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Mop-Up...Newton And Webster As Inter-Agency War
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  Who'd have ever guessed that an initial stab at unraveling the story behind the Sandy Hook school massacre would soon lead to a burgeoning trilogy worthy of Mario Puzo? Imagine the movie rights to ''The Godfather of Conn'' or ''Sopranos of the Senate'' which, given the long absence of Brando, could mean a starring role for the soon-to-retire Joe Lieberman? Champion of drug mafias, kiddie porn producers and the Israeli war machine ­ he's a hand-in-glove natural as a villain that everyone loves to hate.
  The previous essays suggested that the Sandy Hook school carnage, pinned on a ''lone gun-boy'', could actually have been planned and staged by a team of so-called ''dirty cops'' ­ who are in fact political enforcers - and their felon informants embedded inside the nexus of state police intelligence, Homeland Security, the FBI and CIA.
  Crime in America, as in most societies, is institutionalized. Under a corrupted system of government, the police cannot strictly enforce the law but instead serve as a regulator of crime groups in the interests of politicians, high bureaucrats and intelligence agencies, which depend on the non-taxable kickbacks generated by the underworld.
  Turf is allocated or denied to rival crime groups involved in drug peddling, child porn and prostitution by a shadowy network of police officers working on behalf of powerful politicians. The relationship between criminals and cops is inherently unstable because the borderlines of Gangland have to be periodically redrawn due to the CIA's insertion of upstart crime groups from refugee communities sent over from the Agency-run wars abroad, which are themselves criminal operations. The CIA decides the winners and losers in the rigged globalist system of worldwide crime.
  The outcome of turf wars is a caste structure among the ethnic mobs ­ with the newest immigrants from Central America or Asia doing the frontline job of murder, burglary, arson and abduction; African Americans and Hispanics operating street sales and numbers running; the Italian and Irish mafias acting as distributors and gambling syndicates; and the multiethnic Jewish mob peddling high-end contraband to the financial-political elite (Safardic Jews in drugs and Russian-Israelis in underage prostitution). The top dogs on this totem pole of the sin industry are the politicians, who are the bosses of the crime bosses and corporate criminals.
  Retiring a Protection Racket
  This third in a series explores the crime trends and possible motives that culminated in the Sandy Hook school massacre. Out of the many alternative scenarios, the most compelling is the need to ''clean house'' whenever a long-serving powerful and corrupted politician prepares to leave office.
  So long as an entrenched politician stays in office his protection racket faces no serious threat, since it's the only circus in town. His departure, however, exposes the weaknesses within the mafia-protection scheme - disgruntled cops, vengeful victims, tattletale informants, loose cannons naive enough to still believe in the law, and police chiefs looking toward the next deal with the incoming political team. Protection rackets are built with illicit money and not on loyalty.
  For an exiting politician to foil any corruption investigations by their rivals, the underlings who do the daily dirty work ­ cops, prison guards and confidential informers - must be eliminated. Some of the insiders must die so that the many others keep their vow of silence.
  Great danger lies in leaving a trail of potential witnesses for questioning by prosecutors aligned with an incoming administration. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been investigating the state troopers beholden to George Pataki. Senator Chris Murphy who surely would like to rid himself of Lieberman's compromised legacy.
  Therefore, the Old Guard's lackeys have to be snuffed and the murders must appear to be suicides, accidents or revenge by criminals. After losing the New York gubernatorial seat in 2008, George Pataki left office in an inglorious blaze of police ''suicides'' and gunshot deaths of informants and mafia henchmen. Similarly, since early 2011, while Senator's Lieberman's long term drew to a close, a spate of police deaths in the shootings and alleged suicides of officers and gangsters have rocked the Connecticut police force to its core. The difference between these two political rogues is that Pataki had little time to clear the decks following his election loss, while Lieberman has had a couple of years to close the curtains on his reign.
  On rare occasions, these politically sanctioned assassinations of policemen by other cops or their confidential informants, many of them hardened criminals, are botched, opening a rare perspective into the dark heart of the beast that rules America.
  Gunshots to the Head
  Policemen are expendable, which is why they are selectively culled so that only simpletons are recruited. The Connecticut police academy entrance exam automatically fails candidates who score too high. (If this sounds like a joke, it isn't ­ it is official policy.) A cop, good or bad, is expected to follow orders. The men in blue are just cannon fodder commanded by the higher ranking senior officers, detectives and prosecutors, who are supposed to do the thinking. So it is ridiculously easy when the appointed time arrives to take out one cop after the next.
  Since the start of 2011, four Connecticut police officers have ''committed suicide'' by gunshot, another was shot dead by a sniper who in turn was gunned down by other police officers, a female cop was fatally fired upon by her ex-boyfriend who was then killed by more cops, a retired policeman fell to a bullet in an apparent gangland attack and a sergeant was found hanged in a state park. A police department program on post-traumatic stress simply beggars common sense, because the killing spree is obviously a mop-up campaign. Whoever gave the order is an untouchable above the fray.
  Here's a quick look at a few of these alleged suicides and arranged murders.
  - A police sergeant, age 49, from Rocky Hill found shot dead at 5 a.m. in his cruiser at a local cemetery in April 2011
  - A Middletown police captain, a decorated 26-year veteran of the force, found at home dead from a bullet wound on May 2011 after being charged with DUI
  - A lieutenant mortally wounded by a gunshot inside the Groton police station with another officer finding his body at 8:30 a.m. in June 2011
  - A sergeant, who was a U.S. Army veteran, found hanged in a state forest in Barkhamsted in February 2012.
  These incidents transpired after the police chief in New Britain was forced to resign in March 2011. Long-serving officers are being involuntarily removed in a Soviet-style purge of the state police force. Meanwhile, Connecticut is witnessing a 20-year high in civilian suicides, with many of the victims dying from gunshot wounds. A couple of low lifes were shot in Fairfield, a preppie town near the Jesuit college associated with the CIA; and in another incident a gunman was pursued by policemen to the UConn campus, where his cause of death was reported as a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The time-frames of the dead policemen's careers correspond to Lieberman's 24-year term as governor and, before that, state attorney general.
  Sympathy for the Devil
  Now, let's show a little sympathy for rogue police officers by opening our minds to how a so-called dirty cop thinks. Now suppose that you are smarter than the average flatfoot and decided to cheat on the entry test by deliberately giving erroneous answers. Then after years of loyal service to your superiors, you are troubled by the suicides of your fellow officers.
  Your thoughts flash back to those occasional odd assignments that were never written up in a police report ­ a night raid that ended in the death of a mafia chieftain, contraband confiscated from a drug pusher that triggered a turf war, failure to probe a lethal burglary of the premises of a businessman who supports a maverick candidate, the planting of drugs on a protester, the roughing up of an ''eco-terrorist'' tree-hugger . . . and you can barely hold back the laughter.
  Then it dawns on you why your home is being staked out by a plainclothesman, a new recruit who came out of the Navy SEALS down by the Groton submarine base. Your wife and children know nothing abut your moonlighting. Your kids look up to you as a selfless hero. All the while, you were just following orders like a good soldier. The off-the-books pay came in handle for your mortgage and for family vacations.
  The choice is clear: Go down easy and your wife receives the benefits or you go out fighting with honor intact. So in the poker room of neighborhood bar, your guys meet with some cops from another district and put heads together. Your old high-school buddy who rose quickly up the ranks as a police intelligence officer with the Organized Crime Task Force is in attendance at the war council. His network of contacts is regionwide, and he's got a knack for tactical planning of undercover operations.
  ''What a raw deal we've been served,'' says the lieutenant pessimistically. ''The big chiefs are behind this sweep against our boys, and it's going to take a huge splash in the newspapers to get these SOBs to back off. They're closing in to shut down the whole show before the DOJ can mount an investigation.''
  A veteran detective chimes in: ''Whassay we get a couple of ex-cons, you know the guys we brought in for the nastier jobs, and tell them that they've been compromised along with us. Nobody likes to be double-crossed by frigging politicians who think they can change their mind whenever it's convenient and leave us holding the bag.''
  The lieutenant's eyes light up. ''Good point. Let's see how a couple of crazy contract hoods out of CIA Iraq react to this bull crap.''
  Everyone nods. The Thin Blue Line is shaping up again. The lieutenant shoots a glance at a stoop-shouldered man nursing his beer in the corner. ''What about crime lab? Ballistics and autopsy reports have got to be good.''
  ''Has forensics ever failed you?'' the tired gray-haired man answers rhetorically.
  The louie again: ''Now, gentlemen, all of us have got to give Butch and Sundance the cover they need to do the deed. Got any problems with that, Cap'n Stan?''
  The African American chief of undercover operations growls: ''The force be with you, bro'.''
  Nods all round. As the party breaks up, a sergeant blurts out: ''Remember, guys, it ain't going to be pretty. Otherwise the big shots and their girl scouts at Homeland Security won't get the message. We're going in for a touchdown right up the middle.''
  A young point-man with SWAT stays behind and goes to the bar for another beer, watches the Patriots drive downfield, and then slams his forehead on the oak counter. ''How in the hell did I ever get into this?''
  Angletonian Ambiguity
  This little exercise in fictive scenario-writing is what crime analysts and some detectives do to connect the dots of known background and social psychology with the sparse facts of a case. In a real-world situation, a bar room and a conference are unnecessary, being only a stage set and props. Just a nod across the hallway or a sideways glance between cruisers will do.
  Nothing's ever certain, of course, which is why crime, especially of a political nature when both sides are actively engaged, is governed by an uncertainly principle, Guilt or innocence depends on the angle of observation and one's own stake in the case. As for good guys or bad guys, neither inhabits this world of dark gray. The imaginary line between law and crime is blurred in a cloud of Angletonian ambiguity.
  That was the point of the Hong Kong movie ''Infernal Affairs'', which showed the cops infiltrating organized crime and the criminals penetrating the police force. The better cops are criminals and vice versa. Law and crime are interdependent, each unable to exist without the other.
  As Professor Moriarty asked Sherlock Holmes, ''Who is the trout and who is the fisherman?'' That question, of course, strikes at the heart of the war on terrorism, Homeland Security and gun control. In a real-world case, who ultimately holds responsibility for the Newtown massacre ­ the undercover network that planned the killings in reprisal or the mob-allied political class that made a reprisal inevitable?
  A Countryside Drive from Newtown to Webster
  Whenever an intriguing crime is committed, an investigative editor has a habit of jotting down the timeline and drawing up a tactical plan for the operation. My notes on Sandy Hook contain the observation: ''One reason for choosing Newtown is its location between the city of Danbury (local police headquarters) and the border with New York State. The assailants could drive along Highway 83 west unimpeded and, after crossing the state line, move up any number of state roads or the Hudson River Highway to Upstate New York.'' Escape is the first priority in planning a job.
  The hit team could count on an easy escape because they had arranged for the presence of three patsies at or near the school. Roping in a bored gullible youth is not much of a challenge. Phoning in a couple of low-life drug dealers to be parked on-site is easier than ordering a pizza. Infiltrating the school's new security system is done by sending in a gunman on the previous afternoon after school lets out. After making a fake delivery or reading a utility meter, he finds a hiding place and gets some shut-eye for the morning's chore. Soon after dawn, another team member takes out the patsy's mother after her son goes off to the school. No further details should be discussed here since this is not a manual for success at terrorism or kidnapping.
  The three-man team ­ 2 gunmen and a spotter ­ drive away from the school job toward their next assignment. At their second target, in Webster, the hit men set up a trap for the back-stabbing snitch police. A former convict is selected and his house is torched for an ambush to draw in the Emergency Services Department, which are all today subordinated as local branches of Homeland Security.
  Contrary to media reports, three of the four casualties were policemen on security detail to protect firefighters. The selection of victims indicates that the snipers were familiar with police emblems on the firefighting uniforms and helmets, identifying them as agents of Homeland Security. Shooting from a berm or earthen wall, the snipers waged a gunfight for several hours before disappearing into the darkness. Their skilful set-up and maneuvering indicates battlefield experience, probably in a commando unit.
  Again from my notes, the hit team at Newtown and Webster appear to be one and the same. Their preference for rifles again indicates a military background, given the fact that handguns are easier to conceal and fire inside the close quarters of a classroom. At both sites, the body of a lone gunman and weapon was left as proof of guilt, a standard method employed by police after an extrajudicial execution of a suspect.
  Both centers of action are near major prisons - in Rochester and Danbury. If not a sheer coincidence, the choice of these sites indicates that the attack team has contact with correctional officers, informants and possibly incarcerated mob bosses. The recent arrest of a Danbury corrections officer who tried to murder a DOJ special agent reveals deep connections between the police and mob-linked convicts. Both towns are in the borderlands and at logistical chokepoints contested between the Cosa Nostra from New York City and Irish gangs based in Massachusetts.
  Every detail points to an internal war at the highest levels of national and state law enforcement. A motive is expressed in the sensational quality of both attacks, organized for maximum news coverage, stressing the helplessness of the police response and underlining the failure of Homeland Security to defend homes and children. Terror attacks against schools are meant to express the iron will of the assailants in demanding redress of their grievances without compromise or punitive action. With rules of engagement suspended, these are not crimes, they're acts of war.
  Homeland Security as Parallel Spy Network
  For the Newtown job, the planners had to be acquainted with Nancy Lanza, probably during her marksmanship training at the police shooting range and from her reports to the DHS community-liaison program. After observing her arsenal at a shooting range, the planners could obtain the same gun models as hers. Her son was probably already on a watch list for minor suspects in local child-porn rings that serve the New York mafia-run internet-sex industry. If paying back the DHS was the intended goal, the Lanzas were the way in.
  The school was in the first stage of the Homeland Security program that begins with installation of electronic door locks. The DHS volunteers at the school were amateurish and posed no threat to criminals or rival agencies. The larger problem is that Joe Lieberman's Frankenstein, the Department of Homeland Security, has been horning in on the turf of the Connecticut state police, a challenge that could knock over some covert CIA programs in the state. The FBI arrest of CIA accomplice Whitey Bulger last year, while it may have not triggered these attacks, suggests the breakdown of interagency cooperation.
  With its $668 million in grants to Connecticut since 2002, the DHS has been building a parallel intelligence structure outside the conventional state law enforcement system. Its preferred method is aimed at investigating citizens, for example, by computer tracking of driving records and through school registries. While the law enforcement agencies focus their intelligence gathering on criminals, the DHS spies on all citizens, including police officers.
  The normal law enforcement agencies already coordinate their activities through the Connecticut Intelligence Center (CTIC). Here's the official description:
  ''CTIC is a regional intelligence center staffed by local, federal, and state agency personnel who share expertise, resources, and intelligence information in an effort to deal more effectively with criminal and terrorist threats and activities. The staff include personnel from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), State Police, Connecticut Police Chiefs Association, and U.S. Coast Guard. An FBI agent exercises day-to-day authority over the center, which is located at the FBI's New Haven office.''
  Senator Lieberman's campaign to establish a second intelligence bureaucracy is going to be looked on with suspicion by experienced police intelligence officers. The Senate Committee that godfathered the Homeland Security Act, in other words, will have its own source of classified files. Thus Lieberman has created a system under which he can order police officers to engage in illegal tactics, while at the same time have on hand DHS files incriminating them. It's a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation.
  The double authority system is vulnerable to a major security leak, considering Lieberman and other Zionist congressmen's close association with the Israelis. It is doubly difficult to trace any loss of classified files or confidential information with two separate intelligence systems. The leaks do not just affect local law enforcement, since many Connecticut officers have backgrounds in the CIA, the DIA and State Department.
  Therefore, from a national security perspective, Homeland Security is potentially a Mossad in your own community, disarming citizens, and basically transforming Americans into Palestinians without any rights of self-defense. This is not to say that police intelligence officers out of the CIA are the good guys, only that redundancy in domestic surveillance is a sure road to an authoritarian and criminal state.
  Running with the Devious
  Just down the road from Newtown, the town of New Canaan ­ which can be pronounced New Cain Land ­ is headquarters to a ''humanitarian relief'' organization called AmeriCares, which did the gunrunning to the Contras and later to the neofascist militias in Croatia during the break-up of Yugoslavia. The fake charity is similar to NorAid, which at least kept up the pretense of helping orphans and widows with those donation boxes in every Irish bar across the United States. Despite AmerCares leasing of large cargo jets that took off from Bradley Field ­ the same airport that serves Newtown - nary a jumpseat could be found to transport a single Bandaid or pack of aspirin.
  Their medical aid usually consisted of frozen factor-8 blood product from low-grade blood banks. These shipments were followed by a massive outbreak of HIV across the Balkans. The previous article mentioned how Japan's Teikyo University established an overseas branch in Connecticut at Post University, a channel through which a former Unit 731 biowarfare doctor arranged purchases of HIV-tainted blood transfused into Japanese hemophiliacs. After World War II, the OSS-CIA gave immunity to Unit 731 members, whose research included hantavirus virus, grandfather of the strain that recently broke out in Yosemite, and bubonic plague, a research subject at the federal animal lab on Plum Island, off the tip of Long Island and only a 10-mile's sail from the Connecticut shore.
  Whether the infected blood deal was an inadvertent scam or a deliberate attempt to infect large cohorts for the purpose of spurring the formation of an antibody for an HIV vaccine has never been determined despite years of investigation by Japanese news media. One thing is for sure, these bloodsuckers are no better than a brood of vampires.
  The smuggling tradition must run in the bloodline with a spook from the Kennedy clan involved in the AmeriCares scam. Not that anyone should object to the trade of the clan patriarch Joe Kennedy Sr., who did humanity and bartenders a secret service by sailing in cargoes of Old Fitz whisky, smooth as silk and lethal as a tommy gun. AmeriCares was founded by the late Bob Macauley, a classmate of George HW Bush. Political protection for the New Canaan racket and Whitey Bulger came from former Senator Chris Dodd, one of your run-of-the-mill Knights of Malta.
  Connecticut has been an Agency stronghold since before the CIA came into existence. As revealed earlier in this series, OSS Bill Donovan focused his recruitment drive for case officers at Connecticut prep schools. Many of the demobilized intelligence officers after World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam War entered into the police intelligence unit in Connecticut.
  Yale University in New Haven is the alma mater of top CIA figures, including OSS-CIA founder Bill Donovan, the controversial James Angleton, Richard Bissell of Bay of Pigs notoriety, agent provocateur Reverend William Sloan Coffin, George H.W. Bush, James Woolsey, Porter Goss, Bill and Hillary Clinton . . . plus hundreds of lesser celebrated station chiefs and analysts. The Yale-CIA connection is enshrined in the statue of Yale graduate Nathan Hale, the chief spy for George Washington's Continental Army.
  Redrawing the Map of Gangland
  It is well-documented that the OSS allowed the Sicilian Mafia to expand its operations across the U.S. in exchange for their support against Mussolini. At war's end, the CIA set up the Italy-based paramilitary under the Gladio Project and nuclear weapons for Israel. CIA executives James Angleton and later William Colby, both inducted into the Knights of Malta, presided over the symbiotic relationship between the Sicilian Mafia and the Jewish mob run by Meyer Lansky.
  President John Kennedy's failure during the Cuban Revolution to defend Lansky's casinos in Cuba, a major center of Hispanic Jewry, led to a coalescence of notorious figures including Bibi Rebozo and Spiro Agnew with Lanksy, the Jewish financier of organized crime. Angleton watched with approval as planning proceeded for the day in Dallas and its immediate cover-up. In his memorable words, the conspiratorial spymaster said: ''Deception is a state of mind, and the mind of the state.''
  By the 1980s, CIA director Bill Casey stepped up Agency support for the IRA and toward this aim favored the Winter Hill Gang led by the gunrunner Whitey Bulger. Back in 1950s, the Dr. Sydney Gottlieb personally conducted LSD research on Bulger and 17 other inmates at the Atlanta Penitentiary. After his spell under mind-control, Bulger emerged from MK-ULTRA as a highly respected contract killer for the CIA.
  With Bulger aboard to take over Connecticut, the CIA-controlled Connecticut police intelligence crushed the Patriciarca mob. The federal prosecutor for New England Jeremiah O'Sullivan, who gave immunity to the Boston mob chief, is known for his ''intelligence-based'' strategy using wiretaps, turning around gang members into confidential informants, and using other gangs to prey on the targeted La Cosa Nostra. Once subdued, Connecticut served as a launch pad for the guerrilla campaign that scored major successes against the British occupation forces in Northern Ireland.
  The CIA made room for others as well. In the wake of the Vietnam War, a wave of Vietnamese boat people had their impact on New England in the 1980s, which along with a Buffalo, New York, was a transshipment route for heroine from Toronto destined for the major American cities. Toronto under the control of a Zionist cartel was a free port for the Asian mobs.
  Among these refugees, the most ruthless killers and smugglers, who specialized in packing heroin inside frozen fish, were the Vietnamese-Chinese who had been expelled by the victorious communists. At the time, I was involved in putting young gang members on parole into community-service programs in New York. So recently it came as a pleasant surprise to see their progress in 25 years, symbolized by the daughter of a Vietnamese-Chinese owner of a fish market in Boston discovering, wooing and financing a nice Jewish lad named Mark Zuckerberg. There's a story behind the rise of Facebook that you won't read about in the Boston Globe.
  The Balkans War Comes to Conn.
  By the late 1990s, the tide turned against the IRA as the Vatican shifted its strategy toward a political solution to Northern Ireland, as implemented by Senator George Mitchell. In 2002, Bulger had to flee an arrest warrant and was ensconced in California by his case officers. That's about when the Clinton administration launched the NATO war in the Balkans. Italy was the staging gound for air-strike operations and signals intercepts, and so the Italian mob from Calabria and Puglia were invited to share in the American Dream.
  At that point, reinforced by new recruits, the Genovese family and, to a lesser degree the Colombo mob, crossed the state line from New York into Danbury to claim the abandoned Irish turf. Once again, the Connecticut crime scene became a vacuum contested by all comers. James Galante, with the Genovese mob, took over trash hauling and car racing, with some inside help from a state trooper who accessed criminal investigation records. Within a few years, the FBI was trying to roll back the Cosa Nostra from Danbury and Hartford.
  The newest immigrants to make their splash in Connecticut are the Albanians, who resettled into the Italian-American communities. The CIA and MI-6 could overlook their role in the organ trade and pedophile services since the Albanians proved a reliable pipeline for heroin out of Afghanistan. In Earth Day 2004, environmentalists picking up trash in a park found the dismembered corpse of Zef Vulivic, a Montenegrin owner of a Stamford restaurant.
  After decades of mob upheaval and unprecedented in-fighting within law enforcement, Connecticut proliferates with child porn, prostitution, drugs, contract murder and every type of scam. Lieberman has reduced the Constitution State into a war zone.
  Conclusion:
  Contrary to media speculation, the attacks in Newtown and Webster are not irrational crimes committed by madmen but instead deliberately calculated moves in a larger political struggle. Thus far in this ongoing battle, the clear loser is Homeland Security, which has proven to be just another overrated and ineffective bureaucracy like FEMA. A bigger loser is the CIA, long past its prime and now witnessing the wreckage of its own backyard in Connecticut. The biggest loser, however, is Senator Joe Lieberman who has failed to eradicate the rogue police officers who will eventually turn state's witness against his decades of criminal governance.
  Instead of encouraging, cooperating and profiting with organized crime in the service of politicians, the government at federal and state levels needs to gradually isolate and strangle this monster of organized crime that is corrupting social morals and subverting democratic governance. The intelligence-based model of crime-fighting is fundamentally flawed by the routine use of criminals and illegal tactics, often against law-abiding citizens and insignificant offenders. Finally, foreign organized crime groups must be stopped cold by immigration authorities from ever setting foot on American soil. State Department-CIA vouching for known warlords and criminals to obtain green cards has Balkanized much of American society into mob-run ethnic enclaves, completely tarnishing the American Dream.
  The final point is the need to reduce the influence of sectarian secret societies, including on the Catholic side ­ the Knights of Malta and Opus Dei ­ and on the Jewish side of the aisle ­ the pernicious lobbies run by the Likud neoconservatives and the Rothschild Zionists.
  Children are being sacrificed on the altars of these foreign heresies ­ and there is no greater treasure or cause for hope than children. Whenever reformers tire against the vastness of crime and corruption, let the memories of that horrific morning in Connecticut inspire them to renewed struggle.
  Yoichi Shimatsu is a science writer based in Hong Kong involved in health counseling in Fukushima.
POLICE SEIZE ELM HOUSE FILES
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  According to The Sunday People newspaper, Child abuse cops, investigating the Elm Guest House in London, have seized a VIP list: Politicians, an MI5 agent, a Royal aide and pop stars are all named"First arrests are expected soon."
  "A list of names seized by police probing allegations of child abuse includes ministers, members of the royal household and a world-famous pop star, the Sunday People can reveal.
  All were recorded as visitors to the Elm Guest House that operated as a gay brothel.
  "Now some could be suspects in an investigation into a network of powerful people who were secret paedophiles for years."
  Nine officers visited the London home of former child protection worker Mary Moss.
  Documents and a laptop were seized.
  Mary Moss handed over 19 files she had hidden in a neighbour's shed.
  The files list the people who allegedly went to sex parties in the 80s at the Elm Guest House, Barnes, South West London.
  Among the names are two former Conservative Cabinet ministers, four other senior Tories, a Labour MP, a prominent Irish republican, a leading National Front member, two members of the royal household '' one a former Buckingham Palace employee '' plus the owner of a multinational company and two pop stars.
  "One of those is a best-selling musician, but like some others on the list he is not suspected of being involved in the child abuse."L.O.L.
  The list was made at meetings in 1988 between the guest house's manager Carole Kasir and child protection officials.
  Other documents reportedly identify 16 boys who were trafficked to the guest house from local care homes.
  Police have asked Richmond Council for a full list of children in care at the time; social services records from the London boroughs of Wandsworth, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Hounslow will also be checked by detectives.
  aangirfan: ELM HOUSE - CHILD SEX RING - TOP PEOPLE
House Adopts Amash Transparency Reforms | Congressman Justin Amash
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  January 4, 2013
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  House Adopts Amash Transparency Reforms
  Proposals Make Legislation More Accessible to Public
  Washington, D.C. '' On Thursday, the House passed two legislative process reforms written by Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI). The reforms take effect immediately and bind the 113th Congress, which was sworn in this morning.
  ''Americans should be able to access the legislation their Congress is considering'--and to understand what it does,'' said Amash. ''Too often, bills fail to include key information that would make them comprehensible to our constituents. I am pleased that the House took important steps to increase the transparency of our policymaking by adopting my two reforms.''
  The first reform provides that bills reported by House committees include not only the text of the current law that is being amended but also surrounding provisions in current law. The extra context will make it easier for readers to understand what bills do.
  The second reform requires legislation to include cross-references to the U.S. Code. Under current practice, many bills are written with cross-references to laws that were enacted decades ago. Finding accurate and up-to-date versions of such laws can be extremely difficult. In contrast, a reasonably current version of the U.S. Code is available for free, online.
  Amash made increasing the federal government's transparency a top priority in his first term. In addition to being the first and only Representative to explain every vote he takes, Amash passed transparency legislation out of the Committee on the Budget and on the House floor.
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"Congress Should Restore A Ban On Military-Style Assault Weapons And A 10-Round Limit For Magazines"
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Piers Morgan To Charlie Sheen Q: "Why Does Anyone Need An AR-15 Anyway?" A: "To Fight A War"
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Statement by the President on the Terrorist Attack in Algeria
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  The White House
  Office of the Press Secretary
  For Immediate Release
  January 19, 2013
  Today, the thoughts and prayers of the American people are with the families of all those who were killed and injured in the terrorist attack in Algeria. The blame for this tragedy rests with the terrorists who carried it out, and the United States condemns their actions in the strongest possible terms. We have been in constant contact with Algerian officials and stand ready to provide whatever assistance they need in the aftermath of this attack. We also will continue to work closely with all of our partners to combat the scourge of terrorism in the region, which has claimed too many innocent lives. This attack is another reminder of the threat posed by al Qaeda and other violent extremist groups in North Africa. In the coming days, we will remain in close touch with the Government of Algeria to gain a fuller understanding of what took place so that we can work together to prevent tragedies like this in the future.
Remarks by the President and the First Lady on Volunteering on National Day of Service
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  The White House
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  For Immediate Release
  January 19, 2013
  Burrville Elementary SchoolWashington, D.C.
  12:46 P.M. EST
  THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Well, this is a good-looking crew here. (Applause.) First of all, we just want to acknowledge Burrville Elementary School -- (applause) -- and the principal here, Tui Roper, who is doing outstanding work. (Applause.) If you see Tui, you may think she's a student, but no, she's the principal.
  As I look around the room, I see friends from all across the country, people who have been such great supporters of ours, but more importantly, everybody here -- adults to children -- understand the importance of giving back. And as we think about not so much Inauguration, but we think about the fact that this is Dr. King's birthday that we're going to be celebrating this weekend, I'm always reminded that he said, everybody wants to be first, everybody wants to be a drum major; but if you're going to be a drum major, be a drum major for service, be a drum major for justice, be a drum major for looking out for other people. (Applause.)
  And organizations like City Year -- (applause) -- the Corporation for National Service -- (applause) -- all the great work that's being done day in, day out shows that there's a huge hunger on the part of young people to get involved and to get engaged. And it was interesting -- we were talking to one of the young people, I was staining a shelf --
  MRS. OBAMA: He did a fine job.
  THE PRESIDENT: And Michelle says I did a fine job. (Laughter and applause.) And one of the City Year folks, I was talking to them, I said, how'd you get involved, they said, our parents every holiday we'd always do service and so I was taught at a very young age. So the fact that we've got some outstanding young people here today, I want to say thank you to the parents for showing early on to all our young people how gratifying and how fulfilling this is.
  This is really what America is about. This is what we celebrate. This Inauguration we're going to be -- it's a symbol of how our democracy works and how we peacefully transfer power, but it should also be an affirmation that we're all in this together and that we've got to look out for each other and work hard on behalf of each other.
  So we're thrilled that all of you are here. We hope you guys are having a great time. (Applause.) I hear reports that the very young people did some really good work and some of the older folks like me, who it hurt getting our knees kind of bending down a little bit, we were able to manage also, and somehow Michelle looked stylish the whole time she was doing it. (Applause.)
  So, Mich, you want to say a few words?
  MRS. OBAMA: You all, thank you so much. It's wonderful to have such great turnout for this day of service. And I know that we have a lot of family members in the audience -- (applause) -- and we always force our family, when they come up and do something really cool, they have to serve and they do it happily. So I'm proud of our families for always being there for us. We love you guys.
  So as Barack said, this is a weekend of celebration, but through it all we have to remember that the reason why we're here, why we're standing here, why we're able to celebrate this weekend is because a lot of people worked hard and supported us. And we've got a job to do. And this is a symbol of the kind of work that we need to be doing for the next four years and beyond.
  (Loud crash.)
  THE PRESIDENT: That was a cameraman.
  MRS. OBAMA: That was the press. This is press. (Laughter.) It's okay, though, it's okay. Hope you didn't break it. (Laughter.)
  So for all the young people, and we've got a lot of young people -- City Year members, the students here at this school -- as Barack says, we're passing the baton onto you all. So the goal is, is that as you make your way through life, who are you pulling up behind you? And as long as you're pulling somebody up behind you, you're doing the right thing.
  So thank you all. We're very proud of you and we're going to come down and shake some hands.
  END 12:52 P.M. EST
Lame Cherry: Bulgarian Jokers
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  Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:30
  As this blog featured in the plastic gun assassination attempt earlier in the Slavic states, the following is something to consider as the ripples spike in this.
  Man attempts to assassinate Bulgaria's opposition leader during speech...
  Gun jams...
  VIDEO...
  In the European oracles it is said that assassinations happen in the Balkans before the Third World War breaks out.
  World War I was an excuse for such an act by an anarchist. An American President was assassinated by a like conspirator years before.
  When ruptures like this occur, they are pre quakes in the matrix.....meaning when a huge event of disaster appears, smaller fissures take place in "minds vulnerable" to such things.
  Barack Obama in the manifestation of the shadow signature of his appearance was such a happening. There are bigger signatures in this when Barry Chin blew the matrix for his 2012 election theft.
  The spiders in the wire have not gelled yet in this, and it has been almost three months since this event.
  Lame Cherry7 hours ago '' All covered here, all Lame Cherry exclusives and all proving right in the evidence now being revealed for those who did not dare to believe.The search engines are not coordinating in this yet.Lame Cherry7 hours ago '' Considering Bill Clinton's retroactive taxes to Barack Hussein Obama's dictatorial rule over riding Constitutional taxation, Citizenship, life and ...Lame Cherry: Obama's Diaspora Deadlamecherry.blogspot.com/2013/01/obamas-diaspora-dead.html7 days ago '' Obama's Diaspora Dead. One of the brain children was found ...There are issues focued upon though in the rupture the election theft caused, and for reasons the spiders vibrate at, Jill Kelley is at focus in this, being an Obama operative appearing at the White House in the military set up.These unbalanced minds are picking up immense shockwaves in the matrix to be feeling it this far out as it should be years away yet. That is how cataclysmic this is to be.
  Another Lame Cherry continued matter anti matter exclusive
  Got to jet.
  agtG 224
Overcharging batteries eyed in Boeing 787 mishaps
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  Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:57
  This Jan. 17, 2013 photo provided by the Japan Transport Safety Board shows the distorted main lithium-ion battery and its lid, left, of the All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 which made an emergency landing on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 at Takamatsu airport in Takamatsu, western Japan. At right are the model in normal condition. U.S. safety officials and Boeing inspectors joined a Japanese investigation Friday into the 787 jet at the center of a worldwide grounding of the technologically advanced aircraft. The pilot of the ANA plane made an emergency landing Wednesday morning after he smelled something burning and received a cockpit warning of battery problems. All passengers evacuated the plane on emergency slides. (AP Photo/Japan Transport Safety Board) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES
  It's likely that burning lithium ion batteries on two Boeing 787 Dreamliners were caused by overcharging, aviation safety and battery experts said Friday, pointing to developments in the investigation of the Boeing incidents as well as a battery fire in a business jet more than a year ago.
  An investigator in Japan, where a 787 made an emergency landing earlier this week, said the charred insides of the plane's lithium ion battery show the battery received voltage in excess of its design limits.
  The similarity of the burned battery from the All Nippon Airways flight to the burned battery in a Japan Airlines 787 that caught fire Jan. 7 while the jet was parked at Boston's Logan International Airport suggests a common cause, Japan transport ministry investigator Hideyo Kosugi said.
  "If we compare data from the latest case here and that in the U.S., we can pretty much figure out what happened," Kosugi said.
  In the case of the 787 in Boston, the battery in the plane's auxiliary power unit had recently received a large demand on its power and was in the process of charging when the fire ignited, a source familiar with the investigation of the 787 fire in Boston told The Associated Press. The plane had landed a short time earlier and was empty of passengers, although a cleaning crew was working in the plane.
  The source spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
  The Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency order Wednesday temporarily grounding the six 787s belonging to United Airlines, the lone U.S. carrier operating Boeing's newest and most technologically advanced airliner. The Japanese carriers already had grounded their 787s, and airlines and civil aviation authorities in other countries followed suit, shutting down all 50 Dreamliners that Boeing has delivered so far.
  Boeing said Friday it will stop delivering new 787s to customers until the electrical system is fixed. However, production is not stopping. The plane is assembled in Everett, Washington, and North Charleston, South Carolina. The aircraft maker has booked orders for more than 800 of the planes from airlines around the world attracted by its increased fuel efficiency.
  A battery fire in a Cessna Citation CJ4, a business jet, prompted the Federal Aviation Administration in October 2011 to issue an emergency order requiring the lithium ion batteries in all 42 of the jets in operation at that time to be replaced with a conventional nickel-cadmium or lead-acid battery. The fire occurred while the plane was hooked up to a ground power station at Cessna's aircraft completion center in Wichita, Kansas. Normally, that would cause an aircraft battery to automatically start charging, experts said.
  A letter from Cessna to CJ4 owners after the incident cautioned: "Do not connect a ground power unit to the airplane if you have reason to believe the battery may be in a depleted state ... Do not leave the aircraft unattended with a ground power unit connected."
  The Citation was Cessna's first business jet with a lithium ion battery as its main battery, and the 787 is the first airliner to make extensive use of lithium ion batteries. But the two are vastly different in size and in other respects, including their electrical systems, making comparisons difficult. Their batteries also came from different makers. The reasons they overcharged are likely to be different, experts said.
  However, the three incidents'--the two burned 787 batteries and the Citation fire'--underscore the vulnerability of lithium ion batteries to igniting if they receive too much voltage too fast, experts said. Other types of batteries may overheat in those circumstances, but they are far less susceptible to starting a fire, they said.
  "Other batteries don't go this wrong when you treat them this badly," said Jay Whitacre, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. "The overall story here is these batteries are full of flammable electrolyte and they will burn if they are mistreated and something goes wrong."
  There was one lithium ion battery fire during testing of the batteries while Boeing was working with FAA on certification of the 787, said Marc Birtel, a spokesman for the aircraftmaker.
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  All Nippon Airways' Boeing 787 "the Dreamliners" passenger jets park on the tarmac as Japan Airlines' Boeing 737 taxies by them at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. U.S. safety officials and Boeing inspectors joined a Japanese investigation Friday into the 787 jet at the center of a worldwide grounding of the technologically advanced aircraft. In the wake of the incident, nearly all 50 of the 787s in use around the world have been grounded. Aviation authorities in Japan have directed ANA, which owns 17 of the planes, and Japan Airlines, with seven, not to fly the jets until questions over their safety have been resolved. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
  However, that fire was due to problems with the test rather than the batteries themselves, he said."There are multiple backups to ensure the system is safe," Birtel said. "These include protections against over-charging and over-discharging."
  But John Goglia, an aviation safety expert and former National Transportation Safety board member, said, "It certainly sounds like based on what has been released so far that we have an issue of the battery charger or some other source providing too much energy to the battery."
  He said too-rapid charging might cause the electrolyte fluid in the batteries to overheat, leak and catch fire.
  If the incidents are due to overcharging batteries, that might be good news for Boeing, Goglia said. A flaw in the aircraft's electronics that permits overcharging would likely be much easier to fix than having to replace the aircraft's lithium batteries with another kind of battery, he said.
  Another possibility is a manufacturing defect in the batteries themselves, Whitacre said. More than other types of batteries, lithium ion batteries rely on very thin sheets of material internally to separate the negative and positive poles. The slightest flaw can cause a short circuit, overheating the flammable electrolytes.
  "It's a delicate ecosystem that you are creating inside it and you have to manufacture it with perfect integrity," Whitacre said. "Then you have to keep it in the right voltage range and be very safe with its environmental conditions."
  Jim McNerney, Boeing's chairman, president and CEO, sent the company's employees a letter Friday expressing confidence in the 787 and vowing to return the plane to service. "I remain tremendously proud of employees across the company for the decade of effort that has gone into designing, developing, building and delivering the most innovative commercial airplane ever imagined," he said.
  The attraction of lithium batteries is that they are significantly lighter than other types of batteries. That saves fuel, which is airlines' leading expense. They also charge faster and contain more energy. And they can be molded to fit into odd space on airplanes, which most other batteries cannot.
  The only other airliner using lithium batteries is the Airbus A380, which makes only limited use of the batteries for emergency lighting. However, Airbus is working on another airliner, the A350, expected to debut in 2014, that will make more extensive use of lithium batteries.
  Boeing's headaches with the 787's lithium batteries are likely to cause European safety officials and other regulators around the world to take a harder look at the new Airbus plane's batteries, safety experts said.
  "I think they're going to have a learning experience here that probably is going to result in future modifications for anybody who wants to design an aircraft and use this type of battery technology," said Robert Fiegl, chairman of aeronautical science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona.
  The FAA, like aviation regulators in other countries, relies on the aircraft manufacturers to test their planes to make sure they are safe. FAA's certification engineers validate that testing and ensure that the level of safety meets FAA regulations. Boeing developed the safeguards for the 787s lithium batteries, but they had to win FAA's approval first.
  The safety certification for the design, manufacturer and assembly of the 787'--a process that requires FAA approval each step of the way'--was different in some respects from other aircraft because the Dreamliner employs so many cutting-edge technologies, safety experts said.
  Besides its use of lithium batteries, the 787 is the first airliner whose structure is mostly made from composite materials rather than aluminum. The aircraft also relies to a greater extent than previous airliners on electronics to operate, rather than hydraulic or mechanical systems.
  "You can go down the list of hardware on that plane where it's the first time it has been used on an airplane," said Paul Czysz, professor emeritus of aeronautical engineering at St. Louis University in St. Louis. "With anything that's brand new and has never been used on an airplane before, you run the risk of being the first one to find out if it really works."
  The 787 was tested extensively both before and after its first test flight in 2009. The FAA said its technical experts logged 200,000 hours testing and reviewing the plane's design before it was certified in August 2011.
  Six test planes ran up some 4,645 flight hours. About a quarter of those hours were flown by FAA flight test crews, the agency said in 2011.
  Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Worldwide inspection of Air Force offices found porn and thousands of items deemed troubling
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  Worldwide inspection of Air Force offices found porn and thousands of items deemed troubling: apne.ws/WoHOwb -AB
  '-- The Associated Press (@AP) January 18, 2013
FBI Director Visits Libya On Benghazi Case
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  It's been four months to get to this photo op. Non-response has gotten us Algeria.
  WASHINGTON/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - FBI Director Robert Mueller visited Libya on Thursday, an FBI official said, as U.S. investigators continued their inquiry into the September attack in Benghaziin which U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
  ''The director's visit was an opportunity to discuss ongoing cooperation on a number of issues,'' said the FBI official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
  Mueller met with several senior Libyan officials, including Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, the justice minister and the intelligence chief, a Libyan government source said, adding that the meetings were secret.
  FBI agents went to Benghazi in October to analyze the crime scene but have since remained in Tripoli because of security concerns. In an effort to generate leads, the FBI has put out a poster asking for information.
  U.S. officials have not announced the capture of any suspects in the attack, although President Barack Obama said in December that investigators have some ''very good leads.''
  Obama, in a speech the day after the attack, said he would ''work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people.''
  The security of the U.S. diplomatic sites in Benghazi has become a political flashpoint for the Obama administration. A Senate report in December said the State Department did not focus tightly enough on Libyan extremists or react quickly enough to threat assessments in the weeks before the attack.
  The pace of the investigation has become yet another source of criticism.
  ''The way it's been handled and the lack of results have only served to embolden our enemies as demonstrated by the events in Algeria this week. They have not seen a consequence for their actions,'' said Republican Representative Michael McCaul in a statement. McCaul is chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee.
  slamist militants in Algeria stormed a natural gas facility on Wednesday and said they were holding 41 foreigners in response to a French military operation in neighboring Mali.
  A U.S. Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on Thursday on the pace of the Benghazi investigation.
  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to discuss the attack with two congressional committees on January 23.
Bingo, Bango, Obamgo and ANALGATE
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  Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:45
  Did not I my children mention here in the turban head trading that the Four Star Admiral was saying what was behind the ANALGATE botched hostage attempt was this Blind Shiek bomber of the World Trade Centers in the mad notes in the margins?
  See that is what has been floating around in this. I tell you that here are these whiners who are all nuts sucked up to their abdomens about this blind terrorist going tits up in an American prison.They think they can curry favor with terrorists if they work this deal.
  That is figment one of this imagination in the Obama Fag File margins.
  Figment two is this group of terrorists WHO WERE PROMISED BS for trying to take Chris Stevens hostage. There are a hand full of these terrorists working for Obama who have a great deal of promises from Obama.This Cyclops Terrorist who is now public boogerman number one in Mali staging all of this, is the merchant trader in this. HE HAS BEEN KIDNAPPING PEOPLE FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN RANSOM for the entire Obama regime.Remember back to the US Navy shooting Somali kidnappers for Obama.........gee this Cyclops has been doing the same thing without any military actions. THAT IS BECAUSE HE IS OBAMA's OSSERIAN MERCHANT IN AFRICA.
  This blog told you children that Obama set up the dope trade into Africa for South American narco communist funding as part of his Marxist hub in the Americas. al Qaeda Africa had Boeing 727's as you recall and are part of this contraband trade.Obama worked a deal for al Qaeda to do the smuggling as mules for hundreds of millions in profits to appease them, until he could handle over nations and their oil deposits for that 300 million dollar bribe Obama took into his 2008 campaign.
  THIS ALL COMES FULL CIRCLE and has been covered here from the start while the rest of media did not. I will give Sean Hannity one moment of credit as he actually mentioned this on air several years ago, before going Limbaugh silent again.
  So what you have here is the Cyclops is Obama's merchant terror Muslim. He is now the boogerman like bin Laden was when the Sheik was an asset of the CIA doing work for American interests.This one eyed terrorist is simply the conduit for Obama Muslim mafia crimes. He represents the loyal wing of the Muslims who like BS.
  In this though, it was the contenders in the other mullahs in Obama terrorism who do not want this Blind Sheik ever released as he will take their power, and Obama will not be able to control him, so BS will have to be die.
  This was part of the entire double cross that got Chris Stevens and the gay posse murdered in Libya in September. Obama laid this wide open to take place, but the rat up the ass that got Stevens murdered was the opposing Muslims OUT OF AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN who did not want the deal going through in BS being released into the midst.These outlander Muslims, have no authority in real Islam. Meaning, that crank Ayatollah out of Iran naming himself grand pubbah, is not listened to outside Iran and southern Iraq. Khomeini or whatever that terrorists communist Muslim hybrid is named, does not want, any more than the Afghanistan terrorists this BS let loose as he would sway the terrorists.
  I remind you that the Afghanistan Muslims always referred to Sheik bin Laden as a foreigner. Afghanistan bloodlines are not related to the Ishmaelite lines that bin Laden was. They like North Africans are different bloodlines and just as leery of each other as English and Irish or Germans and Polish, even though they seem to be the same family and belief structure.
  Chris Stevens as this blog broke was by Obama election plans, supposed to be kidnapped. The people who were supposed to do it, are the BS loyalists. The people who raped and murdered Stevens are the anti loyalists to the BS in answering to another mullah.
  I told and warned you that Obama was putting America into Muslim tribal wars, and sure as a broomstick goes up the arse, Obama has done just that.The people promised BS from INSIDE THE OBAMA MARGINS, and that includes Hillary Clinton having whispered this about this terrorist's release as a cover for the Obama 2012 stolen election, is what was driving all of this and it still is.
  Terrorists of the Cyclops are still looking to be paid. They want Mali and Algeria. They deliberately saved the US hostages at the gas plant to get what the original deal was in Chris Steven's ass for the Sheik's.
  That is why Obama has been mum on this as much as Hillary Clinton. THIS IS 2012 ELECTION THEFT COMING TO BITE OBAMA IN THE ASS AGAIN. You might have been distracted by Obama gun control wag the dog, but Cyclops the Terrorist has been on the margins trading for the contract he was promised over a year ago when this was set up.
  In reality, thank God that the Cyclops is focused as the American children just let Obama steal the election and then went Charlie Daniels mad in the pied piper of gun control to cover all of this up.
  America the Cyclops has given you and, Lindsey in teh gay ear Graham, a new window to blow all of this open again, as it refocuses on ANALGATE and all of the Obama crimes.
  This is another Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusive in explaining all of this as no one else is going to.
  The Cyclops is working for Obama in the free flow of dope and contraband in Africa. This is the operation that B. Hussein Obama, the leader of al Qaeda at 1600 Penn Avenue has been running since 2008 when these deals were set up.
  All covered here, all Lame Cherry exclusives and all proving right in the evidence now being revealed for those who did not dare to believe.
  PS: As you will not be able to handle this, the Algerians blew up that gas plant strafing it, as they were trying to kill the Americans held hostage as they do not want them alive to bring about this Blind Sheik trade. The Algerians know exactly their entire government is about to be kindling and this was their last shot at saving themselves.Cyclops though on intelligence provide him, took the Americans out as HE WAS ALERTED THE ALGERIANS WERE GOING TO MAKE A BESLIN STRIKE.
  Hillary Clinton for Barack Obama is the one pushing for the BS trade. PANETTA IS IN ITALY TO OVERSEE THIS and to thump it hard if thee entire terror group needs to be murdered like the bin Laden compound.Obama wants a hostage rescue to give more cover to him as a "hero" in what he lusted after for September 11th in the Chris Stevens botched operation.
  agtG 308Y
  REPORT: 32 hostages dead, missing in botched Algerian rescue attempt...
  At least 1 American dead in bloodbath...
  Sahara hostage holders make new threat...
  REPORT: Group's leader offers to release Americans in exchange for release of 'Blind Sheikh'.
"If You Need A High Capacity Magazine Of TEN Or More Rounds To Kill A Deer You're In The Wrong Sport
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Man Throws Woman Onto Subway Tracks After Asking Her For A Light
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Media Confirming Republican Insiders's Report On Obama Gun Control Attempts
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Libtalkers: 'Some People Deserve To Be Shot In The Face'
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  Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:24
  KARL FRISCH (17 Jan 2013): When people like Rush Limbaugh show absolutely no compassion for the lives that were lost it only inflames the crazy conspiracy people that think this never happened.
  STEPHANIE MILLER: Yeah he didn't like the tone was not quite you know ah I guess jovial enough at a news conference about children getting shot.
  JIM WARD: I guess it'd be wrong for me to say that some people deserve to be shot in the face. So I won't say that.
  STEPHANIE MILLER: Don't say that. For Gods sakes.
  CHRIS LAVOIE: Don't say that.
  STEPHANIE MILLER: For Gods sakes.
  STEPHANIE MILLER (15:12) Oh dear that went Directly to NewsBusters. Okay I apologize for everything Jim Ward just said.
  JIM WARD: Everything, really?
  STEPHANIE MILLER: No, not that one part.
Media Bias Flashback: Four Years Ago, Media Tingled Over Obama's Inauguration
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INTERVIEW: Professor James Tracy, Phd on Sandy Hook Hoax (Alex Jones Show) Part 3 / 7
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Muslims in Egypt protest French presence in Mali and Jews
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Bill Maher: 2nd Amendment Is Not Under Attack, But All Your Other Rights Are | Mediaite
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  In his final New Rule of the night, Bill Maher smacked down the conventional wisdom on the right that the Second Amendment is under attack from President Obama, saying that ''America's gun nuts'' need to stop wetting their pants over it. But more importantly, Maher said that people are so very concerned about their right to own guns that they don't notice and/or care that they have been stripped of their other rights.
  Maher highlighted how the Senate quietly reauthorized the National Defense Authorization Act while everyone was so concerned about the fiscal cliff, and there wasn't even a peep out of the ''freedom'' crowd. In fact, Maher said, people seem to be okay with government surveillance and warrantless wiretapping at this point.
  Maher also railed against the ''Facebook generation'' that doesn't care who knows their personal information, while he is adamant about not wanting the Feds to look at his web searches. He noted that the government always claims such programs are to ''catch terrorist,'' but the next thing you know they're shutting down pot dispensaries.
  Maher asked, ''Does anyone care that this is the new normal?'' He said that liberals outraged at George W. Bush for these programs have said nothing about Obama, because ''the only thing that still has bipartisan support in Washington is not giving a shit about privacy.''
  Maher circled back to the gun advocates, saying that they may have the guns, but they don't have the rights that their guns are supposed to be protecting.
  Watch the video below, courtesy of HBO:
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To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for an expedited process for increasing the statutory limit on the public debt. (H.R. 319) - GovTrack.us
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Weekly Address: Now Is The Time to Take Action Against Gun Violence
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  The White House
  Office of the Press Secretary
  For Immediate Release
  January 19, 2013
  Hi, everybody. This week, I announced a series of concrete steps we should take to protect our children and our communities from gun violence.
  These proposals grew out of meetings Vice President Biden and his task force held over the last month with more than 200 different groups '' from parents and teachers; to law enforcement and sportsmen; to religious leaders and mental health professionals.
  And in the weeks ahead, I will do everything in my power to make them a reality. Because while we may not be able to prevent every senseless act of violence in this country, if there is even one thing we can do to reduce it '' if even one life can be saved '' we've got an obligation to try.
  My administration is taking a series of actions right away '' from strengthening our background check system, to helping schools hire more resource officers if they want them, to directing the Centers for Disease Control to study the best ways to reduce gun violence.
  But the truth is, making a real and lasting difference also requires Congress to act '' and act soon.
  First, it's time for Congress to require a universal background check for anyone trying to buy a gun. The law already requires licensed gun dealers to perform these checks, but as many as 40% of all gun purchases are conducted without one. That's not safe, it's not smart, and it's not fair to responsible gun buyers or sellers. An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that anyone trying to buy a gun should at least have to prove they're not a felon, or someone legally prohibited from owning one. That's just common sense.
  Second, Congress should restore a ban on military-style assault weapons, and a 10-round limit for magazines. Many assault rifles, when combined with high-capacity magazines, have one purpose and one purpose only: to fire as many bullets as possible as quickly as possible. These weapons have no place in our communities. And a majority of the American people agree with me.
  Finally, Congress needs to make it easier, rather than harder, for law enforcement to do its job. We should get tougher on people who buy guns only to turn around and sell them to criminals. And at a time when many communities have been forced to make cuts to their police force, we should put more cops back on the job and back on the street.
  Like most Americans, I believe the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. We have a strong tradition of gun ownership in this country, and the vast majority of gun owners act responsibly.
  But I also believe most gun owners agree that we can respect the Second Amendment while keeping an irresponsible, law-breaking few from causing harm on a massive scale. That's what these reforms are designed to do.
  None of this will be easy. Already, we're seeing pundits, politicians, and special-interest lobbyists calling any attempt at commonsense reform an all-out assault on liberty '' not because that's true, but because that's how they get higher ratings and make more money. And behind the scenes, they're doing everything they can to protect the status quo.
  But this time, it can't be up to them. It's got to be up to you. If, like me, you want this time to be different, then I need your help to make it different. Ask your Member of Congress if they support universal background checks and renewing a ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. And if the answer is no, ask them why not. Ask them why an A-grade from the gun lobby is more important than keeping kids safe in a first grade classroom.
  Since the tragedy in Newtown, I've gotten letters from all over the country '' including many from our young people. One of them was from 8-year-old Rachel, who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She wrote: ''Please do something so that bad people cannot get guns to kill other people. Children should be safe, especially in school.''
  Rachel is counting on us. Let's get this done for her, and let's make this country a safer place for all our children to learn and grow.
  Thanks, and have a great weekend.
qrp
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  As I wanted to keep the station running 24/24 , I needed a low power consumption server card. I read on the Google groups that some hams were using Pandora or Odroid card, so I decid to try one of them.Odroid-X card is a small complete computer card working on Android or on Linux Ubuntu Linaro. I have choosen this last OS for which we can find a ready to use image on the web to burn in a SD-card.
  Odroid products are sold by Hardkernel which ships from Korea usually in 10 days (add 30% taxes in Europe) - Since I ordered the -X version, other cheapper units have been developped and offered on the market like -U2, or -X2. See complete specifications on the builder site. Avoid to use the LCD unit , as this one will give a high level of noise in the radio. I always control the Odroid through a ssh server and putty client from another computer on the LAN. Also x11vnc can be use with a ssh connexion.
  Ubuntu image for the ODROID can be found from these locations ODROID forum or from this mirror - After burning the image on the SD-card, you have to come back to the ghpSDR wiki, in order to install all the necessary softwares . But the realease 3.6.2 from October didn't includ the usb sound cards...I don't know what about the last release 3.6.10 - ask on the forum, or read the next paragraph.
  But, for the one who are not familiar with these steps, I have done a complete image of my own SD-card (32Gb) reduced to 15 Gb to allow the use of a 16Gb card ( you will have 7 Gb free for other uses). Download from here ( 3Gb file from my own server - it may require a few hours to download it !) - This image has been build with a 3.6.6 Kernel compiled by Sid, including the usb sound card libraries that were not in the initial image from the 15th October 2012. So, you can use any softrock I/Q hardware or other unit, with a usb sound card as the E-MU202 or similar for I/Q. The local input and output sound can be used for mic and phone if you wish to run QtRadio on the card. I prefer to use a windows QtRadio on another unit on the LAN or through a wifi link. ( just one defect on this version:the usb wifi device sold by Hardkernel is not working on this image) - Dowload my notes. -- with screencopy1 (fdisk & lsusb) & screencopy2 (xterminals with servers started).
  See why I use an usb E-MU202 instead of the integrated sound device for I/Q - screencopy with E-MU, screencopy without.
  Next step ( done ! ) is to remote control the LPF after the 10W amp, which is a manual K5OOR filter, with an Arduino ethernet control board and...a ....servomotor ! This second unit (web interface) will do all the auxiliary jobs - Arduino is much more easy to learn than the ugly couple linux+"c" when you don't need realtime and calculation as we need for audio treatments.
  Arduino family - Drawing - software code -photo of the web interface - photo of the servo that has replaced the button !- super ! 2 hours only to get a code ready to work ! Take care to supply the servo through a direct line with a 5V regulator from your 9V power supply with enough capacitor filtering ( 50 MF)
  Second step will be to add a remote controlled BPF ( from WB6DHW )to improve rejection on the RX, as the one I use with the 6.3 Softrock is really wide range ( 18 Mhz !wide from 7Mhz to 24 Mhz)
  Last step (may be end of 2013 !!) is to add a Ten-Tec 1210 2m transverter, a 25W amp and an antenna.
  Other websites to visit : w3sz n8mdp(usbsoftrock & quisk)
N8MDP: SDR
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  Recently, I built the Tony Parks Softrock Ensemble II Software Defined Radio. My first installation was on a Windows XP system using the HDSDR Software. I later progressed to use the SDR-Radio server software to allow users on the internet to access my tuner. This software was relatively bullet proof and the installation was pretty simple. I was up and running in no time. One of my goals is to create a web applet for my website, www.n8mdp.com , which controls the SDR and includes the one feature that I am very impressed with, the waterfall display.I have been searching for a good applet that I can embed in my website that is simple to install. I am not a professional programmer but I am not afraid to dive into coding. From what I have read so far on-line, there is a lot of activity in the Linux world for the development of SDR applications, including servers and client software. I have been reading quite a bit of the work by John Melton, G0ORX, not only with Linux applications but also his attempt to program an SDR application using the new Raspberry Pi Single board computer.
  Unfortunately, and I am not the only one out thinking the same way, there is a definite lack of good instructions for installing SDR software on a Linux system. As a newbie to using Linux, I wanted to experiment with running an SDR on Linux. It is for that reason that I have created this webpage to document my trials and tribulations for getting my Softrock Ensemble II running on Ubuntu. I will explore the different tools that I plan to use and how worked to install the programs. I will document my work completely. Even when I run into trouble, I will document the problems with the hope that you can learn from my mistakes and successes.
  This article assumes that Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10 is installed. I installed version 11.10. My installation was a fresh install. It is suggested that you install the latest updates for your Ubuntu just to be on the safe side.
  Installing the initial software and attempting initial communication with the Softrock Ensemble
  One of the first steps that I believe that must be accomplished is to establish basic control of the Softrock. My research found that the first step in order to achieve frequency control and for Ubuntu to recognize the Softrock plugged into a USB port is to download a software program called USBSOFTROCK and to create the proper permissions.
  usbsoftrock
  usbsoftrock is a simple-to-use program by Andrew Nilsson which accepts convenient command line options (e.g., frequencies in MHz), speaks the DG8SAQ USB protocol, understands the Si570, and can act as a daemon listening over UDP for control messages.
  The usbsoftrock sources are available for download in a Google Code repository. Don½t download the file just yet.
  The usbsoftrock is simple to build and install, so I have read online. The software has dependencies on other software libraries. The dependencies are ncurses and libusb, which, on Ubuntu systems, are provided by the libncurses5-dev and libusb-dev packages, respectively. Note that there is also a libusb-1.0-0-dev package, but it provides a slightly different API, and you'll need the older version for usbsoftrock.
  So where do you get the dependencies? The best way to get these dependency libraries installed is using the Synaptic Package Manager. Something before I go on. If you are using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS , Synaptic is not installed by default. If you are running an older version, you might need to install synaptic using the Ubuntu software center. To open Synaptic Package Manager, go to the System Settings (control Center) option and select the Synaptic Package Manager as shown below:
  Once the Synaptic Package Manager is open, the quickest way to find the dependencies is to do a Quick Search as shown below:
  Note in the picture I performed a search on ½libncurses5-dev½. Once you have found the file, select and mark the package for installation. You can then hit the ½Apply½ button to start the installation. The system will then download the package and begin the installation.
  Perform the same step for ½libusb-dev½. It is possible when you do the search, you may get multiple packages to select from such as what is shown in the image below. I selected the actual ½libusb-dev½option, not the ½libusb-1.0.0-dev½ option.
  If everything installed correctly, let½s go get the ½usbsoftrock½ software from the Google Code Repository. Feel free to click on the link here or the link above. The webpage will look like this:
  I chose the usbsoftrock-1.0.2.tar.gz file for download. In my case, the file was saved in my /home/n8mdp/Downloads file folder. So I can keep track of where all of the SDR files are going, I created a new file folder in my n8mdp folder called ½SDR½. I copied the usbsoftrock-1.0.2.tar.gz into my new SDR file folder. I need to extract this file in order to use it. In the SDR file folder, I right clicked on the .gz file and selected the ½Open with Archive Manager½ option as shown below:
  With the usbsoftrock-1.0.2.tar.gz file selected, I hit the Extract button. You will have the chose to create a new file folder if you wish. I chose not to do this and extracted the file in my SDR folder. Once the process is completed, you will see a standard file folder created called ½usbsoftrock-1.0.2½. If you have gotten this far, then so far so good! Feel free to explore the contents of the file folder. What you will not find is any kind of executable file that you can immediately run. The next step is to ½make½ the application.
  Open the README file in the usbsoftrock-1.0.2 file folder. As you read through the file, you will notice a section on ½Prerequisites½. We have already installed the ½libusb½ and ½ncurses½ libraries and dependencies. This is why we did this ahead of downloading the usbsoftrock-1.0.2.tar.gz file. However, you will see an additional prerequisite called ½gcc½. ½gcc½ is the GNU C compiler. To verify that you have this installed, open the Synaptic Package Manager and perform a quick search for ½gcc½. Hopefully, you will get the screen that I am showing below. If the software is installed, the square to the left of the package name should be shaded green. This means the package is already installed and you don½t have to do anything else. If the box is not shaded green, select this package and install it the same way you installed the two previous libraries. Close Synaptic when you are done.
  The procedure to create the application is as follows:
  ./configuremakemake install
  At first glance, if you are newbie, what the heck does this mean and how do I do it. The procedure is quite simple as I will explain (I learned by doing!!).
  You will need to open a Terminal window. The Terminal application is located in the Applications menu -> Accessories -> Terminal. I found that the fastest way to open the Terminal application is the shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + T. Pretty simple and quick. Open the Terminal application. You should see a screen like this:
  In order to create the application, we have to change to the file folder directory for the SDR file folder. In your Terminal window, type: cd SDR/usbsoftrock-1.0.2 . The result should look like the screen below:
  If you type ½dir½ at the prompt, the Terminal application will display all of the files in the SDR folder as shown below:
  Now that you are in the SDR file folder, it is time to perform the above procedure.Step 1: At the prompt, type: ./configure
  Hopefully, you should not get any errors. I didn½t!
  Step 2: At the prompt, type: make
  Again, if you don½t get any errors, so far so good.
  Step 3: At the prompt, type: make install
  If you don½t get any errors, congratulations. Unfortunately, I got an error as show in screen below:
  The key in this error to observe is the ½Permission denied½ message. Usually this is brought on by not having the proper permission, not to make the application, but to write the new file to the /usr/local/bin. The way to get around this is to use the Linux Command: sudo.
  sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file. The real and effective uid and gid are set to match those of the target user as specified in the passwd file (the group vector is also initialized when the target user is not root). By default, sudo requires that users authenticate themselves with a password (NOTE: by default this is the user's password, not the root password). Once a user has been authenticated, a timestamp is updated and the user may then use sudo without a password for a short period of time (5 minutes unless overridden in sudoers).
  So let½s use the sudo command as follows. At the Terminal prompt, type: sudo make install. If all goes well and there are now no error messages or anything further related to ½Permission denied½, you should get the following in your Terminal screen:
  You can verify that the executable file was created by going back to your main screen, open your Home folder from the desktop, select your ½file system½, select the ½usr½ folder, then the ½local½ folder, then the ½bin½ folder. You should see an executable file called ½usbsoftrock½. If you see this like I show below, you were successful to create the application.
  Now that usbsoftrock is installed, there is one last thing you have to do so that Ubuntu recognizes the Softrock board via USB so you can send commands. You have to give non-root users access to the Softrock. You'll want to do this whether you use usbsoftrock or direct access, and whether you use a simple controller or something more sophisticated. This is accomplished via the udevdevice manager. To accomplish this, you will need to create a ½rules½ file to give you the permissions. The tricky part about this is that you need to have ½root½ permission to write this file since the file needs to be written to the /etc/udev/rules.d folder.
  To get started, press Ctrl ½ Alt ½ T on your keyboard to open Terminal. Next, type the command below to create a new password for the root user.
  sudo passwd root
  You may need to enter your normal user password to move on. After that, you may get asked to enter a new UNIX password. I chose ½root½ in my case. After that, type the command below to unlock the root account.
  sudo passwd -u root
  Next, Log Out.
  Then select ½Other½ and type the username ½root½ and the password you created for the root user.
  Once you have re-logged in, open any text editor. In the text editor, type the following line:
  SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="16c0", ATTR{idProduct}=="05dc", MODE="0660", GROUP="dialout"
  Note that case, precise characters, and spacing (it all has to be on one line) are important here. This recipe will allow access to the softrock device to all users who are in the 'dialout' group. If you have a different group that you are using, please type that particular group. The popular recipe flying around the Internet uses MODE="0666", which allows access to all users; take your pick. Save this file in the main File System in the /etc/udev/rules.d file folder. I named my file 99-softrock.rules. I show the window below:
  You will have to reboot for this change to take effect.
  We are now ready to try to communicate with the Softrock Ensemble. Plug in the power and the USB cable to your Softrock.
  Open a Terminal window (use Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut). At the prompt, type: usbsoftrock status. This command will connect to the Softrock and return status information. If all goes well, you should see the following in the Terminal window:
  To prove to myself that I did have connection and the usbsoftrock software was communicating to the hardware, I unplugged the USB cable from the Softrock. Then I typed usbsoftrock status again at the terminal prompt. I immediately began to see message that the software could not open the USB device ½DG8SAQ-I2X½. I reinstalled the USB cable, typed usbsoftrock status, hit enter, and indeed could see that the software was communicating with the hardware.
  This completes this first section.
  Testing the Softrock Ensemble. Time to see if it really is working
  Now that you know that you can communicate with the Softrock, it might be a good idea to see if it is really working and you can pick up signals. Before we attempt this, I would like to provide some background information on using the usbsoftrock software in more detail.
  Using usbsoftrock to change the frequency of your radio directly is very easy. Simply issue the command usbsoftrock set freq [frequency], where frequency is in MHz. For example, to set the center frequency to 7.030 MHz so that you can copy PSK31 at 7.035 MHz, you would type:
  usbsoftrock set freq 7.030
  The Softrock Ensemble uses a Si570 Oscillator. The Si570 is described by its manufacturer, Silicon Labs, as an "ANY-RATE I2C PROGRAMMABLE XO/VCXO." What this means in normal amateur radio language is that the Si570 is a frequency synthesizer, complete on one very small (7mm x 5mm) integrated circuit chip. (That's the any-rate, programmable part of the name.) The XO/VCXO part means that the synthesizer is crystal controlled (XO = crystal oscillator) and that one variant of the chip accepts an analog input voltage that will shift the programmed frequency (voltage controlled crystal oscillator. That version is not used in the kit.) The final perhaps unfamiliar term in the part description is "I2C" which refers to the method by which frequency commands and other data is communicated between the rest of the circuit and the Si570. I2C is a specific serial communications protocol using separate clock and data ports and for the purpose of this review, it isn't necessary to delve further into the specifics of I2C. For our amateur radio activities, the Si570 is used as the local oscillator in a superheterodyne receiver, or it can be the local oscillator in a direct conversion quadrature receiver such as the Softrock.
  A detailed datasheet for the Si570 can be downloaded at https://www.silabs.com/products/clocksoscillators/xo/Pages/default.aspx by selecting the Si570/571 in the "Resources" tab. I've extracted the summary description and block diagram below.
  Note that while Si570 oscillators are accurate, they are not necessarily precise without some footwork. The reference in a Si570 is a crystal vibrator with a nominal frequency of 114.285 MHz, and all of its output frequencies are computed from this frequency. The actual crystal can vary by many kHz from this nominal frequency, however; my SoftRock Si570 oscillates at 114.211833MHz, a deviation of more than 150kHz! In order to achieve precision, controlling software must use this crystal frequency in its configuration calculations. You can retrieve the frequency at which your Si570's crystal oscillates with the command usbsoftrock calibrate. You can then provide it back to usbsoftrock with the -x argument. To achieve a more precise tuning, the above 7.030MHz example for my SoftRock would be:
  usbsoftrock -x 114.211833 set freq 7.030
  You may need this crystal frequency for configuring other applications, as well.
  Here is a list of options and commands for the usbsoftrock
  ./usbsoftrock [OPTION] COMMAND
  OPTION is one or more of:
  -a
  Advanced firmware present i.e. let the firmware calculate registers-d
  Enter a mode that listens for commands via UDP.-h
  PTT status by reading hardware port Mobo only.-i <address>
  I2C address in DECIMAL (DEFAULT = 85 (0x55))-m <multiplier>
  Multiplication factor for frequency (DEFAULT = 4)-p <port num>
  Port to listen for UDP datagrams (DEFAULT = 19004)-s <startup Frequency MHz>
  Factory programmed startup frequency (DEFAULT = 56.32)-u <serial number>
  Serial Number of Device-v
  Verbose output (fairly useful)-vv
  Even more verbose output (debugging)-x <calibrated xtall freq MHz>
  Corrected XTALL frequency of Si570 device calculatedthrough the use of the calibrate command immediatelyafter startup.COMMAND is one of:
  calibrate(may require -s option)getfreq getregisters interactive getptt(-h option for Mobo only)getkeys(PE0FKO+TF3LJ+Mobo)ptt {on|off} set bpf {on|off}(PE0FKO+TF3LJ+Mobo)set bpf_addr <band> <filter>(PE0FKO >= 15.12+Mobo)set bpf_point <crossover> <f in MHz>(PE0FKO+TF3LJ+Mobo)set lpf {on|off}(TF3LJ+Mobo only)set lpf_addr <band> <filter>(TF3LJ+Mobo only)set lpf_point <crossover> <f in MHz>(TF3LJ+Mobo only)set freq <frequency in MHz> set si570_addr <i2c address in decimal> set si570_multiplier [band] <decimal factor>(PE0FKO>=15.12+Mobo)set startup <frequency in MHz>(PE0FKO+TF3LJ+Mobo)set xtall <frequency in MHz>(PE0FKO+TF3LJ+Mobo)status ExamplesOriginal DG8SAQ FirmwareTurn on softrock, plug in usb-i2c interface. Type:usbsoftrock calibrate
  Or if you have a different startup freq than 56.32. Type:usbsoftrock -s 40.000 calibrate
  It will return something like: fXTALL = 114.182074
  Then take the value from that and use the following:usbsoftrock -x 114.182074 getfrequsbsoftrock -x 114.182074 setfreq 14.040
  By default the program will calculate the Si570 register values locally when setting the frequency. If you specify option -a (advanced firmware) then it will use the set frequency by value command and let the interface calculate the registers. This enables features such as automatic BPF selection and smooth tuning in Fred PE0FKO's firmware.
  PE0FKO UsageAdditional Support with v15.10:
  set startup freqSets the frequency of the si570 on startupset si570_multiplier <decimal factor>Sets the oscillator multiplier value in the attiny firmware.set xtall freqSet the calibrated oscillator valueset bpf {on|off}Enable or disable the BPF filter. Needs to be disabled for RXTX 6.3 otherwise changing frequency will sometimes key the transmitter (by default).set bpf_point (index> <freq MHz>Set the crossover frequency for index. 4 BPF means 3 cross over points 0, 1, 2; e.g. the following would set it up as the default for the electronically switchedNow that we have this behind us, let½s test the Softrock to tune in a 40 Meter signal. Since we have not yet loaded a true Softrock SDR application program like Quisk, SDR-Shell, or QtRadio, I am going to use a program called HDSDR running on my Windows 7 System. I will use usbsoftrock to control the Softrock Ensemble. I will also take the Softrock audio output and input that into the audio input on my Windows 7 computer. The only thing that matters is the I and Q signals from the Softrock. HDSDR will take the audio input from the Softrock and do its thing!For my test, I am setting the local oscillator frequency on the softrock to 7.160MHz as follows:
  usbsoftrock set freq 7.160
  Below is a screen shot of the HDSDR software. Since I do not have control over the Softrock, I manually changed the LO frequency to 7.160 so the spectrum bar would show the same frequency.
  This test proved that the Softrock is truly working. If you were also able to get yours working, congratulations.
  So what next? It½s time to get an SDR application that runs in Ubuntu.
  Installing a Ubuntu supported SDR Application program
  As I previously mentioned, there are three SDR application programs that you can install, Quisk, SDR-Shell, and QTRadio. I plan to install all three so we can try them out and get used to the various installation procedures. I am going to install QtRadio last since I want to use that as part of the SDR Server application I want to create. I will explain all this in a later section.
  The first application that I½m going to install is Quisk. QUISK is software that can control a Softrock. QUISK rhymes with "brisk", and is QSK plus a few letters to make it easier to pronounce. QUISK is written in Python and C. The source code is included with .gz file so you can change it yourself. It currently runs under Linux using ALSA sound drivers (Ubuntu does not use ALSA) or PortAudio and offers these capabilities:
  ½ Quisk can control the HiQSDR.½ As a receiver it can use the SDR-IQ by RfSpace as a sample source. There are several decimation rates available. The screen shots below were taken using the SDR-IQ. The QUISK receiver will read the sample data, tune it, filter it, demodulate it, and send the audio to the sound card for output to external headphones or speakers.½ As a receiver it can use your soundcard as a sample source. You supply a complex (I/Q) mixer to convert radio spectrum to a low IF, and send that IF to the left and right inputs of the sound card in your computer. The demodulated audio goes to the same soundcard for output.½ Quisk can control SoftRock hardware for both receive and transmit.
  If you have the SDR-IQ or the Softrock hardware, then QUISK is ready for you to use as a receiver. If you have other receive hardware, then you will need to change the file quisk_hardware.py to connect your receiver to QUISK. For example, if you change your VFO frequency with a serial port, then you need to change quisk_hardware.py to send characters to the serial port. The file quisk_hardware.py is written in the Python programming language, a very easy language to learn and use.
  I have tried to make QUISK easy to modify so it can be used for hardware other than my own. See the packages by Leigh L. Klotz, Jr. WA5ZNU on http://pypi.python.org.
  To install QUISK, download it from http://pypi.python.org (search for quisk). Then read the documentation and the help.html file for further instructions. Quisk can be installed with distutils, easy_install, or you can just use the tarball. Just unpacking the tarball is best if you plan to add files or modify Quisk. The list of recent changes is in CHANGELOG.txt.
  Here are some screen shots of QUISK. The usual graph and waterfall display are available. QUISK was designed without menus and with lots of buttons. Hopefully QUISK looks like a radio and it is obvious how to use it. The red/yellow/blue bars at the bottom of the graph are the band plan. They mark the CW/SSB parts of the band, and show the ARRL additions. The yellow is the data part of the CW segment. The band plan and colors are in the configuration file quisk_conf.py so you can change it.
  Here are some screen shots of QUISK:
  The following text is the installation details from James Ahlstrom½s website.
  I recommend that you just uncompress and un-tar the tar.gz file somewhere under your home directory. In my case, I performed this action in my SDR folder.
  gunzip quisk-3.4.4.tar.gztar xf quisk-3.4.4.tar# Check directory quisk-3.4.4 before removing the tar filerm quisk-3.4.4.tar# Perhaps change to a shorter name unless you want multiple versionsmv quisk-3.4.4 quiskThat way all the source for Quisk is available so you can change or add to Quisk.
  There are some ½dev½ packages that must be installed. I recommend that you install the packages first to cut down on the number of errors during compilation.
  All should be available as packages or RPM's so you don't have to compile the source. Generally you would get the most recent versions rather than the versions I show below. You should also be able to get these packages using Synaptic Package Manager. Needed packages are:
  ½ python2.6, the Python programming language. See http://www.python.org. This almost certainly is already installed on your Linux. Use the version you have, or get the most recent version.½ python-wxgtk2.8, the wxPython package used for the GUI. Get the most recent version available for your Python version.½ fftw3, the Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. See fftw.org. This is a great FFT package and is also used by GNU radio. (NOTE: Synaptic may not actually show this as fftw3 in the package list. It may display as libfftw3-3. This is the one that I had to choose. I also selected the libfftw3-dev just in case. I think this file replaces the fftw3-dev package in the next bullet point.)½ python2.6-dev, fftw3-dev, libasound2-dev, portaudio19-dev. These are development packages that you need so you can change and recompile the Quisk C-language files. Get the version that corresponds to the software you have. If you get compiler errors, check for missing "-dev" packages.
  If you already have the packages installed, then there is no need to reinstall them.
  It½s now time to begin the installation. Recompile the source using the "make" command in the quisk directory. If there are compile errors or missing *.h files, go back and make sure that the ½dev½ packages are indeed installed. Even after running ½make½ in my case, I did get errors. See the screen shot below:
  I performed a search in my File System and I could not find ½python.h½. After a little bit of a search on line, I installed through Synaptic the package ½python-dev½. After the installation of the package, I tried ½make½ again in the Terminal window. This time I was successful.
  Another way to install Quisk is to change to the superuser (root) and run "easy_install quisk" or "python setup.py install". If you don't have easy_install, install the python-setuptools package (for Debian/Ubuntu). This method installs Quisk as a package. But you need to be root, and the source is not in a convenient place; it is in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages. And there is no uninstall feature.
  Run Quisk using a terminal with the command "python quisk.py". If there is any error output, it will appear on the terminal. I got a lot of errors as shown below. It looks like most of the errors have to do with Audio. Not sure what is going on just yet, so I decided to continue anyway. The software does load and I do get the panel.
  After testing, you can create a panel launcher with the same command but a full path, for example "python /home/jim/quisk-3.4.4/quisk.py" or "python /home/jim/quisk/quisk.py" if you used the shorter name . Then just click the button to run Quisk.
  I was able to get my audio solved an my SDR running successfully on Quisk. Hit the start button on the media player to see a brief video of my Quisk in action (Coming soon).
  I hope this beginners guide will be helpful to you.Good Luck!
Android Application for Radio Amateurs
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  Here is some details of the Android Applications I use on my Galaxy S2Android Galaxy S21) Echolink for Android)Very nice program works very well 3G or Wifi 1) Echolink for Android)2) HF Beacon. (HF beacon monitoring your android clock must be accurate)3) Call Log. (Logbook)4) HamGPS.5) DroidRTTY.6) AndPSKmail.7) APRS View.8) APRSdroid.9) DroidPSK.10) QRZDroid.11) NCDXF Beacon.12) NKCCluster.13) DroidProp (very nice propagation program)14) ElectroDroid.15) HamSA.16) Morse Code Trainer.17) RF Calculator.18) AHPSDR (Android SDR client for SDRServers)
  HF Beacon.Very nice program to monitor 20M Beacons make shore your time is correct.Call Log.Very handy if you are a way from your computer or logbook (Field station)HamGPS.DroidRTTY.You can connect your radio via Mic / SpeakerAndPSKmail.You can connect your radio via Mic / Speaker APRS View. APRS View is just a simple APRS view APRSdroid.This the better APRS Viewer that aloes you to send Message as well as publishing you position.(U have the option to use GPRS / HSDPA data not your radio or you can connect to radio with speaker / Mic or blue-tooth)(Very handy)Read my details how to connect android to radio. NKCCluster.NKCClusterDroidPropThis program is fantastic has all resistor xl, xc, f, resonant , and lots moreic pin outs, regulator, cable details... ,555, tuned ...78xx regulators.HamSASouth African Radio armature information application.Morse Code TrainerAHPSDR (Android SDR client for SDRServers)
Holder Begs Court to Stop Document Release on Fast and Furious
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  Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:33
  Judicial Watch had filed, on June 22, 2012, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking all documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious and ''specifically [a]ll records subject to the claim of executive privilege invoked by President Barack Obama on or about June 20, 2012.''
  The administration has refused to comply with Judicial Watch's FOIA request, and in mid-September the group filed a lawsuit challenging Holder's denial. That lawsuit remains ongoing but within the past week President Barack Obama's administration filed what's called a ''motion to stay'' the suit. Such a motion is something that if granted would delay the lawsuit indefinitely.
  Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said that Holder's and Obama's desire to continually hide these Fast and Furious documents is ''ironic'' now that they're so gung-ho on gun control. ''It is beyond ironic that the Obama administration has initiated an anti-gun violence push as it seeking to keep secret key documents about its very own Fast and Furious gun walking scandal,'' Fitton said in a statement. ''Getting beyond the Obama administration's smokescreen, this lawsuit is about a very simple principle: the public's right to know the full truth about an egregious political scandal that led to the death of at least one American and countless others in Mexico. The American people are sick and tired of the Obama administration trying to rewrite FOIA law to protect this president and his appointees. Americans want answers about Fast and Furious killings and lies.''
  The only justification Holder uses to ask the court to indefinitely delay Judicial Watch's suit is that there's another lawsuit ongoing for the same documents '' one filed by the U.S. House of Representatives. Judicial Watch has filed a brief opposing the DOJ's motion to stay.
  As the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was voting Holder into contempt of Congress for his refusal to cooperate with congressional investigators by failing to turn over tens of thousands of pages of Fast and Furious documents, Obama asserted the executive privilege over them. The full House of Representatives soon after voted on a bipartisan basis to hold Holder in contempt.
  There were two parts of the contempt resolution. Holder was, and still is, in both civil and criminal contempt of Congress. The criminal resolution was forwarded to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald Machen''who works for Holder''for prosecution. Despite being technically required by law to bring forth criminal charges against Holder, under orders from Holder's Department of Justice Machen chose to ignore the resolution.
  The second part of the contempt resolution''civil contempt of Congress''allowed House Republicans to hire legal staff to challenge President Obama's assertion of the executive privilege. That lawsuit remains ongoing despite Holder's and the DOJ's attempt to dismiss it and settle it.
  It's unclear what's in the documents Obama asserted privilege over, but the president's use of the extraordinary power appears weak. There are two types of presidential executive privilege: the presidential communications privilege and the deliberative process privilege. Use of the presidential communications privilege would require that the president himself or his senior-most advisers were involved in the discussions.
  Since the president and his cabinet-level officials continually claim they had no knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious until early 2011 when the information became public''and Holder claims he didn't read the briefing documents he was sent that outlined the scandal and how guns were walking while the operation was ongoing''Obama says he's using the less powerful deliberative process privilege.
  The reason why Obama's assertion of that deliberative process privilege over these documents is weak at best is because the Supreme Court has held that such a privilege assertion is invalidated by even the suspicion of government wrongdoing. Obama, Holder, the Department of Justice, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and virtually everyone else involved in this scandal have admitted that government wrongdoing actually took place in Operation Fast and Furious.
  In Fast and Furious, the ATF ''walked'' about 2,000 firearms into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. That means through straw purchasers they allowed sales to happen and didn't stop the guns from being trafficked even though they had the legal authority to do so and were fully capable of doing so.
  Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexican citizens''estimates put it around at least 300''were killed with these firearms.
  The Fast and Furious scandal and more is covered in detail in the New York Times best-selling book Corruption Chronicles.
Judge "The FACT That Bradley Manning Leaked These Documents To Do The Right Thing Doesn't Matter"
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"The Concealable Handguns Is Really The Problem" New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly
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Miracle Antenna by dxzone.com
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  Miracle Antenna by dxzone.comAll-band portable whip antenna for the Ft817, 897, 857, IC706, 703, K1, K2, and every other portable QRP radio, antenna tuners.
  This is www.dxzone.com ham and amateur radio internet guide page, it requires frames for proper display.
DL2SDR
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  Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:51
  DSP Radio - Software Defined Radio for Mac OS XRequirementsDSP Radio requires a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6 or newer. Supported SDR frontends are quadrature sampling mixers which provide an IQ (inphase/quadrature) signal. This can be a very simple hardware like i.e. the SoftRock SDR. The IQ signal can be fed into the computer via the internal audio device input or via USB or Firewire if the SDR frontend has an own integrated audio interface. Frequency tuning is supported for FA-SY 1 compatible (Si570 oscillator with microcontroller running the DG8SAQ compatible firmware), FA-SDR, FUNcube dongle, FiFi SDR and Lima SDR. If you have i.e. the FA-SDR or Lima SDR Tx module, then you can also transmit. You have to set up an additional Tx configuration and connect the audio output to your SDR frontend. DSP Radio supports semi-bk in CW mode for the FA-SDR-Transceiver (Kit BX-200), which is available at www.box73.de.SettingsPlease have a look at the installation instructions links below. Further settings (i.e. vendor, product, frequency division, i2c add, waterfall intervall, ...) can be changed in the preferences plist file (de.dl2sdr.DSP_Radio.plist). Once you have launched the application for the first time, you will find the default values in this file. Sorry, there is no UI for those yet.Connect the output of your SDR hardware to the audio input of your computer. If you have a SDR hardware which supports Tx, then also connect the input of your SDR hardware to the audio output of your computer. If you do not have a remote switch to toggle between speaker (or headphone) and SDR input, then you have to connect an external multiple i/o audio hardware (i.e. Emagic a6/2m). Don't forget, that all used devices must work at the same sample rate!!! "Build-In Audio" seems not to be the best option. Use a high quality Audio-Interface for best performance if possible. Some Audio-Interfaces may not be applicable - especially for transmitting.If you want to start DSP Radio for the first time, you have to set up your system accordingly. If you have a Rx only hardware (i.e. SoftRock Lite), the build in audio device is ok. Otherwise you have to connect an additional multiple i/o audio hardware. Then Launch Audio MIDI Setup (Utilities folder) and set all desired devices to the same sample rate (i.e. 96kHz). Then you have to set up an "Aggregate Device" in Audio MIDI Setup, that bundles all used audio devices into one aggregated device. I have an aggregate device on my MacBook Pro, which bundles Audio Input, Microphone and Line Out into one 4 channel in and 2 channel out device. Then launch DSP Radio and open the Audio devices window and set up the audio devices you want to use. Then open the Configurations window and create two configurations (Rx and Tx). One Rx configuration and one Tx configuration. If everything is fine you should hear something from your speakers. Open the GUI window (if not already open) and tune the frequency by "scrubbing" the digits in the frequency display or by dragging in the spectrum display. DSP Radio provides different tuning modes while dragging the spectrum if you press "shift" or one of the following modifier keys: "control", "option" and "command". Don't forget that you are using a BETA version, which is still work in progress. You are using the software at your own risk!If you have a FUNcube dongle you can use Qthid to upgrade the FCD firmware. DSP Radio does support the new FCD Pro+ yet. Please follow the instructions from the PDF.
  You can make a donation by using the PayPal Donate button. The donation will be used for new SDR hardware acquisition in order to support it. SDR hardware donation is also possible, but you should contact me before.
  DownloadDownload DSP Radio 1.3.9 (beta) application, December 29, 2012Installation instructions for the FUNcube Pro+ dongle (PDF)Installation instructions for the FUNcube dongle (PDF)Plug In and installation instructions for the Harzburg SDR (external website). Thanks, Daniel Korczak!Installation instructions for the Lima SDR at YouTube (german)FiFi SDR demonstration at YouTubeFiFi and FUNcube SDR demonstration at YouTube
  About meSoftware Applications Engineer. CEPT novice radio amateur licence ("E") since 2006. CEPT T/R 61-01 radio amateur licence ("A") since 2010.Leisure activities: Ham Radio (call sign: DL2SDR), Software Development, Astronomy, Radio Astronomy, Electronics, Physics.You can contact me via mail: smrozek (at) me.comHave fun!
  73, Diplom-Physiker Sebastian Mrozek
Softrock Ensemble RXTX with DSP Radio on MacOS X
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  I've enjoyed the Ensemble RXTX kit build but I'm having a devil of a time with audio under Windows XP. There's not a lot of ham radio software for MacOS but there is an SDR program called "DSP Radio" from Sebastian Mrozek, who has been very helpful in getting me past some problems I ran into.The instructions with the software are a little brief and so I wanted to capture my working configuration here for future reference.
  I'm using a MacBook Air with an Edirol USB audio device for sending and receiving I/Q signals from the Ensemble RXTX. USB control is via TODO which links to DSP Radio.
  Plug in the external audio device. Then run the Apple "Audio MIDI Setup" utility (in the utilities folder). Create a new Aggregate Device and add the external USB device and your built-in audio (for your headphones and microphone).
  Make sure to set all the devices to the same sample rate.
  Set the external USB audio device as the clock source in the popup.Turn on the Drift Correction checkboxes (called Resample under 10.6) for the built-in microphone and built-in output.
  Open the Audio devices window in DSP Radio.
  Select the Aggregate Device as both Input and Output.Open the Configuration window in DSP Radio. (If there is an existing audio configuration there, just leave it and make a new one, then go back later and delete it). Add a new audio configuration.
  First make a receive (Rx) configuration. Unfortunately the name of the devices within the aggregate are simply numbered: Input 0, input 1, input 2, input 3; so you need to play around to figure out which is which. I did this by choosing inputs and whistling until I saw my trace on the waterfall - that meant I'd found the microphone.
  In my case I/Q from the radio was Input 0 and Input 1 but it may come up differently for you. Play with the Output popups until you get audio through your speaker. For me it was Output 2 and Output 3. Don't worry that the heading says "Output I and Q", that's for transmit. In the receive context it's just audio out to your speaker.
  Note that the audio level was very low for me and I had to increase output gain to hear radio signals.
  Here's a screen shot with everything working. The second audio configuration line is for transmit.
  Transmit configuration is similar. Make a new configuration. Select Tx. Choose the inputs from the microphone channels in your aggregate device. Choose the Output I & Q for the external USB outputs to the radio.Frequency & TX control via USB
  Andrew Nilsson has contributed SoftRock-USB-Controller-v1.2.zip which talks to the Ensemble RXTX and also links to DSP Radio so that changing the frequency in DSP radio updates the Ensemble. (The file is hosted in a Yahoo group under VK6JBL - you have to join the group to access it unfortunately).
  The transmit button in DSP Radio also sets transmit in the radio. Great stuff.First QSO using PowerSDR under Windows 7
  Most of my problems have been sound related under Windows XP so I switched to a laptop running Windows 7 and had much more success. Here's my first contact with VK2HLG - thanks Dave for taking the call.
  Sorry about the low receive audio on this one, I'll try to get a better recording next time.
Vaccine Court Awards Millions to Two Children With Autism
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  Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:00
  ''The hatred from the medical community towards families like ours is intense.''
  huffingtonpost.com | Jan 14, 2013
  by David Kirby
  The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, better known as ''vaccine court,'' has just awarded millions of dollars to two children with autism for ''pain and suffering'' and lifelong care of their injuries, which together could cost tens of millions of dollars.
  The government did not admit that vaccines caused autism, at least in one of the children. Both cases were ''unpublished,'' meaning information is limited, and access to medical records and other exhibits is blocked. Much of the information presented here comes from documents found at the vaccine court website.
  Some observers will say the vaccine-induced encephalopathy (brain disease) documented in both children is unrelated to their autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Others will say there is plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise.
  What's more, these cases fit the pattern of other petitions, (i.e., Poling and Banks) in which the court ruled (or the government conceded) that vaccines had caused encephalopathy, which in turn produced permanent injury, including symptoms of autism and ultimately an ASD diagnosis.
  And most of these children now have taxpayer dollars earmarked for applied behavioral analysis (ABA), an effective therapy specifically designed to treat ASD.
  Meanwhile, parents, grandparents, friends and neighbors of both children testified they were developmentally normal, if not advanced for their age when they developed seizures, spiking fevers and other adverse reactions to their vaccines. According to these eyewitnesses, the children never fully recovered, and instead began losing vocabulary, eye contact and interest in others around them, all classic symptoms of regressive autism.
  In the first case, involving a 10-year-old boy from Northern California named Ryan Mojabi, the parents allege that ''all the vaccinations'' received from 2003-2005, and ''more specifically, measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccinations,'' caused a ''severe and debilitating injury to his brain, described as Autism Spectrum Disorder ('ASD').''
  The parents, who did not want to be interviewed, specifically asserted that Ryan ''suffered a Vaccine Table Injury, namely, an encephalopathy'' as a result of his MMR vaccination on December 19, 2003.'' (''Table injuries'' are known, compensable adverse reactions to immunizations.)
  Alternatively, they claim that ''as a cumulative result of his receipt of each and every vaccination between March 25, 2003 and February 22, 2005, Ryan has suffered . . . neuroimmunologically mediated dysfunctions in the form of asthma and ASD.''
  In vaccine court, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services acts as the defendant and Justice Department attorneys act as counsel.
  In 2009, Ryan's case was transferred to vaccine court's Autism Omnibus Proceedings, according to the docket. A year-and-a-half later, the government conceded that MMR vaccine had indeed caused Ryan's encephalopathy.
  HHS agreed that ''Ryan suffered a Table injury under the Vaccine Act '-- namely, an encephalitis within five to fifteen days following receipt,'' of MMR, records show. ''This case is appropriate for compensation.''
  Whether HHS agreed with Ryan's parents that his vaccine-induced brain disease led to ASD is unknown. The concession document is under seal.
  In December 2003, when Ryan was nearly two, he received his first MMR and hepatitis B vaccines before his family left for an extended trip overseas. That day, his mother testified, Ryan began shaking with uncontrollable tremors and ''was really uncomfortable, he didn't feel well at all.''
  The nurse at Ryan's pediatrician said the symptoms were ''pretty normal after the vaccination,'' and advised Tylenol. The next day, Ryan began crying, ''but it's not a normal crying,'' his mother testified. ''He didn't go to sleep, he was without energy.''
  The family considered postponing their holiday, but that wasn't feasible. The doctor's office said it was fine to travel. Prior to leaving, Ryan's mother said, the boy had difficulty breathing and ''was without energy and sleepy.'' He could no longer hold his head up, something ''he could do prior to the vaccinations.'' At the airport, Ryan began ''screaming,'' she recalled. ''He was just opening and closing his eyes so hard, he was pulling my hair.''
  After his shots, she added, Ryan ''stopped saying those words that he had, even mommy and daddy, that he had repeated a hundred times before.''
  In early January, while still abroad, Ryan was rushed to the hospital with vomiting, high fever and red spots covering his body ''from head to toe in a measles-like rash,'' the attending physician said. Ryan was diagnosed with ''febrile convulsion, probably related to MMR.''
  The next day, another doctor diagnosed him with ''high fever, skin rash, tremors, and lethargy,'' which were ''most likely due to an adverse reaction to multiple vaccines he received earlier.''
  Two days later, Ryan returned to the hospital with a persistent fever of 104 or more.
  Ryan's parents testified that, upon returning home, they expressed worry to their pediatrician about behavioral problems, non-responsiveness and language loss, which later produced an ASD diagnosis.
  At trial, however, the government argued powerfully that written medical records, and the recollections of Ryan's doctor, were inconsistent with his parents' testimony. If Ryan had truly suffered an MMR encephalopathy, for example, his family would never have taken him overseas. And his parents' complaints of ASD symptoms were raised a full year after returning from abroad, they alleged. It looked like the family had a weak case.
  But then something changed.
  In October, 2010, Ryan's attorney filed four new exhibits (under seal) and proposed amending the court's ''findings of fact.'' In January and May of 2011, several more exhibits were filed, along with a motion to further supplement the findings of fact.
  A month later HHS conceded the case, which moved into the damages phase.
  Award details were announced a few days ago: A lump sum of $969,474.91, to cover ''lost future earnings ($648,132.74), pain and suffering ($202,040.17), and life care expenses for Year One ($119,302.00),'' plus $20,000 for past expenses.
  Another undisclosed sum, several millions more, will be invested in annuities to cover yearly costs for life, which could total $10 million or more, not accounting for inflation. Nearly $80,000 was earmarked for ABA in the first two years.
  The second case involves a girl named Emily, whose mother, Jillian Moller, filed back in 2003 and has been fighting in vaccine court since. The docket, crammed with 188 items, documents Moller's extended but victorious struggle to win compensation for Emily, who has seizure disorder and PDD-NOS, a form of ASD.
  Moller alleged that Emily was severely injured by a reaction to the DTaP vaccine at 15 months (when MMR, HiB and Prevnar were also given). ''She had a vaccine reaction and she just spiraled out of control,'' Moller said in an interview.
  Emily's fever spiked to 105.7 and she began screaming. She stared blankly and developed seizures. Before long she began ''shaking episodes'' at night and ''repetitive behaviors, including arm flapping and spinning,'' court documents show. Like Ryan, she developed a measles-type rash.
  Things went from bad to worse. Emily's medical record is filled with damage and suffering. One neurologist, for example, noted that Emily ''had staring spells and an abnormal EEG.'' Another diagnosed ''encephalopathy characterized by speech delay and probable global developmental delay that occurred in the setting of temporal association with immunizations as an acute encephalopathy.''
  Moller filed for an encephalopathy Table injury in 2003, unaware her daughter would be diagnosed with ASD.
  Two hearings were held in 2005. ''I was badgered and harassed for four hours on the stand,'' she said. ''They said Emily couldn't have been that sick, or else I would've taken her to the ER. But I took her to my doctor and he said not to bring her to the hospital!''
  Government lawyers insisted that Emily had suffered neither a vaccine injury nor encephalopathy. But every alternative cause they suggested ''made no sense, because she showed no signs of those things before that vaccination,'' Moller said.
  The case dragged on for years, with motions and counter-motions, status reports and expert medical reports. In 2007, Moller filed for summary judgment. That also took years, as more medical records were submitted to bolster Emily's case.
  After the ASD diagnosis, the judge reportedly became convinced that Emily would prevail. ''My attorney said she was angry, she felt forced into a corner with no choice but to find for us,'' Moller said. ''She said, 'Emily has autism, and I don't want to give other families who filed autism claims any hope.'''
  The government agreed to settle. Last spring the case went into mediation and, on December 3 HHS made its proffer, which was entered into the record on the 28th. Emily was awarded a lump sum of $1,030,314.22 ''for lost future earnings ($739,989.57), pain and suffering ($170,499.77) and life care expenses for Year One ($119,874.88) plus $190,165.40 for past expenses.'' Some of that money will go to ABA therapy.
  Based on the first year payout, another estimated $9 million will buy annuities for annual expenses through life, which after inflation has the potential to pay over $50 million dollars.
  HHS did not admit that vaccination caused encephalopathy or autism, but merely decided not to dedicate more resources to defending the case.
  ''I don't understand why they fought so hard,'' Moller said. ''We had the evidence: the EEG, the MRI, everything was consistent with encephalopathy, post-vaccination. How can government attorneys claim what our doctors said happened, didn't happen?''
  Perhaps the feds were loath to concede yet another vaccine case involving autism. Four cases in the Autism Omnibus Proceedings were recently compensated. Three of those cases are marked with asterisks, indicating the government did not conclude that autism can be caused by vaccines. But the fourth autism case that was paid out in 2013 (Ryan's case? We don't know) has no such caveat.
  As for Emily, she is ''not too good,'' Moller said. ''Her emotional state is fragile, at best. She has seizure problems and autoimmune issues'... And it's a constant fight when you have a vaccine-injured child. It's not just the disability, it's the ignorance. The hatred from the medical community towards families like ours is intense.''
  Meanwhile, as HHS says it ''has never concluded in any case that autism was caused by vaccination,'' it is still underwriting autism treatments such as ABA for children in its vaccine-injury program.
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President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
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  January 16, 2013
  WASHINGTON, DC '' Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key Administration posts:
  ' Vinton G. Cerf '' Member, National Science Board, National Science Foundation' Marta Araoz de la Torre '' Member, Cultural Property Advisory Committee' Michael Graves '' Member, Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board' Laurie Leshin '' Member, Advisory Board of the National Air and Space Museum' Lynne Sebastian '' Member, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
  President Obama said, ''These fine public servants both bring a depth of experience and tremendous dedication to their new roles. Our nation will be well-served by these individuals, and I look forward to working with them in the months and years to come.''
  President Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key Administration posts:
  Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Appointee for Member, National Science Board, National Science FoundationDr. Vinton G. Cerf is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, a position he has held since 2005. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President at MCI from 1994 to 2005. From 1986 to 1994, he served as Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, and from 1976 to 1982, he worked as a Program Manager and Principal Scientist at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Dr. Cerf is President of the Association for Computing Machinery and serves on the Board of the American Registry for Internet Numbers. He is a distinguished visiting scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and is Chair of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. From 2000 to 2007, he served as the Chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Dr. Cerf received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, the National Medal of Technology in 1997, and the ACM Alan M. Turing Prize in 2004 for his contributions to the development of the Internet. Dr. Cerf received a B.S. from Stanford University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
  Marta Araoz de la Torre, Appointee for Member, Cultural Property Advisory CommitteeMarta Araoz de la Torre is an independent heritage consultant. From 2003 to 2008, she was the Director of the Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program at Florida International University in Miami. From 1985 to 2002, she was a Director at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. Ms. de la Torre was first appointed as a Member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) by President Obama in October 2011. She previously served as a Member of CPAC from 2003 to 2008. Ms. de la Torre served on the Board of Studies of the Wall Paintings Conservation Course of the Courtauld Institute in London, and on the Hamilton Kerr Institute in Cambridge, U.K. She has served on the Executive Committee of the International Council of Museums and the Board of the American Association of Museums/International Council of Museums. Ms. de la Torre received a B.A. from the George Washington University and an M.A. from American University.
  Michael Graves, Appointee for Member, Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance BoardMichael Graves is the founding principal of Michael Graves & Associates, an architecture and design firm that he founded in 1964. Since then, the practice has evolved into two firms: Michael Graves & Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. Mr. Graves is also the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture, Emeritus at Princeton University, where he taught for nearly 40 years. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Mr. Graves is the 2012 Richard H. Driehaus Prize Laureate and the 2010 recipient of the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion. Additionally, he received the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal in 2001, the National Medal of Arts in 1999, and was named one of the Top 25 Most Influential People in Healthcare Design by the Center for Health Design in 2010. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome. Mr. Graves received a B.S.Arch from the University of Cincinnati and an M.Arch from Harvard University.
  Dr. Laurie Leshin, Appointee for Member, Advisory Board of the National Air and Space MuseumDr. Laurie Leshin is Dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. From 2005 to 2011, she served in various senior roles at NASA, including Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA Headquarters' Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, the Deputy Center Director for Science and Technology, and Director of Science at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Before joining NASA, Dr. Leshin was the Dee and John Whiteman Dean's Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences and the Director of the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University. Dr. Leshin was appointed to the President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy in 2004. In 1996, she was awarded the Nier Prize for outstanding research by a scientist under the age of 35 by the Meteoritical Society. The International Astronomical Union recognized her contributions to planetary science with the naming of asteroid 4922 Leshin. She received a B.S. from Arizona State University and a Ph. D. from the California Institute of Technology.
  Dr. Lynne Sebastian, Appointee for Member, Advisory Council on Historic PreservationDr. Lynne Sebastian is Director of Historic Preservation Programs at the Statistical Research Inc. Foundation, a position she has held since 2001. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Sebastian was the State Historic Preservation Officer for the State of New Mexico from 1997 to 1999, and she was the Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer and the State Archaeologist from 1987 to 1997. She is the President of the Register of Professional Archaeologists and was the President of the Society for American Archaeology from 2003 to 2005. Dr. Sebastian received a B.A. from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico.
Letter -- Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process
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  Source: White House.gov Press Office Feed
  Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:47
  The White House
  Office of the Press Secretary
  For Immediate Release
  January 17, 2013
  Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
  Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, within 90 days prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, I have sent to the Federal Register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the national emergency declared with respect to foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process is to continue in effect beyond January 23, 2013.
  The crisis with respect to grave acts of violence committed by foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process that led to the declaration of a national emergency on January 23, 1995, has not been resolved. Terrorist groups continue to engage in activities that have the purpose or effect of threatening the Middle East peace process and that are hostile to United States interests in the region. Such actions constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency with respect to foreign terrorists who threaten to disrupt the Middle East peace process and to maintain in force the economic sanctions against them to respond to this threat.
  Sincerely,
  BARACK OBAMA
Finally! Dana Loesch Explains To Piers WHAT An Assault Weapon Is ~ Its Not An "Assault Unicorn," Mind You
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  Source: MRCTV - News & Politics
  Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:43
  Dana Loesch was particularly clear in explaining to Piers what an "assault weapon" is. Piers keeps conflating the issue by joining two real world examples into one fictitious "military style assault weapon." It doesn't exist! And too bad for Piers that NO ARMY in the world uses the AR-15 in service. (Posted by: Religio-Political Talk) I add some graphics to help show how Piers using the Assault Weapons Ban just does not work, and how cosmetic it really is.
NEW New York Gun Law Requires Doctors To Report Patients They Believe To Be Dangerous
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  Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:43
How Will We Deal With The Dangerously Mentally Ill?
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