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U.S. NEWS: FBI warns extremist letters may encourage violence
Source: AP

A federal intelligence note is warning police that an anti-government group's call to remove dozens of sitting governors may encourage others to act out violently.

A group that calls itself the Guardians of the free Republics has a plan to "restore America" by peacefully dismantling parts of the government, according to its Web site.

As of Wednesday, more than 30 governors had received letters demanding they leave office within three days or they will be removed, according to an internal intelligence note by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, which was obtained by The Associated Press.

Investigators do not see threats of violence in the group's message, but fear the broad call for removing top state officials could inspire others to act out violently.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's office confirmed the governor had received a letter and directed all further questions to the Louisiana State Police.

Lt. Doug Cain, a state police spokesman, said the letter from the Guardians of the free Republics arrived at the governor's office and the state police were called.

"They called us as they do for any letter that's out of the norm," Cain said.

He declined to provide specifics about the letter, but said, "I can't say if it was threatening, but I can say that not knowing the group and the information contained in the letter warranted state police to review it." Cain said the letter has gone to numerous governors across the country.

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Let's take a closer look at this story.  

Why would an anti-GOV'T  group target multiple STATE  governors who have next-to-nothing to do with establishing federal policy?  Totally illogical and therefore, a false threat, a stinky rat, a rotten fish.

The terrorist "chatter" from the gov't and it's co-conspirator media is reaching a crescendo.  April is the favored month for spectacular "domestic terror" attacks.  (This morning there was a 2-hour 'program' - and I use that term literally - on the E! TV channel.  It was titled "Going Postal:  15 Most Shocking Acts of Violence".  If you happen to watch it, note the dates...Columbine, OK City, etc.)

They will always hide their intentions in plain sight.  It's up to us to see them.  Be vigilant.

Source:  http://www.ecoenquirer.com/south-pole-tragedy.htm

Global Warming Activist, Journalist, Perish in Antarctica

(Punta Arenas, Chile) Famed global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist friend were both found frozen to death on Saturday, about 90 miles from South Pole Station, by the pilot of a ski plane practicing emergency evacuation procedures.

"I couldn't believe what I was seeing", recounted the pilot, Jimmy Dolittle. "There were two snowmobiles with cargo sleds, a tent, and a bright orange rope that had been laid out on the ice, forming the words, 'HELP-COLD'".

One friend of Prof. Schneider told ecoEnquirer that he had been planning a trip to an ice sheet to film the devastation brought on by global warming. His wife, Linda, said that she had heard him discussing the trip with his environmental activist friends, but she assumed that he was talking about the Greenland ice sheet, a much smaller ice sheet than Antarctica.

"He kept talking about when they 'get down to chili', and I thought they were talking about the order in which they would consume their food supplies", Mrs. Schneider recounted. "I had no idea they were talking about Chile, the country from which you usually fly or sail inorder to reach Antarctica".

Apparently, while all of Prof. Schneider's friends were assuming that the July trek would be to Greenland, during Northern Hemisphere summer, his plans were actually to snowmobile to the South Pole - which, in July, is in the dead of winter.

Mr. Dolittle related how some people do not realize that, even if there has been warming in Antarctica, the average temperature at the SouthPole in July still runs about 70 degrees F below zero. "Some people think that July is warm everywhere on Earth."

"And I was surprised to see how close they got to South Pole Station.  They ran through all of their gas supplies for the snowmobiles",explained Doolittle. "They had cold weather gear and clothes, but during this time of year you just don't go outside unless it is an emergency."

"At least James died for something he believed in", said Mrs. Schneider. "He died while trying to raise awareness of the enormous toll that global warming is taking on the Earth."

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This is the height of irony.  It's also a good example of cognitive dissonance.  Notice how his wife justifies his idiocy.  It's hard to understand how someone could be planning a trip like this and have such a MAJOR miscommunication about it with virtually all of his friends and family.  (Chile the country, not the spicy stuff with beans.)  Are they all suffering from the same dementia?

From wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance ):

Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideasmotivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, or by justifying or rationalizing them. simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a ^[2] It is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology.

Dissonance occurs when a person perceives a logical inconsistency in his beliefs, when one idea implies the opposite of another. The dissonance might be experienced as guilt, anger, frustration, or embarrassment. The idea of "sour grapes"—from the fable The Fox and the Grapes by Aesop(ca. 620-564 BCE), where the fox decides that the grapes he is unable to reach are probably not ripe enough to eat anyway—illustrates an example of cognitive dissonance: desiring something, then criticizing it because it proves unattainable, a phenomenon that Jon Elster calls "adaptive preference formation."^[1]

A powerful cause of dissonance is an idea in conflict with a fundamental element of the self-concept,such as "I am a good person" or "I made the right decision". The anxiety that comes with the possibility of having made a bad decision can lead to rationalization, the tendency to create additional reasons or justifications to support one's choices.   A person who just spent too much money on a new car might decide that the new vehicle is much less likely to break down than his or her old car. This belief may or may not be true, but it would reduce dissonance and make the person feel better. Dissonance can also lead to confirmation bias, the denial of disconfirming evidence, and other ego defense mechanisms. [emphasis is mine]

FBI Agent Discovered at Center of Alleged Hutaree Conspiracy

Link:  http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=29732

The govt. sponsored terrorism continues.  This is nothing new to those in the know...in fact it's standard operating procedure.  But what I'd like to point out is the "time ryhme" preceding the OK City bombing.  Shortly before the Murrah Building bombing, a christian militia group named Elohim City was exposed.  Timothy McVeigh supposedly had ties to the group.  It was later determined during court proceedings that the founder and leader of the group was an FBI informant.  The OK City bombing happened shortly after the Elohim City exposure.  It took place on April 20 on a day known as Patriots' Day.  (The actual day that Patriots' Day falls on changes every year.  It might be 4/19 this year.)

Watch out for a govt. terrorist attack this month, most likely aimed at one of their own institutions.  We already know who it will be blamed on....the usual suspects.

This video is very profound.  It's a ten-minute shortcut to enlightenment.

If you want to see some really cool close-up sun videos check out this site:

http://thesuninmotion.com

Use scroll bars to see full images.  You'll find yourself mesmerized watching it.

For daily sun weather check out spaceweather.com

Most people are not even aware that a third building, WTC #7, collapsed on 9/11 at 5:20 in the afternoon.  The NIST investigation atributed it to plane wreckage landing on building, a diesel tank explosion and fires.

From the recently released 9/11 photographic and video files, a new angle of WTC 7 demolition clearly shows demolition squibs (smoke from detonation charges) running the entire length of the building just before collapsing.  The video also includes Silverstein's own admission of demolition,   "...the decision was made to 'pull it'.  So they pulled it."

At any rate, we can rule out fire, a diesel tank explosion, or plane parts as being responsible for collapsing # 7.  The visual evidence, scientific evidence and Silverstein's own words are irrefutable.

We need a proper investigation into the collapse of this buiding.  The 9/11 Commission did not even mention it in it's final report.  The ENRON files and other on-going SEC investigation files were lost in that building when it collapsed was demolished.  Possible motive?

 

Remember 'The World's Only Reliable Newspaper'?

Looking back, the Weekly World News was 'the World's only Reliable Newspaper.'  All others disguise their fiction.  With WWN you knew you were reading fiction and at least you got a laugh out of it.  Children should be encouraged to read this Weekly World News archive before they tackle the mainstream sources.  This will prepare them for the difficult task of distinguishing fact from fiction in today's news media and will also allow them to develop a sense of humor regarding the news industry.  In turn, they will be less likely to pee in their pants when they find out that everyone, including them  is a terrorist, or punch a hole in the wall over bailouts to financial criminals.  

Here's a study example for your children:  Make them read the 'Elvis IS Alive' exclusive interview in the Weekly World News.  Then get a copy of the New York Times and point out the story 'Osama bin Laden - New Video Surfaces'.  Explain to your child the similarities in the two stories and that both perpetuate the myth of a dead man still being alive.  Once your child understands that all news is fiction, then he's ready to graduate to more challenging sources such as fair and balanced FOX News, CNN or MSNBC.

Eyewitness interviews indicate there is no doubt that at least one massive explosion occurred in the basement of WTC 1 just a moment before jet impact.  What is curious is that the two events were nearly simultaneous.  (Bomb remotely detonated by a spotter?)

The official NIST report ruled out explosives.  The 9/11 Commission report makes no mention of these eyewitness accounts.

 

The planet is rocking and rolling.  Here is a list of earthquakes in the world during the last 12 hours.  Notice almost all of them are over 4.5.  This seems unusual for the frequency and magnitude.  But most of them are in the Chile region so it's not a widespread increase.

Update time = Sun Feb 28 12:36:47 UTC 2010

 

	MAG	UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s	LAT deg	LON deg	DEPTH km	Region
MAP	5.2	2010/02/28 12:18:59	-38.129	-73.341	26.5	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	5.1	2010/02/28 12:13:27	2.146	98.906	51.3	NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
MAP	5.0	2010/02/28 12:01:15	-35.809	-72.786	35.0	OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP	5.2	2010/02/28 11:50:36	-35.067	-72.730	20.0	OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP	6.1	2010/02/28 11:25:34	-34.906	-71.731	35.0	MAULE, CHILE
MAP	5.0	2010/02/28 11:14:27	-35.324	-72.655	35.0	OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP	5.1	2010/02/28 10:43:11	-38.408	-75.219	35.0	OFF THE COAST OF ARAUCANIA, CHILE
MAP	4.6	2010/02/28 10:32:24	26.587	128.296	35.4	RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP	5.3	2010/02/28 10:26:53	-1.110	-80.310	40.8	NEAR THE COAST OF ECUADOR
MAP	5.0	2010/02/28 10:11:07	-33.910	-72.030	35.0	OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP	5.2	2010/02/28 09:14:54	-33.593	-71.765	35.0	OFFSHORE VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP	4.9	2010/02/28 09:01:23	-38.482	-73.328	35.0	ARAUCANIA, CHILE
MAP	4.7	2010/02/28 08:47:19	-34.605	-73.732	35.0	OFF COAST OF LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP	5.6	2010/02/28 08:17:45	34.867	141.444	10.0	OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP	4.9	2010/02/28 08:15:06	-33.585	-68.363	24.7	MENDOZA, ARGENTINA
MAP	5.0	2010/02/28 08:07:46	-35.182	-72.517	35.0	OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP	5.0	2010/02/28 07:36:30	-37.763	-73.141	35.0	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	5.1	2010/02/28 07:14:21	-38.345	-73.514	35.0	OFFSHORE ARAUCANIA, CHILE
MAP	3.1	2010/02/28 06:56:28	36.061	-117.889	2.3	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.6	2010/02/28 06:54:05	25.912	128.506	12.8	RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP	3.4	2010/02/28 06:30:17	36.058	-117.880	4.8	CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP	4.9	2010/02/28 06:22:58	-38.002	-73.050	35.0	ARAUCANIA, CHILE
MAP	5.3	2010/02/28 05:19:35	-37.705	-73.412	35.0	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	5.3	2010/02/28 05:13:59	-37.458	-73.014	35.0	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	5.0	2010/02/28 05:04:06	-35.232	-71.214	35.0	MAULE, CHILE
MAP	5.3	2010/02/28 04:55:49	-33.925	-71.945	35.0	OFFSHORE LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP	5.0	2010/02/28 04:29:12	-34.905	-69.631	35.0	MENDOZA, ARGENTINA
MAP	5.0	2010/02/28 04:17:52	-34.723	-72.183	35.0	OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP	4.6	2010/02/28 04:12:52	-34.826	-72.949	35.0	OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP	4.9	2010/02/28 04:04:51	-33.742	-73.092	35.0	OFF THE COAST OF VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP	4.9	2010/02/28 03:58:58	-7.356	128.803	126.7	KEPULAUAN BARAT DAYA, INDONESIA
MAP	3.8	2010/02/28 03:51:25	45.726	-74.456	7.0	ONTARIO-QUEBEC BORDER REGION, CANADA
MAP	4.7	2010/02/28 03:34:05	48.878	153.727	124.8	KURIL ISLANDS
MAP	5.2	2010/02/28 03:33:50	25.952	128.385	35.0	RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP	5.2	2010/02/28 03:23:49	-37.681	-73.533	35.0	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	4.8	2010/02/28 03:20:15	-33.062	-74.055	35.0	OFF THE COAST OF VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP	5.1	2010/02/28 03:14:12	-33.959	-73.195	35.0	OFF THE COAST OF VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP	4.9	2010/02/28 03:13:40	-35.209	-72.746	35.0	OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP	2.8	2010/02/28 03:10:27	40.064	-121.519	0.0	NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP	5.1	2010/02/28 02:51:47	25.994	128.394	35.0	RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP	5.1	2010/02/28 02:41:10	-38.054	-73.213	35.0	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	5.4	2010/02/28 02:38:32	-38.270	-73.633	35.0	OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	4.5	2010/02/28 02:22:52	34.180	25.341	44.8	CRETE, GREECE
MAP	4.8	2010/02/28 02:13:14	-32.996	-72.798	35.0	OFFSHORE VALPARAISO, CHILE
MAP	5.0	2010/02/28 02:04:29	-34.610	-73.532	35.0	OFF COAST OF LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP	5.2	2010/02/28 01:58:50	-34.876	-72.646	35.0	OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE
MAP	5.2	2010/02/28 01:45:29	-34.436	-73.728	35.0	OFF COAST OF LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP	5.3	2010/02/28 01:33:12	-36.600	-72.771	35.0	BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	4.8	2010/02/28 01:24:43	-34.726	-73.401	35.0	OFF COAST OF LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP	5.3	2010/02/28 01:20:35	25.973	128.353	35.0	RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
MAP	5.5	2010/02/28 01:08:24	-34.113	-71.947	35.0	LIBERTADOR O'HIGGINS, CHILE
MAP	5.3	2010/02/28 01:01:12	-36.791	-73.352	35.0	OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	5.1	2010/02/28 00:53:34	-37.949	-73.659	35.0	OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE
MAP	5.3	2010/02/28 00:00:49	-36.573	-73.279	35.0	OFFSHORE BIO-BIO, CHILE

source:  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php

Source:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20100219/pl_usnw/DC57612_1

[Bold highlighting is mine.]

1000 Architects and Engineers Call For New 9/11 investigation

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Richard Gage, AIA, architect and founder of the non-profit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Inc. (AE911Truth), will announce a decisive milestone today at a press conference in San Francisco, as more than 1,000 worldwide architects and engineers now support the call for a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. After careful examination of the official explanation, along with the forensic data omitted from official reports, these professionals have concluded that a new independent investigation into these mysterious collapses is needed.

Mr. Gage will deliver the news around this major development, accompanied by signers of the Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth petition. The press conference will be held concurrently in 38 cities in 6 countries. http://www.ae911truth.org

These prominent architectural and engineering professionals will discuss the organization's findings and concerns. A brief presentation of the explosive evidence they have compiled will be followed by Q & A. The presentation is an important update of "9/11: Blueprint for Truth – The Architecture of Destruction," the DVD produced by the organization, and available on their website AE911Truth.org, which analyzes  the scientific forensic evidence concluding that the three skyscrapers in New York City were demolished with explosives on 9/11.  The petition will be delivered today to every congressional representative by AE911Truth petition signers throughout the country.  Government officials will be notified that "Misprision of Treason", US Code 18 (Sec. 2382), is a serious federal offense which requires those with evidence of treason to act.  

Gage and his group base their conclusions on forensic evidence. Gage states, "The official FEMA and NIST reports provide insufficient, contradictory, and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the towers' destruction.  We are therefore calling for a grand jury investigation of NIST officials.  Gage points out the destruction of the third high-rise, World Trade Center 7, a 47-story skyscraper which was not hit by an aircraft, yet came down in pure free-fall acceleration for more than 100 feet, a significant fact that NIST has been forced to admit, due to research conducted by AE911Truth petition signers. Other disturbing facts emerging from the forensic evidence include:

    * Complete destruction of both Twin Towers in just 10 to 14 seconds at near free-fall acceleration  
    * Over 100 first-responder reports of explosions and flashes at onset of destruction
    * Multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally 600 ft at 60 mph
    * Mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete & metal decking
    * 1200-foot-dia. debris field: no "pancaked" floors seen in the debris pile
    * Several tons of molten metal found in debris.  
    * Evidence of advanced explosive nano-thermitic composite material found in the WTC dust by an international team of scientists


AE911Truth's conclusions are shared by thousands of scientists; senior-level military, intelligence and government officials; pilots and aviation professionals; firefighters; scholars and university professors; and 9/11 survivors and their family members.  The implications are enormous and may have profound impact on the forthcoming Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial.  [Note: The real reason they don't want a criminal trial in New York is because this evidence could be brought to trial.  -R.G.]

The 9/11 Truth Movement, which Time magazine in 2006 called "a mainstream political reality," continues to gain momentum.   As AE911Truth's own influence grows, Gage has embarked on well over 130 speaking events, covering 20 states and 13 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. He has been interviewed by media around the world – including the BBC, CBC, NatGeo, and Fox TV.  

SOURCE Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Inc.

This is for the benefit of our southern neighbors in dealing with the recent heavy snowfalls.

After shoveling your parking spot in the street, place one or more household furnishings in the empty spot to claim it as your own.  Two or three dining room chairs is a common technique, but tables, strollers and lawn furniture are often used as well.

Notice in the photo below how the shoveler has strategically placed his items so that they take up the entire space and are visible to any would-be parallel parkers.  Yet they are lightweight enough to quickly cast aside when he's ready to park there.

 

 

Joe McGursky, the self-professed originator of the idea, has lived in Chicago all of his 85 years.  When asked how he came up with the idea, Joe explained, "Back in '32 we had a real bad storm, maybe 18 inches or so, and it was blowin' real bad.  My father kept shoveling different parking spaces but every time he left, the lazy neighbors would run out and real quick-like, they'd sneak their car in there.  He got real mad and started yellin' and cussin'.   Well, he went out and shoveled another space and when he was done, he came back in and picked me up and the dining room chair I was sittin' on and he marched me right over and set me down in the parking spot and told me to sit there while he was gone to Kelly's Pub.  Well I got cold after an hour or so so I went inside.  I kept watchin' out the window and cars kept driving by, but they wouldn't park there.  After a while it caught on and everyone started doin' it. 

"My Ma got real mad 'cuz her dining room chairs were getting ruined.  Daddy took me to a flea market and we bought three dining room chairs.  That started a new thing too.  That's why flea markets around here only have one or two chairs to match the table!"

Joe's neighbor, Anna Pellegrino, has a different technique.  "Strollers...they work the best.  Nobody wants to hit a baby."

What both agree on is that if you shovel it, you own it.

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Do they want to create jobs or not?  The Patriot Act is unconstitutional and has NOTHING to do with creating jobs.  EVERY senator should vote against this bill. 

http://www.roguegovernment.com/Senate_Jobs_Bill_Contains_Patriot_Act_Extension_/19464/0/17/17/Y/M.html

A worker uses a snowblower on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

Image: Snowstorm in Washington, D.C.
Michael Reynolds / EPA

Retaliation for budget cuts at HAARP??  ;-)

Mike Adams from NaturalNews.com has an article about a very promising study that showed that Vitamin D could be the magic bullet in the treatment and prevention of breast cancer.

http://www.naturalnews.com/028119_vitamin_D_brst_cancer.html

 "We failed to connect the dots"

Here's the real story.  Maybe we can connect the dots for them.

Excellent article with lots of hyperlinks for reference.  (Bear in mind Ron Paul's recent not-so-subtle statement about the CIA.)

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/02/us-counterterrorism-officials-insisted.html