MANCHESTER UNITED'S Premier League clash against Bournemouth has been abandoned after the discovery of a suspect package at Old Trafford.
At around 2.40pm, an announcement was made for security personnel to invoke "operation red code" and it soon became apparent the Stretford End and Sir Alex Ferguson Stand were being evacuated. Those in the South Stand and East Stand, where the visiting Bournemouth supporters were seated, were unaffected, with United officials confirming police were investigating after a suspect package was found in the North West Quadrant.
A tweet from the Premier League said: "MATCH ABANDONED The match at Old Trafford has been abandoned due to a security alert."
Shortly after 3.15pm, people remaining in the ground were informed the game was off. The club announced: "Due to the discovery of a suspect package in the north-west quadrant of the ground, the match has been abandoned for today on police advice.


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Home » International » Hungary blocked Ukraine's accession to NATO cyber defense center
Hungary blocked Ukraine's accession to NATO cyber defense center
Desk flags of Hungary and Ukraine. Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
It has surfaced that Hungary was the NATO Ally responsible for blocking Ukraine's accession to the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), an institution Kyiv keeps seeking closer ties with following the recent cyberattacks, even after the official rejection of Ukraine's membership status last year.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), mentioned on a political live TV show that one of the Allies vetoed Ukraine's accession to the Center, while an unnamed source told European Pravda that that country was Hungary.
On 3 February, on 1+1 TV channel's evening political talk show Right for Power, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov mentioned that one of the EU countries blocked Ukraine from joining the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, which he referred to as "Cyber-NATO." Mr. Danilov mentioned it only in passing, commenting on a critical remark regarding his wording,
"There is an institution called Cyber-NATO. And we had submitted the relevant documents there last summer, all the relevant verifications were passed. And there, just like in NATO, decisions are made by consensus. And so one of the European countries denied our country's accession to this respectable institution. This is taking into account the fact that we've been at war with the Russian Federation for the eighth year, and we have constant attacks on us in the cyber [domain]. The most recent one was on January 13-14. This is an EU country, they are our neighbor, they denied it us. So tell me, do I have the right to say that these are 'quote-unquote partners'?" he said.
NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov in the live TV show Right for Power on 1+1 TV channel. 3 February 2022. Screenshot: Youtube/ТСН
The cyberattack mentioned by Danilov took place in the early hours of January 14, when multiple Ukrainian government websites were hacked, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In total, more than 70 government websites were attacked, most were preventively shut down to disable unauthorized access, 10 of them were defaced.
The Ukrainian online newspaper European Pravda says that its unnamed interlocutor "who had taken part in the process" of Ukraine's interactions with NATO's cyber center of excellence has confirmed that it was the Hungarian government that blocked Ukraine's accession.
Ukraine submitted a formal request to join the Tallinn-based Center last August. Founded by seven countries and having 20 members today – 17 NATO country's and three partner states, the Center has a strong influence on the Alliance's cyber security activities.
The procedure for approving the Ukrainian application began in October and Ukraine could have become a member of the Center as early as 1 January 2022. However, sometime before the deadline, Hungary announced that it would block Ukraine's accession, according to European Pravda.
The rules allow NATO nations to return to Kyiv's application, and it cannot be ruled out that, in the wake of this year's Russian cyberattacks on Ukraine, other Allies will persuade Budapest to reconsider its position. However, the meetings of the Center's Council, which makes decisions on the membership, are held only twice a year. So even in the most favorable case for Ukraine, it might join CCDCOE not earlier than the second half of 2022.
Hungarian officials haven't yet made public their country's position on Ukraine's denied membership in the Center. However, it's safe to guess that this decision generally goes along the lines of Hungary's policy to impede Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration efforts.
Back in 2017, Hungary announced that it would block the meetings of the NATO-Ukraine Commission at the political level and the procedure for Ukraine's accession to the Alliance following Ukraine's adoption of the education law. Hungary claims that the law is "violating the human rights of its ethnic minorities," namely of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine. Budapest demands Hungarian is the language of instruction for Hungarian speakers in Ukrainian schools instead of Ukrainian.
Read also: Why Ukraine's language law is more relevant than ever (2019)
However, European Pravda says, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence isn't formally part of the Alliance, which shows that Budapest expands its efforts at throwing up roadblocks to Ukraine beyond Hungary's previous decisions.
Read also: Hungary to continue blocking Ukraine's NATO membership talks
In January, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó once again reiterated that Budapest was still dissatisfied with the situation with the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine and would therefore continue to block Kyiv's Euro-Atlantic aspirations.
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Purpose To determine the correlation between the volume of bone metastasis as assessed with diffusion-weighted (DW) imaging and established prognostic factors in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and the association with overall survival (OS). Materials and Methods This retrospective study was approved by the institutional review board; informed consent was obtained from all patients. The authors analyzed whole-body DW images obtained between June 2010 and February 2013 in 53 patients with mCRPC at the time of starting a new line of anticancer therapy. Bone metastases were identified and delineated on whole-body DW images in 43 eligible patients. Total tumor diffusion volume (tDV) was correlated with the bone scan index (BSI) and other prognostic factors by using the Pearson correlation coefficient (r). Survival analysis was performed with Kaplan-Meier analysis and Cox regression. Results The median tDV was 503.1 mL (range, 5.6-2242 mL), and the median OS was 12.9 months (95% confidence interval [CI]: 8.7, 16.1 months). There was a significant correlation between tDV and established prognostic factors, including hemoglobin level (r = -0.521, P < .001), prostate-specific antigen level (r = 0.556, P < .001), lactate dehydrogenase level (r = 0.534, P < .001), alkaline phosphatase level (r = 0.572, P < .001), circulating tumor cell count (r = 0.613, P = .004), and BSI (r = 0.565, P = .001). A higher tDV also showed a significant association with poorer OS (hazard ratio, 1.74; 95% CI: 1.02, 2.96; P = .035). Conclusion Metastatic bone disease from mCRPC can be evaluated and quantified with whole-body DW imaging. Whole-body DW imaging-generated tDV showed correlation with established prognostic biomarkers and is associated with OS in mCRPC. (©) RSNA, 2016 Online supplemental material is available for this article.


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J. Lane Crowder Joins Baker Donelson's Financial Services Transactions Group
(Chattanooga, TN / June 23, 2015) J. Lane Crowder has joined Baker Donelson as of counsel in the Firm's Financial Services Transactions Group.
Ms. Crowder is located in Baker Donelson's Chattanooga office, where she represents banks and other financial institutions in HUD-insured loan transactions for multifamily and senior housing facilities. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Ms. Crowder served as a career law clerk to the Honorable R. Allan Edgar, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, and the Honorable Shelley D. Rucker, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Tennessee. Ms. Crowder was also previously an associate with a law firm in Seattle, Washington, where she practiced school law, employment law and general civil litigation.
A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Ms. Crowder is a member of the Justices Ray L. Brock Jr. - Robert E. Cooper American Inn of Court and the Southeast Tennessee Legal Association of Women. She is a board member of the Chattanooga Federal Bar Association, serving as CLE Committee Chair, and is a board member and Grant Committee Chair of the Normal Park Education Fund in Chattanooga.
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King and Shepherd
September 26, 2021 By David Maas His Reign Lamb
Jesus is the promised king from the second Psalm who rules from the messianic throne and "shepherds the nations" – Revelation 1:4-6.
Revelation declares Jesus to be the "ruler of the kings of the earth." His installation on the messianic throne was based on his past death and resurrection; it is an accomplished fact. He is the king promised by Yahweh, the one who reigns over the earth from "Zion." But he rules in paradoxical and unexpected ways - [Photo by Pawan Sharma on Unsplash].
The second Psalm is a key passage applied multiple times to Jesus to portray his present messianic reign. It is the literary source for the title given to him, the "ruler of the kings of the earth," the king appointed to "shepherd the nations." Indeed, the "nations" are his "inheritance," not enemies to be exterminated like vermin:
(Psalm 2:1-11) – "Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should peoples mutter an empty thing? The kings of the earth take their station, and grave men have gathered together, against Yahweh and against his Anointed One… Yet I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain. Let me tell of a decree, Yahweh said to me: You are My son; I, today, have begotten you: Ask of me and let me give nations as your inheritance, and as your possession the ends of the earth: You will shepherd them with a scepter of iron, as a potter's vessel will you dash them in pieces."
(Revelation 1:4-6) - "Grace to you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loves us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood; and he made us a kingdom, priests unto his God and Father."
In the original Hebrew, the Messiah "smashed the kings of the earth with a rod of iron." But the psalmist also exhorted them to serve Yahweh and pay homage to His son, "lest he be angry, and you perish in the way." A glimmer of hope was offered even to the political forces that were hostile to the Messiah.
But in the Greek Septuagint version, the verb rendered "smash" is translated by the Greek verb for "shepherd." Rather than "crush" the nations, the Messiah "shepherds" them. In Revelation, this change is reflected each time the Psalm is used:
(Revelation 2:27) – "He will shepherd them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; as I also have received of my Father."
(Revelation 7:17) – "For the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and guide them to fountains of waters of life."
(Revelation 12:5) – "And she was delivered of a son, a male, who is to shepherd all the nations with a rod of iron."
(Revelation 19:15) – "And out of his mouth proceeds a sharp sword, that with it he should shepherd the nations."
Noteworthy is how the same verb is applied to the hostile nations, and to those redeemed by the "Lamb" from the "Great Tribulation." He will "shepherd the nations with a rod of iron," but he also "shepherds" redeemed men from every nation "to fountains of living water." It seems the same act of "shepherding" produces two very different results. Which result produces the greater number remains to be seen. However, the passage from the seventh chapter describes the men redeemed "from every nation" as a multitude so vast, that "no man could number them" – (Revelation 7:9-17).
The image of the messianic king "shepherding" the nations with his "rod of iron," and even with a "sharp sword," is perplexing. But in Revelation, Jesus does not fit comfortably into popular notions about the Davidic Messiah or how he rules from "Zion."
In the interpretation of the first vision, Jesus declared that he had received his sovereignty after his death and resurrection. He is the "Living one; I was dead, and I am alive forevermore, therefore, I have the keys of death and of Hades." His authority is based on his faithful endurance through death, not force.
Thus, the rule of the "Lamb" is paradoxical. He has all power but uses it for redemptive purposes; salvation is the goal, not vengeance. He "overcame" by his faithful obedience, by allowing his blood to be shed, the blood that now redeems men and women "from every nation." It is that sacrificial offering that defines his present reign.
In his vision of the "Throne," when no one was found worthy to open the "sealed scroll," John wept bitterly. But one of the "twenty-four elders" commanded him to cease, and he heard the elder declare, "for the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David overcame to open the scroll!"
However, when John looked, he saw the freshly slain Lamb, not the figure of a predatory lion. What he "saw" interpreted what he first "heard." Thus, Jesus is the promised king who reigns from the Davidic throne, but he fulfills that role as the "slain Lamb." And it was this figure that approached the "Throne" and received the "sealed scroll," which he began to open at once. That is, his reign began immediately upon his arrival at the "Throne."
This understanding is confirmed by the heavenly voices around the "Throne" that declared the "Lamb worthy to open the scroll." He received absolute authority to rule because:
"You were slain and purchased for God with your blood men from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation, and made them a kingdom and priests, and they are reigning upon the earth… Worthy is the Lamb that has been slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and glory, and blessing." - (Revelation 5:5-12).
However, his victory did not immediately negate the hostility of the "kings of the earth." When the "sixth seal was opened," at least some of them were among those that attempted to escape the "wrath of the Lamb." When the "sixth bowl of wrath" was emptied, the "kings of the earth" were gathered to "Armageddon" for the battle of the "Great day of God the Almighty" - (Revelation 6:15-17, 16:12-14, 17:10-18).
At that final battle, Jesus was the "rider on a white horse." His only weapon was the "sharp sword" that he wielded "out of his mouth," the "word of God," and with it he was "shepherding the nations." It is his word that id the "iron scepter" he employs to rule the nations. But his robe was sprinkled with blood even BEFORE he engaged in "battle." Whose blood was it, and how did it get there? - (Revelation 19:11-21).
The fact that the "Lamb" does battle and "shepherds" the nations with the "sharp sword" of the "word of God" tells us that what is described is not a literal battle between opposing armies. The "rider" ventures forth to conquer, but he does so with the "word of his testimony." He is, after all, the "faithful witness."
At times, the "kings of the earth" are hostile to the "Lamb," which prompts judicial actions by God. Nevertheless, in the city of "New Jerusalem," both the "nations" and the "kings of the earth" are found before the "Throne," where they honor the "Lamb." How did Jesus achieve this complete reversal? Certainly not through the employment of coercive force or acts of vengeance! - (Revelation 21:24).
Jesus was installed as king because of his death and resurrection. It is the "Lamb" clothed in the bloodstained robe who defeats the forces of the "beast," and armed only with the "sword" of his "testimony." He fulfills his messianic role as the "slain Lamb" who uses his authority "to shepherd the nations," NOT to butcher them. Even now, he reigns from the Throne, but again, he does so in unexpected and paradoxical ways.
As the result of his death and resurrection, Jesus constituted his followers a "kingdom of priests." As such, already they reign also with him, but they do so in the same manner. "He that overcomes I will grant to be seated with me in my throne, Just I also overcame and took my seat with my Father in his throne." The saints reign as priests, not tyrants. And they "overcome" just as he did - "by the blood of the Lamb, by the word of their testimony, and because they loved not their lives unto death" – (Revelation 3:21, 12:11).
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As the saints bear faithful witness, just as Jesus did, the kingdom of God progresses on the earth. Each new conversion means more recovered territory, and every convert represents another "nation, people, tribe and tongue." At the time John wrote, no doubt, this appeared as only a very small trickle of men and women coming to faith in Jesus. However, by the end, it will become a "vast multitude of men and women from every nation that no man can number."
But the "testimony of the Lamb" is also the "sharp sword" that divides humanity into two groups: first, the "inhabitants of the earth" who harden their hearts no matter what the "Lamb" does. Their names are excluded from the "book of life." And second, those who "follow the Lamb wherever he goes," and whatever the cost. Their names are "written in the Lamb's book." How one reacts to the "Lamb" determines whether one's name is included or erased from the book.
Jesus is the promised Messiah, the son of David destined to reign from his throne on Mount Zion. But he does so in ways that deviate radically from the practices of the world's political powers. And he began his reign over nations and kings following his death and resurrection; already, he is sovereign over the earth.
In Revelation, the "Dragon" and his vassals impose their rule through deception, intimidation, and violence. In contrast, Jesus, the "slain Lamb," allowed his blood to be shed, the price he now uses to redeem men and women from every nation for his kingdom.


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I have noticed that lately I have been doing manis with light, bright colours, so I decided to do something a bit darker, even gothic if you will. Not that I complain about my colour choices but still, I wanted to do something different.
I used A England – Fated Prince as a base on all my nails. After the polish dried I applied quatrefoil nail vinyls and brushed over one coat of A England – Bridal Veil. You probably noticed by now that the ring finger is a bit different from the others. Well I wanted to do the same with all the nails, but somehow I didn't like it too much. I wanted to leave some of the patterns out so that there would be more versatility to the mani, but I didn't like how it turned out on the ring finger so instead I did all the other nails with full pattern.
What do you think of my quatrefoil nails? Do you like the ring finger or are the others better?


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South Korea is contemplating lifting some of the sanctions it has imposed against North Korea in an effort to further improve relations between the two countries, The Associated Press reported Wednesday.
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said the government is looking into the possibility during a parliamentary audit of her agency, the news outlet reported. The country has had unilateral sanctions in place against North Korea since a 2010 attack on a warship killed 45 sailors from South Korea.
As part of the sanctions, South Korea closed down most cross-border economic activity, and banned the North from using shipping lanes in South Korean territory.
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The AP noted that, were South Korea to lift its sanctions, it would be unlikely to provide much relief to North Korea, as the country is still subject to harsh economic penalties from the U.S. and international organizations.
However, the willingness to discuss lifting sanctions provides an indication of the growing cooperation between North and South Korea.
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Trump said Tuesday he expects to hold a second meeting with Kim after the midterms.


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import os
import sys

print('##############################################')
print('# Установить powerline и необходимые шрифты? #')
print('##############################################')
install = input('Y/n: ')

python_version = str(sys.version_info[0]) + "." + str(sys.version_info[1])

if install != 'n':
    os.system('/usr/bin/sudo pacman -S python-pip git wget')
    os.system('/usr/bin/sudo pip install git+git://github.com/powerline/powerline')
    os.system('wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf')
    os.system('wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf')
    os.system('/usr/bin/sudo mv PowerlineSymbols.otf /usr/share/fonts/')
    os.system('/usr/bin/sudo fc-cache -vf')
    os.system('/usr/bin/sudo mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/')

print('#####################################')
print('# Куда добавить поддержу powerline? #')
print('#            1 - zsh                #')
print('#            2 - bash               #')
print('#            3 - vim                #')
print('#            4 - Во все             #')
print('#####################################')
choice = input('1/2/3/4: ')

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if choice == '1' or choice == '4':
    with open(home + '/.zshrc', 'a') as zshrc:
        zshrc.write('''\nif [[ -r /usr/lib/python''' + python_version + '''/site-packages/powerline/bindings/zsh/powerline.zsh ]]; then
    source /usr/lib/python''' + python_version + '''/site-packages/powerline/bindings/zsh/powerline.zsh
fi\n''')
        zshrc.close()

if choice == '2' or choice == '4':
    with open(home + '/.bashrc', 'a') as bashrc:
        bashrc.write('''\nif [[ -r /usr/lib/python''' + python_version + '''/site-packages/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh ]]; then
    source /usr/lib/python''' + python_version + '''/site-packages/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh
fi\n''')
        bashrc.close()

if choice == '3' or choice == '4':
    with open(home + '/.vimrc', 'a') as vimrc:
        vimrc.write('''\nset rtp+=/usr/lib/python''' + python_version + '''/site-packages/powerline/bindings/vim/
set laststatus=2
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set t_Co=256\n''')
        vimrc.close()

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Carey Stadium and OCHS will be jumping this weekend
Three players, one team up for induction into LCM Athletic Hall of Fame
OCHS rallies to beat Mainland, 34-16, for fourth straight after wild first half
By TOM WILLIAMS
When they talk about the memorable football games between Ocean City and Mainland tonight's game will be high on the list.
Especially the first half.
The Raiders trailed at the half before rallying for a 34-16 win at Carey Stadium. But it was how the Mustangs opened that 16-14 lead at intermission that was so memorable.
Mainland kicked off to start the game and Ocean City fumbled at its own 22. A handful of plays later, Sean Carey kicked a 20-yard field goal to give the Mustangs the lead. They kicked off a again and Ocean City brought the ball out to the 46 – and fumbled it away again.
Mainland turned it back over that time and, in the second quarter, Kevin King scooped up another Mainland fumble and ran 15 yards for a score. It marked the third straight game in which OCHS had scored a defensive touchdown. The Raiders are tied with Pleasantville for most defensive TDs by a Cape-Atlantic League team.
But, when the Raiders kicked off with a 7-3 lead Kobe Roberts raced up the middle 88 yards for a touchdown and a 9-7 Mainland lead.
Later in the second quarter, Issac Robertson scored from 16 yards out and Ocean City was back on top, 14-9. But, according to the rules, Ocean City had to kick off. And Tyquan Campbell brought it back 90 yards for a touchdown, giving the lead back the Mustangs, 16-14, at the half.
There were six turnovers in the first half, two kickoff returns for TDs and a defensive touchdown.
But, in the second half, Ocean City stopped kicking the ball deep and got its offensive into gear. Harry Pfeifle (10 carries/73 yards) scored his 11th touchdown of the season from two yards, Robertson (9/54) got a second TD in the game from one yard and Liam Bergman (17/120) scored from five yards out.
Mainland, which had inserted sophomore Jacob Cook in at quarterback, lost him when he was shaken up in the second half. The guy the Mustangs expected to be their QB was Sahmir Jones, a junior, but he transferred to Pleasantville. The next guy was Dean Hall, and he got hurt. They used Roberts, a strong running back, for the first four games until deciding to go to Cook. Mainland also lost Carey, their kicker, to an injury in the second quarter.
Ocean City is now 5-1 and held its position in NJSIAA Group 3 with the win. The Raiders are at Lower Cape May next Saturday (Oct. 28). Mainland falls to 1-5 and will host Vineland next Friday.
EXTRA POINTS: … Senior Caroline Byrne, who plays the saxophone in the OCHS marching band and was still wearing her band uniform, was named Homecoming Queen at halftime … Keith Larkin kicked four extra points and is now 20 for 23 this season. His 20 PATs is the 10th highest total for a season in Raider history … with the two kickoff return TDs, Mainland tied Vineland for the most this year by a Cape-Atlantic League team … Brandon Lin was involved in nine tackles for the Raiders; Brandon Lashley, Vic Mahar and Tom Meehan totaled eight each. James Rice and Issac Robertson each had three solos. The starting OCHS defense has not allowing a touchdown in two games … referee Frank Burbridge was knocked hard to the ground by a group of players on the first offensive play of the game and was injured. He tried to stay in the game and remained on the field for another series before stepping away. The officials finished the game one man short … the video of the entire game is online at http://www.OceanCitySports.com, where a full box score and complete five-game stats are available …


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Why You Need to Develop the Mindset of a Futurist
By Stephen Dupont, APR
The future is now — why marketing and communications professionals need to develop the mindset of a futurist to drive momentum for their brands.
When we think of the future, it's usually in terms of our work activities: weekly updates, monthly metrics, quarterly benchmarks, annual plans and five-year goals. We tie the future to achieving stated performance metrics.
But underneath our "planned, exceeds and stretch" goals are the undercurrents of change occurring all around us. Over time, the small changes build momentum and may affect the way we communicate, market or operate on behalf of our organizations.
Take, for example, my neighbor, Denise, who drove up to my house in suburban Saint Paul, Minn., in her new hybrid minivan. She was very proud of it – not only for its fuel efficiency, but because her choice was allowing her to do what she thought was right for the environment.
What struck me at that moment were all of the changes and innovation needed to take place over decades probably for Denise to be able to drive a hybrid electric vehicle – and all of the changes yet to come, such as driverless cars, trucks and farm equipment; shared car ownership; flying cars; and the phase-out of combustion engines in France, the U.K. and elsewhere.
In short, the future is happening right now, before our very eyes.
Nicholas Negroponte, the founder Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, described in a 2013 presentation to the World Future Society how he felt when he predicted the future 10 years out, and then to find himself 10 years later, actually living into some of his predictions.
Negroponte says there are four ways we look at the future. There are the changes we know are going to come, the changes we see on the periphery, metaphorical changes (for example, moving our desktop to the Cloud), and contrarian changes (changes that we think won't happen, but actually do happen).
On any given day, many of us involved in the communications industry talk about future changes to come in terms similar to those outlined by Negroponte, but rarely do we intentionally consider the future in proactive terms.
For example, while I'm dazzled by the videos of jumping robots by the robotics firm Boston Dynamics, I can't help but think about the ramifications of highly mobile robots powered with artificial intelligence, patrolling our streets as police officers or delivering parcels. Or, for that matter, the impact of very human looking sexbots on human sexuality and intimacy.
That's why we, as communications professionals, need to start thinking like futurists. As the people to which organizations look to manage and enhance relationships with key stakeholders, we need to have a firm understanding of not only what's next, but how "what's next" may impact our work, our culture, and our planet.
Imagine, for example, that you are one of thousands of people employed – directly or indirectly — by an online retailer in the transportation of goods to consumers. Although the retailer's use of electric, driverless trucks or drones may sound amazing, to those who drive those trucks today, it sounds like a death sentence – because it means that, one day, they may be out of a job.
How would you handle that paradigm change if you were the head of corporate communications for the online retailer?
How Futurists Think
Thinking like a futurist isn't necessarily imagining seemingly impossible, fanciful or downright crazy things or events that may happen 10, 20 or 50 years from now. Rather, it starts with observing what's happening now, and imagining how those trends could evolve into any number of possibilities over time.
Julie Friedman Steele, president, World Future Society
According to Julie Friedman Steele, social entrepreneur and board chair and CEO of the World Future Society, most futurists begin to look at the future starting at about five years out from today.
And, she explains, there is not one future.
"The future hasn't happened. Instead, professional futurists think of many possible futures," Friedman Steele says. "And, while there may be many futures, such as the dystopian futures often portrayed in Hollywood movies and TV shows, as futurists we advocate for futures that are beneficial to humanity."
What futurists are often called upon to do is to help organizations "future-proof" their businesses from possible threats, from the impact of rising sea levels or medical technology that allows humans to live to 150, to a time when humans are colonizing Mars.
However, cautions Friedman Steele, as much as a futurist can help an organization's leaders open their minds to numerous possibilities, even futurists must be aware of their blind spots, such as assuming the world's economy will always be based on capitalism or assuming the United States will always be a democracy.
The pathway to a futurist mindset, she says, typically begins with a person feeling a personal sense of comfort with ambiguity.
"Futurists understand that change will happen," she says, "and when it does, they are able to roll with it versus becoming handcuffed by it."
Futures That Many May Not be Ready For
Thinking like a futurist means not only preparing the organization you represent to communicate outwardly with key stakeholders, but to provide counsel inward, to top management on how future scenarios may impact the relationship between an organization and its stakeholders.
This may mean providing counsel that is not rosy, or suggesting that some future trends may offer ethical dilemmas for an organization and its business leaders.
Futurist Gray Scott
One such trend that is already impacting how we live is behavioral analytics (powered by artificial intelligence). In a nutshell, says futurist Gray Scott, also a member of the World Future Society, businesses and government are using behavioral analytics to better understand the decision making of people, such as current and potential customers.
"It's getting so good, that some companies are able to predict what a person may want or need before that person even knows they want it," says Scott. "Through the use of artificial intelligence, this will only accelerate as we move forward."
"I don't know if our species is ready for artificial intelligence (AI)," Scott adds, "or many of the other changes that are occurring right before our eyes. We have crossed into an invisible new paradigm that many experts are having a difficult time defining."
Focusing specifically on artificial intelligence, Scott says AI is going change nearly every aspect of our lives, from how we clean our homes or how we work to how we die.
"We are looking at a world of ultra efficiency," says Scott, "where new technology will continue to speed up everything we do, eventually outpacing our own abilities to adopt and change."
He points to a future where the lines of reality will become blurred with alternate realities. Imagine, if you will, when medical technology allows a person wearing contact lenses to view every person they meet as a dragon. What this means, Scott says, is that trust – and the very definition of what it means to be truthful (or what is real) — will be called into question.
Trust, the Backbone of Change
Communications professionals must be careful not to hype the promise of new technology, especially if it's difficult to see what the impact of that technology will be in five or ten years from now. Instead, they must always remember that their role is to consider, interpret and address how change will not only affect people (employees, consumers, investors, etc.), but how change will affect the trust upon which relationships are built.
Cristina Dolan, co-founder and COO of iXledger.
When Cristina Dolan, an engineer, computer scientist, and co-founder and COO of iXledger, an alternative blockchain marketplace for insurance, considers the future, trust is at the very core of many of the changes yet to come.
"It's very expensive not to have global trust," Dolan says. "Customers make decisions based on trust. People transact based on trust in a system. When there is trust, transactions and payments occur at a higher velocity, which stimulates the economy."
For example, Dolan points to the dramatic rise in cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, etc.), which emerged based on an underlying technology, blockchain, which allows all transactions within a chain of transactions to be publicly transparent. It is through this transparency that parties can exchange goods or services more quickly because they don't have to go through a third party, which provides the trust that both parties need to complete their transaction.
When the theft of consumer data held by a credit reporting bureau or a government agency erodes trust, people will, says Dolan, take responsibility for their data, but at the expense of trust in traditional institutions.
"Communicators and business leaders must become used to the idea that people don't trust one another anymore," says Dolan. "The future belongs to the people and companies that understand how to build trust."
Communicating the Future
What's clear is that people who have a future mindset and understand how to build a trusted narrative for a brand will be sorely needed in the future.
"Futurists need professional communicators, not just academics, to shape the narrative of the narrative of what's the come," says Friedman Steele.
"We need communicators to help people adopt to what is coming," adds Scott. "There are people who are petrified by change. They're afraid of everything, and that's a big danger. In the future, empathy for others will be the key to our safety (and survival). As life becomes more complex, we will need communicators to create the narrative relationships that help people embrace the future."
Note: This article was originally published in the January 2018 issue of PRSA Strategies and Tactics.
Stephen Dupont, APR, is VP of Public Relations and Branded Content for Pocket Hercules (www.pockethercules.com), a brand marketing firm based in Minneapolis. Contact Stephen Dupont at stephen.dupont@pockethercules.com or visit his blog at www.stephendupont.co.
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Date: 22nd to 23rd March 2017
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TORTURE VICTIMS IN THE CONTEXT OF MIGRATION: IDENTIFICATION, REDRESS AND REHABILITATION- Report on the Third Annual Expert Workshop
Location: GENEVA
"Torture Victims in the Context of Migration: Identification, redress and rehabilitation", convened last April by the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The Expert Workshop on "Torture Victims in the Context of Migration: Identification, Redress and Rehabilitation" called for upholding the rights of people on the move. Frontline human rights defenders, working with the financial support of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, highlighted better policy standards and pointed to the techniques and good practices that can support rights-based early identification, redress and rehabilitation for torture survivors in the context of migration. Their wisdom is invaluable and their call must be heeded for a robust demonstration of rights-based compassion in the context of migration.
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How Cameroon torture, abuse and forcefully return thousands of Nigerian refugees – HRW
Cameroon's military has carried out a mass forced return of 100,000 Nigerian asylum seekers in an effort to stem the spread of Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Wednesday.
The deportations defy the UN refugee agency's plea not to return anyone to northeast Nigeria "until the security and human rights situation has improved considerably," and leaves deportees facing spiralling violence, displacement and destitution.
The 55-page report, "'They Forced Us Onto Trucks Like Animals': Cameroon's Mass Forced Return and Abuse of Nigerian Refugees," documents that since early 2015, Cameroonian soldiers have tortured, assaulted, and sexually exploited Nigerian asylum seekers in remote border areas, denied them access to the UN refugee agency, and summarily deported, often violently, tens of thousands to Nigeria. It also documents violence, poor conditions, and unlawful movement restrictions in Cameroon's only official camp for Nigerian refugees, as well as conditions recent returnees face in Nigeria.
"The Cameroonian military's torture and abuse of Nigerian refugees and asylum seekers seems to be driven by an arbitrary decision to punish them for Boko Haram attacks in Cameroon and to discourage Nigerians from seeking asylum," said Gerry Simpson, associate refugee director at Human Rights Watch. "Cameroon should heed the UN's call on all countries to protect refugees fleeing the carnage in northeast Nigeria, not return them there."
In late June and July 2017, Human Rights Watch interviewed 61 asylum seekers and refugees in Nigeria about the abuses they faced in Cameroon. They said soldiers had accused them of belonging to Boko Haram, a Nigerian militant Islamist group, or of being "Boko Haram wives" while torturing or assaulting them and dozens of others on arrival, during their stay in remote border areas, and during mass deportations. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it has heard similar accounts from Nigerians living in Cameroon's border areas.
Some said their children, weakened after living for months or years without adequate food and medical care in border areas, died during or just after the deportations, and others said children were separated from their parents.
An asylum seeker who was deported from Mora in March 2017 described how without warning, Cameroonian soldiers rounded up 40 asylum seekers "and severely beat us and forced us onto a bus. They beat some of the men so badly, they were heavily bleeding. When we got to the Nigerian border they shouted 'Go and die in Nigeria.'"
Refugees who reached Cameroon's only designated camp for Nigerian refugees, in Minawao, have also faced violence from Cameroonian soldiers. While they have some protection as refugees, the approximately 70,000 people there have had limited access to food and water and abusive restrictions on their movement. In April and May, 13,000 returned from Minawao to a displacement camp in Banki, just across the border in Nigeria. Some were killed in early September when Boko Haram attacked the camp.
Although UNHCR does not have reliable access to most of Cameroon's border areas with Nigeria, in early June it said its monitoring partners found Cameroon had forcibly returned almost 100,000 Nigerians to their country since January 2015. In late June, the Nigerian authorities responded to Cameroonian pressure by sending military vehicles over the border to help Cameroon deport almost 1,000 asylum seekers. That made Nigeria complicit in the unlawful forced return of its own citizens.
Tens of thousands of deportees from Cameroon end up in insecure militarized displacement camps or villages in Borno State, where conditions are dire, and women and girls face sexual exploitation. These sites are surrounded by the ongoing conflict between Nigeria's armed forces and Boko Haram, which as of mid-September had displaced almost 2 million other Nigerian civilians.
Cameroon's forced returns are a breach of the principle of nonrefoulement, which prohibits the forcible return of refugees and asylum seekers to persecution and, under regional standards in Africa, to situations of generalized violence, such as in northeast Nigeria.
Since 2014, Cameroonian armed forces have carried out operations against Boko Haram in the country's Far North Region. Cameroon has the right to regulate the presence of non-nationals on its territory, including those proven to be threat to its national security. The authorities also have an obligation to carefully investigate attacks in Cameroon by suspected Boko Haram members. However, it may not block refugees from seeking asylum and summarily deport them.
After staying publicly silent on the situation for two years, in late March, UNHCR publicly criticised the authorities for their mass forced refugee returns. The criticism was triggered by deportations after Cameroon had signed an agreement that month with Nigeria and UNHCR confirming that it would ensure that all refugee return was voluntary.
As of mid-September, the Cameroonian authorities had allowed UNHCR only to pre-register asylum seekers in some border communities, leaving those pre-registered and tens of thousands of other asylum seekers without access to meaningful protection and putting them at risk of deportation.
The Cameroonian authorities deny any forced return or abuse of Nigerian asylum seekers and have not replied to a Human Rights Watch request for a response to the report's findings. Cameroon has had a reputation as a generous country toward refugees since the early 1970s and it has hosted tens and then hundreds of thousands of refugees since then.
"Faced with overwhelming evidence of mass refugee abuse and UN condemnation, Cameroon is trying to bury its head in the sand," Simpson said. "But returning tens of thousands of Nigerians to harm and destitution will only further shred its well-deserved reputation as a generous refugee-hosting country."
culled from https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/244317-cameroon-torture-abuse-forcefully-return-thousands-nigerian-refugees-hrw.html
Human rights abuses: Wike tasks military on thorough recruitment process
PORT HAR-COURT— Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Tuesday urged the Nigerian military to take a critical look at the recruitment processes of its personnel to check alleged issues of human rights abuses by its officers.Wike gave the charge when the Presidential Investigating Panel to Review Compliance of the Armed forces with Human Rights Obligation and Rules of Engagement paid a courtesy visit on him at Government House in Port Harcourt.
Represented by his Deputy Dr. Ipalibo Banigo, Wike expressed confidence on the panel's ability to fashion out a sustainable mechanism to deal with issues of human rights abuses by security agencies. The governor said it was unfortunate that there had been several alleged cases of brutality and violation of human rights by security agencies because of the activities of a few personnel. Wike said: "You will get memoranda from us about the undermining of the Electoral Act by security agencies. There is an urgent need to look at the recruitment processes. Are they qualified? Are they patriotic? Do they have professional ethics? These are questions that are begging for answers." He reiterated his commitment to the unity of the country, adding that he would not support any secessionist agenda because God, in his infinite wisdom, had put Nigeria together as one and the country would continue to remain one. Earlier, Chairman of the Presidential Investigating Panel Justice Bauble Abraham Georgewill, had told the governor that the panel received memoranda from various stakeholders and had fully commenced sitting. Georgewill, however, called on the people of the South-South states to avail themselves the opportunity to make presentations.
culled from https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/human-rights-abuses-wike-tasks-military-thorough-recruitment-process/
Widow accuses Ekiti lawmaker of sexual assault, physical brutality
The Ekiti State International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) has demanded the arrest and prosecution of a member of the House of Assembly, Dare Pelemo, for alleged sexual harassment and physical assault of a widow, Mrs. Mercy Ilesanmi.
But Pelemo denied sexually harassing and assaulting Mrs Ilesanmi.
The lawmaker was accused of fondling the breasts of the woman on September 6 at the Assembly complex.
Mrs. Ilesanmi said she raised an alarm but the lawmaker mobilised thugs to beat her.
The brutality, she said, took place in the Office of Majority Leader Mr. Tunji Akinyele, where she lodged a complaint on the alleged sexual harassment.
She said the hoodlums tore her clothes.
Ekiti FIDA Desk Officer Mrs. Kemi Atitebi said the organisation received the complaint against Pelemo but the legislator shunned the invitation to defend himself.
She said: "FIDA Ekiti received the complaint of sexual harassment and assault against Dare Pelemo and the complainant is Mrs. Ilesanmi, that she was assaulted and stripped naked on the premises of the Assembly Complex.
"FIDA wrote a letter to invite the respondent for us to hear his side of the story and to mediate in the matter. The woman is a widow and mother of children and her dignity has been violated for the fact that she was stripped naked."
Narrating her ordeal, Mrs. Ilesanmi said: "I came to visit a member representing my constituency, Samuel Omotoso but he was not around.
"On my way out, I met Pelemo and we exchanged pleasantries. Immediately, he fondled my breasts and I asked him what was the meaning of that. I am a married woman for that matter, and I don't like how he touched my breast.
"He now said that I am an enemy of government, that I am not supposed to come to the Assembly. I now asked him, is that the reason why you are touching my breasts, a married woman for that matter? I challenged him that this is too much.
"I went to report the matter to Akinyele and I met the Clerk in Akinyele's office with two other visitors. He was on phone but I waited.
"Before I knew what was happening, Pelemo came in with some miscreants and they started beating me and destroying things in that office, asking what I was doing in the Assembly Complex."
Mrs. Ilesanmi's lawyer, Adeoye Aribasoye, said he has forwarded a petition on the assault and sexual harassment to the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Chafe.
Aribasoye said: "Our petition is receiving the attention of the commissioner of Police. Besides, FIDA in Ekiti is also investigating the case and I believe that soon, an action will be taken on the matter."
Pelemo accused the woman of "attempting to frame him up and destroying his name."
Pelemo, who is the House committee chairman on Security, said Mrs. Ilesanmi did not wear visitor's tag when she visited the Assembly Complex on September 5, which prompted him to challenge her on her mission.
The lawmaker accused Mrs. Ilesanmi of working as an agent of the senator representing Ekiti South, Mrs. Biodun Olujimi, who is no longer in the good books of Governor Ayo Fayose and leadership of the Assembly.
Pelemo said: "It is not true that I touched her, I did not touch her breasts but I suddenly saw a petition from FIDA last Friday but I had travelled to my hometown, Ilasa-Ekiti, after which the FIDA people called me and I told them that I would be coming back on Monday.
"It was not as if I ignored FIDA, she is trying to frame me up and destroy my good name. She is being sponsored by some people but I will still honour the FIDA invitation."
culled from http://thenationonlineng.net/widow-accuses-ekiti-lawmaker-sexual-assault-physical-brutality/
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Home Editorials Flying the LCAP Way and Killing JFK, Part II
Flying the LCAP Way and Killing JFK, Part II
Tim Fleming
Jun 28, 2014: 7:47 pm
The Warren Commission's investigation of the Kennedy assassination, shoddy at best and a blatant, cynical cover-up at worst, neglected to dig deeply into many malignant and menacing areas. Especially, and probably intentionally, overlooked were Lee Harvey Oswald's ties to the CIA. More than any other deficiency, this "oversight" led the Commission to the wrong conclusion about what really happened in Dallas. De facto head of the Commission Allen Dulles, CIA chief fired by Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs, carefully steered his colleagues away from the evidence which would have indicted the Agency. So it is left to us to do the dirty work. And a good place to start is Oswald's membership in the Louisiana Civil Air Patrol (LCAP), a pack of social misfits, loners, thugs, thieves, and merciless CIA killers.
Rummaging through Lee Harvey Oswald's past can be a murky and sometimes frightening enterprise, but it is quite necessary if one wants to understand the residue of the tangled plot that took JFK's life. Even casual perusal leaves no doubt that Oswald and his associates had deep-rooted intelligence ties. Some of Lee's best friends were CIA operatives, from David Ferrie to the Dallas White Russian community, which included people like Oswald's best friend in Dallas George DeMohrenschildt and his erstwhile Irving, Texas, landlady Ruth Paine. Obvious patterns of sheepdipping and shepherding emerge as one follows Oswald's journey from Louisiana to Texas, and to Russia and back. He was a low-level agent on deep-background assignments for the Company. Just the kind of dupe who can be set up as the fall when the Agency needs a patsy. But how did Oswald get to that point? Who picked him out of the hordes of nickel-and-dime operatives the CIA was running in the 1950s and'60s? And why?
It began when Lee was just a teenager and he joined LCAP. On the surface this was a harmless group of post-pubescent wannabe fliers who signed up for air rescue techniques, campouts, and long speeches about duty and country. But in reality LCAP was much more. It was established by David Harold Byrd, a wealthy Dallas businessman and defense industry insider who fancied himself an Air Force Colonel. Indeed he was bestowed this title by none other than his great pal, General Curtis (Bombs Away) LeMay, virulent Kennedy hater and Air Force Chief of Staff under same. Byrd and LeMay made LCAP look like a unit of weekend flyboys to outsiders, just an excuse to make Byrd a colonel and to have an auxiliary pilot training presence in the South. This was merely the cover story, however. US military intelligence and the CIA wanted to train and recruit pilots to make surreptitious flights, into the Caribbean and elsewhere, involving weapons trading, support for paramilitary operations, and drug running (later Air America). Louisiana was a logical location for this (easy access to Cuba, Latin America and South America). Later, of course, Byrd, one of LBJ's most ardent political and financial benefactors, owned the Texas School Book Depository. I have always been confounded by researchers who overlook this one incredible fact (which, in and of itself, screams conspiracy): Byrd, a Texas oil millionaire with nefarious connections to potential suspects, provided the first and last places of employment for Oswald. This is either the most incredible coincidence in history, or Byrd's businesses were being used as fronts for intelligence operations. Think of it, JFK's supposed assassin fires from a building owned by the same man to whose air patrol unit he was attached a decade earlier. And Byrd neither admits to nor is questioned about this suspicious happenstance. Of course, he had plausible deniability because he merely provided the facilities for intelligence assets to perform their operations while keeping a safe distance from the action.
Anyway, back to LCAP. The ideal candidates for CIA recruitment were young, impressionable, adventuresome cadets seeking daring and stealth and lacking morals or a social conscience; or, in the alternative, they were outcasts and misfits, willing to commit abnormal or questionable acts without resistance. Consequently, an unusually high number of Louisiana Civil Air Patrol cadets became psychopathic killers, CIA pilots, or gullible, low-level fall guys. Among them were John Liggett, Charles Rogers, Lee Harvey Oswald, Barry Seal, and James Bath, all of whom were either tangentially or directly connected to the JFK hit.
In order to facilitate its recruitment of LCAP cadets, the CIA needed mesmeric leaders who had sway over young men. It found one such leader in David Ferrie, a defrocked priest, a skilled pilot, a hypnotist, and a pedophile. Oswald was probably directed to Ferrie and LCAP by Dutz Murret, Oswald's bookmaking uncle who worked for New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello. Rogers likewise had a bookmaker in the family, his father Fred, who also paid tribute to Marcello. Ferrie worked for Marcello as a pilot. When Marcello was deported by Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department in 1961, Ferrie flew a private plane to Guatemala, picked up the gangland boss and flew him back home. Ferrie fancied himself an expert pilot, and loved flying secret missions for the Mafia and the CIA. In LCAP he insisted on being called "Captain Ferrie," and despite his weird appearance (he wore an orange wig and painted-on eyebrows), his trainees were apparently defenseless against his hypnotic powers. One of "Captain" Ferrie's most unusual recruits was a future mortician/body reconstructionist/assassin named John Liggett. More on him later.
Ferrie taught his prized pupils the tricks of spycraft. And while most LCAP alums tried to maintain their covers after joining the CIA, Barry Seal was flamboyantly and unabashedly open about his occupation. His remarkable life is well-chronicled in Daniel Hopsicker's stunning book, Barry and the Boys. Seal was entrusted by the CIA to fly drugs out of Southeast Asia, Central America, and South America; guns in and out of troubled nations across the globe; and operatives to secret CIA missions whenever it needed a democratic or socialist leader overthrown. Hopsicker writes, '[Seal] was a high-rolling mercenary, a rogue pilot, an infamous gun-runner, the chief Mena narcotics trafficker, a fast-talking, self-assured, 300-pound pilot and Special Forces veteran, a notorious drug smuggler, a mystery man, and the most valuable informant in DEA history."
Seal's abilities as a CIA pilot were so valued that he was protected by powerful interests. He had George H.W. Bush's private phone number; it was found on Seal's body after he was mysteriously gunned down in the mid-1980s. Hopsicker writes of a witness overhearing one of Seal's conversations with Vice President Bush. Seal reportedly threatened to expose the Iran-Contra scheme if the IRS did not stop hounding him. One week after the phone conversation, Seal was dead. The witness goes on to say that the murderers were acting under orders from Oliver North. Seal, according to Hopsicker, was also involved in another monstrous operation–he was one of the getaway pilots flying out of Dallas after JFK was killed.
Facts uncovered by this author indicate that JFK's body was surreptitiously flown out of Dallas via Red Bird Airport and not Love Field. Here's where another LCAP grad enters the drama. John Liggett, a Dallas funeral home employee, was present at Parkland Hospital just minutes after the mortally wounded Kennedy arrived there. On November 22, 1963, Liggett was officiating the funeral of his wife's aunt at Restland Funeral Home, when he was suddenly called away from the graveside. He returned after a few minutes to tell his wife that Kennedy had been shot and he had to go to Parkland Hospital. When his wife asked him if Restland was going to get the job, John replied that he did not know but that she should not try to contact him. This was quite unusual. Normally when Liggett was on a job or on call, his wife and kids visited him at the funeral home. Never before had he instructed them to stay away. His funeral home did not get the JFK job; no matter, Liggett had other intentions. Circumstantial evidence indicates that Liggett, with the assistance of treasonous Secret Service agents, switched JFK's body for a fake wrapped in sheets in Emergency Room 1. The substitute body was placed in the expensive coffin which publicly left Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963. The genuine corpse was placed in a cheap shipping coffin and spirited away by John Liggett in a Restland Funeral Home hearst. It was then rushed to Red Bird where Seal or possibly some other CIA pilot flew the body to Washington, DC, for body alteration prior to the autopsy. And, according to Liggett's peers, there was no one better in the business at altering dead bodies than John Liggett. He even referred to himself as a "reconstruction artist."
As incredible as this scenario sounds, several people close to Liggett have come forward to verify this story. It dovetails with the official record in many regards. The Dallas doctors saw wounds on the dead President which were radically different from the ones the Bethesda autopsy doctors saw. The only reasonable explanation for this is that someone, somewhere between Dallas and Washington, got access to Kennedy's corpse and altered it. This ploy, this diabolical deception was the plotters' ace in the hole. It is how they intended to forever cover up the truth of the manner of JFK's death. For in any murder investigation where the victim dies by gunshot wounds, examination of the corpse reveals the direction and number of shots. The Dallas doctors saw evidence of frontal entry and rear exit, indicating Kennedy was shot from the grassy knoll area of Dealey Plaza, a place where Oswald definitely was not positioned. The Bethesda doctors saw evidence of rear entry and frontal exit, indicating Kennedy was shot from the TSBD, a place where Oswald definitely was positioned. At Bethesda Hospital several witnesses saw Kennedy's body arrive in the cheap shipping casket and the not the expensive public coffin that flew back to Washington aboard Air Force One. One LCAP grad (Liggett) framed another LCAP grad (Oswald).
Liggett did not return home from Washington until the next day. When he arrived he seemed worn and disheveled, quite unlike his customarily cool comportment and dapper dress. He quickly ordered Lois and the kids to pack up; they were going to hit the road. The family traveled south, and along the way Liggett stopped for furtive meetings with unknown parties out of the earshot of his wife and kids. They finally settled on a motel for the evening, and on the morning of November 24, after witnessing Ruby shoot Oswald to death on TV, Liggett breathed a deep sigh of relief and told his family it was okay to return home now. At no time did he let on what he knew about the historic events which had taken place that weekend or that he even knew Oswald, Ferrie, or any other LCAP members.
After the assassination Liggett came into a good deal of money which he used to purchase a home for his family in an upscale Dallas neighborhood. There he was visited on several occasions by Ferrie, whose appearance was so bizarre and amusing that they could not forget him. It is likely that Ferrie was conveying "liquidation" assignments to Liggett, as he was connected to many of the mysterious deaths of assassination witnesses after the fact.
Certainly Liggett did not learn his morturarial talents in the LCAP; instead he joined the Air Force where he served as an attaché, a common euphemism for military intelligence work. At some point after his discharge he was encouraged by his benefactors (possibly Curtis LeMay, possibly D.H. Byrd himself) to enroll in a school for undertakers. Upon graduation, he went to work embalming and burying innocent people by day and underworld/intelligence victims by night. If the CIA or the local Mafia wanted a body disposed of, Liggett was called upon. He interred the poor saps in the "Field of Honor," a Dallas joke for burial plots of the nefarious. If the unlucky stiff needed a transformation to disguise the manner of death, Liggett was equal to the task.
But Liggett was more than just a mortician; he was a killer, and, like Charles Rogers, he had a preference for bludgeoning his victims with a hammer. The Dallas police caught up to Liggett in 1974, when he was arrested for the attempted murder of Dorothy Peck, wife of Jay Bert Peck. Jay Bert Peck was Lyndon Johnson's cousin, and he bore a stunning resemblance to LBJ. Liggett never divulged his reasons for viciously beating Peck and burning her home. But according to some researchers, Dorothy was about to talk about how her own husband had been murdered by Liggett. Jay Bert Peck had reportedly stood in for his cousin at the Fort Worth Hotel where the presidential party had stayed the night before the JFK assassination. This allowed LBJ to slip out the back door and attend a "Kill Kennedy" planning session at the home of local oil millionaire Clint Murchison. LBJ's long-time mistress Madeleine Brown reported seeing many powerful JFK enemies at Murchison's that night, including H.L. Hunt, J. Edgar Hoover, John McCloy (later a member of the Warren Commission), and George Brown (of Brown & Root, nee Halliburton). If this account is true it would explain the importance of silencing the Pecks. Lyndon Johnson, named by many as the prime mover behind the assassination, certainly had no qualms about killing those close to him if it suited his political purposes. He was once accused by his long-time associate and criminal co-conspirator, Billy Sol Estes, of ordering the executions of many LBJ political enemies. Estes' lawyer wrote a letter to the U.S. Justice Department in 1984 which named these victims, one of whom was President Kennedy. But I digress.
The Dallas Police eventually caught up to Liggett when they arrested him in 1974. After his arrest, Liggett's first wife Lois was warned by Liggett's brother Malcolm to stay away from John and to avoid all contact with him. Malcolm was later appointed to a high-level presidential economic advisory commission by Gerald Ford. (As a side note, Ford was one of four future presidents closely tied to the events in Dallas. He served on the Warren Commission. Three future presidents–Johnson, Nixon and George H.W. Bush–were in Dallas the day of Kennedy's murder. This was no coincidence. All played a role in the events of November 22, 1963. But that's another story.)
Liggett's death is just as fraught with subterfuge and deviousness as his life. In February 1975 the Dallas Times-Herald reported that "John Melvin Liggett died on a Parkland Hospital table about 30 minutes after he was shot by Dallas Police while trying to escape custody." But Liggett left behind two widows who adamantly contradicted the official version of Liggett's death. One saw a stranger with facial hair in Liggett's coffin (Liggett was unable to grow facial hair); the other insisted she saw Liggett in a Las Vegas casino years later. It would be a relatively simple matter for the Agency which killed a sitting U.S. President to fake the death of a mortician, so the reports of Liggett's death may well be exaggerated.
Another LCAP alumnus who became notorious was Texas native Charles Rogers, CIA pilot and murdering psychopath. Rogers was as brilliant as he was disturbed. A graduate of the University of Houston, Rogers worked as a seismologist for Shell Oil in the 1950s before joining the CIA. It is a seismologist's job to determine if the underlying rock or substrata of any particular area is fertile ground to drill for oil or natural gas. This was and is vital information to oil companies; thus, seismologists and geologists are in great demand. But that kind of life was apparently not adventurous enough for Charles. So in 1956, he applied with the CIA and was interviewed in the offices of Shell Oil's law firm, Fulbright-Jaworski (yes, the Leon Jaworski of Watergate fame).
Like other LCAP alums, Rogers graduated to the big-time when he was identified as having direct ties to the JFK murder. Many are convinced he is one of the three tramps who were photographed being escorted by Dallas cops away from the crime scene in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. The tramp photos have become part of assassination lore and have been the subject of much speculation and guesswork. What we know is the tramps bear a remarkable resemblance to killers Charles Rogers, Charles Harrelson, and the CIA's E. Howard Hunt. Others claim they are real hobos whom the cops rousted from boxcars behind the grassy knoll. The matter ostensibly could be cleared up with some scientific analysis–comparison of height and weight, facial features, hairlines, arm length, and the like. Lois Gibson, a Houston Police Department forensics expert, performed such an analysis in 1991. Her meticulous study convinced her that Charles Rogers is the short tramp in the infamous photos. This begs the question, what was he doing there? Not likely he just happened to be boxcar-hopping just yards from the site of the murder of the century, at the exact time and day of its occurrence. There is no doubt that Rogers was a psychopath. He murdered his parents in June 1965, chopped them into pieces and stored them in a freezer before disappearing into the murky sub-world of CIA skullduggery.
It was most likely George DeMohrenschildt who recommended Rogers be hired by the CIA. A long-time CIA asset, and Lee Harvey Oswald's handler in Dallas, DeMohrenschildt was also an expert in knowing where to drill for oil. He had an advanced degree in petroleum engineering, and he was associated with many Texas oil millionaires, including H.L. Hunt. LCAP founder D. H. Byrd once employed DeMohrenschildt at Three States Oil and Gas Company; DeMohrenschildt also was connected to Byrd through Byrd's wife, whom DeMohrenschildt appointed to the board of his charitable organization in 1962. This would have provided cover for Byrd and DeMohrenschildt to have interaction during the time that Oswald was being shepherded to his tragic fate. DeMohrenschildt also had deep ties to the Bush family. George H.W. actually roomed with DeMohrenschildt's uncle at Andover in the early 1940s. Later, when Bush was head of the CIA, DeMohrenschildt wrote a desperate letter to his old friend begging for help. DeMohrenschildt feared for his life because he was writing a factual book about his relationship with his old pal Lee Harvey Oswald. A few months later DeMohrenschildt was found shot to death in his home. The address and phone number of George H.W. Bush was on his person. Like Barry Seal, when DeMohrenschildt posed a threat of exposure of Bush secrets he met an untimely end.
Another Bush family intimate, one James R. Bath, turned out to be another "illustrious" grad of Byrd's Civil Air Patrol. He served in his CAP unit in the mid-1950s, about the time Oswald, Ferrie, Seal and the other CIA recruits were active members. But it's what he accomplished after his LCAP training that makes him notorious. Bath began a lucrative CIA career sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, after leaving active duty with the Air Force. He joined the Texas Air National Guard in 1965 where he met his great pal, George W. Bush, just as the Vietnam War was escalating. The Air National Guard was a great hideout for those pilots who wanted to avoid combat. Bath was George W. Bush's good buddy in the Texas Air National Guard. Like W, Bath refused a medical exam and went AWOL when he pleased. Bath eventually became the Bin Ladens' money man in Texas; this included investments in W's failed oil business–Arbusto. According to author Pete Brewton, Bush claimed that he and Bath never went into business together; however, "…records filed in a Houston lawsuit involving Bath contradict the [Bush's] son: they show Bath was an investor in a Bush oil and gas enterprise."
Brewton also claims that Bath became intertwined with some of the wealthiest and most powerful international players in global politics and finance. Among other things Bath became a trustee at a Saudi bank which provided financing for Adnan Khashoggi around the time that Khashoggi was involved in the arms-for-hostages transactions with the Iranians. The Khashoggis and the bin Ladens were intimately acquainted. Bath also went into business with Lan Bentsen, son of Texas politician Lloyd Bentsen. (Bath served in the 147th Fighter Group "Champagne Unit" Air National Guard with Lan Bentsen, George W. Bush, John Connally III–son of Texas governor John Connally, wounded in JFK's death limo, Al Hill–grandson of H.L. Hunt, and several members of the Dallas Cowboys football team.) Bath formed a Cayman Islands company which moved money around for Oliver North in the Iran/Contra operation. And he worked for the du Pont family's Atlantic Aviation corporation. Quite a success story for a guy who started out as a lowly cadet in David Ferrie's LCAP.
Of all the sordid characters mentioned above, Byrd and Bath prospered the most. Byrd, rich beyond reason already, garnered million-dollar defense contracts for his Ling-Temco-Vought weapons company during Vietnam. His good friend LBJ apparently rewarded him for services rendered. Bath bilked American taxpayers for $12 million in Defense Department overcharges for one of his companies in 1990. Neither Byrd nor Bath was ever brought to account for anything. No investigative body–not the Dallas Police, not the Warren Commission, not the House Select Committee on Assassinations–interviewed Byrd. He answered no questions about the nature of his business, his associations, nor his weird connection to Oswald. Not a hint of suspicion was raised about who hired Oswald, nor who had access to the Texas School Book Depository building before, during and after the assassination. In his autobiography Byrd did not even mention the fact that he owned the TSBD, a tidbit he wanted to keep hidden for good reason. He does refer to his citation from General LeMay for starting up the Civil Air Patrol, but he excludes the names of all criminals therein bred. To remove himself as far from suspicion as possible, at the time of Kennedy's assassination Byrd was on safari in Africa, his first-ever safari on foreign soil. He did not return to Dallas until the smoke had cleared.
Undeniable killers Charles Rogers and John Liggett were never convicted of any crime. Oswald, Ferrie, and Seal, all set up for murder by the covert forces which set their fates in motion, were the unluckiest of the lot.
In retrospect the Louisiana Civil Air Patrol was some sort of nexus of evil CIA recruitment and secrecy. Its founder and members went on to attain almost unfathomable notoriety. The truth of who LCAP members really were, the associations they made, and what they went on to do with their lives is quite provocative, and very dangerous information to the plotters of JFK's murder. Their actions and connections speak to some sort of subterranean, for-profit enterprise that was dedicated to subverting democracy and creating what Jack Ruby called a "whole new form of government in the United States." No wonder when the House Select Committee on Assassinations went to investigate the Louisiana Civil Air Patrol it found that all LCAP records prior to 1960 were missing.
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