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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Why Does America Lose Its Head Over 'Terror' But Ignore Its Daily Gun Deaths?
Why Does America Lose Its Head Over 'Terror' But Ignore Its Daily Gun Deaths?
22 April 13
The marathon bombs triggered a reaction that is at odds with last week's inertia over arms control.
he thriving metropolis of Boston was turned into a ghost town on Friday. Nearly a million Bostonians were asked to stay in their homes - and willingly complied. Schools were closed; business shuttered; trains, subways and roads were empty; usually busy streets eerily resembled a post-apocalyptic movie set; even baseball games and cultural events were cancelled - all in response to a 19-year-old fugitive, who was on foot and clearly identified by the news media.
The actions allegedly committed by the Boston marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, were heinous. Four people dead and more than 100 wounded, some with shredded and amputated limbs.
But Londoners, who endured IRA terror for years, might be forgiven for thinking that America over-reacted just a tad to the goings-on in Boston. They're right - and then some. What we saw was a collective freak-out like few that we've seen previously in the United States. It was yet another depressing reminder that more than 11 years after 9/11 Americans still allow themselves to be easily and willingly cowed by the "threat" of terrorism.
After all, it's not as if this is the first time that homicidal killers have been on the loose in a major American city. In 2002, Washington DC was terrorised by two roving snipers, who randomly shot and killed 10 people. In February, a disgruntled police officer, Christopher Dorner, murdered four people over several days in Los Angeles. In neither case was LA or DC put on lockdown mode, perhaps because neither of these sprees was branded with that magically evocative and seemingly terrifying word for Americans, terrorism.
To be sure, public officials in Boston appeared to be acting out of an abundance of caution. And it's appropriate for Boston residents to be asked to take precautions or keep their eyes open. But by letting one fugitive terrorist shut down a major American city, Boston not only bowed to outsize and irrational fears, but sent a dangerous message to every would-be terrorist - if you want to wreak havoc in the United States, intimidate its population and disrupt public order, here's your instruction booklet.
Putting aside the economic and psychological cost, the lockdown also prevented an early capture of the alleged bomber, who was discovered after Bostonians were given the all clear and a Watertown man wandered into his backyard for a cigarette and found a bleeding terrorist on his boat.
In some regards, there is a positive spin on this - it's a reflection of how little Americans have to worry about terrorism. A population such as London during the IRA bombings or Israel during the second intifada or Baghdad, pretty much every day, becomes inured to random political violence. Americans who have such little experience of terrorism, relatively speaking, are more primed to overreact - and assume the absolute worst when it comes to the threat of a terror attack. It is as if somehow in the American imagination, every terrorist is a not just a mortal threat, but is a deadly combination of Jason Bourne and James Bond.
If only Americans reacted the same way to the actual threats that exist in their country. There's something quite fitting and ironic about the fact that the Boston freak-out happened in the same week the Senate blocked consideration of a gun control bill that would have strengthened background checks for potential buyers. Even though this reform is supported by more than 90% of Americans, and even though 56 out of 100 senators voted in favour of it, the Republican minority prevented even a vote from being held on the bill because it would have allegedly violated the second amendment rights of "law-abiding Americans".
So for those of you keeping score at home - locking down an American city: a proper reaction to the threat from one terrorist. A background check to prevent criminals or those with mental illness from purchasing guns: a dastardly attack on civil liberties. All of this would be almost darkly comic if not for the fact that more Americans will die needlessly as a result. Already, more than 30,000 Americans die in gun violence every year (compared to the 17 who died last year in terrorist attacks).
What makes US gun violence so particularly horrifying is how routine and mundane it has become. After the massacre of 20 kindergartners in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, millions of Americans began to take greater notice of the threat from gun violence. Yet since then, the daily carnage that guns produce has continued unabated and often unnoticed.
The same day of the marathon bombing in Boston, 11 Americans were murdered by guns. The pregnant Breshauna Jackson was killed in Dallas, allegedly by her boyfriend. In Richmond, California, James Tucker III was shot and killed while riding his bicycle - assailants unknown. Nigel Hardy, a 13-year-old boy in Palmdale, California, who was being bullied in school, took his own life. He used the gun that his father kept at home. And in Brooklyn, New York, an off-duty police officer used her department-issued Glock 9mm handgun to kill herself, her boyfriend and her one-year old child.
At the same time that investigators were in the midst of a high-profile manhunt for the marathon bombers that ended on Friday evening, 38 more Americans - with little fanfare - died from gun violence. One was a 22-year old resident of Boston. They are a tiny percentage of the 3,531 Americans killed by guns in the past four months - a total that surpasses the number of Americans who died on 9/11 and is one fewer than the number of US soldiers who lost their lives in combat operations in Iraq. Yet, none of this daily violence was considered urgent enough to motivate Congress to impose a mild, commonsense restriction on gun purchasers.
It's not just firearms that produce such legislative inaction. Last week, a fertiliser plant in West, Texas, which hasn't been inspected by federal regulators since 1985, exploded, killing 14 people and injuring countless others. Yet many Republicans want to cut further the funding for the agency (OSHA) that is responsible for such reviews. The vast majority of Americans die from one of four ailments - cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease - and yet Republicans have held three dozen votes to repeal Obamacare, which expands healthcare coverage to 30 million Americans.
It is a surreal and difficult-to-explain dynamic. Americans seemingly place an inordinate fear on violence that is random and unexplainable and can be blamed on "others" - jihadists, terrorists, evil-doers etc. But the lurking dangers all around us - the guns, our unhealthy diets, the workplaces that kill 14 Americans every single day - these are just accepted as part of life, the price of freedom, if you will. And so the violence goes, with more Americans dying preventable deaths. But hey, look on the bright side - we got those sons of bitches who blew up the marathon.
KEVIN ANNETT: Canadian Whistleblower and Author to speak in Europe, May 4 - June 5
April 23, 2013
Canadian Whistleblower and Author to speak in Europe, May 4 - June 5
Almost
single-handedly, former Canadian clergyman Kevin Annett has for over
twenty years documented and exposed the deliberate mass murder of
aboriginal children in Canada's Indian residential school system, and
brought to trial those responsible.
And yet Kevin is a maligned and persecuted figure in his own
country. His research and work is censored in Canada's mainstream media,
and he is banned from lecturing on the University of British Columbia
campus where he grew up and earned three academic degrees.
None of this has daunted Kevin Annett, who was nominated this year for the Nobel Peace Prize by a group of American scholars.
In 2008, Kevin was instrumental in forcing an official apology from the Canadian government for its crimes in the Indian residential schools.
Appointed in 2011 as the Field Secretary for the Brussels-based
International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State, Kevin has now
taken his campaign for justice outside of Canada into global courtrooms
and human rights forums.
Kevin is in Europe during May and June as part of his latest speaking
tour connected to a Common Law Court action that recently found the
Pope, the Queen of England and Canadian political and church leaders
guilty of Crimes against Humanity.
Kevin will speak at public events and protests in the Netherlands, Paris, Rome, Dublin and other cities in alliance with survivors of church crimes.
Kevin is the author of many books on the subject of Genocide, the crimes of religion, and child abuse and trafficking, and he is an award winning documentary film producer.
Kevin is also an adopted member of the Squamish and Ojibway indigenous nations and was granted the Ojibway name Eagle Strong Voice by tribal elders to honor him and his work.
For more information, contact Kevin through this email and at http://www.
Sponsored by The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) - Central Office.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
JAPANESE Eyewitness: Authorities Announced “Drill” Before Boston Explosions
目撃：当局者は、ボストンの爆発のまえに、”演習”だと宣言していた ２０１３年４月１５日
http://www.prisonplanet.com/eyewitness-authorities-announced-drill-before-boston-explosions.html
Eyewitness: Authorities Announced “Drill” Before Boston Explosions
ＵＭコーチが言うには、”爆弾探知犬がまさに実働直前で、列を作っていたのは奇妙だった。”
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
April 15, 2013
ボストンマラソンでの今日の爆発の目撃者は、今日、爆発が起きる前に、”演習だ！”と繰り返し宣告され、爆弾探知犬が爆発の前に配置についていたのは、奇妙に思えた、と言った。
モバイル大学のクロスカントリーコーチである、アリ・スチーブンソンは、現地の１５のニュース局に対して、”彼らはラウドスピーカーで、単なる演習であり、心配の必要は無い。”と放送し続けていた。”まるで、脅威があるような言い方だったが、彼らは単に演習だといい続けていた。”と言った。
ニュース局も、スチーブンソンが”爆弾探知犬が動く構えをして、列を作っていたのは、奇妙だった”、と語ったとの報道をしている。
スチーブンソンは、爆発音を聞いた時は、現場から離れてマラソンのゴールを終えたときだった、と言っている。
もしもこの報道が正確なら、二人の人を殺し、少なくとも２３人の人を負傷させた爆発についてあらかじめある程度知っていた者がいた可能性があることを示している。
（訳者注：別のユーチューブには、事件の二日前に、事件の犠牲者を悼むフェースブック記事が見られる、という動画が示されている。
Interpretor's note: the YouTube below shows the incident notice two days before on facebook.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4l9yK6vtCU&feature=player_embedded）
爆発に先立って"演習”だという放送があったということは、別の恐ろしい事件である、７／７ロンドン爆弾事件を彷彿とさせる。
ニューヨークタイムズが最近、最近のほとんどの米国国内恐怖事件は、Ｆ．Ｂ．Ｉが作り出したものだという記事を書いているが、今日のボストンでの爆発もこの作戦の一部だった可能性がある。
メディアとオバマ政権がこの事件について誰を責任者に祭り上げるかは見ものである。しかし、ラーム・エマニュエルの”重大危機を無駄にするな”と言う忠告がまさに現実のものになっている。
Monday, April 15, 2013
Audiência do Cidadão sobre a Divulgação -- 29 de Abril de 2013
Audiência
do Cidadão sobre a Divulgação
Citizen Hearing on Disclosure - Abril 29 - Maio 3
National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
CHD Update - Abril 14, 2013
A
Audiência será difundida em Inglês, Espanhol, Japonês, Arabe e será arquivada
em Mandarim.
Os lugares estarão disponíveis consoante a
ordem da chegada. As entradas não são pagas. A sala será esvaziada pra a sessão
da tarde e para uma nova audiência.
A Comissão
de Audição do Cidadão está completa e o grupo final de testemunhas está a ser reunido.
Esta comissão inclui: o Senador Mike Gravel (2 mandatos), as Congressistas Lynn
Woolsey (10 mandatos), Carolyn Kilpatrick (7 termos), e Darlene Hooley (6
termos), e os Congressistas Roscoe Bartlett (10 mandatos) e Merrill Cook (dois
mandatos)
Colectivamente
esta Comissão representa 76 anos de serviço aos constituintes e à nação. A Comissão de serviços relevantes do Congresso inclui:
- Comissão da Ciência Espacial e
Tecnologia (3)
- Comissão
da Ciência Espacial e Tecnologia (Subcomissão da energia e do
Ambiente ) (2)
- Comissão da Ciência Espacial e
Tecnologia (Subcomissão da Pesquisa e Ciência da Educação)
- Comissão das Forças Armadas.
- Comissão das Forças Armadas.(Subcomissão
da Táctica Aérea e Terrestre)
- Comissão
das Forças Armadas. (Subcomissão das Forças Marítimas e de
Projecção)
- Comissão das Apropriações (Subcomissão
da Defesa)
- Comissão
do Ambiente e das Obras Públicas( Sucomissão da Poluição Ambiental)
A
associação de testemunhas que irão testemunhar perante esta comissão, sobre
vários tópicos, inclui:
[Nota: o cronograma do painel será publicado
em breve.]
Stephen Bassett
Sgt. John Burroughs (USAF, reformado)
John Callahan (FAA, reformado)
Grant Cameron (Canada)
Anthony Chionetti (Argentina)
Dr. Anthony Choy (Peru)
Peter Davenport
Richard Dolan
Maj. George A. Filer, III (USAF, reformado)
Lt. Co. Richard French (USAF, reformado)
Stanton Friedman (Canada)
A. J. Gevaerd (Brazil)
Dr. Steven Greer
Paul Hellyer (Canada)
Gary Heseltine (United Kingdom)
Linda Moulton Howe
Antonio
Huneeus
Dr.
Rodger Leir
Dr.
Jesse Marcel, Jr. (Col. ANG,
reformado)
Denice Marcel
Jesse Antoine Marcel, III
Dr. Edgar Mitchell (USAF/NASA, ret.) (by Skype)
Sgt. James W. Penniston (USAF, reformado)
Roberto Pinotti (Italy)
Nick Pope (United Kingdom)
Dr. Kevin Randle (LTC USAR, reformado.)
Capt. Robert Salas (USAF, reformado)
Col.
Ariel Sanchez (Uruguay)
Col.
Oscar Santa Maria (PAF, reformado), (Peru)
Donald Schmitt
Daniel Sheehan, JD
Dr. Sun Shi-Li (People's Republic of China)
Geoffrey Torres for Dr. Milton Torres (Maj. USAF,
reformado)
Dr. Thomas Valone
Dr. Robert Wood
Nota:
o documentário, Sirius, cuja estreia sera em Los Angeles a 22 de Abril
22, terá a sua estreia em Washington, DC
a 29 de Abril 29, às 8 p.m. no National Press Club após o primeiro dia depois
da Audienvia do Cidadão sobre a Divulgação.
________________________________________
Paradigm Research Group
4938 Hampden Lane, #161, Bethesda, MD 20814
PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org 202-215-8344
CHD Update - April 14, 2013
Citizen Hearing on Disclosure - April 29 - May 3
National Press Club
529 14th Street, NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
CHD Update - April 14, 2013
Website: www.citizenhearing.org
Media Coverage: www.citizenhearing.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Citizen_
The Hearing will be webcast in English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic and will be archived in Mandarin. Webcast is accessed here.
Audience seating is first come, first seated. There is no admission charge. The room will be cleared for the afternoon session and a new audience.
The Citizen Hearing Committee is complete and the final group of witnesses is being assembled. The committee includes: Senator Mike Gravel (2 terms), Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey (10 terms), Carolyn Kilpatrick (7 terms), and Darlene Hooley (6 terms), and Congressmen Roscoe Bartlett (10 terms) and Merrill Cook (2 terms).
Collectively this Committee represents 76 years of service to constituents and the nation. Relevant Congressional committee service includes:
- House Committee on Science, Space & Technology (3)
- House Committee on Science, Space & Technology (Energy & the Environment Subcommittee) (2)
- House Committee on Science, Space and Technology (Research & Science Education Subcommittee)
- House Committee on Armed Services
- House Committee on Armed Services (Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee)
- House Committee on Armed Services (Sea Power and Projection Forces Subcommittee)
- House Committee on Appropriations (Defense Subcommittee)
- House Committee on Environment and Public Works (Environmental Pollution Subcommittee)
The pool of witnesses who will testify before this committee in sets of panels on various topics presently includes:
[Note: the panel schedule will be posted soon.]
Stephen Bassett
Sgt. John Burroughs (USAF, ret)
John Callahan (FAA, ret)
Grant Cameron (Canada)
Anthony Chionetti (Argentina)
Dr. Anthony Choy (Peru)
Peter Davenport
Richard Dolan
Maj. George A. Filer, III (USAF, ret)
Lt. Co. Richard French (USAF, ret)
Stanton Friedman (Canada)
A. J. Gevaerd (Brazil)
Dr. Steven Greer
Paul Hellyer (Canada)
Gary Heseltine (United Kingdom)
Linda Moulton Howe
Antonio Huneeus
Dr. Rodger Leir
Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr. (Col. ANG, ret.)
Denice Marcel
Jesse Antoine Marcel, III
Dr. Edgar Mitchell (USAF/NASA, ret.) (by Skype)
Sgt. James W. Penniston (USAF, ret)
Roberto Pinotti (Italy)
Nick Pope (United Kingdom)
Dr. Kevin Randle (LTC USAR, ret.)
Capt. Robert Salas (USAF, ret)
Col. Ariel Sanchez (Uruguay)
Col. Oscar Santa Maria (PAF, ret.), (Peru)
Donald Schmitt
Daniel Sheehan, JD
Dr. Sun Shi-Li (People's Republic of China)
Geoffrey Torres for Dr. Milton Torres (Maj. USAF, ret.)
Dr. Thomas Valone
Dr. Robert Wood
Note: the documentary, Sirius, which will premiere in Los Angeles on April 22, will have its Washington, DC premiere on April 29, at 8 p.m. at the National Press Club after the first day of the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. The audience will be first come, first seated. There is no admission charge.
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Paradigm Research Group
4938 Hampden Lane, #161, Bethesda, MD 20814
PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org 202-215-8344
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Dr. King's 'Two Americas' Truer Now Than Ever
Martin Luther King Jr. (photo: Life Magazine)
Dr. King's 'Two Americas' Truer Now Than Ever
13 April 13
ou may think you know about Martin Luther King, Jr., but there is much about the man and his message we have conveniently forgotten. He was a prophet, like Amos, Isaiah and Jeremiah of old, calling kings and plutocrats to account - speaking truth to power.
King was only 39 when he was murdered in Memphis 45 years ago, on April 4th, 1968. The 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery were behind him. So was the successful passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. In the last year of his life, as he moved toward Memphis and his death, he announced what he called the Poor People's Campaign, a "multi-racial army" that would come to Washington, build an encampment and demand from Congress an "Economic Bill of Rights" for all Americans - black, white, or brown. He had long known that the fight for racial equality could not be separated from the need for economic equity - fairness for all, including working people and the poor.
Martin Luther King, Jr., had more than a dream - he envisioned what America could be, if only it lived up to its promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for each and every citizen. That's what we have conveniently forgotten as the years have passed and his reality has slowly been shrouded in the marble monuments of sainthood.
But read part of the speech Dr. King made at Stanford University in 1967, a year before his assassination and marvel at how relevant his words remain:
"There are literally two Americas. One America is beautiful for situation. And in a sense this America is overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of opportunity. This America is the habitat of millions of people who have food and material necessities for their bodies, and culture and education for their minds; and freedom and dignity for their spirits..."...Tragically and unfortunately, there is another America. This other America has a daily ugliness about it that constantly transforms the buoyancy of hope into the fatigue of despair. In this America millions of work-starved men walk the streets daily in search for jobs that do not exist. In this America millions of people find themselves living in rat-infected vermin-filled slums. In this America people are poor by the millions. They find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."
Breathtakingly prescient words as we look around us at a society where the chasm between the super-rich and poor is wider and deeper than ever. According to a Department of Housing and Urban Development press release, "On a single night last January, 633,782 people were homeless in the United States." The Institute for Policy Studies' online weekly "Too Much" notes that single-room-occupancy shelter rates run about $558 per month and quotes analyst Paul Buchheit, who says that at that rate, "Any one of America's ten richest collected enough in 2012 income to pay an entire year's rent for all of America's homeless."
But why rent when you can buy? "Too Much" also reports that the widow of recently deceased financier Martin Zweig "amid a Manhattan luxury boom" has placed their apartment at the top of the posh Pierre Hotel on the market for $125 million: "A sale at that price would set a new New York record for a luxury personal residence, more than $30 million over the current real estate high marks."
Meanwhile, a new briefing paperfrom the advocacy group National Employment Law Project (NELP) finds there are 27 million unemployed or underemployed workers in the U.S. labor force, including "not only the unemployed counted by official jobs reports, but also the eight million part-time workers who would rather be working full-time and the 6.8 million discouraged workers who want to work but who have stopped looking altogether." Five years after the financial meltdown, "the average duration of unemployment remains at least twice that of any other recession since the 1950s."
And if you think austerity's a good idea, NELP estimates that, "Taken together, the 'sequester' and other budget-cutting policies will likely slow GDP this year by 2.1 percentage points, costing the U.S. economy over 2.4 million jobs."
Walmart's one of those companies laying people off, but according to the website Business Insider, the mega-chain's CEO Michael Duke gets paid 1,034 times more than his average worker. Matter of fact, "In the past 30 years, compensation for chief executives in America has increased 127 times faster than the average worker's salary."
Two Americas indeed.
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Former Members of Congress will Investigate Extraterrestrial Phenomena
April 8, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Former Members of Congress will Investigate Extraterrestrial Phenomena
As the Mars Rover steps forward seeking proof of existence of extraterrestrial life on Mars, former members of Congress step forward to participate in a Citizen Hearing on Disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence right here on and around the Earth.
Congresswomen Darlene Hooley and Lynn Woolsey will join Senator Mike Gravel, Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick and Congressman Merrill Cook to listen and question 40 researchers, activists and military/agency/political witnesses addressing proof of an extraterrestrial presence in our world now.
The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC from April 29 to May 3, 2013, will operate using the same protocols as Congressional hearings and will include 30 hours of testimony with Q&A.
Has an extraterrestrial presence been engaging the human race since the mid-20th Century, if not throughout human history? The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure will attempt to accomplish what Congress has failed to do for forty-five years - reveal the facts surrounding the most important issue of this or any other time.
"The motto for this unprecedented event is, 'If the Congress will not do its job, the people will,'" stated Paradigm Research Group founder and Citizen Hearing executive producer Stephen Bassett adding, "That is why researchers and witnesses from around the globe are coming together to participate in an event which will also be the basis for the upcoming documentary film Truth Embargo."
"It is now time to put away this embargo of truth about the alien presence." claims Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and International Spokesperson for the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure.
Full information can be found at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure website: www.citizenhearing.org
Requests for interviews with witnesses, Committee Members, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, or Stephen Bassett should be directed to:
CHD Media Contact Janet Donovan:
(202) 904-1035
creative.enterprises.int@gmail.com
The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure is a project of Paradigm Research Group.
Contact:
Stephen Bassett
PRG@paradigmresearchgroup.org
202-215-8344
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