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Sotomayor Says Court May Rule to Limit First Amendment in Response to Wikileaks

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

On Thursday, talking to students at the University of Denver, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Wikileaks case will result in the Court likely weighing the First Amendment against national security. She made the comment in response to a question posed by a student. That was not the beginning of that question, but an issue that keeps arising from generation to generation, of how far we will permit government restriction on freedom of speech in favor of protection of the country,” Sotomayor said. “There’s no black-and-white line.” According to Sotomayor, the balance between national security and free speech is “a constant struggle in this society, between our security needs and our first amendment rights, and one that has existed throughout our history.” Following the release of over 90,000 documents by Wikileaks in July, the Pentagon found no evidence that the disclosure harmed U.S. national security or endangered American troops in the field. The Pentagon review team consists of military intelligence analysts, lawyers and others working for the Joint Chiefs of Staffs and other elements of the Defense Department. The Obama administration and certain members of Congress, however, have portrayed the release as a dire threat to national security. Obama asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the organization is guilty of “moral culpability” in the murder of U.S. soldiers. The ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King, said the release of documents violates espionage laws and amounts to treason. The FBI is investigating and the Justice Department said it was looking into pursuing criminal charges in the case. Rep. Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican, has demanded the death penalty for SPC Bradley Manning, the man arrested and charged with providing the documents to Wikileaks…. Continued at: http://www.infowars.com/sotomayor-says-court-may-rule-to-limit-first-amendment-i… added by: Dagum

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Ice Cube Explains Dr. Dre’s I Am The West Absence

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

‘I don’t feel bad, because Snoop can’t find him either,’ Cube laughs. By Jayson Rodriguez Ice Cube Photo: MTV News NEW YORK — Ice Cube might rep the West on his new album, appropriately titled I Am the West, but the legendary Left Coast rapper is missing one important link: Dr. Dre. The former N.W.A groupmates weren’t able to connect on Cube’s project, slated for release independently September 21. Ice Cube said his and Dre’s schedules weren’t able to align. “I didn’t get a chance to work with Dre on this record,” Cube told MTV News from Skyline Studios in Manhattan, where he previewed his album for press. “He’s been M.I.A. for two to three months now. But I don’t feel bad, because Snoop can’t find him either,” he laughed. “I think, really, it’s because people expect so much from him,” he continued. “People expect, when Dre does a record, it [will] change the trajectory of music. Not just be an album and it come out and be good. It has to come and take us in a different direction. And that’s a lot of pressure.” Cube was able to recruit a stable of upstart producers and chart-toppers like Bangladesh (Lil Wayne, Beyonc

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Barack Obama: Closeted Non-Believer? by Ali A. Rizvi

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

*Edited due to length of article! “Before we get carried away, let's read our Bibles now,” said the young first-term Senator from Illinois in his speech to Call for Renewal, a liberal Christian group. “Folks haven't been reading their Bibles!” It was June 2006, and it wasn't long before Barack Obama started to draw the wrath of evangelicals like James Dobson for the controversial speech. Earlier, he had asked: Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is okay, and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith. Or should we just stick with the Sermon on the Mount, a passage that is so radical that it is doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application? That election season had followed eight years of progressively increasing “religionization” of America under a president who, during a debate in his 2004 re-election campaign, had said, “God wants everyone to be free, and that is part of my foreign policy.” As evidenced by the wide attention paid to the poll on Obama's religion (conducted before his remarks on the Park51 mosque controversy) and his swift rebuttal to the allegations of his non-Christianity, the religionization process is well, alive and thriving. Obama isn't the first president to have to deal with this. Abraham Lincoln, who never joined a church and was notoriously ambiguous and secretive about his religious beliefs, famously said, “The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.” In his later years, despite denouncing those who were “enemies of” or “scoffed at” religion, he reiterated, “My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.” And Lincoln wasn't alone, either. In fact, the United States was created by a very skeptical group of Founding Fathers. The Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by the Senate and signed by President John Adams in 1797, stated clearly in Article 11 that the US government is “not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Thomas Jefferson, who famously wrote to Joseph Priestley in 1801 that Christianity was “the most perverted system that has ever shone on man,” constructed his own version of the Bible, the Jefferson Bible, by snipping out the supernatural aspects of Christianity like angels and the Trinity, and including only the aspects relating to the life and morality of Jesus Christ. Benjamin Franklin, also famously suspicious of organized religion, penned a dissertation detailing his criticism of Christian principles, and openly questioned the divinity of Jesus Christ. Ever since, there has been an unofficial religious litmus test for presidential candidates, and the effects have never been more blatantly in-your-face than they are now: at a time when the country may be headed for a double-dip recession and the unemployment rate still lingers close to 10 percent, the hottest stories in the media have to do with an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero and what religion the president adheres to. For those of us who value the principle of separation of religion and state, it's like watching a public argument about whether the president believes in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. We are encouraged, however, by the fact that based on much of what Barack Obama has written and said before running for office, including his speech to Call for Renewal and others like it, America may have the most secular president that the Oval Office has seen in decades. Secularism is not about hostility towards religion but neutrality towards it. Like Lincoln, Obama keeps his beliefs to himself, and apart from the occasional re-affirmation of his supposed Christianity — triggered by the odd, sporadic, acute need for damage control as in the aftermath of the poll — he doesn't wear them on his sleeve. His thoughts on religion can be gleaned much more easily from his books, where he describes his biological father as a “confirmed atheist” and his mother as an “agnostic”; about his stepfather, whom he describes as a “nominal Muslim,” he writes, in The Audacity of Hope: When my mother remarried, it was to an Indonesian with an equally skeptical bent, a man who saw religion as not particularly useful in the practical business of making one's way in the world, and who had grown up in a country that easily blended its Islamic faith with remnants of Hinduism, Buddhism, and ancient animist traditions. In Obama's own words: I was not raised in a religious household. My maternal grandparents, who hailed from Kansas, had been steeped in Baptist and Methodist teachings as children, but religious faith never really took root in their hearts. My mother's own experiences as a bookish, sensitive child growing up in small towns in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas only reinforced this inherited skepticism. Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones. Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall the sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three-quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal damnation — and who in the same breath would insist that the earth and the heavens had been created in seven days, all geologic and astrophysical evidence to the contrary. She remembered the respectable church ladies who were always so quick to shun those unable to meet their standards of propriety, even as they desperately concealed their own dirty little secrets; the church fathers who uttered racial epithets and chiseled their workers out of any nickel that they could … … For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness. … I was made to understand that such religious samplings required no sustained commitment on my part — no introspective exertion or self-flagellation. Religion was an expression of human culture, she would explain, not its wellspring, just one of the many ways — and not necessarily the best way — that man attempted to control the unknowable and understand the deeper truths about our lives. … [I]t was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well. … [A]lthough my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition. Later, Obama talks about embracing Christianity in his 20s, implying that it was more about gaining a sense of belonging to a community than anything supernatural: He is also unlikely to make statements like the one Bush 41 made about atheists not being citizens or patriots. In his 2006 speech, Obama said: Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal — rather than religion-specific — values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths — including those with no faith at all. So why the constant reaffirmations of his Christian faith? Well, it's quite possible, even likely, that Obama lied about his religious beliefs in order to be elected. added by: Introspective

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Obama: ‘I Can’t Spend All My Time With My Birth Certificate Plastered On My Forehead’

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams that aired yesterday, President Obama addressed the lingering rumors about his birth and religion, condemning what he calls a “network of misinformation” and taking a swipe at the birther movement. “We went through some of this during the campaign,” Obama said in response to a question about the rising number of Americans who think he's a Muslim. “There is a mechanism, a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out their constantly.” “I will always put my money on the American people and I'm not going to be worrying too much about whatever rumors are floating out there,” Obama said. Even facing the beliefs of a number of Americans “as sizable as this?” Williams asked. “I can't spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead. The facts are the facts,” Obama responded. added by: TimALoftis

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Glenn Beck Condemns Obama’s Christianity, Calls for "Religious Revival"

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, conservative talk show host Glenn Beck led what turned out to be a largely religious rally, calling on the assembled crowds to bring America back to God. The event took place on the forty-seventh anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legendary “I Have A Dream” speech, leading to sharp criticisms of Beck for dishonoring Dr. King's memory, and the memory of that day. And indeed, as many have already pointed out, the racial dynamics of Beck's mostly-white rally and the much smaller but heavily African-American protest rally, led by Al Sharpton, seemed to provide a potent illustration of how far the country has yet to come. Religion has slipped its way into recent media discourses, mostly because of the Park51 Center controversy and the revelation that disturbing number of Americans believe Barack Obama to be a Muslim. But many of these discourses have centered on the othering of American Muslims, which is why I was surprised to see a new twist in Beck's discussion of Obama's religion. Beck's new line is that while Obama may not be a Muslim, he is certainly a bad Christian. Specifically, Beck charged that Obama adhered to “liberation theology,” a Catholic movement aligned with Marxism that originated in Latin America in the 1950's and '60s. This morning, debriefing the rally on Fox News, Beck half-heartedly retracted an accusation of racism hurled at Obama last summer, saying that he had a “big fat mouth sometimes” (he may tie Dr. Laura for best non-apology of the year), but added that he made the comment because he “didn't understand Obama's theology.” Obama, Beck said, subscribed to liberation theology, which he described as centered on “oppressor and victim.” This is not, Beck claimed, a theology which many Christians follow, because it is, in his words, the “direct opposite of what the gospel is talking about. It's Marxism disguised as religion.” Beck took this complex theological discussion a little further, saying that while Obama believed that “your salvation is directly tied to collective salvation,” while Beck (and all good Christians) believed that “Jesus came for personal salvation.” Beck said “people aren't recognizing [Obama's] version of Christianity.” Liberation theology is not a new subject for Beck, who devoted an entire episode last July to attacking the idea that Jesus was a victim. “Social justice,” Beck said, “isn't in the Bible…Jesus was a conqueror. Jesus conquered death.” Beck's deep misunderstanding of both liberation theology and much of Christianity itself are obvious in these remarks, and illustrate the extent to which Beck is willing to harness religious rhetoric for political aims. I don't know whether Obama subscribes to liberation theology, but if he does, it's in theory rather than in practice, because the movement itself has very little political influence today. His beliefs correspond to a basic tenet of Christianity: the obligation of the Christian to care for others. This is repeated throughout the New Testament, from Matthew 25:40 (“Just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me [Christ]”) to Paul's epistle to the Romans, where he writes, “We, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another.” This doesn't seem to jive with Beck's assertion that because Christians believe that they are saved through God's grace, this translates into an exclusively personal vision of salvation. In an interview on Religious Dispatches, Union Theological Seminary president Serene Jones addressed Glenn Beck's bizarre formation of grace, saying, “Just as grace reminds us as individuals that there is nothing we can do to earn the love of God—that it is simply poured out upon us—so too it reminds us that at a political level, the minute we start constructing political structures that we think are unambiguously right, we are making our own politics into God. Nobody does that more than Glenn Beck.” Obama's interpretation of Christianity is not radical – and it is in fact Glenn Beck who is deeply out of sync with fundamental Christian ideals. When asked, on Fox News, how he would respond to critics of his wealth, Beck responded “the money doesn't matter.” It's hard to believe that Beck hasn't read the gospel of Matthew, where Christ says to a young man, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give the money to the poor” (Matt. 19:21), but from his comments, it seems that he's never bothered to read or wrestle with the scriptures that he seems so eager for Americans to embrace. Perhaps it would be best for Beck simply to listen to Martin Luther King, Jr., who wrote, “Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.” Is Beck's God the one that we want America to turn toward? And is Beck's Christianity one that Christ would recognize? added by: pinkpanther

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NBC’s Today Show Invites on Two Liberals To Analyze Glenn Beck Rally

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NBC’s Matt Lauer, on Monday’s Today show, invited on the not-so balanced panel of the Reverend Al Sharpton and the NAACP’s Ben Jealous to analyze Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally that took place on the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream speech” with Jealous proclaiming that “if Dr. King stood up there” the conservatives in attendance would not have “responded well” to him. Jealous went on to say Dr. King’s “last campaign” was the “poor people’s campaign. To make sure that all people…can find a good job, all kids can go to a great school. And Mr. Beck, that’s not what he talks about. And that’s not, that doesn’t seem to be what he actually wants.” This led Lauer, ignoring the fact that rally attendees also want those things, that they just differ on the methods to get there, to observe: “It seems like you guys are saying, without saying, that you’re looking at what happened and you’re looking at Glenn Beck as somewhat of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” The following Kelly O’Donnell set-up piece and Lauer interview with Sharpton and Jealous was aired on the August 30 Today show: ANN CURRY: As Brian mentioned, talk show host Glenn Beck drew a big crowd at the National Mall in Washington this weekend including guest speaker Sarah Palin for a controversial rally he called “Restoring Honor.” NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell has a wrap-up now. Kelly, good morning. [On screen headline: “Rallying The Faithful, Glenn Beck ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally Draws Thousands”] KELLY O’DONNELL: Hi, Ann. There is still so much to debate this morning. From the size of the crowd — was it 80,000 or as Brian mentioned, more than 300,000 — to the motives behind calling the rally for this place on a very famous anniversary. Now Glenn Beck did try to set one rumor straight. He says he and Sarah Palin won’t be running for anything. Beck says he has zero political aspirations. GLENN BECK: It has nothing to do with politics! It has everything to do with God! O’DONNELL: Conservative media star Glenn Beck insisted on that “no politics” distinction. Still, the massive rally easily looked like a political event. SARAH PALIN: We must restore America and restore her honor! O’DONNELL: Beck did not criticize President Obama from the stage but has been harsh, even calling Mr. Obama racist last year. BECK: This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. O’DONNELL: Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Beck said he now regrets that comment. BECK: It shouldn’t have been said. It was poorly said, and it was not accurate. O’DONNELL: Back at the rally, many who came from around the country did criticize the President’s politics. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: I believe in our Constitution, and this administration doesn’t. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I, I cannot disagree with our president more. I believe he’s leading this country in the wrong direction. O’DONNELL: Others criticized the time and place, held on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. Beck called that timing a coincidence. He and Palin praised King. PALIN: We feel the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. O’DONNELL: But civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton led a smaller, competing rally. REVEREND AL SHARPTON: They want to disgrace this day! And we’re not giving them this day! This is our day, and we ain’t giving it away! O’DONNELL: The context is full of tension. Beck also said his rally would reclaim the civil rights movement. BECK: Meaning people of faith that look at equal justice and look at every man the same. That’s who needs to reclaim it, not the politicians. Not the parties. Not white people or black people. O’DONNELL: And Beck tried to sort of shape some of the imagery here. He had asked some of the followers not to bring signs and often signs at these sort of events, if they have controversial images or words attract a lot of negative attention. And interestingly Beck said he regretted those words calling the President a racist but said he was not retracting them, simply amending them. Matt? LAUER: Kelly O’Donnell, Kelly thanks very much. As you just heard the Reverend Al Sharpton led his own rally this weekend. Ben Jealous is the president of the NAACP. Guys, good morning to both of you. AL SHARPTON: Good morning. BEN JEALOUS: Good morning. LAUER: So much talk leading up to this rally, Reverend Sharpton, and now so much analysis afterward, people worried about the timing, the date, the location, the 47th anniversary of Dr. King’s speech, thinking it was some kind of political rally masquerading as a non-partisan rally for patriotism and responsibility. In the end, wasn’t it fairly uneventful? SHARPTON: Yeah and, and you wonder whether that was designed that way because, just remember now it was Mr. Beck himself that was saying this is gonna be to “reclaim civil rights. I’m gonna do this and that,” attacking the President. And then he comes and does none of that. So I don’t know if it was his promotion or whether we’re seeing the true political strategy. LAUER: But when I, but when I saw you speaking there at your own rally saying “we’re not gonna let him have this day, this is our day,” in the end is it a case of “never mind?” I mean was there no offense? SHARPTON: No, what the offense is to try and cast that as civil rights. Blacks, whites, we had many speakers of all races that are legitimately in civil rights, union leaders, the Secretary of Education, people that are trying to deal with the inequality in this country. We’re not talking about the day didn’t belong to blacks or whites. The day does belong to those that believe in what Dr. King’s dream was about. LAUER: Mr. Jealous there were many people at that rally who said we need to honor the legacy of Dr. King. When you watched and listened to what happened on the Mall there, what was your gut reaction? JEALOUS: My gut reaction was that if Dr. King stood up there, if he came back or somebody read his speech, that, that crowd wouldn’t have responded well to the full text of his speech. You know we are here to finish Dr. King’s last campaign, the poor people’s campaign. To make sure that all people in this country can find a good job, all kids can go to a great school. And Mr. Beck, that’s not what he talks about. And that’s not, that doesn’t seem to be what he actually wants. LAUER: Here’s from an op-ed in the New York Times this morning: “One could also call the day a strange, unlooked for fulfillment of King’s prophecies. Forty-seven years after the “I have a dream” speech here were tens of thousands of white conservatives roaring their approval of its author.” SHARPTON: But not applauding the content, because it was never discussed. Because in the speech Dr. King addressed unemployment and the plight of the poor, police brutality. And when we have an America where we can applaud where everyone is treated the same, that is the fulfillment of Dr. King. LAUER: It seems like you guys are saying, without saying, that you’re looking at what happened and you’re looking at Glenn Beck as somewhat of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. SHARPTON: No I think it’s a political strategy, possibly. I think every time we see the right wing, when we get in an election, they bring out God and country. Jerry Falwell did it one era. We had to deal with it, with same-sex marriage with George Bush. So I think now we see – Barry Goldwater did it in Dr. King’s day. Now I think Mr. Beck has started the, what we’re seeing in the midterm, that they’re going to again, try to use religion rather than really deal with the real issues. I’m a minister, I want us to turn to God- LAUER: Right. SHARPTON: -but I want us to turn to God but I want us to turn to God in a fair and equal way. LAUER: Is perhaps the most disappointing thing, Mr. Jealous, that we have two rallies, same city, same day, and one is predominantly white and the other is predominantly African-American? Would that not disappoint Dr. King? JEALOUS: You know we are, on October 2nd, we’ll have a rally called “One Nation.” It’ll be a large rally. It will be there at the Lincoln and you’ll see people of all faiths coming. We have 3000 buses confirmed right now and you can look at who’s gonna be driving those buses and you will see Dr. King’s dream made manifest. But let’s not forget that, that the rally was in D.C. and our crowd is very much a local crowd. You saw from the speakers there at, you know Gianette Margia, Secretary Duncan, a wide range of people, and those are the folks who are coming together for the “One Nation” rally and will be leading their folks there. SHARPTON: But I think Matt- LAUER: Quickly if you will. SHARPTON: -you’ve got to remember Dr. King was also criticized so criticized in ’63 for having mostly blacks there. We are trying to transform the country to make it one. The difference between Al Roker and an Al Sharpton, he gives the climate. I try to help change the climate. LAUER: You saved up for that one, didn’t you? SHARPTON: I always save one for you. LAUER: Nice. Appreciate it. Guys, good to have you here.

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Finance Site Lists Most Expensive Invasive Species

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Credit: Mike Baird Asian carp aren’t the only invasive species causing trouble in the United States. While the monster fish captures headlines as it inches toward the Great Lakes, other species have already colonized other parts of the country, and are costing plenty of money to control. A finance website has totaled up the toll, listing “10 Invasive Species That Cost the U.S. a Bundle.” See if you agree, disagree, or are just surprised by some of the choices. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Over 500,000 Attend Beck Rally, Yet the left Wing Press is Mum!

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck on Saturday drew a sea of activists to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where he championed a religious brand of patriotism and called on the nation to recommit itself to traditional values he said were hallmarks of its exceptional past. King's niece Alveda King, an anti-abortion activist, addressed Beck's rally with a plea for prayer “in the public squares of America and in our schools.” Referencing her “Uncle Martin,” King called for national unity by repeatedly declaring “I have a dream.” On the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech, steps away from where it was delivered, Beck and fellow “tea party” icon Sarah Palin staked a claim to King's legacy and to that of the Founding Fathers. They urged a crowd that stretched to the Washington Monument to concentrate on the nation's accomplishments rather than on its psychological scars. Rachel and Ray Thompson, both 29, drove with their four kids from Indiana. Both are fans of Glenn Beck and criticized President Obama for fanning the divisions in this nation. “He does have an awesome power to do something about it, but he is not. He is just sitting back,” said Rachel, a massage therapist. Neither was troubled by the timing of the rally — on the anniversary of King's “I Have a Dream” speech. They said the speech King's niece Alveda King gave was the most uplifting of the day. “There are a lot of divisive issues in this country that need to be addressed in the way Dr. King addressed them and [Obama] has failed to do that,” Ray Thompson, an electrician, said. “From a multi-racial family, I say shame on him.” (Ray is white; Rachel is African American.) added by: congoboy

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British Spy and Top Code Breaker Found Dead in MI6 London Safe House

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Gareth Williams, a Welshman from Anglesey was one of Britain's top Code Breakers worked the ” GCHQ listening center” in the West Country. He had been living in an apartment probably owned by MI5 which is nearby. The Pimlico area of London is near to the MI6 HQ and there are many “safe houses” for use. Williams was a single man was discovered in a large sports bag in his bath. A laptop he used is missing. Williams was also a regular visitor to the NSA “Puzzle Palace” another listening and spy center. The CIA are so concerned about his death they are holding their own investigation. Williams was single but porn, bondage mags and women's clothes his size were also found at the “safe house” apartment. MI6 and other spy agencies are refusing to let the police interview any of his fellow workers, stating they are suddenly out of the country. This story has all the hallmarks of a Hollywood Spy Thriller…………… from the Daily Mail The CIA was called in to help investigate the murder of an MI6 spy last night as it emerged he was sent on frequent secret missions to the United States. American intelligence officers are poring over every detail of Gareth Williams's work and personal life to see if the circumstances of his death endangered U.S. national security. The Daily Mail can reveal that the 31-year-old codebreaker flew to the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's listening post and the largest intelligence agency in the world, up to four times a year. He returned from his last trip to America only a few weeks before he was found dead. Questions also remain over why his body lay undiscovered for up to a fortnight at his

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CBS to Black Beck Rally Attendees: ‘I’m Noticing that There Aren’t a Lot of Minorities Here Today’

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

CBS and the rest of the MSM have decided the Tea Party movement is racist and hostile to non-whites, and it’s a mantra they’re going to illustrate whenever they see an opportunity. Reporter Nancy Cordes saw a “nearly all-white crowd” at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington, DC, as she (at least an off-camera female voice) demanded of two black women who weren’t afraid to attend: “I’m noticing that there aren’t a lot of minorities here today. Why do you think that is?” One of the women shot back: “They’re probably over there with Al Sharpton.” In her story for Saturday’s CBS Evening News, Cordes had a very specific attendee number: “According to a tally commissioned by CBS News, roughly 87,000 people gathered here at this event today, thronging both sides of the reflecting pool, stretching all the way to the World War II memorial. That’s the largest gathering here on the mall since President Obama was inaugurated.” NBC anchor Lester Holt was more generous with his crowd guesstimate (“tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands”) before he described the Beck rally as “steeped in patriotism, rooted in the nation’s cultural divide and greeted by suspicion.” Holt opened the August 28 NBC Nightly News: Good evening. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of people from all over the country gathered at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington today for a rally steeped in patriotism, rooted in the nation’s cultural divide and greeted by suspicion. It was organized by provocative conservative talk show host Glenn Beck who was joined on stage by Sarah Palin. And if that wasn’t enough to trigger reaction from activists on the left, the timing and place of the rally certainly was – the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech delivered from those same steps 47 years ago today. Flashback to April: “ White NBC Reporter Confronts Black Man at Tea Party Rally: ‘Have You Ever Felt Uncomfortable? ‘” Back to the CBS Evening News and Cordes, a little of what led into the exchange quoted above: NANCY CORDES: Beck, who is a converted Mormon, likes to call himself a clown, but today he played the role of ring-master, preaching racial tolerance to the nearly all-white crowd. A change in tone from the Fox News host who notoriously called President Obama [Beck: “a racist.”] CORDES (or at least a female voice) TO TWO BLACK WOMEN: I’m noticing that there aren’t a lot of minorities here today. Why do you think that is? WOMAN: They’re probably over there with Al Sharpton. (There was no World News on ABC on Saturday night, at least in the EDT and CDT zones, because of the Little League World Series Texas v Hawaii playoff game. Hawaii won.)

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