tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50074651955078892722024-02-19T00:12:58.836-08:00USA Dot ComUSA Dot Com is a blog covering politics and government from a conservative Christian perspective. Verne Strickland is a 50-year veteran of investigative journalism. This blog offers a take-no-prisoners style with a modicum of biting satire. Verne and his wife of 55 years, Durrene, live in Wilmington, NC.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918992486936677186noreply@blogger.comBlogger1458125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007465195507889272.post-51754345306428604392016-06-29T13:43:00.001-07:002016-07-15T10:40:24.317-07:00JESSE HELMS GIVES CAREER BOOST TO A YOUNG ADMIRER<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Tell you a little story. Back in the mid-60's my wife Durrene and I lived in Raleigh, where we welcomed Byron, our first son of three. I worked for the N.C. Farm Bureau, which interested me as much for its conservative philosophy as for its agricultural strengths. We both faithfully watched Jesse Helms and his editorials on WRAL-TV5. I began to note on PBS programming a penchant for showing elaborate Nazi propaganda, and I called Jesse at home to talk about it, suggesting that all the Third Reich stuff absorbed TV time that should be shared by a more current problem -- Communism. Since Jesse's influence extended into all the broadcast sphere, I asked if he would help cut down on the Nazi stuff and boost emphasis on the USSR lies and propaganda. Know what? He said, "I understand. I'll give this some thought." Although I can't claim that my call really influenced him, he was impressed, and soon afterward interviewed me for a position as his assistant. I was thrilled, and worked closely with my hero for the next sixteen years, during which time my distrust of the Communists grew exponentially. I was reminded of this today as I watched an AHC broadcast of the Nazi regime's expansion. My fuse had been lit, and I have expended much energy since then writing and producing programming designed to tone down the U.S. fascination for things Nazi, and elevating investment in programming to expose the threat of Communism. One of the most important results was a 2.5 hour program I was assigned to produce -- broadcast on Ted Turner's TBS network. It drew a nationwide audience, not only carrying our anti-Communist message, but also raising campaign funds for Helms' re-election. It was a success, and to this day I am proud of our work. The eventual result is that I was asked to play a key role in Jesse's successful 1982 re-election campaign for the U.S. Senate. Today, I am still interested in toning down the PBS emphasis on the Nazi years and moving toward programming about the current threat of Communism. We have had some impact, but not enough. It's an enduring goal for us, though I am now 79 and long since retired. I may be used but I'm not used up. I'll keep you posted.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918992486936677186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007465195507889272.post-69562981661792101722016-06-26T05:56:00.002-07:002016-06-26T05:56:59.252-07:00<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;"><a class=" UFICommentActorName" data-ft="{"tn":";"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=100003930924109&extragetparams=%7B%22is_public%22%3Afalse%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi_admin%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/mike.mcfall.716?fref=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mike McFall</a></span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;"> U.N. continues to show its shady socialist side.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">Verne I am glad as always to see you continue to carry the torch of Liberty and Freedom. As I am sure you know the Famed Alamo here in Texas is under UNESCO control. I can't help but notice that many of our National parks were created after the complete survey of the United States and territories by the USGS which began in the early 1800s. If one were to look at the surveys on-line one would be not so surprised that many of these parks hold vast wealth and reserves of mineral deposits. During the Oregon fiasco of the BLM vs. Hammond ranchers I began researching the history of the situation in the area. I soon found out that the BLM was making its move against the legal landowners in the 1990s. And possibly sooner. Due to BLM activities creeks and wayerways were blocked or diverted to cause flooding of ranchs as well as to dry up water holes for their cattle. This caused many ranchers to go broke and walk away. The Hammond ranch was one of the few to stand between the BLM and their hijacking of the land. I asked myself WHY would the Govt. spend so much time and resources on desert land ? Only one thought came to mind. Wealth. No one would invest so much time, money and resources without getting a large return on their investment.<br />That left the obvious. As it is all high desert region the only place that wealth could exist is in the ground. I began searching mineral deposits in the area and discovered ther was a small gold mine that prospectors and ranchers would occasionally work. Thru all im searching I stumbled upon one single site that mentioned a USGS Survey #1740-B of that area that was done over one hundred years before. At the top of the survey was yellow cake Uranium. It then listed gold,silver, tungsten, oil, coal and several exotics as well.<br />As the "action" began heating up I sent word of this information to all the major and many minor media offices. It fell on deaf ears. Many of my friends aided me in posting on FB as well as e mailing newspapers , radio stations and Television. It soon became clear whos side the media was on. A few bloggers picked up on it and they began running the story but the were all considered Conspiracy theorists to begin with by the mainstream. My friends and I could only predict future actions including the moves the Feds would take as well as subsequent death (s) as some media was there for the "glory"reporting and everything was out in the open. The ONLY surprise we got was the Clintons making hundreds of Millions of dollars selling leases to the Russian firm Uranium One. That history later surfaced.<br />So now we have Oslimers "buddies" the UN taking possession of vast mineral wealth that belongs to We The People and obviously is either payment for future service or goes straight to the Bilderberg group . I vote the NWO Elite is draining it thru the UN. ACCESS to all these "National" parks will be cut off from all public use to try to hide the massive mining efforts and subsequent total destruction of once pristine nature reserves. The only way to see it will be by air and I predict we will see No fly zones gradually implemented over these areas. Sorry I waxed on so long but a little background can give the overall picture a different look.<br />I enjoy your posts.<br />Never give up<br />Never surrender</span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918992486936677186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007465195507889272.post-53421372626756091822016-06-25T22:54:00.001-07:002016-06-25T22:54:36.400-07:00<table border="0" style="width: 550px;"><tbody>
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<tr><td>Across this great land, our national parks, wildlands, forests, and lakes are being turned over to UN control. Joseph Urso, Jr., a friend of the ministry who hails from Knoxville, Tennessee, recently sent me a photograph of the entrance sign of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Notice the telling phrase on the sign: "AN INTERNATIONAL BIOSPHERE RESERVE."<br />
This means that, under the United Nations Biodiversity Treaty, a precious resource—owned by American citizens for over 200 years—has been turned over to the UN's bureaucrats for control. Yes, you and I will continue to pay taxes for the maintenance and upkeep of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But we no longer own it. Now, the UN has ultimate jurisdiction. This alone is startling evidence that the once independent nation-state known as the United States of America is going out with a whimper and not a bang. Our sovereignty is coming to an end.<br />
As a consequence, across the U.S.A., our parks and wilderness areas are slowly being closed to the public. Roads inside the parks are being grazed over. Mountain passes and hiking paths are being blockaded. "No fishing," "No hunting," "No trespassing" signs are being erected everywhere on public lands. Entrance fees are being jacked up 100%, even 500% higher, to keep American families out of their own lands.<br />
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The UN and its elitist masters don't want<i>you</i> on <i>their</i> property! And in case you do "trespass" and enter forbidden areas of these pristine UN lands, you might just be shot. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents and park personnel are now taught to love nature's Mother Earth and to despise and loathe human beings. They are being given firearms and instructed to use them. Meanwhile, foreign immigrants from India, China, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Russia and other nations are being recruited for this national park service police duty because, unlike U.S. nationals, non-English speaking foreigners will not hesitate to carry out orders and shoot American citizen "intruders."<br />
But even if you are not shot or arrested, there is still a possibility of being bitten—or eaten! As my friend, Joseph Urso, Jr., points out, the feds have been reintroducing vicious wolves into Yellowstone National Park and into Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The idea is to put the lives of park visitors in jeopardy and to frighten tourists away.<br />
Environmental groups, of course, are overjoyed that the UN is taking over our parks and forests and putting the screws to the people. Such organizations as the Nature Conservancy and the National Wildlife Federation are funded and controlled by Rockefeller monied interests. The leaders of these organizations hate human beings and believe that the takeover of our parklands and heritage sites by the UN is the paying of homage to their pagan nature goddess, "Mother Earth."<br />
In protest, I have registered a complaint with U.S. Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. Helms, a Republican, is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As Chairman, he has the power to put a stop to all this nonsense. What's more, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park lies partly inside Helm's home state, North Caro-lina, as well as in neighboring Tennessee.<br />
My answer from Senator Helms came in March when he and his committee warmly embraced and voted for President Clinton's choice, Madeleine Albright, to become Secretary of State. Albright, a Marxist, is an avid supporter of the UN's Biodiversity Treaty. She endorses the unconstitutional giving away of American sovereignty over its lands and natural resources.<br />
Some may be surprised that Jesse Helms would commit this act of high treason. They are puzzled that the Senator, who is so warmly supported by the Christian Coalition and other conservative groups, would conspire with Bill Clinton, the UN, and the Illuminati elite to give away our birthright and heritage to New World Order forces.<br />
Ever since Jesse Helms was elevated to the 33° of Freemasonry, bowing his knee before the black stone altar of the false gods Jahbulon, Mahabone, and Abaddon, he has digressed in his strong support of American sovereignty. As happens with all Masons, the occultic, 33° ritual brings on possession of the celebrant by devils.<br />
In fact, Jesse Helms can't help himself. Like Judas Iscariot, he is taken captive by alien forces. Helms has been neutralized, and our historic, great nation is laid low before vile, global forces—forces intent on America's unconditional surrender to the Illuminati's antichrist, United Nations establishment.<br />
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No doubt, the elite are preparing for just such an eventuality. If Joe and Jane American discover that Yellowstone, Big Bend, Sequoia, Rocky Mountain, Great Smoky, Yosemite, and the other national parks and monuments are under UN jurisdiction and control, the government fully expects a counter-revolutionary explosion.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918992486936677186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007465195507889272.post-33942502676614370962015-12-22T11:44:00.002-08:002015-12-22T11:47:20.819-08:00FRANKLIN GRAHAM -- SHAME ON REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS FOR SINFUL SPENDING BILL<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Shame on the Republicans and the Democrats for passing such a wasteful spending bill last week. And to top it off, funding Planned Parenthood! A Huffington Post article called it “a big win for Planned Parenthood.” I call it a big loss for America. After all of the appalling facts revealed this year about Planned Parenthood, our representatives in Washington had a chance to put a stop to this, but they didn’t. There’s no question—taxpayers should not be paying for abortions!<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> Abortion is murder in God’s eyes. Seeing and hearing Planned Parenthood talk nonchalantly about selling baby parts from aborted fetuses with utter disregard for human life is reminiscent of Joseph Mengele and the Nazi concentration camps! That should’ve been all that was needed to turn off the faucet for their funding. Nothing was done to trim this 2,000 page, $1.1 trillion budget. This is an example of why I have resigned from the Republican Party and declared myself Independent. I have no hope in the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, or Tea Party to do what is best for America. Unless more godly men and women get in this process and change this wicked system, our country is in for trouble. I want to challenge Christians, even pastors, across the country to pray about running for office where they can have an impact. We need mayors, country commissioners, city council members, school board members who will uphold biblical values.</span></span></div>
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WILMINGTON -- With his gaze locked on the sidewalk beneath his feet, Vern Ross stood in the same spot where his teen son, Shane Simpson, was slain hours earlier, and pled for an end to the violence.</div>
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"My son is lost and I just don't want it to happen to someone else," he told the crowd assembled around him for a candlelight vigil Sunday evening. "We've got to stop this."</div>
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Shane and four others were at the corner of 11th and Castle streets Sunday when the occupants of a dark-colored sedan drove past and opened fire about 11:15 a.m., said Linda Rawley, Wilmington Police Department spokeswoman.</div>
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During the candlelight vigil at 6 p.m., Ross spoke of his "cheerful" 16-year-old, killed in what police are calling a gang-related shooting.</div>
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Nearly 50 people gathered with a tearful Ross to pay tribute to the New Hanover High School student.</div>
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"He was a loving guy, a caring and respectful guy," Ross said after the vigil. "He was a guy that grew up in the church and with a loving family. A really good guy. He just got caught up in the wrong time and the wrong situation."</div>
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Ross said his son was a gifted boxer, having competed in several title fights in and around Wilmington. According to New Hanover County birth records, Shane would have turned 17 on Jan. 15.<br />
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vs: This is not sufficient, and not acceptable. This kind of bilge is repeated interminably on the streets of Wilmington. Some people are murdering others. It's no secret that in the vast number of cases, the murderers are young black men. The victims, too, are young black men. How strange. Do black lives really matter? Apparently not to members of the black gangs.<br />
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When black mothers and black daddies -- not so much the latter, of course -- gather to grieve and call out for justice, it is clear that it will not come unless and until some major problems have been resolved.<br />
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1. Black young men need to be brought to the bar of justice for fathering illegitimate children. Their sexual dilliances are creating a tragedy that resounds far beyond a climax and momentary thrill -- after which they walk away and leave others to pay the bills -- which are considerable in terms of dollars, personal tragedies and deep emotional crises for the single mother, the children, and others in a widening circle of horrors.<br />
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2. The guns that are used to in murder are wielded -- by whom? By black thugs and gang members who are out of control in our city, despite the best efforts by our Wilmington Police Department and their Chief, Ralph Evangelous. These are not licensed gun owners. More often than not, the weapons are stolen, sold and re-sold, stolen again in a never-ending chain of violence.<br />
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3. Obama has it all wrong. Who holds the weapons used in this wave of murderous violence. Not law-abiding white American citizens, but overwhelmingly it is black law-breakers operating as organized gangs, and killing at will on the streets of Wilmington.<br />
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4. Calling for white gun-owners to turn in their guns or be arrested is not the way to go. Rooting out the illegitimate holders of the weapons of murder will require raiding households and apartments throughout the U.S. to wrest the guns from gang members will be a huge undertaking, and one answered by rabid "defenders" of American rights. In truth, those dangerous left-wing poseurs need to meet strong-arm police ready to finally straighten out the secret black war against reason and lawful protection for the rest of us.<br />
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John Scott, left the University of Wisconsin in 1931
after two years of study. Appalled by the depression in the United States and attracted by what he had
heard concerning the efforts to create a “new society” in the Soviet Union, he obtained training as a
welder in a General Electric plant then went to the Soviet Union to join the great crusade. He was
assigned to the construction of new “Soviet Pittsburg,” Magnitogorsk, on the eastern slopes of the
Ural Mountains, the twenty-year-old was first an electric welder. His role in construction had ended
as a foreman and chemist in a coke and chemicals by-products plant. He lived in barracks, suffered
from artic wintry cold and the stifling summer heat, studied evenings, like other Russians at that
time, married a Russian girl- in short, lived for five years as a Russian among Russians.
John Scott, decided to go to Russia to work study, and lend a hand in the construction of a
society and was liberally rewarded for his work, and accepted by his fellow workers in
Magnitogosrsk. The building of the blast furnace was the main purpose of the workers in the cold
weather. The implementation of the GPU was to inform and take possession of the property of
people and give it to the new collective farm. Sometimes they ship the entire family out. If anyone
revolted against them, they were killed by the GPU officials.
It took all different types of hardships to make Magnitogorsk- a steel city because of its
geographic location. As it was located far away from the other center of industries, there was great
difficulty in transporting tools essential to work, and food for the recruits. Due to cold weather and
lack of coal for heat, workers were suffering in the cold weather. The workers were malnourished
and it was clear that all the factors were disturbing the progress of building furnace and blast. There
was continuous demand by directors of the plant to speed up and get things done. Surrounded by the
hostile capitalist nations, the workers were forced to industrialize the vast and great country in the
shortest possible time. It spread the message that Magnitogorsk is the single most important heavy
industry center in the Soviet Union. Millions of roubles have been invested, thousands of workers
have came from far and wide, and the country is waiting for the steel and iron made there.
After the revolution, the Soviet Union was full of untrained, inexperienced and uneducated
workers, who began to acquire the means of mass-production through the state, but could not
adequately operate or maintain equipment, nor manage or organize labor forces—processes that had
already been mastered in western Europe and the United States. The conditions of the young recruits
from the villages, who had not learned to make the real steel, got the left over of clothes and shoes,
because there was not anything available. The riggers who work high in the plant, generally got a
high rank and had more salary, but there was more risk associated with it too. The circumstances
were not safe. The safety first organizations were not able to take effective steps in the direction of
cutting down the accidents happening in the plant. There were three main causes of them: first, the
inexperience of the worker and not have the understanding of danger; second, lack of sufficient
lumbar to make required scaffoldings, ladders with railing, etc: and third, scarcity of bulbs, which
meant that the worker had to work in the dark. Bad organization also persistently created problems.
There was dishonesty in the plant election. Therefore, there was no interest in meetings or elections
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for the plant. There was only one candidate for election, and he was sent from a higher body, so
elections meant nothing.
The living conditions of the people were very bad. The food conditions were a constant
subject of discussion in the Red Corner at the barracks before or after dinner. There was long queue
to get some food. There was difference in getting even the basic requirement of life like food. The
order of rank in society was such that the higher got the most pleasant things and the lower, suffered
a lot. The foreign specialist or a high party member of GPU, would get the finest food and clothing
and wine from the foreign store; engineers, foremen, would have technicians’ cards and could buy
from the technicians’ store, which sold some food items; but the majority of the people would buy
from the workers’ store. Bread was the only thing available. Overall, the population was divided into
categories to get the minimum requirement of life.
Most of the workers were unmarried, due to the shortage of women in any large construction
camp and the reflection of the hard living conditions. After doing heavy physical work at low
temperature on a bad diet, little energy was left for making love, particularly if it had to be done out
of doors or in overcrowded rooms.
Education and health care were not working efficiently. Most of the teachers were engineers
working in the designing office or on the job. They came to do their teaching often exhausted and
unprepared. There was deprivation of higher education to disfranchised citizens, but, later, a
declaration from Moscow granted equal educational rights. The hospitals were usually crowded,
understaffed and the doctors and the nurses usually lacked experience, often far from clean.
However, they had first aid stations in all important departments of the plant with some trained
nurses and sometimes doctors. Due to this shortage, they had to work 2-3 shifts, which was illegal,
but there was no other alternative.
The pace of construction was such that millions of men and women starved, froze, and were
brutalized by merciless labor and implausible living conditions. The first serious project for the
Magnitogorsk Metallurgical combine was made in 1928. The implementation was made without
sufficient labor, without necessary quantities of the most elementary supplies and materials. One of
the major problems was shortage of accomplished labor and supplies. Until 1934-35, the Soviet
workers were urged by consistent propaganda to learn from foreigners to master the German and
American techniques.
Behind the Ural, also describes the societal and economic conditions of the majority of
Russians. Through the part of Masha, it can be concluded that the hard living conditions were part of
Russian life. The condition encourages Masha and millions of people like her to have better
education and profession even out of the scarcity and lack of food and shelter. John Scott and Masha
get married and lived busily, simply and happily. Their main motivation was to study and work. This
was common among Russians at that time. The inter-relationship between the work, study and food
were the main components of the Russian people.
The “Battle of Iron and Steel” shows that inexperience and carelessness took a heavy toll in
the blast furnace system. Regardless of that, Magnitogorsk produced more pig iron in 1935 than all
mills in Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Poland. The workers were divided into various categories,
according to their qualification, and could ask for a higher category at any time, if they could pass the
examination and receive it. Working hours were reduced as production rose. In 1935, the main
energies of the country were transferred from construction to production. In spite of many examples
of rationalization and strengthening of labor at the cost of men’s life, many who were not necessary,
were taken off, and the productivity of labor increased. As the things were progressing at the
Magnitogorsk plant, the living conditions were getting better. Fuel, clothing, and other elementary
necessities became available. It was no longer necessary to steal in order to live. The main thing was
that the technicians and workers began to appreciate and correctly evaluate human life, and both their
own and other people’s, and this was extremely important in a country where, totalitarianism, war,
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famine and dissent had made life very contemptible.
The Stakhanov movement became very important after Stalin addressed the first
Stakhanovite conference and pointed out that improved living conditions and technical training of
industrial personnel had created the basis for drastic increases in productivity, which should be
realized without delay. As the improvement was going on, pessimistic forces were being created. The
norms were raised in the fall of 1936 after a publicity speech by Stalin. All the rolling mills were
given hard plans. Despite the bad organization and stupidity of the plant and open hearth,
Magnitogorsk was still making progress. Expensive steel was made, both in terms of roubles and
human lives, but ten millions tons of steel would make a great many tanks whose military
effectiveness bore no relation to the price paid for the steel. Yet, by 1939, the work of certain
departments became better than before. This was the case with coke chemical plant and railroads.
The five year plan from 1937-42 made a real progress in production.
The increasing complexities of economic, commercial and the political life in the early
thirties made it absolutely essential for the government to create a Soviet intelligentsia. The work of
the plant went on because of Stalin and his political bureau. Plays demonstrated the necessity for the
entire population to cooperate with the authorities in detaining foreign spies. On the other hand, they
failed to point out the dangers and tragedy involved in over enthusiastic purging. Due to Stalin’s act
and the purge’s act, they could carry some spies now, but it would take a generation to live down the
fear and suspicion being created. Acknowledging Stalin’s domination, prompted one to look into the
information surrounding the purges in Russia during Stalin’s reign and discover the underlying
horror.
These foreigners working in the plant, later on, were over taken by the young Soviet workers.
This was a background for the reaction which came in such a force in 1936-37, when foreigners were
dismissed, demoted, publicly discredited, sent home, and sometimes arrested. The Five Year Plan, in
actuality, made such rapid progress because it made use of human life as if it were worthless. Stalin
began to purge dissenters by having them convicted on false charges. He started a war against
fictitious domestic terror in his country through propaganda. The term Stalinism is closely associated
with totalitarianism: the direct control by a centralized government of the economic, cultural, and
informational structure—i.e., propaganda—of a society. The term is also directly associated with
military authoritarianism, cruelty, and the worst dictatorships. However, he made earth-shaking
changes in Russia, hanging civilization by its feet, and throat, and rendering it helpless in his grasp.
Stalin’s purges are an important part of history, and understanding what are perceived to be historical
atrocities is paramount to having a balanced and clear world-view.
Due to purges, unfortunately, many foreigners left the Soviet Union carrying away the
impression that purges ended everything, but this was basically incorrect. At the end of 1938, when
the purge ended, hundreds of people were released with terse apologies; most of the workers in
Magnitogorsk had an essentially cheerful and optimist view of things. They were functioning and so
were certain of jobs and improvement as far as they cared to see. They enjoyed vacations, maternity
vacations, pension plans, social legislation, studying and benefited themselves and society as soon as
they graduated, or before. The standard of living was rising. The purge had a devastating effect on
millions of Soviet citizens, arrested and exiled, but Stalin considered the investment a good one.
The communist city was getting built. The students of this new society were more
enthusiastic than in America. No tuition was paid until 1940. However, the workers who had already
learned a trade were not supposed to use the State’s money for education, while thousands of
peasants came to the industrialized centre every year. The students were just the run of the population
of the Soviet Union making up for several centuries of lost time. Each increase in category of worker
meant higher wages, which gave them a desire to learn. The heavy differentiation, plus the absence
of unemployment and the consequent assurance of being able without difficulty to get a job in any
profession learned, supplemented, and stimulated the intellectual curiosity of the people. The various
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Published by DigitalCommons@C.O.D., 2008
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educational systems failed to give the child this necessary, thorough, knowledge, but tended rather to
develop his originality, his independence, his power of critical thinking. Such attributes in the Soviet
Union, made potentially dangerous citizens, and were liabilities rather than assets from the standpoint
of the “dictator of the proletariat.” There existed two main types of schools, FZD and FZU factory
schools. They trained them to be welders, machinists, electricians, etc. At the age of eighteen, the
boy or girl was put on an equal basis with adults.
After spending five years in Magnitogorsk, John Scott went on vacation to America. There he
observed the difference between the problems of a capitalist country and Russia. The Soviet Union
was operating a deficit economy, while the capitalists countries were struggling with a surplus
economy. The problems with unemployment, increasing taxes, health care and education were rising
in these capitalist countries. The validity of sociological and economic principles upon which it was
founded were diminishing. He also observed the widespread misinformation of Russia and the
Russian in America. During his absences in Russia, the purges had made astonishing developments.
There was no place for foreigners anymore in the plant and around. Most of them went back to native
countries, and those who had taken Soviet citizenship were arrested and sent to Siberia. The whole
thing seems unreasonable and preposterous. The Stalinist constitution of 1936 had promised a
democratic and free society, but the NKVD seemed to have run away with the show, the purge
appeared to be consuming what had been created.
The new discoveries and observations in the other field radically modified the MarxistLeninist
social precepts which underlay the theories of the proletarian revolutionary, of the
construction of Socialism, as they were understood and applied by Stalin. Stalin’s indomitable and
ruthless tenacity was responsible for the construction of Magnitogorsk and the entire Ural and
Western Siberial industrial areas.
Speech and propaganda were supplemented by severe labor legislation. By 1942, the Ural
industrial became the stronghold of the Soviet resistance. Its mills, mines, and shops, its fields and
forests, supplied the Red Army with immense military materials, which were necessary to keep
Stalin’s mechanized divisions in the field. The extraordinary task was accomplished by the political
shrewdness of Stalin, and by the heavy cost and brutal difficulties. One point made by Stalin was that
any production made in Magnitogorsk was safe and out of reach of any enemy bombers because of
its location. Soviet industrialization was achieved almost without the aid of foreign capital. It was
industrialized by the sweat and blood of the one hundred and sixty million inhabitants of the vast
country. At the same time, the population was taught by a painful and expensive process to work
efficiently, to obey orders, to mind their own business and to take it on the chin when necessary with
minimum complaint. These are the things that took to fight a modern war.
Behind the Urals provides a graphic description of life in the new steel city and the life of
workers under the first five year plan. It describes the clear details which include the ugliness and the
squalor as well as the endurance and the dedication. The shortage of foo, housing, and equipment, the
vast differentials in wages and salaries, the existence of comfortable suburbs for specialists, officials,
and foreigners while Bashir shepherds only a month away from the medieval times froze to death in
the tents, the almost incredible inefficiency and waste, the role of the GPU and of prison labor, the
purges- all these aspects of Magnitogorsk are revealed in this book. At the same time, it also
describes the rising tempo, the desperate drive to build, and the ultimate creation of the “socialist
city” and the modern steel industry. The book is a primary source as author John Scott did not rely on
other sources for his opinion. His role in Russia was like one of the millions of workers. Though, he
was able to leave the Soviet Union in times of tribulation along with his family and did not have to
suffer, unlike others who were not able to. The book increases the reader’s understanding and view
of Russia. It gives a detailed description of the life of Russian people, purges, and the propaganda of
Stalin to make the steel city.
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ESSAI, Vol. 6 [2008], Art. 13
http://dc.cod.edu/essai/vol6/iss1/13
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Work Cited
Scott, John. Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia’s City of Steel. Ed. Robert Byrnes.
Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1973.
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Bhavsar: BehAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918992486936677186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007465195507889272.post-30531639631434848222015-12-09T21:41:00.003-08:002015-12-09T22:36:46.444-08:00ATTACK OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS ON WHITE FAMILIES <br />
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Just for your amusement -- and the other side of history. I went looking for accounts of battles between white settlers and American Indians. But all I found were accounts of whites killing Indians. I decided to even things up a little. This might help balance the books.<br />
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Saturday, Aug. 23.</div>
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Parties from the Minnesota River reached here last sight. They state that scouts estimate the number of whites already killed by the Sioux at 500.</div>
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This opinion is based on the number of bodies discovered strewn along the road and by trails of blood.</div>
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It is believed that all the missionaries have been killed.</div>
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The civilized Indians exceeded their savage brethren in atrocities.</div>
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Mr. FRENIER, an interpreter who has spent most of his life among the Indians, volunteered to go alone among them, trusting to his knowledge of them and his disguise, to escape detection. He dressed himself to Indian costume and started on his journey. He arrived at the Upper Agency at night.</div>
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The place was literally the habitation of death.</div>
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He visited all the houses, and found their former occupants all lying dead, some on the door-steps and some inside their habitations. Others were scattered in the yards and in the roads.</div>
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He went to the house of Hon. J.R. BROWN, and recognized every member of the family. They numbered eighteen in all, and every one of them had been brutally murdered.</div>
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At Beaver Creek he found that fifty families had been killed outright. At every house he went into he recognized the dead bodies of nearly all the former inhabitants of the place.</div>
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Among the dead bodies he recognized at the Agency were the following:</div>
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N. GOVERUS and family.</div>
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Dr. WAKEFIELD and family.</div>
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JOHN TODDENS and family.</div>
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JOHN MOYNER.</div>
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EDWARD MOYNER.</div>
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Rev. Dr. WILLIAMS.</div>
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Rev. Mr. BRIGGS, and two missionaries.</div>
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Ex-Gov. SIBLEY is now marching to the relief of Fort Ridgley.</div>
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He reports that the Sioux bands are united together to carry out a concentrated and desperate scheme, and says that he will be only too happy to find that the powerful upper bands of Yanktons and other tribes have not united with them.</div>
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Mr. FRENIER writes to Gov. RAMSEY, on the 21st inst., saying that he left Fort Ridgley at 2 o'clock on that morning. There were then over two thousand Indians at the fort, and all the wooden buildings there had been set on fire, and were burning.</div>
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Mr. FRENIER thinks that other tribes are joining the Sloux, and that they will present a very formidable array.</div>
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A reliable letter, dated Glencoe, 21st inst., says that the injury done by the stampede of the settlers is immense, and that such another scene of woe can hardly be found in the South as in McLeod, Meaker, and the northern part of Sibley and other counties to Minnesota.</div>
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In St. Paul and the adjoining country all the available horses are being gathered together, and all sorts of weapons will be used by willing hands for immediate and summary vengeance upon these blood-thirsty Indians.</div>
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CHICAGO, Saturday, Aug. 23.</div>
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The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer, of the 20th inst., says, it is thought that the Indians have been induced to commit these outrages by Indians from Missouri and secession traitors of that State, and that when Maj. GALBRAITH left the agency on Friday everything was quiet. The Indians had received their goods and had all disappeared apparently satisfied with the Major's promise to send for them as soon as the money arrived to pay them their annuities.</div>
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The first attack of the Indians was made on the house of Mr. BAKER, on Sunday last, near the town of Acton, and 30 miles from Forest City, in which three white men and one woman were killed.</div>
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On Monday morning an attack was made on Redwood, and at the time the messenger left there, a number of persons had been killed.</div>
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After the messenger had crossed the river, he saw the Indians firing into traders' stores and other buildings. He estimated the number of Indians engaged in this firing at 150. He also stated that messengers had arrived at Fort Ridgley with money to pay off the Indians the sums due them.</div>
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The St. Paul Press, of the 21st instant, says that several loads of panic-stricken people, from Currer and Sibley Counties, arrived in town last night, principally women and children. They were greatly excited, and give exaggerated accounts of the Indians, who were marching on Shasta County. They also say that the towns of St. Peter, Henderson and Glencoe have been burned.</div>
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A private letter received in this city, to-day, from St. Paul, dated the 20th instant, says, that it seems to be the general opinion among the best informed of our citizens that these Indian troubles originated with the cursed Secessionists of Missouri.</div>
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Major GALBRAITH was told by one of the Indians that there are now in arms ten thousand of the Sioux tribe, besides other tribes from Northern Missouri.</div>
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ANTOINE FRENIER, the disguised Indian scout, got through the Indian lines into Fort Ridgeley and brought back the following to Gov. RAMSEY:</div>
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We can hold this position but little longer unless we are reinforced. We are being attacked almost every hour, and unless assistance is rendered us we cannot hold out much longer. Our little band is becoming exhausted and decimated. We had hoped to be reinforced to-day, but as yet can hear of no one coming.</div>
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T.G. SHEHAN, of Company C, Fifth Minnesota Volunteers, commands the post.</div>
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Gov. SIBLEY cannot reach here with his twelve hundred troops until to-morrow, when a day of reckoning for the Indians will be at hand.</div>
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TRUMP'S POSITION ON MUSLIMS: Think about this. The Immigration and Nationality Act. passed June 27, 1952 and became Public Law 414, states in Chapter 2 Section 212 the prohibition of entry to the US if the Alien belongs to an organization seeking to overthrow the government of the United States by "force, violence, or other unconstitutional means."</div>
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It also prohibits the entry of Aliens who are members of or affiliated with any organization that advocates or teaches, the over<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">throw by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means of the US or of all forms of law, and Aliens who publish, circulate and distribute materials teaching or advocating the overthrow by force, violence or other unconstitutional means of the US Government or of all forms of law.</span></div>
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The REASON this is important is because Islam seeks to bring all people under submission to Sharia. They can say all day long they don't want to bring Sharia to the U.S. but its in their book to do just that. Consequently, Trump is right to take the position of banning them but I believe he should cite the law rather than promote his own agenda on the topic.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">There is much confusion about the policies and direction of the Obama presidency. Pundits and politicians alike flounder when trying to explain the actions of President Obama. The reason for this confusion and misunderstanding is the lack of courage to identify and integrate the unmistaken evidence of what they are dealing with.</span></div>
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The recent defense of Islam at the prayer breakfast was a central clue to what is going on in Obama’s mind. Searching for some way to downplay the role of other religions and therefore equivocate atrocities performed today with those of other religions in the past can only be described as evasion of context. Denying the words Islamist terrorists and constantly referring to Islam as a religion of peace only confirms his basic premise that translates into action to promote Islam consistently and almost openly. When you look at the words of the Koran and Obama’s actions you see a pattern that cannot be misinterpreted.</div>
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First take the Islamic tenet that lying to promote Islam is perfectly acceptable. This includes such practices as evading and distorting. We know the man is a liar from his claims on healthcare, his shovel ready jobs and “ You didn’t build that”. Why would we accept that he was truthful when he swore to defend the Constitution. That has been an obvious lie.</div>
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Now consider that what if a man with Muslim proclivities decides that his contribution to Muslim dominance can best be served by using his oratorial talents to become President of the United States and then undermine the county with weak leadership, massive debt and doing all that he can to diminish America and her defenses? Could not a person’s intent on Muslim dominance accomplish this mission to some extent? It was pointed out by Laura Ingram that Obama seems well qualified to accomplish what he wants to accomplish and she pointed to his elections, his free college program, his stimulus , etc. But when it comes to dealing with ISIS he seems feckless. Is this because he doesn’t know what to do or is it because his agenda is far different than an American President who would want to protect and promote the American Dream?</div>
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President Obama seems to have little interest in his legacy as an American President. No one would want their country to become more mediocre, weak, and debt ridden if they had a spark of rationality in them. Yet these destructive avenues keep being advocated and reflect only a mission to boost Muslim stature and diminish America. His foreign apologist speeches can only point to such a mission.</div>
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In Obama’s mind where he displays many of the attributes identified by Patai in his book ,” The Arab Mind”, we see the notion that speech is more potent than action, lying to promote Islam is perfectly acceptable and a central drive to avoid denouncing Islam is evident by the weak leadership regarding national defense. Releasing terrorist leaders and attempting to close Gitmo also fit with the overall objective of a Muslim legacy.</div>
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At the end of his term of office he will be able to say to his Islamic cohorts, “ See what I have done to promote your case and diminish the power and stature of the nation of infidels as asked by the Prophet. Such a legacy will sit well with the Muslims who will see a path to dominance they had not envisioned. Infiltration will be the strategy of the Muslim future and although simple bombing will continue, infiltration into the institutions and government will play a major part. Identifying and challenging this invasion will require more than simple vigilance. A lock step party will only accelerate the invasion as we have already seen. If no one is willing to identify this mission for what it is America will be degraded to the status the Muslim religion seeks. The land of the free without the home of the brave will cease to exist.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "ravie"; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I belong . . . <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "microsoft sans serif" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">BY VERNE STRICKLAND </span><span style="font-family: "microsoft sans serif" , sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">December 1, 2015</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><b>I belong in this place. With these people. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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brought us together – cancer.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our meeting place is the chemo suite at the Cape Fear Cancer facility in Wilmington.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is not designed as a social center. Its purpose
is to treat cancer victims with sophisticated, individually designed
chemotherapy treatments administered intravenously. These high-tech drugs kill
cancer. Boost survival rates. Offer more precious time to patients. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are usually twenty or more patients here at
any one time. I am one of them. We sit in comfortable padded recliners, as
registered nurses circulate about, hooking us up to IV units that drip measured
amounts of cancer-fighting drugs into our bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some read, some sleep, others may chat quietly with
those in neighboring chairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is not a sense of urgency here. Or a sense
doom or fear. We know why we are here. We know this is the serum of life that
is poured drop by drop into our veins. And it is this that kindles the spirit
of togetherness we seem to feel as a group. We are all on a mission of life or
death. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Patients with a wide array of cancers in various
stages are in this room. I have a bone and blood cancer – multiple myeloma – diagnosed by highly-respected oncologist, William McNulty. I have endured a lot of pain,
and a lot of fatigue, weight loss, and other side effects from the treatments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The kind and gentle registered nurses move with
efficiency and purpose throughout the room. Each may care for three or four
patients. Using their computers, they monitor the cancer-fighting fluids going
into each individual. This is the stuff of life and survival they administer. It
is comforting to note their dedication, professionalism, and caring attitude.
To us they are guardian angels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I will spend about two hours once a week in
chemotherapy. People with more serious illness may spend as much as eight hours
in treatment. It’s a sacrifice they are willing to make for the benefits of the
powerful medicines that kill cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Today I strike up a conversation with a pleasant
well-spoken cancer patient seated beside me. Bob is about sixty, a retired U.S.
Naval officer. He has lung cancer. Compared to him I have a garden variety
malignancy. But my cancer can also kill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is no bitterness in this wonderful man. It
cannot be said that he is resigned to his fate, because he fights with courage and
tenacity. But he knows that, short of a miracle, he may prolong the fight, but
is not likely to win it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Do you have a faith that is helping you through
this?” I ask. He looks at me with a steady, alert gaze. “Of course. God watches
over me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I discover references to the Almighty throughout
this Wilmington cancer ward. Earlier, as I conversed with a sweet lady of about
seventy, she confided that she had been healed by one of those miracles Bob was
talking about. She is back with another threat – pancreatic cancer. I believe
in miracles – I have had my own -- and told her I would pray fervently for her.
She inspired me greatly. But this may be a tall order. Then I think of Lazarus.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On a previous session in the chemotherapy suite, I
met a seemingly robust gentleman with a jovial spirit. He looked tanned and
fit. He lives here on the coast, retired from a successful career with his own
chemical company. He likes boating, fishing, and enjoying his family. He has
esophageal cancer, but evidences no outward concern or burden with his illness.
It is like this at every turn with these people – a special breed in every way.
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helps to gather like this, knowing that the person next to us understands. I
think we gather strength from this, even when we don’t talk. We’ve all been
brought here. We all belong here. It’s a path we have to take.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which, incidentally, we are each promised. The experience strengthens us,
focused our attention on the important things in this life. It somehow seems a
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<span style="font-size: xx-small; line-height: 1.5;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>This is on my Grandfather's tombstone. He died June 22,1941</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 1.5;"><b> It has a stunning effect on me. He took his own life on this day.</b></span><br />
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<i style="font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> And hear the flutter of a small dove's wings</span></i><br />
<i style="font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> Rays of a morning sun seep through leafy boughs, dappling his face -- It is pale,</span></i><br />
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<i style="font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> There is a light of wonder in his eyes --</span></i><br />
<i style="font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> drenched by dew, God-sent tears </span></i><br />
<i style="font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> like sprinkled holy water</span></i><br />
<i style="font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> as from a stone baptismal font </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> My grandfather, young again, his time unspent,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> the face of Jesus</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> He is risen -- risen indeed</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Thank you Precious Lord</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">November 11, 1976 Crown Center</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> good god it’s dark in Baltimore<br /> and cold in Kansas City<br /> and I’m headed for the bright lights<br /> in a first class jet airplane</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> I have come across the country<br /> in my prominence and glory<br /> and the people who are waiting</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> hope I’ll let them buy me whiskey</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> I am living in the high time</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> but inside I’m sick and heavy<br /> for my boys and my sweet woman<br /> are at home cut loose and drifting.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> that’s a winter sun that’s sinking<br /> and it’s colder than my insides<br /> and my mind is pale and sighing<br /> maybe dying</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> but my life and times are fat<br /> and stuffed with fortune fame and favor<br /> and my vest is smart and fitted<br /> and admired by poor Chinese</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /> it is mine the dream you crave<br /> I have bought it with my greed<br /> and it’s all the hell and loneliness<br /> you’ll need.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918992486936677186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007465195507889272.post-89288731193670787002015-11-28T12:04:00.004-08:002015-11-28T12:12:02.391-08:00WHY THE MARINE CORPS HYMN CONTAINS THE VERSE "TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI"via Verne Strickland Facebook & USA DOT COM<br />
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Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the United States had declared war on Islam and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!<br />
At the height of the eighteenth century, Muslim pirates were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic.<br />
They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart-breaking letters home, begging their government and family members to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.<br />
These extortionists of the high seas represented the Islamic nations of Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers – collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast – and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic.<br />
Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France. However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets.<br />
Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, seventeen years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war.<br />
In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments. Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.<br />
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.<br />
The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran that all nations who would not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."<br />
Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over twenty percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800.<br />
Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming. That changed everything. Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit. Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but, having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thugery for long enough, decided that is was finally time to meet force with force.<br />
He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify".<br />
When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli. The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years, and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships.<br />
Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply.<br />
America had a tradition of religious tolerance, the fact that Jefferson, himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen. A religion based on supremacism, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable to him. His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.<br />
This should bother every American. That Muslims have brought about women only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged; Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities; ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public schools are pulling pork from their menus; on and on and on and on....<br />
It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America.<br />
By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our own culture, the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct knife, and helping to further the Islamists agenda. Sadly, it appears that today America's leaders would rather be politically correct than victorious!<br />
Any doubts, just Google "Thomas Jefferson vs. the Muslim World."</div>
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I like what he delivers and the way he delivers it. Cruickshank is a brooding, no-nonsense hard-ass. He glowers at the camera, uses up no smiles on the interviewer when he's being quizzed, and fiercely serves up the facts.<br />
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<strong style="line-height: 1.6em;">Paul Cruickshank</strong><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">has reported extensively on al Qaeda, ISIS, and other Salafi Jihadi groups. He regularly appears on air as CNN's Terrorism Analyst and is the</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><a data-mce-href="https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/experts/paul-cruickshank" href="https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/experts/paul-cruickshank" style="color: #00adef; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">Editor-in-Chief </a><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">of</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><a data-mce-href="https://www.ctc.usma.edu/publications/sentinel" href="https://www.ctc.usma.edu/publications/sentinel" style="color: #00adef; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">"The Sentinel" </a><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">the independent flagship publication of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" style="line-height: 17.6px;">He is the co-author of the 2014 book </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/Agent-Storm-Life-Inside-Qaeda/dp/0802123147/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408301055&sr=8-1&keywords=agent+storm" data-mce-style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Agent-Storm-Life-Inside-Qaeda/dp/0802123147/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408301055&sr=8-1&keywords=agent+storm" style="color: #00adef; line-height: 17.6px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">"Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA" </a></div>
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The book is a true life spy thriller: the memoir of the Danish double agent Morten Storm, who was Western intelligence’s most important spy inside al Qaeda. He led the CIA to some of al Qaeda’s most dangerous operatives, including the American terrorist cleric Anwar al Awlaki, and single-handedly thwarted terrorist attacks in the West, including in the UK.</div>
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The book has been translated into twelve languages. The <a data-mce-href="http://http//www.amazon.co.uk/Agent-Storm-Life-Inside-al-Qaeda/dp/0241003776/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408301149&sr=8-1&keywords=agent+storm" href="http://http//www.amazon.co.uk/Agent-Storm-Life-Inside-al-Qaeda/dp/0241003776/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408301149&sr=8-1&keywords=agent+storm" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">UK edition</a> was published by Penguin in July 2014 and the <a data-mce-href="http://http//www.amazon.com/Agent-Storm-Life-Inside-Qaeda/dp/0802123147/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408301055&sr=8-1&keywords=agent+storm" href="http://http//www.amazon.com/Agent-Storm-Life-Inside-Qaeda/dp/0802123147/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408301055&sr=8-1&keywords=agent+storm" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">US edition </a>by Grove Atlantic in September 2014. In the Summer of 2014 the book was optioned for a <a data-mce-href="http://http//www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=41675" href="http://http//www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=41675" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">Hollywood movie</a>.</div>
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The book was also featured in a <a data-mce-href="http://www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-experiences/agent-storm/" href="http://www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-experiences/agent-storm/" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">special exhibit</a> at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC. In September 2014 CNN aired "Double Agent: Inside al Qaeda for the CIA" a one hour documentary on Storm's story which Cruickshank helped produce. The documentary was awarded a silver world medal for "<a class="" data-mce-href="http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2015/pieces.php?iid=480282&pid=1" href="http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/winners/2015/pieces.php?iid=480282&pid=1" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">best investigative report"</a> by the New York Festivals.</div>
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<span data-mce-style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" style="line-height: 17.6px;">Cruickshank is the editor of </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415581745/" data-mce-style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415581745/" style="color: #00adef; line-height: 17.6px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">"Al Qaeda" a five volume collection</a><span data-mce-style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" style="line-height: 17.6px;">of the key scholarly research on the terrorist network, which was published by Routledge in November 2012. It includes a comprehensive introduction to each volume newly written by the editor placing the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. Routledge described the collection as "an essential work of reference destined to be valued as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource." The collection was </span>described by a <a data-mce-href="http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/248/html" href="http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/248/html" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">leading terrorism studies journal</a> as “monumental … to date the most comprehensive resource published on the terrorist organization and its worldwide affiliates.”<span data-mce-style="line-height: 17.6000003814697px;" style="line-height: 17.6px;"></span></div>
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Cruickshank contributed a chapter on the al Qaeda 2006 transatlantic airline plot for the book "<a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Evolution-Global-Terrorist-Threat/dp/0231168985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408588020&sr=8-1&keywords=reinares+hoffman" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Evolution-Global-Terrorist-Threat/dp/0231168985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408588020&sr=8-1&keywords=reinares+hoffman" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat"</a> (Columbia Studies in Terrorism & Irregular Warfare, October 2014) and a chapter on terrorist training in the book "Understanding Terrorism Innovation and Learning" (Routledge, 2015). </div>
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Cruickshank has regularly contributed to CNN's reporting of Al Qaeda terrorism from a range of locations including the United States, Europe, and the Middle East and has frequently been a guest on CNN programs such as The Situation Room, The Lead, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Tonight, Larry King Live, Piers Morgan Tonight, New Day, as well as CNN International to provide on-air analysis and reaction to breaking news events.</div>
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He was part of CNN's on-air breaking news coverage immediately after news broke of the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011 and provided on-air analysis on numerous major stories including the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the 2012 Toulouse terrorist shootings, the 2010 attempted bombing of Times Square, the 2009 Christmas day attempt to bomb an airliner over Detroit, the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, and the 2006 Transatlantic Airlines plot. </div>
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Between 2006 and 2009 Cruickshank was a research fellow at the <a data-mce-href="http://lawandsecurity.org/" href="http://lawandsecurity.org/" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">Center on Law and Security </a>at New York University’s School of Law and previously worked as an investigative journalist in London, reporting on al Qaeda and its European affiliates and was part of the CNN reporting team that covered the London July 7, 2005 attacks. </div>
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Cruickshank has written about Al Qaeda and Islamist groups for a variety of international publications and news outlets including The New Republic, The Guardian, Newsweek, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, Mother Jones, Marie Claire, The Independent, Die Welt, The National Post, The New York Daily News, The Australian, Janes, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.</div>
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Cruickshank also previously provided commentary on national security issues to a range of television and radio networks including the BBC, Channel 4 Evening News, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, NPR, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, Canada's CTV, Reuters, Fox News, and Al Jazeera English.</div>
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In July 2011 the New America Foundation published a 66 page study by Cruickshank on the <a data-mce-href="http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/Cruickshank_Militant_Pipeline.pdf" href="http://newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/policydocs/Cruickshank_Militant_Pipeline.pdf" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">militant pipeline </a>between the West and the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region that has continued to provide al Qaeda an opportunity to target the West. </div>
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Cruickshank is the author of the introductory guide "<a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Al-Qaeda-Current-Threat-Pocket/dp/0955441579/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223921051&sr=8-1" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Al-Qaeda-Current-Threat-Pocket/dp/0955441579/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223921051&sr=8-1" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">Al Qaeda: the Current Threat," </a>(Pocket Issue, October 2008).</div>
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In July 2012 CNN aired <a data-mce-href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/20/world/europe/uk-caging-terror-main/index.html" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/20/world/europe/uk-caging-terror-main/index.html" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">"Caging Terror" </a>a thirty minute documentary produced by Cruickshank on a former cage fighter's pioneering program to rehabillitate convicted terrorists in the UK.</div>
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In April 2012 Cruickshank and CNN colleagues Nic Robertson and Tim Lister revealed for the first time <a data-mce-href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/30/world/al-qaeda-documents-london-bombings/index.html" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/30/world/al-qaeda-documents-london-bombings/index.html" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">al Qaeda's internal account of the July 7, 2005 London bombings and 2006 Transatlantic Airline Plot.</a> The document, authored by Rashid Rauf, the British al Qaeda coordinator responsible for the operations, was seized from an al Qaeda operative arrested in Berlin in 2011 and shed significant new light on the plots. CNN International aired a 30 minute special on the story and it was a lead story on AC360.</div>
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In February 2012 CNN aired <a data-mce-href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/16/travel/cargo-terror-concerns/index.html" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/16/travel/cargo-terror-concerns/index.html" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">"Deadly Cargo"</a> a 12 minute magazine report produced by Cruickshank on the 2010 AQAP "printer" bomb plot and the threat posed by the group to international aviation.</div>
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In September 2011 Cruickshank worked with CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson and Executive Editor Tim Lister to put together several reports on the al Qaeda threat ten years after 9/11, incuding an in-depth investigative report on the threat to air cargo and an analysis of the threat of lone wolf terrorism.</div>
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In September 2010 CNN aired a 9/11 anniversary special report <a data-mce-href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/11/siu.01.html" href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/11/siu.01.html" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">"Bin Laden's New Jihadis"</a> to which Cruickshank contributed reporting.</div>
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In May 2010 CNN aired the hour long documentary "<a data-mce-href="http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/bryant.neal.vinas/" href="http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/bryant.neal.vinas/" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">American Al Qaeda"</a> which Cruickshank produced, and appeared in. The special report was the result of a ten month investigation by Senior CNN International Correspondent Nic Robertson, Senior CNN Producer Ken Shiffman and Cruickshank<span class="skype_name_highlight_skypeout"> </span>into the story of American Al Qaeda recruit Bryant Neal Vinas in which CNN tracked down the individuals who allegedly radicalized Vinas and connected him to militants in Pakistan.</div>
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In February 2010 the New America Foundation published an in-depth study by Cruickshank on the <a data-mce-href="http://newamerica.net/events/2010/al_qaeda_central" href="http://newamerica.net/events/2010/al_qaeda_central" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">Militant Pipeline </a>between the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region and the West an update edition of which was published in July 2011.</div>
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In December 2009 CNN aired <a data-mce-href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/13/siu.01.html" href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/13/siu.01.html" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">"Homegrown Terror," </a>a 30 minute CNN Special Report. The program contained several reports from a CNN Special Investigations Unit series on the domestic terrorist threat which Cruickshank proposed and helped put together. Later that month Cruickshank reported for CNN from London on the attempted Christmas Day bombing of an airliner in Detroit.</div>
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In November 2009 CNN aired <a data-mce-href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/09/libya.jihadi.code/" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/09/libya.jihadi.code/" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">"The Jihadi Code" </a>a documentary produced by Cruickshank on the repudiation of Al Qaeda by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, one of the world's most prominent Jihadist groups. The documentary was the result of two years of investigative reporting during which Cruickshank and colleague Nic Robertson obtained exclusive access to Abu Salim prison in Tripoli and exclusive interviews with key players in the talks that led to the breakthrough.</div>
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In February 2009 Cruickshank produced a half hour CNN documentary <a data-mce-href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/10/belgium.terror/index.html?iref=hpmostpop#cnnSTCText" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/10/belgium.terror/index.html?iref=hpmostpop#cnnSTCText" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">"One Woman's War," </a>which profiled "Al Qaeda living legend" Malika el Aroud. The <a data-mce-href="http://www.tvfestival.net/fiche.php?ref=ND1399" href="http://www.tvfestival.net/fiche.php?ref=ND1399" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">program </a>was <a data-mce-href="http://www.tvfestival.net/content/Competition/competitionUK.php?menu=smenu1&ttt=nom&typeN=4&prix=&search=&nbreg=15&page=2" href="http://www.tvfestival.net/content/Competition/competitionUK.php?menu=smenu1&ttt=nom&typeN=4&prix=&search=&nbreg=15&page=2" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">nominated </a>in the category of "best documentary" in the 2009 <a data-mce-href="http://www.tvfestival.net/content/Competition/competitionUK.php?menu=smenu1" href="http://www.tvfestival.net/content/Competition/competitionUK.php?menu=smenu1" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">Monte Carlo Global Television Awards.</a></div>
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In October 2008 Cruickshank's on-camera reporting was featured in the CNN International half-hour documentary "Deadly Recruits: Female Suicide Bombers." </div>
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Cruickshank was the co-producer of an hour-long Dateline NBC documentary on the <a data-mce-href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726987/" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26726987/" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">2006 "Airline Plot," </a>which aired in September 2008. The report was awarded second place in the<a data-mce-href="http://www.nationalheadlinerawards.com/Winners2009Broadcast.html" href="http://www.nationalheadlinerawards.com/Winners2009Broadcast.html" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">National Headliner Awards </a>for the "best news magazine program" of the year on US network television.</div>
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In June 2008 Cruickshank co-authored a cover story in the New Republic with Peter Bergen entitled "<a data-mce-href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=702bf6d5-a37a-4e3e-a491-fd72bf6a9da1" href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=702bf6d5-a37a-4e3e-a491-fd72bf6a9da1" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">The Jihadist Revolt against Bin Laden</a>." The story was reprinted in several leading publications around the world and was picked up by several newspapers, including the <a data-mce-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/opinion/30brooks.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/opinion/30brooks.html" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">New York Times</a>, <a data-mce-href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121218707586633975.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121218707586633975.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">Wall Street Journal</a>,<a data-mce-href="http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11496851" href="http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11496851" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">Economist</a>, <a data-mce-href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a0a70968-3654-11dd-8bb8-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1" href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a0a70968-3654-11dd-8bb8-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">Financial Times</a>, and the <a data-mce-href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4087373.ece" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4087373.ece" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">London Times</a>. Their report also helped generate a <a data-mce-href="http://homeland.house.gov/Hearings/index.asp?ID=161" href="http://homeland.house.gov/Hearings/index.asp?ID=161" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">Congressional Hearing </a>and a <a data-mce-href="http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/10/transcript_of_event_the_jihadi.php" href="http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/10/transcript_of_event_the_jihadi.php" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">Capitol Hill Panel </a>on Al Qaeda’s ideological vulnerabilities.</div>
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In March 2007 Cruickshank co-authored with Peter Bergen the<a data-mce-href="http://www.lawandsecurity.org/publications/Iraq_Effect_Full_Study.pdf" href="http://www.lawandsecurity.org/publications/Iraq_Effect_Full_Study.pdf" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" type="1">"Iraq Effect," </a>an NYU Studywhich measured the impact of the Iraq war on the rate of terrorist attacks. The study, published in Mother Jones, found a significant increase in terrorism around the world in the period after the US invasion of Iraq, generated a front page story in the Independent.</div>
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In 2006 Cruickshank worked with CNN on a two-hour Emmy-nominated documentary <a data-mce-href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/15/elaroud/index.html" href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/15/elaroud/index.html" style="color: #00adef; text-decoration: none;" type="1">“In the footsteps of bin Laden,” </a>based on Peter Bergen's 2006 Oral History "The Osama Bin Laden I Know," which he helped research.</div>
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Cruickshank graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in history, and has a Masters degree with Honors in International Relations from the Paul. H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He has also worked in the European Parliament in Brussels and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C.</div>
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<strong>Below: With CNN anchor Anderson Cooper in New York City on May 2, 2011 after news broke that Osama bin Laden had been killed.</strong></div>
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<strong>Below: Interviewing "Al Qaeda living legend" Malika el Aroud for CNN "In the Footsteps of bin Laden" documentary, February 2006. She was later arrested and convicted of terrorism offences.</strong></div>
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<strong>Below: Discussing the Boston Marathon Bombing with Christiane Amanpour, CNN April 2013</strong></div>
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Responding To Obama’s Hate Against Republicans: I Guess Obama’s True Enemy The GOP Isn’t ‘Contained’ Like Islamic State Is…</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>“I don’t think they’re gaining strength. What is true, from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria they’ll come in, they’ll leave. But you don’t see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain</em>.” — Barack Hussein Obama of Islamic State hours before the attack on Paris</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“<em>You boast, we have struck a bargain to cheat death and we have made a deal to dodge the grave. The coming destruction can never touch us, for we have built a strong refuge made of lies and deception</em>.” — Isaiah 28:15</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">First of all, I’m glad Senator Ted Cruz called Obama out and said, “<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/18/politics/ted-cruz-barack-obama-insult-debate/index.html" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Why don’t you insult me to my face</a>?” But I’ve got my own response to this garbage pouring out of the mouth 0f our pathologically wicked and cancerously foolish president.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Just a couple of the recent statements from Obama that Cruz is calling out: <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2015/11/16/after-jihadists-attack-paris-a-resolute-obama-lectures-republicans-about-intolerance/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obama said</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“When I hear folks say that, well, maybe we should just admit the Christians but not the Muslims, when I hear political leaders suggesting that there would be a religious test for which person who’s fleeing from a war-torn country is admitted, when some of those folks themselves come from families who benefited from protection when they were fleeing political persecution, that’s shameful,” Obama said during a wide-ranging speech at the G20 Summit in Turkey about his plan to allow vetted Syrian refugees into the country. “That’s not American, it’s not who we are.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“I think it is very important for us right now, particularly those who are in leadership, particularly those who have a platform and can be heard, not to fall into that trap, not to feed that dark impulse inside of us,” he added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It doesn’t MATTER to Obama that HE is the one who created the WORST refugee crisis since World War II. If this posturing fool cared so much about Syrian refugees, then <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/08/30/assad-gassed-syria-15-times-since-2012-us-weighing-strike-options/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">why in the hell did he let Assad gas them at least a dozen times</a> – backing down like a weak, gutless coward from his own “<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/116322/obamas-syria-policy-has-become-total-disaster" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">red line</a>” fiasco – and<a href="https://kyleorton1991.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/how-many-alawis-have-been-killed-in-syria/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">then proceed to murder something on the order of HALF A MILLION of them while Obama stood by and did NOTHING??? </a>These Syrian refugees aren’t at death’s door because of anything other than YOU as the LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD REFUSING TO LIFT A FINGER TO HELP THEM WHEN THEY DESPERATELY NEEDED AMERICAN HELP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Obama is like the abusive turd spouse that beats his wife in the face and then blames the doctor for her brain damage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">We’re working on FIVE MILLION REFUGEES <a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2015/09/11/blame-europes-migrant-crisis-on-obamas-do-nothing-syria-policy" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">created by Obama’s fool policies</a>. It gets worse: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/18/cia-director-says-half-syrian-population-displaced-house-pushes-stricter.html" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the CIA says that HALF of Syria’s population of 25 million people have been displaced</a>. So we can count on at LEAST another eight million MORE crisis refugees with nowhere to go thanks to Obama. And it is frankly demonically amazing that the fool who created a crisis of millions of refugees can insanely blame Republicans for not wanting to allow thousands of his millions to come into America. He holds himself blameless for MILLIONS and demonizes Republicans over thousands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Islamic State PROMISED they were going to infiltrate terrorists into the ranks of the refugees. <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/isis-smuggler-we-will-use-refugee-crisis-to-infiltrate-west/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">THAT IS A FACT</a>. The terrorists that just brought hell to Paris, France included a terrorist who infiltrated as the very refugee that Obama now lectures Republicans for not wanting to bring into America. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/15/europe/paris-attacks-passports/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">That is a FACT</a>. Eight Islamic State terrorists were just apprehended trying to infiltrate Turkey by posing as refugees. <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/427272/isis-terrorists-refugees-arrested-turkey" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">THAT is a FACT</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/11/17/president-obamas-cynical-refugee-ploy/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">I agree with every single WORD with this article from Walter Russell Mead </a>that features this apt denunciation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">To see the full cynicism of the Obama approach to the refugee issue, one has only to ask President Obama’s least favorite question: Why is there a Syrian refugee crisis in the first place?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Obama’s own policy decisions—allowing Assad to convert peaceful demonstrations into an increasingly ugly civil war, refusing to declare safe havens and no fly zones—were instrumental in creating the Syrian refugee crisis. This crisis is in large part the direct consequence of President Obama’s decision to stand aside and watch Syria burn. For him to try and use a derisory and symbolic program to allow 10,000 refugees into the United States in order to posture as more caring than those evil Jacksonian rednecks out in the benighted sticks is one of the most cynical, cold-blooded, and nastily divisive moves an American President has made in a long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Moreover, many of those “benighted” people were willing to sign up for the U.S. military and go to fight ISIS in Syria to protect the refugees. Many Americans who now oppose the President’s ill-considered refugee program have long supported the use of American power to create “safe zones” in Syria so the refugees could be sheltered and fed in their own country. If President Obama seriously cared about the fate of Syria’s millions of displaced people, he would have started to organize those safe havens years ago. And if he understood the nature of America’s role in Europe, he would have known that working with the Europeans to prevent a mass refugee and humanitarian disaster was something that had to be done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Not even President Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq has been as destructive for Europe or as damaging to the Transatlantic alliance as President Obama’s hard-hearted and short-sighted Syria policy. The flood of refugees is shaking the European Union to its core, and Obama’s policy has cemented perceptions among many around the world that the United States is no longer the kind of useful ally that it once was. France didn’t even bother to invoke NATO’s Article 5 after the Paris attacks; nobody really thinks of President Obama as the man you want at your side when the chips are down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The collapse of President Obama’s Syria policy is hardly a partisan issue. He has repeatedly overruled his own national security officials, top diplomats, and advisors, many of whom have been horrified by the President’s passivity in the face of onrushing disaster. His abrupt policy switch on airstrikes left many senior Democrats who had supported his apparent determination to enforce his “red line” against Assad twisting in the wind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">To think that conspicuous moral posturing and holy posing over a symbolic refugee quota could turn President Obama from the goat to the hero of the Syrian crisis is absurd. Wringing your hands while Syria turns into a hell on earth, and then taking a token number of refugees, can be called many things, but decent and wise are not among them. You don’t have to be a xenophobe or a racist or even a Republican to reject this President’s leadership on Syria policy. All you need for that is common sense and a moral compass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">And it’s worse. The Obama Administration’s extreme caution about engagement in Syria led it to insist on such a thorough process of vetting potential Syrian allies that years of effort and tens of millions of dollars resulted in only a paltry handful of people being found acceptable to receive American weapons and training. The refugee vetting process won’t be nearly this thorough; it’s almost certain that the President’s program will result in settling people in the United States who could not be certified to fight for the United States in Syria. Given our gun laws, uncertified Syrians living in the United States will soon have the opportunity to get weapons that the United States government would refuse to give them in Syria. To millions of Americans, this is a double standard they can neither understand nor accept. To call people troubled by these concerns racists and xenophobes is to divide and polarize this country in ways that will cost us all dearly down the road. We have enough hate, enough radicalism, enough mutual misunderstanding and distrust between left and right in America as it is. The President is adding to that distrust, and doing it in a particularly ugly and damaging way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Amen. Preach it from the rooftops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Barack Obama could not be a more cynical, depraved man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Obama is a FOOL. He is literally telling us that we should close our eyes to the threat and just open our arms and let it in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">And now he’s backed himself into a corner because even his own wicked Democrat Party is starting to say, “Oh, HELL no!” to Obama’s depraved moral idiocy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I listened to this fool Obama fundamentally contradict himself. <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/11/16/press-conference-president-obama-antalya-turkey" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">He said</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“In terms of refugees, it’s clear that countries like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan — which are already bearing an extraordinary burden — cannot be expected to do so alone. At the same time, all of our countries have to ensure our security. And <strong>as President, my first priority is the safety of the American people</strong>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Oh, okay. Then given the FACT that Islamic State did as they said they would do and infiltrated terrorists who immediately unleashed murder on innocent people, you will of course suspend bringing more refugees who clearly include terrorist infiltrators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">But then in the very same soundbite Obama arrogantly and foolishly IMMEDIATELY contradicted himself, saying:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">We also have to remember that many of <strong>these refugees are</strong> the <strong>victims</strong> of terrorism themselves — that’s what they’re fleeing.<strong>Slamming the door in their faces would be a betrayal of our values</strong>. Our nations can welcome refugees who are desperately seeking safety and ensure our own security. We can and must do both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">No, you fool turd, we mustn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I don’t remember where George Washington, our greatest hero and founder of our country, told us that “our values” should force us to bring in terrorist infiltrators who despise everything we stand for and want nothing more than do dance in our blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Mead points out another example of Obama’s fundamental contradiction: back in 2011 – when this godawful Syrian civil war began – Republicans like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, along with numerous top military officials – BEGGED Obama to train and arm the moderate Syrian resistance fighters that were still alive and well. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-uss-syria-policy-stalled-under-the-analyst-in-chief-2014-12" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">But Obama ignored helping these moderates for YEARS</a>, claiming that we couldn’t distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. As I myself pointed, Obama waited for YEARS – and by then my title was “<a href="https://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2014/09/20/why-arming-the-rebels-in-syria-now-is-way-too-little-and-way-way-too-late/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Way Too Little And Way, WAY Too Late</a>.” I wrote that<a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/16/general-only-4-or-5-us-trained-syrian-fighters-operating-against-isis" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">over a YEAR BEFORE the generals testified that Obama’s idiotic program was a fiasco</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>So therein lies the key wicked and incredibly cynical Obama contradiction: we couldn’t arm these people because we couldn’t trust them. But yet somehow now we can trust them implicitly to flood into our very heartland now</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Obama is such a cynical, depraved, narcissistic ideologue that his argument is literally, “I was MORAL for doing NOTHING while Syria burned for over four years and created the worst refugee crisis since the last World WAR; but Republicans are IMMORAL for not allowing me to cover my ass politically now by allowing potential terrorists into our country.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You wicked fool!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://abc7chicago.com/news/isis-present-in-all-50-states-fbi-director-says/534732/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">We already have Islamic State having infiltrated ALL FIFTY STATES IN AMEICA</a>, according to the Director of the FBI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/14/fbi-has-nearly-1000-active-islamic-state-probes-in/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">There are already 1,000 active investigations into Islamic State presence inside America</a>, according to the FBI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-attack-spurs-increase-fbi-surveillance-marginal-terror/story?id=30910372" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">It requires thirty agents to mount a round-the-clock surveillance of a suspect</a>. The FBI has testified that they do not have the resources to do more than sixty to seventy of these surveillances at one time maximum. There is simply no possible way we can surveil the terror suspects we’ve already got in our country, let alone the potentially thousands more Obama and the Democrat Party want to let in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It’s like Obama is saying that he needs to allow the bomb makers to infiltrate in so all the terror cells already here and operational can really add a bang to their planned terror attack here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Keep in mind that in 2008 there were only a few hundred guys in ISIS. They were a disgruntled offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/scapegoating_petraeus.html" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">which was DEFEATED under Bush</a>. Now ISIS has tens of THOUSANDS under Obama. They are the world’s FIRST terrorist ARMY under Obama. They have the world’s FIRST terrorist CALIPHATE under Obama. And they have power and the ability to draw people to join their cause from all over the world beyond anything we’ve ever seen in all of history. Under Obama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Let me continue with how this arrogant, mocking, slanderous fool Obama is demonizing Republicans claiming that they are “scared of widows and orphans.” <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/260542-obama-gop-refugee-opponents-scared-of-widows-and-orphans" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Obama sneeringly said</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>“Apparently they are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America,” Obama said of Republicans</strong>. “At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of three year old orphans. That doesn’t seem so tough to me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You arrogant, fool, hypocrite lying cockroach. When did YOU agree to participate in a Fox News debate in which Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh masqueraded as “moderators” and attacked you with right-wing talking points masquerading as “questions”??? Try NEVER. It is a FACT <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2015/10/27/watch-out-shenanigans-cnbc-debate-moderators-most-biased" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">that the lead moderator of the debate Obama is mocking Republicans over had a long history of leftist shenanigans – as was pointed out in ADVANCE of the debate</a>. Just as it is a fact <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/10/31/theres-no-debate-the-cnbc-moderators-were-unfair/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">that the debate itself was incredibly biased</a>. Those Republicans who walked on that CNBC debate platform showed more courage showing up in an unfair environment than YOU’VE ever shown in your coward life. Remember Ted Cruz basically saying, “Insult me to my face, you coward. Crawl out of your roach hole and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/18/politics/ted-cruz-barack-obama-insult-debate/index.html" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">DEBATE me!” </a> Rest assured the coward who mocks others will never dare to step up to the plate and take a real swing. Obama is a coward who sneers while he cowers in fear. And that is hardly the end of Obama’s sheer deceit: It aint widows and orphans Republicans are afraid of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Obama is a Justin Beiber who taunts a man, “You’re afraid to fight me, aren’t you?” and the guy is like, “You rotten like punk, I’d LOVE to get alone so I could give you the vicious beating you deserve; it’s the five giant bodyguards draping you I’m afraid of.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://therightscoop.com/united-nations-says-72-of-syrian-refugees-are-men-only-13-are-children/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Even the United Nations – a bastion of stupid leftism – points out that 72% of the “refugees” flooding into Europe and now thanks to Obama into America are YOUNG MEN. And ONLY 13% are children</a>. So it’s NOT “widows and orphans” the Republicans are “scared of,” you liar: it is the overwhelming majority of the “refugees” who are YOUNG MEN who are the same sort of men who just got through bringing down a jet and causing Russia’s worst aviation disaster EVER and the same sort of young men who just terrorized Paris.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">And if you had a shred of common sense in you, you fool, you’d be afraid of allowing them into America, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Let’s call these people what they are: “Refujihadists.” Even the decent refugees who are coming in pose a profound danger of future radicalization as they become disenchanted as they come to find that the streets aren’t paved with gold. Europe is already screwed. We shouldn’t make ourselves the next ones to be screwed by a giant disenchanted and pissed off Muslim population. That’s just a fact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">But facts don’t matter to you, Obama, you slanderous hypocrite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Then there’s this nugget of slanderous Obama nonsense:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">MANILA, Philippines — President Obama on Wednesday angrily accused Republicans of feeding into the Islamic State’s strategy of casting the United States as waging war on Muslims, saying the GOP’s rhetoric has become the most “potent recruitment tool” for the militant group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Obama was responding to recent calls from Republicans, including presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.), to block Syrian refugees’ entrance into the United States. Bush and Cruz have suggested welcoming Christian refugees, but not those who are Muslims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>“I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric coming out of here in the course of this debate,”</strong> Obama said during a news conference at a leadership summit here, using an acronym for the Islamic State.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">REALLY, you roach? You’re blaming the explosion of terrorism that’s happened under YOUR failed watch on Republicans???</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You’re actually still trying to suggest that if a weak, gutless FOOL like YOU were president, that terrorism would be going away rather than massively metastasizing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Some facts: a 58% increase in terrorist threat to the US between 2010 and 2014:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.rand.org/news/press/2014/06/04.html" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Increase in Jihadist Threat Calls for New U.S. Strategy to Combat Terrorism</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>There is a growing terrorist threat to the United States from a rising number of Salafi-jihadist groups overseas, according to a RAND Corporation study</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Since 2010, there has been a 58 percent increase in the number of jihadist groups, a doubling of jihadist fighters and a tripling of attacks by al Qaeda affiliates. The most significant threat to the United States, the report concludes, comes from terrorist groups operating in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Based on these threats, the United States cannot afford to withdraw or remain disengaged from key parts of North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia,” said Seth Jones, author of the study and associate director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. “After more than a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, it may be tempting for the U.S. to turn its attention elsewhere and scale back on counterterrorism efforts. But this research indicates that the struggle is far from over.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">For the RAND study, Jones examined thousands of unclassified and declassified primary source documents, including public statements and internal memorandums of al Qaeda and other Salafi-jihadist leaders. The study also includes a database of information such as the number of Salafi-jihadist groups, their approximate size and their activity — attacks, fatalities and other casualties. […]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It wasn’t Republicans that created that skyrocketing surge in terrorism, Obama, you failed fool; it was YOUR gutlessness and abject moral cowardice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/06/20/report-global-islamic-terror-explodes-deaths-up-81/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">And now let’s look at the even steeper rocket path of terrorism since 2014</a>:</span></div>
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(REUTERS) – Terrorist attacks worldwide surged by more than a third and fatalities soared by 81 percent in 2014, a year that also saw Islamic State eclipse al Qaeda as the leading jihadist militant group, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">In its annual report on terrorism, the department also charts an unprecedented flow of foreign fighters to <a class="vglnk" href="http://www.reuters.com/places/syria" rel="nofollow" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Syria</a>, often lured by Islamic State’s use of social media and drawn from diverse social backgrounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">So on Obama’s watch between 2010 and 2014, terrorism exploded by 54 percent. Which was nothing when it exploded another 81% in 2015 from that dreadful 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Terrorism has EXPLODED. And it has exploded under the failed presidency of ONE egregious fool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">But whose fault is it? Not the commander-in-chief’s. No, his strategies are all BRILLIANT. And they’re all working to perfection, aren’t they?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I remember Charlie Sheen in his psycho ranting: Obama is a “winner” and his policies will all work because they’ve all got “tiger blood.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Word of God describes five forms of fool –</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">SIMPLE fool: (peth-EE, Strongs # 6612): a fool who opens up his mind to any passing thought and fails to comprehend cause and effect consequences of choices (ex. Prov 19:25, which points out that a simple fool will often make a scorning fool a hero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">SILLY fool: (ev-EEL, Strongs # 191): a fool who believes his own way of thinking is right and despises wise instruction when it is offered (ex. Prov 1:7, 12:15).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">SENSUAL fool: (kess-EEL, Strongs # 3684): a fool whose focus is on that which brings immediate pleasure or gratification and will not listen to reason. This is THE most common word for fool in Scripture. Prov 28:26 says, “Those who trust in themselves are (sensual) fools, but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">SCORNING fool: ((LOOTS, Strongs # 3887): a fool whose facial expressions communicate his disdain and contempt in heart toward legitimate authorities, including parents, civil authorities, and God, and who turns deaf ear to rebuke (ex. trans as “scoffers” in Psalm 1:1; Prov 13:1, 14:6, 15:12; 28:26)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">STEADFAST fool: (naw-BAWL, Strong # 5036): a steadfast fool is one who totally rejects God and His ways and the goal of such a fool is to draw as many as possible into evil ways. Only God can successfully rebuke a steadfast fool. Psalm 14:1 says, “The (steadfast) fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">– and Barack Hussein Obama is all five forms of fool all at once. He is the walking embodiment of stage five fool cancer. He is the living, breathing fool who has this look of arrogant contempt on his face for his betters who kept being right when he kept being wrong. And there is no possible way that actual wisdom or common sense will ever enter into this fool’s demonically-deluded head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">For the president of France, Paris was “an act of war.” For Obama, it was merely a “setback.” And Fool Speed Ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">And so he maliciously and dishonestly demonizes everyone around him and refuses to claim responsibility for his own policies or admit there is anything wrong with them no matter how blatantly obvious it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">So he assures us that Islamic State – which he called “JayVee” even as they were building the world’s first terrorist CALIPHATE under Obama’s watch that Osama bin Laden spent his lifetime dreaming of – had been “contained.” Only days after they had destroyed a jet that murdered 224 people and became Russia’s worst aviation disaster EVER and the VERY DAY that Paris was viciously attacked. In an attack that no intelligence agency could see coming because this “JayVee” team is that much better than us now thanks to Obama who spent his first days in office trying to criminally prosecute the CIA heroes who waterboarded terrorists as an interrogation preparation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kerry-rationale-for-charlie-hebdo-attack-more-understandable/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">John Kerry let something slip out. QUOTE</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that,” he said in remarks at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. “There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of – not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, ‘Okay, they’re really angry because of this and that.’ This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Democrats are the New Stalinists and it is perfectly okay to them – just like the terrorists – to destroy people who believe in free speech. So John Kerry is telling us that the French who spoke out in cartoons against Islam’s prophet Mohammad basically deserved to die, that there was a “legitimacy” and a “rationale” for the murders. Just like Obama and Hillary Clinton FALSELY AND DISHONESTLY demonized as being responsible for the Benghazi terrorist attack an American citizen who exercised his 1st Amendment right to make a Youtube movie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nobody should have the right to attack the Prophet, or to attack Obama, or to attack homosexual marriage or abortion. Why, the people who murder you will have a “legitimacy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">And the fact that John Kerry is STILL the Secretary of Sharia State proves that Obama agrees with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">For Obama, the “problem” isn’t terrorism; it isn’t the clash of worldviews between freedom and Islam. Nope. It’s Republicans. Obama doesn’t believe that ANYBODY ought to have the right to question him or disagree with him. It’s “legitimate” for Obama’s followers to threaten, to imprison, to sue, to destroy such people by any means necessary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I only wish Obama could muster a tiny percent of the same outrage and hate and viciousness against the terrorists who are murdering their way across the world that he has for his own people who happen to disagree with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">But he’s a fool. And such behavior is the hallmark of a fool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">One of the interesting things about Obama’s massive rants against the Republican efforts to deal with the Syrian refugee crisis that Obama created with his wicked and incompetent fool-policies is to create the idea that Republicans are so hateful that our enemies would literally have “legitimacy” and a “rationale” in attacking us. So enough Democrats are now joining Republicans opposing Obama that the Republicans’ blocking of Syrian refugees who can’t be vetted will succeed over Obama’s veto. And then what? Well, according to Obama, America would then be a hateful nation. And therefore on Obama’s ugly and twisted rhetoric, Islamic State will be the ones in the right for attacking us. We either need to do things Obama’s way, or Obama basically says we should die. That’s the mess Obama has created first with his stupid policies that allowed Islamic State to explode in power and influence, then in his refusal to do a damn thing to prevent or stop the refugee crisis, and now in his unhinged rhetoric demonizing every single American who doesn’t think exactly like he does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">World War II began because of two things: 1) the rise of fanaticism and 2) the accurate perception of Western weakness and unwillingness to fight by the fanatics. And Barack Obama has now allowed the first condition – the resurgence of fanaticism – and created the second condition by his folly.</span></div>
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NOTHING SHOULD BE EXPECTED OF WHITE PEOPLE ANYMORE -- WE'RE IN THE MINORITY<br />by Verne Strickland November 17, 2015</div>
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Sheryce Holloway (activist colored girl) is tired of white people at Virginia Commonwealth University asking if they can touch her hair or if she knows the latest dance move. At Chicago's Loyola University, Dominick Hall says groups of white guys stop talking when he walks by, and people grip their bags a little tighter. And Katiana Roc says a white student a few seats away from her at West Virginia University got up and moved to the other side of the classroom. (Yahoo)</div>
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Get a grip, whiny colored folk. You consider yourselves more important than you are. You should know what it feels like to be part of America's minority race. I'm a white boy -- and I have to suffer with that embarrassment and daily burden. Which means -- if you haven't read it yet (if, indeed, you ever read at all) whites are now in the minority. Right. So where's my free stuff? Where are my food stamps, my reparations, my own president? You people are insignificant because you are small, selfish, ungrateful and unimaginative. Further -- to be basic about it all -- you are hateful. You have become everything you have imagined about the white race -- smug, self-satisfied and entitled. But you lack many racial attributes, such as a legacy of pride and accomplishment. As I hold up my hand to count on my fingers the things you can really boast about, I can only think of one great breakthrough blacks are noted for -- the invention of crunchy peanut butter by George Washington Carver. I know I'm being ugly. But I can do that now that I am part of the minority race in the U.S. Nothing is expected of me, so I won't disappoint.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918992486936677186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007465195507889272.post-46353228578855254032015-11-09T18:25:00.002-08:002015-12-04T18:51:46.811-08:00MELODRAMA AT MIZZOU OVER . . . NOT A DAMN THING? Verne Strickland <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />As a black spokesman for black students at the University of Missouri said tonight-- "Racism is systematic". I don't think that's what he meant to say. He apparently missed more than a few of his English classes.<br /><br />This whole charade leaves a lot of questions, like -- "Why?" And "What the hell?" Throughout all he melodrama on campus, I never heard a<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">ny relevant complaints substantiating the alleged "racism". One black campus leader said he "didn't feel welcome".<br /><br />A graduate student -- (black unless otherwise identified) claimed he would continue his "hunger strike" until the end. What? I saw him in a CNN interview tonight, and the guy didn't look like he hadn't missed a meal in his life -- an obvious put-up job to fan flames of simmering racial tensions.<br /><br />But if his starvation charade had worked, I think it should be put to a wider test on fat (obese?) black students who could definitely drop a few pounds without collapsing from malnutrition or even rickets. It's clear enough that the black kids are not suffering from a calorie shortage but from a terminal junk diet.<br /><br />Back to the campus -- and the phony racial ruckus. It finally focused on the university football team, which as a "group" or more accurately a "gang", threatened to boycott the team and throw the next game if the college president didn't quit.<br /><br />Hey -- whoa! All of these convoluted give-and-take threats cause one to question who is really holding the most marbles here. True, the football players are generating big bucks for the popular college gridiron contests. What are they getting in return? Coveted athletic scholarships, for one thing, through which they get a valuable education free of charge, plus other valuable perks.<br /><br />It would seem that black young men, who otherwise may have been denied the chance to earn a degree at a top university, would consider that to be quite a handsome pay-off and a fair trade.<br /><br />What else? Well, I heard it stated that only seven percent of the students at the university are black. Yet they quickly and confidently managed to wield leverage by blackmailing a top school which accorded them priceless career advantages.<br /><br />The Tigers football players of color who surely have signed some kind of iron-clad lawyer- tested contracts, should be thrown off the team and off the campus for trying to hold this respected U.S. university hostage.<br /><br />Things have gotten way out of hand here. Let's take control of the campus and its athletic programs back from the spoiled radicals and return it to the school trustees and the State government -- before these unruly and immature punks and punkesses really get out of hand.<br /><br />Bottom line? This vaunted "diversity" thing ain't what it's cracked up to be, is it?</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918992486936677186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007465195507889272.post-68568574799816850552015-11-09T10:52:00.001-08:002015-11-09T10:57:40.768-08:00DEATH SENTENCE FOR AMERICA? by Verne Strickland<br />
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DEATH SENTENCE FOR AMERICA? by Verne Strickland<br />
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Hillary Clinton: "I support President Obama Strongly"<br />
"I find a lot of common ground with the Republican Party".</div>
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What the hell? This vixen is slithering around like the serpent in the Garden of Eden. She is smiling, but her eyes lie. I wouldn't trust her with any issue of substance.</div>
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Vetting is the issue right now that we need to look at. Bill Clinton was not vetted satisfactorily, and look at what we got. A socialist Democrat not even characterized as socialist when he ran for U.S. president. He led us disastrously astray.</div>
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He is married to Hillary Clinton, who wants to pick up where Bill Clinton left off. Bill and Hillary are both connected with numerous mysterious deaths of people who were investigating them for fraud and other spurious activities. But "vetted"? No.</div>
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Which brings me to Dr. Ben Carson. The dominant U.S. media (traditionally left-leaning, and now to the point of anti-American socialist loyalties) are beginning to zero in on Carson. For what? Embellishing his resume, beating up little black boys with baseball bats (suggestions not substantiated by his own childhood acquaintances) and other trivia.</div>
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But where's the meat and 'taters? They'll have to come up with more than that to build the deep distrust against the brilliant neurosurgeon that they are really after.</div>
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The whole vetting game is so porous and shoddy as to be totally irrelevant. But it's so vital to discerning who's who in the jockeying for those who have occupied the Oval Office -- and others who want to be next.</div>
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We are as vulnerable in this all-important determination as we are in keeping ISIS in check. And I'm far from convinced that we are accomplishing that.</div>
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Warning: I put this together in a hurry, so may be installing some edits to it. In the meantime -- keep my post out of the reach of children and do not store at temperatures above 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Celsius? Don't worry. Scientists still haven't figured out what this actually means. I think it's some sort of elitist European one-world political movement.</div>
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For years after the Soviet Union's collapse, Russia's liberals and Westerners alike hoped that the freed people and new republics would form law-abiding and democratic states. Putin's rule has labored to prevent that from happening, and the old Soviet world has hardened to its new shape. Across the rolling expanse of steppe, forest, and mountain range formerly under Kremlin rule, every single government unfailingly declares itself democratic. But aside from in the Baltic states, few in the region can speak candidly on television or the radio, or watch a free and independent news broadcast of local origin, or enjoy unmolested public assembly that criticizes the government, or have a fair hearing before an impartial judge in a court where the law is the highest authority, or select leaders from a slate of candidates who have been allowed to campaign openly and without restriction. This is the state of the Russian-speaking world nearly two decades after the wall came down.</div>
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This is his world. When Moscow proved too opaque, this is where I would go to see Vladimir Putin's reflection.</div>
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In Belarus, the opposition to President Aleksandr Lukashenko was portrayed on state television news (the only broadcast news in the country) as homosexual, drug-abusing, and in the pay of spies. Campaign managers were jailed, as were the protestors against electoral abuses. Both opposition candidates that stood against Lukashenko were arrested during and after the race, and one, Aleksandr Kazulin, was sentenced to five and a half years in jail for leading a protest march. He was released this year to attend the funeral of his wife, who died of cancer, and then led back to his cell.</div>
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Kazulin's fate has been less harsh than others. In Tajikistan in 2005, Makhmadrouzi Iskandarov, an opposition leader who said he would run for president, was convicted of terrorism and other charges. He was sentenced to twenty-three years in jail at a closed trial.</div>
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In Kazakhstan that year, a newspaper editor who published court documents from the United States detailing the corruption of President Nursultan Nazarbayev was mugged by men who carved a censor's X across his chest. Two prominent opposition politicians died of gunshot wounds around election time. One, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, was found shot twice in the chest and once in the head. (The police suggested the death was a suicide, the three shots apparently evidence of resolve.) The other, Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly, was bound at the wrists and murdered in early 2006 by officers from Kazakhstan's former KGB.</div>
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In Uzbekistan, protestors, many chanting "Freedom," were dispersed by government machine-gun fire in 2005. No outsider knows how many people died, and President Islam Karimov blocked all independent reviews. <i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Blocked</i> is euphemism here: Two survivors who were interviewed by me and two colleagues were later dragged from a refugee camp by Uzbek intelligence officers and imprisoned after show trials; a local journalist who assisted us had a bounty placed on his head by the Uzbek government for his own writings. Soon after, he was shot.</div>
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In Azerbaijan, after the last parliamentary election, demonstrators and candidates were clubbed by phalanxes of riot police and chased by trucks with water cannons after protesting the intimidation, vote stuffing, and rigged counts that accompanied the ruling party's overwhelming official victory.</div>
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In Turkmenistan, after the dictator Saparmurat Niyazov died, the man in line to be acting president was arrested, securing another insider's path to power.</div>
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In Armenia, the government declared a state of emergency amid street protests to a flawed vote, and sent tanks to disperse the crowds.</div>
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During Putin's second term, I traveled to each of these former Soviet nations and observed their political machines. In Russia, where I lived, control of elections is almost total. But across the region, there are shades in the palette of repression and official crime, and the Kremlin's election-season repression was less crude and violent than in many former Soviet states. Putin, who had the opportunity to be a democrat, instead chose to lead this club. At a time when he was popular and powerful, he never trusted Russia's people or politics enough to allow a free vote. He dashed his chance at legitimacy and surrendered the possibility that Russia might wield moral weight.</div>
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Instead, as he became Russia's preeminent man, he pulled the levers of a reinvigorated state to suit himself. And this year when Russia invaded Georgia, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was instantly assigned the role of criminal on Russian TV, just as Mikhail Khodorkovsky had been before him.</div>
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Early this year, Putin was challenged by a reporter at a news conference over the continued vote fabrications in Chechnya. There, according to the government's figures for the parliamentary election last year, 99 percent of the voters had cast ballots, and 99 percent of the ballots were for the political party Putin leads. Such election figures have been rivaled only in Kim Jong-il's North Korea, Mao's China, Niyazov's Turkmenistan, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. They were especially absurd for a vote in Chechnya, a land shaped by cycles of resistance to Russian rule, and that had been brought back to yoke by force. The correspondent wanted to know: Did the president of Russia find these numbers credible?</div>
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Putin declined to answer. Instead, he asked a state journalist from Chechnya to answer for him. The young Chechen quickly stood. "These are absolutely realistic figures," he said, grinning obsequiously. And Vladimir Putin watched with a mix of satisfaction and boredom, the face of unchecked power itself.</div>
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See why Esquire chose <a class="body-el-link standard-body-el-link" href="http://www.esquire.com/features/most-influential-21st-century-1008" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a3da; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Vladimir Putin</a> as one of the 75 most influential people of the 21st century.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918992486936677186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007465195507889272.post-59771708508511690982015-10-29T10:29:00.003-07:002015-10-29T10:59:17.103-07:00U.S. REP. RENEE ELMERS (D-NC) HAS NOT FULFILLED HER PROMISES<div class="_1dwg" style="padding: 12px 12px 0px;">
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<span style="line-height: 1.38;">“I don’t get it. U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers works tirelessly to do great things for all of North Carolina, not only her own District 2. She has worked to block the Obama administration’s efforts to shut down Fort Bragg’s 440th Airlift Wing, she’s leading the effort to push through n</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 1.38;">early $3 trillion in cuts in wasteful spending and she’s working to secure America’s southern border, among other important efforts. Why can’t The N&O cover these positive endeavors, rather than putting a false, salacious rumor on the front page (“As Rep. Renee Ellmers dodges rumor, some rivals talk it up,” Oct. 17 news article)?”</span></h5>
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*She promised to oppose amnesty but instead embraced legal work status for illegal aliens. She was the lone Republican to oppose the DeSantis amendment which would prioritize the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of violent sex crimes.<br />
*She promised to repeal Obamacare but voted to fund it, and later admitted that Obamacare “is not necessarily all bad.”<br />
*She promised to cut government spending but voted twice to increase the debt ceiling – to $2.5 trillion.<br />
*She promised to stand up for pro-life values, but in January she led the fight to kill the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a bill that would ban elective abortions at 20 weeks — the age when babies can feel pain. Later that day, she even called the pro-life groups that endorsed her in 2010, “abhorrent” and “childish.”</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09918992486936677186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007465195507889272.post-75589390869682772072015-10-21T09:51:00.000-07:002015-10-21T09:53:02.616-07:00ONCE A TRAITOR, YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK -- THIS IS JANE FONDAvia Verne Strickland 10/21/201<br />
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Jane Fonda – The Traitor</div>
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"Those who believe they can do something - and<br />
those who believe they can't - are both right."</div>
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Jane Fonda was on 3 times this week talking about her new book. . .<br />
And how good she feels in her 70's. . . She still does not know what she did wrong. . . Her book just may not make the bestseller list if more people knew.</div>
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Barbara Walters said :<br />
Thank you all. Many died in Vietnam for our freedoms. I did not like Jane Fonda then and I don't like her now. She can lead her present life the way she wants and perhaps SHE can forget the past, but we DO NOT have to stand by without comment and see her "honored" as a "Woman of the Century."</div>
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(I remember this well.)</div>
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For those who served and/or died. . .</div>
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NEVER FORGIVE A TRAITOR. SHE REALLY WAS A TRAITOR!!</div>
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And now President Obama wants to honor her!!!!</div>
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In Memory of Lt. C. Thomsen Wieland, who spent 100 days at the Hanoi Hilton [infamous North Vietnam prison] --</div>
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IF YOU NEVER FORWARDED ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE. FORWARD THIS SO THAT EVERYONE WILL KNOW!</div>
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A TRAITOR IS ABOUT TO BE H ONORED .<br />
KEEP THIS MOVING ACROSS AMERICA.</div>
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This is for all the kids born in the 70's and after who do not remember, and didn't have to bear the burden that our fathers, mothers and older brothers and sisters had to bear.</div>
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Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century."</div>
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Barbara Walters writes:<br />
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War.</div>
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The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton."</div>
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Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received.</div>
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He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.</div>
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In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.</div>
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From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.</div>
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They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.</div>
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She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper...<br />
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.</div>
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I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.</div>
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I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)</div>
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We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."</div>
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When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."</div>
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Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.</div>
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I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.</div>
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These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.</div>
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There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget.</div>
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RONALD D. SAMPSON, CMSgt,<br />
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Chief of Maintenance DSN: 875-6431 COMM: 883-6343</div>
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PLEASE HELP BY SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE SEE THIS MAYBE HER STATUS WILL CHANGE.<br />
A lot of people are too young to remember the Jane Fonda debacle and may wonder why Obama is honoring her. Here is why he shouldn’t. Soon we can put the oboomer on the same low level as her</div>
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