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Militia Sympathizer Leads Protest Outside FBI Headquarters


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Jan. 16, 2016 5:43 p.m. | Burns, Oregon
Pete Santilli, an Internet radio host and strong advocate of the armed occupation near Burns, Oregon, led a demonstration outside the FBI's makeshift headquarters there.

Pete Santilli, an Internet radio host and strong advocate of the armed occupation near Burns, Oregon, led a demonstration outside the FBI's makeshift headquarters there.


A group of about 20 protesters demonstrated outside the FBI’s makeshift headquarters in Harney County, which is set up at the Burns Municipal Airport, on Saturday.

The protest was led by Pete Santilli, host of a show on YouTube and a strong advocate for the militants occupying the refuge.

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One of the smartest comedians ever


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Published on
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
by
Common Dreams
No Endorsement Yet, But Plenty of Clues from Sen. Elizabeth Warren

In speech lambasting big money in politics, 'Warren came as close as she has—or perhaps will—come to officially endorsing Sanders.'
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Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren back similar agendas that include breaking up big banks, reducing the role of money in politics, and a $15 minimum wage. (Photo: AFGE/flickr/cc)

With days to go before the critical Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary, pundits are abuzz about one potential endorsement in particular—one they say could actually sway voters: that of progressive luminary Elizabeth Warren.

Many are pointing to an impassioned speech the senator from Massachusetts gave on the U.S. Senate floor last week, in which she offered what Salon described on Tuesday as a "not-so-subtle endorsement of Bernie Sanders."

The speech, which marked the sixth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, lambasted the "flood of hidden money that is about to drown our democracy." It called for citizen-funded elections, stronger financial disclosure laws, and a "full-blown" Constitutional amendment to restore authority to Congress, individual states, and the American people to regulate campaign finance.

But "[t]he most revealing part of the speech was the end," wrote Salon staff writer Sean Illing, when "Warren came as close as she has—or perhaps will—come to officially endorsing Sanders."

"A new presidential election is upon us," Warren said. "The first votes will be cast in Iowa in just eleven days. Anyone who shrugs and claims that change is just too hard has crawled into bed with the billionaires who want to run the country like some private club."

As Illing argued: "The subtext here is clear: do not listen to those who say we have to be prudent and accept that fundamental problems like financial corruption or campaign finance can’t be solved in the short or medium term. The knock on Sanders, fair or not, is that he’s too idealistic, too detached from the realities of Washington. Part of Clinton’s appeal to voters is that she’s pragmatic and experienced. She may not be as progressive as Sanders, but she can get more done in Washington."

Warren appeared to be rejecting that line of thinking—to Clinton's detriment—according to Liam Miller writing at the Huffington Post this week:

Although the occasion for her speech was the anniversary of Citizens United, in mentioning the election and the imminent voting in Iowa Warren leaves no doubt that her closing words are meant for that greater context, even as she identifies Clinton's appeals to pragmatism as a complete betrayal of the Progressivism she had once courted. That may well be the ball game for Clinton; having failed to win over Progressives, Warren's endorsement could have shored up Clinton's eroding support long enough to survive the Iowa Caucuses. Instead, Warren has delivered a scathing rebuke.

Reporting on the speech, United Press International noted that Warren "has promised to endorse someone" and "is the only Democratic woman in the Senate who hasn't backed the former New York senator." Her recent remarks suggest she's not going to do so, UPI continued, given that Clinton "has received substantial financial backing for her present bid as well as her 2008 run."

What's more, Greg Sargent wrote for the Washington Post earlier this month, "Warren is also surely mindful that a Clinton endorsement would disappoint a lot of Sanders supporters — w

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Thursday, January 28, 2016Last Update: 8:53 AM PT

Judge Chides FBI for Cautious FOIA Handling


WASHINGTON - The FBI improperly withheld all records that would show how it responds to Freedom of Information Act requests, a federal judge ruled.
The political nonprofit National Security Counselors and the news-media outfit Truthout brought the challenge after the FBI refused to produce any records it generated in responding to FOIA requests over the last 25 years.
Joining those groups as plaintiffs were investigative Jeffrey Stein and Ryan Shapiro, who is studying FOIA and Privacy Act theory for his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Summarizing the case at issue as one "about how the FBI applies FOIA to FOIA," U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss said the exemption the FBI invoked here covers records compiled for law-enforcement purposes.
It said records related to past FOIA cases would risk "the implicit disclosure of highly sensitive information relating to ongoing investigations, confidential informants and classified national security matters," as paraphrased Friday by Judge Moss.
The FBI also invoked an invasion-of-privacy exception it said covers records tracking the performance of FBI personnel.
A court battle over the requests has been brewing for over three years, and Judge Moss granted each side partial summary judgment last week in a 63-page decision.
In rejecting the government's reliance on the "possible presence" of harm, Moss pointed to recent Supreme Court precedent warning "against permitting even substantial policy considerations to trump the plain language of the FOIA."
"There may be compelling reasons to authorize the FBI to withhold search slips and similar processing records," Moss wrote. "But the FOIA itself does not do so, and the FBI cannot act on the basis of an exemption ... that Congress has not provided."
An attorney for all the plaintiffs, National Security Counselors CEO Kel McClanahan echoed this sentiment.
"The overwhelming takeaway from this case is a reaffirmation that ... no amount of legal sleight of hand or predictions of dire consequence" can justify the FBI's decision to "create an exception to FOIA which would allow it to withhold the information it believed should be withholdable," McClanahan said in an email.
"The judge carefully dissected [the government's] argument and found that nothing in the statute or case law supported such an outlandish proposition," McClanahan added. "This opinion highlighted ... the basic truth that if an agency has a problem with the fact that the information it wants to withhold is not covered by an exemption, it should take the matter up with Congress, not the court system."
Judge Moss acknowledged the "gravity of the problem" the FBI faces, noting that its responding to requests for search slips and processing notes "might undermine the FBI's ability to exercise that authority by enabling sophisticated requesters to infer the existence of those records."
FOIA's exclusions simply do not apply, however, to the internal record-keeping documents that the plaintiffs sought.
"These narrowly defined exclusions relate to sensitive matters of law enforcement and national security," the ruling states. "They have nothing to do with the day-to-day administration of FOIA itself."
Moss also found it doubtful that the search slips requested here would disclose law-enforcement techniques as shielded by FOIA exemption 7(e).
"An agency cannot justify withholding an entire document simply by showing that it contains some exempt material," the decision says.
Stein and the National Security Counselors were less successful in seeking to compel disclosure of files that the FBI said contained information about private parties.
Though the plaintiffs pointed to FOIA's official-acknowledgment doctrine, which says an agency waives its right to invoke its exemption from disclosing certain information if it has already acknowledged the existence of said information in the past, Moss found that the information requested here was not a "perfect match" with what the FBI had already disclosed in previous requests for search slips and processing.
The FBI did not prevail, however, in withholding information that it said involved employees who perform FOIA searches.
On this point, Moss relied on a Supreme Court case over U.S. Air Force records.
Though the government can invoke the privacy exception used to shield "routine," internal information from public view, says the ruling, Moss said any document containing information of "genuine, significant public interest" is fair game for public consumption.
Under this logic, documentation of previous FOIA request processing is permitted under the public interest test, the court found.
By examining this information, the plaintiffs "may better understand the FBI's methods of processing FOIA requests, and, where appropriate, may hold the agency accountable for its missteps," Moss said, noting that governmental accountability is the very purpose of the FOIA's existence.
Declining to grant summary judgment for either party on certain issues, Moss called for further proceedings on Stein's claim that the FBI wrongfully invoked attorney-work-product privilege in withholding documents that a bureau lawyer prepared in anticipation of litigation.
More information "regarding the nature of the withheld documents" could "shed light" on what the decision referred to as a potential "novel concept of law," Moss said.
Representatives for the Department of Justice have not returned email Tuesday seeking comment nor phone call Wednesday.

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Baltimore
Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson runs to be Baltimore mayor

Campaign comes amid trials of officers charged over death of Freddie Gray, with city at the center of the debate about policing in America
Deray McKesson has been one of the most vocal activists since the Ferguson shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August 2014.
Deray McKesson has been one of the most vocal activists since the Ferguson shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August


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Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson announced on Wednesday night that he will run for mayor of Baltimore, a move that could shake up both the movement and the city’s politics.

But McKesson’s campaign may also change the Black Lives Matter movement because Johnetta Elzie, another movement leader, is moving to Baltimore to help with McKesson’s campaign.

“There’s a way to challenge from the outside and a way to challenge from the inside and both are important,” McKesson said.

“Baltimore is a city of possibility and we’ve got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths. We have an opportunity, fundamentally for Baltimore that could change the city to be more transparent and accountable towards people.”

After rising to prominence during the protests over the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, McKesson has spent much of the last year traveling from protest to protest.
Ferguson and beyond: how a new civil rights movement began – and won't end
DeRay McKesson
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Last summer, after the massacre of nine African Americans at the Mother Emmanuel church in Charleston, the hashtag #gohomederay began to circulate online.

Eventually – though not because of his critics, he insists – McKesson did go home, to Baltimore, where he had formerly worked as an administrator in the city’s public school system.

McKesson, who attended college at Bowdoin, wher

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I like Pete Lee


He is a state rep in Colorado


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On Mon, 2/8/16, Pete Lee wrote:

Subject: We're at it again

Date: Monday, February 8, 2016, 5:2

An update from State Representative
Pete Lee

Dear Constituents, Friends and Supporters;

On Opening Day, January 13, 2016, House Speaker Dickey Lee
Hullinghorst set the tone for the session. She was
inspirational as she spoke about the importance of
sustaining and defending our Colorado way of life. Our way
of life includes not just our beautiful mountains and
majestic plains, our pure water and clean air, but also our
diverse mix of people and our tradition of working together
for the common good.
We then began our work. Within the first three weeks,
almost 200 bills were introduced. Many are focused on
legislation that is designed to improve government
operations, including education, transportation and public
health and to make our society more fair and just. I
will update you on many of these bills and issues as the
session moves forward.

I am sponsoring a number of bills to improve the lives of
all Coloradans and to level the playing field for those who
work hard to get ahead. Here are some of them:

HB16-1049: Crowd Funding- Last year we passed a bill that
helps small businesses grow by allowing them access to new
sources of financing through crowd funding. The Colorado
Crowd Funding Act allows Colorado residents to purchase
stocks in small Colorado companies over the Internet. This
year we improved upon the bill to make it more streamlined
and efficient so local entrepreneurs can gain access to
investment capital. This bill passed the House unanimously
and was sent to the Senate, where it has the sponsorship of
Sens. Mark Scheffel and Owen Hill.

Juvenile Seclusion- I am sponsoring a bill that would
strictly limit the use of solitary confinement for juveniles
in correctional facilities such as Spring Creek and Zeb
Pike. You may have seen the Gazette article (http://gazette.com/youth-lockups-troubl ... le/1560554" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)
last October about kids being held in solitary confinement,
one for up to 22 days. We know that isolating angry,
out-of-control kids only exacerbates their antisocial
impulses. I want to protect our children by
restricting this practice and guaranteeing that such
treatment is never used as a punishment or in retaliation.

Juvenile Record Expungement- A juvenile criminal record can
have lifetime consequences. This bill would automatically
seal the criminal records of juvenile offenders. As
juveniles grow older, the usefulness of these records
diminishes. But the damaging influence lingers, impacting
college admissions, careers and housing. Mistakes made as
teenagers should not follow them for the rest of their
lives.

Veteran’s Service to Career- This bill will make it easier
for veterans who have left the military service to get job
training, apprenticeships and counseling, so they can more
easily transition to civilian life. By offering grants to
workforce centers that help veterans, we can improve the job
prospects of those who have served, as well as benefit the
economy.

Identity Theft and Financial Fraud Deterrents Taskforce - I
am sponsoring two bills to continue the board and
investigative units that combat financial fraud and address
identity theft. These programs have proven effective at
protecting Coloradans from rapidly expanding internet
crime.

With so many bills in the pipeline, the Capitol is a busy
place. Our caucus is hard at work to sustain and protect the
Colorado way of life. Our priority is to provide a balanced
budget that supports our future and provides the necessary
resources for schools, roads and health care.

Hospital Provider Fee
Colorado has one of the fastest-growing economies in the
country, yet conflicting mandates in our Constitution mean
we are facing significant budget cuts even in times of
economic growth. There is a solution that does not increase
anyone’s in tax rate and would save us from those
cuts. With an accounting shift involving the hospital
provider fee, we can free up hundreds of millions of dollars
to invest in the things that matter most—public schools;
affordable higher education; transportation; and support for
seniors and vulnerable populations.

We have a choice between a tax refund that will average $17
a person in 2016, or a state that is able to support
economic opportunity and quality of life in all areas of
Colorado
We are committed to working across the aisle to find a
solution that makes sure that our government can continue to
work for Coloradans.

End of Life Options
The End of Life Options bill reached the Judiciary Committee
on Thursday, February 4. The testimonies in support
and opposition of the bill were tremendously informative and
brought a real perspective from many parties affected by
this legislation. While an understandably hotly
contested piece of legislation, I ultimately sided in
support of this bill because I believe in compassionate
healthcare. I respect the beliefs of all who are
opposed to this legislation, but hearing the stories of
those who seek relief from suffering in the final stage of
their lives persuaded me that the bill would be a positive
step for healthcare in Colorado.

Lilly Ledbetter Day
We celebrated Lilly Ledbetter Day at the Capitol on
Thursday, January, 28, 2016. The federal Lilly Ledbetter
Fair Pay Act was signed in 2009 and protects women against
pay discrimination. But women in Colorado still earn, on
average, about 82 cents for every dollar a man earns for the
same work. That is why Equal Pay in State Contracts was the
first bill introduced this session and sponsored by every
member of the Democratic caucus. Two other bills to
promote equal pay for equal work have also been introduced.

Military Appreciation Day
Friday, January 29, 2016 was Military Appreciation Day. I
want to thank all of the women and men who have served in
the military for their hard work and sacrifices. It is
important to recognize them for all they have done for this
nation and continue our support while they are deployed and
when they come home.

Please contact me any time with questions, comments, or
suggestions as the session continues. I look forward to
hearing from you.

Pete Lee
State Representative
House District 18

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ACLU Defends 1st Amendment Rights Of Refuge Occupier





Pete Santilli, an Internet radio host and strong advocate of the armed occupation near Burns, Oregon, led a demonstration outside the FBI's makeshift headquarters there.</p>

Pete Santilli, an Internet radio host and strong advocate of the armed occupation near Burns, Oregon, led a demonstration outside the FBI's makeshift headquarters there.

Conrad Wilson

Originally published on February 9, 2016 6:54 pm

The ACLU of Oregon has come to the defense of Pete Santilli, one of the 16 people indicted by federal prosecutors last week for organizing an armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon.

“While many people might disagree with statements made by those involved in the Malheur takeover, Americans have a fundamental right to freedom of speech,” wrote Mat dos Santos, the legal director for the ACLU of Oregon, in statement posted to the group’s website Tuesday.

Santilli is the host of an Internet radio show, which for weeks broadcasted hundreds of hours of live footage from the refuge and around Harney County. Santilli was arrested in Burns, Oregon on Jan. 26 along with militant leaders.

Santilli’s lawyer has argued for his pretrial release and said repeatedly in court that Santilli is an independent journalist. But last week, U.S. District Chief Justice Michael Mosman affirmed a decision to keep Santilli in jail, ruling some of his statements posed a risk to the community, specifically law enforcement.

In its statement, the ACLU said despite the fact that Santilli is “politically polarizing and, to many, downright offensive,” the radio host has protected First Amendment rights to make those statements.

“We can all agree that we should not hold members of the media or protesters in jail without bail simply because they have shocking or abhorrent views,” dos Santos wrote. “These are principles that we must stand by, even when we disagree with the message of the speaker.”

Dos Santos wrote that law enforcement can — and should — be able to determine the difference between protected speech and actual threats. And he argued that if there is any question, “we should err on the side of the speaker.”

In an interview, dos Santos said the ACLU would like to see Santilli released before any trial.

"At this point he's being held based on things like statements he made years before the arrest occurred," dos Santos said. "It doesn't make a whole lot of sense that this guy has been an ongoing threat to his community."

As far as the ACLU of Oregon's involvement in Santilli's legal defense, dos Santos said "we're still waiting to see what the appropriate role for us is in his case, if any."

Santilli's court-appointed defense attorney, Tom Coan, said the ACLU made strong points in its statement.

"I'm pleased to see that they are taking that position in support of Pete," Coan said.

When he first took the case, Coan said he wasn't sure Santilli was a journalist, but now there's no doubt in his mind.

"The courts protect the lowliest pamphleteer up to The New York Times," Coan said. "Pete is somewhere in between there."

Coan said he's gathering new material to try a

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Angela Clemente and Dr Cyril Wecht will be speaking
at this cold case conference


FBI agents tried to kill them.
google each name with the word fbi


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AISOCC's 2016 Annual Educational Conference

​​3rd Annual Educational Conference
June 26 – June 29, 2016
Hilton Airport St. Louis
10330 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63134

Lodging $105/night
Room block is limited, so reserve early!
Deadline for this room rate: May 1, 2016
Reservations: call 800-314-2117
Free Airport Shuttle
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Group Code: AIS
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Registration
Sunday, June 26 3pm – 6pm in Hotel Lobby
Monday, June 27 7:30am – 8:00am
Tuesday, June 28 7:30am – 8:00am

Sunday, June 26th
7pm – 9pm Presidential Reception & Book Signing Event

Monday, June 27th
8:00 am – 6:00 pm General Session
6:00 pm – 7:30pm Beer & Wine Tasting Event

Tuesday, June 28th
8:00 am – 5:30 pm General Session
5:30 pm – 5:45 pm Closing Remarks
5:45 pm – 6:30 pm Business Meeting & Committee Reports

Wednesday, June 29th
8:00 am – 4:00 pm – Cold Case Reviews*
*Board of Directors and Consulting Committee Members Only

Introducing AISOCC's 2016 Speaker Line-up

Monday, June 27, 2016

Kenneth L. Mains - Founder & President of AISOCC - Introduction
Dr. Mark Perlin – Justice Denied: Mr. Hopkin’s Invisible Semen
Melissa Gregory – What Investigators Need to Resolve Missing & Unidentified Persons Cases
W. Jerry Chisum – Physical Evidence in Staging Crime Scenes
Lee Mellor – Shackling the Sex Sadist
Jared Bradley – Wet Vac forensic DNA Collection in Cold Cases
Angela Clemente – AISOCC Director of Development -Human Commercial Sex Trafficking and Cold Case Homicides


Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Lesley Hammer – Meaningful and Reliable Physical Comparisons of Impressions on Skin
Katherine Ramsland – Mental Maps: The Foundation of Investigation
Dr. Cyril Wecht – Role of the Forensic Pathologist in the Resolution of Cold Cases: Analysis of Evidence and Trial Testimony
Dr. Bruce Harry – Review of the Literature on Solving Cold Case Homicides
Anthony Meoli – 101 Serial Killers: Experience from 20 Years of Writing, Speaking and Visiting Serial Killers
Dr. Robert Record & Gary Lowe – Mentally Disordered Offenders & Violent Crimes
James Markey – Sexual Assault Kit Backlog: DNA and Beyond
Kenneth Mains – Closing Remarks


​General Guidelines:

Presentation schedule will be strictly observed towards being respectful of all presenters allocated time.
Lunch will be two hours on your own.
General committee members are encouraged to attend their committee meetings on Monday.
Subcommittee members are encouraged to attend their subcommittee meetings on Tuesday.
Dinner on your own.

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Thursday, February 26, 2015
by
Common Dreams
On Truth, Shoes, and Upton Sinclair

unnamed_2.jpgPortrait of Upton Sinclair by Robert Shetterly. (Credit: AmericansWhoTelltheTruth.org)

Editor's note: The artist's essay that follows accompanies the 'online unveiling'—exclusive to Common Dreams—of Shetterly's latest painting in his "Americans Who Tell the Truth" portrait series, presenting citizens throughout U.S. history who have courageously engaged in the social, environmental, or economic issues of their time. This painting of Upton Sinclair, the famous novelist, journalist and social activist, is his latest portrait of those who dedicated their lives to equality, freedom and justice. Posters of this portrait and others are now available at the artist's website.

Upton Sinclair did not say about The Jungle that it was the “most important and most dangerous book I have ever written.” He said that about The Brass Check.

Self-published in 1919, The Brass Check chronicles how he was censored, excluded, and libeled as he tried to tell the truth of corporate malfeasance and anti-democratic influence in the United States. Sinclair presents case after case where the major newspapers in the U.S. “do not serve humanity, but property.” He says that in terms of justice and democracy, there is no more important question for the American people than the objectivity of its press: “If the news is colored or doctored, then public opinion is betrayed and the national life is corrupted at its source.” And, “It would be better for the people to go without shoes than without truth, but the people do not know this, and so continue to spend their money for shoes.” But what Sinclair really advocated for was a press that told the truth and for fair wages so workers could afford shoes too.

In part of The Brass Check, Sinclair collects his accounts of being in Colorado in 1913-14 to report on the United Mine Workers of America strike against the Rockefeller-owned coal mines. It was those strikes, for safer working conditions, better pay, and several other issues, that culminated in the Ludlow Massacre where the Colorado National Guard (working for John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) attacked the miners’ camp and killed women and children. Sinclair wrote dispatch after dispatch telling the miners’ side of the story. The local and national newspapers—controlled by Rockefeller money—only published the mine owners’ version events, reporting that all the violence was the work of the miners. Sinclair said:

When newspapers lie about a strike, they lie about every one of the strikers, and every one of these strikers and their wives and children and friends know it. When they see deliberate and long-continued campaigns to render them odious to the public, and to deprive them of their just rights, not merely as workers, but as citizens, a blaze of impotent fury is kindled in their hearts.

Sinclair also wrote about decent journalists who, under threat of firing by the newspaper owners, told only the corporate side of these stories. One of Sinclair’s most famous quotes confronts this dilemma: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Upton Sinclair was a lifelong socialist, a lifelong activist for the total gamut of social, economic and environmental justice issues in the U.S.. He was a feminist, as Lauren Coodley’s excellent biography of him shows, at a time when few men were. He began two cooperative living societies so that women would be freed from some childcare and household duties to follow their dreams. Having grown up in a family with an abusive, alcoholic father, he supported temperance. He won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1943 for his series of anti-fascist novels. In 1934, Sinclair even ran for governor of California at the head of the End Poverty in California (EPIC) party.

His muckraking classic The Jungle about the horrendous conditions in the Chicago slaughterhouses pushed Congress to pass The Pure Food and Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act. For a period after the publication of The Jungle in 1906, Sinclair was in great demand as a speaker all over the country. It seemed that more than anyone else he was determining what meat packing standards should be. In fact, the president, Teddy Roosevelt, got so annoyed at Sinclair’s prominence that he pressured Frank Doubleday, Sinclair’s publisher: “Tell Sinclair to go home and let me run the country for awhile.”

I chose to use a quote from The Jungle on the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait of Upton Sinclair. Perhaps the most famous passage in the book poetically details the horrible slaughtering process—the sound, the smells, the blood, the violence, the uncleanliness, the objectification of the animals and resultant dehumanization of the workers.

Sinclair writes, “... was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whom this hog-personality was precious, to whom these hog-squeals and agonies had a meaning? Who would take this hog into his arms and comfort him, reward him for his work well done, and show him the meaning of his sacrifice?”

Sinclair’s intention with that quote was twofold – to insist that the reader honor the value of hog’s life, at least enough to demand a humane death, and also to make the reader aware that the exploited workers in these slaughterhouses were being treated with little more respect than the hogs. Sinclair was delighted that meat packing regulations resulted from his book, but his primary intention had been to change the labor laws, to awaken the conscience of America to how its workers were being treated. He said, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” But working conditions in the slaughterhouses wouldn’t change until the workers organized.

For the first two-thirds of the 20th Century there was surely no more broadly committed activist in the U.S. than Upton Sinclair. He wrote more than 80 books, publishing most of them himself because mainstream publishers disapproved of his ideas. He chose often to dramatize social issues in the form of novels on the theory that people would identify more with characters in good stories than be persuaded by argument.

By the way, Sinclair’s title 'Brass Check' is a reference to the method of payment in a house of prostitution 100 years ago. The customer paid his money and was given a brass check to give to the woman he chose. Sinclair’s point was that what passes for journalism is often little different than an exchange with a prostitute. Read more about Sinclair on the AWTT site. We were lucky to have Lauren Coodley herself write a short bio for us.

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Serpico, Iconic Cop Whistleblower On Snowden And Ferguson

04/03/16

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At 79, Frank Serpico, the former New York police whistleblower immortalized by Al Pacino is still a rebel at heart, as cranky and idealistic as ever.

Serpico in 2011(Rick Mackler/Globe Photos/ZUMA)



HUDSON — His tall, slender figure is topped by a simple wool hat, as the man glares at us from behind his sunglasses. “How am I? Not too bad for a man my age. Well, I do have this shrapnel that sometimes hurt,” he says, his ringed hand pointing to his head.

Forty-five-year-old scars. He then curses the doctors who want to give him a new hipbone and crutches. At nearly 80 — he’ll celebrate it on April 14 — Frank Serpico still looks good. The interview, which took place a few months ago in the unlikely cafeteria of an organic supermarket on the outskirts of Hudson, two hours north of Manhattan, made it clear: The legendary whistleblower is still driven by the same inner rage that has always guided him.

A police officer in Brooklyn, he caused a sensation in the 1960s and 1970s by officially denouncing — a first — the rampant corruption inside the New York Police Department. Faced with the silence of his hierarchy, he refused to remain quiet. When his accusations made it on the front page of The New York Times in April 1970, the then mayor, John Lindsay, decided to launch an enquiry: the Knapp Commission.

Among his own, Serpico is seen as a traitor. In Feb. 1971, he was struck by a bullet in the face during a drug bust that went wrong for reasons that are still obscure. His colleagues refrained from calling for help; a resident of the building next door had to call in an ambulance. In 1973, director Sidney Lumet, in Serpico, immortalized him with an Al Pacino who would later receive

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Federal Bureau of Prisons breaks space-time continuum to deny FOIA
by JPat Brown
June 02, 2016
Five years ago, Jason Smathers filed a FOIA request with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. A week later, the BOP closed out the request due to lack of interest - three days before they even acknowledged receiving it.
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Department of Education refuses to release its feedback of FBI’s Counter-Extremism website
by Waqas Mirza
June 01, 2016
The Department of Education has rejected a FOIA request for departmental feedback on the FBI’s Countering Violent Extremism website, which recruits teachers to spy on “troubled” Muslim teens.
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Parents refusal to get vaccine forced the Minnesota zoo to put down their meerkats
by JPat Brown
May 31, 2016
With debate raging over the Cincinnati Zoo’s decision to euthanize an endangered gorilla after a child fell into its enclosure, documents from a similar incident ten years prior raise the same questions about parental responsibility and stringent laws concerning animal safety.
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The NSA’s guide to the internet is the weirdest thing you’ll read today
by JPat Brown
May 27, 2016
The NSA has a well-earned reputation for being one of the tougher agencies to get records out of, making those rare FOIA wins all the sweeter. In the case of Untangling the Web, the agency’s 2007 guide to internet research, the fact that the records in question just so happen to be absolutely insane are just icing on the cake - or as the guide would put it, “the nectar on the ambrosia.”
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DoJ should withhold funding from police if they don't report killings, activists say
Coalition calls on Loretta Lynch to implement 2014 law that allows for reductions of 10% on federal grant program if police don’t report deaths in custody

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Dozens of civil rights, criminal justice and open government organizations have urged the US attorney general to withhold federal funding from local police chiefs unless they report comprehensive data on people killed by their officers.

Citing the findings of a Guardian investigation, the coalition of 67 groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Amnesty International and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said police ought to be punished financially if they do not submit information to a new government program to count

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couple of reads about Terry Tempest Williams



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Terry Tempest Williams is leaving her University of Utah teaching post and walking away from the Environmental Humanities program she founded rather than agree to administrators' demands she move her teaching from the state's desert landscapes onto campus.
"For reasons I will never know or understand, the University of Utah wanted me gone — and in the end, what was most threatening was my teaching. Why? Because each of you and our current students are challenging the status quo, each in your own way with the gifts that are yours," the acclaimed author wrote in an email last week to about 80 current and past students of the U.'s Environmental Humanities graduate program.

Known as Utah's most eloquent homegrown voice for conservation, Williams helped launch what has become one of the U.'s premier educational experiences, connecting highly motivated students with the nation's most adventurous writers and artists. Now some are accusing university administrators of being more concerned with procedural bureaucracy than with ensuring Williams continued her leadership.
Williams' departure came as a shock to students, colleagues, program supporters, and at least one foundation, whose executive director said it would not renew a $50,000 grant awarded last year for Williams' "Reading the Book Cliffs" project.
"We saw this course as a national model on how to engage people in new ways for critical issues, such as climate change," said Ellen Friedman of the Compton Foundation, which had premised its support on Williams' field teaching. "We are extremely disappointed."
Williams' supporters are heaping criticism on U. administration for failing to find a way to keep her on faculty, and some suspe

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Biography
The Ecology Hall of Fame, adding Terry Tempest Williams to its honorees, noted that she “combines all the major strains of environmental passion.” Her life´s work is driven by love of the desert, and other naturally beautiful places; a passion for multigenerational land stewardship, which ties her to the region where she was born and still lives; and opposition to resource destruction, especially when it affects human health.

Williams is a Utah native, descended from five or six generations of Mormon pioneers. “I write through my biases of gender, geography, and culture,” she says. “I am a woman whose ideas have been shaped by the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau.”

Williams is perhaps best known for her book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Pantheon, 1991), in which she chronicles the epic rise of Great Salt Lake and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in 1983, alongside her mother's diagnosis with ovarian cancer, believed to be caused by radioactive fallout from the nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in the 1950s and 60s. Refuge is now regarded as a classic in American nature writing, a testament to loss and the earth's healing grace.

Williams’ other books include Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert, 2001; An Unspoken Hunger (Pantheon, 1994); Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape (Pantheon, 1995); Coyote's Canyon (Gibbs M. Smith, 1989); and Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984). She is also the author of two children's books: The Secret Language of Snow (Sierra Club/Pantheon, 1984); and Between Cattails (Little Brown, 1985).

In 2004, Terry Tempest Williams published The Open Space of Democracy, in which she tried to define how we might break down the partisanship and polarization in our society so that we can come together to solve the political and environmental problems which threaten our democracy and our land. In it she says, “I do not think we can look for leadership beyond ourselves. I do not think we can wait for someone or something to save us from our global predicaments and obligations. I need to look in the mirror and ask this of myself: If I am committed to seeing the direction of our country change, how must I change myself?”


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April 21, 2017
Craig McKee, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
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Draft minutes for the Wed., March 29, 2017 regular conference call
 
Present were:
 
Ken Freeland, Teleconference co-facilitator, Houston 9/11Truth
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference secretary, Truth and Shadows
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
Barton Bruce, Massachusetts 9/11 Truth
Charles Ewing Smith, The Demolition of Truth
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception
Peter Michael Ketcham, formerly of NIST
Mike Cook, AE911Truth
Dan Hennen, AE911Truth
David Cole, Nine Eleven Accountability Team
Dick Atlee, Maine 9/11 Truth
Kevin Barrett, False Flag Weekly News
Barbara Honegger, Behind the Smoke Curtain
Gene Laratonda, TAP Pittsburgh
Chris Bergier, Boston 9/11 Truth
Al Magaletta, Boston 9/11 Truth
Michael Carey, Boston 9/11 Truth
Al Rubin, Boston 9/11 Truth
Jane Millikan, Boston 9/11 Truth
Rachel Worden, Boston 9/11 Truth
David Rolde, Boston 9/11 Truth
Richard Krushnic, Boston 9/11 Truth
 
The minutes of the February 22, 2017 conference call were APPROVED.


The draft agenda was APPROVED.
 
Request for exception to remain on list serve
A request from Lynn Ertell was read in which she asked to be exempted from the teleconference rule that those who don’t attend three consecutive teleconferences are no longer eligible to participate in the teleconference list serve. Lynn stated that because of scheduling problems she is usually not able to participate in the calls although she does listen to the recordings.  A vote was taken and her exception was approved.
 
Barrett goes to Tehran
Kevin Barrett, the host of False Flag Weekly News, gave a report concerning his recent trip to Tehran, Iran for a conference in support of the Palestinian intifada.
 
False flag museum
Cheryl Curtiss and Barbara Honegger offered a proposal that a museum be created on the theme of state crimes against democracy. While this would feature 9/11 prominently, it would also look at other false flags, assassinations, the war on terror, banned books, etc. Anyone interested in participating in a committee to plan this can contact Cheryl at chercurt@aol.com. One idea that emerged from the discussion was that books could be donated by members of the truth community to the project for a library. James Hufferd volunteered to keep a list of books that are offered for donation. He can be reached at 911grassroots@gmail.com. James said he will post the list on his web site, 911grassroots.org.
 
Announcements
James Hufferd announced that he will have a novel published in the spring of 2018 by Trine Day.
Barbara Honegger informed the teleconference that two groups of 9/11 victims’ family members have lawsuits going forward against the government of Saudi Arabia. She also mentioned that the Wall Street Journal did an article about efforts by the Saudis to have the JASTA bill watered down.
James Hufferd mentioned that a major conference called “The National Security State and JFK” will take place June 3 in Washington, D.C.
Cheryl mentioned that she and Cat McGuire will be organizing several panels for this year’s Left Forum, June 2-4.
Call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 9:50 p.m. EST/5 p.m. to 6:50 p.m. PST

Audio of the March 29 call can be heard here: http://www.houston911truth.net/audio/32917.mp3  The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Please email agenda items for next call to facilitator Ken Freeland (diogenesquest@gmail.com) by April 22. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require.






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Eavesdropping on Roy Cohn and Donald Trump
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Christine Seymour connected Cohn’s calls with clients including Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt, the mobster Carlo Gambino, and Trump.



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April 23, 2017 Uncategorized dissidence, globalist agenda, Hollywood, HyperNormalisation, inductive speculation, mainstream media, manipulation, marching for science, memetic warfare, new world order, nuclear weapons




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JFK Grassy Knoll Shots? Limousine Slowdown?
Flagpole Magazine-
Another Secret Service agent, Forrest Sorrels, who was in the motorcade ... in the followup car with agent Landis and other Secret Service agents, both told FBI ...


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Dick Gregory 2017 The world will end with a nuclear war
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IMIGRATION POLICYPOLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENTWHISTLEBLOWERS
How Border Patrol Deals With Dissent in Its Ranks

An interview with Customs and Border Protection whistle-blower James Tomsheck.



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Queens woman dies after drunken off-duty cop slams into her car ...
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FBI OCTOPUS

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KING: Cops who held 5 innocent black boys at gunpoint caused harm
New York Daily News-Apr 24, 2017
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profiling data– Apr 22, 2017
Police in Connecticut's capital city have failed to report thousands of traffic stops as required by a state law aimed to prevent racial profiling



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ACLU sues LAPD over 'systemic violation' of public records law



The American Civil Liberties Union has joined with a journalist, a college professor and an activist to sue the Los Angeles Police Department over what they describe as a “systemic violation” of California’s public records law.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, accused the LAPD of failing to comply with the California Public Records Act by not responding to requests within the time frame mandated by the law or by ignoring inquiries altogether.


The civil complaint documents nearly a dozen examples of such requests, including some that were allegedly made years ago and have yet to be answered.

“More and more, police departments throughout the United States acknowledge the value of transparency — to increase public trust, promote better law enforcement, and facilitate effective oversight,” the lawsuit stated. “The LAPD’s pattern and practice of violating the [state’s records act] and ignoring requests for public information is not only unlawful, but also out of step.”


The suit asks the court to compel the LAPD to follow the law and order the department to track — and report publicly — how it responds to public records inquiries for at least three years to en







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Dozens of cases dismissed, reviewed after Ga. cops fired over UOF incident– Apr 19, 2017
The solicitor general dismissed 89 cases where Officers Robert McDonald and Michael Bongiovanni were a principal officer or a main witness


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With President Trump denouncing “illegal leaks,” whistleblowers are in the line of fire.

We’ve got to support whistleblowing and boost public outreach -- to counter the demagogic messaging from the top of the U.S. government.

To help that happen, please support NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, the co-chairs of the Whistleblowers Public Education Campaign.

Here at the RootsAction Education Fund, we just got an update from John that we’d like to share with you.

“I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion in early April on national security whistleblowing hosted by the American College of Trial Attorneys,” John said. “A prominent Washington attorney and Matt Apuzzo of the New York Times were the other two participants.”

The gathering sounds like it was bittersweet for John. He told us: “It was nice, refreshing really, to be among like-minded individuals. The room was packed with trial attorneys, including some of the biggest names in Washington's white-collar criminal defense industry, all of whom support whistleblowers as necessary to the national security.”

John went on: “The problem, though, is that President Trump and Attorney General Sessions are determined to continue the war on whistleblowers begun nearly a decade ago by President Obama and Attorney General Holder. Indeed, Trump told the press last month that he will hunt down ‘the low-life leakers’ in his administration. ‘They will be caught!’ he tweeted. We ought to take him at his word.”

Telling difficult truth from inside the U.S. government has gotten harder than ever, with a president who has scorn for facts -- and hostility for anyone who reveals facts that expose what he wants to hide.

Tom and John know firsthand what’s at stake. As an NSA whistleblower, Tom was dragged through years of Espionage Act prosecution. As a CIA whistleblower, John went to prison for two years.

With the Trump regime now in power, the stakes are higher than ever. You can provide vital support now with a tax-deductible donation; half of every dollar will go directly to John and Tom, while the other half will go to the Whistleblowers Public Education Campaign that they coordinate.

At the RootsAction Education Fund, we remain deeply concerned that -- while people of all ages need to hear John Kiriakou and Tom Drake -- their personal finances were wrecked by legal persecution. That’s how the government planned it.

But we have very different plans. We want the voices of John Kiriakou and Thomas Drake to be heard far and wide.

“Like I said,” John told us a few days ago, “it's great to sit in a room of like-minded people, speak, and just agree with one another. But that's not what our goal is. Our goal is to get our stories -- our experiences -- into the public domain.

“As you know, Tom and I speak at every opportunity, whether it's on college campuses, to civil liberties groups, or even to foreign governments. And we usually do that for free or for reimbursement of our expenses.

“We can only continue to do it with your help.”

Can you help?

John says: “I fear for the country, for whistleblowers, and for those considering bringing to light evidence of waste, fraud, abuse, and illegality in government.”

We need to show whistleblowers and potential whistleblowers that they’re not alone -- that there’s vibrant life after whistleblowing -- and that difficult truth-telling is imperative for democracy.

Please support the Whistleblowers Public Education Campaign.

“Tom and I were both charged with espionage -- one of the gravest crimes with which an American can be charged, one that can include the death penalty -- for blowing the whistle,” John says. “Others like us will not have an easy time of things during the Trump administration.”

John adds: “This is what we're up against. This is the fight that we have to prepare ourselves for over the next four years. We can't do it without your help.”

Please help John Kiriakou and Tom Drake remain out there, in the public, speaking, writing, and shouting from the rooftops that whistleblowers must be protected, that whistleblower protection laws must be comprehensive, and that when a person makes the right moral, legal, and ethical decision -- to blow the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse or illegality -- he or she will not risk house and home.

We hope you can take a minute now to make a tax-deductible contribution in solidarity with John Kiriakou, Thomas Drake and the Whistleblowers Public Education Campaign. Thank you for your generosity.



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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

What’s Wrong With Iowa?


We often drive through eastern Iowa on our way from central Illinois to Minnesota. The landscape is peaceful and prosperous. The farmhouses are well kept, and the roads smooth and wide. When we stop, Iowans are friendly and helpful.

Iowa is doing very well. The Census Bureau ranks Iowa #4 in lowest housing costs relative to income, and that cheap housing is near to the workplace: average commuting time is 19 minutes. Iowa is one of the safest states. The cultural scene is thriving: Forest City’s country music festival is ranked second in the country by Country Living magazine, and Broadway shows go straight to Des Moines. CNBC ranked Iowa 9th among the 50 states in its annual survey “Best States for Business”, with a similar ranking for quality of life.

So why does Iowa send a racist to Congress? Even before he was first elected to Congress in 2002, Steve King was clear about his disdain for immigrants of all kinds. As a state legislator, he proposed a law requiring Iowa students to be taught that the United States is the undisputed greatest nation on Earth. He sued his own Governor for providing ballots in languages other than English, despite the federal law that requires such ballots.

After election, King became known for his nasty characterizations of immigrants. In 2013, he generalized about undocumented immigrants: “For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds, and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”

Do immigrants pose a particular problem in Iowa? Iowa has one of the lowest proportions of foreign-born residents, less than 5%, compared to 13% for the US, and only 7% speak a language other than English at home, compared to 21% in the whole country. Iowa is one of the whitest states, with 85% non-Hispanic whites, more than all but 5 other states. King’s district is even whiter: 96% white.

Here is what King has done in this current Congress since January. He proposed to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which created the federal income tax. He found one co-sponsor. He proposed a bill to terminate the EB-5 program, part of the Immigration Act of 1990 signed by President George H.W. Bush. That program offers green cards for permanent residence to entrepreneurs and their families, if they invest in a commercial enterprise in the United States and plan to create or preserve 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified American workers. He found one co-sponsor. He proposed a bill to use federal funds to support private schools, and to repeal federal nutritional standards for school lunch and breakfast programs that increase the availability of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat milk, and reduce sodium, saturated fat, and trans fat. He managed 3 co-sponsors for that. King proposed to end our national policy of giving citizenship to anyone born in the US, even if their parents are not citizens, as he has done in previous years.

Is King perhaps just very conservative? No, some recent comments show that he is a white supremacist. In July, he said about non-whites on a cable news show, “I'd ask you to go back through history and figure out, where are these contributions that have been made by these other categories of people that you're talking about, where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization?” Just before the Dutch election, he tweeted about the far-right candidate Geert Wilders, “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” The former KKK leader David Duke understood what King meant, and responded “GOD BLESS STEVE KING!” On CNN, King reaffirmed his idea of a white America: “I meant exactly what I said. I’d like to see an America that's just so homogeneous that we look a lot the same, from that perspective.”

Why do the people of northwestern Iowa keep electing King to Congress? It’s not because he does anything useful there. Since he was elected to Congress in 2003, he has sponsored over 100 bills and not one of them even got out of committee, even though Republicans controlled the House for most of those years. He was named the least effective member of Congress in 2015 by non-partisan InsideGov.

Are most people in Iowa’s 4th district racists? Not necessarily: in 2008, they voted for Obama over McCain for President.

Steve King, along with other politicians who have made openly racist statements, exemplifies an unhappy characteristic of many white American voters. Electing a conservative is more important than not electing a racist. As long as their choice is between a Democrat and Steve King, northwestern Iowans will keep voting for King, no matter how ineffective or prejudiced he is.

That’s how we end up with racists in Congress.

Steve Hochstadt
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Published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, April 11, 2017

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We owe our planet this climate march. But we also owe it – very faint – hope
Bill McKibben
Trump is the worst thing that could have happened to the planet. That’s all the more reason to fight on - and celebrate even the smallest successes

‘Harvard has ‘paused’ investing in fossil fuels, and was unlikely ‘ever’ to resume.’ Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP

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There is no upside to the Trump presidency. To be in DC – I’ve come for Saturday’s giant climate march – is to be reminded up close what all Americans have known for months: we’ve put the country in the hands of a man completely unequal to the task. A man so cluelessly over his head that he keeps telling reporters he’s in over his head.




But if you want a few grayish linings to the dark-orange cloud, you can find them. In fact, the last few days have given those of us in the climate fight a few glimmers of light.

At midweek, and quite unexpectedly, the man who invests Harvard’s billions announced at a seminar that the world’s richest and most famous educational institution had more or less divested from fossil fuels. Of course he didn’t say that explicitly since it would require backtracking on the university’s strident declaration that it would never do such a thing. But close enough – Harvard had “paused” investing in fossil fuels, and was unlikely “ever” to resume.

Credit a remarkable campaign. Harvard students – like those at so many other places, including Penn and Cal where campaigners are currently sitting-in –waged a relentless fight, even as officials told them No over and over again. Great credit is due them, and the alumni and faculty they enlisted. Leaders like Chloe Maxmin, who I met while she was still in high school, spent their entire college years on the fight, showing what persistence looks like.


East coast readies for fresh climate fight as Trump eyes more offshore drilling

But they were aided, I think, by Trump’s unlikely victory. In the past, plenty of players could look for someone else to pass the buck to: surely dealing with climate change was the government’s responsibility, not Harvard’s? That was always a moral lapse, but in the Trump era it’s completely absurd. We’re ruled by a man who thinks global warming is a hoax manufactured by the Chinese – clearly the rest of us are going to have to step up.

And that rest of us includes Democratic politicians, too many of whom have tried to straddle the climate issue in the past. Barack Obama, remember, spent his years in office championing an “all of the above” energy policy that saw America vault past Russia and Saudi Arabia as the biggest hydrocarbon producer on the planet. But Trump throws such temporizing into sharper relief.



That’s why Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Bernie Sanders felt empowered Thursday to introduce legislation that, for the very first time, draws the line where it should be. Their bill demands that America move to 100% renewable energy. Not some solar panels but also some frack wells, not some windmills but also some new pipelines. 100%.

That bill’s not going to pass anytime soon, obviously, but it is going to become the new bottom line for any serious progressive politician. Whoever leads the fight to replace Trump is going to have to do it on a platform of 100% renewable energy –and in contrast to Trump’s craziness on the issue, it will look statesmanlike instead of aspirational.

If the capitulation of some parts of the establishment, and the invigoration of some progressive leaders, count as two small positives, there’s also a third: the unleashing of the full energy of lots and lots of people who have had to speak more softly in the past. One of the strongest voices at the ceremony launching the Merkley/Sanders bill, for instance, came from Mustafa Ali, who for many years ran the environmental justice program at EPA.

The environmental justice program probably won’t exist much longer – the Trump EPA budget zeroes it out, which tells you all you need to know. Ali resigned – and immediately joined the staff of the HipHop Caucus, one of the most vibrant and dynamic climate justice campaigns on this particular planet.

In his first few weeks, Ali spoke powerfully – but with a bit of the habitual reserve of the bureaucrat. By yesterday he was sounding a lot like Reverend Lennox Yearwood, the charismatic founder of the Caucus: he had US Senators, fists in the air, chanting “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop.”

Which is pretty much what all of us who will march tomorrow are saying. We’re under no illusions: Trump is the worst thing that could have happened to the planet. It’s possible the damage he’ll do will be eternal – we’re clearly on the edge of breaking the planet’s climate system. But we will fight on, looking for the holes in the Death Star. And finding some.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants



Saturday May 13 at 7 pm

Emlen Hall, The Bay School in Blue Hill, Maine*

Portrait Unveiling by Rob Shetterly

Author Talk

Music by Timbered Lake and Shawn Mercer



*The Bay School address is 17 Bay School Dr. off South St. east of Tradewinds.

An Appeal to the Friends of AWTT:

Americans Who Tell the Truth is proud to have initiated the effort to bring Robin Wall Kimmerer to Blue Hill and to be unveiling her portrait at this event. We are also extremely grateful to our co-sponsors, among them the Reversing Falls Sanctuary, Blue Hill Books, Wabanaki Reach, Maine Veterans for Peace, Peninsula Peace and Justice, and The Reversing Falls Women’s Circle. Ms. Kimmerer’s wise voice tells us what values we must choose to live by to survive on a healthy planet. Scientist, botanist, native storyteller, activist -- Ms. Kimmerer is fundamentally an educator for political and social communities desperately in need of education.

Since 2002, Americans Who Tell the Truth has been dedicated to providing models of courageous citizenship. Now, the fundamental focus of the AWTT organization is educational. The more than 220 portraits travel to schools, colleges, libraries and churches all over the US.

But our primary initiative is right here in Maine’s middle schools. Through our Samantha Smith Challenge (SSC) we engage hundreds of students around the state, helping them to identify and address key social, economic and environmental issues; research those issues; and then work toward real world solutions. The SSC is now in its third year. The first year seven schools participated. This year 12 schools will bring students to the culminating event at Thomas College on June 5, Samantha Smith Day.

Because of this growth and the enthusiasm for our work in schools, we need your help!

We need funding to complete the programming for this year’s SSC and to expand the program within Maine next year. Please make a donation. Let’s help students realize their power to be agents of change as they follow the wisdom of Robin Wall Kimmerer and other models of courageous citizenship to make a better future for us all.

Make your donation on the AWTT website or by returning this letter with a check to 46 Bridge Road, Brooksville, Maine 04617. Americans Who Tell the Truth is a 501 c (3) non-profit and your donations are fully deductible.

Thank you,

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More on Braiding Sweetgrass:

“Braiding Sweetgrass has become an essential companion for my life. I was sold early on in the book when Kimmerer talked about the importance of integrating scientific ways of knowing, indigenous ways of knowing and storytelling ─ what an incredible trinity! My first exposure to the book was on my Kindle Fire, and thus I was treated to Robin’s melodious voice as she told her stories. In every chapter, I was gifted with new ways of looking at our world. I had never heard of mast fruiting (Council of Pecans) ─ if one tree fruits, they all fruit. All flourishing is mutual. Wow! What a lesson from our Mother Earth, and these teachings are multiplied in every chapter. We learn how trees communicate, we learn how we are all beneficiaries of reciprocity, we learn the value of the gift economy. We learn that strawberries belong to themselves and that we dwell in a world full of gifts scattered right at our feet! I will be forever grateful to Robin Wall Kimmerer for tilting the axis of my world just enough so that I am seeing with new eyes and understanding our world with new insights.” Anne Ferrara



“I have been mightily impacted by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s books, both Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass. I have been using her thoughts and words to create ritual for change in our Sanctuary community for years. Rereading Braiding Sweetgrass with our women’s circle has brought great delight to me. Here is a Kimmerer text from an Equinox ceremony I conducted with Susan Merrill and Leslie Goode: Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging. . . to a family, to a people, and to the land. Ceremonies large and/ small have the power to focus attention to a way of living AWAKE in the world.” Pat Wheeler



“Something I love about Kimmerer’s writing is that she weaves all the threads of her knowledge, experience, in short. . . life, in such a way that one aspect informs and enhances the other. She doesn’t separate her science background from her mothering, gardening, or native traditions. She sees that everything truly is connected and this becomes the base coherent structure of her writing.” Daksha Baumann



“Robin Kimmerer’s writing is so full of tough insight and vulnerable openness, precise scientific description and philosophical musing, humble gratitude and stern prescription. . . in short she teaches how to see our broken relationship with nature and history and how to make it whole again. This quote is one of many I’ve copied out from Braiding Sweetgrass:The fear for me is that the world has been turned inside out, the dark side made to seem light. Indulgent self-interest that our people once held to be monstrous is now celebrated as success. We are asked to admire what our people viewed as unforgiveable.” Rob Shetterly

“The thought that comes to mind is the primacy of greed or selfishness as a single commandment versus the 10 of Judaism and Christianity. With income equality escalating (and more so with our President’s proposed tax revision favoring the rich), the focus on an economic system which creates extravagant luxuries for a tiny portion of the populace, while a large percentage are without basic needs, appears particularly germane. I believe in the adage, There is nothing more powerful as an idea whose time has come. I’m hoping this next idea will be Medicare for all. Tony Ferrara







Location: The Bay School, Blue Hill, Maine
Date: May 13, 2017



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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Better Living Through Chemistry


On Earth Day, April 22, a hundred thousand people marched all across the world for science. Tens of thousands demonstrated in Los Angeles and London, while 200 people marched 200 miles north of the Arctic circle in Norway. In 600 cities on every continent, citizens and scientists carried signs like “Fund science, not walls” and “Science trumps alternative facts”.

In Washington, DC, the biggest crowd protested Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts to scientific research in public health and climate.

Trump is carrying out normal Republican politics. None of the many Republican candidates for President in 2016 thought evolution should be taught in public schools. A majority of Republican voters believe in creationism.

The issue of climate change shows the influence of political ideology on attitudes toward science. A Pew poll found that only 15% of conservative Republicans believe “the earth is warming mostly due to human activity”, 34% of moderate Republicans, 63% of moderate Democrats, and 79% of liberal Democrats. A majority of conservative Republicans believes that climate scientists are influenced by desire to advance their careers and political ideology, not by scientific evidence or public interest. To put it simply, conservatives don’t believe in science or scientists, if it’s inconvenient.

Here’s how science denial works in real life. Lots of private websites offer their version of science, paid for by private money which they don’t disclose, using clever tactics to pretend to search for truth. An example is the Heartland Institute, which has been denying the existence of warming for decades.

On the other side is “Understanding Science”, a public project of the University of California at Berkeley, funded by the federal National Science Foundation. This step-by-easy-step primer offers a balanced and authentic understanding of “how science REALLY works”. But those who automatically accuse both government and the nation’s best universities of politicized scientific fraud would dismiss this site as propaganda. So they won’t learn from it how our scientific community does a far better job of policing high standards for honesty and frankness than either politicians or corporations.

And they won’t think about who pays for science: “Most scientific research is funded by government grants (e.g., from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, etc.), companies doing research and development, and non-profit foundations.” Public and private sources have different priorities for funding scientific research. My nephew works on the development of a drug to stop Alzheimer’s for a biotechnology company formed by scientists and venture capitalists. Their research is motivated both to find better medicines for our collective health and to make money. As I approach 70, the prospect of preventing brain degeneration before it hits me is exciting. Their profit might extend my useful life.

Some privately funded scientific research is not in the public interest at all, such as the tobacco companies’ effort to deny the link to cancer, funneled through sciency-sounding propaganda organizations like the Heartland Institute.

The Republicans in Congress are not waging a war on all science; they quote from Heartland’s fake science. They attack government-supported science because it might lead to government spending. For example, the discovery of lead in Flint’s water meant that old pipes must be replaced on 17,000 homes at an estimated cost of $7500 each, totaling $127,500,000. Government-paid scientific research documented how lead affects babies’ brains, supported the creation of regulations which forced industry to stop using lead, compared the levels of lead in Flint’s water to experimental evidence on poisoning, and thus demonstrated the need for federal intervention.

Republicans in the Senate voted overwhelmingly to deny funding to deal with Flint’s crisis, but that effort lost by one vote. Congress authorized $170 million for Flint.

In the words of “Understanding Science”, “Science affects your life everyday in all sorts of different ways.” Good public science saves lives and serves the public interest through government spending and government regulation. But those are Republican curse words. That is the deep secret behind the anti-science policies of Republicans in Congress and the White House. If they want to shrink government, they have to slow down or even stop science. They use tactics of obfuscation and delay. House Science Committee chair Lamar Smith attacked a 2015 NOAA study showing rising global temperatures. He used his old tactics, honed over decades in Congress: he demanded thousands of e-mails and other documents in search of malfeasance, misspent funds, or corruption. He has never found any of those things. But he slowed down science he doesn’t like.

This is not in our national interest. If we don’t prepare for the world’s new climate, if we don’t prevent health crises through regulation of pollutants, if we don’t spend now on inconvenient science, we will have to spend much more later in economic and social costs. Peter Muennig, professor of public health at Columbia University, estimates that the two fewer healthy years of the 8000 Flint children exposed to lead might cost American society $400 million.

The astrophysicist and TV explainer of science Neil deGrasse Tyson said, “The good thing about science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe it.”

The bad thing about Republican science politics is that our children and grandchildren will pay the price. Without science, it’s just fiction.

Steve Hochstadt
Jacksonville IL
Published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Posted by Steve Hochstadt






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Georgia sheriff accused of exposing himself at Atlanta park, running away from bike cop

Monday, May 8, 2017, 5:07 AM


DeKalb County Sheriff Jeffrey Mann was arrested late Saturday after allegedly exposing himself in an Atlanta park. (DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE)
One of Georgia’s top cops was busted after exposing himself at an Atlanta park on Saturday night, according to local reports Sunday.

Police said DeKalb County Sheriff Jeffrey Mann bolted when confronted by a bike cop in Piedmont Park, according to an incident report obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.










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LAPD settlements soar as officials close the books on high-profile lawsuits against police



The Los Angeles Police Department paid nearly $81 million in legal settlements last fiscal year, a sharp increase as the city closed the books on several high-profile and costly cases.

The settlement numbers were significantly higher than in previous years and involved cases that had been working their way through the court system for the last few years.

Among them were two wrongful convictions of men for separate murders. The men each spent more than 25 years behind bars, and the department settled their cases for about $24 million.

An additional $15 million went to a boy left paralyzed after an LAPD officer shot him. The city last fiscal year also agreed to settle a case that it fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court involving a man who was shot by officers while holding a cellphone they apparently mistook for a gun. The city paid $7 million.




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Ponte, beyond correction: the jails boss deserves the boot


Editorials

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, May 8, 2017, 7:13 PM




http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/04/ ... lower.html



FBI’s AMERITHRAX Case just unravelled. Ex-FBI agent who directed investigation suing FBI, turns whistleblower!!!
Posted on April 8, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog
Preface by Washington’s Blog: See also 2 U.S. Government Agencies Say FBI’s Anthrax Case Is Full of Holes, and our archive of Anthrax articles.

By Meryl Nass, M.D. Dr. Nass is a board-certified internist and a biological warfare epidemiologist and expert in anthrax. Nass publishes Anthrax Vaccine.





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Feinstein: Comey's 'October Surprise' Impacted Election







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Friday, May 5, 2017
How the federal government helps make healthcare unaffordable/ Medscape
One big contributor to ridiculously high administrative costs of medicine in the US is the federal government.

Constantly changing federal rules seem to aim for complexity. Compliance is nearly impossible for small medical practices, because Medicare changes its rules every few months. Doctors have to play by its rules, but it is very difficult to keep up with them. Medicare feels no need to issue its rules on time, even after it announces their schedule for release.

Here is an example from today's Medscape. Just remember that YOU are paying for this nonsense, and it is one reason that healthcare has basically become unaffordable in the US:
"The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that by the end of May, it will notify all clinicians who are eligible for payment under the new Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). One of two payment tracks in CMS' Quality Payment Program, MIPS was launched January 1. Physicians who are subject to MIPS will have their performance on quality, electronic health record (EHR) use, and practice improvement measured this year to determine positive or negative payment adjustments in 2019.
Physicians and other clinicians are subject to MIPS if they bill more than $30,000 a year in Medicare Part B allowed charges a year and provide care for more than 100 Part B–enrolled Medicare beneficiaries annually. They are exempt from MIPS, however, if they receive a specified percentage of income from one of several care delivery models that are known as advanced alternative payment models.
CMS originally said it would notify clinicians who must participate in MIPS by last December, before the 2017 performance measurement period began. But CMS failed to do that, leaving many physicians and group practices in limbo...
CMS recently released a list of "qualified registries" clinicians can use to report their quality data, he said. But the agency has not issued a list of approved "qualified clinical data registries." The qualified registries are mainly offered by EHR vendors, which can charge hefty fees for the service. In contrast, the more reasonably priced qualified clinical data registries are operated by specialty societies and quality improvement collaboratives.
Gilberg views this omission as a challenge for some practices that want to report more data to CMS this year to qualify for a bonus in 2019...
CMS' requirement that all MIPS participants use 2015 Edition EHRs presents practices with another quandary. So far, only two major EHR vendors, Epic and Allscripts, have had their 2015 Edition EHRs certified by the government. There is serious concern in the industry that the bulk of eligible clinicians will not have 2015 EHRs by the start of the 2018 reporting period....
Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.




http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3144743



Idaho congressman tells town hall that ‘nobody dies because they don't have access to health care’
BY JASON SILVERSTEIN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, May 7, 2017, 1:31 PM

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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
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Draft minutes May 31, 2017

June 24, 2017
Craig McKee, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call

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Draft minutes for the Wed., May 31, 2017 regular conference call

Present were:

Ken Freeland, Teleconference co-facilitator, Houston 9/11Truth
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference secretary, Truth and Shadows
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Wayne Coste, Truth Action Project
David Cole, Nine Eleven Accountability Team
Frank Tolopko, Berkshire 9/11 Truth
Lynn Bradbury, Maine 9/11 Truth
Sue Serpa, Act Now Worchester
Ryan Hesse, Museum of Conspiracy
Barton Bruce, Boston 9/11 Truth
Dick Atlee, Maine 9/11 Truth
Cat McGuire, 9/11 Truth Outreach
Greg Longo, 9/11 activist
Jonathan Mark. Flyby News
Dan Hennen, AE911Truth
Paul Zarembka, The Hidden History of 9-11
Bill Wilt, Mass. congressional candidate

The minutes of the April 26, 2017 conference call were APPROVED.


The draft agenda was APPROVED.

The Naudet brothers
Frank Tolopko gave a presentation on the role played by the Naudet brothers on 9/11, and he told the teleconference about a web site (www.frankresearch.info) that contains considerable research on the subject and features a detailed analysis of the anomalies in the Naudet film 9/11. Tolopko is asking members of the Truth Movement for feedback on the content of the site and the value in recreating it in more user-friendly form. He asks that people make a point of watching the Naudet film and reading the entire web site.

The Left Out Forum
Cheryl Curtiss brought everyone up to date on the banning of four panels at the Left Forum and the plans for an alternative event, the “Left Out Forum,” where these panels would take place.

Attacking the official story
Craig McKee made a presentation arguing that the Truth Movement must focus more on the impossibilities in the 9/11 official story and less on competing theories that keep truthers arguing internally.

Flyby News updates
Jonathan Mark gave some updates of news that can be found on FlyBy News, including directing telecom participants to a video on the Flyby News You Tube channel called Denial, Cognitive Dissonance, and September 11. He also mentioned that Tony Rooke (director of Incontrovertible) is making a new film about the current University of Alaska study being done about Building 7. Rooke is looking for investors for the film.

Announcements

Craig McKee announced that his web site, Truth and Shadows, has recently been the victim of changes to the Google algorithm that have the effect of reducing the visibility of alternative sites and dissenting voices under the guise of combatting “fake news.”
Wayne Coste mentioned that the United National Antiwar Coalition conference would be taking place June 16-18 in Richmond, VA.

Call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 9:30 p.m. EST/5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. PST


Audio of the May 31 call can be heard here: http://www.houston911truth.net/audio/53117.mp3 . The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Please email agenda items for next call to facilitator Ken Freeland (diogenesquest@gmail.com) by June 24. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require.

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Ninth International Conference on Future Energy - COFE9
“ Including the great ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference "
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Integrity Research Institute, sponsor of COFE9, is collaborating with the ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference and TeslaTech, LLC to present a two-day conference event on July 28 and 29, 2017 with an extra introductory talk on July 27th at 5 PM for a separate fee. COFE traditionally fulfills the mission statement of Integrity Research Institute to "research scientific integrity in the areas of energy, propulsion, and bioenergetics" so original papers on those vital topics are invited on the topics of energy, propulsion, bioenergetics. Email: IRI@erols.com . Questions, inquiries for potential exhibitors are accepted by email. Free admission for young people under 21 (student or not). It also includes FREE admission for the 28th and 29th to the concurrent ExtraOrdinary Technology conference going on down the hall if you are 21 and under. It does NOT include admission the evening Social with pizza and a special plenary speaker's presentation starting Wednesday, July 27 at 5 PM and following evenings starting at 7 PM for only $20/night separate Social/Food ticket. The COFE9 Speaker biography, abstracts, and Schedule is online. The Final Schedule is below.

Final Speaker Schedule
Confirmed Speakers include as of June 26, 2017:

*Dr. Carolyn McMakin, D.C. - speaking on "Resonant Effects in Clinical Practice" based on her best-selling book, Frequency Specific Microcurrent (Churchill Livingston, 2011) also featured on the Elsevier Health website plenary evening speaker for joint session of both conferences
*Thorsten Ludwig, PhD - speaking on his scanning electron microscope assisted energy research results
*Glen Robertson - speaking on Acceleration Mechanics for New Propellentless Space Drives
*Mike Gamble - retired Boeing engineer, speaking on his new tabletop experimental model of the Boeing CMG which powers (moves) the ISS and most satellites - a project sponsored and partially funded with a grant from IRI
*Russ Anderson - speaking on the worldwide efforts to replicate the J.R.R. Searl energy and propulsion device which he has also spent years researching
*William Alek - speaking on Developing Practical Warp Drive Engine Technology
*Aidan Shaffer - presenting personal experience with EarthShip sustainability and renewable energy project that produced a closed system for energy generation
*Don Reed - presenting a proof of principle for scalar electrodynamics which can offer faster than light transmission of information
*Dan Grebenisan - speaking on his new Bioenergetics product discovery
*Robert DeBiase - presenting the results of a yearlong effort to experimentally test his Casimir force production invention
*Dr. Glen Rein - speaking on "ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF DNA AND ITS SENSITIVITY TO SUBTLE ENERGY"
*Dr. Nirmala Khandan - confirmed professor speaking on "Harvesting Net Energy from Urban Wastewater" developed locally in Las Cruces NM at the Arrowhead Center, Inc.
*Dr. James Purvis - Confirmed speaker on "Electromagnetic Angular Acceleration and Segmented-Capacitor Propulsion Systems"
*David Froning - backup speaker - video lecture from Australian university scientist on quantum vacuum propulsion research
*David L. Strom - backup speaker on a hyper-light antenna
*Thomas Valone - backup speaker - "Energy Breakthroughs Expected to Have a Public Impact"
*James Dunn - backup speaker - former NASA Center for Technology Transfer Director speaking on new energy storage methods which he has investigated
Click here for a COFE 9 One-Page Poster for Friday and Saturday, July 28, 29, 2017

The dual, concurrent conferences will be held at the Embassy Suites near downtown Albuquerque, NM. Preregistration rates to be posted. Embassy Suites special conference rate is $94 per night. Hotel Reservations 800-362-2779. HOTEL reservations conference code is "TTI" .
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COFE8 was held on July 28-30, 2016 in Albuquerqu NM in conjunction with the ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference. Click here for a nice illustrated review of COFE8 or click here for the Master Program for COFE8 with Titles, Abstracts, and Biographies of ALL of the speakers!

Integrity Research Institute, sponsor of COFE8, is collaborating with the ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference and TeslaTech, LLC to present a two-day conference event with peer-reviewed published proceedings on July 29 and 30, 2016 with an extra introductory talk on July 28th at 5 PM. COFE traditionally fulfills the mission statement of Integrity Research Institute to "research scientific integrity in the areas of energy, propulsion, and bioenergetics" so original papers on those vital topics are presented on the topics of energy, propulsion, bioenergetics. Email: IRI@erols.com . Questions or inquiries are accepted by email. Free admission for young people under 21 (student or not). It also includes FREE admission for the 29th and 30th to the concurrent ExtraOrdinary Technology conference going on down the hall if you are 21 and under. It does NOT include admission the evening Social with pizza and a special plenary speaker's presentation starting Wednesday, July 27 at 5 PM and following evenings starting at 7 PM for only $20/night separate Social/Food ticket. Click here for a one-page COFE8 poster listing confirmed speakers for the conference.

Confirmed Speakers include:

William Alek #1 - Inertial/Gravitational Mass Modification for FTL Deep Space Applications
William Alek #2 - Constructing Free Energy - Overunity Devices using Spin-Zero Core Technology
Robert DeBiase - The Quantum Fire Project
Mike Gamble - former Boeing engineer presenting on BATTERIES NOT REQUIRED - The Real Tesla Electric Car Motor
Thorsten Ludwig - physicist from Germany presenting on Energy Extraction and Detection with Zero Point Energy, Magnetism and Consciousness
Moray King - The Nanobubble Revolution and Nanocavity Plasma
Stefan Weigandt - New Technology for a Better Life Quality - New Solution for You
Dr Norm Shealy - famous anti-aging doctor presenting on Biochemistry and Physics of Longevity
Don Reed - Stueckelberg Off-Mass Shell Model for Particle Interaction and Hidden Dimensions of Time and Mass
Dr Tom Valone - physicist and engineer presenting on Applications of Electrogravitics for Advanced Propulsion
H. David Froning - physicist and faculty member of University of Adelaide presenting on Faster than Light experiments (book)
Tim Wilson - corporate CEO and successful entrepreneur presenting on Monopole Magnet Dumbell Atom Model with Demo
Dr. Elliott Maynard - BRAVE NEW MIND: Future-Science Transformation of the Global Biosphere (latest book)
Click here for a COFE 8 Speaker Schedule for Friday and Saturday, July 29-30, 2016

Click on the links below for select slideshows from COFE8. These are great examples of real scientific progress being made by our presenters. Order their DVDs on our Products link from the Homepage



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Seventh International Conference on Future Energy
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Review of COFE7 in Future Energy eNews, August, 2015.

COFE7 Slideshow movie (5 minutes) with music mp4 format .

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COFE7 Program Schedule

COFE7 Speakers' Abstracts and Bios

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Confirmed plenary speakers include (updated 7/27/15):

Moray King (Zero Point Energy and Thunderclouds)
Mike Gamble (Boeing inertial propulsion engineer)
Dr. Nick Simos (Brookhaven National Lab - wireless energy transmission)
Ryan Wood (Detailed Analysis of Papp Engine - an In-Depth Investigation)
Dr. Thomas Valone (V-Track Spiral Magnetic Motor Development)
Dr. Thorsten Ludwig (quantum vacuum experiment)
Rober DeBiase (Asymmetric Casimir Plates Experiments)
Dr. Jacqueline Panting (New Healing Paradigm: Pulsed Magnetic Fields)
Carlos Hendriques (zero point energy Master's Degree presentation)
Marcus Reid (new energy technologies)
Robert Smith (Getting Millions for Your Inventions and Free Publicity)
William Alek (Antigravity revealing technology)
Stephan Weigandt (New Solutions - car mileage, land irrigation and more)
Mike Weiner (My Career as an Electrodevice Entrepreneur)
-- presenters on ENERGY, PROPULSION, and BIOENERGETICS --

The dual, concurrent conferences held at the Embassy Suites near downtown Albuquerque, NM. Preregistration rates to be posted. Embassy Suites special conference rate is $94 per night. Hotel Reservations 800-362-2779. HOTEL reservations conference code is "TTI" .
Note: A few COFE speakers appear in SPECIAL, shared, joint sessions like Dr. Tom Valone (July 29 at 5 PM), Dr. Nick Simos (July 31 at 7 PM), and Mike Gamble (Aug. 1 at 4 PM). COFE attendees will have special admission to those events though they occur in the ExtraOrdinary Tech ballroom.

Questions or inquiries are accepted by email . As to remote presentations, we use Adobe Connect which is easy for slides, audio and video.

IRI has published (see below) the Proceedings of COFE with Elsevier or World Scientific publishers and will contract with them again or other similar, widely distributed ScienceDirect-affiliated publishers of conference proceedings. Your original and unpublished paper is vital to making this record of the conference a lasting success. Guidelines for formatting the paper will be posted shortly.

Click on the links below for select slideshows from COFE7. These are great examples of real scientific progress being made by our presenters. Order their DVDs on our Products link on the IRI homepage.

Nick Simos - "Wireless Energy Transmission: Nicola Tesla 'Unplugged'" COFE7 July 30, 2015

Robert DeBiase - "Can Casimir Forces be Asymmetric?" COFE7 July 31, 2015

Carlos Hendriques - "ZPE Casimir Force Experiments" - COFE7 July 31, 2015

Mike Gamble - "History of Boeing's Control Moment Gyros (CMG)" - July 31, 2015

Thorsten Ludwig - "Subtle Influences on a Single Electron's Spin" - July 30, 2015

Thomas Valone - "Future Energy-Program Initiatives into Emerging Energy, Propulsion and Bioenergy" - July 31, 2015


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Previous COFE1 - COFE6 Details from Years Past are Below * * * * * * * * * * * * * *


Sixth International Conference on Future Energy
“ Including 20th Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference "

Integrity Research Institute, sponsor of COFE6, collaborated with the highly successful Natural Philosophy Alliance for this conference event July 11-13, 2013. But what is "Future Energy" you might ask? A credible summary is provided by Gary Vesperman for example, who just published in 2013 a 33-page report for investors on "Clean Energy Inventions", none of which use fossil fuels and many are worthy of further research and investigation.

Our joint NPA-COFE6 conference was held at the University of Maryland. Our Conference Summary for the Sixth Conference on Future Energy is updated and online. Our emphasis is on emerging energy developments, propulsion research, and bioenergetics. We are happy to share the webcast recordings as well, which open with RealPlayer. It is suggested to "Save Target As" and select "all files", then add ".flv" at the end of the file name, to ensure saving it as a Flash Video, or simply change the extension after saving to ".flv" so it will be playable.

Francis McCabe - Gyro/Inertial Propulsion Forces and Systems

Thomas Valone - Zero Point and Quantum Vacuum Energy Power

John Finnerty - Konterra Solar Project-Maryland's First Solar Grid Storage

George Miley - Life at the Center of the Energy Crisis-New Book

Thomas Valone - Papp Engine Overview and Video Demo

Thorsten Ludwig - Coler Engine Generator Experiments

Nick Simos - Physics of Tesla's Wireless Energy Transmission

Max Formitchev-Zamilov - Cavitation Induced Fusion

Matt Emery - Analysis of LeedSkalnin's Mysterious Coral Castle

James Putnam - Origins of Force and Acceleration

Sterling Allen - Top 5 Exotic Energy Technologies

The last presentation here is David Froning's narrated PowerPoint presentation which is self-running with good audio:
David Froning - Fusion Confinement with Special EM Fields

University of Maryland campus maps are online: full color map in pdf and my favorite, the 2013 3D black and white 11x17 size map also in pdf.

Students full registration or single day registration was FREE with student I.D.
Everyone else may register here. One low fee for admission to both conferences, demonstrations (Thursday night) and exhibit hall!
Note on the NPA site, authors may choose to publish in the NPA Proceedings ($15/page) and/or the COFE6 Proceedings (free). There is no cost to submit a paper to IRI for the COFE6 online proceedings this year.
COFE and NPA Final Program Schedule

WEBCASTING: We are using Adobe Connect, a professional, high-bandwith Internet based service that shows the PowerPoint slides very clearly, audio AND video of the speaker. Simply click here on Thursday or Friday morning to join our conference. Please join as "Learner" or "participant" only. No credit card needed!

But most important are three compelling reasons to attend the NPA-COFE6 dual event:
(1) Two (2) Conferences under one roof:


COFE6 which includes Space Propulsion, Future Energy, Bioenergetics and Space Science and Technology
NPA which includes over eighty (80) presentations on all aspects of physics developments

(2) Amazing Peer-Reviewed papers published by Natural Philosophy Alliance known worldwide

Physics theories and experiments, Human Missions to Mars, New Energy, Propulsion, NASA advanced concepts, Bioelectromagnetics, Inertial Gyroscopic Propulsion, Gravitomagnetics, Antigravity, Podkletnov effect, Space Elevators, Beamed Power, Nuclear propulsion, Toroidal coils, Coler apparatus, Low Energy Nuclear Power, Water Electrolyzers, Maglevs and Space Habitats and more.
(3) Reasonable registration fees and very reasonable hotel rates.

Conference Dateline Summary

Many of the hotels are within walking distance of the campus and also offer shuttle service.
Hotel information and Contact Info

the official hotel for the COFE6-NPA event is the Quality Inn with a SHUTTLE to the Stamp Student Union but use 301-276-1000 option 2 and ask for Ms. Patel using the discount code "NPA" to get the group rate of $80/night based on availability

Nearby Hotels to the U of Md

Hosted by: University of Maryland
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK - Stamp Student Union Building - 495 Ex. 25B

Parking is available in the Union Lane Garage next door to the Student Union for $3 per hour with a maximum of $15/day or in the Student Lot (Lot # 1) for $8/day pre-registered with the NPA or $10/day onsite parking pass.


COFE6 Speaker Titles


View the NPA-COFE6 Poster and view the very impressive and scientifically amazing NPA posting of over 90 abstracts .

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Sincerely, Thomas Valone, PhD, PE, President, Integrity Research Institute, COFE Co-Coordinator and Len Danczyk, COFE Co-Coordinator
2012 COFE5

In 2012, COFE5 was in collaboration with the Space, Propulsion & Energy Sciences International Forum (SPESIF)
The 350 page Proceedings of SPESIF-COFE5, Edited by Dr Thomas Valone are now online for Guests to view and download PDF copies of the published papers: Proceedings of SPESIF 2012

We are grateful for all of you who contributed to this event and made it possible. The Flash FLV videos of most of the SPESIF presentations are also online (see below) and stored chronologically for online viewing, as converted from Adobe Connect.
SPESIF-COFE 5 Proceedings are available online (see above for link or contact IRI at 301-220-0440 to inquiry).
2012 Author page (updated 2/20/12)

SPESIF-COFE5 videos now online - Adobe Flash Video (flv) format. Also recommended as an alternative is RealPlayer which plays flv media files very well with several options for display. Note, all files are 100 MB or larger so high bandwidth WiFi is helpful or simply right-click and "Save Target" before trying to play the file on your computer. However, there are a couple of technical sound problems in a few presentations so please accept our apologies for Adobe Connect issues:

IRI is proud to emphasize the exclusive breakthrough discoveries of Mike Gamble and Garret Moddel that were presented at SPESIF 2012.

Wednesday night, Feb. 29, Dave Nagel and Sterling Allan, 1:23 hours Opening night - two lectures

Thursday morning, Mar. 1, Moddel, DeBiase, Fresco, Carter, Gamble, 3:09 hours March 1 morning

Thursday afternoon, Mar. 1, Cui, Werbos, Chiang, Pomerantseva, Goodwin, Ludwig, Kosovich, 4:14 hours March 1 afternoon

Thursday Banquet Talk, Mar. 1, George Miley, 1:04 hours Banquet presentation

Friday all day, Mar. 2, 2012, Ide, Reed, Lundquist, Fresco, Putnam, Valone, Woods, Bouchard, 6:40 hours March 2 all day

SPESIF-COFE5 News Release, Feb. 20, 2012 (click here)

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SPESIF-COFE4 2011 Press Releases: (1) Energy Breakthrough Announcement at SPESIF-COFE4 ; (2) Life Extension discovery at U of Md conference

View ALL of the SPESIF2011-COFE4 papers and download ANY of them for FREE (pdf): Physics Procedia - ScienceDirect (c) Elsevier B.V.



COFE4 Invited and Accepted Speakers

click here for a Review of the past 2011 SPESIF-COFE4

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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
        
Draft Agenda for 7/26
Greetings all,

Well, we seem to have reached the summer doldrums, as reflected by fewer than average requests for agenda items. Perhaps, then, we will finally have a  bit  of time at the end of this call for open discussion, something that has not happened in ... well... years!

But this call will not be without its headliner:  One of the most talked about of all the videos in the 9/11 Truth genre is JFK to 9/11:  Everything is a Rich Man's Trick.  This film helped cement in the public perception the historical Deep State connection over time, and to contextualize 9/11 accordingly.  In this sense, it was a monumental offering.  We're excited that the illustrious filmmaker himself, Francis Richard Conolly, will be with us to provide background, color and relate his plans for the future, as well as to respond to our questions and comments.  If you are among the few in the Truth movement that have not seen his epic documentary yet, be sure to click on the accompanying icon to be magically transported to an online  presentation! 

Craig McKee also has something to discuss:  the irrepressible case of Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was captured by American forces after a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002.  It reveals, he asserts, a lot about propaganda and the war on terror.  Quoth Craig: "Reaction to the$10.5 million settlement between the Canadian government and former child soldier Omar Khadr has been extremely hostile with the focus on Khadr as 'terrorist' rather than as child soldier who pleaded guilty after being tortured a denied due process."

And as always, your announcements.


See you Wednesday night for these latest currents in the Truth movement!


Peace,
Ken Freeland
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee


DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday 26 July Teleconference

I Roll Call, minutes approval (see below), agenda approval  (5 min)

II "JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick"  [Francis Richard Conolly] (15 min + Q&A)

III Propaganda drives ugly reaction to Khadr payout [Craig McKee]  (10 min + Q&A)

IV  Announcements

V Any available updates on issues of identified ongoing concern and/or open discussion!:
 
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community;  MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
The 9/11 Crash Test
The 9/11 Consensus Panel
9/11 Truth political candidates
  VI Adjournment (by 9:30 p Eastern)
 
This draft agenda sent to:
John Heartson, Don DeBar, Scott Halfmann, Steven E. Jones, William Rodriguez, David Ray Griffin, William Douglas, Steve Alten , Tom Tvedten, Justin Martel, Les Jamieson, Michael Jackman, Michael Wolsey, Peggy Brewster, Barrie Zwicker, Erik Lawyer, Gabriel Day, Kevin Barrett, Carol Brouillet, Mia Hamel, Paul Craig Roberts, Jack Blood, Diana (for investigar11s.org), Cheryl Curtiss, Jodie Baltazar, Jarek Kupsc, Joseph Culp, Ken Jenkins, Ellen Mariani, Gerhard Bedding,  Jack Shimek, Paul Krik, Rock Creek Free Press, Damon Bean, Allan Giles, Kyle Hence, Michael Berger, Dylan Avery,  Jason Burmas, Mike Palecek, Donald Stahl, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Don Plummer, Doug Wight, Global Outlook,  Paul Zarembka, Penny Little, Bob Cable, Suzanne Warson, Peter Thottam, Ralph Schoenman, Carol Wolman, Scholars for 911 Truth & Justice, Hummux, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, Frank Morales, Frank Tolopko, Alan Miller, James Hufferd, Ph.D., Erik Larson, Ted Walter , Suzanne Warson, Frederick Coward, Gordon Duff, Sherri Kane, Leonard Horowitz, William Woodward, Jerry Mazza, William Pepper, Wayne Madsen, David Kimball, Jeffrey Orling, Michael Marino, Lenny Mather, Ken Freeland, Tania Torres, Graeme MacQueen, Yumi Kikuchi, Stuart Hutchison, Roland Angle, Frank Agamemnon , Harold Hilton, Phil Restino, Rich McCampbell, John Zito, Manny Badillo, John Hankey, Oskar Mosquito, Edwin Jewett, Ms Anisa Fattah, Robert Barron, Shelton Lankford, Matthew Hayward, Anna Yeisley, Chris Pratt, Craig Ranke, Susan Lindauer, Barbara Honegger, Democritus Blantayre, Joseph Baltar, Jim Hogue, Sheila Casey, Steve Martin, Ben Collet, Elizabeth Woodward,  Runyan Wilde, Susan Wolfe, Adam Ruff, Conrad Gilber. Jonathan Mark, Tonya Sneed, Dan Sutton, Richard Krushnic, Mark Crispin Miller, Byron Belitsos, George Ripley, Laurie Manwell ,  Susan Serpa, Nicolas Guillermo, Dwain Deets, Craig McKee, Steve Fahrney; Fran Shure; David Petrano, Lawrence Fine, A.K. Dewdney, Steve De'ak, Allan Rees, Art Olivier, Ron Avery, Michael Booth, Jim Fetzer, Laura Katleman, Don Gibbs, Mark Basile, John-Michael Talboo, Julian Stroh, Christopher Gruener, Elias Davidsson, Martin McGee, Adnan Zuberi, Jan Ravensbergen, Rich Aucoin, David Hooper, Wayne Coste, Don Fox, Bill Wilt, William Jacoby, Ron Neils, John Campbell, Dan Hennen, Barton Bruce, Cheri Aspenleiter, Stephen Phillips, Dick Atlee, Lynn Ertrell, Nita Renfrew. Frank Tolopko, Mark McDonald, Christopher Bollyn, John Paul OMalley, Rodger Bories, Mark Snyder, Jane Clark, Richard Sacks, Tim Michel, Lynn Bradbury, Xander Arena, David Cole, Rick Tufts, Jerry Turner, Rick Shaddock, Rebecca Schmoyer, Mark Mckertich, Kip Beckford, Doug West, PF Soto, Dennis Cimino, Jane Clark, Charles Ewing Smith, Lucy Morgan Edwards, Pablo Novi, David Rolde, Gregory Flynn, Pat O'Connell, Jeff Long, Greg McCarron, Andy Steele, Thomas Robichaud, Doug Mackenzie, Peter Michael Ketcham, Gene Laratonda, Karl Golovin, Steve Jarrott, Neil Marquis, Matt Van Slyke, Tony Hall, Ph.D,


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Craig McKee, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
 
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Craig McKee, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
 
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Draft minutes for the Wed., June 28, 2017 regular conference call
 
Present were:
 
Ken Freeland, Teleconference co-facilitator, Houston 9/11Truth
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference secretary, Truth and Shadows
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Wayne Coste, TAP
David Cole, Nine Eleven Accountability Team
Frank Tolopko, Berkshire 9/11 Truth
Dan Hennen, AE911Truth
Bill Wilt, Mass. congressional candidate
Xander Arena, Arizona 9/11 Studies and Outreach, Arizona State University
Mick Harrison, Lawyers’ Committee for 9-11 Inquiry
Jane Clark, Lawyers’ Committee for 9-11 Inquiry
Pat O’Connell, TAP
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception: The Media Coverup of 9/11
Barbara Honegger, Behind the Smoke Curtain
Stu Nelson, TAP
Michael Springmann, Goodbye Europe? Hello, Chaos?
Peter Michael Ketcham, formerly of NIST
Dwain Deets, TAP
Neil Marquis, AE911Truth
Charles Ewing Smith,
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
 
The minutes of the May 31, 2017 conference call were APPROVED.

The amended draft agenda was APPROVED.
 
9/11 legal avenues
Jane Clark and Mick Harrison gave a summary of the history of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9-11 Inquiry and the projects it is currently pursuing. Anyone wishing more information or to contact the committee can go to the site (www.lcfor911.org) or send an email (info@lcfor911.org or https://lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org/contact/). To donate: https://lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry. ... to-donate/.
 
Manufactured migrants
Michael Springmann discussed his new book, Goodbye Europe? Hello, Chaos? The Merkel Migrant Bomb.
 
Pentagon wall correction
Wayne Coste corrected past misstatements he had made regarding the composition of the Pentagon wall on 9/11.
 
Left Out Forum report
Cheryl Curtiss and Barbara Honegger reported on the successful outcome of the Left Out Forum, which was created so that four panels banned by the Left Forum could take place. The four can be viewed at http://noliesradio.org/archives/131236.
 
Announcements
Craig McKee announced that Steve De’ak, who heads the 9/11 Crash Test Project, is looking for someone to take the project over. Anyone interested can contact Steve at www.911crashtest.org  or  steve@crashtest.org.
Craig also passed on an announcement from Pablo Schanes, co-ordinator of the UNITY Manifesto Project, that he is promoting his UNITY Manifesto through a Facebook group called “International 9/11 Fraud Awareness Week” (https://www.facebook.com/groups/457414874603327). He is an administrator of the page and the pinned post is the Manifesto itself. For more information, you can reach Pablo at novipablo@protonmail.com. And the photo version of the Manifesto is here: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/84a2c6cbe ... c6c665.png
Dwain Deets announced that the group San Diegans for 9/11 Truth will no longer hold monthly meetings and will only meet now when they have a speaker.
Cheryl Curtiss mentioned that the United States Conference of Mayors unanimously passed several resolutions at their recent annual meeting opposing military spending and advocating that funds instead be directed towards human and environment needs. For the details of the resolutions, go to this link: http://legacy.usmayors.org/resolutions/ ... %20Affairs
Barbara Honegger stated that an article in the Washington Post mentioned that five alleged perpetrators of 9/11 remain at Guantanamo Bay as they’re cases are “on hold” because of supposed problems with their hearings.
Wayne Coste urged anyone who will be in the Boston area over the July 4th holiday that they might consider helping the Boston 9/11 Truth group in the outreach efforts it engages in every year on the holiday.
Call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 10:00 p.m. EST/5 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. PST

Audio of the June 28 call can be heard here: www.houston911truth.net/audio/62817.mp3. The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Please email agenda items for next call to facilitator Ken Freeland (diogenesquest@gmail.com) by July 22. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require.
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