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Senator Murray Sinclair discusses Aboriginal issues and leadership
Senator Murray Sinclair, one of Canada's first Aboriginal judges and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), challenged people to be leaders to fulfill the TRC calls to action at a special event hosted by Wilfrid Laurier University at its Brantford campus.
The event, part of Laurier's Conversations with Leaders speaker series, featured Sinclair in conversation with CBC journalist Duncan McCue.
"Our ambition here is to arm the reasonable," said Sinclair. "By that I mean to give to people the tools that they need to carry on this fight… We're saying to people that you can do something about this… so we're calling upon you to do this."
The wide-ranging discussion between McCue and Sinclair covered Sinclair's upbringing in northern Manitoba, his legal career, his leadership of the TRC, and how these experiences influenced his own approach to leadership.
"You have the right to be whoever you are in the face of outstanding pressure and you have the responsibility to be who you are in spite of that pressure," Sinclair told the audience.
Nearly 500 people attended the event, including Aboriginal community members, residential school survivors and Laurier students, alumni, faculty and staff. Blanche Hill Easton and John Elliot of She'kon Ken:tho Ya'kwes (We Are Still Here), a residential schools survivor group from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, made a special presentation to Sinclair at the conclusion of the conversation.
Conversations with Leaders is a Laurier-hosted event that explores leadership in its diverse forms and celebrates the many ways in which leaders enrich our lives. At Laurier, leadership is a defining characteristic of the university, reflected in the institutional proposition: "inspiring lives of leadership and purpose."
Video of the discussion between Sinclair and McCue will be shared on the Laurier YouTube channel in the coming weeks.


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If you could take only one supplement, would you choose curcumin?
For leading experts in natural health like Terry Lemerond of Terry Naturally, the answer would be a resounding "Yes!" Terry's credits include 45 years of natural health research, two incredibly successful supplement companies, and countless awards to his credit – the fact that curcumin would be Terry's first choice should tell you something!
The turmeric root has been a stellar botanical in both Ayurvedic and Chinese Medicine for centuries, and has finally gained the recognition in science and medicine it deserves. Curcumin is the active compound of tumeric. It is what gives it its many health benefits.
As I write this, there are scores of human clinical trials taking place on the health benefits of curcumin for a plethora of health concerns.
If you've been wondering if curcumin should be a part of your daily supplement regimen, study what these experts in natural health and medicine have to say. I think you'll be impressed.
When you have credentials like Dr. Ajay, people listen. He is the Director of the Center for Gastrointestinal Research and Director of the Center for Epigenetics, Cancer Prevention and Cancer Genomics at Baylor Research Institute and Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at the prestigious Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.
He is also one of the top scientists in the world researching botanical interventions!
Take 15 minutes to hear Dr. Ajay discuss the merits of curcumin in this interview with The Natural Medicine Journal. It's time well spent.
Dr. Teitlebaum is the Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, Director of the Center for Effective CFIDS/Fibromyalgia Therapies, and Medical Director of Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers. A nationally known expert in fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, pain and sleep, Dr. Teitlebaum has made many appearances on popular media programs like Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News, Dr. Oz and Oprah & Friends.
Dr. Teitlebaum has himself suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia, and through his own research, discovered alternative treatments not known to mainstream medicine. He has since dedicated his life to help those suffering from CFS and fibromyalgia.
So you can imagine someone with his background might know a few things about supplements that work – and those that don't!
The only form that I will use is the one called BCM-95, which increases absorption approximately 700 percent by adding in turmerone oils. I suggest usage of 500 milligrams twice a day for depression or 750-1,500 milligrams twice a day for those with cancer.
In this video, Dr. T talks about natural pain management.
Sayer is widely known as the founder of GreenMedInfo.com, which ranks in the top 10 sites in the world. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Health Federation, a Strategic Advisor for Fearless Parent™, a Steering committee Member of the Global GMO Free Coalition, and a reviewer for the International College of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine.
The information they provide is not intended to treat diagnose, cure or prevent any disease, but you will find a plethora of scientific data on "natural substances and modalities" that would take you a lifetime to research! In fact, just the turmeric page in GreenMedInfo has almost 1,500 studies cited! Doesn't that tell you something about the benefits and credibility of this remarkable botanical?
If you'd like to take advantage of the wealth of information from this health and wellness tool, you can get an overview below.
Sayer Ji and GreenMedInfo have gained the attention and respect of millions of natural health advocates around the world.
Have you seen enough to consider adding curcumin to your daily supplement routine?
If you're already taking curcumin, tell us what it's done for you in the comments below!
One Response to Should You Take Curcumin? 3 Experts Say Yes!
I have been taking 600 mg daily ( 300 mg twice a day) of Swanson Boswellia Curcumin for 4 months.for aching joints. The first 2 weeks it seemed to help and after that it wasn't doing anything. I kept using it as I thought maybe I had to build some up in my system.Supply will run out in about 11 days and I don't plan to reorder.


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PRESS UPDATE – BICENTENARY YEAR OF JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
Posted on June 3, 2015 by abiviow
The press department wanted to inform you of the work they have been doing to entice travellers to the Isle of Wight through a concerted PR campaign to promote the bicentenaray year of Julia Margaret Cameron. Please view a copy of the press release below that was recently sent out.
Born on June 11th, 2015 is the 200th birthday of pioneer photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, whose former home and workplace on the Isle of Wight, Dimbola Museum & Galleries, is now a mecca for anyone wanting to know more about her pioneering work and portraits of celebrities of that time.
It was at the beginning of this year that VIOW spotted the potential for generating interest in the story, using it as one of their "Top 10 reasons for visiting the Isle of Wight in 2015" when engaging with national and international travel writers.
Dubbed "the best kept secret on the Isle of Wight" by VIOW in their press material, the DMO's press team have been having regular meetings with travel journalists and is now partnering with the V&A Museum in London – with the offer of helping to host media visits for any journalists who might benefit from visiting the Island and some of the locations where Julia Margaret Cameron and The Freshwater Circle (including Tennyson, Lewis Carroll and Darwin) lived and worked.
VIOW is also arranging a competition to "Walk in the footsteps of Julia Margaret Cameron", which will feature on the V&A website, with a link to www.visitisleofwight.co.uk.
While the V&A Museum's press activity is expected to kick into action in June – to coincide with Cameron's birthday on June 11th –-VIOW has already been explaining to travel writers how they, too, can follow in the footsteps of Cameron by visiting Dimbola Museum & Galleries and other areas of the Island.
Dimbola has planned a full year of special exhibitions and events to give visitors a full insight into her life and work. There will also be bi-monthly exhibitions of the work of local schools and community groups who will be exploring and being inspired by Julia's work.
The anniversary will also be marked elsewhere in the UK, with two major exhibitions of her work in London: at the V&A Museum, and The Science Museum.
The V&A Museum exhibition is already on tour world-wide and is currently at Ghent Museum of Fine Arts until June 14th. It will then head to the Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales from August 14th to October 25th. After returning to the V&A Museum in London from November 2015, to February 2016, it will then go on show at the Madrid Fundacion Mapfre from March 8th to May 8th, and the Tokyo Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum from June 29th to September 25th 2016.
The nearby Science Museum in London is also set to stage its own exhibition of 94 photographs from their collections. This will take place between September 24 and March 28 and is a free exhibition. The V&A Museum and the Science Museum are now liaising closely together to make sure the two exhibitions work together in tandem, to help raise the profile of both Cameron, and the two free exhibitions of her work in London.
Sue Emmerson, Press Officer for VIOW, said: "There's a great opportunity to make sure that both the V&A Museum, and Science Museum refer to Julia Margaret Cameron's life and work on the Isle of Wight in all of their press & PR and promotional activity.
"We have already had a lot of interest, including a recent visit by a journalist from The Independent. The results will be published in a travel feature in the Independent's Traveller magazine on June 6th.
"The latest news about the possibility of JMC appearing on the back of a £20 note is a nice addition to our own PR efforts and would be really big for the Island if it takes off." To nominate Julia Margaret Cameron please visit the Bank of England's website by clicking here. Nominations are to be made by the 19th July 2015.
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Shooting a WW2 Ball Turret with Twin .50 Cals (Sunday Gun-Day)
Published December 15, 2019 December 16, 2019 by Papa Giorgio
From the video description:
One of the highlights at this fall's Big Sandy Shoot was a vintage WW2 ball turret with twin .50 cals that spectators could shoot.
Although it's not uncommon to see unique and rare guns and military vehicles at the event, the fully functioning ball turret garnered a lot of attention.
Taigh Ramey, president of Vintage Aircraft, towed the Sperry A2 ball turret all the way from Stockton, California to the shoot, which takes place every April and October just outside of the town of Wikieup, Arizona.
Sperry A2 ball turrets were commonly mounted underneath either a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress or the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. They were used to defend the bomber against aircraft attacking from below.
Ramey found the turret in a surplus shop many years ago. It took him 15 years to convince the owner to sell it, and he's sure glad he did. Ramey fixes up and maintains vintage aircraft for the Stockton Field Aviation Museum. The ball turret has proven to be very popular with visitors.
The turret was new 'old stock' from the 1940's, so it never saw service. Despite having sat on a storage skid for half a century, Ramey says he brought it back to his shop, put hydraulic fluid, fired it up, and the turret ran like a charm.
Rumored to have inspired the inside of the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon from the Star Wars films, the Sperry turret was operated by the gunner inside using two hand controls that operated two Vickers hydraulic units. It could rotate 360 degrees and tilt up up and down. Atop two control handles were fire buttons that engaged two .50 caliber light-barrel Browning AN/M2 machine guns. The guns fired 850 rounds per minute, and each gun was fed by a 500 round box of ammunition. The guns could not be reloaded in flight, so gunners had to be careful.
Contrary to popular myth, ball turrets were not always manned by tiny people. People up to six foot could fit inside comfortably. Gunners sat in a fetal-type position, and aimed the guns using a Reflector sight in front of a small circular window between their legs.
Statistically, the ball turret was one of the safest crew positions during WWII as ball turret gunners had the lowest loss rate.
Ramey was at the Big Sandy Shoot not only to live fire the turret, something he'd never done before, but also to promote Bomber Camp. It is a two-day event held on May 29 and 30 of every year at the Stockton Metropolitan Airport in California. Participants get a chance to step back in time to train for a bombing mission, and then to fly it for real.
Participants learn how to use original bomber sights and compensate for height, distance and wind. Gunnery classes familiarize them with the ball turret and other aircrafts mounted guns, all of which can be fired in flight using airsoft propane 'blanks'.
The grande finale is a flying mission in which dummy cement bombs are dropped from high altitudes on targets from a B-24 or B17 aircraft. Bomber Camp offers a once in a lifetime experience to gain a greater appreciation for the men and women of the "greatest generation". Enrollment is tax deductible.
Posted in Entertainment, Weapons	Tagged 2nd Amendment, Break Time, Guns, Sunday Gun Day, WWII
Memorial & Veterans Day |RPT Tribute|
Published May 27, 2019 May 27, 2019 by Papa Giorgio
(Above Video) Just A Common Soldier, also known as A Soldier Died Today, is one of the most popular poems on the Internet. Written and published in 1987 by Canadian veteran and columnist A. Lawrence Vaincourt, it now appears in numerous anthologies, on thousands of websites and on July 4, 2008 it was carved into a marble monument at West Point, New York. This year marks the poem's 25th anniversary.
Please enjoy this tribute to the Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen who have given so much for our country.
(Son to Father. . .)
Do not call me, father. Do not seek me.
Do not call me. Do not wish me back.
We're on a route uncharted, fire and blood erase our track.
On we fly on wings of thunder, never more to sheathe our swords.
All of us in battle fallen – not to be brought back by words.
Will there be a rendezvous?
I know not. I only know we still must fight.
We are sand grains in infinity, never to meet.
nevermore to see light.
(Father to Son . . .)
Farewell, then my son. Farewell then my conscience.
Farewell my youth, my solace, my one and my only.
Let this farewell be the end of the story,
A solitude vast in which none is more lonely,
In which you remained barred forever
From light, from air, with your death pains untold.
Untold and unsoothed, never to be resurrected.
Forever and ever an 18 year old.
Farewell then.
No trains ever come from those regions,
Unscheduled and scheduled.
No aeroplanes fly there.
Farewell then my son,
For no miracles happen, as in this world
Dreams do not come true.
I will dream of you still as a baby,
Treading the earth with little strong toes,
The earth where already so many lie buried.
This song to my son, then, is come to its close.
(Extract from a poem by Jr. Lt. Vladimir Pavlovich Antokolski. Killed in action, June 6th, 1942)
(Via GayPatriot)
(Via Gateway Pundit) Brothers Forever–Travis Manion and Brendan Looney were roommates at the naval academy and became as close as brothers. One became a Marine stationed in Iraq, the other, a Navy Seal in Afghanistan. Both died in action years apart and were laid to rest side-by-side in Arlington's National Cemetery.
VETERAN,
not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.
the VETERAN,
not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.
not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.
not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.
the VETERAN
who can at times lay
us down in green pastures.
not the televangelist,
Who can get people out of wheelchairs.
(Also See Tribute Video for all the kids who lost their loved one)
Never Forget Their Sacrifice
This amazing photo was taken in 1918. It is a photo of 18,000 men
preparing for war at Camp Dodge in Des Moines, Iowa (Above)
While the speeches and cartoons are perfect for this Memorial Day… they do not express the loss persons individually feel that express our Nation's loss through their pain. Pray for the families of the fallen, always.
A few of the below are from the same heroes funeral,
a link to the story is in the pictures
Posted in Cartoons, Holiday, Military	Tagged Memorial Day, Military News and Views, Ronald Reagan, WWI, WWII, WWIII - Cold War	1 Comment
The Reluctant Hero | Nicholas Winton
Published October 22, 2018 October 22, 2018 by Papa Giorgio
This was posted last year – but I updated the file source on one of the videos.
Discover the inspiring true story of Sir Nicholas Winton in the award-winning film "Nicky's Family," now on DVD.
Posted in Freedom, History, Testimony/Uplifting Tales	Tagged Hero, Nicholas Winton, WWII
Playing a Little "Concepts" Catch Up (Romney and Torture)
(Originally posted December of 2012) Just some notes on two pre-and-post-election articles from the Country journals "Concepts." I will follow this post with one dealing with "Concepts" dealing with "free will" and how Mr. Van Huizum's position is unattainable without the theistic view of God. But first this. In the October 20th, 2012 edition of the Country Journal, John said something I agree with. Whether he realizes it or not, he made a case FOR Romney over the horrible budgeting leadership Obama and the Democrats have shown. He says, and I quote:
The only purpose of a democratic government is to provide services for its citizens. Since the two purposes are totally different, it is doubtful to begin with that having a talent for business is going to be any yardstick as a talent for governing. When government money enabled Mitt Romney to hold a successful Olympics, does it speak well of Romney or of government?
And this is the point I think John was making… government monies create success (a broad generalization), I think he is arguing for the government spending success on "events," it body-politic. However, he showed that Romeny took a failing Olympics where money, and more money, was being carelessly thrown to the wind via mismanagement, a lack of accountability, and corruption. Romeny took that, the classic end of Big-Government, and managed the resources well, organized opportunities to succeed for the most bang for the buck, and the Olympics were saved. Too bad this same experience John spoke of from the business sector, proven in the micro-sense with the Olympics didn't come to Washington. Instead, you have a President who, unlike Bill Clinton who, yes, raised taxes but REFORMED social programs and CUT spending at the time. Obama is offering another stimulus (more government spending) that is about equal to any forecast gain in tax increases/revenue — the exact opposite of Clinton! (See my, "Examples/Evidence of Obama's Policies Not Working, Thus Proving the Republican Position Works.") At any rate, John I am sure voted for continued mismanagement, and the answer to John's question is "Romney."
This was torturous to read, honestly. More of the "blame Bush" mentality, what is called BDS: Bush Derangement Syndrome. I cannot tell you how many discussions I have had of late rehashing Halliburton, Iraq, WMDs, and other myths/conspiracies that came from the left in regards to these historical events.
The above is a great example of how the emotional argument from a non-sequiture making the above also a great example of an informal fallacy:
"Fallacious arguments usually have the deceptive appearance of being good arguments" (source). Recognizing fallacies in everyday arguments may be difficult since arguments are often embedded in rhetorical patterns that obscure the logical connections between statements. Informal fallacies may also exploit the emotional, intellectual, or psychological weaknesses of the audience. Having the capability to recognize fallacies in arguments is one way to reduce the likelihood of such occurrences. (Wiki)
What is being done is that the readers emotions are being "ginned up" by examples of real torture and death, and dictatorial regimes, and then… wayyyy at the bottom we read:
If our body is a shrine, the torturer delights in invading, defiling and desecrating that shrine. He does so publicly, deliberately, repeatedly and often sexually. For our government to tolerate torture such as water-boarding should be a stain on our conscience.
One can see that John is still trying to connect something that didn't happen to the U.S. governments use of water-boarding of three individuals. Three. Here is an old post on the subject… it is in-depth and is one of two (the other is found here) dealing with this topic:
From a friendly challenge to me on my FaceBook:
Rumsfeld said point blank that they did not get this info from enhanced interrogation but through regular interrogation. I had a Newsmax link which I knew you'd like better but it did not want to post for some reason. I'll try again.
The whole debate between the efficacious nature of enhanced interrogation is back in the news, thanks to the wonderful killing of Osama bin Laden. As the Atlantic Journal notes well the politically charged topic this brings to the debate between Left and Right:
The shot-up corpse of Osama bin Laden was barely wet at the bottom of the sea when conservative heavyweights began praising Bush-era "enhanced interrogation" tactics as a big reason why U.S. soldiers were able to know in which multistory house in which million-dollar compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the al Qaeda leader was holed up. With a spectacularly successful "end" to the bin Laden story, the we-told-you-so crowd evidently now wants to go back and re-litigate the legitimacy of the "means" by which they claim it all came about.
And, in the absence of any other juicy political conflict surrounding the news of bin Laden's death, serious journalists were only too happy to oblige the counterfact festival choreographed (typically without attribution, of course) mainly by the nation's various spies and spooks. One earnest reporter after another, from the right and the left and in between, dutifully stoked the suddenly "reignited" fires of debate over the effectiveness of torture as a means of gathering material information from terror detainees.
On Monday into Tuesday, as a running sidebar to the main story about how the bin Laden assault took place, there were a slew of news articles arguing the back-and-forth of the torture meme as if the two sides to the argument came to this august moment in American history on equal footing in fact or law. For example, NBC's mighty Michael Isikoff tried to finesse the matter by describing the torture of terror law prisoners as "aggressive interrogations" or "sometimes controversial interrogations." And then he wrote:
The behind-the-scenes story of how bin Laden was finally located is yet to be fully told, but emerging details seem likely to reignite the debate over whether "enhanced interrogation" techniques and other aggressive methods that have been widely criticized by human rights groups provided useful – or timely — intelligence about al-Qaida. While some current and former U.S. officials credited those interrogations Monday with producing the big break in the case, others countered that they failed to produce what turned out to be the most crucial piece of intelligence of all: the identity and whereabouts of the most important figure in bin Laden courier's network.
One of the "behind-the-scenes" nuggets apparently involves Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, who was said by some unidentified analysts to have given up the nicknames of some of bin Laden's couriers only after being subjected to waterboarding. One of those couriers, we now know, was brilliantly tracked by American operatives to the Abbottabad hideout and thus to bin Laden himself. But here's what the Associated Press had to say about that:
Mohammed did not reveal the names while being subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, former officials said. He identified them many months later under standard interrogation, they said, leaving it once again up for debate as to whether the harsh technique was a valuable tool or an unnecessarily violent tactic.
Just exactly why the merits of waterboarding as an honorable tool of U.S. policy are "once again up for debate" based upon the Mohammed example was left unwritten by the AP.
Firstly, a shout out to the many years from multiple administrations and the intelligence community and our boys in uniform. Now down to business. I have gotten a couple of people pointing out some discrepancies in my previous post, Without Bush Implementing Water-Boarding and Guantanamo Interrogations, Osama Would Still Be Alive. What is actually happening – I believe – is a misconception of times and places on the part of the liberals entering into this discussion. It is important to know as well that "first reports" are always a bit confused. As you read the following you will see that the Daily Kos, Huffington Post, and other liberal sites ran with responses to questions that don't fit the outcome to the conclusions made. What the questions were that were originally posed to Rumsfeld seem to be a bit out of context, as we will see.
To wit I have been given multiple articles to read, some from liberal sources, others from conservative source… sources rejected except in this singular instance – speaking here of the NewsMax article. In it NewsMax starts out with this:
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells Newsmax the information that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden was obtained through "normal interrogation approaches" and says the notion that terrorist suspects were waterboarded at Guantanamo Bay is a "myth."
Lets bullet point this for clarity sake:
1) information that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden was obtained through "normal interrogation approaches
2) the notion that terrorist suspects were waterboarded at Guantanamo Bay is a "myth."
Nothing I wrote or conservatives posted disagree with this notion, and it is beyond me why DailyKos, the Huffington post, and other sites take Rummies words and misconstrue them. A great post dealing with this issue is found over at SayAnythingBlog.com:
Liberals have been touting these comments from Donald Rumsfeld in which the former Bush administration Secretary of Defense says that the intelligence used to find Osama bin Laden wasn't obtained through waterboarding because waterboarding didn't happen at Guantanamo Bay:
Rumsfeld also claims that elements of Pakistani intelligence could have been complicit in hiding the terrorist mastermind, asserts that his killing exonerates George W. Bush's approach to fighting terrorism, and warns that terrorists will likely try to avenge bin Laden's death with new attacks against America or its allies.
"Another wingnut myth bites the dust," writes Bob Cesca, but I'm not sure this really disproves anything.
First, we know that Khalid Sheik Mohammed was interrogated not at Guantanamo Bay but at CIA detention centers in eastern Europe. We also know that KSM was subjected to so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" which is pretty much political speak for waterboarding.
Also, as Stephen Hayes notes on Twitter, the question isn't whether or not KSM gave up the intelligence during a waterboarding session but whether or not the waterboarding we all know KSM went through made him compliant with his interrogators, something that lead to him giving up the intelligence at a later date.
Say Anything Blog goes on to point out that Congressman King still stands by the position that this beginning info came from those waterboarding moments. However, even if we accept the liberal spin, Say Anything goes on to point out the following:
But really, this is all a moot point. Even it we stipulate that waterboarding, or "enhanced interrogation techniques," had nothing at all do to with KSM giving up key details which lead to bin Laden's capture the intelligence was still gathered at facilities (Guantanamo Bay and the CIA prisons in Europe) Obama wanted shut down.
No matter how this is spun, the reality of how the intelligence which brought down bin Laden was gathered is a black eye for President Obama and the liberals who spent years campaigning against the very policies which made that intelligence gathering possible.
Excellent points! Also, many sources in the prevailing articles coming out hourly is another indicator of the factual points of the varying sides of this argument. For instance, over at the Denver Post (was at the Charlotte Observer):
Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, detainees in the CIA's secret prison network told interrogators about an important courier with the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti who was close to bin Laden. After the CIA captured al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he confirmed knowing al-Kuwaiti but denied he had anything to do with al-Qaida.
Then in 2004, top al-Qaida operative Hassan Ghul was captured in Iraq. Ghul told the CIA that al-Kuwaiti was a courier, someone crucial to the terrorist organization. In particular, Ghul said, the courier was close to Faraj al-Libi, who replaced Mohammed as al-Qaida's operational commander. It was a key break in the hunt for in bin Laden's personal courier.
"Hassan Ghul was the linchpin," a U.S. official said.
Finally, in May 2005, al-Libi was captured. Under CIA interrogation, al-Libi admitted that when he was promoted to succeed Mohammed, he received the word through a courier. But he made up a name for the courier and denied knowing al-Kuwaiti, a denial that was so adamant and unbelievable that the CIA took it as confirmation that he and Mohammed were protecting the courier. It only reinforced the idea that al-Kuwaiti was very important to al-Qaida.
If they could find the man known as al-Kuwaiti, they'd find bin Laden.
The revelation that intelligence gleaned from the CIA's so-called black sites helped kill bin Laden was seen as vindication for many intelligence officials who have been repeatedly investigated and criticized for their involvement in a program that involved the harshest interrogation methods in U.S. history.
"We got beat up for it, but those efforts led to this great day," said Marty Martin, a retired CIA officer who for years led the hunt for bin Laden.
Mohammed did not discuss al-Kuwaiti while being subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, former officials said. He acknowledged knowing him many months later under standard interrogation, they said, leaving it once again up for debate as to whether the harsh technique was a valuable tool or an unnecessarily violent tactic.
Take note that the source that mentions that we did get the info via enhanced interrogations was sourced by name. Again:
The sources apparently saying different are simply referred to as former officials, But note that the article says this, "Mohammed did not discuss al-Kuwaiti while being subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, former officials said. He acknowledged knowing him many months later under standard interrogation." In two separate posts on my FaceBook I pointed out the misunderstanding some seem to have:
The name of the courier did not come from KSM under enhanced interrogation. KSM cracked and agreed to share what he knew BECAUSE of enhanced interrogation. I don't know how I can be clearer? …. (I read the Newsmax article.) KSM, after many short intervals of water-boarding combined with sleep deprivation, caved in. And over many months/years of "tea and crumpets" he divulged names, places, tactics, and the like. This info led to many plots being foiled [like the planned attack on the Library Tower in L.A.]. The codename for the courier was one of the items given up during these talks AFTER they water-boarded him, which could have been months after or years after this initial event. Clear?
For those who have the time, I highly recommend Larry Elders dealing with this topic yesterday. I combine highlighted moments from his radio broadcast where he makes many similar point:
The Sage Talks KSM, Osama, and Liberal Rants! from Papa Giorgio on Vimeo.
Gateway Pundit likewise deals with his topic in a way that refutes the many positions stated by my liberal friends:
Obama CIA chief admitted today that intelligence gleaned from enhanced interrogating techniques led the US to Osama Bin Laden. Today reported:
Intelligence garnered from waterboarded detainees was used to track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and kill him, CIA Chief Leon Panetta told NBC News on Tuesday.
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" were used to extract information that led to the mission's success, Panetta said during an interview with anchor Brian Williams. Those techniques included waterboarding, he acknowledged.
Panetta, who in a 2009 CIA confirmation hearing declared "waterboarding is torture and it's wrong," said Tuesday that debate about its use will continue.
"Whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always gonna be an open question," Panetta said.
Additionally, Gateway Pundit has video of Rumsfeld saying the same (video is gone – poof… here is a rundown of the misquote):
RUMSFELD QUOTE FROM HANNITY: "CIA Director Panetta indicated that one of the individuals who provided important information had in fact been waterboarded… There was some confusion today on some programs, even one on FOX I think, suggesting that I indicated that no one who was waterboarded at Guantanamo provided any information on this. It's not true. No one was waterboarded at Guantanamo by the US military. In fact no one was waterboarded at Guantanamo period. Three people were waterboarded by the CIA away from Guantanamo and then later were brought to Guantanamo. And, in fact, as you pointed out the information from these individuals was critically important." (GATEWAY PUNDIT)
There has been a lot of misquoted information surface on this topic because it came from 3rd, 4th and 5th party repeaters. Rumsfield was misquoted. He appeared on TV and stated that he never said that the information wasn't obtained from waterboarding, only that the waterboarding of KSM didn't occur at GITMO. Actually the correct information was that KSM gave up the info while being interrogated in the country he was captured and that's where the waterboarding took place not after he was sent to GITMO. Congressman Peter King made the statement and stands behind it. (See more on how this misquote was used against people like Rep. Peter King, HERE). (AARP)
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld:
"CIA Director Panetta indicated that one of the individuals who provided important information had in fact been waterboarded… There was some confusion today on some programs, even one on FOX I think, suggesting that I indicated that no one who was waterboarded at Guantanamo provided any information on this. It's not true. No one was waterboarded at Guantanamo by the US military. In fact no one was waterboarded at Guantanamo period. Three people were waterboarded by the CIA away from Guantanamo and then later were brought to Guantanamo. And, in fact, as you pointed out the information from these individuals was critically important."
Once again… Ace of Spades put together the timeline that started back in 2003 during the Bush years that led to Osama's death on Sunday.
The Obama Administration is lying. They don't want to give Bush credit for leading them to Osama's compound. And, they don't want to admit they were wrong about waterboarding.
Once Again, my Democrats and Liberal friends are wrong as well as major liberal sites such as the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post are wrong. Too bad, sooo sad. I wish to point out that many of the truther leftist out there seem to running into a wall of competing emotions and logical conclusions within their models. (Here I suggest my C-O-N-Debunker page for the truther.) For instance, one friend on FaceBook posted this in regards to Rossie O'Donnel:
The killing of Bin Laden must pose a dilemma for leftist truthers like Rosie O'Donnell, who think 9/11 was an inside job by the Bush administration. As a loyal liberal, she wants to praise Obama, but for what — killing the wrong guy?
Another person chimed in:
It's worse than that Mike, if you include the rare bird known as the truther-birther. That guy not only believes the wrong guy was killed, but that the wrong guy ordered the killing. And now add the newly-minted, "deather," who doesn't believe OBL was really killed. Thus, you can in theory have someone who believes that the wrong guy issued an order to kill a guy that didn't die for a crime he did not commit.
Oh what a tangled web we weave when we first try to deceive, which are what the conspiratorialists — of which I use to be one many years ago — are doing to themselves. But it sure is fun to watch.
Posted in Concepts, History, Larry Elder, Middle-East, Military, National Security	Tagged BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome), CIA, Donald Rumsfeld, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Library Tower, Osama bin Laden, Torture, U.S. Bank Tower, Waterboarding, WWII
Churchill: The Man Who Saved the Free World
Published February 27, 2018 February 27, 2018 by Papa Giorgio
(See more at POWERLINE) The West is free today thanks in large part to one man – Winston Churchill. Historian and bestselling author Andrew Roberts explains how Churchill saved the world from Nazi Germany.
Posted in History, Military, Pundits & Personalities, Tribute	Tagged Andrew Roberts, Prager U, United Kingdom, US History, Winston Churchill, WWI, WWII
Is Fascism Right Or Left?
Published December 4, 2017 December 6, 2017 by Papa Giorgio
Here is an extended quote from Dinesh D'Souza's book, THE BIG LIE, detailing the easy switch from socialist leaders and unions to fascist — overnight:
…on March 23, 1919, one of the most famous socialists in Italy founded a new party, the Fasci di Combattimento, a term that means "fascist combat squad." This was the first official fascist party and thus its founding represents the true birth of fascism. By the same token, this man was the first fascist. The term "fascism" can be traced back to 1914, when he founded the Fasci Rivoluzionari d'Azione Internazionalista, a political movement whose members called themselves fascisti or fascists.
In 1914, this founding father of fascism was, together with Vladimir Lenin of Russia, Rosa Luxemburg of Germany, and Antonio Gramsci of Italy, one of the best known Marxists in the world. His fellow Marxists and socialists recognized him as a great leader of socialism. His decision to become a fascist was controversial, yet he received congratulations from Lenin who continued to regard him as a faithful revolutionary socialist. And this is how he saw himself.
That same year, because of his support for Italian involvement in World War I, he would be expelled from the Italian Socialist Party for "heresy," but this does not mean he ceased to be a socialist. It was common practice for socialist parties to expel dissenting fellow socialists for breaking on some fine point with the party line. This party reject insisted that he had been kicked out for making "a revision of socialism from the revolutionary point of view." For the rest of his life—right until his lifeless body was displayed in a town square in Milan—he upheld the central tenets of socialism which he saw as best reflected in fascism.
Who, then, was this man? He was the future leader of fascist Italy, the one whom Italians called Il Duce, Benito Mussolini.
Mussolini's socialist credentials were impeccable. He had been raised in a socialist family and made a public declaration in 1901, at the age of eighteen, of his convictions. By twenty-one, he was an orthodox Marxist familiar not only with the writings of Marx and Engels but also of many of the most influential German, Italian, and French Marxists of the fin de siecle period. Like other orthodox Marxists, Mussolini rejected religious faith and authored anti-Catholic pamphlets repudiating his native Catholicism.
Mussolini embarked on an active career as a writer, editor, and political organizer. Exiled to Switzerland between 1902 and 1904, he collaborated with the Italian Socialist Party weekly issued there and also wrote for Il Proletario, a socialist weekly published in New York. In 1909 Mussolini made another foreign sojourn to Trento—then part of Austria-Hungary—where he worked for the socialist party and edited its newspaper. Returning the next year to his hometown of Forli, he edited the weekly socialist publication La Lotta di Classe (The Class War). He wrote so widely on Marxism, socialist theory, and contemporary politics that his output now fills seven volumes.
Mussolini wasn't just an intellectual; he organized workers' strikes on behalf of the socialist movement both inside and outside of Italy and was twice jailed for his activism. In 1912, Mussolini was recognized as a socialist leader at the Socialist Congress at Reggio Emilia and was appointed to the Italian Socialist Party's board of directors. That same year, at the age of twenty-nine, he became editor of Avanti!, the official publication of the party.
From the point of view of the progressive narrative—a narrative I began to challenge in the previous chapter—Mussolini's shift from Marxian socialism to fascism must come as a huge surprise. In the progressive paradigm, Marxian socialism is the left end of the spectrum and fascism is the right end of the spectrum. Progressive incredulity becomes even greater when we see that Mussolini wasn't just any socialist; he was the recognized head of the socialist movement in Italy. Moreover, he didn't just climb aboard the fascist bandwagon; he created it.
Today we think of fascism's most famous representative as Adolf Hitler. Yet as I mentioned earlier, Hitler didn't consider himself a fascist. Rather, he saw himself as a National Socialist. The two ideologies are related in that they are both based on collectivism and centralized state power. They emerge, one might say, from a common point of origin. Yet they are also distinct; fascism, for instance, had no intrinsic connection with anti-Semitism in the way that National Socialism did.
In any event, Hitler was an obscure local organizer in Germany when Mussolini came to power and, following his famous March on Rome, established the world's first fascist regime in Italy in 1922. Hitler greatly admired Mussolini and aspired to become like him. Mussolini, Hitler said, was "the leading statesman in the world, to whom none may even remotely compare himself." Hitler modeled his failed Munich Putsch in November 1923 on Mussolini's successful March on Rome.
When Hitler first came to power he kept a bust of Mussolini in his office and one German observer termed him "Germany's Mussolini." Yet later, when the two men first met, Mussolini was not very impressed by Hitler. Mussolini became more respectful after 1939 when Hitler conquered Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Norway, and France. Hitler continued to uphold Mussolini as "that unparalleled statesman" and "one of the Caesars" and confessed that without Italian fascism there would not have been a German National Socialism: "The brown shirt would probably not have existed without the black shirt."
Hitler was, like Mussolini, a man of the Left. Hitler too was a socialist and a labor leader who founded the German Socialist Workers' Party with a platform very similar to that of Mussolini's fascist party. Yet Hitler came to power in the 1930s while Mussolini ruled through most of the 1920s. Mussolini was, during those years, much more famous than Hitler. He was recognized as the founding father of fascism. So any account of the origin of fascism must focus not on Hitler but on Mussolini. Mussolini is the original and prototypical fascist.
From Socialism to Fascism
So how—to return to the progressive paradigm—do progressives account for Mussolini's conversion from socialism to fascism, or more precisely for Mussolini's simultaneous embrace of both? The problem is further deepened by the fact that Mussolini was not alone. Hundreds of leading socialists, initially in Italy but subsequently in Germany, France, and other countries, also became fascists. In fact, I will go further to say that all the leading figures in the founding of fascism were men of the Left. "The first fascists," Anthony James Gregor tells us, "were almost all Marxists."
I will cite a few examples. Jean Allemane, famous for his role in the Dreyfus case, one of the great figures of French socialism, became a fascist later in life. So did the socialist Georges Valois. Marcel Deat, the founder of the Parti Socialiste de France, eventually quit and started a pro-fascist party in 1936. Later, he became a Nazi collaborator during the Vichy regimeVacques Doriot a French communist, moved his Parti Populaire Francais into the fascist camp.
The Belgian socialist theoretician Henri de Man transitioned to becoming a fascist theoretician. In England. Oswald Mosley, a socialist and Labor Party Member of Parliament, eventually broke with the Labor Party because he found it insufficiently radical. He later founded the British Union of Fascists and became the country's leading Nazi sympathizer. In Germany, the socialist playwright Gerhart Hauptmann embraced Hitler and produced plays during the Third Reich. After the war, he became a communist and staged his productions in Soviet-dominated East Berlin
In Italy, philosopher Giovanni Gentile moved from Marxism to fascism, as did a host of Italian labor organizers: Ottavio Dinale, Tullio Masotti, Carlo Silvestri, and Umberto Pasella. The socialist writer Agostino Lanzillo joined Mussolini's parliament as a member of the fascist party Nicola Bombacci, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party, became Mussolini's top adviser in Salo. Gentile's disciple Ugo Spirito, who also served Mussolini at Salo, moved from Marxism to fascism and then back to Marxism. Like Hauptmann, Spirito became a communist sympathizer after World War II and called for a new "synthesis" between communism and fascism.
Others who made the same journey from socialism to fascism will be named in this chapter, and one thing that will become very clear is that these are not "conversion" stories. These men didn't "switch" from socialism to fascism. Rather, they became fascists in the same way that Russian socialists became Leninist Bolsheviks. Like their Russian counterparts, these socialists believed themselves to be growing into fascism, maturing into fascism, because they saw fascism as the most well thought out, practical form of socialism for the new century.
Progressivism simply cannot account for the easy traffic from socialism to fascism. Consequently, progressives typically maintain complete silence about this whole historical relationship which is deeply embarrassing to them. In all the articles comparing Trump to Mussolini I searched in vain for references to Mussolini's erstwhile Marxism and lifelong attachment to socialism. Either from ignorance or from design, these references are missing.
Progressive biographical accounts that cannot avoid Mussolini's socialist past nevertheless turn around and accuse Mussolini—as the Socialist Party of Italy did in 1914—of "selling out" to fascism for money and power. Other accounts contend that whatever Mussolini's original convictions, the very fact that his fascists later battled the Marxists and traditional socialists clearly shows that Mussolini did not remain a socialist or a man of the Left.
But these explanations make no sense. When Mussolini "sold out" he became an outcast. He had neither money nor power. Nor did any of the first fascists embrace fascism for this reason. Rather, they became fascists because they saw fascism as the only way to rescue socialism and make it viable. In other words, their defection was within socialism—they sought to create a new type of socialism that would actually draw a mass following and produce the workers' revolution that Marx anticipated and hoped for.
Vicious fights among socialist and leftist factions are a recognized feature of the history of socialism. In Russia, for example, there were bloody confrontations between the rival Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. Later the Bolsheviks split into Leninists and Trotskyites, and Trotsky ended up dead on Lenin's orders. These were all men of the Left. What these bloody rivalries prove is that the worst splits and conflicts sometimes arise among people who are ideologically very similar and differ on relatively small—though not small to them—points of doctrine.
In this chapter I will trace the development of fascism by showing precisely how it grew out of a doctrinal division within the community of Marxian socialists. In short, I will prove that fascism is exclusively a product of the Left. This is not a case of leftists who moved right. On the contrary, the fascists were on the left end of the socialist movement. They saw themselves not as jettisoning Marxism but as saving it from obsolescence. From their perspective, Marxism and socialism were too inert and needed to be adjusted leftward. In other words, they viewed fascism as more revolutionary than traditional socialism.
Mussolini didn't believe in race and he wasn't initially a nationalist; rather, he was a revolutionary syndicalist. The term syndicalism refers to the associations or syndicates to which workers belonged. These were autonomous workers organizations that resembled unions, but they were not unions because the syndicates were organized regionally rather than by corporation or occupation. As dedicated Marxists, the revolutionary syndicalists agreed with Marx that class associations were primary, and that they must be the organizing principle of socialist revolution.
Very much in keeping with this class emphasis that was so central to Marx, the syndicalists, strongly influenced by Sorel, sought to rally the labor syndicates through a general strike that would overthrow the ruling class and establish socialism in Italy. This is what made them "revolutionary." They intended to foment revolution, not wait for it to happen. They were considered the smartest, most dedicated people in the Italian Socialist Party and they occupied the left wing of the party.
The big names in revolutionary syndicalism were Giuseppe Prezzolini, Angelo 0. Olivetti, Arturo Labriola, Filippo Corridoni, Paolo Orano, Michele Bianchi, and Sergio Panunzio. Most of them were writers or labor organizers. All of them were socialists, and shortly all of them would be camelascists, even though Labriola opposed Mussolini's regime when it came to power and Corridoni, who was killed in World War I, didn't live to see it.
Mussolini was their acknowledged leader. He knew them well and conspired with them at meetings and rallies. He read their books and articles and published in their magazines like the Avanguardia Socialista, founded by Laboriola, which was the leading journal of syndicalist thought. Mussolini also reviewed and published the leading syndicalists in his own socialist publications.
Like all revolutionary socialists, the syndicalists had little faith in democratic parliamentary procedures and, consistent with Sorel and Lenin, they sought a charismatic leader who would inspire the workers to action. Mussolini, more than anyone else, fit their prescription. Mussolini was the one who led the syndicalists into a union with the nationalists in order to form the new socialist hybrid called fascism in Italy and (with some modifications) National Socialism in Germany.
The syndicalists organized three general strikes in Italy in 1904, 1911, and 1913. Mussolini supported the strikes. The 1904 strike began in Milan and spread across the country. Five million workers walked off their jobs. The nation was paralyzed: there was no public transportation, and no one could buy anything. Even so, the strike ended without causing either the fall of the government or the installation of socialism.
Dinesh D'Souza, The Big Lie: Exposing the NAZI Roots of the American Left (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2017), 65-70, 82-83.
Posted in Big Government, Democratic Progressivism, History, Pundits & Personalities, Race/Racism, Statism/Communism/Socialism, Unions	Tagged Agostino Lanzillo, Angelo 0. Olivetti, Antonio Gramsci, Arturo Labriola, Benito Mussolini, Big-Unions, Bolshevik Revolution, Bolsheviks, Carlo Silvestri, Communism, Communist Party, Dinesh D'Souza, Fascism, Filippo Corridoni, Georges Valois, Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, Giovanni Gentile, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Henri de Man, Italy, Jean Allemane, Leninists, Marcel Deat, Mensheviks, Michele Bianchi, Mussolini, Nicola Bombacci, Oswald Mosley, Ottavio Dinale, Paolo Orano, Prager U, Reggio Emilia, Sergio Panunzio, Trotskyites, Tullio Masotti, Ugo Spirito, Umberto Pasella, Unions, Vladimir Lenin, WWI, WWII
Placing the "Moral Onus" Where It Belongs
Published September 1, 2017 by Papa Giorgio
A caller tells a story of a friend of his and how she had to kill her infant in order to keep herself and others hidden from the Nazis. This get Dennis Prager to poignantly explain where the onus lies for such things. Great addition to the quiver of clarity!
Posted in Dennis Prager, History, Philosophy/Ethics	Tagged Ethics, Murder, Ten Commandments, WWII
True Heroes of History vs. Faux Pop-Culture Heroes
Published August 11, 2017 August 11, 2017 by Papa Giorgio
In an age of pseudo political "science" and a waning of an understanding of true heroism in the face of evil — mainly due to a lessening of what evil "is." I previously wrote about this true hero that had her Nobel Prize swiped from her by the fraud known as Al Gore. Maybe he believes that "global warming" is the #1 issue facing humanity in order anesthetize his understanding that Irena Sendler is a TRUE hero of humanity — who fought real evil. Al Gore's predictions have failed to come to pass (in Old Testament times he very well may have been put to death), and the following graph shows how fleeting political and environmental heroes can be in the face of real one… like IRENA SENDLER, who should have won the Nobel Peace Prize that year instead of Gore.
JOE BASTARDI finishes off a post (after the above graph) by saying this:
….But there is more to me. Let me lay my cards on the table. Over the years I have become a big fan of Israel. I am not Jewish, but I find the history of the Jewish people remarkable, if not astonishing. What happened in World War II cannot be put into words. Here we have a case of someone with actions far beyond the fantasy of a forecast of tomorrow that took a back seat to … what? Now let me ask you this: If you were in the running for the Nobel Prize against Irena, would you even accept the award understanding that what you are doing involves an agenda that is relying on future events versus actual heroic accomplishments in one of mankind's darkest hours? Who would do that?
Even more distressing is the idea that you actually equate your cause with causes that have real value for the people who are involved in it. For instance, equating "climate change" with racial equality. That is a flat-out insult to that cause. Or labeling people who disagree with you as "deniers" or "Nazis," which shows total disrespect for people who can never forget what happened in one of man's darkest hours. Shame on you. Shame on you trying to equate your straw man argument with real problems that people bled and died for and the problems the world faces today. Shame on the people who think that the heroism of the past is less worthy than fantasy-driven utopian agendas in the future.
I am glad Al Gore has his new movie out. It reminded me of Irena Sendler, who he beat out for the Nobel Prize. Because it gave me a chance to write on someone whose story should be known and once again expose someone who has gotten rich off something that can't hold a candle to the bravery of people in the era that Irena Sendler exemplified.
Is this an example of the Left relying on old white, wealthy males to guide society rather than lauding women of history?
Posted in Common Sense, Global Warming/Climate Change, History	Tagged Al Gore, Germany, Global Warming, Hero, Irena Sendler, Nazism, Nobel Prize, WWII
Extended Sentences for Chilean Cult Members
Published January 3, 2017 January 3, 2017 by Papa Giorgio
"Dignity Colony" – was a German commune founded by German-born cult leader Paul Schaefer in 1961. The heavily guarded, 15,000-hectare colony was used as a secret detention and torture centre for political prisoners during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. At its height, about 300 people lived at Colonia Dignidad under draconian conditions, sealed off from the rest of the world and subject to abuse that included the systematic sexual molestation of children.
Schaefer, an ex-Nazi corporal who convinced 250 German followers to emigrate with him to Chile after authorities began investigating him, was sentenced to 33 years for child sexual abuse and other crimes and died in prison in 2010.
(SBS)
Posted in Crime, Cults, Race/Racism	Tagged Augusto Pinochet, Chili, Cults/Cult Watch, Germany, Paul Schaefer, Racist Cults, WWII
"We Have To Declare War On Hitler" ~ Irena Sendler
Facts about Irena which are not generally known. All of these are from primary sources
Much of the facts were compiled by "LIFE IN A JAR"
Posted in Christian Life & News, History, Uplifting Tales/"Miracles"	Tagged Adolf Hitler, Holocaust, Irena Sendler, WWII
Drunk Pilots? (Chem-Trail Debunking)
Published June 17, 2016 September 14, 2019 by Papa Giorgio
In a recent exchange, a believer in chemtrails posted the above photo and sarcastically asked if these pilots were drunk. Actually [I thought to myself] they looked like military maneuvers via fighter jets… so I got to looking. I eventually found out where this person got it from, Geoengineering Watch:
(BTW, just about every photo on that page does not support their premise!)
So I did about 45-minutes of looking and eventually found the source of the photo (thanks to a feature in BING). It is a Chinese media internet channel (see original post here, be sure to have google translate the page if you are still a skeptic). Bingo… military.
Then I found it on METABUNK:
"It's actually from a 2007 photo of contrails left during an exercise of the Chinese air force practicing high altitude dogfights between F-10 and SU-27 fighters"
Yep. Geoengineering Watch caught knowingly lying and misleading people again:
METABUNK is supposedly owned by the evil, nefarious government set to control us through ice-crystals.[/sarcasm]
THIS IS THE MAIN POINT (humor aside) to remember when someone is backed in a corner and they say this type of thing… say, "okay, let us assume you are right… how does that information of a government owned entity negate these counter points and seeing the phenomenon happening since the dawn of flight?"
In-other-words, if the government, or Sasquatch owned the website (which neither do) , that would not impact at all the point made.
The person who posted the original photo keeps telling me to look up in the sky and see for myself… take note I have pointed out this phenomenon has happened all the time, and that all the below picture ARE someone looking up! To wit, here are a couple other pics I thought were very interesting due to their historical connection to WWII. Here is the info on this first picture (via WIKI):
Fighter plane contrails mark the sky over Task Force 58, during the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" phase of the battle, 19 June 1944. Photographed from on board USS Birmingham (CL-62). (Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944)
Here is the second historical shot described (I found this one at The Atlantic):
The condensation trails from German and British fighter planes engaged in an aerial battle appear in the sky over Kent, along the southeastern coast of England, on September 3, 1940
This third one is a Life Magazine shot (many more Life Mag pics can be found here at Contrail Science):
1944 – Allied aircraft vapor trails in skies above (prob.) farmhouse in the Ardennes Forest during last days of the Battle of the Bulge, the final major German offensive of WWII.
God I love history!
Posted in Best of PapaG, Conspiracies, History	Tagged chemtrails, Conspiracies, Life Magazine, WWII
Michael Medved Critiques Obama's Hiroshima Speech
Published June 6, 2016 by Papa Giorgio
I wasn't gonna upload this, but this is an important [and fair] critique of Obama's "Hiroshima Speech" by Michael Medved.
I usually include phone calls because Medved almost always takes disagreeing calls. But the two that came in were not that coherent. So it will be his commentary and portions of the speech. Barry Soetoro didn't come out and apologize… like many (including myself) said he was going to. Instead, he morally equated the actions by the Allies (esp. America) to those of Japan. Still VERY disgraceful.
Posted in Foreign Policy, History, Michael Medved, Military	Tagged Enola Gay, Hiroshima, WWII
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Heat a non stick skillet over medium heat, and add the olive oil. Get three bowls or pie pans. In one pan, place the flour. In the next pan, place the egg and beat it. In the third pan, add the bread crumbs and Mexican Spice Blend, and stir together. Slice your goat cheese in circles, about 1/2 inch thick. First, dredge the goat cheese in the flour, then tap off any excess. Next, coat both sides of the goat cheese in the egg, and shake off any excess egg. Third, dredge through the seasoned breadcrumbs, and place into the heated skillet. Repeat with remaining goat cheese slices and cook on both sides until lightly browned, then serve on a bed of greens with sliced avocado, if desired and squeeze lemon juice over the top. Enjoy!


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DirecTV Now goes live in 36 hours, targeting a younger, mobile audience
November 28, 2016 by Jim KimbleLeave a Comment
DirecTV Now offers HBO & Cinemax as add-ons for $5 per month each
NEW YORK – DirecTV Now announced their new live streaming television service will begin in 36 hours while promising to meet the demands of a younger, more mobile generation that expects favorite shows and movies on the go.
"We've been working very, very hard to bring a TV Everywhere experience," said John Stankey, AT&T's CEO at a press conference in New York City on Monday. "Some things have changed. We have a new segment of market we want to address. This new platform allows us to do that."
That segment is an estimated 20 million people that do not subscribe to a traditional cable service – also referred to as "cord nevers."
Called "Live a Little", the entry-level subscription offers 60+ channels at $35 per month. The top tier subscription will offer 120+ channels for $70 month.
The service is expected to go live by Nov. 30.
Channel subscriptions for DirecTV Now
$35 – 60 + channels – Live a Little
$50 – 80 + channels – Just Right
$35 – 100+ channels – Go Big
$70 – 120+ channels — Gotta Have It
DirecTV Now will free AT&T customers from having to worry about data caps or overages while using the streaming service, according to Brad Bentley, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at AT&T.
"You don't have to worry about it. It's all part of doing business on AT&T," Bentley said, during the press conference, which broadcasted live on Periscope.
For weeks, the company has been promoting a 100+plus channel package for $35. Bentley said that is a promotional rate. But customers who stay with DirecTV Now will be "grandfathered" into that rate, he said.
Perhaps the biggest surprise announcement: HBO and Cinemax can be added to any channel subscription for $5 per month each.
The new service will require no annual contract, no cable box and allows customers to cancel anytime. Customers will also be allowed to move between subscription tiers on their own. Instead of getting a bill, customers will see a statement on their debit card or bank account.
Customers who prepay for one month will get a free Amazon Fire TV stick. Customers who pay three months in advance will get an Apple TV, company officials said.
The company also showed another over-the-top product called Fullscreen, which caters to teens and 20-somethings.
According to Melissa Repko, tech reporter for The Dallas Morning News, Cloud DVR will not be available with DirecTVNow when its released, but will come in 2017.
Filed Under: Cord CuttingTagged With: DirecTV Now, DirecTV Now details


The heads on our 2 Counterspy guys progressed in the same way as the rest of the body part. Using the vector outlines that Aspire generates, gives me the profile for the second layer.
All in all, smart model slicing, and the cnc milling past the glue seams creates a pretty nice model in the end!
It wasn't long in the end, before we started piling up body parts in the shop! I can tell you, it can be a bit overwhelming with all the pieces lying around, knowing you have to clean and assemble every single piece!
After the outside surfaces had been taped together, and the joints between all the left and right halves had been cleaned up, it was time to address the frame inside the spyguy!. I decided early on, that the track for the frame was probably easier to locate after the parts were made, instead off including them in the computer model. Once I had the tracks locations determined, I used a small hand router to mill out the pocket the framework would sit into.
The various angles were a bit tricky to cut from the 1" steel tubing, so it was a bit slower than I would have liked, but in the end, it always gets done!
When I said it was a whole day slicing Agent Chevalier, I should clarify. The actual slicing in STL Slicer was only a couple of hours.
You can orient the pieces in Aspire for further slicing, but as the parts export from STL Slicer in the orientation they were created, it can be a bit of guesswork. A little off here and there, could lead to disastrous results on the final model.
Then it was just a matter of bringing them all into Aspire for layer slicing and machining!
In order to keep the hand finishing to a minimum after cutting, I strategically sectioned off each angle change in the model for toolpathing. This would let the cutter travel in the optimum direction for the final finish toolpaths. Then I combined all the separate toolpaths into one cut large cut file.
In order to keep the material waste to a minimum, I cut the second layer of the pieces as blocks, then glued them where they were required. Using our Techno, I cut the blocks to there final profile shape, then ran the second layer 3d toolpaths on just those areas. This kept the waste to a minimum.
The process was repeated for every piece of spy guy that was thicker than the 2" HDU we were using.
It took a total of 10 hours to machine all the parts for 2 guys.
This also included running our LC3024 for any of the smaller parts that would fit on it.
Finally, the Counterspy game from Sony/ Playstation has released! Not that I'm a video gamer at all, it just means that the NDA on that build is over, and I can post about it!
Sounds kinda cool to me!
We were actually sent a hi-poly 3d model of the main character "Agent Chevalier"
I was totally pumped to build this! I have a love affair with the "low-polygon" style, so this was right up my alley. It was pretty sweet that they supplied the 3d model already in his final pose, saving us the workload of posing the character!
One of my other closet passions is finding the right software that can make our lives easier! I spend a great deal of time online, downloading software, running trial versions, blah, blah. All in attempts to find packages that will ultimately serve us for the better. One amazing little gem is "STL Slicer" This originally came as a plug-in for the Carvewright cnc software. But I feel single hand-idly responsible for contacting them, relentlessly, and getting them to release it as a standalone application. Which they did! WOO-HOO!
The beauty of this simple application, is that it lets you slice 3d STL files with a cut plane. Ultimately making a model like this better suited for 3d CNC machining. The best part of this package is the drag and drop model tree. Simply meaning, that if I slice a model incorrectly, I can drag the parts together, and they self-heal, like it was never cut at all!
The software is dead simple to use, and the interface isn't crowded with features most people would never use.
Another well thought out feature, is that the software will highlight in blue, any surface that becomes an undercut after the slice. This would be based off 90 degrees to the giant green cutplane. They also allow you to adjust this undercut display from 0 to 9 degrees. This is important when using tapered ball nose cutters. I used a straight ballnose cutter for machining, so I just left this setting at 0. I cant stress what a great feature this is, as it let's you decide if you might be better picking a new slice location. However, if you mess it up, you can just drag the pieces together in the model tree, and start over!
As great as the software is, it still doesn't do it for you! So this meant a full day of slicing for me. I fancy myself as being a pretty smart cat, but sometimes I would get myself backed into a proverbial corner. Ultimately having to re-think my slicing strategy, to allow the most efficient, and cleanly machined parts at the cnc end. We had to stay true to the geometry, and this means as little hand shaping as possible after the routing!
As Sony wanted to see a sample finish of just the head, it was the first part of the model sent to the guillotine! Both the sample and the final head were sliced the same way. I was able to get the head down to 3 pieces, the face, and two halves. This was the smallest amount of pieces, with next to no undercuts.
All said and done, there were 23 final pieces, ready for import into Aspire. We're making 2 of these guys, so it was actually 46 pieces to machine!
Jody and I got to enjoy the Canadian long weekend, which was a lot fun for us. It did make me a little late posting the tombstone final build though!
Once our scenic mud had dried (or almost) we spent a bit of time removing some of the texture. As great as I though it looked, it was a little too pitted to pass as a real limestone headstone!
I used Aspire and our Techno to V-carve the text portion onto the front side of the stone. This was done with a high spindle speed, and low feed rate. I didn't want the thin coating on the styrofoam to chip out. A little was okay, but too much would have been very bad for this! In the end, it came out as perfect as I was expecting.
We used 2 coats of the same color glaze to add a little depth to the otherwise flat finish.
The final step was to add 2 gentle passes of speckle paint to all the faces in a very dark grey.
It looked really good, and surprised the neighbor when I asked for help lifting it onto the table!
All in all, it was a fun 2.5 day build!
I'm already drawing up different versions for everyone on my 'list' MU-HA-HA!