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if we are to move beyond engaging in gotcha journalism
at this cyber wailing wall might I suggest
we create solutions, eh?


Solution #1

removing Sovereign immunity from Politicians
allowing voters and taxpayers to sue politicians directly.
Politicians would have to pay for lawsuit if they lost.

see
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Not to be confused with the principle of public international law that the government of a state is normally not amenable before the courts of another state, for which see State immunity.

Sovereign immunity, or crown immunity, is a legal doctrine by which the sovereign or state cannot commit a legal wrong and is immune from civil suit or criminal prosecution.

In constitutional monarchies the sovereign is the historical origin of the authority which creates the courts. Thus the courts had no power to compel the sovereign to be bound by the courts, as they were created by the sovereign for the protection of his or her subjects.

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How can you make elections tamper proof?

#1. get rid of electronic voting machines

#2. every voter gets a coded hardcopy of how they voted

in other news....
cops caught committing voter fraud while funded by your tax dime

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Police, Phone Company Implicated : Alleged Wiretap Scheme Investigated in Cincinnati
January 14, 1989|

CINCINNATI — Bob Draise never cared much for black militants and drug dealers.

So, he says now, when a Cincinnati police sergeant asked him in 1972 to wiretap the local Black Muslim headquarters, and later the homes of people the police said were criminals, Draise, a telephone installer for Cincinnati Bell, readily agreed.

He even gave the police the name of a co-worker he said would help. Soon, however, the two phone workers claim, they were tapping the lines of congressmen, federal judges, defense contractors, city officials, businessmen, news reporters, lawyers and even top local FBI and police officials--all at the direction of either the police intelligence unit or their Cincinnati Bell supervisors.

Now, a federal grand jury is investigating charges of illegal wiretapping by the police and the telephone company. In testimony before it, Draise and Leonard Gates, the other Bell employee, claim to have tapped more than 1,300 phones from 1972 to 1984.

"Hell, they did President Ford when he came to town," Draise said in an interview. "The movers and shakers of this town have been wiretapped, the people who control the money in this town."

According to allegations made before the grand jury and in a separate $112-million class-action lawsuit filed against Cincinnati Bell and the Police Department, employees of the telephone company, in addition to doing the Police Department's bidding, also sold commercially sensitive information obtained by wiretaps to "preferred Bell customers."

The spying operation headed by the police allegedly involved other illegal acts, including burglaries and arson.

Five police officers, including a former police chief, have taken the Fifth Amendment before the grand jury rather than answer questions about their roles in the wiretapping scheme. Spokesmen for Cincinnati Bell flatly deny that the allegations are true.

"Mr. Draise and Mr. Gates are lying when they say that Cincinnati Bell forced or authorized them to do any illegal wiretaps," company spokeswoman Cyndi Cantoni said.

Sees Bid for Revenge

She contends that the two men are making the allegations as retribution against the company for firing them.

"Mr. Draise was fired because he got caught doing wiretapping and Mr. Gates was fired because he was a bad manager," she said.

Draise was convicted in 1979 in federal court of wiretapping a telephone for a friend. He was forced to resign. Gates was fired in 1986. He alleges that he was fired partly because he refused to place any more illegal wiretaps.

Some of the men's allegations have been corroborated before the grand jury by others with knowledge of the wiretapping operation, including a police sergeant and the former chief of security at the hotel where then-President Gerald R. Ford stayed when he visited Cincinnati in 1972.

Howard Lucas, the former Stouffer's Hotel security chief, said in an interview that he was approached by a police sergeant for access to the hotel's telephone switching room a month before Ford's visit.

Recognized as Officers

Lucas, who refused the request, said the police sergeant had come to the hotel with five men, several of whom he recognized as police officers, and a Bell workmen whom he has since learned was Gates.

Two days after Lucas refused the police request, he said he found wiretapping equipment and a voice-activated tape recorder hidden in the telephone switching room.

Neither the telephone company nor the Police Department acknowledged that it owned the equipment, so he destroyed it, Lucas said.

He said he saw some of the men at the hotel on two other occasions before Ford's visit, but that he never found any more wiretapping equipment.

Gates has said, however, that he succeeded in tapping Ford's room, despite Lucas' resistance. Gates said he was told that the wiretapping was being done at the behest of the FBI for security purposes.

Other wiretap targets allegedly included Procter & Gamble and Wren Business Communications Systems, a rival of Cincinnati Bell. Draise told investigators that Bell employees routinely monitored customer calls to Wren.

'Felt They Had a Ghost'

"I was not surprised by the allegations," said David Stoner, president of Wren Communications. "It made sense because of things that had occurred that were improbable statistically. . . . Our marketing people felt they had a ghost continually.

"Repeatedly, we would talk to people who were dissatisfied with Cincinnati Bell. For the sake of an example, let's say that we would talk to someone on a Tuesday and make an appointment to see them on a Thursday or a Wednesday. Well, on Wednesday or Thursday, Cincinnati Bell would already be on the site without having been called," Stoner said.

Referring to other occurrences that he termed "curious," Stoner said: "I'm not convinced that it has stopped."
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Have you made an effort to post material about
crimes committed by FBI agents at other forums?


I have....over 300 pages worth

just google

san diego tribune forum FBI watch

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Kill The Messenger: Mike Levine & Gary Webb - The Big White Lie + Dark Alliance= CIA drug cartel


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How saving West African forests might have prevented the Ebola epidemic

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Friday 3 October 2014 13.26 EDT

The world now knows in great detail how Thomas Eric Duncan, a man who just a few weeks ago showed admirable compassion for a sick, pregnant neighbor in Liberia, has become the first person to come down with Ebola in the United States.

What is less well known is how the virus came to West Africa to infect Duncan’s neighbor. Knowing and acting on that story is absolutely critical if we hope to contain future outbreaks of Ebola and other scary diseases before they turn into global headlines.

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa may have surprised most of the medical establishment – this is the first such outbreak in the region – but the risk had been steadily rising for at least a decade. The risk had grown so high, in fact, that this outbreak was almost inevitable and very possibly predictable.

All that was needed was to see the danger was a bat’s eye view of the region. Once blanketed with forests, West Africa has been skinned alive over the last decade. Guinea’s rainforests have been reduced by 80%, while Liberia has sold logging rights to over half its forests. Within the next few years Sierra Leone is on track to be completely deforested.

This matters because those forests were habitat for fruit bats, Ebola’s reservoir host. With their homes cut down around them, the bats are concentrating into the remnants of their once-abundant habitat. At the same time, mining has become big business in the region, employing thousands of workers who regularly travel into bat territory to get to the mines.
mine sierra leone africa deforestation Industrial kimberlite diamond pit mine in Sierra Leone, West Africa owned by Koidu holdings, one of a number of international mining companies who have come to Sierra Leone in search of diamonds. Mining is among major factors driving deforestation of the region. Photographer: David Levene

The result: virus, bats and people have had more opportunities to meet.
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Fruit bats carry the Ebola virus, but generally don’t die from it. The virus could easily have migrated from Central to West Africa inside them in much the same way that birds spread West Nile virus across North America: passing it among flocks during seasonal migrations.

Although bats have long been on the menu in West Africa, there are other transmission routes for the virus besides bushmeat. It is conceivable the two-year-old boy in Guinea thought to be the first case in this outbreak was infected after eating bat-contaminated fruit. This mode of transmission may also explain how the disease gets into wild gorilla populations.

The bottom line is that there is no public health without environmental health. Deforestation didn’t cause this Ebola epidemic, but did make it much more likely. The region’s legacy of war and poverty, its beleaguered health care systems, and a series of bureaucratic fumbles fanned a small and isolated outbreak into a full-blown epidemic fire, which has already killed more people than all previous 25 known Ebola outbreaks put together.

It is shocking to realize that a tiny virus with just a handful of genes can fracture families, shred communities, destroy national economies and destabilize whole regions in just a matter of months. But this is what are witnessing with Ebola.

Even as global efforts intensify to quash the outbreak in West Africa, let’s not lose sight of what we can learn in this most sobering of teachable moments: we must give environmental science a much larger and more powerful role in public health practices. If West Africa’s forests had been harvested in a more sustainable manner and its wildlife monitored for health, Ebola might not have jumped into the human population. At the very least, efforts to treat the sick and contain the outbreak might have been better targeted earlier in the game.

Pathogens such as the Ebola virus are opportunists. To understand their perils and possibilities, first we need to see the connections. There is a clear connection to conservation and wise stewardship of forests to many public health goods, from from storing up atmospheric carbon to soaking up heavy rains – to acting as barriers to disease.

What a difference a bat’s eye view might have made to Thomas Eric Duncan, to his neighbor – and to us.

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Senior NSA official moonlighting for private cybersecurity firm



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Patrick Dowd recruited by former NSA director Keith Alexander
Unusual for US official to work for private, for-profit company

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The National Security Agency has developed close ties with certain private cybersecurity businesses. Photograph: Felix Clay/The Guardian

Spencer Ackerman in Washington

Friday 17 October 2014 16.51 EDT

The former director of the National Security Agency has enlisted the US surveillance giant’s current chief technology officer for his lucrative cybersecurity business venture, an unusual arrangement undercutting Keith Alexander’s assurances he will not profit from his connections to the secretive, technologically sophisticated agency.

Patrick Dowd continues to work as a senior NSA official while also working part time for Alexander’s IronNet Cybersecurity, a firm reported to charge up to $1m a month for advising banks on protecting their data from hackers. It is exceedingly rare for a US official to be allowed to work for a private, for-profit company in a field intimately related to his or her public function.

Reuters, which broke the story of Dowd’s relationship with IronNet, reported that the NSA is reviewing the business deal.
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Since retiring from the NSA in March and entering the burgeoning field of cybersecurity consulting, Alexander has vociferously defended his ethics against charges of profiting off of his NSA credentials. Alexander was the founding general in charge of US Cyber Command, the first military command charged with defending Defense Department data and attacking those belonging to adversaries. Both positions provide Alexander with unique and marketable insights into cybersecurity.

His final year as the agency’s longest serving director was characterised by reacting to Edward Snowden’s disclosures – and the embarrassment of presiding over the largest data breach in the agency’s history – and publicly urging greater cybersecurity cooperation between the agency and financial institutions.

“I’m a cyber guy. Can’t I go to work and do cyber stuff?” Alexander told the Associated Press in August.

Alexander, whose adult life was spent in uniform, intends to file patents for what he has described obliquely as a new forecasting model for detecting network intrusions. His assurance prompted speculation that the retired general is profiting from technical sophistication that competitors who do not have a US intelligence pedigree cannot hope to replicate.
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Alexander portrayed Dowd’s unusual joint positions with the NSA and IronNet as a way for the public to keep benefitting from Dowd’s expertise, while saying less about how Alexander will profit from the same skill set.

“I just felt that his leaving the government was the wrong thing for NSA and our nation,” Alexander told Reuters.

The NSA, whose operations are almost entirely secret, has long been criticised for its close corporate ties. One long-serving official, William Black Jr, left the agency for Science Applications International Corporation, before returning in 2000 as deputy director.

While Black was in his senior position, SAIC won an NSA contract to develop a data-mining programme, called Trailblazer, that was never implemented, despite a cost of over $1bn. Whistleblowers have charged that Trailblazer killed a more privacy-protective system called ThinThread.

Black, however, did not serve simultaneously at the NSA and SAIC.

Compounding the potential financial conflicts at the NSA, Buzzfeed News reported that the home of chief of its Signals Intelligence Directorate, Teresa Shea, has a signals-intelligence consulting firm operating out of it. The firm is run by her husband James, wh

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JOHN DEAN SMACK DOWN AT TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL
Dallas Morning News Reporter Ignores The Facts
By Roger Stone

This past Saturday I confronted former Nixon Counsel John Dean about his true role in Watergate. Dean was a featured speaker at the Texas Book Festival, an event dominated by the Texas establishment. As you can see I listed an substantial amount of evidence and testimony that Dean himself ordered the Watergate break-in. The Daily Caller called it a "fiery exchange"

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Author of 'The Nazis Next Door' on Post-War America as a Haven for Perpetrators

Filed: 11/1/14 at 12:12 PM
11-1-14 Nazis Next Door
'The Nazis Next Door,' by Eric Lichtblau. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Filed Under: Culture, Holocaust, Nazis, Cold War, CIA, FBI
After the Allies defeated Hitler’s Germany in 1945, the Americans quickly turned toward a new enemy: the Soviet Union. As World War II gave way to the Cold War, Nazis and Nazi collaborators not only lied their way into the United States, but in many cases the CIA, FBI, and other agencies also hired them to work as spies and scientists. Officials helped them enter the country and gain citizenship, and protected them when unpleasant rumors and investigations surfaced despite knowing or suspecting deep ties to war crimes and atrocities.

In The Nazis Next Door, published Tuesday, Eric Lichtblau uses declassified documents and interviews to tell the story of how the U.S. became a safe haven for Nazis after the war, recounting one infuriating detail after another. Lichtblau—an investigative reporter in Washington for the New York Times—won a Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting along with James Risen in 2006 for their work on the NSA’s secret domestic wiretapping.

In a Q&A, Lichtblau discusses the making of the book on a little-known chapter in post-war history. Edited excerpts:



Where and how did this investigation start?

I did a story for the Times four years ago on a report into Nazis and prosecution of Nazis that the Justice Department had been sitting on for a number of years. They had refused to release it publicly for sort of mysterious reasons. I got hold of that report and a lot of fascinating details about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the efforts by the Justice Department over the last 35 years or so to track down Nazis. And it got into things like the investigations into Nazis who had intelligence ties, some of the problems in prosecutions, cases that collapsed. It was a roadmap almost to what then became the book. It was such a fascinating period in post-war history.

At the beginning of the book you mention the terrible conditions for victimes of the Holocaust in Displaced Persons camps, while the Nazis were slipping away to safety.

When I started that didn’t even occur to me as something I was going to examine, but I came to realize slowly that that was an important part of the story, not just how easily Nazis and Nazi collaborators had gotten into America, but how much difficulty the survivors had in getting out of the concentration camps. Those two pieces really went together because of the immigration policies at the time. The survivors were living under these horrific conditions. They were still confined behind barbed wire, under armed guard in camps. And this report by Earl Harrison to Truman comparing them to the Nazi concentration camps…

As matters now stand, we appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them.
—Earl Harrison to President Truman
Can you talk a little bit about the narrative that we have both of the Holocaust and its aftermath, how we talk about it in the U.S., how we teach it in schools?

What I try to do is to demythologize our memory of the liberation of the camps, as if the survivors were just welcomed with open arms, which they weren’t, and the idea of the conquest of the Nazis, which is sort of only half true: Yes we had defeated them, but we also embraced them in many ways.

With the Nazi scientists, history sort of remembers these guys as having no real connection to the atrocities of the Holocaust, and it’s simply untrue. Many of them were directly involved in atrocities, especially in production of the rockets at Mittelwerk [a slave labor camp] that Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph and people like that supervised.

I’m trying to bring a little reality and perspective to this rose-colored view that a lot of people have of the postwar years.

Your book focuses on government and agencies. But you also mention a “Nazi slumber” among the general public. What was the public’s attitude in the decades after the war?

You know, it was really remarkable and disheartening to see how little the general public cared about this stuff for the better part of 25 years or more after the war. It wasn’t until the 1970s that members of Congress, Elizabeth Holtzman and others, really started banging the drum to do something about this.

You did have people like Chuck Allen, a left-wing journalist who kind of became a hero of mine as I was reporting this out. In the early 60s he was trying to draw attention to these issues. And he was dismissed as a left-wing radical or a communist. Worse, not only was he ignored, but the FBI also wire-tapped him and trailed him for years. No one wanted to hear what he had to say.

You look back and you think what might have been different if, instead of going after these guys as the government did beginning in the late 70s and the early 80s, if they had done it 20-25 years earlier. Hundreds of Nazis would not have lived out their golden years in the United States. It’s a travesty.

As a thought experiment, how do you imagine things might have looked if there hadn’t been a Cold War after WWII?

Oh I think it would have been completely different. I don’t think I would have written this book. Because it all became about going after the Soviets and gathering intelligence on the Soviets. We very quickly forgot about the Nazis as last year’s enemy and turned to the Soviets as the new enemy.

It was also the Cold War that kept a lot of the information and the evidence bottled up because so many of the atrocities had taken place during the Holocaust in what then became the Soviet bloc countries. Because of the antagonism between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, we not only weren’t sharing that information about Nazi collaborators, about massacres in Lithuania or Estonia, but anything that did emerge publicly was immediately dismissed by J. Edgar Hoover [director of the FBI] and Allen Dulles [head of the CIA] and others. It was immediately poo pooed as Soviet propaganda.
ollaborators. The deeper I got into this the more shameful I considered this whole episode to be. It’s incredibly dispiriting as an American to see how low we sunk as a country.
s written from a place of anger, because you look at these documents and you shake your head and say, ‘How the hell could this have happened?’

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Icelandic hacker pleads guilty to embezzling funds from Wikileaks


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Wed, Nov 26, 2014

An Icelandic hacker who was once an ally of Julian Assange pled guilty Wednesday to charges that he embezzled 30 million Icelandic crowns ($240K USD) from Wikileaks.

Sigurdur Thordar­s­son's courtroom plea is the latest twist in the saga of Wikileaks, which released thousands of secret U.S. embassy cables in 2010 and 2011, deeply embarrassing Washington. Known as 'Siggi the Hacker', Thordar­s­son has previously said that he turned an informant for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2011, a year before Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault accusations that he has denied.

In the run up to his Iceland trial, Thordar­s­son rejected charges that he stole the proceeds of the sales of Wikileaks

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Monday, December 8, 2014
Ebola in Africa: Describing and Managing the Disease/ NEJM-MSF
The NEJM published a piece written primarily from Medicins Sans Frontieres clinicians who have worked in Liberia, describing the clinical course of Ebola patients, and concluding with the paragraph below, acknowledging the need to provide more comprehensive care than MSF was able to provide earlier in the outbreak.

I believe we are now arriving at a clinical consensus (see the Lancet article I posted on December 5, and the piece I wrote on November 30 seeking the "sweet spot" of doable, comprehensive medical care for Ebola in Africa) regarding what needs to be done, and what can be done, to significantly improve survival in Ebola patients.

Many questions remain,* but the basics of what should be offered by the Ebola treatment facilities that are being built, is crystallizing. This is very good for Africa and for us.

I still want to push for a wall made from glass in these facilities, so patients can be visually monitored by clinicians without clinicians having to don stifling PPE to get a look at a patient. The dehydrating effect of PPE on caregivers has limited each patient encounter to about one minute, according to these MSF authors. Here is their final paragraph:
"... The central purpose of Ebola treatment units has historically been to isolate infected persons early in the course of disease — often soon after fever onset — in order to break the chain of disease transmission in the community. However, all efforts must be made to optimize the level of medical care provided within these facilities. Resistance by infected people to voluntary admission will persist unless the treatment facilities are seen as a place to go for treatment and recovery and not as a place to die isolated from loved ones and the community. Our observations support aggressive use of antiemetics, antidiarrheal medications, and rehydration solution to reduce massive gastrointestinal losses and the consequences of hypovolemic shock. Selective use of intravenous fluid therapy in the population that is most likely to benefit is a rational approach under the current circumstances. When possible, broader use of intravenous fluid therapy and electrolyte replacement, guided by point-of-service laboratory testing, is likely to significantly improve outcomes.
This echoes the storyline in the movie Field of Dreams: "If you build it, they will come." If you can only provide oral rehydration fluids in a building made of plastic sheeting, they probably won't. And your epidemic will continue to grow.

* Questions I have:
Does it make sense to use antimalarials in all patients, particularly given some limited evidence of chloroquine efficacy against Ebola?
What is an optimal empiric antibiotic regimen?
Which lab tests are being used or can be instituted? (In the US, lab tests that have been adapted to use simple equipment so they can be performed at the bedside, without requiring a clinical laboratory, are termed "point of care" tests. These tests can theoretically be performed right inside a "hot" area of an Ebola treatment unit with immediate results, by someone wearing PPE or by an immune caregiver.)
Has an optimal oral electrolyte solution been established for Ebola?
What is the latest information on rapid diagnostic tests for Ebola, to more quickly determine cases and non-cases?
Are rectal tubes being used to reduce environmental contamination?
Are oxygen concentrators available? Dialysis? Ventilators? Cardiac monitors?
How effective are the available needlestick-protective gloves, for example this one?
Are they being used, decontaminated and reused, like rubber boots?
What work is being done to design adequate informed consent processes for Africa?
What level of clinical care is being provided by the newly opened Chinese hospital in Monrovia, which boasts air conditioning and electronic medical records? Why aren't journalists exploring this Ebola treatment unit, which is quite a leg up from what had been planned, so far, by western nations.
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Sunday, December 7, 2014
Excellent theoretical approach to treating Ebola, from 3 Hong Kong scientists/ BioMedCentral
Just out as a provisional pdf (final version is in production), 3 scientists have reviewed the totality of the published data on Ebola therapeutics, and come up with a framework for combining the use of drugs for their potential synergistic effects. For me, this put many disparate facts about Ebola into focus, providing much of the context that I had missed. Their tour de force paper was published in an obscure BMC journal, but it is readily available in free full text here.

Most of the drugs (and most are already licensed) that are discussed have been featured in my previous blog posts. But now there is a more detailed physiologic explanation for how they work and how they might best be combined. Of special interest to me is the potential use of n-acetyl cysteine. This is an extremely safe drug, even at high doses, and is sold as an OTC supplement as well as a licensed dr

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Greg Flannery is a investigative reporter
from Cincinnati.
We brought Leonard Gates and him to speak
at our conference investigating FBI agents committing voter fraud.

Here is his new article.

Hitler’s American Soldier
In Uncategorized on 12/10/2014 at 4:32 pm
A story of war and circumstance

By Gregory Flannery

The year 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the start of World War II. In the early 1990s I interviewed the late Frank Leonhartsberger, who was born a U.S. citizen but fought for Nazi Germany during the war. That was not his choice.

Leonhartsberger was born in Allentown, Pa. When his father died, his mother – an Austrian immigrant – took the 1-year-old boy with her and returned to her homeland. A few years later, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. In 1945, when Leonhartsberger was 16 years old, he was drafted.

In 1949 Leonhartsberger returned to the United States. In the 1950s his cousin, Franz Pfingstl, gave him a collection of 90 snapshots of Hitler and top Nazi leaders. Leonhartsberger did not know who shot the photographs and could not identify their setting. He said he only knew that the photos were supposed to have been taken on Hitler’s birthday. One of the photographs is reproduced on this page.

Leonhartsberger gave me his collection of photos, most of which have never been published. I used to believe the photos were the most interesting part of his story. I spent a lot of time trying to identify them and eventually succeeded. The photos were, in fact, taken on the occasion of Hitler’s 52nd birthday, which he spent in the Austrian town of Monichkirchen. Arriving April 11, 1941, and leaving two weeks later, Hitler met with Count Ciano of Italy and Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria. He congratulated the officers who had nearly finished conquering Greece and Yugoslavia, and he reviewed plans for the invasion of the Soviet Union.

I was wrong. The most compelling thing about Frank Leonhartsberger’s experience was not the photos, but his personal story. He likely was not the only U.S. citizen who found himself in Hitler’s army. But his account – given me over the course of four hours in his dimly lit apartment in Ormond Beach, Fla., abetted by the consumption of lots of Scotch whiskey – is an eloquent testament about the horrors of war and racism. What follows are his words verbatim; I have added only the sub-headings.

The testament of Frank Leonhartsberger

If you had a cigarette, you went off somewhere by yourself, or else all of a sudden you had five friends. We had no cigarettes during the war. God, that was rough.

When I was born, they made a mistake in the name. They recorded it as Franz Leon Hans Berger. When I was getting ready to go to school in the ’30s, it became a problem. Austria is full of bureaucracy. Everything has to be just so, a little bit like the English when it comes to documents. It took forever to get this thing straightened out. I remember my mother saying, “Well, they got the name right, but they got the doggoned date wrong.” I was supposed to have been born in 1929, but on that paper, on that birth certificate, it was 1927.

My father died 25 March 1930. My mother took me back to my grandparents in Austria. She had brothers and sisters over there. One of them took care of the saloon, one took care of the grocery store. We had a gasthaus and a little grocery store. We were considered rather rich. We had a big house in Rudersdorf Berg. We lived up in the hills. We had no electricity. Every week we had to shine the kerosene lamps. It was a wonderful childhood, all the kids growing up together.

I had a cousin who had polio. She was two years older than me. She couldn’t get around. I gave her my tricycle, and she lived on that tricycle ’til the day she died. She died when she was 30.

My mother remarried and we moved to Ubersbach. We opened up a grocery store, a soup-to-nuts grocery store. We had bread, we had booze, we had farm implements, we had fabric. It was quite a nice life, really.

Every town has a drunk. Our drunk was the finest accordion player in town. It was a button accordion — not keys. He taught me to play. Music was a very important part of my life after the war, because I sang for many of my meals.

When Hitler took over in 1938, we would march up and down the street yelling because Hitler had liberated us. What he had liberated us from, I don’t know.

The people in the city were very Nazified, but the poor farmers didn’t understand any of it. Every little town had a Nazi or two. Put the attitude was, “Let’s get stoned tonight and see if the morning may be a little brighter.” Ambition was never the Austrian strong point

‘I didn’t see any glory’

I was in the Hitler Youth. If you’re a kid and someone gives you a uniform, whoopee! We marched around and sang and got indoctrinated. It was not a bad thing, really. You learned a little discipline, no doubt about it. I got pushed around a few times because I didn’t march right.

I went into the army when I was 16. The fact was, I was not 16 years old; but according to my papers, I was. After the Hitler Youth, everyone went into the Arbeits Dienst, a mandatory work crew that got you ready for the army. Our weapon was a highly polished spade.

All of a sudden, the whole squadron became a part of anti-aircraft. We got our battery, and by now the war was going pretty bad, so we kept the same uniforms. 1 worked radar.

I remember the first kill we had was one of ours.

The only chance we had to shoot somebody was when some poor guy got half-crippled up there. He couldn’t steer, he couldn’t maneuver

You Americans have no idea what war is. You’ve never seen war. Look at it through a young fellow’s eyes. I saw kids thrown around in the street after a bombing raid. You can’t imagine it. And after the war, there’s thousands of people walking the street, dazed, no idea where you’re getting your next meal, or any meal. I remember one time I was so hungry I stole some bread — and that was during the war. If anybody ever thinks there’s glory in it, there’s nothing but misery. That’s all there is.

There are a lot of people fascinated by war, and some people think there’s honor in war. “All for the Fuhrer and the Fatherland!’ That’s a crock of $#!%. I didn’t see any glory. There’s no cover. I was scared to death. Day and night, bombing.

We shot down a lieutenant from New York. He came down with no chute or a bad chute. When he hit the ground, he nearly buried himself. On his plane he had a pair of baby shoes. Maybe it was a good luck charm. He had the names of different missions written on them — Berlin, Dusseldorf, Vienna. I carried those shoes around with me for the rest of the war. I thought maybe I could give them to his family, but after the war I lost everything.

When we got a hit, we would send groups down to pick them up, because sometimes the people would try to kill them. It was impossible not to hate the Americans. They just bombed your city and killed your family.

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‘I have nightmares’

On the last day of the war, we were high on a hill. We could see the Russians coming and hear the tanks rumbling. There were only a dozen left. All the officers and staff were gone.

We were blowing up the 88s and blowing up the barracks and everything. We didn’t want the Russians to get it. We thought it was very heroic, but we were nitwits. We should have gotten the hell out of there. It was raining, and the Russians were bombing.

My good friend placed a hand grenade on a machine gun nest, then fell in. When I hear this SS crap, don’t get me wrong. At the end of the war it was 15-year-old kids who had no other uniform left but the SS uniforms.

They had no more than a few weeks training. They weren’t SS troopers, they were poor Hitler Youth marching to the front to be slaughtered, half of them too young to shave.

Years after the war they would drift home from Russia. People had given up on them long ago.

A few weeks before the war ended they issued us these anti-tank weapons. They were like stovepipes. You had to get as close as the front door. I had no intention of using them.

They dropped firebombs on Graz. They would drop them by the thousands. Just to show you that you remember the funny stuff, there was a beautiful neighborhood there called Puntigam. I remember going home, hopping over these picket fences. If they would have timed us, we would have made the Olympics. The picket fences were burning. They were bombing. It was sheer fright making us streak like that. It was a sight to behold.

We used to eat noodles and ground horsemeat and acorn coffee.

One time after we were bombed, I was digging out. I kept trying to lift this typewriter out. It was all mangled, but I kept pulling and trying to get it out. 1 pulled that typewriter

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Global carbon dioxide emissions increase to new all-time record, but growth is slowing down
Date:
December 17, 2014
Source:
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Summary:
2013 saw global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production reach a new all-time high. This was mainly due to the continuing steady increase in energy use in emerging economies over the past ten years. However, emissions increased at a notably slower rate (2%) than on average in the last ten years (3.8% per year since 2003, excluding the credit crunch years).

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CIA unlikely to penalise staff over search of Senate computers – report
Review panel investigating search of staffers from the intelligence committee will not recommend disciplining CIA officials, according to the New York Times

Senate report on CIA torture claims spy agency lied about ‘ineffective’ program
CIA director John Brennan appointed the agency review panel, which consists of three CIA officers and two people from outside the agency.
CIA director John Brennan appointed the agency review panel, which consists of three CIA officers and two people from outside the agency.


Saturday 20 December 2014 13.03 EST

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Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
MH17: Russia claims to have airfield witness who blames Ukrainian pilot
Russian investigators announce anonymous testimony of Ukrainian
Wednesday 24 December 2014 21.24 EST


Russian investigators announced on Wednesday that they had new proof from a witness that a Ukrainian pilot fired a missile on the day of the Malaysia Airlines crash which killed 298 people.

The witness, who was not named, worked at an airfield in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk where he claimed to have seen a warplane take off on 17 July with air-to-air missiles and return without them.

An investigative committee statement said the testimony of the man “is important proof that Ukrainian military was implicated in the crash of the Boeing 777.”

The MH17 flight from Am

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see link for powderburns

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2-year-old accidentally kills his mom in Wal-Mart

, December 30, 2014





HAYDEN, Idaho — Authorities say a 2-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his mother after he reached into her purse at a northern Idaho Wal-Mart and her concealed gun fired.
The woman w

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time to self actualize, eh?

2 reads

What happens to Western values if no one stands up against Islam?

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January 11, 2015 | 6:00am
What happens to Western values if no one stands up against Islam?
Michel Houellebecq, featured on the most recent issue of Charlie Hebdo, imagines a France in 2022 that is ruled by Islamic Law - because no one is willing to stand up for Enlightment values.

The most recent issue of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French newspaper


2.
10 Investigates Senator Bob Graham's allegations of an FBI 9/11 ...
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Thirteen years after the 9/11 attacks, we are now learning of allegations of a major FBI cover-up that connects Sarasota and the 9/11 hijackers to the Saudi ...
The fatal flaw in the 9/11 coverup - What Really Happened
whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/911flaw.html
Know how to tell the difference between the truth and lies of 9/11? ... Why did FBI director Robert Mueller say very publicly to the Commonwealth Club of San ...
A 9/11 FBI Cover-Up To Protect Saudis? | The American Conservative
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/ ... ect-saudis.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.
Jul 3, 2014 - Freshly released but heavily censored FBI documents include tantalizing ... the 9/ 11 terrorist attacks, leaving behind clothing, jewelry and cars.
Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup | New York Post
nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/
Dec 15, 2013 - After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no ... FBI documents, and it points back to Saudi Arabia, a presumed ally.
9/11 Cover-up - WantToKnow.info
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9/11 cover-up two-page summary: Eye-opening facts on 9/11 from mass media ... Aug 27, 2001: An FBI supervisor tries to ensure that a hijacker doesn't "take ...
Richard Clarke 9/11 Interview: Was There a CIA Cover-Up? - The ...
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Aug 12, 2011 - A CIA 9/11 Cover-Up? Did the CIA keep ... Had that memo been sent, the FBI would have learned right then of Mihdhar's entry visa. The report ...
New Footage Implodes 9/11 Cover-up Alex Jones' Infowars: There's ...
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Oct 27, 2010 - EXCLUSIVE: Uncovered 9/11 Footage Shows FBI Director Asking Firefighters About Secondary Hits On The firefighters respond by saying they ...
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... and attorney Scott Hodes continue their battle with the FBI to pry loose the 85 ... object hidden under a tarp, the start of the 'coverup' of 9/11 Pentagon activity, ...

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Christian members of ISIS attempt to kidnap
Mormon President in 1915


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Utah oddities: LDS president in 1915 was target of kidnap plot
THURSDAY , DECEMBER 04, 2014 - 4:16 PM


"Joseph F. Smith, then president of the LDS Church, was the target of an ISIS elaborate kidnap an


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ISIS : A CIA Creation to Justify War Abroad and Repression at Home ...
vigilantcitizen.com/.../isis-cia-creation-justify-war-abroad-repression-home/
Oct 10, 2014 - Very soon afterwards, war against ISIS was declared, almost as if it had been planned for months. In an interview with USA Today, Ex-CIA ...
If you thought the Isis war couldn't get any worse, just wait for more ...
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Nov 17, 2014 - The Times cited the most well-known of CIA failures, including the ... and as the US airstrikes have reportedly led to Isis and al-Qaida reuniting, ...
Suspicions Run Deep in Iraq That CIA and the Islamic State Are United
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Sep 20, 2014 - Mr. Sadr publicly blamed the C.I.A. for creating the Islamic State in a ... The Islamic State, also known by the acronym ISIS, has conquered many ...
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Jun 24, 2014 - ISIS, as in the ancient Egyptian cult of the goddess of fertility and magic.
ISIS leader a confirmed CIA puppet - Hang The Bankers
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Jul 21, 2014 - According a document recently released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, now the Islamic ...
ISIS Domestic Terror Threat Created by CIA and U.S. Military Alex ...
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Jun 19, 2014 - ISIS Domestic Terror Threat Created by CIA and U.S. Military. CIA facilitated 9/11 terrorist visa mill in Saudi Arabia. ISIS Domestic Terror Threat ...
Former CIA contractor: 'ISIS is a completely fabricated enemy and ...
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Sep 30, 2014 - Former CIA contractor Steven Kelley says that the ISIL terrorist group is a fabricated enemy and funded by the United States “This is a ...

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Guantánamo Bay
Anti-torture reforms opposed within psychology group after damning
report

Tempers rise within American Psychological Association, which
independent review recently found was complicit in brutal military and
CIA interrogation
Guantanamo Bay
Guards keep watch in a cell block at the Camp Delta detention facility
at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Photograph: Todd Sumlin/Zuma Press/Corbis



Sunday 2 August 2015

Opposition is building to intended anti-torture reforms within the
largest professional organization of psychologists in the US, which
faces a crossroads over what a recent report described as its past
support for brutal military and CIA interrogations.
US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11
'collusion'


Before the American Psychological Association (APA) meets in Toronto
next Thursday for what all expect will be a fraught convention that
reckons with an independent review that last month found the APA
complicit in torture, former military voices within the profession are
urging the organization not to participate in what they describe as a
witch hunt.

Reformers consider the pushback to represent entrenched opposition to
cleaving the APA from a decade’s worth of professional cooperation
with controversial detentions and interrogations. The APA listserv has
become a key debating forum, with tempers rising on both sides.
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A recent letter from the president of the APA’s military-focused wing
warns that proposed ethics changes, likely to be discussed in Toronto,
represent pandering to a “politically motivated, anti-government and
anti-military stance”. A retired army colonel called David Hoffman, a
former federal prosecutor whose scathing inquiry described APA
“collusion” with US torture, an “executioner”.

Tom Williams, who helms the APA’s Division 19, called the Society for
Military Psychology, wrote this week to APA officials that he was
“deeply saddened and very concerned by what too often appears a
politically motivated, anti-government and anti-military stance that
does not advance the mission of APA as much as it seems to appease the
most vocal critics of APA and Division 19”.

A retired army veteran currently on the US Army War College faculty,
Williams blasted “misrepresentations of the PENS [Presidential Task
Force on Psychological Ethics and National Security] report that serve
an effort to advance an unspoken political agenda”, referring to a
critical 2005 APA task force that Hoffman found was stacked with
psychologists tied to the Department of Defense.

Reiterating a position the APA took for 10 years before abandoning it
after the Hoffman report, Williams said the PENS report “helped ensure
torture would not occur”. Larry James, a PENS task-force member who
also served as an army colonel and Guantánamo psychologist, wrote
separately to colleagues that Hoffman’s findings of collusion to aid
torture was an “intentional lie” and a “clear defamatory insult to our
military”.

Rather than internal Pentagon reforms, it was congressional
intervention, led by torture survivor John McCain and GOP presidential
candidate Lindsey Graham, that reigned in US military interrogation.
Both McCain and Graham are veterans. Their bill, the Detainee
Treatment Act, was a response to Abu Ghraib and passed five months
after the PENS report.

Once Williams posted his letter to the APA listserv, Jean Maria
Arrigo, a member of the 2005 PENS taskforce, shot back: “To uphold the
dignity of Division 19 operational psychologists following the Hoffman
report, the burden falls upon Division 19 to censure the task force
operational psychologists as APA committee members … I am speaking to
you as a person with a vested interest in military honor, not as a
detractor of military service.”
'A national hero': psychologist who warned of torture collusion gets
her due
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Another letter, from a retired army colonel and psychologist, said
“executioner Hoffman” received “carte blanche [from the APA] to malign
and to conduct a search and destroy mission”.

The former officer, Kathy Platoni, wrote in a dear-colleague letter
that a wave of firings and resignations that have swept through the
APA after the Hoffman report were unfounded.

“That the APA board of directors allowed this and now have martyred
and fallen all over themselves to apologize for crimes against
humanity among their own that never occurred and for which not a lick
of evidence exists, is bizarre and preposterous. And now we have mass
resignations among the APA elite senior leaders … and for what
purpose? What do th ...

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Subject: JJ's Collection Completely Moved!

Dear FOJ ~

I am so pleased to tell you that the John Judge Collection is completely moved out of his house and into the new Hidden History Center at 105 Rowell Court in Falls Church, VA! It is the end of a long journey, and the beginning of a new one.

The final load, containing nine filing cabinets, assorted office supplies, disassembled tables and 38 archive boxes, was moved by Great Scott Moving Company on Sunday, July 5. (Those who loved John most should know that we also moved his lifelong friends, Clownie and Ducky, and put them in a place of honor in a glass display case in the new office.)

This project was a Herculean effort by the movers in hot, muggy weather, carrying everything down the long flights of stairs at John's house and up a flight at Rowell Court. The guys did a great job and handled the collection respectfully and carefully. Nothing remains at John's house now, except a few odds and ends, which we can easily transport in a van or SUV. We are thrilled to be at this point after 14 long months of work!

I owe a debt of gratitude to all the volunteers who worked long and hard to pack John's books and carefully sort his papers. Many people contributed time and effort to honor him. I especially want to thank Richard Ochs, Deborah Cunningham and Susanne Zeiders, who showed up week after week and worked tirelessly to help me. They are my heroes!

So now we begin in earnest to create the Hidden History Center in John's honor. Right now, we have an office packed with boxes. There is barely room to walk around. We need to begin making order out of chaos. We have a plan for our next steps, including
cataloging the books in the collection
digitizing the newspaper clippings
sorting, organizing and digitizing the documents
creating an exciting, information-packed new website (watch for it to debut late this summer)
creating an extensive e-mail list that will enable us to keep in touch with our supporters
It has take lots of determination and sacrifice to reach this point, but it has been worth every bit of the hard work. I know John would be so delighted to see his dream coming true, and I know those of you who love him are pleased, too.

We can use your continued help and support. Let me know if you have skills to offer that might help us accomplish the goals I have listed above. Or, if you have no time, you can always help us pay the rent and utilities at Rowell Court by sending a check, made out to the Museum of Hidden History, to me at P.O, Box 514, New Cumberland, PA, 17070. Or you can contribute using the Donate button on the $upport Us page of our website. The link is below.

With much love and deepest gratitude to everyone whose thoughts, prayers and contributions made this accomplishment possible, I remain ~

Marilyn Tenenoff
Executive Director
Hidden History Center


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