tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12729593511452798462024-03-13T19:53:31.258-07:00SlingshotToTheJuggernautThe Blog of Sander Hicks, Author of Slingshot to the JuggernautUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272959351145279846.post-26896755087675132032022-02-13T13:17:00.001-08:002022-02-13T13:18:27.704-08:00<p> AH, the ups and downs of General Contracting. Someone once said, it's "like swimming with the sharks." That's true, because you come face to face with the dirty side of humanity - 1 in 10 clients don't want to pay the final payment, and on the other hand, you have subcontractors who want more money, and don't want to do the work on their contract. And then they all get angry at YOU!</p><p>I just had to spend my Sunday writing this Complaint, about "Steven Montes", the pseudonym of Gerardo Ludizaca. Is it a BAD sign when your demolition subcontractor has a false ID? Hmm....</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7rI9SIsn9O3MGsMPWVWLLTWyKBh1xGQou62Qlt7ZhUvM9PBLI-MYzr0_HsZmEcej2qHRMP9sAxgN2C7YihLEKlRXAif1XBXs2uO0yFEyRMjtCHmAR63w1x54ziCaVfb4-UbDULE1nKZCtC-4-UZSY7mahRvN3OcqlA8Sx4SZ4cG_kWyShSX1NLrYp=s1820" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1818" data-original-width="1820" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7rI9SIsn9O3MGsMPWVWLLTWyKBh1xGQou62Qlt7ZhUvM9PBLI-MYzr0_HsZmEcej2qHRMP9sAxgN2C7YihLEKlRXAif1XBXs2uO0yFEyRMjtCHmAR63w1x54ziCaVfb4-UbDULE1nKZCtC-4-UZSY7mahRvN3OcqlA8Sx4SZ4cG_kWyShSX1NLrYp=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, if this provides you some entertaining reading, or a reason to stay in grad school, then I can feel like I provided a service to humanity today - </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 196px; overflow: hidden; width: 170px;"><img height="196" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/5hX4unj32ivDo_lZV-Huuwyj1R5NMGJoIFEE-fehMTPZY9XKEYDBABhgvLThGdK85crlSTEgmL0ci_4pbWXrOvvQvoxrabbRsSIXEojLzBh_qJcLBOXqXFa4JDM5_mdPIwmeMEZq" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="170" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">579 61st St BK NY 11220</span></p><p><b id="docs-internal-guid-b5b525b8-7fff-bdf0-7b3a-e5d300354997" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">New Jersey Office of the Attorney General </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Division of Consumer Affairs </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">P.O. Box 45025 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Newark, New Jersey 07101</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Dear NJ Department of Consumer Affairs</span></p><p><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This is a Summary of the legal basis of our complaint against Steven Montes and S Montes Construction, NJ License # 13VH10668200. We are providing 28 pages of evidence. This Summary will point out some highlights (or lowlights) of our experience with this licensed NJ Contractor, and propose a remedy of a $7,500 refund.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On 11/19/21, I met personally with Steven Montes and contracted S Montes Construction to be a Licensed Subcontractor, on my project at 194 Westville Ave, in Caldwell, NJ. It’s an emergency home repair for a house - a young family with kids has been displaced by a natural disaster - a huge oak tree destroyed the front face of the home. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I paid a deposit of $10,000 to Montes, and we signed a contract. Copies of both of which are enclosed here.<br /><br />Montes signed the attached contract, to be 100% responsible for, among other things:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">All demo work and garbage removal - trash and demo debris will be moved by S Montes into the on-site dumpster. All sheet rock and insulation that suffered water damage will be removed, by SMC, from ceiling and walls in basement level and first floor. S Montes will handle: NEW INSULATION installation. S Montes will handle: NEW ROOF: S Montes will supply labor for demo, insulation, and roofing parts and will be rebuillding the roof and installing new roof shingles throughout. Includes tear-off of existing shingles. Installation of new felt paper or blue plastic layer, ice shield, drip edge where necessary.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We had some delays getting the building permit, but Montes did not start the work, in November, nor in December. I urged him to start once we got the permit, in mid December. He did not.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In fact, Montes, failed to text me or respond to my texts from Dec 16th until Jan 4.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Client, Marcus Rhaney, grew very agitated after the New Year’s Holiday, and I so took initiative and personally started the demo and clean up work with my own crew, on January 4. As you can see from the attached text, Montes promised to arrive that day and “bring 3 good guys” but he failed to do so. He agreed in writing to arrive at 8 AM and did not. He did not communicate why.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The next day, Jan 5, he did put two guys on the job, but I never saw him personally on the job. He texted me all day that he was about to arrive.<br /><br />I brought my own crew that day as well. He had promised to “Facetime at 7 AM” with me, but he failed to do that either. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The day earlier, on 1/4/22 I texted him this First Warning: </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><i>“Call me right at 7 AM tomorrow, from 194 Westville, with a crew of guys. Otherwise we want the $10,000 returned and we will complain to NJ Licensing. What you did today was a “breach of contract.” It’s not right.”</i></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On or around 1/5/22 Montes and his crew did not follow the Scope of Work document that I provided them - and they destroyed and removed the kitchen tile floor, which was not ordered.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On 1/7/22 Montes asked for more money, as an advance on future work, which was extraordinary and startling. We refused.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">On 1/20/22 I did make a mistake by sending via Cash App an additional $800 to Montes, to “Demo the Living Room and Dining Room Subfloor” which we determined were rotten, and were a safety hazard. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Montes took the money but to this date, has failed to do that work, either. This work was Montes’ idea, since his people did remove the damaged oak floor from the living room and dining room. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">However,</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When on 1/24/22 I personally led a crew of carpenters to do repair to the ceiling joists and roof over the dining room. I realized that the “Demo Crew” of Montes and Co. needed to do more demo work - there were still more damaged rafters and roofing materials to remove before we could work. My associate Obed Palao and I sent a set of pix to Montes. We begged him to come back and do more demo work. He never did. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Earlier, that week, I sent Montes a “Second Warning” in which I said:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><i>Last chance. We are planning to file a complaint with New Jersey Licensing- and sue you for the $10,800, because you don’t communicate — you are unprofessional— demo did not get completed—and you don’t do what you promise. It sucks.</i></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I explained to Montes many times that the dumpster company we use, Budget Dumpster, only has a dumpster on site for us for 10 days, and then there are “late fees” of $25 a day. I rented a third dumpster for Montes to use and the rental period started on 1/26/22. He never used it. I arrived there last Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, and the dumpster was clean as a whistle. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The final straw was when I called Steven on the phone, on 2/11/22 and he apologized and said that he was “A little bit busy” and at that point I just couldn’t take it anymore, and decided that he had had two warnings, and it was time for a formal Complaint, and legal action.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He also texted me this AM, Sunday 2/13/22, obviously wanting to delay my Complaint to the Attorney General, and the NJ DCA, but he seems to only want to argue via text, not to do any work. He was not interested in fixing the problem by doing any work today.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This guy lacks the integrity of his word, and this kind of unethical behavior makes it hard for all licensed contractors to make a living.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We demand a refund of $7,500 and that is generous. This means that S Montes can keep $3,300 for doing 3 to maybe 4 or 5 days worth of demo work. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It has been three months: S Montes has failed to remove all damaged sheetrock, damaged roofing pieces, or the subfloor we paid extra for. It’s been a nightmare.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Sincerely, </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Sander Hicks</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Zen Space Makers, Inc. • 929 285 8602</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Licensed by the City of New York • HIC # 1473010 </b></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272959351145279846.post-63934715330420073892018-01-05T07:18:00.002-08:002018-01-05T07:49:41.237-08:00RIP Judge Ferdinand Imposimato <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>RIP Judge Ferdinand Imposimato </b></div>
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<b> <span class="algo-summary">9 April 1936 – 2 January 2018</span></b></div>
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Judge Imposimato came to NYC for the 9/11 Justice In Focus Conference, I
had the distinct honor of picking him up at the airport, spending
personal time with him throughout that weekend, sharing meals and being
his caretaker. He was a gentle, charming man with the spirit of a
warrior. Although he had achieved great stature and recognition
professionally, he was very warm and personable. In his pursuit of truth
and justice, whether against the mafia or against the orchestrators of
Operation Gladio, he showed total fearlessness in the face of
incomprehensible forces and an unwavering commitment to accountability
under the law. He paid a great personal price through the murder of his
brother in a mafia hit job.</div>
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He
did ground-breaking research which led him to understand the underlying
agenda which caused so much political upheaval in his country which he
termed "strategy of tension", another term for Operation Gladio. He
wrote a book based on this research. In the study of CIA-based
operations which undermined governments and even toppled democratically
elected leaders, understanding Operation Gladio is required. This
understanding is fundamental in expanding one's ability to understand
the nearly unfathomable capability of the Deep State to carry out very
complex operations. One way we can honor him is to draw more attention
to the BBC documentary which does a fine job exposing the operation. (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DGGHXjO8wHsA&source=gmail&ust=1515250203388000&usg=AFQjCNFNjsyFWpInDjn3_oEb10tDuF2hKQ" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHXjO8wHsA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=GGHXjO8wHsA</a>) </div>
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judge was very engaged in the pursuit of 9/11 justice and had applied
his considerable investigative skills to the study of alternative
research. He was well read on the work of Architects & Engineers For
9/11 Truth and scientists like Neils Herritt. He was thrilled to be
part of our 15th anniversary event. His biological age which was over 80
at the time surely did not diminish his participation in any way. At
the end of the conference he said that if a legal action were to be
submitted to the International Criminal Court, it would require someone
in his position to take the lead and that he could be counted on to be
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Imposimato was a giant among men. We can look to his life and derive
great learning for our own pursuits of 9/11 justice and exposure of all
Deep State crimes and agendas of domination. We can find inspiration in
his courage to stand up to powerful political and military forces which
have hijacked government, media, and major social institutions. We will
surely need this level of courage and commitment to work towards
creating a mass movement which demands that government protects its
people against domination by Deep State agendas and a media which
reports the truth. It will require such a mass movement to provide the
societal foundation which is reflected in government policies and the
actual prosecution of 9/11 cases in our courts of crimes which range
from obstruction of justice all the way to treason. I remember asking
Judge Imposimato if the Italian people were supportive of his efforts to
expose and prosecute Operation Gladio, and he responded with a
definitive yes. We have a lot of work to do to create the same social
foundation within the U.S. May his memory serve us well.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>8.29.17:</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> OK, so this piece below is a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>little </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bit out of date. But reading it four years later, it's funny how relevant it still is. This is my report on Bitcoin, written fresh and wet with excitement, straight out of a Bitcoin conference, in Silicon Valley, California, May of 2013. I interviewed sources, and got some juicy quotes. The Bitcoin magazine that was going to publish this never quite got around to it. It's funny, because Bitcoin is now trading at $4553, Forbes just did a huge cover story, and it looks like it's here to stay. The dream is real. But what IS it's real future? Is it a real currency that people will someday trade? Because now, it's more of a investment, a security. And yet, it's still full of people who talk about "transvestment" a way to have investments benefit parties outside of the normal channel of capitalism. Anyway, it might be fun to look back on this piece I did, trying to feel what is real about Bitcoin - with a newbie's enthusiasm.....]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I don’t want to sound </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">communist</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, but Bitcoin is the people’s currency."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nvnGzJj-ypA/WaWiPfYwVkI/AAAAAAAAGtc/9MI8eIDeTCEs5x-kZbmOZ521HrmjJAigQCLcBGAs/s1600/Charlie_Shrem_2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="172" data-original-width="250" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nvnGzJj-ypA/WaWiPfYwVkI/AAAAAAAAGtc/9MI8eIDeTCEs5x-kZbmOZ521HrmjJAigQCLcBGAs/s1600/Charlie_Shrem_2013.jpg" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[UPDATE: Yes, this is the same Charlie Shrem who went to jail for two years, for Bitcoin and secrecy-related matters. I met him, he's a super nice guy. From wiki: </span><span style="background-color: white;"> In December 2014 [Shrem] was sentenced to two years in prison for aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)" style="background-image: none; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Silk Road (marketplace)">Silk Road</a><span style="background-color: white;"> marketplace. He was released from prison around June 2016.]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That currency-to-the-rescue story can be scaled up to apply to whole countries. In Cyprus last March, when government and finance both melted down, Cypriots found that most of their funds had been frozen in their banks. Many turned to Bitcoin, and started to use the currency that is not regulated by any government, or central bank. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because Bitcoin has risen in value so rapidly, it has created a new set of wealthy Bitcoin evangelists, with money to invest in the next wave of Bitcoin-related ventures. On a smaller scale, Bitcoin has been used to buy technology like the latest Kindle by folks in the Ukraine, when Amazon was only selling it in the US.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bitcoin is a liquid currency and an investment vehicle. It’s an open-source, peer-to-peer, encrypted currency. Bitcoin, or “BTC” doesn’t have any corporate entity behind it. Its price floats on the free market. People use $16 billion a year of Bitcoin right now. It’s a quick and cheap way to move money, thanks to services such as Charlie Shrem’s. Bitinstant fees start at 3.99%, while Western Union can cost between 7% and 22%, depending on the country of origin. (A</span><a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1322593305595/8287139-1327608098427/KalanRemittanceFeePricing.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">study from the World Bank</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> reports unsurprising high profit margins of the money moving business.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This past May, venture capitalist Fred Wilson and others invested a record $5 million in CoinBase, a major Bitcoin service. Bitcoin, Wilson said, follows the same pattern that has made other forms of social web technology triumphant.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But Bitcoin is more than a great investment. To its diehard fans, it’s a banner under which unites a broad swath of dissent: progressives to libertarians, anarchists to goldbugs, Occupiers and anti-Federal Reserve activists and truthers. It has the potential to attract anyone who uses money. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to an early</span><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bhhjg/any_bitcoin_millionaires_here_on_reddit_if_so/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bitcoin investor</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, who is now independently wealthy, “B</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">itcoin will be the liberator for the world’s poor giving them access to the global marketplace on a scale never seen before. If bitcoin can give market access to that many people the entire planet will experience an upswing comparable to the industrial revolution, only stronger.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When blogging software company Wordpress recently decided to accept Bitcoin, it was out of a love for freedom of expression. MasterCard and Visa don’t work in “underdeveloped” countries. But Bitcoin works everywhere. “We don’t think an individual blogger from Haiti, Ethiopia, or Kenya should have diminished access to the blogosphere because of payment issues they can’t control,” said Wordpress folk, “Our goal is to enable people, not block them.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, why then, does Bitcoin get such harsh resistance from mainstream economists like Paul Krugman? And why all the cynical swipes from the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Washington Post</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? Why was </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the top exchange, Mt. Gox, raided by Homeland Security, early in May 2013? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who stands to gain, and who stands to lose, at this new disruptive currency rises in stature?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Truth Party</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m writing this on a borrowed laptop in the “Peace Tank,” a beat-up, used Dodge Ram van travelling east. I’m gathering my field notes the day after the San José Bitcoin conference, as I head into the Arizona desert. I’m on a group tour called The Truth Party. It’s a spiritual/political/group empowerment interactive live event. We’ve got a spontaneous mystical hip-hop MC and a convener of innovative, tactile group yoga. And we’ve got me, a punk rock zen entrepreneur writer, semi-famous on the internet. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Truth Party is the kind of experiment Gandhi recommended. Live fully, do comprehensive economic activism, don’t worry about the outcome. I’ve been saying this:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It’s time to quit working jobs you hate. Blend your spiritual and political consciousness, tap your wealth of inner talent, and script your own future. Yes, you can raise funds and start your dream project. It’s time for a new economics, a radical new valuation of your worth. Time to clean the lens, and see your ability to create new kinds of jobs. It’s time for us all to be abundant, venture-some, fully realized human beings.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This morning, Lo Nathamundi and Crazy Monk and I meditated together, loaded our sleeping bags into the Tank, and left the surf shacks of San Diego for the harsh heat of the immediate future.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When a couple of gigs fell through earlier in the tour, it became possible for us to attend the Bitcoin conference in San Jose (i.e. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bitcoin: The Future of Payments, May 17-19</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). I approached the topic with curiosity, but I had some hard questions. In my twenties, I saw the excesses of NYC’s “Silicon Alley” up close, the bubble of shallow hype where companies sold stock on public markets without having any real value.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the conference, I’m feeling a gut sensation. There is something real here. Bitcoin is vibrantly dangerous to the status quo. It’s disruptive to Wall Street institutions, and the Federal Reserve. But it goes beyond dissent – it’s a part of creative, positive change. It’s emancipating to those of us aching to work jobs we love. Occupy Wall Street showed the injustices of the current system create vibrant new forms of resistance. But, Occupy’s rudderless dissolution happened as fast as its rise.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Power of Bitcoin</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The more people want Bitcoin, the more the price goes up. The price of Bitcoin floats on an open market, subject to supply and demand, as regulated by Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. And it’s gone up 900% in about two years. No one controls Bitcoin, unlike US Dollars, which are created by private banks, the private, mysterious Federal Reserve System, and the US Treasury.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“End the Fed?” says a jolly Bitcoiner in the trailer for a new Bitcoin documentary, “Rise and Rise of Bitcoin”. “Nah, you’re never going to end the Fed. But you can </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bypass </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the Fed!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bitcoin has the open-source, social nature of Web 2.0, mixed with the rebellious culture of hacker geniuses. Bitcoin is controlled only by the market in Bitcoin. A number of different exchanges, start-ups, and service providers can help you buy some newly “mined” coins, or you can buy from folks near you at a local over-the-counter exchange. Check out your options at </span><a href="http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How Do You Buy Bitcoins.</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One Bitcoin (1 BTC) was worth $2 back in November 2011. By January 2013, that had gone to $20. At the time of the Bitcoin Conference this May, Bitcoin was at $132, a gain of over 900%. (It’s gone down a bit since.) These market prices are administered by lead exchange, Mt. Gox, which got its odd name from an earlier incarnation as the “eXchange” for “Magic The Gathering” cards.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back at the Silicon Valley conference in May, Bitcoin evangelist Tuur Deemester noted that if 1% of US Hedge Funds invested in Bitcoin, the price would rise to over $1000 per. What would happen, he asked, if the world made Bitcoin the world reserve currency? (Hey, an electronic currency can dream, right?) Well, that would put the value of a single Bitcoin at a cool $600,000.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you scoff at that, well sure, no one is making any hard promises. But remember, our planet is getting good at adapting new technologies. It only took five years for Facebook to reach one billion users. The internet allows for rapid global tech adaptations, not to mention cultural changes, and social paradigm shifts. Think of the “Thank You Facebook” graffiti at Tahir Square, think of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street. These all show how technology enables and empowers popular resistance to antiquated systems.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A US Dollar is a lot like a Bitcoin. Both are backed largely by large-scale social agreements. The US Dollar used to be backed by gold, but FDR and then Nixon put an end to that era. Today our “Dollar” is not exactly a “dollar” in the old 1776 sense of the word. It’s technically a “Federal Reserve Note” (look at the top of any bill.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, what exactly is a </span><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/10-things-that-every-american-should-know-about-the-federal-reserve" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Federal Reserve</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">? Well, as it turns out, it’s not quite “Federal” nor is there anything on “reserve.” Rather than a publicly owned institution, the “Federal” Reserve is owned by a consortium of private banks. Some of them are US banks. And some, are not. All this was set up in a nasty set of secretive legislation, rushed through Congress, on the day before Christmas Eve, 1913. That same year brought us the creation of the quasi-legal IRS, and the FBI. Lucky ‘13.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we talk about the “Federal Reserve” most people think we’re talking about just another government bureaucracy in Washington. Doesn’t it have something to do with the economy? Just another bunch of government wonks, right? No. The “Federal” Reserve is as “Federal” as Federal Express. It’s a private banking cartel, and if you look at its behavior in the recent financial crisis, you can see that we’re not living in a world in which the US Government owns a big bank. The sad truth is that Big Banks own the US Government. That fact creates the need for Bitcoin, as we shall see below. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the 2007-2008 US financial meltdown, the Federal Reserve moved with a ham-handed program of “emergency lending” that favored the big banks. Over $16 trillion in public money flowed into the likes of Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and foreign banks. This $16 trillion number has solid sourcing: a General Accounting Office </span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/60553686/GAO-Fed-Investigation#outer_page_144" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">report</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was leaked, the result of a rare and partial audit of Fed emergency loans. Mainstream media, meanwhile, tends to report that Fed emergency lending was no more than a </span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/data-visualization/federal-reserve-emergency-lending/#/overview/?sort=nomPeakValue&group=none&view=peak&position=0&comparelist=&search=" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cool one trillion.</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All of this despite the fact that these banks didn’t open up any significant new lines of credit to average consumers. In fact, just the opposite. The Fed made it easier for banks to make money by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lending it to people for homes or new businesses. Section 128 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 created a fund for private banks to park their “excess reserves” and have the Fed pay interest on money </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">being leant.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the 2007-2010 US Economic Meltdown, the Fed saved Wall Street, not Main Street. Why? Because the Fed is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">owned</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Wall Street. This is what adds up to a sharp decrease faith in the US Dollar. It helps to build a spike in interest in alternative currency, like Bitcoin.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Credit is a Tool</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back in the trenches of the daily economy, there’s a huge incentive for merchants to take Bitcoin: it eliminates the 2-6% fees in credit card processing. A MasterCard executive recently dismissed Bitcoin as a bunch of “geeks.” But his own industry is vulnerable, according to Bitcoin-friendly economists.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t get me wrong: MasterCard and Visa offer a great tool for small business. Accepting credit cards, or PayPal, or newer forms of payment make it easy for customers to make purchases. A small business can see a 35% jump in revenue if they accept credit or debit cards. But these tools are not offered to all the world’s economy equally. MasterCard/Visa processors won’t service the poorer half of the global economy, because of risk.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bitcoin is less vulnerable, since the transactions are irreversible. At the conference panel on economics, professor Garrick Hilleman pointed out that Bitcoin “attacks the financial system where it’s most vulnerable….expensive credit card processing. Merchants resent 3% credit card fees.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Beware the geeks!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To Drew Phillips, a lanky libertarian activist at conference exhibitor AntiWar.com, Bitcoin fulfills a different promise of the global economy. “With Bitcoin, I can send money to relief efforts in countries we are bombing, while people in those countries can donate to our antiwar efforts here.” At AntiWar.com, Bitcoin’s low processing fees make it possible for donors to give any amount. Even 35 cents won’t be chipped away at by the overhead of Big Processing. AntiWar.com brought in $800 in new in donations in the first 48 hours it started accepting Bitcoin.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roger Ver, a charismatic Bitcoin investor known informally as “Bitcoin Jesus” recently told the LeWeb 2013 conference, “One of the things governments around the world do currently is they finance their wars and the things that they do through inflation. The just print money for whatever it is that they want to spend it on. If the world were using Bitcoin that would no longer be a possibility. If you’re opposed to governments inflating money to pay for wars around the world, Bitcoin should be something you’re interested in.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supply and Demand </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With Bitcoin, the value of the currency is built to get stronger. There’s an automatic deflation built into system. The supply of Bitcoin is designed to taper off, and if demand continues to grow, then the price should continue to rise. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compare that to the Federal Reserve, which has failed its chartered mission to prevent inflation of the US Dollar. In 100 years, the insouciant Fed presided over the Dollar losing 96% of its value. (Check my math on the US Inflation Calculator,</span><a href="http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The supply of new Bitcoins will gradually be curtailed sometime around the year 2140. But fractions of Bitcoins can also be traded. And since something can be sliced up into smaller and smaller parts, ad infinitum, naysayers’ arguments about an artificial scarcity of Bitcoin are defeated by the wonders of infinity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the conference, it was announced by lead “core developer” Gavin Andreesen, that Bitcoin is today being used for $45 million a month in transactions. A new app, “Gyft”, just added Bitcoin. Gyft brings the currency to millions of new users by allowing Bitcoiners to purchase digital versions of gift cards at thousands of retailers, such as Target, Starbucks, and The Gap. The gift cards can be used on smart phones, integrated through the many Bitcoin mobile apps.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Loose Talk of a Bubble</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2013 could be Bitcoin’s breakout year. Just look around at this conference: 1100 registered users, as compared to under 200 the year before. But with the growth has come volatility. Bitcoin’s price opened at $20 in January, 2013, and hit a high of $265 in April of 2013. Then it lost 60% of its value, (dropping to $150) which was either due to a “distributed denial of service attack” from mysterious hackers against Bitcoin exchanges, or just the logjam caused by that month’s spike in new users.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ironically, most major media only started to pay attention to cover Bitcoin at that point, believing that Bitcoin was over. The story line that month was “here’s another bubble, and it just broke.” But then, Bitcoin quickly recovered, to a price of $180. Gatis Eglitis, from the European-based Bitcoin Fund, opined in his conference booth, “the early aggregators, the young” exited the currency and “the smart investors, the real investors, stepped in” at that point.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your friends who have only read about Bitcoin through the smug denunciations in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Washington Post</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or CNN are misinformed about what Bitcoin is, why it’s growing, why it hiccupped, and why it recovered. If you don’t understand a few things about finance, the Fed, and this bizarre form of plastic postmodern global capitalism, you can’t see why Bitcoin is an important antidote. Let’s look at how one of Bitcoin’s most eloquent critics, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, shapes his attacks on Bitcoin.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Krugman whips himself into a rhetorical fervor, but his facts get murkier. When he claims, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “paper currencies have value because they’re backed by the power of the state” he’s on shaky ground. Paper currency in the USA right now is a “fiat” currency, and you can’t take a dollar and get its equivalent in gold from any branch of the US Government anymore. When Krugman says a US Dollar is “backed by the power of the state” it’s unclear what kind of power he’s referring to. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Violence? Torture? Extralegal assassinations? What is the US State known for these days?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What would the US Government and Federal Reserve do in case of runaway hyper-inflation? In dissing those who favor a return to the gold standard, Krugman speciously claims, “I know, government officials are not to be trusted and all that, but the truth is that Ben Bernanke’s promises that his actions wouldn’t be inflationary have been vindicated year after year, while goldbugs’ dire warnings of inflation keep not coming true.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is snide</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">climax, Krugman can’t see that it amounts to an argument </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Bitcoin. Money is social, and therefore, a public utility. It should be made for the people, to use, as easily and effectively as possible. The problem is that our society has a huge corporate banking government apparatus trying to take a cut, impose a tax, levy a fine, or surcharge, at every step of the way. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the final hours of the conference, I met </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the writer </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adrianne Jeffries, who was reporting for edgy technophiles</span><a href="http://www.theverge.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Verge</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. With her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wry</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">piercing gaze, blond </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mohawk, and huge camera</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in tow, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeffries explained that she had covered Occupy Wall Street for the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Observer. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeffries was about to file a fine story called</span><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4348064/why-wont-bitcoin-die" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Why Won’t Bitcoin Die?”</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At lunch, Jeffries explained her title. She had recently expected Occupy Wall Street to resurrect, but then it didn’t. And after its March “mini-crash”, Jeffries thought that Bitcoin would die. But that didn’t happen either. Why?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe the reason Bitcoin keeps going while Occupy gets sidetracked is that Bitcoin has certain advantages. Maybe these are advantages that future social movements around financial reform need to recognize.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Steven Wagner is a bitcoin enthusiast from Portland who leads a 100-strong local bitcoin group. He pointed out, “Bitcoin has all the right incentives to become the worlds first self-funding open source project.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ah, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">incentives!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Is it a crime to use that word in the same paragraph as some of the arch-critical theorists of Occupy Wall Street? Well, unlike Occupy Wall Street, Bitcoin has this special cohesion, a palpable kind of magic, a unique kind of drive. It carries forward the twin interests of financial and social impact. Out of its mix of passion and incentives, it communicates with itself very well. It understands value. It creates value. It gives people the chance to enter in and grow value. It empowers its participants rather than trying to control them. It’s fun.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bitcoin thing allows for people to have a vibrant mix of motivations: self-interest, or class struggle, or a mix of both. You can invest in Bitcoin and watch the value of Bitcoin go up, maybe 900%. And while you do so, you are supporting a currency NOT owned by the same private banks that wrecked your life in 2008. In fact, you are subverting them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">The September 2016 foreign aid package to Israel grants it $38 billion
from the US, over the next ten years. In a recent poll, half of
progressive and left-leaning Americans said Israel has too much
influence on the US government. BDS and Black Lives Matter have recently
given voice against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. A recent FOIA
request released the FBI’s own report on the four “Israeli movers”
apprehended by police for celebrated the 9/11 attacks, in New Jersey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">The <b>Deep State 2.0</b> Panel points the way to a new path to peace in the
Middle East: remove the massive funding from the US war machine, and its
support for Zionist aggression. Fearlessly expose Israel’s and the CIA’s
role in 9/11/01. End the racist demonization of Islam, and grant full
statehood and human rights to Palestine.
We reject the cliche that assume the Middle East will be at perpetual
war, and that the conflict between Arabs and Jews is insurmountable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Peace in the Middle East will come when all sides have an equal common
need to come to the table. We must parse out the Anti-Semitism in peace,
anti-war and deep state politics, while being critical of Zionist
militarism, aggression, and imperialism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Against-Our-Better-Judgment-History/dp/149591092X">Against Our Better Judgement, by Alison Weir; </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Slingshot-Juggernaut-Resistance-Machine-Complete/dp/1593764235/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495672180&sr=1-1&keywords=Slingshot+to+the+Juggernaut%2C+by+Sander+Hicks">Slingshot to the Juggernaut, by Sander Hicks</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">So many political movements continue to labor towards the
creation of a just world, following decades of struggle. Yet the existence of
an all-powerful security state with fascist tendencies has exerted its power to
advance its agenda for absolute control at every turn. This security state
hijacked our government into a corrupt institution run by and for oligarchs and
corporations who conduct their business through the policy of war abroad and
repression at home. A new strategy for resistance is required and time is short.
The declassification of 28 pages from the Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11
and passage of The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) has
returned focus to the cover up of the 9/11 attacks and hypocrisy of the U.S.
alliance with Saudi Arabia. Following a few steps further exposes collusion by
members of the Bush administration, intelligence agencies, identifiable Deep State
entities, and mainstream media. These developments have led to a new phase of
9/11 litigation. Come learn how analysis of even this one area of 9/11 evidence
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TAP NYC at Left Forum. TAP NYC will have a table at the Left Forum. June 2-4 at John Jay College. Wayne Coste will join us. We are printing T-Shirts, they will have the TAP NYC logo and the national TAP logo on the back. We are taking pre-orders for shirts, if you want one, please send an email NOW to <a href="mailto:sander@loftbedsnyc.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">sander@loftbedsnyc.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We discussed the recent controversey between Left Forum and holocaust denier Cat McGuire. (3 of her panels were denied, which is too bad, as they involved Richard Gage, Kevin Barrett, and Michael Springmann). However, Cat’s views on the Holocaust are incompatible with the views of the Left Forum, so IMHO, she was not a good way for the NYC 9/11 Truth community to get into Left Forum. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On this note, Michael recommended people view the 9/11 Visibility podcast, “Staying Reasonable.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We will include this in our future email campaign (see below).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We noted that we want to always stay “on message” according to AE9/11 Truth, and the TAP mission and strategy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Outreach to Churches - We discussed the recent flyering we did with a custom Truth flyer aimed at Christian activists, outside the Revolutionary Love conference. Sander discussed doing a direct mail campaign, of a full color flyer, mailed out to a list of all churches, synagogues, mosques and temples in NYC. REQUEST FOR VOLUNTEERS: Can someone volunteer to help me on this project?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We made edits as well to the Christian Outreach flyer - which is online, here, which the recent changes: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. UN Outreach Letter: Sander has developed personal contacts inside the UN. Deb L. may be willing to help follow up. Deb, please take a look at the letter below:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. OUTREACH to develop new Members of TAP NYC - Sander will work on an email campaign, via Mail Chimp - using data he is getting from TAP National contacts and the petition drive. Sander asked the members at the meeting for ideas on what content to include, and members had a bunch of great ideas for links and videos - and Sander took copious notes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. BLOCK PARTY - Sander and Deb had an idea to throw a Block Party on East 7th St, between B/C for Truth Action Project, to raise visibility about 9/11 Truth, peace, justice and higher consciousness. We can create a “big tent” and attract other peace, justice, immigrants rights, human rights, spiritual groups. PLEASE VOLUNTEER via Sander to help organize this with us. July 8 or 9 is proposed.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272959351145279846.post-804313654825420972017-05-22T14:26:00.000-07:002017-05-22T14:26:05.241-07:00 A new Direction for 9/11 Truth - The Spiritual Calling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"It's A Spiritual Calling"</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am inspired today by Pastor John Shuck, minister of a church in Beaverton, Oregon. He posted <a href="http://www.shuckandjive.xyz/2017/05/how-i-became-truther.html">this </a>about his own awakening around 9/11, thanks to articulate theologian David Ray Griffin.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A nasty controversy ensued when Griffin had the temerity to combine radical Christian social justice teachings with the truth about the 9/11 attacks. </span><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; white-space: pre-wrap;">I mean, you know a book is great when two editors are fired, and a big church publisher chickens out and "apologizes" for what was probably their greatest publication. It was a clear case of fear triumphing over love of the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pastor Shuck is doing local activism, and is showing the AE 9/11 Truth film tomorrow, at his Church. If you are out there, please go. And yes, of course, his blog is titled <a href="http://www.shuckandjive.xyz/2017/05/how-i-became-truther.html">"Shuck and Jive." </a>What else?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here in NYC, a fellow spiritual truther and I recently reached out and picked up the great David Ray Griffin's radical, mind-blowing book,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> Christian Faith and the Truth about 9/11. </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Going forward, all people of faith, of all faiths should know this: There is fertile soil here, when we prayerfully and mindfully take up the causes of anti-racism, the over-coming of Islamophobia, and combine these holistically with the truth-telling about 9/11. When we do so, it's a certain kind of consciousness, respectful of how God is in history, and how prophets can see patterns. Truth-telling is a spiritual calling. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the greatest ways to struggle against racism and Islamophobia is to resist the official blaming of 9/11/01 on Muslim terrorists. That’s propaganda, and it’s unproven. Look at the facts, as you deepen your spiritual courage, and love of God, and you begin to see things anew.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are a caucus of the local NYC Truth Action Project (TAP). We are advocating for the truth about 9/11, as a part of the call to establish a new Way based on God’s mercy and justice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are in the Sprit of the radical, non-violent, liberating Jesus Christ. We hear the call to be prophetic, to be humble, and to do the work.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jesus was all about confronting racism, empire, and hate. Just look at the story of how he reached out to Samaritans, tax-collectors, soldiers, and prostitutes. He dissolved social taboos and talked about a Kingdom to come, beyond the demonic rule of Roman oppression.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of our inspirations today is theologian David Ray Griffin. “If you are open to the grace of honest inquiry and the risk of following the historical Jesus in confronting the evils of empire, this rigorously argued book is a MUST READ," said a former CIA analyst-turned Christian progressive, regarding Griffin’s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Griffin insists that the argument that the Bush administration carried out the attacks remains “unrefuted.” Citing the media’s failure to educate the public, Griffin writes that “there is, however, another means through which this information could be conveyed—through the churches.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2016 was the year that “changed everything” about 9/11. After 13 years of White House censorship, the “28 Pages” were released, the “Secret Documents” of the 9/11 Congressional Joint Inquiry. There was mainstream media coverage of these documents, on 60 Minutes, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Times</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and CNN, and the attention lead directly to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">unanimous</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Ubuntu; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> passage of “JASTA,” a new law that allows 9/11 victim’s family members to file suit against any country responsible for 9/11, including the major US ally, Saudi Arabia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Casting Director's Notebook</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Eve Pomerance</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I have always wanted to cast something for New Dramatists, so it was a big honor to get to work on two readings, "Bronze Star" and "Blanket of Dust." The material really spoke to me. Somehow with a Trump Presidency, I felt more open to this subject matter. Questioning 9/11, and looking at the US's own role, actually felt like within realm of possibility, rather than a wacko conspiracy theory.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The two plays were very well written, which also was an incentive to want to help. I found myself filled with passion fueled by the recent election, which helped in my pitches to actors, who like myself, felt they were in the dark when it came to a completely different take on 9/11.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first people to sign on were Johnny Ventimiglia, well known for his work on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sopranos</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BlueBloods</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Then came Brandy Burre from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wire, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">which I felt was a really good fit for Diana, the lead in Richard Squires play, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Blanket of Dust</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. I called Lynn Cohen from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hunger Games</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> and told her what the story was, and she said she would like to read the script. The same thing applied to Jake Robinson, who had starred in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">American Odyssey</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Within 24 hours, they had signed up to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the cast of "Blanket" and "Bronze Star," we had excellent writing, with an original take on an important historical event. The 9/11 tragedy to me is personal. I volunteered on the pile and my story was included in Sarah Tuft's seminal play, "110 Stories." So for me to take on these readings required me to rethink my own life and what I had tried to make sense of, at the time. I had stood on the pile of dust, looking for human remains, while handing out masks and water.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The experience of the reading itself was also a surprise. What is an unknown is how much preparation and commitment the actors will have on the day. What was immediately apparent when we did the read-though was how well prepared they all were. A couple of them were close to off-book. Giacomo Rocchini, whom I had auditioned the previous week for another play, had managed to not only learn his lines but also researched Arabic words to ad lib, to bring color to his performance. Even though he is Italian/Persian, his performance managed to convince everyone that he was Saudi. He was so real.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Johnny Ventimiglia's performance was for me one of the high points. He was mostly off book and took the audience by storm, asking them to join in, as he rapped out a political poem that was nothing short of heart-stopping. In that moment, the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> reading</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> crossed over into staged </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">theater.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Everyone was engaged and completely open to the message that was being delivered. It was not as easy message, and not something most people wanted to hear. However the combination of poetry, humor and great dramatic sequences kept the audience on a roller-coaster till the very end. </span><br />
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friendships with Actors: Marc Duret who is been is been a fan of from
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popped into my brain to be an FBI guy. I emailed him to tell him about
the reading and said if he happened to be in nyc that part would be
his. He lived in Paris so a long shot at best. Sometimes making the
request is enough. Thank you Marc.<br />
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Michael Tomlinson was another great addition. A former client of mine
from ICM in london. He has a power emotionally and vocally which is
undeniable. Having starred with people like Fiona Shaw, this guys is a
worthy adversary and perfect for the dominating senator who leads his
radical son to set fire to himself.<br />
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Tom Paolino who has a face like jack Nicholson and a playfulness to go
with it was the only person who could play Jim the D.C. Lawyer,
professional bully and wordsmith.<br />
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Ronald Cohen was also a surprise I did not know his work but I knew him
as I was friends with both him and his wife. He was a real standout as Senator Crane. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The invitation headline read: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Mysteries of 9/11: An evening of performance, poetry, and improv on America’s #1 taboo topic. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The readings were presented on February 16th, 2017 at New Dramatists, the famous play development center near Times Square, in partnership with New York City’s Truth Action Project. Sander Hicks—an alumnus of New Dramatists and a principal coordinator for Truth Action Project—was the moderator as well as the guiding force behind the evening’s events. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">founding, 600 new dramatists have passed through its doors, creating work that has laid the foundation for contemporary American dramatic literature. Current playwrights and alumni have won 19 Pulitzers, including 5 of the last 9 prizes.</span></span><br />
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the protagonist Diana Crane, with John Ventimiglia as her partner, Andrew Black. Burre’s performance—even in a reading—brought members of the audience to the verge of tears. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272959351145279846.post-29881192071818028262016-11-12T06:30:00.000-08:002016-11-12T06:30:04.188-08:00Zen punk funeral/memorial for Leonard Cohen, today<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Leonard Cohen passed away yesterday. His songs meant a lot to me. And to everyone I worked with; when we heard the news, we stopped what we were doing (building a loft bed,) and we went around the room and we each quoted to each other a favorite bit of one of his great songs.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">I want to put together an informal Zen punk funeral/memorial for Leonard Cohen, today Saturday, at 2 PM in Tompkins Square Park, NYC, in the center, where the stage goes. We are just gonna show up there with guitars & lyrics & iPhone and invite people to come and play and sing Leonard Cohen songs. Make a big sing-along. Want to join me?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We will sing all of your favorite Leonard Cohen works. If you can, please print and bring lyrics and chords. Please bring a candle, if you can. I will set up an altar. I will bring his picture. We will chant the Heart Sutra together, as a way to celebrate his life, his passage, our unity. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272959351145279846.post-38264451798466359022016-10-24T19:18:00.000-07:002016-10-24T19:49:51.489-07:00Next Meeting of NYC Truth Action Project - 7 PM - 11/11/16 at 6th Street Community Center<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We had a great meeting of the NYC Truth Action Project, last week. Below are the minutes.<br />
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Please come to our next meeting: 11/11/16, 7-9 PM, at 6th Street Community Center.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had a very positive meeting. We have officially formed four separate Action Teams, to do focused work, that is results oriented. I am so grateful to everyone who came to this meeting. Many other activists are on the email list, and were not able to come, but will try to make the next meeting, (Nov. 11, Friday, Location probably the same, to be announced.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Inverted Totalitarianism” by Sheldon Wolin was a book and concept mentioned by Joel Simpson. This is what we are dealing with. Read up on it: </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We scare because we care” was the Disney movie slogan for Monsters, Inc. Came out right after 9/11. Fern noted this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sander suggested everyone watch the YouTube that <a href="http://www.delphifilmfoundation.com/">Richard Squires made - “Kangaroo Court.”</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ross Muir: Suggested “Strap-hangers for 9/11 Truth” doing outreach (and maybe fund-raising) on the subways. (My contribution to this idea is to suggest a printed brochure - small, hand-held. My company just </span><a href="http://vowtoawaken.blogspot.com/2016/10/25000-in-print-new-marketing-device.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">printed 25,000 units of a full color, 10 page, 4x6</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”, accordion fold-out, for less than $1,300. Once we have some money together, we could print something like this, and have something to give to people, to explain “We Why Care” and invite people to join, and contribute….)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ground Zero Outreach: Charlie and Scott are doing outreach at Ground Zero, from 3-5 PM down near the Port Authority Station. John M. visited them. We should continue to support them, and invite them to come to our next meeting. John, do you have their contact info?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The legal team reported they are still assembling a “packet of evidence.” We brainstormed about how to best contribute to the creation of a formal fund-raising mechanism for Truth Action Project. Jerry mentioned the $50K raised by the professional fund-raiser for Gloria Mattera’s old political campaign, for Brooklyn Borough President. Also JK mentioned the name “Ivana Edwards.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The anti-Free Speech spirit of this <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-28/clinton-would-be-wise-to-denounce-howard-dean">editorial in Bloomberg</a> is alarming: Writer Jonathan Bernstein attacks Howard Dean for suggesting that Trump was coked up at the debate. I actually had the same suspicion, and so did author Daniel Hopsicker, who posted in on Twitter that night. How else to explain Trump's sputtering and megalomania? It was extreme, even for Donald. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But to call on Hillary Clinton to denounce Dean for making this observation is just unnecessary. The spirit of the First Amendment is to allow a diversity of opinions, and the "truth will win out" as Milton said in Areopagitica.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bernstein suffers from an acute sense of Conspiracy-Phobia. He's in denial that great people like Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Rep. Alan Grayson have something important to say. So, he gloats in their political defeats and holds up their silencing as the new standard for Democratic Party behavior. But let me remind you that Alan Grayson alone, as a member of Congress, had the courage to levy hard questions at Fed Reserve officials after the meltdown of 2008. (They make for educational, and very entertaining viewing on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj0JAfq4esk">YouTube</a> here and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXmNpdYpfnk">here</a>.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then there's the defamatory swipe that Bernstein makes at former Representative Cynthia McKinney. McKinney, in a similar way, had the courage, to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMG65jYlDU8">confront the negligent Donald Rumsfeld, </a>about missing trillions at the Pentagon budget, defense contractor DynCorps involvement in child prostitution, and the mysterious "war games" on 9/11 which distracted normal air defenses.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As you can see from these videos, these instances were not about "peddling conspiracy theories" but were sourced, professional, and severe for Rumsfeld and Richard Myers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While it is true that I was “booted” by pro-war Democrats
who worked in concert with like-minded Republicans, your assertion of my being
booted for “peddling conspiracies” deserves a deeper look. My booting, by the way, resulted in the GOP
takeover of my home State of Georgia, an outcome<b> </b>that seemingly makes both pro-war Democrats and Republicans (now
called “globalists”) comfortable. Therefore,
I want to take a deeper look at what I did “peddle:”<span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. That Presidential
candidate George W. Bush worked with his Florida Governor brother, Jeb, to orchestrate
election theft in the 2000 Presidential election. Now that the public has
caught up with the facts that I put on the table in 2000 and 2001 (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DbdPhXuTzQeI&source=gmail&ust=1475682675319000&usg=AFQjCNFmWYwShFh0W_cr2NsykaZZ-K0WTg" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdPhXuTzQeI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch<wbr></wbr>?v=bdPhXuTzQeI</a>),
this position is supported by evidence that is available to all;<span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. That President George
W. Bush received warnings about an impending attack on the US (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353&source=gmail&ust=1475682675319000&usg=AFQjCNEGzErdXYjX8yWEt_JY-O6qaxC81A" href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911-bush-213353" target="_blank">http://www.politico.com/magaz<wbr></wbr>ine/story/2015/11/cia-director<wbr></wbr>s-documentary-911-bush-213353</a>)
and actively blocked an investigation (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://edition.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/inv.terror.probe/&source=gmail&ust=1475682675319000&usg=AFQjCNFdTZj52DspBc6FS8eEf4uhWaq88w" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/01/29/inv.terror.probe/" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2002/A<wbr></wbr>LLPOLITICS/01/29/inv.terror.pr<wbr></wbr>obe/</a>)
into the September 11, 2001 attacks. Now
that the public has caught up with the facts that I put on the table in 2001,
this position is supported by evidence that is available to all;<span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. That the 9/11
Victim Compensation Fund (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.vcf.gov/faq.html&source=gmail&ust=1475682675319000&usg=AFQjCNGD7EWzhWom4VdGWuJGuvcsCzyjvw" href="https://www.vcf.gov/faq.html" target="_blank">https://www.vcf.gov/faq.html</a>)
was really set up to thwart 9/11 wrongful death lawsuits because it prevented victims’
survivors from getting justice in US Courts; I felt that victims and victims’
survivors should be able to sue the culprits as well as receive support from the
Fund. The President recently vetoed legislation
that would allow lawsuits to move forward against Saudi Arabia and Congress
just overrode his veto. Fourteen years
later, I am pleased that, once again, my position has been supported by evidence
that has been clearly available to all for at least a decade;<span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. That the US was
not justified in attacking Iraq in 2003.
The most thorough investigation into the 2003 decision to go to war
against Iraq is the Chilcot Report (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/the-report/&source=gmail&ust=1475682675319000&usg=AFQjCNFgVHbS2mbnP6KMLqgNCAPWmfg1YA" href="http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/the-report/" target="_blank">http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk<wbr></wbr>/the-report/</a>)
which found that war was not the last option and that U.S. allegations of Saddam
Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq were not justified. Now that the public has caught up with the
facts that I put on the table in 2002, this position is supported by evidence
that is available to all;<span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. That the then-Secretary
of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, failed to perform his job during
Hurricane Katrina and that thousands needlessly died because he failed the Gulf
States and the country. After joining
with Republicans and writing a Congressional Report on the subject that is
available to the public (<span class="m_-9075089507303094197m_-3340352810269302463gmail-url"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nola.com/katrina/pdf/mainreport.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1475682675319000&usg=AFQjCNEg2ac0u9bbW1Ka_RGeTcd1HoFmwQ" href="http://www.nola.com/katrina/pdf/mainreport.pdf" target="_blank">www.nola.com/katrina/pdf/main<wbr></wbr>report.pdf</a>)</span>,
my position is supported by evidence that is available to all;<span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. That a specific
allegation had been made to my Congressional Office that thousands of bodies
had been dumped in Louisiana swamps after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Now, we
know that 9/11 human remains were dumped in a landfill (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/us/panel-recommends-more-oversight-and-training-at-dover-mortuary.html?_r%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1475682675319000&usg=AFQjCNGUjdG11jiW5Y2LBaHwtbkCqWUCng" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/us/panel-recommends-more-oversight-and-training-at-dover-mortuary.html?_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/0<wbr></wbr>2/29/us/panel-recommends-more-<wbr></wbr>oversight-and-training-at-<wbr></wbr>dover-mortuary.html?_r=0</a>)
with such action having been deemed “dereliction of duty,” so who has conducted
an independent investigation into what happened in Louisiana, in particular,
with respect to body disposal? <span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7. That racism exists
in Capitol Hill Police Department similar to what exists in other police departments
around the U.S. and that I was a victim of that discrimination after I supported
a lawsuit filed by Black police officers after one of their superior officers
used the word “nigger.” Black police
officers have been waiting fifteen years for justice and recently held a demonstration
in support of their claim (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/former-capitol-police-call-attention-discrimination-lawsuits&source=gmail&ust=1475682675319000&usg=AFQjCNFML7ubeNk3_dkVcBN1Odx0N1_FRw" href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/former-capitol-police-call-attention-discrimination-lawsuits" target="_blank">http://www.rollcall.com/news/<wbr></wbr>policy/former-capitol-police-c<wbr></wbr>all-attention-discrimination-l<wbr></wbr>awsuits</a>). One need only hear the moving testimony of the
U.S. Senate’s lone Black GOP Member and his interactions with the Capitol Hill
Police (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/floor-speeches/tim-scott-black-republican-emotional-powerful-dramatic-race-speech-targeted-capitol-police&source=gmail&ust=1475682675320000&usg=AFQjCNEhcY8O1JwQi9SeaA3CzliXgHc3Lg" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/floor-speeches/tim-scott-black-republican-emotional-powerful-dramatic-race-speech-targeted-capitol-police" target="_blank">http://thehill.com/blogs/floo<wbr></wbr>r-action/floor-speeches/tim-<wbr></wbr>scott-black-republican-emotion<wbr></wbr>al-powerful-dramatic-race-<wbr></wbr>speech-targeted-capitol-police</a></span></span><wbr></wbr><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">)
to understand that my experience was surely possible. Now, again—after the fact— that the public
has caught up with the evidence that I put on the table in 2006, my position is
supported by evidence that is available to all, sadly now most of all, the
family of Keith Lamont Scott and all of those young people who were just recently
in Charlotte’s streets.<span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If only the press had decided to investigate my
assertions
rather than castigate me for making them! Maybe things would be far
different than they
are today in Iraq, Libya, Louisiana, and elsewhere. But, instead of
investigation of the inconvenient
or unpleasant facts that I repeatedly put on the table, the response was
a frenzy
of specious journalism and spurious assertions where true journalism was
needed. Your column, with mention of my name, is an example
of that. Such “reporting” is precisely
why Trump’s attacks on the media resonate so well with the American and
global
public. The polling data on the public perception
of the U.S. media is a damning indictment of the role<b> </b>the media has played in this country for too many years. That is why the U.S. public more and more now
seeks its information from foreign media outlets, the internet, “alternative” media,
and less and less from “newspapers” like yours. <span><span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"My weapon is media, lectures, protest, organization." Kenneth S. Carr (Dedon Kamathi)<br /><br /><span>“It’s
organized crime. All you do is you call the Republicans the Genoveses
and you call the Democrats the Gambinos. The people at the top, they
treat it like a crap game. It’s their crap game, like they’re making
lots of money. </span><span>Occasionally,
somebody at the table shoots each other, but the moment anything
threatens their crap game, they all unite to protect it. ... They’re
both controlled by the same financial, economic and corporate
interests.” -Michael C. Ruppert (excerpted from the film America Freedom
to Fascism)</span></span></span><div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</span></span><div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><span lang="">"</span>The biggest weapon in the hands of the oppressors is the minds of the oppressed." Steve Biko<br /><br />"Make your spirit flexible, and nothing will ever bend you out of shape." Wisdom by Taro Gold
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Hi Folks - We had a great meeting last Friday, to follow-up on the launch of the Truth Action Project here in NYC.<div>
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It seems to be that we now have three new "Action Teams" to get stuff done. </div>
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We
have an "Arts Action Team" to "create a new product that can raise
money for the group, and also get the word out.....a film, book, etc."</div>
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We
have a "Legal Action Team" researching the usability of an
Extraordinary Grand Jury in NYC. Especially interesting is the
possibility that a petition might be used to influence a DA to instigate
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We have a
"Political Action Team" keenly interested in using the very public forum
of campaigns and elections to further the message of 9/11 research, and
justice. </div>
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We will have our NEXT MEETING Oct. 14. I booked us the main room of the 6th Street Community Center.</div>
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14, at 6th St Community Center - 638 E. 6th Street, Manhattan, 7-9 PM.
(Please donate $5-10 to help cover rental.)</b><br />
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also enjoy a sneak peek at my article that summarizes the important
testimony at Justice in Focus three weeks ago. This will be published
soon on the TAP website.</b><b><br /></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Pressure your New Jersey Congressional representatives in the House and Senate to support and p</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ass HR 14 or Senate Bill 1471. This is our moment for truth and democracy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b>Already, citizens in New York City and nation-wide have written letters, asked for meetings, and met with Congressional representatives, to pass HR 14.<br />Now, it’s time for New Jersey citizens to reach out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Meet fellow NJ activists, write letters and send them, Friday Jan. 8, right on the spot.<br />Get organized, by local congressional district, to follow-up and meet with your Congressional representatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Enough is ENOUGH. It’s been 15 years of cover-up with 9/11. But now we’ve got mainstream media coverage, and a bill in Congress. We have a nation-wide effort starting up right now to pass HR 14, and Senate Bill 1471 and “Release the 28 Pages!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Show will feature White Collar Crime's song “No Conspiracy Theory” a toe-tapping pop-punk anthem sure to inspire you to take action against war, state terror, and lies. Also on the bill: Broken Arrow and AciD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"No Conspiracy Theory?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a set of facts you don’t want to hear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s like Cassandra of Troy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is still alive in my ears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You don’t want to know you don’t want to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But more and more people are coming to believe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How did those Towers fall?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Were there bombs in the walls?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What melted all that steel?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Government lives off your trust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So please don’t test the dust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"No Conspiracy Theory"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a set of facts you don’t want to hear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s like Cassandra of Troy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is spitting her truth into your ears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But more and more people are coming to believe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you let ‘em search your bag</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">just for riding on their filthy subway</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Bill of Rights did not call in sick today</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lives on a fuel of lies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">you could take this slingshot, spread the truth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hit the Giant right between the eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, your problem is that think </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’ve got this image in your head of normality</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You’d like to think this country </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you believe the lies they taught you to believe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And No Conspiracy Theories</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a set of facts you don’t want to hear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s like Cassandra of Troy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is spitting her truth into your ears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You don’t want to know you don’t want to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But more and more people are coming to believe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who shot the Kennedys?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yo Mick Jagger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was not “you and me”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">watched as RFK fell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same CIA spooks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shot Jack as well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cover-up will end at the gates of Hell.</span></div>
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the most protected, tender scar on the U.S. body politic: Bush’s 9/11 Official <a href="" style="mso-comment-date: 20151024T1146; mso-comment-reference: CM_1;">Story</a></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">. 9/11 is a taboo topic
of heavily guarded myths defended with a zealot-like religiosity by the government
and corporate media. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trump could bother the Bushes about. It’s high time for someone to bring this
up. For the Bush Family, the entire 9/11 subject, like Trump himself, is a
political minefield. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a script. He’s terrible on immigration, of course, but it’s interesting that he
senses a serious weakness here in Jeb Bush. Perhaps Bush’s severe slide in the
polls is due to his stubborn refusal to question anything his brother did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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happened on Bush’s watch, Jeb resorted to a defensive sound-bite , claiming
that since the 9/11 attacks, “My brother kept us safe.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Anthrax attacks began five days after 9/11, sending the U.S.
public into two months of frenzied seizures of duct-tape buying, in our anxiety
about biochemical attacks. Five U.S. citizens died, on U.S. soil. They never
stood a chance. The anthrax unleashed on us in 2001 was an advanced, micro-fine,
silicon-coated variety. Scientists have concluded it came from one of two quasi-government
U.S. military/contractor institutions: Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, or Ohio’s
Battelle Memorial Institute. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2001, the Bush White House pressured the FBI to falsely blame “Al-Qaeda”</span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">for the anthrax attacks.
Is that called “keeping us safe?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Today, we know that the Bush White House and their FBI deliberately
bungled their anthrax investigation. In what may be one of the most
under-reported stories of the decade, Richard Lambert, the FBI’s own director
of the “Amerithrax” investigation, is now suing the FBI. Lambert sacrificed his
own career and suffered harsh reprisals for going whistle-blower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But his lawsuit makes the case: FBI top brass
put young, fresh-out-of-the-academy agents on the Anthrax investigation and
hobbled their work. After a seven-year fiasco, the investigation needed to
blame someone, before Bush left office. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lambert
claims that its likely that Bruce Ivins was falsely accused, when he was blamed
for masterminding the attacks. Ivins did not have the capacity to manufacture
micro-fine, silicon-coated anthrax. On the verge of arrest, Ivins committed
“suicide” from an overdose of Tylenol, despite being under heavy FBI surveillance
in his Maryland <a href="" style="mso-comment-date: 20151024T1643; mso-comment-reference: CM_3;">home</a></span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">From the conservative pulpit of the pages of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">National Review</i>, Jeb claimed, “[Trump] has
blamed my brother for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on our nation….That Trump
echoes the attacks of Michael Moore and the fringe left against my brother is
yet another example of his dangerous views on national-security <a href="" style="mso-comment-date: 20151024T1644; mso-comment-reference: CM_4;">issues</a></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Dangerous? To whom? Certainly not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the American people. We sent our sons and
daughters off to die in two quagmires in the Middle East in the name of 9/11
revenge and Bush’s lies about weapons of mass destruction. We further sacrificed
constitutional freedoms at home, such as the NSA wiretapping of all our phone
calls and emails. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">After 9/11, George Bush demanded that 28 pages be blacked out
from the Congressional “Joint Inquiry” into 9/11. The redacted 28 pages are widely
understood to contain details about </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">the funding of the 9/11 terrorists by Saudi Arabia and
malfeasance by certain US agencies. It’s no surprise that George Jr. would risk
his own political integrity for the Saudis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After all, he and his father had worked closely with them in two
infamous scandals from the past:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Iran/Contra and BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Remember, President Bush resisted the formation of an 9/11 official
investigation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the 9/11 Commission finally
came into being, Bush refused to publicly testify, demanding a closed-door
hearing in the company of Dick Cheney, with no recordings allowed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Thus, the doubts have grown. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have become mainstream. They are not fringe
left-leaning elements as Jeb Bush desperately wishes. 9/11 skepticism is huge
now, it’s part of a critical mass, a tsunami-like demand for a different breed
of candidate, someone independent, like Donald Trump or Bernie <a href="" style="mso-comment-date: 20151024T1416; mso-comment-reference: CM_5;">Sanders</a>. </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">We need someone sufficiently
pumped up to demand a new level of truth and justice for the American people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In a Q&A last August in New Hampshire, Jeb Bush was asked
about the 28 pages. He claimed not to know what the 28 pages were. If that were
true, it would show an alarming level of ignorance about 9/11: what actually was
inside, and the many more things left out, of two faulty 9/11 investigation reports.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Bush </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">lack of transparency about 9/11 has opened many people to question
the surveillance-loving, truth-adverse, war-making, tax-levying, law-breaking character
of today’s U.S. Federal Government. This helps explain Trump’s passionate
popularity. </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">W</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">ith 9/11, Trump has the opportunity to tap into something
powerful in the American psyche. Trump himself was warning of a major attack and
mentioned the Twin Towers in his 2000 book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
America We <a href="" style="mso-comment-date: 20151024T1433; mso-comment-reference: CM_6;">Deserve</a></i></span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">.</span></i><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The degree Trump pushes Bush on the 9/11 issue is dependent on
how much we as citizens push for its discussion, in forums like social media or
face-to-face meetings with candidates on the campaign trail. If you support Trump,
take a moment now and write his campaign. Encourage Trump to push farther on 9/11.
Urge him to support HR 14, a bipartisan bill in Congress, that will release the
28 Pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someday soon, America will
thank you for helping to usher in a new era of government transparency. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">9/11 is a big scar, surrounded by strong emotions, and a huge
fear that something is not quite right. As a country, we have been in denial.
Some of us wrap ourselves in shrouds of defensiveness and anger when vocal
independent minds prod us to ask the basic questions. But the good thing about
Trump, and the many others like him, is that today we have a new fearlessness,
a new openness about 9/11. This will lead to a time of greater honesty and
clarity for America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the Juggernaut: Total Resistance to the Death Machine Means Complete Love of
the Truth.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43206.htm#.VijUdE6wmpA.mailto"><span style="color: #103cc0; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43206.htm#.VijUdE6wmpA.mailto</span></a><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri Light"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272959351145279846.post-85083397169425969512015-10-24T12:44:00.005-07:002015-10-24T12:44:34.196-07:00New Yorkers for 28 Pages Transparency Writes Maloney<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i>I was a part of this group, which is US Congressional District 12, NYC, voters. We just wrote and sent this letter to Rep. Carolyn Maloney. Check it out:</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">151 First Ave #265</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">October 15, 2015</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Honorable Carolyn Maloney</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Washington, DC</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Representative Maloney,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you for bringing relief to New Yorkers with the James Zadroga 9/11 Health Care and Compensation Act. It was a major accomplishment for first responders. And thank you for your advocacy for the 9/11 Commission itself, despite great resistance from the administration.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As you know, Governor Kean famously stated that the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">9/11 Commission</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was “set up to fail” by the Bush White House. We are a group of concerned District 12 voters who believe House Resolution 14—a transparency bill to declassify 28 unreleased pages of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Congressional Joint Inquiry on the 9/11 Attacks</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">—is a vital step toward a basic understanding of 9/11. Suppressing evidence—including possible financial support for the 9/11 hijackers—is unacceptable and a grave disservice to New Yorkers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HR 14 will fully disclose the key 28 pages of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Congressional Joint Inquiry on the 9/11 Attacks</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> inexplicably classified by President George W. Bush in 2003. Former Senator Bob Graham, Representatives Richard Shelby and Byron Dorgan—as well as Senators Pat Leahy, Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer, Secretary of State John Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have all supported declassification of this significant evidence. The former Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, has indicated that the 28 Pages contain details on individuals closely related to the 9/11 hijackers. He has also stated that they detail involvement by “Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries as well as questionable actions by ‘certain U.S. agencies’.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Since legislation on this issue was introduced, there has been substantial media coverage from CNN, the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Times</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York Post</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">USA Today</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, CNN, and many more. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the stakes have risen</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This September,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Saudi Arabia was dropped as a defendant in a landmark suit filed by 9/11 victims families in the U.S. Southern District Court of New York. Attorney for the plaintiffs, Sean Carter, has stated, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The government's decision to continue to classify that material certainly factored into this outcome. Evidence central to these claims continues to be treated as classified.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One further point must be made. According to those familiar with them, the 28 pages contain crucial information necessary to formulate an effective national security policy today—especially given the complex state of conflict in Syria and Iraq. You, Representative Maloney, will soon be asked to make important decisions, on life and death matters: war, and conflict resolution in this volatile region. Co-sponsor of HR 14, Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie, stated at a recent press conference, “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some of the best intelligence we have is in these 28 pages and most of our colleagues in the House have not read them</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.” Key members of Congress who have read them have stated that their release would not in any way compromise national security.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a New Yorker and Congressional leader, you can help. We urge you to access these materials yourself. After your review, we’d like to get your assessment. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Carolyn Maloney who stood up to the Bush White House on 9/11 can take another stand for transparency and truth. Not only is it the right thing to do, we believe there will be tangible political benefits in making a strong statement of support. The 9/11 victims families still demand their answers in court. Let’s not let them down!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272959351145279846.post-53079300160935380462015-10-14T18:23:00.000-07:002015-10-14T18:25:29.773-07:00PRAYER FOR PEACE Concert this Saturday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My friend Luna Kaufman is throwing a little concert, at this little hole-in-the-wall uptown, called Carnegie Hall. Actually this is such a big deal, and I'm so excited, because I have always heard about Carnegie Hall, but I in my many years of NYC living, I have never been inside. Come with us? It's this Saturday Night, at 8 PM. Wear something nice. It's serious dude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Luna survived the Holocaust, turned around, and dedicated her life to inter-faith understanding.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 21px;">"There is such a multitude of religions in this country. We are all people working toward a common goal."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have hung out with her, uptown. I learned a little Yiddish. "These soldiers are dying, for what? This SCHMATA [trans."rags" her term for military uniforms.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She's friends with Thomas Keane, and toured the Holocaust sites with him. The liberal NJ Governor, is the same one who had the guts to denounce the 9/11 Commission process, after he ran the investigation that was "set up to fail." Come out Saturday, and I will introduce you. Oh, and yes this is the same Luna Kaufman I wrote the piece for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sander-hicks/the-life-of-luna-holocaus_b_592774.html">Huffington Post about, back in 2010.</a></span><br />
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<b>MidAtlantic Opera and Seton Hall University present</b></div>
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<b>A Prayer for Peace</b></div>
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<b>Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall</b></div>
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<b>Third Concert in the Peace Trilogy Concert Series Featuring</b></div>
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<b>Works by Ranjbaran, Saygun, Bernstein, and Vaughan Williams</b></div>
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<b>Performed by the MidAtlantic Opera Chorus and Orchestra and Seton Hall University Choir</b></div>
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<b>Conducted by Jason C. Tramm and Featuring</b></div>
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<b>Soloists Mihai Marica, Rochelle Bard, Sara Murphy, Ray Chenez, Theodore Chletsos, and Kevin Short</b></div>
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<b>Net Proceeds to Be Donated to UNHRC for Refugee Relief</b></div>
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<b>MidAtlantic Opera</b> and<b> Seton Hall University</b> will present the third concert in conductor Jason C. Tramm’s Peace Trilogy Concert series, entitled<b> A Prayer for Peace</b>, on<b> Saturday, October 17, 2015</b> at 8 pm in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at<b> Carnegie Hall</b>.</div>
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Ticket prices range from $10 - $90. Order tickets online at<a href="http://www.carnegiehall.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"> www.carnegiehall.org</a>, by phone at CarnegieCharge<a href="tel:%28212-247-7800" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"> (212-247-7800</a>) or at the Carnegie Hall box office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue in New York City. Student and senior discounts are available at the box office only. Group ticket discounting is available to your organization by calling <a href="mailto:212-903-9705" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">212-903-9705</a> Monday-<wbr></wbr>Friday, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1583812945" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">9:30 AM to 5:30 PM</span></span> or Online at<a href="mailto:groupsales@carnegiehall.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">groupsales@carnegiehall.org</a>. One-third of the net proceeds will be donated to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for refugee relief.</div>
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The<b> MidAtlantic Opera Chorus and Orchestra</b> and<b> Seton Hall University Choir</b> will be conducted by<b>Jason C. Tramm</b>. Soloists include: cellist<b> Mihai Marica</b>; soprano<b> Rochelle Bard</b>; mezzo-soprano<b> Sara Murphy</b>; countertenor<b> Ray Chenez</b>; tenor<b> Theodore Chletsos</b>; and bass-baritone<b> Kevin Short</b>.</div>
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<b>A Prayer for Peace</b> will feature classical music selections from composers of Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths whose music transcends its individual context and gives voice to the composers’ visions of peace in response to conflict and violence. The program includes the<i><b> Elegy</b></i> for cello and strings by Behzad Ranjbaran, selections from Ahmed Adnan Saygun’s rarely performed<i><b> Yunus Emre</b></i> oratorio, Leonard Bernstein’s<i><b> Chichester</b></i><i><b> Psalms</b></i> and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s<i><b> Dona Nobis Pacem</b></i><b>.</b> Each composition expresses a universally resonant message, possessing the power to transcend time and place, uniting audiences in “A Prayer for Peace.”</div>
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Leonard Bernstein eloquently stated, “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” In response to current world violence and inspired by Bernstein's mandate, Maestro<b> Jason C. Tramm</b> has fashioned a concert performance designed to underscore humanity's universal connection through music.</div>
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<b>A Prayer for Peace</b> is the third in a series of “Peace Trilogy” Concerts presented by Dr. Tramm during the 2015-16 season. The first and second concerts in the trilogy,<i> Prince of Peace</i> and<i> Grace and Peace</i> took place on July 12th and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1583812947" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">August 23rd</span></span> in the Great Auditorium at Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. Tramm has fashioned a trilogy of concert performances designed to underscore humanity’s universal connection through music.</div>
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<b>Behzad Ranjbaran</b>, born in Tehran in 1955, is known particularly for his orchestral and chamber compositions. His works have been recorded on the Naxos, Delos, Albany, and Cala labels. Based in the U.S., he is a long-standing member of the Juilliard School faculty and is also Composer-in-Residence at Saratoga Performing Arts Center and the Philadelphia Orchestra. His<i> Elegy</i> for solo cello and strings is a transcription of the lyrical second movement of his Cello Concerto (1998). The sinuous melodic line of the principal theme is strongly influenced by the melismatic figuration common to Persian vocal music. Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society CMS Two artist<b> Mihai Marica</b> will perform on the cello.</div>
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<b>Ahmed Adnan Saygun</b> (1907-1991) was one of the most important Turkish composers of the 20th century. In 1936, he travelled with Béla Bartók across Turkey collecting, annotating, and transcribing local folk music. This interest is reflected in the score of his oratorio<i> Yunus Emre</i> (1946), a humanistic representation of the eponymous thirteenth century Sufi mystic and poet, scored for four vocal soloists, mixed chorus and orchestra. His other large-scale compositions include five symphonies and five operas. He was also a celebrated teacher and worked to establish several new music conservatories in Turkey. Three movements from<i> Yunus Emre</i> will be performed at this concert.</div>
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<b>Leonard Bernstein</b> composed his<i> Chichester Psalms</i> for the Chichester Cathedral’s 1965 music festival during a sabbatical year from his duties as music director of the New York Philharmonic. Each of the three movements uses a pair of psalm texts set in the original Hebrew. The second movement, which includes a setting of the 23rd Psalm for countertenor solo, uses material from a musical version of Thornton Wilder’s<i>The Skin of Our Teeth</i> (which was never completed), with a violent contrasting middle section for men’s chorus comprised of excised material originally composed for the Jets in<i> West Side Story</i>.</div>
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<b>Ralph Vaughan Williams</b> composed<i> Dona Nobis Pacem</i> in 1936, as Europe veered toward World War II, for the centenary of the Huddersfield Choral Society. The oratorio is scored for large orchestra and chorus with soprano and baritone soloists, and uses settings of texts from the Latin liturgy as well as three poems by Walt Whitman and an anti-war speech given in the British Parliament by the 19th century Quaker orator John Bright. One of the Whitman movements is a setting of the “Dirge for Two Veterans,” originally composed in 1911, on the brink of the previous World War.</div>
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Romanian-born cellist<b> Mihai Marica</b> is a first prize winner of the Dr. Luis Sigall International Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile, and the Irving M. Klein International Competition. He has performed with the Symphony Orchestra of Chile, the Hermitage State Orchestra of St. Petersburg in Russia, and the Louisville Orchestra, among others, and in recital in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Holland, South Korea, Japan, Chile, and Canada. He is a member of the award-winning Amphion String Quartet and is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS Two program.</div>
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A specialist in the bel canto repertoire, soprano<b> Rochelle Bard</b> recently sang the title role of<i> Norma</i> with Knoxville Opera and will sing<i> Maria Stuarda</i> there in 2017. Her Verdi roles include Violetta in<i> La Traviata</i> and Leonora in<i> Il Trovatore</i>. Other roles range from the four heroines in<i> Les Contes d’Hoffmann</i> through the title roles in<i> Lucia di Lammermoor</i> and<i> The</i><i> Merry Widow</i>. Her extensive concert repertoire includes<i> Messiah</i> and the Poulenc<i> Gloria</i>. She has won major awards in the Classical Singer Competition and from the Gerda Lissner Foundation.</div>
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Highlights of mezzo-soprano<b> Sara Murphy</b>‘s past season include works of Ligeti, Schnittke, and Hindemith, all with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra;<i> Messiah</i> and the Verdi<i> Requiem</i> with Oratorio Society of New York conducted by Kent Tritle; and a return to the Cincinnati May Festival in recital. In 2013, she debuted at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under James Conlon. Next season she returns to the May Festival in<i> Elijah</i> and<i> Otello</i>, and performs Mahler and<i> Messiah</i> (again at Carnegie Hall) with the Oratorio Society of New York.</div>
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Winner of the prestigious 2014 George London Award, countertenor<b> Ray Chenez</b> is rapidly establishing a major international career. He recently made his European debut in the role of Marzia in Leonardo Vinci’s<i>Catone in Utica</i> at Versailles, Wiesbaden, Bucharest, and Bergen, conducted by Riccardo Minasi and alongside star countertenors Max Emanuel Cencic and Franco Fagioli, a role he will reprise this coming season in Vienna. He is also slated to make debuts at the Opéra National de Lorraine à Nancy (in Rossi’s<i>Orfeo</i>) and with Opera Omaha (in Handel’s<i> Semele</i>).</div>
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<b>Theodore Chletsos</b> has performed many roles in the standard tenor repertoire with regional companies across the United States, as well as in such contemporary works as Ricky Ian Gordon’s<i> Grapes of Wrath</i>, Laurent Petitgirard’s<i> Joseph Merrick, dit Elephant Man</i>, Michael Ching’s<i> Buoso’s Ghost</i>, and Samuel Barber’s<i> Antony and Cleopatra</i>. He has a large concert repertoire ranging from Bach and Handel to Verdi and Menotti and has won numerous awards, including the Shoshana Foundation’s Richard F. Gold Career Grant.</div>
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Bass-baritone<b> Kevin Short</b> continues to thrill audiences around the globe in a wide range of repertoire ranging from Monteverdi and Mozart to Verdi and Stravinsky with the most prominent opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, Santa Fe Opera, the Opéra Comique in Paris, and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He also has a vast concert repertoire which he has sung with major orchestras and festivals including the Czech Philharmonic, the orchestras of Boston and Philadelphia, and the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan.</div>
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<b>Jason C. Tramm</b>’s work in the symphonic, operatic, and choral repertoire has been acclaimed both nationally and internationally. He is currently Artistic Director of the MidAtlantic Opera, Assistant Professor and Director of Choral Activities at Seton Hall University’s College of Communication and the Arts, and Director of Music Ministries for the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. From 2008–2012 he served as Artistic Director of the New Jersey State Opera, where his tenure included a celebrated performance of<i>Porgy and Bess</i> at Newark’s Symphony Hall. He was recently appointed Artistic Director of the NJ-based Adelphi Orchestra.</div>
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In 2003, Jason joined the ranks of Metropolitan Opera stars Renée Fleming and Stephanie Blythe when he was honored with the Rising Star Award from the SUNY Potsdam Alumni Association. A frequent guest conductor, Tramm has led operatic and symphonic performances, and made recordings, in Italy, Romania, Albania, and Hungary. This concert, the third in his Peace Trilogy series, continues his commitment to building bridges and uniting people of all ages, cultures, races, socioeconomic standing and beliefs through the universal language and power of music.</div>
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I learned a lot at the 9/11 Symposium this weekend. Barbara Honegger's analysis of the recent revelations about the US Government's anthrax story were especially poignant.<br />
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The biggest breaking news is that former FBI Director of the Amerithrax Investigation has now gone whistle-blower. I hadn't heard that at all - but as of April he is suing the FBI for wrecking his life, and ruining his career, since he was critical of the way the FBI sat on his investigation of Anthrax.<br />
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Of course, we in the truth movement <i>always</i> said that Bruce Ivins couldn't have done it. It looks like Ivins was the patsy, and when he took his tylenol over-dose, the FBI was next door, and they did nothing about it. Or maybe the late Mr. Ivins didn't actually "take" his over-dose, willingly....<br />
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Don't believe Scott Shane at the NY Times - he takes the US Government's side, blatantly, and every single time. Look at how much <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/us/ex-fbi-agent-claims-retaliation-for-dissent-in-anthrax-inquiry.html?_r=0">ink he wastes</a> repeating the official story.<br />
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Even Lambert himself on Fox News is not as good as the analysis over at <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/04/head-fbis-anthrax-investigation-calls-b-s.html">Washington's Blog>>></a><br />
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The Declassify the Truth 9/11 Anniversary Symposium was a rousing success. I counted around 200 people there. People still care about the truth about 9/11. Especially this year, when the headlines keep on mentioning the controversy around the 28 Pages, the material censored by Bush about who financed 9/11.<br />
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We are GOING to pressurize Congress to release the 28 Pages! To pass HR14 is the will of "We, The People!"</div>
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Heck, can you bring TWO? We will make it exciting. We are going to change the world. The 9/11 cover-up is over. Politics as usual are OVER. People rejected Bush and Clinton this election season. We Rip up the old rules. We Release the 28 Pages. Can you see it?<br clear="all" /><div>
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Those "28 Pages" continue to be <i>the</i> issue that just might take the 9/11 truth movement mainstream. </div>
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You see, there's a little piece of legislation floating in Congress, and it just might change everything. HR 14 would force the US Government to release the 28 pages, which hide who funded 9/11.</div>
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We just raised $700 to run an ad in a local paper, hoping to put the question in front of two million more people. And this new poster is pretty cool - it graphically makes the case, in an emotional, compelling way. We have the momentum! Are you coming? RSVP here on <a href="https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=888199127921804&tsid=0.5226871808990836&source=typeahead">Facebook</a>.</div>
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<b>Concept: The Ultimate Vision – Accountability & Justice for 9/11</b></div>
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Although there have been many previous coups, 9/11 is the most recent and is the most consequential. Up until now, the issue of who funded the 9/11 attacks has been shrouded in secrecy. But the after-effects of 9/11 are all too apparent: reduced civil liberties, wars of invasion, torture. Astute analysts of deep state crime know that the perpetrators of 9/11 are still alive. Obtaining justice is still possible.</div>
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There is legislation today in front of the US Congress and Senate that will release the censored 28 pages of Congress’s own investigation into 9/11. This “28 Pages” issue has attracted positive mainstream news coverage, from the New York Times to FOX News. Millions of people are being informed that information on responsibility for 9/11 has been withheld for 14 years. It’s a cover-up. But this time, the exposure of this cover-up is being done by mainstream media and Members of Congress.</div>
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With the upcoming presidential campaign, we have an opportunity to make “9/11 transparency” a presidential issue. Never before has the 9/11 Truth Community had an opportunity to create a bona-fide DC lobbying group to achieve political action on this issue. The 28 pages is the ideal opportunity for the <span class="il">activist</span> community to become a bona fide movement. Our time is now.</div>
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We must organize Congressional district by Congressional district in a process to become a real political constituency that can work towards political change.</div>
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We must think bigger than ever before. We must build on 14 years of efforts by the alternative research community which has already informed millions of people on the reality of 9/11. We must devise methods to reach the huge reservoir that exists within the population to connect, inform, and mobilize. We know this reservoir is serious and sizable. Over 50 million people have viewed “Loose Change”. Millions more have seen 9/11 specials on C-SPAN, or other 9/11 videos on Youtube.</div>
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Methods to reach these millions will include social networking, Facebook and Twitter ads, print and radio, and cable access. Through this effort we can mirror other progressive movements that resulted in shifts in mass consciousness that led to institutional changes. (i.e., the recent victories of medical marijuana, or the recent NY ban on fracking.)</div>
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Establish the first-ever 9/11 Transparency Lobby-ing organization, with organizations in DC and NY.</div>
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This week marks a turning point. Two free-thinking Americans confronted Jeb Bush about his role in the 9/11 cover-up. Even if it seems like the corporate media show no interest in this side of Bush, that inaction does not limit us. We know there's something serious here.<br />
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These two stories should inspire us to demand answers, especially in this highly-charged time.<br />
Let's take a look at what happened, what the deeper story is, and then I'll conclude this post with some "How-To Confront Jeb Bush" advice, for new activists going forward.<br />
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That means YOU!<br />
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A great and mighty spirit of truth is motivating us. We are not dismissible. We are a mountain. Many great opportunities rise up to meet us every day.<br />
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<b>1. Jackman Vs. Bush</b><br />
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Let's start with the most recent event, first. This week, on August 20, on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, my friend Mike Jackman (the co-founder of "Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth") asked a well-prepared question about Jeb Bush's role in the frenzied 9/11 cover-up in Florida:<br />
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Notice Jeb Bush's body language. He visibly stiffens, even sort of freezes at the mention of the name "Wally Hilliard." <br />
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Hilliard is one of the murky figures behind 9/11 and the terrorists in Florida. The kind of guy who will loan Televangelist Jerry Falwell one million dollars, and never ask for it back. Hilliard was one of the more connected owners of the Florida flight training centers in Venice Florida. Here, the key so-called "9/11 hijackers" Like Mohamed Atta, did "flight-training."<br />
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The truth is that earlier one of Hilliard's planes was discovered by the DEA with 43 pounds of heroin, as reported by the Orlando Sentinel, and yet no one was charged. It looks like the whole thing was part of a protected CIA operation. Sources said Hilliard had a "Green light from the DEA."<br />
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The same reporter who scooped that story is someone Jackman and I know personally, Daniel Hopsicker, of the Mad Cow Morning News. Hopsicker found an on-the-record source inside Florida law enforcement, Sgt. Marty Treanor, who reported that the Florida Flight Training Center's records were raided and seized by Governor Jeb Bush, right after 9/11:<br />
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According to Sgt. Treanor, Governor Bush personally escorted the flight of these records.<br />
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As Mike Jackman demonstrated last week in New Hampshire, Jeb Bush needs to be confronted, personally, to answer that allegation. It's not dismissible, with a simple "no, not true."<br />
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Jackman made history, by being the first US citizen empowering himself to break through fear and cultural suppression, <i>finally</i> asking Jeb Bush about whether this in fact happened. Jeb Bush laughs off the question from Jackman, and, sputtering, calls it a "weird email." He rolls his eyes, and shares a mocking grin with his supporters. There's a tone of harsh sarcasm, and a condescending edge in his answer. Jeb says, "No, not true...." and swiftly goes on to take the next question, but then interrupts that next questioner, to pivot back to pontificate at Jackman.<br />
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Instead of talking about what he did, on those days after 9/11, Bush goes into blowhard mode, and engages in a little speech about his leadership in Florida, how he aided in the recovery and rebuilding of tourism in the state, after 9/11. It was an irrelevant talking around the question, practically begging for applause from the adoring fans. And of course, that applause was promptly given. When the applause came, Jeb smiles, relaxes his shoulders, and is clearly relieved it's over.<br />
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Maybe that's because Sgt. Treanor's quotation effectively says that Jeb committed a major crime: that Jeb participated in an illegal removal of evidence at the crime scene, the Florida Flight Training Center. If that is true, then amid the chaos and the deep grief of 9/11, Bush was deliberately acting to cover up the truth.<br />
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Bush is clearly nervous on this subject. He will crack under pressure. He's not a born politician, and as we saw from the first Fox debate, is not really all that great at debating or campaigning. He even makes his brother look like a savvy, charismatic professional, by comparison. And I never thought I would say that about Dubya.<br />
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Last Friday, (Aug 14, 2015) in <a href="https://youtu.be/cqcCro1g26M">Rachel Maddow's "Tale of the Tape"</a> Jeb Bush way back at age 27 said that running for President is "not something I would like to do for the rest of my life, I get nervous...." There is great footage of Jeb's knees literally knocking with shivers and tremors, stumping for his dad in Puerto Rico.<br />
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That nervousness is something we can exploit, in the name of truth. Because documented details about the 9/11 cover-up go back to Florida.<br />
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It was in Florida, in August of 2001, that the CIA apprehended and deported an entire phalanx of Israeli spies, who were posing as "art-students." The Mossad spies were tracking the 9/11 terrorists, and when CIA kicked them out, they retaliated by publishing a list of Al Qaeda operatives who were planning an attack in the USA. They named names of the future 19 "hijackers."<br />
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It was in Florida that the CIA kicked Mossad away from the "19 hijackers" because the 19 hijackers were a protected operation. People like Wolfgang Bohringer, Mohamed Atta's "CIA drinking buddy" were arrested in a Joint Terrorism Task Force sweep in year 2006, but then quietly released.<br />
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It was in Florida where 9/11 whistle-blower Randy Glass languished in jail on 9/11/01, after working as an under-cover agent, infiltrating terrorist-linked arms dealers for the Joint Terrorism Task Force and Florida FBI. He knew of detailed plans to attack the World Trade Center with planes, but he was silenced and imprisoned when his usefulness expired.<br />
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It was in Florida that Jeb Bush, back in the 1980's, as a young Dade County GOP Chairman oversaw different parts of the Iran/Contra operation, working closely with his father, the Iran/Contra figure George H. W. Bush, the former CIA director, then Vice President. According to Naval intelligence operative Al Martin, (in his book <i>The Co-Conspirators</i>) Jeb Bush was visibly nervous when confronted over his personal role in the killing of CIA drug-runner Barry Seal.<br />
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One good place to go deeper on Barry Seal is this thread on <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251292855">Democratic Underground</a>. But the Barry Seal topic is hardly one that makes Democrats look good: don't forget that 9/11 Commission member Richard Ben-Veniste, an old friend of the Clintons, was the personal attorney for Barry Seal, before Seal was gunned down on the streets of Baton Rouge.<br />
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When Iran/Contra insider Al Martin asked Jeb Bush about his role in Seal's murder, this is what transpired:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I think Jeb understood what I meant. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It would certainly place him into a conspiracy to assassinate a CIA drug runner for the sake of political expediency. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When I was through speaking, Jeb became quiet and his demeanor became serious and changed. He became flushed, as he often does when he's frightened. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jeb responded by telling me that it would be most unfortunate if I were to do that [i.e. go public], since I might wind up like George Morales or Johnny Molina. [lower level drug-running operatives who had recently been liquidated. Source: The Co-Conspirators by Al Martin]</span></blockquote>
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<b>2. The 28 Pages</b><br />
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Also in New Hampshire, on the rocky campaign trail earlier last week, (August 7, 2015) Jeb was confronted with another careful question. A soft-spoken older woman asked Bush to support the declassification of the 28 Pages, the pages that Bush's brother personally censored from the 9/11 Report of the Congressional Joint Inquiry.<br />
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The questioner wisely asked this on behalf of "those of us with military deployments and the people that suffered in 9/11."<br />
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Bush claimed ignorance of the 28 Pages, which is completely ludicrous. It's evident that he didn't want to talk about it. As pointed out by Brian McGlitchey at <a href="http://28pages.org/">28Pages.org</a>, Bush asked the lady to "please explain it" but then cut her off repeatedly when she tried to!<br />
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Bush can not be ignorant of what is being covered-up here, because it's a serious vulnerability for his Presidential aspirations. The Bush Family has long cultivated relationships with the Saudi Royals: going back to Iran/Contra, and various finance and oil-drilling deals. One just has to glance at the incredibly brutal and complex Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the shadowy capital behind Iran/Contra and CIA in the 1980's. The Bush Family and Saudis were connected here, and major BCCI figures funded Dubya's first oil venture, Arbusto Energy.<br />
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We really are living in a Matrix, where emotions, patriotic fervor, corporate media slant, CIA shadow state machinations, willing allies in Israeli and Pakistani intelligence, the Bush Family, and Saudi Money, all came together to perpetuate one of the biggest hoaxes of all time. And for 14 years now, the American People have been hearing that there are these weird, blacked-out 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry Report, that only Members of Congress are allowed to view. And those who view them come away visibly shaken, as if they took a "red pill," and now Morpheus has told them that everything they knew was a lie:<br />
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With this second confrontation Bush had with the truth, I want you to notice a pattern here. If Bush wanted to win votes, and appear smart and sensitive, he could have said to the dear mother, "This sounds like it's important to you. I will look into it and get back to you."<br />
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Instead, just like in the brush-up with Jackman, Bush's body turns away from the questioner, and turns fully <i>to the crowd</i>. With a grin, he says, "Since I don't have classified information, I can't tell you whether it should be declassified." But when that didn't get the laugh, he had to go further. Bush makes a joke about how the surely Chinese will be able to tell us, since they have such access to US classified information. And the crowd roars their approval with laughter, as if to dissipate Bush's clear discomfort around the topic.<br />
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It's ludicrous to imagine that Bush could be ignorant of the 28 Pages. Former Florida Senator and Governor Bob Graham has been advocating for their release, since the 28 pages point directly to who funded 9/11, and how the Saudis, and certain <i>other</i> parties, were involved.<br />
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In election campaigns previously, I have confronted Eliot Spitzer and Rudy Giuliani, among others, regarding 9/11 cover-ups. I learned a few things, and want to share some skills.<br />
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Jackman, and the unnamed woman in New Hampshire, both did a great job. But their examples are only starting points. All activists should take the next step, and consider asking a question, publicly, of Jeb Bush. There is certainly a lot of meat left on the bone.<br />
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Here are my tips on how to make a Jeb Bush confrontation thorough, and effective.<br />
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<b>A. Have follow-up questions prepared. </b><b><br /></b>
Don't just ask one question. Expect him to dodge, in the same way he dodged the two questions above. Start out polite, and respectful, but become steadily more demanding. You are going to have to be assertive, and yet, not lose your cool. Get louder, and yet, don't look too crazy.<br />
In the case of the Mike Jackman situation, a follow-up question could have been, "But as Governor, why did you fail to launch an investigation into how the 9/11 terrorists trained in your home state of Florida? How could you not care?"<br />
It's going to be your moment. It's up to you to control the situation. It will get messy. Be fine with that.<br />
In fact, determine to build it to a climax. Start polite. But you don't want to start polite and <i>stay </i>polite, and end it civilly. This is truth-force, it's non-violence, and non-violence is not passive. Remember Gandhi, beaten with iron rods at the salt march, or Jesus on the cross. That's what non-violence looks like.<b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b>B. React to What is Happening, in the Moment.</b><br />
Learn from the examples above, study how Bush reacts to hard questions: He deflects. He grins when he's not comfortable. He is insulting and diminutive. We don't have to accept that. You need to command respect, with your preparedness and planning and manner.<br />
You are there as a representative of the people, and the people have questions. In fact, asking these questions is the most American thing any one of us can do right now.<br />
Do not accept Jeb Bush's laughter at you, or his sarcasm, jokes at your expense, or insults. Calmly interrupt his laughter, raise your hand like a stop sign, or like someone taking an oath, and state, "A lot of Americans suffered and died on 9/11 and we never got the answers, so I would ask you to show us common decency and some respect, Sir."<br />
It helps to meditate beforehand, and calm the mind. This helps to keep you on your toes, and in the moment. Keep breathing, think about the "spirit of truth" in your breath. Be firm, polite, and completely intransigent. Be a mountain of truth. You can't be brushed away.<br />
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Take a lesson from the great confrontation of Jeb by Ivy Ziedrich, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/13/college-student-to-jeb-bush-your-brother-created-isis/">who confronted Bush about his brother's mis-handing of Iraq</a>. The video went viral and was picked up by CNN and the New York Times. When Bush tried to pat the fiery young college student on her arm, she practically bit his hand, saying, "You don't need to be pedantic to me, Sir." (She probably meant to say "patronizing," since pedantic means scrupulous about details, but hey, maybe I'm being pedantic.) Don't touch the young lady, Jeb, hands off!<br />
<b><br /></b><b>C. Don't Let Him Play to the Mob</b><br />
Notice what Jeb did in both examples above, he turned AWAY from the question, and smirked (just like Dubya Bush) to the crowd. But you can call Jeb out on this. You can say, "Sir, I'm right here." Or, "Please can you look at me, and respectfully answer what I asked of you?"<br />
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<b>D. Be Willing to Get Arrested</b><br />
Like Jesus and Gandhi, we aren't willing to sit down when tapped on the shoulder by security. You aren't there to be a sheep. You are there to be the mountain of truth. You are there because you are peace, and we know that another Bush President means another Bush War. So, in the spirit of non-violence, be willing to get arrested. Have no fear. An arrest will help the cause greatly. The fact that activists have such passion that they are being dragged away from Jeb in hand-cuffs? That will play very well on the nightly news, and it won't make Bush look good. It will bring attention to our cause.<br />
And the 28 Pages issue already has a significant amount of mainstream media and government support. (HR14 has 18 co-sponsors inside the US Congress. It is beginning to get serious mainstream media attention.)<br />
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<b>E. Be Visual </b><br />
What if the 28 Pages Movement began to show up at Bush rallies in New Hampshire, dressed up in the head-dresses and robes and sunglasses of Saudi sheikhs, with signs that said "Saudis For Bush?" or...."Saudis for the 9/11 Cover-Up?"<br />
Visuals are great - cameras love them. They become iconic.<br />
In the 1992 race, Bush wouldn't debate Clinton as much as the Clinton team wanted, so the Clinton campaign started sending a guy in a chicken suit to every Bush appearance. That chicken suit guy became symbolic of the Bush campaign falling apart. Not only did it make for great video, but Bush start to kind of lose it around that time, and started talking to the chicken, in the middle of speeches.<br />
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<b><br /></b><b>F. Be Prepared.</b><br />
When I confronted Eliot Spitzer, about his failure to investigate 9/11, I was shocked at how easy it was. The media were there for his campaign event, but when Spitzer fled the stage, the media actually turned to me, to figure out who I was, and what the issue I had raised was.<br />
In a similar way, when We Are Change Colorado and I confronted Rudy Guiliani, the media were there, looking for a real story. We became that story, and got positive coverage in the Denver Post, Raw Story, etc. The fact that I was in handcuffs talking about the Bill of Rights was an interesting point.<br />
<b><br /></b><b>G. Work with a Team</b><br />
In Colorado, we had such a great team effort. We even prayed and meditated together before the event. We dressed up like Republicans, and spread out inside the campaign event. One of us would pop up and ask Rudy about removing evidence at Ground Zero, after 9/11, and that person would be escorted out by police. But then, another one of us would pop up and ask a loud question. It drove Giuliani mad - and he started laughing out-of-controllably. Weird.<br />
Watch Selma. Great film. King had such a great team. That whole struggle wasn't about one man. It was about people uniting around a spirit of truth.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I write to you now, happy to imagine you will listen to me, a simple carpenter in New York City, taking a break from working in my shop to steal some time upstairs in my little office, clearing away the sawdust to write a letter to you, in the Holy Spirit of justice. First of all, I am so happy that you are alive. You are a gift to the Church, and to history. The Church has been longing for a leader with a flair for social justice, like a lover pines for a long lost love. Your recent encyclical on the environment was gutsy and great. I know you are coming to New York City today to lead an interfaith service at Ground Zero. There is something I wanted you to know about Ground Zero, and the matter is urgent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the spirit of inter-faith understanding, turn your fatherly gaze for a moment onto an ugly truth few will look at: an insidious hoax has been perpetrated on the followers of Islam. Our fellow Children of Abraham have been blamed for the 9/11 attacks, and two wars have been waged on Islamic nations, in the name of the War on Terror. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many advocates of social justice don’t have the spiritual skill to see through this thick illusion: that the case for the guilt of the Islamic “terrorists” was never made, never proven, and can no longer be taken seriously by anyone with penetrating insight, common sense, or high school science. There are just too many anomalies. George W. Bush is guilty of murder and fraud, according to leading authors about his Iraq War. I assert that 9/11 was an even greater fraud. It was the product of a heart drained of love. It was the product of a cynicism so frigid, one could almost call it demonic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the words of Father Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, of the Center for Christian Nonviolence, “According to the laws of physics the three WTC buildings could not have been destroyed, as they were, by a plane flying into two of them.” Steel framed structures have never collapsed before, due to fire. When the 9/11 Commission tried to look into the financial backing of the terrorists, they were stymied, until they finally just gave up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we don’t have to give up. This financial issue of the source of 9/11 is a gateway to a broader understanding between nations, and a big step away from modern war-mongering. The truth about this issue will destabilize the secrecy and fear that rules so many today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here’s something we can all do about it, and the time is now. There were 28 pages blacked out and with-held from the public, by George W. Bush, from the Congressional Joint Inquiry’s 9/11 Report. These pages implicate the Saudis, who have worked closely with the CIA, Israel, and the Bush Family, for years. This issue has gained a wide following in the US Senate and Congress, and has enjoyed major media exposure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A part your challenge today, at Ground Zero, is to go beyond the cheap sentimentalization and knee-jerk hate that the 9/11 memory often brings up in New York City. For far too long, people who have asked deeper questions about 9/11 have been silenced, or ridiculed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we are the people of great hope. We can reclaim the legacy of Jesus, and re-make Christianity, not as a standard-bearer for more war and invasions against oil-rich Muslim nations, but as a springboard into a time of global non-violence. You, my brother Francis, can help us lead into a time of radical Jesus-based non-violence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now there is legislation in the US Congress (HR14) and the Senate (S1471) and we need your prayers, and your positive pressure on President Obama, and your public support. You will help us release the 28 pages? Please Holy Father. We are so close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What would Jesus do? I love how he said, about the Pharisees, “Don’t fear them, for there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.” For 14 years, a lot of us in New York have heard the call to make our work for peace and non-violence linked into a deep digging for the truth about 9/11. The 28 Pages will be released, but we need all the prophets, and all the peace-lovers, and we need a Pope, too, to stand with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the Love and Peace of Jesus Christ,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Happy
New Year 2014. I am writing you this with deep intention. My son and I woke up
this New Year’s Day morning, did yoga and zazen. Now he is sitting down to
write at the kitchen table, and I am in my easy chair next to my meditation
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the year of Vow To Awaken. Two projects of mine have been up in the air, but I
think, over the course of the last couple of months, that there is a way to
focus them, to make them effective, and socially beneficial, by uniting them
both under the banner of Vow To Awaken. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It’s
just a phrase. It’s a little bit out there. It’s a little bit too spiritual for
non-spiritual people. It’s empty now, but it’s open and can be filled with
energy. It is a powerful name. It has become special to me. It’s an imperative.
It’s a suggestion, and a subject. It’s
spiritual, sure, if you want to call it that. It’s also universal. It is
designed for the sleeping, to rouse them. Earlier, in the debate with White
Collar Crime, my band, about how we were going to change our name together, I
suggested “A Word That Will Rouse Them” from the quote from the Book of Isaiah.
“I have been given a well-trained tongue, that I may speak to the weary, a word
that will rouse them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">My zen
practice has been transformative over the course of the last two and a half
years. It helps me to clarify what is essential. My life overall can seem like
an asteroid burning through the friction of the Earth’s atmosphere, crashing in
flames through the air. I do things all the way, and my way is a way of too
much. So I had to get sober, stop smoking herb, drinking Dogfish, although I
loved those things, and couldn’t imagine giving them up on my own. But I found
a universal spiritual practice called the Program, and the love of God flashes
on me every day I open up to it, in the words and eyes of other people. I was
given a path, a word, a chance to wake up. And so I woke up. Or began to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With
Nick and Elysia, I have been talking about starting a new newspaper here in
NYC. The tentative name has been “The New York Transformer” but it’s a name
that has always been a kind of a placeholder for me, good but not great. The
ambitions of this paper are bigger than New York. To speak the truth in a time
of universal deceit, to bring spirituality to the struggle against deception,
to dig out a vision of deep politics, to confront the demonic forces of abuse,
to tell the stories that unite us. Vow
To Awaken. Why not make the name of the paper that name, and unite the band and
newspaper and other projects under one name, making them a new form of social
movement? They will feed each other this way, and both become stronger for
their association with each other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A big
part of the reason the band had to have a positive, strident name, was that I want
a name that will last. Other band names that we debated were too negative. Coy,
ironic and clever, but we have all had an overdose of those things in this
world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I am
about to help Steve Olson Crazy Monk start his music company, and contribute to
it as an artist as well. I have already helped Lo Nathamundi start his
Kaleidoscope Community Yoga corporation, and our weekly phone meetings have
gone very well, this Fall. I was right. What I saw on tour in May was right: I
CAN actually spark people off, turn them into fellow asteroids, comets of fire.
A lot of people are just waiting for the push: start your company, do your
mission. Capital Cooperative Corporation is my baby, my construction and
contracting company, and it’s doing so much more. It’s an incubator for
spiritual, world-changing companies. Vow To Awaken. 2013 was just our entrance
into the world stage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I am
planning a two week conference at the Dai Bosatsu Zendo, in the Catskill
Mountains, for all people of peace, truth, and Awakening. October 3-12 are our
tentative dates. Save those dates!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In 2014,
I want to help Lo from Kaleidoscope do a small East Coast tour in the Spring. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I want
us all to tour again, as The Truth Party, this Summer. What was The Truth
Party? Well, in May 2013, it was just me, Crazy Monk, and Lo Nathamundi out on
the road, in an old Dodge van, doing our thing. Speaking, rapping, doing yoga
with people. And it worked. And it’s going to be bigger and better in 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">No one
summed up that experience better than a certain young spiritual chocolate maker
in sacred Portlandia. Lesley Beth wrote that her favorite memory of The Truth
Party was:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">“The time a small group of us held hands and took an oath that
we would NEVER take some mediocre job we hate….<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;">This is what the Truth Party was about to me. It's that
accountability, that pact, that on the verge of each new moment we are beaming
with trust, wisdom, and courage. In the spirit of Truth, I pray that each of us
continues to find purpose in every moment and action no matter how seemingly
mundane, and that we continue to breath in and out that spark of inspiration as
it echoes into the grand macrocosm, interlinking us all, like a playful pose of
Kaleidoscope yoga!</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Vow
To Awaken.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sander
Hicks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">East
10<sup>th</sup> Street<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">New
York, NY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="mailto:sanderhicksdotcom@gmail.com">sanderhicksdotcom@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b><b>New
Newspaper about Peace and Truth </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are starting a full color, high impact, socially
empowering, spiritually curious, aggressively wonderful newspaper, social network, and website. We
are about peace, truth, non-violence, social transformation, and personal
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between ideologies. We free minds. It’s time to create a whole new reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people to sell ads, people with a deep commitment to social change. We are
pro-freedom and pro-truth. We are pro-entrepreneurship, without being in favor
of corporate capitalism, imperialism, and war. We are against domestic surveillance. We lean towards a new politics: committed to
democracy, and deep freedom. We are skeptical of power, influenced by anarchism, civil libertarianism, but also interested in class consciousness. We are seeking to build a
coalition of independent third parties. We aim to unite people around the
simple ideals- peace, truth, freedom- these ideals forge the future. Some of us were involved Occupy Wall Street,
and want to take that urge to a whole new level of breakthrough. Occupy showed us that the masses are on our side. The new Bitcoin currency shows that free market mechanisms can support something disruptive that bypasses the economic status quo. It’s
time for our society to experience some empowering, non-dogmatic, universal spiritual and
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-4292a67e-b651-b93f-3ab7-4141518737a9"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roger Ver, a charismatic Bitcoin investor known informally as “Bitcoin Jesus” recently told the LeWeb 2013 conference, “One of the things governments around the world do currently is they finance their wars and the things that they do through inflation. The just print money for whatever it is that they want to spend it on. If the world were using Bitcoin that would no longer be a possibility. If you’re opposed to governments inflating money to pay for wars around the world, Bitcoin should be something you’re interested in.”</span></b></blockquote>
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gets going, it will walk its talk: We will share the profits of each issue
among the writers, artists, editors, designers, and ad sales people who help
build the momentum. We will use worker democracy and consensus, as much as
possible. We will also give due respect to the intense energy of individual
artistic vision. We will be pragmatic and seek to get out one paper a month,
for the first year, and grow it from there. As the newspaper grows in value,
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’m Sander Hicks, an activist small business owner,
independent publisher and licensed NYC contractor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I know that advertising can help your small
business. To get new customers, you need a chance to contact 50,000 people at
once. We are here to help.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I used to run the Vox Pop Café in Brooklyn. I
worked with my own local newspaper, New York Megaphone, and put a lot of little
ads, in each issue of the paper. We offered coupons and discounts. We did it in
every issue, and the Megaphone printed a ton of papers.<i> It worked. </i>Our
revenue went up 45% in a year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At The Matrix, we will work with our readers, our
social networks, our email lists, our communities. We will do live events and
have our advertisers meet our readers. We want long-term relationships with
people, our coworkers, and our advertisers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As Publisher of <i>The
Matrix</i>, I will do everything I can to help your business. You support our
paper, and we will use everything we can to help you win new customers. We have 3,000 friends on facebook. We are a
social network.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This
is a great opportunity for those who embrace what we stand for, and share our
vision. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s build this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sander Hicks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publisher</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:elysiamccolley@gmail.com">sanderhicksdotcom@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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