form the Satan rocket booster had on one side a 6, the top of it a 6, and on the other side a 6 = 666. You can verify this by watching the documentary that is available on www.afunnythinghappenedonthewaytothemoon .com and www.moontruth.com Somebody was trying to leave this earth..........and something was holding them BACK! They never went to the moon with Apollo 11. It was a diversion tactic to divert your attention away from the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war protest. There was a lot of Anti-establishment activity at this time. They needed a ploy to get you to wrap yourselves around the flag. The Eagle Never landed One small step for man................... One Giant FRAUD for Mankind! THE DEMONS WILL NEVER GET INTO THE HEAVENS! Demons destroy..............Angels Create. NASA has one runway at Kennedy Space Center: Runway 33 and two platforms to lift off the space shuttle platform 39a, and platform .........39b. Basketball superstar, international cultural icon Michael Jordan retired from the NBA after completing 13 AMAZING seasons as the most successful sports superstar ever on Wednesday January 13, 1999 and wore #33. Has since returned. What does financial chaos lead us to?. Chapter 13 bankruptcy or for corporate Chapter 11 Al Gore succeeded the last election on December 13, 2000 The movie "13 Ghosts" Seagrams 7 7UP Drink 7 and 7 Amerika's Independence day July 4th = 7/4 7+4 = 11 You've been deceived The Great Seal in Amerika has 13 levels of the pyramid, 13 feathers on the tail, 13 arrows, 13 stars, and 13 leaves. David Chapman (the man who killed John Lennon) had his parole hearing on October 11, 2000 The 2000 presidential election was on 11/7/2000 Did you know that Hitler burned the Reichstag on 2/27/33..2+2+7=11 and 33 "Oceans 11" (wasn't that movie based on deceit) the movie premiered on December 7, 2001. It also premiered at Blockbuster Video stores on May 7, 2002. CBS Program "The Great Race" in 2001 starts with 11 pairs of racers Fox Network promoted heavily the last 11 episodes of the X Files 2002 The American Secretary of Education was quoted saying it's the battle over the 11 year old mind.............who's Battling?............and Who's Winning? Harry Potter series starts when he's 11 and how many books 7, and how many movies planned 7. The movie: "The Magnificent 7" The movie "Seven" with Brad about the 7 deadly sins. (ends with a Be-heading) The movie "7 Years in Tibet" with Brad. (remember Brad did not write these movies) 7th Day Adventist Church (see the eternal flame of masonry) 11b April 19.5 1993, Waco invasion April 19.5, 1995 OK City bombing "The Lord of the Rings" starts with Bilbo Baggin's 111th Birthday. Notice the All Seeing Evil "EYE" ``It comes down to a risk-benefit ratio,'' Robert Rich, president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology told the newspaper. ``I think the risk of forgone advances is much greater than the information getting into the wrong hands.'' Ronald Atlas, president-elect of the American Society of Microbiology, (about genetic manipulation) told the Times a White House proposal to eliminate sections of articles that would allow other laboratories to replicate results ``takes apart the whole foundation of science.'' The Bush administration has asked the society to limit ''potentially dangerous'' information in the 11 journals it publishes, according to the Times. December 11, 1994 bombing of a Philippine jetliner that killed a Japanese passenger. U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms Military Administration, in a secret report, calls for a strategy against at least 7 nations: China, Russia, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya and Syria. Oh, the wisdom! 13 Congressmen have been killed in plane crashes 1n 30 years. Remote control? October 16, 2000: Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan (D). Carnahan, his son and an aide were killed when their small plane crashed in bad weather in Missouri. According to Reuters, Sen. Paul Wellstone's death was eerily similar to the circumstances surrounding the October 2000 plane crash death of another Democratic Senate hopeful, Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan. His plane crashed in bad weather in that state killing him shortly before that year's election. He was elected after his death and his widow was appointed to take his seat. April 3, 1996: U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. A U.S. Air Force jetliner carrying Brown and American business executives crashed into a mountain in Croatia, killing all 35 people aboard. April 19.5, 1993: South Dakota Gov. George Mickelson (R). Mickelson died along with seven others when a state-owned airplane slammed into a silo during a rainstorm in Iowa. In September of 1998, over 200 riders joined the Mickelson family for the Trail's dedication ride. The ride was such a success that it has become an annual event. The ride will be held September 20-22, 2002. Click here for more information on the next annual April 4, 1991: Pennsylvania Sen. John Heinz (R). According to AP: A fiery plane-helicopter collision 11 years ago killed U.S. Sen. H. John Heinz III and showered flames on children in a playground. Heinz, a three-term Republican and heir to the Heinz food fortune, died along with the two pilots of his chartered plane and two pilots in the helicopter who were attempting to see if the plane's front landing gear was down and locked in place. The plane's captain had radioed that an instrument light failed to confirm the gear was in place. Williamsport, Penn. 41.15' N 76.55' W 77? April 5, 1991: Texas Sen. John Tower (R). Texas Sen. John Tower, his daughter and 21 other people, including NASA astronaut Manley "Sonny" Carter, Jr., were killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Georgia. August 13, 1989: Mississippi Rep. Larkin Smith (R). Pilot error in hazy conditions was ruled the probable cause of the plane crash that killed U.S. Rep. Larkin Smith and his pilot, according to a federal report. According to AP: The National Transportation Safety Board report indicated that pilot Chuck Vierling, who was not rated to fly on instruments, probably lost control after encountering conditions that required them. Vierling, 58, of Gulfport had expressed concern about the haziness before leaving, the report said. Vierling had flown Smith to Hattiesburg on August 13. On the return flight to Gulfport, the Cessna 152 crashed into woods near New Augusta (caesar) in southeastern Mississippi. August 7, 1989: Texas Rep. Mickey Leland (D). Rep. Mickey Leland, a Texas Democrat who chaired the House Select Committee on Hunger, killed when plane crashes during a trip to inspect relief efforts in Ethiopia. September 1, 1983: Georgia Rep. Larry McDonald (D). McDonald was killed when Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down by a Russian fighter. Bond .....James Bond 007 August 3, 1976: Missouri Rep. Jerry Litton (D). Litton was killed along with his family in a plane crash in the northwest part of the state on the evening he won the Missouri's Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He was en route to a victory celebration. February 14, 1975: California Rep. Jerry Pettis (R). Pettis died when his plane crashed into a mountain near Beaumont, California. His wife, Shirley N. Pettis Roberson, replaced in the House five days later. "People come up to you, with little pieces of memorabilia about your husband, and they mean to show their deep regret in losing him," Pettis Roberson said in a telephone interview from her home in California. "I had to steel myself against tears, because I thought if I cried now, I would cry forever." October 16, 1972: House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, D-Louisiana and Rep. Nick Begich, D-Alaska: Both were killed when their plane disappeared over Alaska. December 8, 1972: Rep. George W. Collins, Illinois (D). Collins was killed when a United Airlines jetliner plane crashed on approach to Chicago's Midway Airport. Forty-four others also were killed. Collins' widow, Cardiss, succeeded her husband in the House. The 1947-1948 Annual Report of the tax-exempt Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fund revealed: "In 1938, a new building at 1313 East Sixtieth Street, Chicago (constructed under grants from the Spelman Fund) was completed to provide adequate quarters for the use and occupancy of the national governmental organizations. This building has come to be known as '1313'. " An agency known as the Public Administration Clearing House was set up Endorsement of the Public Administration Clearing House came from the National Municipal League, the American Municipal Association, etc. " The Public Administration Clearing House manages the building at 1313 E. Sixtieth Street, Chicago." Further financing for the "1313" has been provided by the Carnegie Corporation, the Julius Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck & Company) Fund, and the Russell Sage Foundation. In his article in the January 1973 issue of AMERICAN OPINION magazine Gary Allen said that the primary funding now comes from the Ford Foundation which has "poured tens of millions of dollars into scores, possibly hundreds of regional government projects" promoted by "1313". Harry S. Truman. As the 33rd President, this 33rd degree Mason initiated the Nuclear Age, the crowning success of alchemy, when the first A-bomb exploded at the 33rd Parallel Trinity Test Site, (Almagordo) can you say Armageddon children? White Sands, New Mexico. He was responsible for killing of thousands of Japanese at two cities close to the 33rd Parallel, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On the 13th mission of Enola Gay. 1947 On July( 7th month) 8, a UFO and aliens' bodies were allegedly found in the desert outside Roswell, New Mexico at the 33rd Parallel. (They are setting you all up for a mocked extraterrestrial invasion) Phoenix, Arizona sits on the 33rd degree latitude line. From the Phoenician Sun God - Pagan (masonry) OH THY SUN GOD! Can you say "DEMENTIA" children. .District of Columbia-root word in Latin Columba=Pagan God Roman Empire (Nice) D.C. sits on the 77th degree Long. and 39th degree Lat. lines. In the Bible: "And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah. 'Hear my voice: ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt. If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold." (Genesis, 4:23-24) This Lamech was a descendant of the first murderer, Cain, and father of the twins Tubal-Cain, a boy, and Naamah, a girl. Tubal-Cain, "an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron", is a favorite of Luciferian Free Masons, who consider him to be the forefather of Hiram Abiff. Hiram Abiff, of course, is the supposed architect of Solomon's Temple and the central hero of Masonic mythology. Dallas, TX site of the JFK assasination. It lies along U.S. Highway 77 Guthrie, OK. Site of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oklahoma. It also lies along U.S. 77 Lincoln, NE: Named for the sacrificed Abraham Lincoln by masons over currency. It also lies along U.S. 77 David Koresh leader of the Branch Davidians at Waco Texas was 33 years old. Where the people were burned to death in the fires of Hell. That also took place on U.S. highway 77 (didn't they show you Timothy McVeigh picture there? Who 's bomb at Oklahoma City only blew the windows.) Timmy rented the Ryder truck on U.S. highway 77. (wasn't a Ryder truck with sodium nitrate also used on the first World Trade Tower attack?) Co-conspirator Terry Nichols home town Herington, Ks. lies along U.S. 77. Geary State Fishing Lake (Geary County, KS): Site where the bomb was put together, according to the Government's case. It lies along U.S. 77. Oklahoma City, OK: Site of the attack. It lies along U.S. 77.Perry, OK: Site of the county jail where McVeigh was taken to after his original arrest. It lies along U.S. 77 On June 2nd, 1997 the jury convicts Timothy McVeigh on all 11 counts. On June 13, 1997 Jury condemns McVeigh to die by lethal injection. December 11, 2000 McVeigh asks US District court Judge Richard Matsh to stop his appeals process and schedule his execution to take place before the summer. (in a hurry to die, eh) January 11, 2000 McVeigh lets pass the deadline for changing his decision. (remember there are 31 days in December so if he had 30 days to change his decision that would have made the deadline on Jan. 10, 2000) On April 12, 2001 Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the execution date 5/16/2001 and authorizes it for a closed circuit TV broadcast in Terre Haute, Indiana. Which Terre Haute of course sits on the 39th degree latitude line. May 11th Attorney General John Asscroft delays McVeigh's execution until June 11, 2001. McVeigh is then executed on June 11, 2001 at.................... 7a.m. on the 39th degree Lat. Coincidences or Masonry! The Tri-lateral Commission = 3 becomes the G7 G=7th letter of the alphabet = G7=77 K & G clothing stores = 11 7. Circle K = Circle11 (remember the quote by Alister Crowley the circle is red, the K is circled in red on their logo) KKK = 11 11 11 Kmart = 11 mart Stop by the KKKmart and give them a Hiel! Where there is a blue light 38 special in every aisle. Lets take a look at September 11th. The ground breaking ceremony of the Pentagon (symbol of the 33 degrees) was on September 11, 1941. on the 77th degree longitude. What was the 60 year anniversary of that? George Bush Sr. gave the speech before congress saying: "It's more than a big idea........it's a new idea..........It's a NEW WORLD ODER!" (Bushite, you couldn't come up with new idea if it slapped you in the ASS!) That speech was given on September 11, 1991. What was the 10 year anniversary of that? When did the small cessna (that was flown by remote control) hit the White House? September 11, 1994. What was the 7 year anniversary of that? So we will add 60 + 10 + 7 = 77 What were the flight numbers on September 11, 2001. Flight 175 = 1 + 7 + 5 = 13, Flight 11, flight 77, Flight 93 left gate 17. And you all actually thought that radical Muslims with plastic knives and box cutters did this. Then you must be brainwashed. Try Masons. Flight 77 and 11 never hit any buildings. A small commuter jet hit the first tower and a small commuter jet hit the Pentagon. Watch the tape that was on PBS again. Those 2 planes were landed in a remote location. The pilots of flight 93 got back control over the remote control so they had to shoot it down, or they could have testified that there plane was taken over REMOTELY. There were no highjackers on those planes. That is why the wreckage outside of Pittsburgh was spread out over 7 to 10 square miles. That was right in the Pittsburgh newspapers. That is not a ground collision. That is a mid air explosion. One of the planes had 93 passengers and crew Another had 58 passengers 5+8=13 and 7 crew each plane had 7 crew. Deena Burnette (who's husband was on flight 93 says her husband called her from the plane at 9:20 a.m. 9+2=11 Then she called the F.B.I. That was 2 hours before the plane went down. How long does it take to scramble F-16's? More deceit A passenger called Todd Beamer on Flight 93 supposedly placed a 13 minute telephone call. To a phone operator. Who in the hell would spend the minutes of their life talking to a phone operator. Da get me my wife, father, mother, friend. Anyone but YOU! It's A LIE! At 9:42 EST, Mark Bingham phoned his mother, Alice. "Mom? This is Mark Bingham," the voice said. She knew he was flustered. "I want to let you know that I love you. I'm on a flight from Newark to San Francisco and there are three guys who have taken over the plane and they say they have a bomb." Who would say "mom this is (and say their first and last name) How Stupid! The phone calls are such a Joke! One guy said there were 3 hijackers another said 4. Da can you count. The Todd Beamer even said 27 passengers were prodded to the back of the plane. WHAT DID HE DO? COUNT THEM? While Todd Beamer was on the phone with Lisa Jefferson, Tom Burnett called his wife again. "They're taking airplanes and hitting landmarks all up and down the East Coast," Deena told him. "OK," he replied. "We're going to do something. I'll call you back." That's not true. They had only hit the World Trade Towers. Get some CIA Agents that aren't stupid PLEASE. Lyz Glick was still on the phone with Jeremy. He told his wife to take care of Emmy, their 12-week-old daughter, and "have a good life." Lyz and Jeremy spoke of their love for each other. "I need you to be happy," he told her, "and I will respect any decisions that you make." Then he told her the passengers were taking a vote: Should they try to take back the plane? What did they do: Vote in front of the Hijackers? And why would the Hijackers let them place phone calls to begin with. Did they want to get shot down or something? Da! Sandy Bradshaw, one of the flight attendants, phone her husband, Phil. "Have you heard what's going on? My flight has been hijacked by three guys with knives," she said. "Who was flying the plane?" Phil asked his wife. "I don't know who's flying the plane or where we are," she said. Sandy Bradshaw, who was trained never to spill hot coffee on a paying customer, slipped into the airplane's galley and began filling pitchers with boiling water Boy they really had control of these passengers......... Didn't They! Their making phone calls....filling pitcher with boiling water. Hey when did she get the chance to boil water. I didn't know they had stove tops on airplanes. Lou Nacke is the only member of the group who attacked the terrorists who is not known to have made a phone call, although his wife, Amy, did have a message on her answering machine that contained only noise and a click. How do they know he was involved then? Da! From the back of Flight 93, CeeCee Lyles, another flight attendant, reached her husband, Lorne. "Babe, my plane's been hijacked," she said. "Stop joking," he said. "No, babe, I wouldn't joke like that. I love you. Tell the boys I love them." The pair prayed. In the background, Lorne Lyles could hear what he now believes was the sound of men planning a counterattack. "They're getting ready to force their way into the cockpit," she told him Oh, he could hear them in the background on the phone, but the so-called hijackers could not hear them planning this so called counter attack. Yea Right. When he had finished relaying his love for his family through Lisa Jefferson, Todd Beamer put down the phone, still connected with the outside world. His last words were: "Are you guys ready? Let's roll." Why don't you just Yell it out so the hijackers know what your up to Todd. He was probably on a phone at 7-11 Honor Wainio was still on the line with her stepmother. "I need to go," she said. "They're getting ready to break into the cockpit. I love you. Goodbye." Getting ready to break into the cockpit? What about the other hijackers? Come on main stream media. Do I look like I have DOLT written on my forehead? There wasn't any passengers on those planes! WAKE UP! George Junior Boy announced a national state of mourning on Sept. 11 for 11 days. Little Junior Boy presented his Patriot Act before Congress 11 days after Sept. 11. This was 10,000 pages of legislation. Nobody could write 10,000 pages of legislation in 11 days. That means it was written before Sept. 11. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE. Can you say "High Treason" children? The Illuminati Illuminated the New York sky on March 11, 2002 for 33 days. The Illumination even made an 11 in the sky. (could they be more arrogant? Yet, LO! Arrogance leads to Ignorance) Did you see where they killed that boy down in Florida, put his dead body on a plane , stuffed a note in his pocket and flew the plane with remote control into the Bank of Amerika.....another symbol of Amerika is attacked. Did you see their new logo right before that. 2 blue stripes....2 red stripes.....2 red stripes.= 11 11 11 = 33 degrees of Masonry! You are being Played! The Masons set up shop in D.C. and set up their criminal enterprise there from the beginning. Figured they would stick around until the people ran them out. THEIR.............. STILL............. THERE! Upon an eastern coast Of a land once of the free Sits a king who likes to boast That he has a democracy Ruling by imposition Breaking the laws of the land Causing a Great Depression He wields a fatal hand Reigning Hell upon the Earth Harming his people in turn Satan rejoiced with his birth When will his people learn Yet maybe not all is dark History has seen his fall The one eyed man has found his mark Riding the truth he will call For the King with little wisdom Looks not to the past Seeing only his Kingdom A vision THAT WILL NOT LAST! In the Kingdom of the Blind The One-Eyed Man will be King And the Veil will be Lifted So that the Blind will See. In the Kingdom of the blind The One-Eyed man will be King And the Veil will be lifted And the blind WILL SEE. A Metaphor. A Revelation of Truth. And the Truth................Will Slay Evil. And only the Truth..................WILL SET YOU FREE! Self Sufficiency, Freedom, Peace, Love............Earthlings Duke Garway Church dovecot [Inside there are 666 holes..] Just over the wall from the wall can be seen the columbarium or dovecote - see ill. 38, which was built in the time of the Templars but had fallen into disrepair by the time the Hospitallers took over, this is confirmed in an account of the property written by John-de-la-Haye in 1313. Although very feint now, there is a Latin inscription over the door which in The Gentleman's Magazine of 1907, p.635, the Reverend John Webb stated read in abbreviated form: The full version is, " Anno Domini millesimo trecentesimo vicesimo sexto factum fuit istud columbare fratrem Ricardum", which in translation reads, "In the year of our Lord 1326 this dovecote was built by Richard", - see ill. 39, this is thought to be somewhat of an exaggeration and probably means that he repaired the dovecote in 1326. John Webb also remarks that on his visit he also noticed another inscription in the interior of the dovecote which read, "GILBE RTVS", whoever Gilbertus was remains a mystery, perhaps he helped Brother Richard in the restoration of the building? Webb describes other stones carved with, "the double cross of the Templars, accompanied in one instance with the letter R, of the scriptorial form". The upper p