tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151690512024-03-13T03:46:40.061-04:00HOW the NeoCons Stole Freedom......................................................................................................And How To Take It Back......................................................................................................Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-61072934303334503982020-09-01T16:46:00.001-04:002020-09-01T16:47:03.236-04:00Cancel John Fund<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceqMmmlgkjBW9kmT1cBmt14Y8zoTtJneD9AI56K6_zznSNI4bJ-rw7ivzcGMZbMXQzYjU__a5jDu31bfLJzvHiuMSeUq0KjK7lfMGiBsmHUHNwAqR9KnJgYu5D7m9jDAt93SC/s1018/download+%25281%2529.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceqMmmlgkjBW9kmT1cBmt14Y8zoTtJneD9AI56K6_zznSNI4bJ-rw7ivzcGMZbMXQzYjU__a5jDu31bfLJzvHiuMSeUq0KjK7lfMGiBsmHUHNwAqR9KnJgYu5D7m9jDAt93SC/s640/download+%25281%2529.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Since the LOC does not list the photographer I can assume Arthur C. Pillsbury took the photo.</span><p></p><p>by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John Fund never disappoints me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this instance he states that the <i>National
Park Service</i> was founded “Last week,” meaning in 1920.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the founding date was August 26,
1916.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fund then defends John Muir, an
action with which I agree as I was aware after dodging service in the Civil War
in Canada, he eventually discovered First Nations people were like everyone
else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Certainly, Muir would have objected to burning out the Miwuk,
the First Nation people of Yosemite, in 1869, much less when the <i>National
Park Service</i> burned out the last Miwuk living there, Jay Johnson, in 1969. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>Sierra Club</i> said nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I interviewed Johnson at his home in 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is what he said, and he was there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The National Park Service also continues to stall on the
decision the Miwuk be allowed to have land for their use in Yosemite
Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last time, the NPS demand was
that the Miwuk conform with building codes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How do you do that when the whole point is recreating their living
heritage?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I follow these amazing
idiocies on our newsletter, IMAGE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Was Muir appropriate on all issues?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No. But he would have gotten that one
right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This raised the question of how
we identify those who should be reassessed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We need to add the <i>National Park Service</i> as well as the
psychopath who founded the government agency, Stephen T. Mather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mather represents a fond ideal for elites as
he never earned an honest dollar in his life and managed, with much assistance,
a century long cover-up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mather was the
consummate self-dealer, first in the <a href="https://acpillsburyfoundation.com/mather">private sector</a> then moving
up to Federal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you imagine the Sierra
Club was unaware of the facts?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
credible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Did the National Park Service object to the taking of the
Hetch Hetchy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A read of the books
written by former rangers reveals much disenchantment, and to this we must add
a dialog on how to allow people to apply proven approaches to preserving the
environment while making our wild places visible to millions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you think government should be
involved?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I vote NO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Note there was no objection voiced by the <i>Sierra Club</i>
in 1969, either; Muir died in 1914. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fund’s article was, as usual, filled with evasions and quotes
from others since he really knows little about anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His career in journalism came via hiring to
limit and manicure what we think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
was noted during his internship at Evans and Novak in 1983.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They decided he was perfect for the <i>Wall
Street Journal</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The assertion Muir, an outspoken Preservationist, ‘founded’
the <i>Sierra Club</i> is a fiction marketed by the people who carefully hide
behind the scenes, an early chapter on how the Elites manage what we know. It
was their families who were responsible for incorporating the <i>Sierra Club</i>
in 1892.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.acpillsburyfoundation.com/sierra-club-charter-members-1892"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Charter
Members</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, it was never
intended to be a club for hiking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
those early High Trips were an extension of the High Life those people have
grown accustomed to after raping the environment in California to extract their
fortunes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Muir was a Preservationist; most of the founding members of
the Sierra Club were Conservationists. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These same people, today, are the elitists who buy NeoCons
like John Fund.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">The
Sierra Club persuaded Muir to become the President but he occupied the office;
others controlled the operations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
organization was started to ensure real estate interests and the emerging
elites, descended from people Muir despised, mentioned in the Fund article as<i>,
“</i></span><i><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The white population, the people who were invading — the
frontier types, the miners — he thought they were uncouth, savage, brutal,
dirty, given over to alcohol. His (Muir’s) writings are full of those
descriptions.”</span></i><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This characterization was mostly
accurate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But those being described,
most of them white, are the progenitors of the elite’s of San Francisco
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pelosi, Brown, Getty and Newsom
are just four of their descendants. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Where did you imagine the ‘elites’
came from?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They learned their ethics and
humanity from their parents, who had thoroughly demonstrated their values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It is not the ordinary white
population who came up with the idea of enticing Muir to head up the <i>Sierra
Club</i>, an earlier generation of the uncouth named handled that; their
motivation was to either shut Muir up, or, get him to support obtaining the
Hetch Hetchy Valley as a water supply for San Francisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Failing that, they needed to control him
while this was handled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When the time came, and they knew it
would, Muir needed to trust them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
worked perfectly, they had been glamping together for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The short story goes like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
takes place on April 18, 1906.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to
the incompetence of these same elites, the first disaster gains in magnitude
because no thought has been expended on preparing for any disaster at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dumb idea of using dynamite to blow up
buildings, spreading the fire is carried out with elite hires in charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">To date, no one knows how many people
died of the earthquake, an act of nature; and how many died of elite
incompetence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The first thought in the minds of the
elites was not relief for those left without food or housing, but, <i>“Hey!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we’ll have the political clout to get the
Hetch Hetchy!”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Muir had previously resisted the
attempts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford_Pinchot">Gifford
Pinchot</a>, the first </span><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">head of the Division
of Forestry, appointed by President William McKinley, in 1898</span>,<span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">to
persuade him to the position of Conservationist, meaning, <i>“we keep it until
we want to use it, and sooner rather than later.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muir would always be a Preservationist,
meaning, <i>“We leave it as God made it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Look and leave.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are
longer definitions but those will do for now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pinchot’s family was in the lumber
business. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Note that the <i>Sierra Club</i>
began describing Muir as a ‘Conservationist’ as soon as he was safely dead in
December 1914, and the campaign to grab Hetch Hetchy barely waited until the
fires had burned down in San Francisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Muir was galvanized into action. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He lectured, wrote letters, argued, and did
all in his power to stop the theft of Hetch Hetchy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But the elites were ready; the <i>Sierra
Club</i> had been founded for this moment in time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Muir spoke to true believers, the public,
and small groups across the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
man talking, no major media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the
decision hinged on the coming election for President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Woodrow Wilson had promised to give San
Francisco the Hetch Hetchy – if he won.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The elites of California delivered
the state for Wilson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My grandfather, Arthur C. Pillsbury,
was a Preservationist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He first met Muir
on board the Harrison Expedition in port in late 1899 and took a photo of Muir.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was published the next year, credit
to Pillsbury, in <i><a href="https://acpillsburyfoundation.com/camera-craft-aug-1900">Camera Craft</a></i>,
a journal on photography launched in early 1900. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The two shared a passion for Yosemite
and for the flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1909 Pillsbury
went into rapid action mode and made the first nature movie; he began showing
it to groups in Yosemite by 1910.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pillsbury offered to make copies for Muir to use with his lectures to
bring in larger audiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But movies
were not yet respectable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William Colby,
executive director for the Sierra Club and Muir’s ‘assistant’, thought it
unwise to use movies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was also unenthusiastic
about having Pillsbury’s photos used in Muir’s upcoming book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muir held firm on this, however. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pillsbury’s photos were used for, <i>“The
Yosemite.” </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A wonderful gift had been arranged
for Muir; in honor of the insights and inspiration he had provided.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An anonymous benefactor had arranged a trip
for Muir; it was like a dream come true for John Muir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Benefactor, who insisted on remaining
anonymous, had planned a trip for him first to South America for a journey up
the Amazon, and then on to Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
were places he had wanted to see all his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And if that did not kill him, well it would be too late to stop
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muir was right that the <i>Sierra
Club</i> had all well in hand, but he was wrong about their plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The elites were salivating over the
idea of municipal water and private electric power galore and the money that
would flow into their coffers from taxes, power, and water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all it took was destroying the Hetch
Hetchy Valley, the other Yosemite within the National Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Muir took ship in Brooklyn, NY </span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Leaving in August 1911, effectively cutting off all
communications on what was happening at home in America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Muir stepped off the ship on </span><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">March
27, 1912, he learned the Hetch Hetchy had been lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Muir died in a Los Angeles hospital
on December 24, 1914, his heart broken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Muir’s memoirs of his trip would not
be published for decades, and <i>The Yosemite</i> would not be republished for
a half century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when it was, the
Pillsbury photos were not included.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pillsbury had demonstrated the power
of film and the elites had experienced the impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a problem they knew they would have to
eliminate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The effectiveness of film was proved
by Pillsbury in 1912 when he showed his newly invented and filmed <a href="http://www.acpillsburyfoundation.org/1912---Lapse-Time-Camera.html">lapse-time
film</a> of wildflowers. From seed to death, the gathered Superintendents of
all the National Parks viewed this at their annual conference, that year held
in October.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They immediately voted to
stop mowing the meadows for fodder for their horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing the film persuaded them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The <a href="https://acpillsburyfoundation.com/1915-national-press-club">National
Press Club</a> viewed one of Pillsbury’s films in October of 1915. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">By 1919 <i>Pillsbury Picture Company</i>
nature films had been licensed for global distribution by Pathé, Universal and
Paramount.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Motion pictures had proved
their power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1926 he was asked to
make a presentation to then <a href="http://www.acpillsburyfoundation.org/1926---President-Coolidge---ACP.html">President
Calvin Coolidge</a> and 70 of his closest friends at the Willard Hotel banquet
room. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But this article is not about dumping
icons; it is about being more discerning about which icons should be dumped,
and why.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Today we are divided Left and Right
but the squirrely things we are encouraged to argue about are intended to keep
us busy fighting each other and ignoring the elites who continue to reduce us further
into absolute serfdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Therefore, you need to take a hard
look at what you think you know and revise your assessments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fund’s article artfully evaded the real
issue, and that is what you should remember.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fund always injects more issues to divide; never mentioning the truths
which bring us together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is his
job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always note the difference between
what people and ‘organizations’ say – and what they do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It matters. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-15652353606025434772019-01-24T16:09:00.002-05:002019-02-06T17:22:27.586-05:00January 16, 2019 - Commenting on John Fund's brain-light opinings <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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John Fund: An<i> 'informed patriotism?</i>'</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Beware of John Fund, Disinformation Minion for the likes of Dick Cheney. See </span><a href="http://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">NeoCons</span></b></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Is is his usual sappy habit John Fund uses </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">someone else's</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> words without injecting any thoughts of his own (Likely because he has never had any). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ronnie was, without doubt, one of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. But as governor of California he took up further toward the unholy alliance of government and corporations, central control of everything, than anyone on the Left could have hoped for. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I quote myself, </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From <a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com/2007/07/ronald-reagan-ugly-truth.html">Ronald Reagan, an Ugly Truth</a> - <i>"</i></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><i>United Republicans of California ("UROC") was founded on April 22, 1963, by then State Senator Joe Shell (see footnote) and Assemblyman Bruce Reagan to promote the candidacy of Senator Barry Goldwater for President of the United States. Many Republicans were disgusted with the corporate agenda adopted by the Rockefeller, big-money brokers who had controlled the Republican Party for so long. UROC's agenda was a real grass-roots campaign that took the ideas of Barry Goldwater directly into the homes and minds of Americans.</i></span><br />
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<i>The method they adopted was shoe-leather activism. In San Marino alone, 15 groups of UROC members committed to going door to door for a registration drive that changed the make-up of the Republican Party. They went armed with Goldwater literature, two books: "None Dare Call It Conspiracy" by John Stormer and "A Choice Not An Echo" by Phyllis Schafly, and were prepared to talk about ideas. By this means, something like 2 million copies of “None Dare Call It Treason" were sold or given away by Goldwater activists.</i></div>
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<i>UROC did not spend piles of money to enact change. Their activism, however, successfully changed the demographics of the Republican Party, awakening Americans to the ideas Americans had hungered for and encountered through several difference sources.</i></div>
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<i>One of these sources,“Conscience of a Conservative,” by Barry Goldwater, was published in 1960. At that time, the then-rapidly-growing freedom – conservative movement was also fired with enthusiasm for the works of Ayn Rand and science-fiction master Robert Heinlein as well as the works of Rose Wilder Lane and Isabel Patterson.</i></div>
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<i>Other organizations, such as the LA-based Foundation for Economic Education, established in 1946 by Leonard E. Read, and the John Birch Society, founded by "Taft Republican" Robert Welch in1958, promoted the benefits of free-markets and less government. These organizations continue to promote the same ideas today based on the foundations of freedom outlined in America's Founding documents.</i></div>
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<i>Those ideas found fertile ground in the 60s, evoking a shift that continues today." </i><a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com/2007/07/ronald-reagan-ugly-truth.html">MORE</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Now, about patriotism and our founding documents, posted on the <a href="https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2019/01/24/Students-need-to-learn-civic-engagement-and-activism/stories/201901220109">Pittsburgh Post Gazette</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">It is absolutely true students and the public need to understand civil discourse and the founding documents which laid our our rights as individuals, members of proactive communities. Today our understanding of 'Patriotism' cedes our power to the State, just as the Bellamys intended. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Unfortunately, it has been a long time since public schools taught directly from those documents, the Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation (1781), The Constitution, The Federalist Papers, the Anti-Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights. When we understand we are, ourselves, the government, then we also accept our responsibility to act when we see the principles of individual rights violated. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Protest is just one of these obligations. Americans' conception of these began to change when Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892 and with his cousin, Edward Bellamy, began their campaign to move to National Socialism in the U.S. This launched the government takeover of education intended to produce an "industrial army" for the authoritarian vision portrayed in his cousin Edward Bellamy's book "Looking Backward." </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">The Bellamy cousins promoted National Socialism worldwide for decades. Their plans resulted in racist and segregated government schools that lasted into the 1960's. Studying the founding documents grounds us in individual rights and an economic system which was still largely based on the a Percentage as you earn approach to long term purchases. This made foreclosure on homes extremely rare and brought communities together in hard times.</span></span></span></div>
Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-92078652076853993932019-01-18T13:34:00.001-05:002019-02-06T17:22:57.071-05:00One Day in the Love Life of a Disinformation Minion January 13, 2002 – John Fund<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Fund's relationship with Morgan began <a href="http://morganpillsburygell.com/">October 26, 1998</a> in a hotel room in NY. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Fund impregnated Morgan during a trip with Fund to New Orleans in January 1999. <a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/morgan-record-of-abortion.html">Abortion Record Procedure</a> March 29, 1999. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> On the Tape, made by Morgan to convince Melinda she was not lying Fund admits to impregnating Morgan, not helping her, and to other lies he told. </span><a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Sex--Lies-and-the-Tape-.html" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tape and Transcript</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Fund lived with Morgan in the apartment in NY in the Rivergate on 34th Street Melinda had rented. Fund had assured Melinda in January of 2000 he intended marriage. Melinda closed the apartment in January of 2001. Fund was routinely making calls to other women from Melinda's phone, which was in the bedroom Melinda used when, as rarely happened, she was in NY. </span><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/morgan-phone-bill-from-nyc-apartment.html" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Phone Bill</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, January 2001 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Morgan returned, briefly, to California, flying back to NY in May of 2001. Fund had asked her to live with him so they could, "work on their relationship."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> January 13, 2002 was a
busy day at the keyboard for John Fund.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It
was Sunday, and the day before Fund made his last-ever appearance on </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">McLaughlin Group</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. We know this because Eric Garris of Antiwar.com said he loved
it. By Eric’s report, McLaughlin told
Fund he was lying. Apparently,
McLaughlin did not like liars, which explains it being Fund’s last appearance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #515151;"> At 1:03 PM Fund responded to an </span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><a href="https://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2019/01/january-13-2002-sunday-michele-davis.html">email</a></span></span><span style="background: white; color: #515151;"> sent to him at by Michele Davis of the Department of Treasury. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">In
her email to Fund, sent at 9:12am, Michele’s subject line had read, <i>“great seeing you last night” </i>Does that
sound like a social engagement took place? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #515151;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> Fund’s response included, <i>“I see
you are all over the papers now and your boss was on Fox News again.” </i> Fund
is referring to the bankruptcy of </span><span style="color: #222222;">Enron,
it’s President Lawrence Whalley was pleading with the Treasury Department to
intervene with banks extending credit to the collapsing agency. Michele, as a Treasury spokeswoman, is quoted
on <i>Fox News, "Undersecretary Fisher
inferred he was being asked to encourage the banks to extend credit" </i>during
the six to eight phone conversations he had with Whalley, Davis said. <i>"He made no such calls." </i>(Those would have been interesting to
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> For John Fund, Lothario qua Disinformation Minion for Dick
Cheney, the opportunities to find credulous women willing to see him as a
friend and possible love interest are numerous; useful tools to Fund.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #515151;"> On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 10:05PM, another message, </span></span>subject,<img border="0" src="" /><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">”Silly? Yes. But what's a girl to do?”,</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #515151;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">arrived in Fund’s email box.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">This one immediately was seen by Morgan. She called
me, outraged. The silly girl was </span><a href="http://www.sandiego.edu/law/about/directory/biography.php?profile_id=2586" style="background-color: white;">Gail
Heriot</a><span style="background-color: white;">, an attorney teaching law at </span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">the University of San Diego, School of Law.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Gail’s </span><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-funds-women-gail-heriot-passion.html" style="background-color: white;">email</a><span style="background-color: white;">
included, </span><i style="background-color: white;">“So allow me to introduce
myself. I am Gail Heriot, the woman whose hotel room you've found yourself in a
few times over the last six weeks.”</i></span></div>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-80574590506381580142019-01-09T15:45:00.000-05:002019-02-06T17:23:23.999-05:00Satan and the Tale of Two Disinformation Imps, John Fund and Karl Rove, Minions-in-Waiting to Dick Cheney<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Liz Cheney took offense when Christian Bale expressed an entirely
understandable sentiment with his<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, “…thank
you to Satan for giving me inspiration on how to play this role.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>It was a tough role and Bale correctly
portrayed who Cheney appears to be: two men, one on the outside to be experienced by the world around him;
the second understood by the imps and minions who assist him to achieve his
real goals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Satan is well known for disguises which make his evils achievable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">According
to the Wiki<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, “</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Satan, also
known as the Devil, is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that
seduces humans into sin or falsehood.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Evil inclination is universally ascribed to
the iconic persona of Satan</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">; Cheney’s “evil inclinations,” are too obvious to be overlooked
when his motives are understood; but the screen of fear he used to install the surveillance
state, delayed this awareness. Today, over 50% of Americans do not believe the
story pushed by the Cheney – Bush White House to explain September 11,
2001.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The attributes of
Satan are with us every day in people who seek power only for their own
ends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the science of neurobiology
has increased our understanding enormously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.lifestealers.org/Characeristics-checklist.html">Characteristics
of Psychopathy</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">His invading
foreign countries with the intention of stealing their oil for his buddies,
under cover of the power entrusted to the President of the United States,
strikes me as a remarkably good comparison of the two entities, Dick and
Satan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Water-boarding is sort of an also
ran, horrid as it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reality of
what happened to millions in Iraq was remarkably like Fire and Brimstone, as
Dick’s Shock and Awe assault included depleted uranium, likely as a favor to
companies unable to find a profitable sale outlet for their DU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Liz’s dad ensured his buddies could make a
profit on poisoning children as yet unconceived. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I’m
sure Satan would be envious at this efficiency for evil, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so I was struck by the accuracy of Bale’s
analogy; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>however, it was personal events
which brought the reality of Cheney to my attention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In October 1999, my natural
daughter, Morgan Pillsbury, called me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had not spoken to her since March 1998, when I, along with everyone else in the
family, had severed all relations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because I had discovered Morgan had tried to
persuade me to turn off my son Arthur’s life support on the lie, she needed his
heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had told me she needed a
heart transplant. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morgan had been paid
$10,000 by my then husband, Craig Franklin for this and was also receiving $5,000
a month to assist him in the divorce he had filed against me on January 1<sup>st</sup>.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morgan had no heart problems of the kind
which had taken both of my sisters by 1994. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through discovery in court, I became aware of these
payments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The divorce was personal, but as
it turned out would eventually lead to relevant insights on 9/11, the Invasion of
Iraq, keeping Saddam in country in 2002, the rise of the Attack Drone Industry
and Surveillance State.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Craig and his boss,
Dan O’Dowd, were put in touch with Dick Cheney, it appears, soon after Morgan
jumped into bed with John Fund on October 26, 1998.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="file:///G:/Melinda%20Data/MPF%20August%202015/MPF%20August%202015/Freedom%20TV%20Networks/Articles/VICE/morganpillsburygell.com">READ</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Both my husband and Morgan are
psychopathic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking for answers, I would
follow the development of Neuroscience, beginning some years later; but in 1999,
this did not exist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">2011, I wrote, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://psychobusters.blogspot.com/2019/01/when-psychopaths-cooperate-costs-to.html"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext;">When Psychopaths Cooperate</span><span style="font-style: normal; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">. </span></a></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also look over <a href="http://www.lifestealers.org/Characeristics-checklist.html"><span style="mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Characteristics of Psychopathy</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I knew
nothing about what Morgan was up to, when Fund and Morgan hopped into bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not until 2012, I accepted Morgan was
also a psychopath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In
2002, I still believed Morgan could change, though I remained cautious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morgan was required to provide proof for what
she told me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the reason Morgan
made the <a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Sex--Lies-and-the-Tape-.html">Tape</a>
in early October, 1999.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The voice of
John Fund is very recognizable as Fund tells Morgan why her promise not to talk
to me, was important to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I already
knew too much about his activities for planting disinformation, and concealing
information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">So, in
early December 2002, I had to hear Morgan being battered to believe her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I did hear this taking place, as did Eric
Buchanan, who Morgan had gotten to know on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Free
Republic</i>, an online chatroom for NeoCon Patriot types. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-9-letter-affirming.html">Battery</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2018/12/free-republics-deluded-fund-supporters.html">Kicked
off Free Republic</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Cheney
had ordered Fund regarding Morgan and myself, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“take any steps necessary to solve the problem</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fund was following orders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either the Cheney family is more ignorant
than is believable to me; or they are part of the Cheney-NeoCon cover-up; judge
for yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Satan must
have his Imps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The
first hurdle Satan faced was recruiting his special Imps, which today we also
call Minions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Minions or Imps come in
all kinds, and with a range of abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But most important are those who must remain visible to the public,
often in respected and seemingly independent positions, such as journalists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was Fund Cheney’s most important Minion?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly, he came close. But Cheney needed
Imps and Minions who worked well together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is likely his two most important Imps were John Fund for Media, and
Karl Rove for ‘electoral issues,’ though this did not mean the two could not
help each other in their areas of specialization, especially where these met in
common ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">You
might remember Fund from his insane and off point attacks on Bill Clinton in
the 1990s; this fell silent in the 2000s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is not to say I was a Clinton supporter, then or now, I
wasn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I did, and still demand
honesty from those who serve us as employees in government. We, the people, are
the government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Barry
Goldwater held those values, as did others both on the “Left” and the
“Right.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A NeoCon is not a ‘new kind of
conservative.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A NeoCon is a fascist who
installs business – government ‘partnerships.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Goldwater
was pro-choice; he didn’t think you had to be straight to shoot straight,
welcoming gays into our military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
thought polluters were to be held accountable for the damage they do to people
and property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Barry supported the
Equal Rights Amendment, which remains to be ratified today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Dick
Cheney does not deserve respect, but condemnation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His campaign to lie us into Iraq was treason
to our country, and a crime against humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To accomplish this, ‘Dick’ depended on the cooperative efforts of
minions while he set up the surveillance state we see today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Fund
was, and remains, one of those minions, though now much deflated in importance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fund
used to call me in attempts to plant outrageous stories about Clinton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The glee in his voice was striking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just that made it impossible to believe <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Bill Clinton had an American flag tattooed
on his penis”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-- this being the
least outlandish fable Fund tried on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Fund
was a multipurpose minion, one who would ensure which stories ran and which did
not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is why he was at the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wall Street Journal</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just as Satan needs his Imps, NeoCons need
their minions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Fund
was diligent in finding outlets for stories the WSJ would not run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Manny Klausner introduced Fund and Matt Drudge
in 1993; this was the partnership which they had in mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Manny testified to these facts in <a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-17-deposition-by.html">deposition</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">So,
when Fund ran into trouble, he knew he could depend on Cheney to exert his
power. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">What
does, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“do whatever is necessary,” </i>mean
to someone who would not blink at killing millions, and leaving unborn babies
to die hideous deaths a decade and more later?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Understanding
what happened in this case of domestic violence provides insight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I
believe Dick Cheney suborned the legal system in NY to keep his imp, John Fund,
in place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was not without consequences
for Fund.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was fired from the WSJ and
removed from their Editorial Board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fund
received a letter from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fidelity Financial</i>
helpfully informing him he needed to move his 401K.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-10-letter-from.html">Letter</a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thereafter
Fund worked for Dow Jones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Fidelity
Letter was mailed to Fund at his apartment in Jersey City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fund took the letter with him to Morgan’s
apartment at 60 East 9<sup>th</sup> Street in Manhattan where he screamed, waving
it about and then deposited it on her floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After Fund left for work the next morning, Morgan scanned it, emailing
it to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Morgan
had learned I would not trust her, unless I saw the proof, because our family
had long since realized Morgan lied continuously. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Morgan
did not tell me what was happening in NY.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I thought she was getting on with her life after leaving Fund on January
19</span><sup style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, a month earlier. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This
hopeful delusion died when I was less than five minutes from the apartment and
called to let Morgan know I when I would be arriving.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In the background, I could hear Fund
yelling.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I walked in to find Morgan’s
face bloodied; she was doubled over in pain.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">But she would not call the police and was terrified at the suggestion I
take her to the hospital.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">She also
refused to file a </span><b style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><a href="https://morganpillsburygell.com/police-reports-et-al">police report</a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
for two days, finally agreeing to do so on February 21.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I watched through the broken wainscoting as
photos were taken of her injuries which were visible.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The police report reflects this evidence was
obtained.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Curiously,
the photos evaporated soon afterward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The police claimed none were taken, despite the note on the report and
my having seen this take place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the
report appeared on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Politics
Journal</i>, edited by Gene Gaudette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Gene had contacted Morgan, and they had begun to chat. Gene, who I met
while in NY, helped me persuade Morgan to file the police report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">To
that point, the system worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fund was
arrested as he hid in the men’s room at the Manhattan Institute on February 24.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The arrest was published on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Page Six</i> which was a column in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New York Post</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://nypost.com/2002/02/24/columnist-assaulted-his-ex-cops/">ARTICLE</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Then,
it all changed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had returned to California
where Morgan called to tell me she was asked to come in for an interview by the
District Attorney of Manhattan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
lasted six hours, she told me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was
not allowed to go to the bathroom or have a drink of water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The original Assistant DA assigned, Eric
Arnone, had been replaced by a woman who grilled her like she was being charged
with multiple murders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I was
never contacted to provide my witness statement, then or later, despite
multiple calls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">It was
terrifying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What had happened to our
justice system?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The short answer is Dick
Cheney, who needed his Fund Imp working.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Morgan told me she talked briefly to Arnone, who told her District
Attorney Robert Morganthau kept the file on his own desk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one else was permitted to touch it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">At the
same time, a bipartisan, cooperative effort of ‘neoliberals’ and ‘neocons’ hit
the media with a disinformation campaign aimed at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Eric
Alterman, a supposed ‘liberal’ ran a short blurb, entirely unsourced, saying I
sent Morgan to NY to seduce Fund, poor sad little minion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Nation Magazine</i>, where this libel ran, check his sources?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or call me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No, never, nor did they respond to my calls and letters objecting to
this blatant lie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">115
words by Eric Alterman and John Fund as they actually were published:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "mercury display b" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">“John Fund<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "mercury display b" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">has
landed on Page Six in a bizarre tale that is almost too weird to write down. It
seems that a woman with whom Fund had an affair twenty years ago named<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "mercury display b" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">Melinda Pillsbury Foster<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "mercury display b" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">sent
her daughter,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "mercury display b" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">Morgan<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "mercury display b" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">, to
look up Fund when she came to town. One thing led to another and the results
appear to have been a live-in relationship and an abortion. This is strange
enough for a <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Wall Street Journal</span> editorial
writer who, although very much a gentleman in person, penned some of the most
vicious and irresponsible material about Clinton and the Democrats outside the
columns of this magazine. (Fund is also a ghostwriter for<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "mercury display b" , serif; font-size: 15.0pt;">Rush Limbaugh”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "mercury display b" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">End
of quote, actual format.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "mercury display b" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "mercury display b" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">The
facts bear no relationship to what had previously been published by John
Connolly at <i>weaselsearch</i> on <a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/sex-lies-and-the-tape">September 4,
2001</a>; in the <i>Washington Post</i> on
January 17, 2002, <i><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/01/17/the-reliable-source/e1e48a87-282a-4466-9c00-d04c2aa70704/?utm_term=.b92bbbc66ebb">Sex,
Lies and the Audiotape</a></i>; in <i>Page Six</i> on February 24, 2002</span><span style="color: #222222;">,
</span><i><span style="background: white; color: black;"><a href="https://nypost.com/2002/02/24/columnist-assaulted-his-ex-cops/" target="_self"><span style="color: #b91806;">"COLUMNIST ASSAULTED HIS EX:
COPS</span></a>”;</span></i><span style="color: #222222;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what Alterman wrote and The Nation published.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">All
the previous articles cited published sources or researched their statements,
as is normal for journalists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the
truth is far more bizarre than this snide lie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For the full story visit </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="file:///G:/Melinda%20Data/MPF%20August%202015/MPF%20August%202015/Freedom%20TV%20Networks/Articles/VICE/morganpillsburygell.com">Morgan Pillsbury Gell<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">In
1999, I very I briefly hoped Morgan had started telling the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1999 was the year Morgan produced <a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Sex--Lies-and-the-Tape-.html">The Tape</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This recording of Morgan talking to Fund, misled
me because what you hear is Morgan leading Fund through a conversation with
Fund who had presented himself at that moment, his phone number appearing with
the beep for call waiting on Morgan’s phone. Morgan had just told me she had
aborted Fund’s baby the previous March. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I refused to believe her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You do not need to take my word for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Listen to Fund’s own words and voice. </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Sex--Lies-and-the-Tape-.html">Tape or read
the Transcript.</a></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Suddenly,
I had hope Morgan’s travails had changed her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Boy was I wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But demanding
proof did point to some startling revelations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Included in this was the Clinton’s Capo, Sidney Blumenthal’s role to
keep Saddam in Iraq.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
lying ways of America’s supposedly reliable media is the question here,
however.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between July 2002 and the start
of the Invasion in 2003, the reasons for silencing me had increased enormously.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
willingness of a supposed leftist, Alterman, and a supposed ‘liberal’
publication, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Nation</i>, to
cooperatively publicize a lie demanded by the first name on John Fund’s speed
dial, Dick Cheney, would be news to most people, even today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Nation</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fox News</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NewsMax</i> all participated in the cover-up
not just so Fund could continue Imping for Cheney, but to cover-up the
cooperative efforts of the NeoCons, both Cheney and the Clintons for the
invasion of Iraq.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did these publications and their management
know this, or were they told some other story?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, they still refuse to respond
to my letters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In
2003, after the invasion was safely launched, Cheney and company, who now knew
an unanticipated complication had arisen, went after me again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This does not make you feel popular, rest
assured.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, the use of the previous
blurb in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Nation</i> became the basis
of a far larger attack intended to completely destroy my credibility and leave
me destitute.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Curious?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Want to know? You will find out while
participating on your smart phone with NeoCons – The Show, the 2-Way
Interactive TV Series, a coming attraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Satan
is out of office now, but the system of pseudo-journalists, including Alterman,
Fund, and even the far less prominent Wendy McElroy, remain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the character of Little Liz will be
included, I am sure that would be fun for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Read
the </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/two-stories">Media Story</a></span><span style="color: #222222;">
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
full saga, in which you can weight in, will air as the first Docu-Dramedy on
2-Way Interactive TV, <b>NeoCons, </b>launching soon!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Next:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><i>About: Melinda was the first County Chair of the Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County, Southern California Vice-Chair for the Libertarian Party of California for six terms and ran an office for Southern California on Westwood Blvd. in Westwood for four years. No dues money was used to fund the office, which was paid for by voluntary support of activists. When it was clear the LP was having issues with the challenge of success I left and re-registered Republican to learn how a political party which won elections worked from the inside. </i></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: x-small; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><i>Surprise. It had been the women, most through the National Federation of Republican Women, who did the work. I joined, having been impressed by their sense of community and success rate. Then Melinda again moved on to other ventures, one of which is Freedom Interactive TV Networks Association. </i></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This article has been 20 years in discovery, which included one rude shock after another. Included
as links in this article are pages from several websites which include our TV
show, <b>NeoCons</b>, which will be the </span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1st
Docu-Dramedy Series on Interactive TV</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">. These sites include: How The NeoCons Stole
Freedom; PayeHome; PhoneVoter; and Morgan Pillsbury Gell.
Also, Just the Evidence, John Fund and Ruthless People<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">John Fund is a Disinformation Agent who has been working for
BushCo, since 1979. I don’t know when he began taking his orders
from Dick Cheney, but that had to have happened by 1998. In this
article Fox News and their methods for controlling what we think also comes up.
At every step what you read here comes from my life, and the lives of others who
experienced the manipulations set in play by men like Dick Cheney and John
Fund. It was not politics, it was personal. When this was
unfolding, I was a Regent for the <i>National Federation of Republican
Women</i>. I had </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://melindapillsbury-foster.blogspot.com/2005/05/lovely-tea-at-white-house-with-laura.html"><span style="color: blue;">tea in the White House</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> with Laura Bush. Being in the GOP is no protection against the NeoCons, fascists one and all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">About John Fund. Didn’t it ever strike you as odd that someone who
calls himself a Libertarian, had managed to hold a job, moving steadily up, at
a Main Stream Media publication? Consider that as we explore Fund’s life and
that of Dick Cheney, the No 1 guy on Fund’s speed dial. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To understand Dick Cheney you need to understand John Fund; to
understand John Fund you need to understand Morgan Pillsbury. It is an
ugly story, incredible at times, but all true – and documented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cheney needed minions to carry out the tsunami of destruction
which hit America for the benefit of his oily elite associations. Fund is
an important minion, duties including killing stories, planting stories,
finding needed technical talent, programmers, contractors, and keeping the lid
on scandals, including his own. Think 9/11. Think ensuring the
Invasion of Iraq took place. Think Patriot Act and today's surveillance
state. Think the rise of the attack drone industry, now 55% of the
US Air Force. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fund’s early years were not marked by success or any pretense of
honesty. This was noted by those who knew him, including the
founding editor of AntiWar.com, Eric Garris. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AntiWar.com published an
article on Fund’s history on April 26, 2006, titled, </span><i><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2006/04/26/john-fund-vs-the-truth/"><span style="color: blue;">John Fund vs The Truth</span></a></span></u></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">by Justin Raimondo. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">John Slevin, a ballot access professional, owner of <i><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-slevin-43664a1a/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">WinLiberty</span></a></i>,
who knew Fund well, noted Fund was never even a registered Libertarian Party
member though still, today, he attends libertarian-oriented
conferences. And Fund arranged and accepted pay-offs to remove
Libertarian candidates from the ballot. Slevin wrote me extensively
on these events. </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/early-life"><span style="color: blue;">LETTERS</span></a></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From Eric Garris, editor and founder of <a href="http://antiwar.com/">AntiWar.com</a>, you find
out John Fund told lies, attributing the successes of others to himself. Eric
caught him at it in the early 80's. He was doing the same in
2000. His oldest friend caught him that time, and came to me for an
explanation. Then, I was surprised. Now, Andrew Frankel
is receiving a copy of this article. Sometimes Fund got caught; but
less and less often as time went by. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In those early days Fund was part of the group around Ed Crane.
His first employers were Charles and David Koch, for operations to take control
of the Libertarian Party.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the Kochs lost control, in 1983, an order was given to
destroy of the Libertarian Party. The means was first to persuade
critical activists to re-register Republican. This reflects the
later Koch strategy to start their own political action group, beginning with
Republicans from inside that party. I know this directly, because
this is when Fund called me multiple times in on-going attempts to persuade me
to leave. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hart Williams, a former journalist and blogger, made it his
mission to uncover these operations beginning in 2006. He called me,
having found articles I had written on the web, and I began providing more
information. This extensive series of well-researched articles is
available at:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remained Capo for Crane, together with a group of individuals identified by
Murray Rothbard, who published their names in his newsletter in early 1981
after he was eliminated from the Cato Board of Directors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Bushes early in his career. Oil people are like that, very
insular. Dave Lincoln told me that. Dave walked away from
the Oil Industry when Ken Lay ordered him to drive a pipeline across a pristine
forest in Malaysia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fund’s duties at the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> included
ensuring stories which his real employers, the Bushco-NeoCons,
ordered. Events and news which the NeoCons did not want to receive
serious attention, were marginalized or disappeared entirely; then stories were
run which were deemed useful to NeoCon interests. That is not news, and the MSM
on both the Right and Left carry out orders. You will see what I
mean. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An article marginalized and effectively killed by Fund in January
1980, was on a subject referred to him by Andrea Rich and Roy Childs of <i>Laissez-Faire
Books</i>, long time Libertarians. This was on a form of
financing which eliminated the problems of foreclosure, providing a profitable
investment without risk. This financial tool, <i>Percentage As
You Earn (%PAYE) Finance and Finansurance,</i> had been endorsed by Dr.
Milton Friedman, </span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Mr. William E Simon, Sr., then the chief
actuary for <i>Booz, Allen, & Hamilton Management Consultants</i>,
with Mr. James Reynolds, in Medical Empire Consulting; and Leonard Read of
the <i>Foundation for Economic Education</i> (FEE). The long list of
endorsers also includes Karl Hess and Russell Means. Fund wrote an
article about earlier historic uses of a similar financing tool; but chose to
never mention those who had endorsed it at the time, nor the problems it could
have solved in 1980, which are destroying our economy now. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes articles which were too outrageous to run in the <i>WSJ</i> were
placed at the <i>Drudge Report</i>. This came out during the
Blumenthal lawsuit against Matt Drudge when the <i>Drudge Report</i> ran
an article claiming Blumenthal beat his wife. The </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-17-deposition-by.html"><span style="color: blue;">Deposition</span></a></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of Manny Klausner, who had been the
attorney for Drudge, was taken in early 2001.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blumenthal believed, correctly, he had been targeted by the
NeoCons. As the deposition indicates, John Fund was introduced to Drudge in
1993, two years before the <i>Drudge Report</i> was founded in
1995. Fund claimed they did not then know each other, committing
perjury in his deposition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Blumenthal, the Clinton Capo, with Gene Gaudette, an associate of
Blumenthal’s and the editor of the <i>American Political Journal</i>, were
out to get Fund after Blumenthal was forced to settle the lawsuit against Matt
Drudge, which should have included Fund, on May 1, 2001. The first
person Fund called to gloat about his escape was Morgan Pillsbury, who he had
been sexually involved with since </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://morganpillsburygell.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">October 26, 1998</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. When you read the link you find out this was
significant in multiple ways. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To evade articles exposing the facts about him, John Fund hired
lawyers to intimidate publishers. He successfully killed
an article by John Connolly titled, </span><i><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/sex-lies-and-the-tape"><span style="color: blue;">Sex, Lies and the Tape – The John Fund Story</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, then slated to appear
in <i>Talk Magazine</i> in 2001. </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/walsh-letter"><span style="color: blue;">Letter and Billing</span></a></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> from attorney John J.
Walsh to John Fund, November 16, 2001. For Walsh, freedom of the
press is not an issue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The article was published instead at WeaselSearch.com on September
4, 2001. The article and Tape are now online only through my
websites. You can read it and the transcript of the Tape and hear
the Tape at </span><b><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Sex--Lies-and-the-Tape-.html"><span style="color: blue;">Ruthless People</span></a></span></u></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. I am the person being
discussed by two psychopaths attempting to manipulate each other: Morgan
Pillsbury and John Fund. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So why does John think I am threatening him? He was, by
mistake, getting the posts from my poetry list. I
confess. I write poetry. Here is full
disclosure. </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.pillsbury-foster.com/shards-of-verse"><span style="color: blue;">Shares of Verse</span></a></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As indicated in the title, the article by Connolly was sourced to
a tape made by Morgan Pillsbury to persuade me, her mother, this time she was
telling the truth. Morgan had a long history of lies, evasions and
thievery. No one except her hopeful mother was still speaking to
her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Website - </span><u><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Morgan Pillsbury Gell</span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Around 1990, Fund began routinely calling me to plant false
stories. He expected me to relay these. From his delivery
and the occasional emergence of one of these whoppers <i>(why would Bill Clinton
have a tattoo of an American flag on his penis?)</i> into a media
outlet. I could tell this was a strategy for spreading his fabrications
indirectly to influencers. Fund had discovered I had joined
the <i>National Federation of Republican Women</i> in Santa Barbara;
this included Arianna Huffington and other politically influential
women. Fund would always suggest people I knew would like to
know. Fund only stopped calling me in his attempts to plant stories
in 1996. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By 1998, he was planting false stories about me as well;
encouraging others do the same. This bewildered me at the time but
recently I realized destroying my credibility became an issue. At the
time I was enmeshed in an insane divorce and Craig Franklin, who Fund got to
know in Morgan's hotel room on October 26, 1998. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From this meeting time forwards, it is likely Franklin organized
and provided the technology and programming required by Cheney for bringing off
the Pearl Harbor Event of September 11, 2001. Craig was Senior Vice
President of Advanced Products Development for <i>Green Hills Software,
Inc. </i>(GHS), who was singularly able to do needed projects, such as
converting the programming in airliners to bypass anti-collision safety systems
and determine glide path and altitude waypoints into buildings. The human
pilots were a redundant back-up system. (NOTE: The Black Boxes, which
were recovered, have never been seen again.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some evidence for this is the sudden emergence of the attack drone
programming by Green Hills Software, Inc. for military contractors with no
previous experience in even target drones' production. Years of flight
data were usually put into new drones by prior manufacturers, who expressed
their wonderment as the programming appeared to spring full grown from the brow
of Zeus. Who's Zeus? I invite other journalists and avionics
experts to explore the question and supply an answer. </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://ghs.com/"><span style="color: blue;">GHS.com</span></a></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> In 1998, GHS President, Dan O'Dowd, was involved in a
conspiracy to take over the company with GHS Founding Partner, Glenn
Hightower. Glenn owned three successful companies and Dan knew he could
easily barrow half of the present valuation of GHS, when worth $350M.
Therefore, he had entered into a scheme with Franklin to obtain ownership
through a conspiracy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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They called this the </span><b><i><u><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/throw-momma"><span style="color: #cc0000;">"Throw Momma From The Train"</span></a></span></u></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Strategy.
O'Dowd was pledged to leave me penniless in exchange for Craig's assistance in
organizing a walk-out of critical personnel during Hightower's Due
Diligence. Revenues were down in 1998. O'Dowd and Franklin needed
money. An off ledger black ops funding for programming would have been
the answer to their prayers. The means, motives and methods all became
available to Cheney for his false flag operation through this alliance of Fund
and Franklin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fund's shift to hostility towards me had to have a motive besides
not liking poetry. I think he did, but it was not Morgan. Morgan,
who was a strong believer in protecting her turf, had very thoroughly
researched the other women Fund was engaging for sex or services. This
research on her part continued and became part of the stream of emails I
received from her as she vented and schemed. I found out about these
in early 2001 while Morgan was briefly living in Ojai, CA. Fund probably
felt he could handle yet another woman he claimed was obsessed with him, his
standard excuse when one of these scandals surfaced. He had done so previously,
and been entirely supported against the complaining woman by the <i>WSJ</i>. One
of these incidents became widely known. </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Carol-Divine-Molin.html"><span style="color: blue;">Carol Divine Molin.</span></a></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Morgan was invited by Fund to move in with him to 'work on their
relationship' in late July of 2001. After handing her a key to
the apartment, Fund left for 2 weeks on a round of speaking engagements.
Morgan called me immediately for advice. Nothing in the apartment
worked. The rent had not been paid for months; the utilities were about
to be turned off. The floor was covered with several feet of papers, dirty
clothing, and a couple of suitcases, which had never been unpacked, and
more. The refrigerator freezer was crawling with insects; the counter-top
had dishes stuck to it, covered with dust. In the bathroom, nothing but
the toilet worked, and that was iffy. For that two weeks, Morgan
was entirely engaged in cleaning, having clothes dry cleaned, utilities paid,
peace made with the building manager, and purchasing new furniture Fund
wanted. Morgan advanced the money for these. I advised her to keep
receipts. Fund never reimbursed her or paid her for her time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When Fund arrived home, Morgan reported he was shocked and delighted with the
changes. He promptly asked Morgan to clean up his office at the <i>WSJ</i>,
which she did on Sundays when the <i>WSJ</i> was closed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Changes took place in what she sent me via email and by mail. I only
considered the high-level briefings Morgan scanned and sent to me by mail as
evidence of Fund's slovenly behavior, until it occurred to me to reconsider the
conversation, I had with Morgan on September 11, 2001 about why she did not go
to WTC-1 that morning. Replacing Fund's bank cards would be an ongoing
chore allotted to Morgan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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However, this time, Fund vehemently insisted on the 10th this must be done
early the next day to replace his bank card. Morgan balked at his insistence
and did not go. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This implies Fund was acting on orders to get rid of her by someone who had
prior knowledge of what was about to take place. At the time, this did
not occur to me; but later, it made complete sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When she refused, he stormed off to work. Morgan was surprised he was not
more upset about what had happened at the <i>World Trade Center</i>, next
to the WSJ. Why would Fund be more upset Morgan refused to replace his
bank card that day, than he was about walking, dust-covered across the bridge
to New Jersey? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Morgan was listening when a call came in from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson asking
about her friend, CNN Reporter Barbara Olson. Fund calmly answered she
was gone. Olson died on Flight 77, impacting the Pentagon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morgan made a practice of making copies of
the tapes on Fund's answering machine, commenting to me these could be useful
sometime. This is of interest because of the failure to confirm phone
communications which were reported having taken place from the four aircraft. One
of these conversations was, supposedly, from Barbara Olson to her husband’s
office, Solicitor General of the United States. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Global Research published an article by Elizabeth Woodworth titled.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/9-11-what-the-telephone-records-reveal-about-calls-from-aa-flight-77-did-barbara-olson-attempt-any-calls-at-all/26594">9/11:
What the Telephone Records Reveal about Calls from AA Flight 77: Did Barbara
Olson Attempt Any Calls at All?</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The article opens up questions on whether
these calls could have been made in advance as part of a cover-up, to suppress
communications from the planes, or provide a direction for creating spin on the
events, positioning NeoCon associates as victims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Morgan
would have made a very convenient victim, too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the sort of detail which would not
have escaped the attention of Dick Cheney or Karl Rove. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine, Fund could have given a
heart-rending eulogy for the woman who had captured his heart while knowing he
had gotten his apartment cleaned and repaired for free.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Morgan was sending me photos, before and after, the clean-up job of Fund’s apartment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had refused to believe her when she
described the place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, she had told
the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She claimed to have made
Fund's apartment in Jersey City habitable and filed 110 boxes of papers and
other detritus from the apartment and the WSJ. The photos certainly
appeared to confirm this, but I did not see this myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if it was so, those file boxes would have
included copies of those High-Security Briefings just before 9/11. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During this period, Fund’s attitude towards Morgan changed. She
claimed to have no explanation for this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But in retrospect, several things occurred to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First, Morgan persuaded John Connolly to write an article about
Fund.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe this began in June since
before then Morgan was calling me to express outrage and hostility toward Fund
over multiple causes; other women; not seeing her; not calling her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, she called and demanded I confirm some
statements she had made to Connolly. I did so very reluctantly and later regretted
doing so, because Connolly had not asked me about Morgan’s credibility, nor did
I know what incredible inaccuracies were being conveyed by Morgan about me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fund knew I had evidence on his abuse of Morgan in 2002.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the end of 2002, I had evidence Cheney was
determined to invade Iraq for their oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And then I had evidence the Clintons had helped them ensure Saddam Hussein
stayed in Iraq to give them an excuse to invade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose I was lucky they didn’t just kill
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fund’s campaign to slander me was
carried out by his sub-minions who were conveniently located. Conversations
took place with journalists, one of which confided this to me. Few people who
heard these statements let me know. But they should; I would be
grateful to know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of these individuals spreading lies about me at Fund’s behest was
Steve Frank. <span style="background: white;">This included a call to Ellie
Michaels, a friend through <i>California Federation of Republican Women</i> (CFRW).
Ellie was clearly terrified when she called me in 2003, to tell me she had been
told by Steve Frank, who does </span></span><i><u><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/"><span style="color: blue;">California Political Review</span></a></span></u></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, not to
talk to me anymore. Ellie re-confirmed this call to me on September
25, 2018. I knew from my conversations with Fund earlier, and from
those in the GOP, the two men, Fund and Frank, knew each other well. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Fund began setting up speaking engagements with
Republican groups, especially those with which I had an
affiliation. </span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">On February 8 – 9, 2003, John Fund
spoke to </span><b><u><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/feb-8-9-stewart-cfrw"><span style="color: blue;">CFRW</span></a></span></u></b><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> in Ontario, California, and again in
Northern California. This was a perfect place for those whimpering
confessions of Fund’s having shown his own <i>“bad judgement.” </i> I
wrote letters to Joy Stewart, the President of <i>CFRW</i>, sent FEDEXed
copies of the documents, but it was clear that what mattered was power.
Fund had power. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evidence did not
matter. Since having influence required accepting his slanders
without question, so be it. Thus, I left the
Federation. An organization which tolerates this kind of corruption, is
dangerous to our individual rights and freedom. Fund appears to have
continued looking for opportunities to appear, be paid, and slander me.
Morgan was no longer the real issue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Republican Party had once been a bastion of freedom because it
understood the meaning of the word, “Conservative.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took decades for Rockefeller Republicans
(early fascists), to displace the small government with monstrous big government;
individual liberty with privileges granted by government; strict accountability
and liability for granting the right to damage our environment and our health
by corporations; and so displace Conservatism with the fascism which is
NeoConservatism, but they succeeded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Confused
Patriots still cannot tell the difference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">More on the above: </span><b><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/clintons-cheney-saddam"><span style="color: blue;">Cheney's War</span><span style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"> - <i>Oil,
Power and Total Surveillance</i></span></a></span></u></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Why
Saddam Hussein did not leave Iraq in the Autumn of 2002</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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our website about our TV show, includes evidence of the cooperative
relationship between the Clintons and Bush Co. This was forged after
Geo. HW Bush lost to Clinton in 1992. This required ensuring Clinton
continued in the presidency until 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> See <a href="http://phonevoter.us/">PhoneVoter.us</a> for the story. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In January 2002, Morgan and Fund were at
loggerheads. He wanted her to stay, where he could control her, have
his apartment cleaned, and relax with someone who was also addicted to Star
Wars, and could keep his computer operating. When his computer crashed,
he used Morgan’s until she fixed his. Morgan wanted to get married, thus
fulfilling her life-time career strategy of marriage to a powerful guy with
money. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Outraged at the emails from other women coming to John on her
computer, and having persuaded me to get her an apartment, Morgan left Fund's
apartment on January 19<sup>th</sup> 2002. Fund had given her the checks Morgan
had found in the trash and managed to have reauthorized, $30,000 of
them. </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-14-email-to-morgan.html"><span style="color: blue;">EMAIL </span></a> </span></u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Again, Fund used some of the other women he was keeping on
hold to grab back the money Morgan had more than earned.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I have more emails which we are saving for </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: #c00000;">NeoCons</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
soap opera.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“Those raccoons are just so darn cute!”</span></i><u style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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Life Strategy for him & Other NeoCons – More Other Women</a> </span></b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Morgan forwarded multiple emails to me. If she had to
scan, it generally came by disk in the mail. I could no longer
take hearing her battered, so I rented her an apartment. I hoped she
would get a job. Never happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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kind?) at 60 E. 9<sup>th</sup> Street in Manhattan. Two days
later, Fund found her and moved in telling her Cheney (No.1 on his speed dial)
had ordered him to, <i>“do whatever is necessary to solve the problem.”</i> Fund
made it clear this did not include paying Morgan what he owed her, instead it
went to options which terrified Morgan into silence. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not learn about this until July of
2002. It was hard to scare or intimidate Morgan, but they had
succeeded. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cheney insisted the statement by Morgan denying she had never been
beaten had to be </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://morganpillsburygell.com/affidavits"><span style="color: blue;">NOTARIZED</span></a></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Morgan is many things, but she had
been battered. I heard her being beaten and so had Eric Buchanan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So instead of the peace I hoped for, Morgan was calling constantly
to describe Fund’s bizarre behavior and ask me to explain it. I told
her not to let him in. Only later did she tell me he already had a
key; and she did not know how he got it. But she assured me, he was not beating
her. Lies, lies and more lies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I flew into NY on February 19<sup>th</sup> to go to some
plays with an old friend and check out what was happening. I called
from the cab, about five minutes away. Morgan was expecting
me. Fund was not. I could hear him yelling in the
background. When I walked in, Morgan had blood on her face, and was
obviously in pain. Not to be tolerated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Gene Gaudette, to persuade her to file a police report and get a restraining
order. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fund was arrested. The same day an article appeared in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Page Six</i> of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NY Post</i>. Philip Messing wrote the article</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, titled<span style="background: white;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Page-Six.html"><span style="color: blue;">COLUMNIST ASSAULTED HIS EX: COPS</span></a>.</span></u></i><u><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> It</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> briefly reported
Fund’s arrest in the men’s room of the Manhattan Institute, otherwise repeating
previous reports which were sourced from the September 4, 2001 Connolly article,
and a story appearing in the <i>Washington Post</i> on January 17,
2002 titled, <b><i>“</i></b></span><i><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/01/17/the-reliable-source/e1e48a87-282a-4466-9c00-d04c2aa70704/?utm_term=.b92bbbc66ebb"><span style="color: blue;">Sex, Lies And Audiotape</span></a></span></u></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> by Lloyd Grove
reporting my cancelling the wedding which had been previously planned for
Morgan and John Fund. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This was entirely accurate, although I did not include my reasons
in the brief announcement. I cancelled the event because Fund had,
again, beaten Morgan; and because Morgan had against my orders, scanned an
invitation to the wedding and spammed it across the Internet. It was
to be a </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/wedding"><span style="color: blue;">private wedding</span></a></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">; 20 invitees, max.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Quid pro Quo I do not know, had Eric Alterman plant an entirely fictional
statement about me in <i>The Nation Magazine</i>. This was
entirely unsourced and outrageously untrue. If such a statement had
appeared on <i>Page Six</i> of the <i>NY Post</i> no one
would have blinked, perhaps. Titled, </span><i><u><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/back-muck/"><span style="color: blue;">"Back
Into the Muck"</span></a></span></u></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, the short statement accused me of having sent
Morgan to NY to seduce Fund. Since at the time, the two jumped into
bed together, October 26, 1998, I had not talked to Morgan for six months
because I had discovered she had lied to me about having a heart condition for
which she needed a heart transplant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morgan claimed this in an attempt to persuade
me to turn off her brother Arthur’s life-support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I learned of this attempted murder transaction from
the court discovery during my divorce. She had received $10,000 from Craig
Franklin, my estranged husband, for ensuring Arthur did not survive the suicide
attempt Craig had talked him into. Between Arthur’s need
for continuous care and my own medical problems, which necessitated three
surgeries and balancing the medications for my heart with my migraines; not
hearing from Morgan was wonderful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has had a sexual relationship with John Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I said then this strange
journey began, to understand Cheney-Fund you need to understand Morgan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All three of them are psychopaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their behavior is bizarre to those who are
normal; but to them killing millions, lying through their teeth to millions,
and creating false realities to hide their crimes, is NORMAL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should
we tolerate this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note that it is now possible to confirm
psychopathy through an analysis of DNA and by other methods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had only known…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After her attempt on her
brother’s life in 1998, <span style="background: white;">I would not talk to Morgan
again until late September of 1999, when she contacted me to persuade me to
provide her with more money. Given what she had already done, that
was a non-starter. She told me she had aborted Fund’s baby; <a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/morgan-record-of-abortion.html">Abortion Record</a> I did
not believe she had had a relationship with Fund, as he had told me the
previous March he was engaged to an attorney in DC. I congratulated him
and said it was about time.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">As I kept telling Morgan I did not believe her,
her call-waiting dinged. She put me on hold. I hung up
after trying to call her back so I could continue venting. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Less than one minute after Morgan finished the
recording, she had evidence! John had lied to me when I had called
earlier that year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had cautioned him
about her. For once, Morgan had told the truth. That was
nearly a miracle. Stunning. </span><u><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Sex--Lies-and-the-Tape-.html"><span style="color: blue;">TAPE</span></a></span></u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> These links to pages have
useful background. I suggest you read them or come back to them
later.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In early 2003, it became clear there was a cooperative effort to
destroy my credibility, using the same disinformation agents and political operatives
in media I had exposed. As you read the next Alterman article, “</span><i><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/who-framed-john-fund/"><span style="color: blue;">Who Framed John Fund?”,</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> which also appeared
in <i>The Nation Magazine</i> on May 15, 2003, and again was
unsourced, you see embellishments of the previous Fund victimhood fantasy from
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Media outlets from both the NeoCon Bushco and Clinton factions had agreed I was
a problem, apparently. These included <i>The Nation Magazine,
Fox News</i> and <i>Newsmax</i>, a curious alliance. The
reasons had moved beyond John Fund to covering up what I knew about the Clinton
involvement in conning Saddam Hussein to remain in Iraq. But when the Invasion
took place, I realized I had been all too credulous. Diverse
interests had found common cause in shutting me up, mentioned earlier in </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/clintons-cheney-saddam"><span style="color: blue;">Cheney’s War. </span></a></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alterman’s girlfriend, </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Rosman.html"><span style="color: blue;">Katherine
Rosman</span></a></span></u><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, supposedly representing <i>Elle Magazine</i>, asked to do
an interview and then extracted an ‘exclusive’ which was stalled and then
cancelled a year later. Rosman was then hired by the
WSJ. I started calling this the Alterman-Fund Jobs Program for
Indigent NeoJournalists. A year of silence by myself and Morgan, with Fund’s
whispering campaign going on, was deadly to the truth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The only light at the end of the tunnel was the article by Mark
Crispin Miller which questioned the lack of sources. An article
titled, “</span><i><u><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/who-framed-john-fund/"><span style="color: blue;">‘Ugly Tactics Make for Ugly People’</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> appeared on July 14,
2003, again in <i>The Nation Magazine</i>, allowing Alterman a chance to
explain himself. Then, Wendy McElroy, a ‘libertarian feminist’ was
asked by Fund to write an article mentioning Fund’s sad
plight. Titled</span><i><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/07/22/false-rape-charges-hurt-real-victims.html"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></a><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/07/22/false-rape-charges-hurt-real-victims.html"><span style="color: blue;">"False Rape Charges Hurt Real Victims,"</span></a></span></u></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> this appeared </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">July 22, 2003, on <i>Fox
News.</i></span><span style="color: #44b86b; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wendy was then hired
by <i>Fox</i>, which is a NeoCon outlet. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When asked, Wendy cited the
Alterman article as her only source, for which the only source had been John
Fund. And even though she had known me personally since 1975, she
saw no reason to call and ask about the facts. Wendy is shy on the
usual rules expected for journalists, she is a presstitute. <i>The
Nation Magazine</i> operates using the same standards as <i>Fox News</i> and <i>Newsmax. </i> No
sources were required, naturally; the MSM no longer uses them, you
know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On April 1, 2003, the site I had established to defend Morgan and
myself, <i><a href="http://ruthlesspeople.com/">RuthlessPeople.com</a></i>, was under fire. A letter was
sent by Fund’s west coast attorney, Paul Hastings, threatening the owners of
the tiny enterprise which handled my websites, <i>Group Professionals</i>. Ruthless
People was one of those sites, run by two honest guys who ran <i>Group Professionals</i>,
Mike Pickett, and Robert Burrows. Mike and Bob were entirely
intimidated and immediately shut down my websites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">My next site, the only one for a while, was </span><u><span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">HowTheNeoConsStoleFreedom.blogspot.com</span></a></span></u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">. I
started this blog in May 2005 and began writing articles about – surprise,
the </span><b><span style="background: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">NeoCons</span></b><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> and Fund. At about this time, I also
started writing for the <i>Lone Star Iconoclast,</i> the little
paper, which had risked the wrath of the NeoCons for endorsing John Kerry
against George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John Fund had two of his ‘women friends,’ Gail Heriot and
Christina Reis sign on as injured parties. This was essential to
their scheme. The two were apparently offended by having their
sexually explicit emails to Fund made public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a rational world this would have taught them to be more cautious
about whose computer they were sending their love notes to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> This took place in 2003, over a year after their emails had
been found by Morgan on her own computer, and while she was still living with
Fund. This truth was apparently unpleasant for them; so, like their
NeoCon Paramour, they rewrote that part, whining that I had violated their
‘personal privacy’. As if cooperating in a conspiracy to
slander and libel me was just their First Amendment right. They
deserved to be exposed because they had committed a crime, committing slander
and libel and then adding to the conspiracy by doing it again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I had a number of other women’s names, emails and phone numbers;
but absolutely would not have used them, then or now, without their
permission. They were victims. These two were
perpetrators and co-conspirators with Fund. This was, and
remains, the only correct course. The only way to seek justice open
to us today, is to represent yourself in the court of public
opinion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By 2004, Iraq had been invaded; Saddam was in hiding, and his
sons, who knew what had happened, were dead. I was now worried about
being dead myself – so I took steps to create some insurance, copying the
incredible number of document images Morgan had sent me via mail, many of them
clearly high-level briefings, onto CDs which I sent out to individuals secreted
around the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is more on the websites mentioned, if you can wade through
it. I tried to be thorough. Anything which is conjecture or likely,
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Today, as never before in our history,
Americans need the truth and choices which solve the problems we face.
George H. W. Bush has passed, but the most important imprint he left on
American politics remains unknown to Americans. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">George H. W. Bush (HW) had a family who
profited mightily from his professional life. Then and today they are joined at
the bank account. As a ‘public servant’, HW was charged to serve us; but
his loyalties were with those who have brought Americans to the tipping point
of complete disaster, unprotected by the wealth Americans honestly
earned. Instead, we have been rendered increasingly vulnerable through
the same actions which enriched HW’s own family at the expense of ordinary
Americans. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">If we are to correct course, and save ourselves
from becoming a third world nation, we need to understand how disinformation,
control of our elections, the media, and public opinion has led us to the
precipice in these days before Christmas, 2018. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In this, HW’s life can serve Americans by
providing insights and truths desperately needed.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Read the memorial to HW written by John Fund, a
‘columnist’ for <i>National Review</i>, titled, </span><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/john-fund" target="_blank">“<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;">John Fund: Why
was George H.W. Bush a one-term president?</span></a></span></i><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Fund is
a disinformation agent attempting to continue the cover-up of what happened in
1992.<i> The National Review </i>was<i> </i>founded by yet
another disinformation agent for the same interests, William F. Buckley,
Jr.. Buckley served these same interests, Big Oil, by taking the agenda
of those then known as ‘Rockefeller Republicans’ to absolute control of the
Republican Party; merging the federalization of American government with big
business, not free enterprise; consolidation of what we know today as the 99%
vs. the 1%. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">From the time he graduated from Yale, Buckley
was working for the CIA. With this we move into the murky world of
psy-ops, his assignment to alter the meaning of the word, “Conservative.”
If you read this short article, </span><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://observationsfrommelindasworld.blogspot.com/2014/10/no-95-april-29-will-real-conservative.html" target="_blank">“Will the Real Conservative Please
Stand?”</a></span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> you see how far today’s definition
deviates from the ideas which drove a generation of young people to support
Barry Goldwater for President in 1964, and then turn their backs on the GOP,
leaving it to become libertarians or non-political problem-solvers. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">There was strong opposition to Buckley, because
genuine conservatives knew his roots in the CIA and that his opinions were not
Conservative towards smaller government, even as he railed against
Liberals. Buckley was an operative, he understood the meaning of the
word, “Conservative,” specified a consistent viewpoint diametrically in
opposition to that of Rockefeller Republicans. Therefore, the
understanding of the word, “Conservative” needed to be altered so their
emerging NeoConservative coalition for federalization could be carried
out. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I heard about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this re-branding from Joe Shell, a friend of Barry Goldwater’s in 1990 when he
was working on a campaign to elect free-marketeer Dolores Bender White to the
20<sup>th</sup> State Senate District in California. I heard the
same, and more, from Connie Ruffley, a life-long member of <i>United Republicans
of California</i> (UROC), the same organization which assured the election
of Ronald Reagan as governor of California. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The goal was centralizing government, while
talking reduction and lower taxes; and then doing the opposite. This was
possible for Ronnie because his personal charm and charisma made it difficult
for people to disagree with his compromises. He was fast on his feet, and
his comebacks routinely neutralized an opponent who could not help liking him
as a person. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I know this because my father, Dr. Arthur F.
Pillsbury, a professor at UCLA who ran the <i>Republican Club</i> there,
was one of the first people Ronnie talked to after joining the Republican
Party. Dad liked Ronnie – but would not vote for him. Ronnie often
called our house to keep in touch because he wanted Dad in his administration
when he went to Sacramento as Governor, and again when he was elected as
President in 1980. Dad refused. He said Ronnie was not a
Conservative. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The NeoConservative pattern began with Ronald
Reagan, who centralized government control in California more than any Democrat
could have imagined. In 1975, UROC, who had ensured Ronnie’s election to
Governor in California, passed a </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://urocresolution1975.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">resolution</a></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> begging
Americans not to vote for Ronnie if he ran for President or Vice-President.</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Fund’s shallow
and unsubstantiated praises of HW, reflect </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.com/intro-john-fund" target="_blank">Fund’s career</a> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">as a disinformation agent, placed in
1984 at the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> to insert the spin, dictated
by the same elites which included HW, then vice president of the United States,
with Bush’s yet unrealized hopes of becoming president himself.
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Fund’s words are actually intended to reinforce
a falsehood he helped create in 1989, that HW, then a sitting president, was
more responsible for the strategy which brought about the end of the Cold War
than he was; and that in 1992 it was a string of tiny mis-steps which denied HW
a second term, for instance, underestimating public reaction to his own
negation of his “no new taxes” pledge. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In 1992, HW lost the presidency because he
ignored the offers made to him by <i>PhoneVoter TV Network</i> (PVN),
underwritten by <i>Keystone Satellite Communications</i>, to participate
in their promotion of satellite and Interactive TV, allowing Americans to move
from a passive to active role in politics. It was nice of the founder of
PVN, Brock d’Avignon, to include HW; rude of him to ignore the offer. It
is very possible the Bush Campaign lacked the technological expertise to even
understand the offer they received. This, itself, is alarming and should
cause you to question why you think these people are competent to made decisions
about your life, suffering no worse consequences themselves than temporary
ejection from the government gravy train, if they are wrong. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Technology was changing. 1992 witnessed
two innovations which have transformed the TV industry. Satellite, using
uplinks, could vastly increase name identification for a candidate in weeks.
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Offering voters, a way to be heard with tallies
of AGREE/DISAGREE PhoneVotes provided a means for voter participation. HW
ignored both these changes even after receiving the PVN proposal 12 times.
Three other candidates, Ross Perot the first of these, began in February 1992
using <i>Capitol Calling Cards</i> supplied to him by <i>Owners
of America, Inc.</i> PhoneVoters paid $20 for 20 votes, calling in to
listen to Perot’s position on an issue and then voting AGREE/DISAGREE.
The compiled results were supplied to their Congressional Representatives and
to the media. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This is what drove Perot to 39% in June of
1992. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Then, and even more so today, Americans were
hungry to be heard. Jerry Brown and Pat Buchanan, who each used PVN
services, had tallies, but their unedited speeches were broadcast over
satellite nationwide. Phone Numbers for PhoneVoting appeared at the bottom of
the screen. Voters came away with a stronger sense of what the
candidate thought and who he was. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://phonevoter.us/1992-candidates-unedited-speeches" target="_blank">SEE CLIPS OF SPEECHES</a></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">HW chose the far more arduous path of
‘whistle-stop’ campaigning in a nation which had forgotten where the local
railroad stations were located, talking to ten people at each stop.
His loss was from no other cause than hubris, ignorance and failure to
understand the direction the world was taking.</span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The phone, automobile, television, and then the
internet has impacted our expectations and increased the potential for
interacting with those seeking public office. But this potential must be
used to work. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In 1992, PVN supplied four candidates with
interactive satellite TV and Telepoll services. Three of them paid for
these, the fourth used PVN services, evading payment. The four candidates
were Ross Perot, Jerry Brown, Pat Buchanan and Bill Clinton. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Guess which one, down to $50,000 in the old
campaign chest and fleeing charges by multiple women of sexual abuse, evaded
paying for services? You got it, Bill Clinton. Bill rejected free
satellite time because you would have gotten to know him, without edits, in
advance of the election. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://phonevoter.us/page-one-debates" target="_blank">STORY</a></span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">PVN was the work of a group of
apolitical, voluntarist libertarians lead by </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://phonevoter.us/about" target="_blank">Brock d’Avignon</a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">. who saw how they could give
Americans a needed voice in our political process, enabling them to ask
questions, get answers, and make better informed decisions on who they could
trust to do the right thing as ‘public </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">servants’ or
other problem-solvers.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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calls tallied at the bottom of mass media TV screens was that first step in
1992. Who has done more to serve you, HW’s NeoConservatives, or these guys?
Here they are. They put in months of work to give you a voice. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The implication that somehow Americans are
obligated to re-elect presidents, is also absurd. </span><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">After the Democratic Primaries were
over Jerry Brown had missed displacing Clinton by what was calculated as three
days of satellite with tallies. As the Nominee of the Democratic Party,
Clinton had access to a flood of funding. Through the election, and then
again for 1996, he made sure the DNC purchased satellite time for him
24/7/365. If you are a Democrat, ask yourself if your candidates for
other offices in 1996 received satellite time or knew about the benefits of
Interactive TV. We can find no indication this was communicated. Do
let us know.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Awake to the power of technology,
HW made sure no GOP candidate used either satellite or PVN for the election in
1996. Interactive TV makes it impossible for politicians and elites to
control public opinion and elections. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">HW Bush and the Clintons not only
denied interactive TV debates to you, they also ensured Presidential Debates
would come under their control with their agreement to establish the private
exclusive <i>Commission on Presidential Debates</i> in 1993.
Clinton became the decider for the Democratic Party with his nomination as
Democratic Candidate. HW held the same power. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Perot was thrown a bone when he came back to avoid having Owners
of America, Inc. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">adopt
Bo Gritz. But what voice did you have?
Here is what PVN offered, which scared the Dems and GOP into a cooperative
effort in 1993. <i>PhoneVoter TV</i> was encouraging the audience to
ask questions of 64 candidates running in 1992. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In 1993, Haley Barbour, a friend of HWs and mega- lobbyist, was
appointed Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Barbour, on
orders from HW, forbade GOP presidential candidates from using satellite or PVN
services. See </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://phonevoter.us/1996-warning-to-hb" target="_blank">Letter</a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">What had happened was noticed. France
Telecom purchased Keystone Satellite Communications for $100M, ten times its
value of $10M, on the order of Bilderberger leader Etienne d’Avignon.
Brock learned this from David Hansford, the General Manager of Keystone a year
later. The deal with PVN for free satellite time ended immediately after
the 1992 primaries. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">After Colin Powell and Steve Forbes dropped
out, the most attractive GOP candidate for 1996 was Lamar Alexander.
Alexander was not an HW insider. Mike Murphy, who remains today an HW
insider, was tasked to become Alexander’s Media Consultant. Murphy
stopped the campaign from using satellite and blocked PVN proposals over six
times. The HW anointed nominee was Bob Dole. Dole’s campaign used
no satellite and no TV Interaction. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="https://phonevoter.us/alexander" target="_blank">PVN Notes</a></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, show
attempted contacts with Alexander Campaign, stopped by Murphy. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">HW had ensured Bill Clinton a second
term. It would seem there had been a meeting of minds and motives. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
2000, HW campaigned via Whistle-Stop with son, W. again, only this time
with a flatcar loaded with an uplink trailer, which connected them to satellite
24/7. No other GOP candidate for president used uplinks. PVN
founder, d’Avignon, sent out offers to a GOP candidate, John McCain, for an
interactive <i>"Straight Talk TV"</i> Campaign On Satellite
(COS) and <i>The RepubliCan Channel;</i> because of the obvious cheating
of the American people of audience participation in TV and debates by HW and W.
as they did not contact <i>PhoneVoter TV Network</i>, just <i>Keystone</i> for
uplinks to their Bushco studio and downlinks to TV news directors.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">John McCain received 13 proposals from PNV in 1999 – 2000.
Mike Murphy, who had gone after the position as Media Consultant to John
McCain in January 1999, intercepted these offers. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> <a href="https://phonevoter.us/2000" target="_blank">2000
Contact with McCain</a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">McCain and his wife, Cindy, learned this had
taken place when d’Avignon put the 13<sup>th</sup> proposal in their hands
as they stood next to the <i>Straight Talk Bus</i> outside the <i>Beverly
Hills Hotel</i> as the California Primary closed. Reading the
proposal Cindy exclaimed, <i>“John, with this we could have won!” </i></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Fund would do his bit by planting the story which claimed McCain
had a black love child. Fund would run the cover-up afterwards as well,
but not well enough to avoid McCain running him to ground at the <i>Wall
Street Journal</i>, where the courageous Fund hid under his desk. Fund should
have received the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com/2018/07/john-fund-and-brown-badge-of-courage.html" target="_blank">Brown Badge of Courage</a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The PVN insertion of satellite and TV
Interaction resulted in the shopping channels you use today. You can vote
on, <i>“So You Think You Can Dance?” </i>But no one in the Main
Stream Media or politics wants you using the potential for TV Interaction to
decide who you can trust, what works best, about options for health care,
correction of our banking system which provide a stable economy, allowing you
to understand the facts and choose for yourself. Interactive TV makes
this possible. HW and the Clinton’s made sure you would not know. This
attempt to control who we elect, and the choices available to us is the real
legacy of George H. W. Bush. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Today, Americans can get to know candidates for office long
before election day. Along with candidates, consider what solutions we
need, and what works best for you. Interactive TV makes this possible
along with other choices denied to all of u</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s. 58% of all TV households have a smart tv or 1,2,3
TVs connected to an Internet device. Its time to talk back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Today, find out how at </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/freedomtvnetworks.com">Freedom
Interactive TV Networks Association</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get the facts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Decide for yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-53091425569118772542018-11-26T19:07:00.000-05:002018-11-26T19:07:30.983-05:00Mark Crispin Miller Nails the JFK Cover-up and Casts Light on 9/11<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">From: <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2018/11/22/jfks-killing-fifty-five-years-on-casting-light-on-9-11-and-other-21st-century-crimes/#comment-138562">Off-Guardian</a></span></h1>
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JFK 55 years on: Casting Light on 9/11 & Other 21st Century Crimes</h1>
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1962: US statesman John F Kennedy, 35th president of the USA, making a speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)</div>
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Fifty-five
years ago, on November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Although there has been a great deal written about this event over the
years, I want to draw attention to one exceptionally important article,
originally delivered as a talk on November 20, 1998. Vincent Salandria
gave this talk in Dallas at the invitation of the Coalition on Political
Assassinations. (See Sources.)</div>
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Salandria
had been a high school teacher at the time of the assassination (he
later became a lawyer) and was one of the first people in the US to
write essays expressing dissent from the government narrative of lone
gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, maverick leftist.</div>
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In
his 1998 talk Salandria went through over a dozen of the famous
obstacles to the government story—the grassy knoll witnesses, the “magic
bullet,” the testimony of the doctors at Parkland Hospital, and so
on—but he did not let himself get sidetracked into detailed debates on
any of these. By 1998 he had already seen, and participated in, 35 years
of such debates. He had long ago concluded that, “the national security
state at the very highest level of its power killed President John F.
Kennedy for his efforts at seeking to develop a modus vivendi with the
Soviets and with socialist Cuba.”</div>
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In
1998 he felt it was time to warn researchers about the danger of
wasting time in “false debates,” where the essential facts had clearly
been established and the wrangling served only the purposes of the
assassins. Rather than repeat the debates, Salandria decided in 1998 to
outline his basic approach. I will call this the Salandria Approach. I
draw attention to it because I believe it helps us find our feet when we
tackle not only the JFK killing but many of the killings in the 21st
century’s War on Terror.</div>
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Here are Salandria’s words:</div>
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<i>I
began to sift through the myriad facts regarding the assassination
which our government and the US media offered us. What I did was to
examine the data in a different fashion from the approach adopted by our
news media. I chose to assess how an innocent civilian-controlled US
government would have reacted to those data. I also envisioned how a
guilty US national security state which may have gained control of and
may have become semi-autonomous to the civilian US governmental
structure would have reacted to the data of the assassination.”</i></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0px;">He adds that,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #787878; font-size: 22px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>only
a guilty government seeking to serve the interests of the assassins
would consistently resort to accepting one improbable conclusion after
another while rejecting a long series of probable conclusions.”</i></span></div>
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Let us take two cases from Salandria’s list of over one dozen in order to see what he was getting at.</div>
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THE GRASSY KNOLL</h4>
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Dozens
of witnesses thought there were shots from an extended grassy rise,
containing several structures, situated west of the famous Texas School
Book Depository Building. Salandria, refusing to get drawn into the
familiar debate, says:</div>
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<i>Let
us assume arguendo [for the sake of argument] that all of the
eyewitnesses who had concluded that shots were fired from the grassy
knoll were dead wrong. But an innocent government could not and would
not at that time have concluded that these good citizens were wrong and
would not have immediately rushed to declare a far-fetched single
assassin theory as fact.”</i></div>
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Note
that Salandria’s emphasis is not on the details of the grassy knoll
discussion but on the method the government followed in its
investigation. And he is right, both about the immediate claim that
Oswald acted alone— presented, as he explains, by a government
representative on November 22 itself—and about the identical statement
presented later by the Warren Commission.</div>
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In
both cases the claim flew in the face of the eyewitness evidence. For
example, despite the fact that there are references to dozens of
witnesses to shots from the grassy knoll in the 26 volumes of evidence
appended to the Warren Report, the Commission itself displayed little
interest in them. And when the Commission dismissed every single one of
the grassy knoll witnesses to protect its lone gunman theory it did so
without bothering to make a sustained argument.</div>
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It chose instead to play a credibility game. It pronounced:</div>
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No
credible evidence suggests that the shots were fired from the railroad
bridge over the Triple Underpass, the nearby railroad yards or any place
other than the Texas School Book Depository Building” <cite style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a0a0a0; display: block; font-size: 0.6em; line-height: 20.736000061035156px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Warren Report, p. 61</cite></div>
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In
other words, the Commission decided to gather together into one great
agglomeration the credibility of its seven well dressed and high-ranking
white men associated with government and use this to crush the
credibility of the “good citizens” who were present in the Plaza and
witnessed, with their senses, the unfolding of events.</div>
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It
was a breathtaking move. But in what way could it be said to
characterize an innocent government? How could any serious investigator
pretend to solve an evidential problem by playing a credibility game?
Standard practice in a homicide investigation would be to find all
witnesses, to interview them, and to record their statements
impartially, making sure to ask each one of them where they thought the
shots came from and why they reached their conclusion. How would the
opinions of congressmen, spies and the like possibly be relevant to the
case when these gentlemen declined to offer adequate counter-evidence or
to give a serious argument to support their peculiar conclusion?</div>
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Readers
who have never had the opportunity to see and hear for themselves the
good citizens in question may benefit from Mark Lane’s documentary:</div>
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Well,
where, in such a case, does the Salandria Approach lead us? We have no
choice but to conclude that the Warren Commission’s investigation was
not what we would expect from “an innocent civilian-controlled US
government.”</div>
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It
was more characteristic of “a guilty government seeking to serve the
interests of the assassins.” There was a predetermined perpetrator and
an insistence on the guilt of this perpetrator, while evidence
suggestive of a conspiracy was systematically ignored, distorted or
suppressed.</div>
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Suppose
we were to apply the Salandria Approach to events of the 21st
century–to the eyewitnesses at the World Trade Center on September 11,
2001, for example? We have over 150 witnesses who reported that they
saw, heard or felt explosions at the time of the beginning of
destruction of the Twin Towers. (See Sources for assertions in this and
the following paragraph.)</div>
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Their
testimony constitutes very significant support for the theory that the
Trade Center was blown up and did not undergo collapse from structural
failure caused by airplane collision. We are not simply talking about
loud sounds here. We are talking about sounds that experienced
firefighters suspected were caused by bombs. We are talking about
patterns of explosions seen pulverizing the buildings. We are talking,
in some cases, about witnesses who say these explosions threw them
through the air. Now, avoiding the debates about the details of this
testimony, let us follow Salandria and ask: What did the government’s
9/11 Commission do with these eyewitness accounts, all of which were in
its possession?</div>
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The
answer is that it called for no comprehensive search for eyewitnesses
(neither did the FBI, as far as I can discover), nor did it have such
witnesses asked the appropriate questions. It devoted to these witnesses
a single line in the roughly 585 pages of its Report. And that single
line is both dismissive and extremely misleading.</div>
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What
about the National Institute of Standards and Technology, assigned by
government the task of looking in detail at the destruction of the Trade
Center and sorting out the reasons for its destruction? In the
thousands of pages of its reports on the Twin Towers we find not a
single mention of the explosion witnesses. Despite NIST’s pride in its
interviewing techniques, and despite its access to all the relevant
information, it somehow missed over 150 witnesses. It made no attempt to
find them, to sort out their testimony, or to discover how their words
might illumine the mystery of the so-called “collapses.”</div>
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We
should recall that the efforts of the 9/11 Commission and NIST were
mere follow-through. A strenuous attempt to promote the structural
failure hypothesis was begun on the very day of September 11, 2001, in
the absence of serious evidence in its favour and in bold contradiction
to what large numbers of witnesses were saying. (Sources)</div>
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The film opening for Ayn Rand's “Atlas Shrugged,” opened recently. My son, Arthur, said he wanted to see it, so we went. Dozens of people I know had waited for decades for this movie to make it to the theater. As reported, the characters were flat. Attempts to draw parallels between the predictions made by Rand in her book of 1958 to what we face today fail both badly and sadly. I was strongly reminded of a conversation I had, years ago, with my former husband about fantasies that don't work. I would bet Craig was there in the theater on opening night, despite what I am about to tell you.</div>
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Craig and I were married and living in Santa Barbara when, one night, Craig asked me in a puzzled voice, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I can't make my fantasy come out the way I want.” </em>I looked up from the book I was reading. “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What?”</em></div>
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Fantasies are part of our inner lives and generally it is a good thing when fantasies remain private. From the look on Craig's face it was clear he was sincerely puzzled, unable to understand his failure to marshal his not inconsiderable intellect in this task of pure unreality. But, according to what he told me that evening, this was not for lack of trying. His face was crumpled and red. He looked like a man in the throes of an arduous task or badly constipated.</div>
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You could see he was hesitating to tell me the details. I waited, attentive, dispassionate.</div>
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As expected, Craig's need for advice overcame any hesitancy to share the details. Others who know Craig have noted his disconnect from what is generally normal. I sensed this would be one such occasion.</div>
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“<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">It starts out fine. I'm in the torch of the Statue of Liberty, looking out on New York. Ayn Rand is standing there with me as we gaze out on the city, waiting for the lights to go out.”</em></div>
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If you are not familiar with Rand's work you need to know the final denouement of the book, “Atlas Shrugged” includes the moment when the lights of New York wink out because her Nietzscheian super-heroes have turned their backs on the world, thus canceling all electric power. Craig fancies himself one of the supermen who gather in Galt's Gulch, awaiting the awareness of how essential they are to the world to dawn in those Left Behind.</div>
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Craig went on, “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I am holding Ayn in my arms. She is saying, “No, no, I cannot be unfaithful to Frank and Nathaniel.”</em></div>
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Frank is Frank O'Connor, Rand's long-suffering husband. Nathaniel is Nathaniel Branden, Rand's lover, 25 years her junior. Rand inflicted her fantasy life liberally on others, many of them very close to her. Rand lived out her fantasies and coerced those nearest and dearest to her to put up with these fantasies, justifying them as the rational, necessary, logic of her ideas and values. Frank had to leave the couple's apartment as Branden was arriving to help Rand with her fantasy life.</div>
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For details read: <u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.nathanielbranden.com/boo/boo11.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3234cd; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Judgment Day</em></a></u> by Nathaniel Branden and <a href="http://www.barbarabranden.com/book.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3234cd; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Passion of Ayn Rand</em></u><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"></u></a>by Barbara Branden.</div>
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By his own report, Craig, the only person who ever stalked Ayn Rand, was obsessed with Rand and jealous of Branden. Craig sent Rand copies of his papers on math, which Rand could not understand and so appreciate. Craig sat for hours in the lobby of her apartment building, dressed in a newly purchased Brooks Brothers suit, his finger nails manicured, hair cut, shoes shined, holding orchids for Ayn for quite some time. He also made himself known to her in ways which resulted in a nasty stay-away letter from her attorney.</div>
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Craig's fantasy continued. “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I pulled out two documents to show Ayn. That day I had paid Frank and Nathaniel to end their relationships with her. I handed Ayn quit-claim deeds from Frank and Nathaniel, who, I told her, were even then leaving the city.”</em></div>
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What perplexed Craig, because he could not change it to conform with his fantasy, was Ayn decking him with a fast right and left punch, just as he tries to embrace her.</div>
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Craig looked to me for understanding.</div>
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I pointed out his fantasy was diametrically opposed to the reality he had experienced. Rand loathed him and adamantly refused to have anything to do with him, by his own report. Perhaps this failure was the rational reaction of his mind when asked to distort reality. Craig paused, considering. Clearly, he did not like the answer provided.</div>
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I don't know if he ever managed to get a different outcome with this particular fantasy, the subject then being dropped.</div>
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Emotionally normal people move beyond the ideas of Ayn Rand by examining them in detail and understanding the source of the attraction. But many retain a fondness, in the same category as enjoyed earlier with fairy tales.</div>
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When Rand was first writing <u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master-slave_morality" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3234cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Nietzsche</a></u>'s ideas had more traction, as less was known about psychopathy and the neurobiology of the human mind. People in their late teens and early twenties often go through a period of playing with the idea they are 'special' in this way. Most recover.</div>
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The assertion some group is superior, possessing a right to live by different standards, expressed itself in two other venues in America during the 20th Century. The first was through the <u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/bernprop.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3234cd; text-decoration-line: none;">work of Edward Bernays</a></u>, the father of propaganda, whose work in what he called 'public relations,' also known as propaganda. This became the tool which remade American culture at exactly the time Rand what it meant to be an American. The second came out of the thinking of <u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.freespeechproject.com/788.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3234cd; text-decoration-line: none;">Leo Strauss,</a></u> where those 'destined to rule' were empowered to take whatever action needed to take control. This is the explicit tool used by the Neoconservatives.</div>
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Ideas, theology and philosophy, are early human tools used to create a common set of values and expectations, allowing humanity to function in a world of human design, beyond the hard-wiring of the human brain. But going beyond that small town took humanity onto dangerous ground.</div>
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Humanity originates from a human culture of small groups where it was possible for all individuals to know each other well and so reliably predict the behavior of others. Think of this as visual credit-rating, an assessment of reliability, honesty, and other values, which aid survival and provide community safety-nets. The drama of superpersonhood had not yet reared its head. The problem of psychopathy, those whose neurological make up is distorted and who have no conscience, was not yet understood. Many now believe the recurring presence of this haunting icon, the devil, refers to those we now know as psychopaths who do, routinely, refer to themselves as outside the ordinary rules, as supermen.</div>
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Rand, herself, by reports from those who knew her, was inclined to ignore reciprocal social obligations, citing various justifications of ignoring the subject. She asserted different rules for her supermen than for ordinary humanity, therefore rejected the Lockean ideas which underlie the foundations of American culture.</div>
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The hero of her first work of fiction, <u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.michaelprescott.net/hickman.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3234cd; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Little Street</em></a></u>, was drawn from the example of the most infamous cold-blooded murderer of 1928. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">"The best and strongest expression of a real man's psychology I have heard," </em>she exulted. (Quoted in Ryan, citing <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Journals of Ayn Rand</em>, pp. 21-22.)</div>
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William Hickman, Ayn's chosen model, kidnapped a 12 year old girl, held her for ransom and then murdered her. After chopping her body into parts he extorted money from her frantic father and shoved her body out of the car to be found, the girl's dead eyes sewn open.</div>
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The network of social obligations is the basis of all human culture, the original and proven-to-work, strategy which allowed humanity to survive and prosper. Robust social networks arise organically, as discussed in Hayek's, <a href="http://www.4shared.com/document/0vK_8MjS/Hayek_-__The_Fatal_Conceit.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3234cd; text-decoration-line: none;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Fatal Conceit</em></u><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</u></a> The corporate business-model, profiting in any way possible, had nothing to do with human survival. Instead, it has brought us to the brink of annihilation.</div>
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America was founded on the ideas of equality for all people, an affirmation of the natural rights philosophy of John Locke, expressed so eloquently in our Declaration of Independence. This idea worked with the Christian beliefs which brought the Puritans and Quakers to a new world where all people would be equal in law, as they are in the eyes of Christ and in nature.</div>
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Three times in the 20th Century ideas have been used to convert us to a view which deifies corporations. This line of reasoning has proven potently valuable to the entire Military Industrial Complex, in recent years, especially the Brothers Koch. The first people who should have noticed what they proposed was not free market were the same people who lined up to support them, framed as they were in the Rand Fairy Tale. This is the reason Alan Greenspan was named Chairman of the Federal Reserve. The corporates knew we would not attack 'one of our own.'</div>
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Ideas which consistently create disaster, personal, national and global, should be deleted. End the Fed. Enforce accountability by demanding restitution for profits made through fraud. Accept the truth, no matter how many fantasies have to die.</div>
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This article is dedicated to Nathaniel Branden, who recognized Craig Franklin as bizarre while we were in therapy with him, and to Craig himself, who, still trying to achieve his fantasy, illustrated in one story line, how psychopaths impact our world, from the personal to the hidden reaches of corporate profit.</div>
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American Politics Journal. Tell us why, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gene-gaudette-5700115/"><span style="color: #b83d46;">Gene</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cast your minds back to the
primary season of 2000. John McCain had begun a ground swell in the
Granite State with a campaign that allowed American voters to contrast a real
war hero willing to meet your eye and listen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No matter what, McCain took no crap from anyone, especially a
service-dodger like George W. Bush, the Son of Monied Oil. <o:p></o:p><br />
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McCain is not a man without faults, but a lack of courage is not among
them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Senator McCain was cleaning the floor with the Bush Baby when suddenly a rumor
started to float across the panorama of politics covertly maligning the former
POW. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John McCain, the rumor says, has an illegitimate love child who is half
black. His campaign screeches to a halt; the rumor, coming at a critical
time, causes irreparable damage to his campaign, hitting him at the ballot box
like a nuclear explosion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">John Fund In Hiding</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was no truth to the rumor. McCain and his wife have an adopted
child who is of mixed heritage but neither of them is biologically related to
the child they took into their home and hearts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Now that we know and understand the tactics employed by the NeoCons we can make
some very educated judgments about where the rumor originated. It has the
marks of a Rove generated creative writing project. The rumor was
circulated by Political Operative Prime for the Bushavicks, John Fund.
Placing such rumors is one of his most important functions for Bush and Associates. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Just as the rumor was washing away the Senator's chances for the nomination
McCain discovered the identity of the man responsible. At that moment in
time John McCain was in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Not a man to leave to others what a real man does for himself, the Senator
stormed into the officers of the Wall Street Journal to confront the
pestilential little NeoCon prick who had demeaned his honor and his family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John Fund, a non-veteran of anything but the war on Americans being waged so
openly now by the Bush Administration, showed all of the courage you could
expect of someone like him. Hearing the roars from the reception area he
scampered into his office and hid under his desk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Remember that. This is an insight that serves to inform us on the nature
of those in charge of our Nation's destiny. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very likely Bush Jr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would have beaten John to the hidey hole, if
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John Fund is a distinguished recipient of the Brown Badge of Courage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The award ceremony took place in the Wall
Street Journal Men's Room soon after his close <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>encounter with war hero, John McCain,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white;">Note: Story has some inaccuracies. The notes in italics are mine, Melinda Pillsbury-Foster. The author, John Connolly, has since moved on and written a book <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Powerful-Billionaire-Shocking/dp/0316274054/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504741457&sr=8-1&keywords=%22filthy+rich%22+connolly">Filthy Rich</a></i></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Powerful-Billionaire-Shocking/dp/0316274054/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504741457&sr=8-1&keywords=%22filthy+rich%22+connolly">: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy - The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein</a></i> </span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 12px;">Oct 10, 2016 </span><span class="a-size-small a-color-secondary" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85 , 85 , 85); font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.25;">by </span><span class="a-size-small a-color-secondary" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85 , 85 , 85); font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.25;"><a class="a-link-normal a-text-normal" href="https://www.amazon.com/James-Patterson/e/B000APZGGS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1504741457&sr=8-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c0; text-decoration-line: none;">James Patterson</a> and </span><span class="a-size-small a-color-secondary" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85 , 85 , 85); font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.25;">John Connolly</span><span style="background: white;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">John Fund, the forty-six year old writer on the staff of the Wall Street
Journals' editorial page, has staked out a position as a man of integrity. On
his frequent appearances on cable and network talk shows, he espouses the
position of the right-wing conservatives. He is friends with people in the Bush
White House. He is a dear friend of Conservative Grover Norquist. He recently
met with Vice President Cheney. During the Clinton presidency he wrote often of
the terrible acts committed by Clinton against women. On his appearances on
Television evangelist Pat Robertson"700 Club" show, he often condemns
those who do not live up to the highest moral standards. This conservative
pundit seems to be on television more often, than "I Love Lucy"
reruns. Although he portrays himself as a voice of the religious right, the
never married Fund has cut a wide swath of sexual relationships through-out the
Libertarian and Conservative parties. He's a regular right-wing Lothario. He is
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There is nothing newsworthy about consensual sex between two unmarried adults,
even if one of those supposed adults, acts badly. But, when a high profile
public person stakes out the moral high ground, that person had better not be
standing on quick sand. A few months age, Morgan Pillsbury a twenty-seven year
old woman, contacted me with information about her former lover of three years,
John Fund. Although, I heard stories of Fund's less than cavalier treatment of
women and particularly his Clintonesque treatment of one particular woman, I
did not think that information worthy of a story. Amusing gossip yes-newsworthy
no. But, the story Morgan told, gave me pause. If her allegations were true,
Fund's relationship with her was not only bizarre; it was treacherous and
bordered on the perverse. To back up her story of the bad behavior of John
Fund, she furnished me with a tape recording she made of a conversation she had
with Fund. The tape and conversations with Morgan's' mother, Melinda
Pillsbury-Foster and others confirmed Morgan's tale.</div>
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Twenty years ago, Melinda and John Fund both worked for the then fledgling
Libertarian party in California. Fund was the executive director of the local
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Melinda,
who at the time was the mother of four children, she would have three more, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">began sexual relationship with the much younger Fund. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Melinda
said, "John and I had a sexual relationship for four or five years. When
he moved east, we remained friends. It never really ended." Melinda who is
still active in the Libertarian party </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">went
on to say, "Six or Seven years ago, John called and during the
conversation he told me, "Melinda if any of your children come east, have
them look me up." I didn't realize that he was using me as a dating
service!" Last year Melinda learned that not only had Fund been sleeping
with Morgan, he was the father of the child she would abort.</span></div>
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Not only had Fund violated his twenty year old friendship with Melinda
Pillsbury-Foster, he, much like Congressman Gary Condit (Fund recently wrote a
scathing indictment of Condit's behavior) insisted that Morgan keep their three
year affair secret.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Morgan was 23 years old the first time then 43 years old </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fund, took her to bed. Sounds all too familiar
doesn't it? According to Morgan, John Fund was the third man she had been
intimate with. She had contacted him when she moved to the New York area after
a bad breakup with her previous boyfriend. Instead of receiving consolation
from the man who had on occasion been her babysitter </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">back in California, Fund took her
to bed. In 1999, confronted with an unplanned and apparently unwanted
pregnancy, Fund abandoned Morgan and without attempting to dissuade her,
allowed the distraught young woman to have an abortion, without any support
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">John Fund is a full time writer for the Wall Street Journal. Yet, when I began
researching a profile on Mr. Fund, he unlike most other journalist, began a
campaign to kill the story. A source close to Fund told me a few days ago, that
Fund and a confederate were attempting to plant a false and malicious blind
item about two people at Talk magazine. They believed that the item would so
frighten the victims that they would see to it that my profile of Mr. Fund was
spiked. Mr. Fund and his pals can congratulate themselves, to protect innocent
people from being attacked; I have pulled the piece from Talk magazine. Hence
this abbreviated piece which is written solely to introduce the reader to John
Fund on tape with Morgan Pillsbury, the mother of the aborted child.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So there should be no confusion, this tape was made legally and given to me by
Morgan Pillsbury. Ms. Pillsbury also gave me her permission to use her name, as
did her mother Melinda Pillsbury-Foster. I have learned that very recently, Ms.
Pillsbury who has experienced some financial difficulties, has at Fund's
request, moved in with him. John Fund lives in an apartment in Jersey City,
just a stones throw from the Holland Tunnel. I have also been told that Mr.
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Mr. Fund makes mention of how he is being threatened by Melinda. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He apparently
believes that Melinda has no right to be angry for his deceiving her for three
years, all the while sleeping with, and impregnation her oldest child. For
those who doubt the veracity of the transcript or wish to hear the anger and
seething hostility of John Fund, </span><a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Sex--Lies-and-the-Tape-.html" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Please listen to the audio tape</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. John Connolly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Post Script from Melinda:</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> (At the time I first listened to the tape, I was so stunned many details slipped right by me. At the time, I was full time caring for my son, Arthur, who had shot himself through the brain in a suicide attempt. Morgan had accepted $10,000 from Craig, my former husband, to persuade me to turn off life-support. I found out about her motive and about her having been paid $5,000 a month, by Craig, to slander and libel me, through the financial discovery during the divorce. Craig was then earning about $1,000,000 a year but did not want to pay support for a disabled son. Sweet guy. This was ONE of the reasons Morgan and I were not talking. But she was right, she usually could get what she wanted out of me. I've finally learned my lesson.) </i></span></div>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-41417578435631792612017-09-05T18:06:00.001-04:002017-09-05T18:06:07.081-04:00John Fund and the Brown Badge of Courage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Somehow this disappeared from this site and others, for instance American Politics Journal. Tell us why, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gene-gaudette-5700115/">Gene</a>!</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_sgDuIdBM3KAfcB_MIz0QQD9noBSW0hLMkUPw1RYLNSttcBzJYvyIsqDdYs6xemGgf8aZvoMWTvdkeO5ax0DTQ1mEBrS-Fh-u2YOpLwkwl-t5_B4FMga1jKcMclzI5ovPPxPB/s1600/Fund+-+NeoCon+guts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="719" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_sgDuIdBM3KAfcB_MIz0QQD9noBSW0hLMkUPw1RYLNSttcBzJYvyIsqDdYs6xemGgf8aZvoMWTvdkeO5ax0DTQ1mEBrS-Fh-u2YOpLwkwl-t5_B4FMga1jKcMclzI5ovPPxPB/s320/Fund+-+NeoCon+guts.jpg" width="239" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Cast your minds back to the primary season of 2000. John McCain had begun a ground swell in the
Granite State with a campaign that allowed American voters to contrast a real
war hero who meets your eye and takes no crap from anyone with George W. Bush,
the Son of Monied Oil. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> McCain is
not a man without faults but a lack of courage is not among them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Senator
McCain was cleaning the floor with the Bush Baby When a rumor started to float
across the panorama of politics covertly maligning the former POW. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> John McCain,
the rumor says, has an illegitimate love child who is half black. His campaign screeches to a halt; the rumor,
coming at a critical time, causes irreparable damage to his campaign that hits
him at the ballot box like a nuclear explosion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> There was no
truth to the rumor. McCain and his wife
have an adopted child who is of mixed heritage but neither of them are
biologically related to the child they took into their home and hearts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Now that we
know and understand the tactics employed by the NeoCons we can make some very
educated judgments about where the rumor originated. It has the marks of a Rove generated creative
writing project. The rumor was circulated by Political Operative
Prime for the Bushavicks, John Fund.
Placing such rumors is one of his most important functions for Bush and
Assoc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Just as the
rumor was washing away the Senator's chances for the nomination McCain
discovered the the identify of the man responsible. At that moment in time John McCain was in New
York.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Not a man to
leave to others what a real man does for himself the Senator stormed into the
officers of the Wall Street Journal to confront the pestilential little NeoCon
prick who had demeaned his honor and his family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> John Fund, a
non-veteran of anything but the war on Americans being waged so openly now by
the Bush Administration showed all of the courage you could expect of someone
like him. Hearing the roars from the
reception area he scampered into his office and hid under his desk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Remember
that. This is an insight that serves to
inform us of the nature of those in charge of our Nation's destiny. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> John Fund,
recipient of the Brown Badge of Courage awarded in the Wall Street Journal
Men's Room soon after the encounter. </span> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-72553588719688869402017-07-27T22:44:00.000-04:002019-02-06T17:26:48.886-05:00Your Wishes Can Change the World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> This year, as we watch the world around us collapsing, we are learning that Christmas is not about money. Christmas is about loving each other, about gifts that have nothing to do with the green folding stuff, or even silver and gold. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Our money is melting down into worthless goo. Stores are closing; cameras are going up at intersections across the country. This morning I received a call from a friend in Florida who argued for twenty minutes at her bank where she has done business for twenty years. The problem? They wanted to photograph her eyes biometrically. She refused, but not many are as determined as she. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> The things that really matter will endure. Gifts like compassion, empathy, humor, familial love and friendship, last a life time and cannot be devalued. This Christmas we need to hold on to those things. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Christmas is being family. It is coming together to create communities. It is being conscious of how our actions and lives touch through time. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> For months, years, I have been writing about what was going to happen to our nation and to the people we love. Last year I predicted the end of the world as we know it. Every week I have hammered on the same subject and on what needs to be done so that we can change direction. I have been writing and thinking about the problems for what seems like a life time. What I write is generally politics, but this time I want you to see why I know that change is possible. I know what it is like to feel helpless and lost. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Christmas is loving each other as we are loved by One Who Loves Absolutely. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> When you find the strength of love anything is possible. This past week I took a story I had originally written for my children and rewrote it for you. Is a story about a time when I was lost and desperate. Instead of giving up I found the Christmas that glows through the hard times, endures through hardships and seemingly insurmountable problems. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> The Star for Christmas was my response to circumstances beyond my control in 1979. There is always strength to sustain us, if we reach beyond ourselves to That One Who Loves Absolutely. Today, we are all reaching. When we extend ourselves we grow spiritually, finding things more wonderful than we could possibly have imagined as long as we do not give up. One of the things we will find is each other. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> In 1979 I experienced a time of terrible anguish but I still had small children who needed me, needed to feel the wonder of Christmas. I reached into my own past and found strength from the memories of someone who had taught me the importance of courage, of holding on to my dreams and wishes. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> The Star for Christmas custom began that year, drawn from the memories of wishes I had shared with James Dean. In 2001 I began writing the book explaining the custom to my children soon after Thanksgiving Day. Ayn, my youngest daughter, had asked me a question as we sat around the table after dinner. It had been a perfect holiday filled with happy memories revisited and cooperative efforts over turkey and stuffing. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> The year was sliding towards the upcoming holidays. We were remembering Christmas' past. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Ayn asked me one of those questions that you never anticipate being asked. That question lead to many insights and eventually to their book and then to this one. The question Ayn asked was about the star in which our family had traditionally placed our wishes for the year to come on Christmas Eve. “When and where did this custom begin?” Ayn asked. She assumed it to be an old New England custom. Although I told her this was not the case it occurred to me that I had not actually explained the custom's origin to my children. I did not share my pain of 1979 with them, feeling it would be inappropriate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> I promised to write the Star’s history for them. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Later, as I sat down to write, I revisited my thoughts that year the custom began. Seeking the Star’s origin became a quest into the dusty reaches of my mind and heart, then, via paper trails, to memories of people long gone. I had never revisited those events, simply sealing them off and moving on. Through this journey I found not just the Star but many more unasked questions. I also found answers to questions that I didn’t know needed asking. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">My wishes of 1979 had been answered in ways I did not expect when I considered them. I had never understood the power of hope and the strength of my dreams until then. We need to look at the world, ourselves, and realize what really matters. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Our dreams and wishes can be transformational. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Let this Christmas become a time of renewal for all of us. Savor the love that extends your life into those around you. Bake cookies and let them melt in your mouth. Enjoy every bite. Then plan for a very different future than the one being planned for us. Your wishes can change the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A Star for Christmas benefits America Goes Home</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The good news is that, for at least the next few months, several million Americans will live a little bit longer because they will still have affordable healthcare. Even though it's not single-payer healthcare (which could save millions more American lives and cost billions of dollars less), it's still better than Trump-Ryan-McConnell-Don't-<wbr></wbr>Care by a long shot. But then this isn't really news at all, right? Just the same old story of our corporate-sponsored government vs. what Jesus would have done. Boring. Nothing to see here, folks. Let's move on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The bad news is that I just got into a big fight with a friend of mine over RussiaGate. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/09/ten-problems-with-anti-russian-obsession/&source=gmail&ust=1500233888125000&usg=AFQjCNFinMFsF7m2mA0FXRVucWZ2vf5Yhw" href="https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/09/ten-problems-with-anti-russian-obsession/" id="m_-1011050991247556704yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500137379677_15039" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://consortiumnews.com/<wbr></wbr>2017/07/09/ten-problems-with-<wbr></wbr>anti-russian-obsession/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "The Trumps should be arrested," my friend shouted at me, "for using Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "But what about the Clintons and their use of the Saudis and Israelis to influence the 2016 election?" I replied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "But that's completely different." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Is it now? In exactly what way? Israelis have used the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to rule our elections with an iron hand for the past four decades, and the Saudis have used the Clinton Foundation to influence our elections by donating all kinds of $$$$ to it. But nobody appears to be whining their little hearts out about that kind of stuff. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html&source=gmail&ust=1500233888125000&usg=AFQjCNFFqK12KvVerlqeZTPDBN6kQxvaXA" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html" id="m_-1011050991247556704yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500137379677_15055" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/<wbr></wbr>08/21/us/politics/hillary-<wbr></wbr>clinton-presidential-campaign-<wbr></wbr>charity.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "Yeah, but..." countered my friend. "Both AIPAC and the Clinton Foundation are run by Americans, not foreign nationals." And that makes it okay? Americans who are unregistered agents of foreign countries are supposed to declare themselves according t<span id="m_-1011050991247556704yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500137379677_15060" style="font-size: small;">o the </span><span id="m_-1011050991247556704yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500137379677_15061" style="font-size: small;"><span id="m_-1011050991247556704yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500137379677_15062">Foreign Agents Registration Act, Section 22 et seq.</span> Or perhaps th</span>ese Americans are just committing treason? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Is my friend really actually trying to tell me that, "Treason is okay -- just as long as it doesn't involve Russia...." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Then I replied, "But AIPAC and Israel have tried to influence the outcome of almost every single American federal election in the past 50 years -- and in the past few decades, almost no politician has been sent to Washington without AIPAC's stamp of approval. Just ask former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney about that one." Not to mention Israel's grim influence in attempting to sink the USS Liberty 50 years ago today. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://usslibertyveteransblog.org/cong-jerrald-nadler-accepts-discredited-version-of-uss-liberty-attack-1378/&source=gmail&ust=1500233888125000&usg=AFQjCNGll0m6aSHlkD3r_MRzesgwgHrrvw" href="http://usslibertyveteransblog.org/cong-jerrald-nadler-accepts-discredited-version-of-uss-liberty-attack-1378/" id="m_-1011050991247556704yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500137379677_15075" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://usslibertyveteransblog.<wbr></wbr>org/cong-jerrald-nadler-<wbr></wbr>accepts-discredited-version-<wbr></wbr>of-uss-liberty-attack-1378/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "But what about Barbara Lee?" answered my friend. Geez Louise. Bad example. Rep. Lee is what we call a PEP -- Progressive Except for Palestine. In America, PEPs are elected all the time. Even Al Franken and Bernie Sanders are PEPs. But you never ever hear of any PER (Progressive Except for Russia) getting elected. In fact, according to spell-check, that isn't even a word. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://972mag.com/gaza-will-be-unlivable-next-year-not-2020-as-the-un-says/128598/&source=gmail&ust=1500233888125000&usg=AFQjCNECAUhYZ6D17gG3PucRvoTFgHhJLA" href="https://972mag.com/gaza-will-be-unlivable-next-year-not-2020-as-the-un-says/128598/" id="m_-1011050991247556704yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500137379677_15081" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://972mag.com/gaza-will-<wbr></wbr>be-unlivable-next-year-not-<wbr></wbr>2020-as-the-un-says/128598/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Nobody on The Hill dares to cross Israel or the Saudis -- for fear of not getting re-elected. And yet almost everybody on The Hill feels free to bad-mouth Russia. I rest my case. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.thenation.com/article/congress-has-removed-a-ban-on-funding-neo-nazis-from-its-year-end-spending-bill/&source=gmail&ust=1500233888125000&usg=AFQjCNF4kWsS9x5TOhSYbm1klyREndoWZQ" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/congress-has-removed-a-ban-on-funding-neo-nazis-from-its-year-end-spending-bill/" id="m_-1011050991247556704yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500137379677_15085" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.thenation.com/<wbr></wbr>article/congress-has-removed-<wbr></wbr>a-ban-on-funding-neo-nazis-<wbr></wbr>from-its-year-end-spending-<wbr></wbr>bill/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">PS: No, wait. I don't rest my case either. Have you ever gotten yourself into a debate and then gone home and told yourself, "Good grief, I shoulda said this..." Well. Perhaps what I should have also said to my friend is, "Donald Jr. talked with some Russian attorney? HELL, REAGAN KEPT AMERICANS HOSTAGE IN TEHRAN for months in order to get elected -- and later even illegally sold weapons to Iran during the Iran-Contra scandal when our ally Iraq was at 'war' with Iran. But nobody complained about that. You never heard of ReaganGate. Of course you didn't."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Not to mention that Nixon totally screwed the Paris peace talks with Vietnam in order to get elected, causing the grim and unnecessary deaths of hundreds of American soldiers. Where's the anger about that? Plus the Bushes, the Clintons, Obama, etc. all regularly chatted it up with Saudi princes and Israeli neo-colonialists in order to get elected too. Hypocrites. All of them." <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-a-civil-war-supported-by-washington-and-its-allies-us-wants-to-partition-and-reconfigure-the-middle-east/5598841&source=gmail&ust=1500233888125000&usg=AFQjCNEzpW2UBtgRxEtPb2NUE33dnhYBXQ" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-a-civil-war-supported-by-washington-and-its-allies-us-wants-to-partition-and-reconfigure-the-middle-east/5598841" id="m_-1011050991247556704yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1500137379677_15093" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.globalresearch.ca/ syria-a-civil-war-supported- by-washington-and-its-allies- us-wants-to-partition-and- reconfigure-the-middle-east/ 5598841</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> And, duh, I also should have told my friend about how I myself have lived through the grim and useless 1950s First Cold War, deliberately started by the Dulles brothers -- and that it was a miserable, scary, McCarthyism-laden time that I wouldn't wish on a dog. And that Putin is no Stalin. And that Trump, Netanyahu, Prince What's-his-Name and Mitch McConnell are not John and Bobby Kennedy either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Hydrofluoric Acid (HFA)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>What You Need to Know</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">At Risk: 27,000,000 Americans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Los Angeles is not alone in facing the potential deaths of millions of residents by Hydrofluoric Acid (HFA). In the United States, there are 19 metropolitan areas and 18 rural towns facing the same threat from 49 obsolete HFA catalyst using, gasoline-making refineries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At EcoAlert, we have produced exhaustive studies, articles, and research materials on the danger continued use of HFA presents to people and all living things. But it has not penetrated far enough to motivate effective action. We discussed the problem and decided to provide you with a more compelling presentation of these dangers. There is a solution to this problem, and others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The list below provides areas in the US now in immediate danger of death and extreme maiming from the use of HFA. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Glance over the list. You most likely either know someone, have family, or are yourself at risk. What you are going to read is distressing. But it is the nightmare which wakes us up in a cold sweat nearly every night. I have family living in harm’s way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 in metro Philadelphia PA and downwind Wilmington DE, and Camden NJ in kill/maim-zone </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">20-mile radii </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 New Orleans LA </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 Baton Rouge LA </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 Salt Lake City UT </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 Chicago IL </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 Los Angeles CA</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 Twin Cities Minneapolis/St. Paul MN</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 Corpus Christi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Port Arthur/Galveston</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 Texas City</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 Pasadena (Houston metro) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Canton OH</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Memphis TN </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Major towns with populations below 300,000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Billings MT</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Duluth/Superior MN</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ferndale/Bellingham WA</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ashland KY</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 Ponca City OK </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 Crawford County IL </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Impact from poisoning by the nearly 100% concentrations of HFA happens fast and is potentially lethal as a poison gas at room temperature. HFA becomes a gas at 67.1 degrees. In gaseous form, it can kill in 19 minutes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A third of the oil companies are still using this obsolete HFA process. They are well aware of the hazards this presents. Instead of changing their process, all of them take have taken steps to evade the potential for liability. They claim they do not have the funds to change to modern liquid sulfuric acid catalyst processing to make gasoline. Liquid sulfuric acid does not become gaseous until the temperature reaches 560 degrees Fahrenheit. This could happen during a fire, but not if the acid is just spilled. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The kill and maim zone from just one typical 55,000 gallon refinery tank of HFA is around 20 miles, depending on the wind direction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A breach of one of the HFA tanks could happen at any hour of the day or night, during the work week, while you are picking up your children from school, as you fall asleep at night, or while you are at work, miles from your home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, please read the scenario, a synopsis from the screen play, “19 Minutes.” It is entirely based on the facts. The story takes you into an American city to watch the experience of one family, as their city dies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jen is married and lives a half mile from the refinery, but today you can smell the scent of it in the wind, which is moving the spring leaves on the tree outside the windows on this side of the house. The smell is not annoying enough to warrant complaint. Claims of climate change are a topic for satire with Jen’s friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jen is in her late 30’s, a natural blond with perfect skin who has aced her way through life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is just past 6:08am. Jen, a working mother, who gave up the fast track to be home with her two daughters, is working on a news release, now nearly finished. Her client is Cape Media, a start-up in which Jen has invested sweat equity. Five days a week Jen drives Abby, the oldest, by five years, to her private school or, for the youngest, Molly, to day care at Miss Montgomery’s School for the Young. Day care will end at the same time Jen picks up Abby, as the schools are next door to each other. After that, the day is given to play dates, or lessons. Abby, older by five years, is now in sixth grade and views herself as an adult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Glancing away from the clock over her desk, Jen finishes the news release she is writing and glances at her email, seeing one is from her next door neighbor, Jacque Stafford. She and Jacque share a passion for pastries and once and a while slip out to enjoy a self-indulgent hour at La Patisserie, which is tucked into a quiet corner of the local mall. Lately, Jacque has started reading the Facebook site for the group opposed to the local refinery. The email could be pastries, but it could be boring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jacque's kids are nearly the same age as Jen's, one girl, Connie, bakes goodies to be sold at Abby and Molly's Lemonade Stand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jen sends off the news release and leans back, delighting for a moment in the serene calm of her office. It is perfectly organized and furnished in ivory and Celadon green. Although many of her friends have stopped buying antiques, Jen still appreciates their fine, detailed workmanship. She refinished this desk herself, taking off layers of paint to reveal the lovely grain of the wood. Through research, she discovered the piece is over 200 years old and the work of a master woodworker from Amesbury, Massachusetts. His name was faint, but readable, on the underside of one of the drawers. Jen paid $45 for it at an estate sale. Now, it sits between ivory colored shelves and wood filing cabinets, painted to match the walls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Photos of Molly and Abby at the Lemonade stand serving Jacque, with Connie and Eric setting up cupcakes for sale, hang beside them. Jeff, Jacque's father sent Jen a copy his shot, already framed. Her wedding portrait with Dwayne smiles at her, with images from their vacations together. Each perfectly framed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was tough for Jen to give up her job at West Star Communications. She thought long and hard about this because her career was both stimulating and challenging. But being with the girls, and knowing they were safe, came first. Dwayne agreed. He works thirty miles away, hates the commute, but is happy knowing they are safe, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jen worries about pollutants, but knows nothing about Hydrofluoric Acid. In this, she is like most Americans. If she knew, she would never have moved to Kendal Commons. There is only one road out, and in times of emergency, getting out would be difficult or impossible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A ruptured HFA tank’s release would hit like a neutron bomb, causing little damage to streets and buildings, but killing everything in its path. First responders would be told to stay away since they are not equipped with the protective suits and respirators it would take to survive themselves. Since Jen knows nothing of this, these facts do not worry her. Ignorance can kill. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kendal Commons is a development where children play freely, and families visit back and forth like the small town of another century. Nearly every weekend the neighbors get together for meals and organize trips to the many local places which are educational and fun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The released gas travels fast. It kills in 19 minutes as the fluorine ions replace the calcium and magnesium in lung and heart tissue, cardiac arrest occurs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lightly running her hand over the satin finish of her desk, Jen pads into the kitchen for a second cup of coffee. It is 6:13am. Just as she finishes pouring, her hand jerks, spilling a drop of coffee on the marble counter. Did she hear something? It was faint, but sounded like a deep wump explosion in the distance. The leaves outside are sending out a beautiful resonance of sound, as they do when the wind picks up. She pauses a moment, wondering. The girls may still be sleeping, because nothing seems to be stirring in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Vaguely worried, Jen calls the fire department, but the line is busy. Strange, she thinks. Then, she punches the number to call city hall. Busy. Finally, worried, Jen calls the police as she turns on local news report. There has been an explosion at the local refinery. The news commentator reports the advice given to them by city hall to use when incidents occur, “shelter in place.” The refinery experiences frequent flares and spills of petroleum, accompanied by the stench of pollutants. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Suddenly, Jen hears the television in the family room come on as the commentator is handed a paper. The girls are up, surprised by what they are hearing. Eyes growing wide, the news commentator is reading from the piece of paper handed to her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Together, on separate TVs, Jen and the girls hear the panic in the commentator’s voice as listeners are urged to leave the area as the television feed changes. Before their eyes a wave of white, cloud-like gas is undulating and rolling through familiar streets. The camera continues to roll as the crew backs away. The camera falls to the pavement, focused still toward the cloud, as it is enveloped. Jen and the girls can hear the camera crew yelling and someone gasping. The news room jolts back onto the screen, frozen on the stunned face of the commentator. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Later, much later, when the HFA is dissipated, emergency workers and police will walk into homes, through open doors or entering through windows. This is the first survey, looking for the dead. They have found some still in bed, others crumpled in their kitchen, in the bathroom, holding children or pets, a few still clutching their cell phones or heads in the sink trying to wash off or out the HFA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It took only 19 minutes until their lungs were eaten away. The fluorine in the HFA is attacking vital organs through the blood from the lungs, while hydrogen acid ions penetrate the skin, allowing the fluorine to advance, replacing the tissues’ calcium and magnesium, directly, for instance, in their eyes. Then, HFA attacks the heart muscle, stopping it cold. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through those hours of shock and disbelief, local, and then national, organizations are beginning to organize for a disaster larger in scope than any previous disaster in America’s history. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The transport for the dead is whatever is available. Cold storage is found in food warehouses, no longer necessary, and bodies are matched with the information available. Calls from family and friends begin to overload local phone capacity. With the first responders, comes a team assembled to search records for relations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The threat of disease, caused by bodies which are not refrigerated, will be grave. Arrangements for burial, or disposal, become a topic of controversy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Emergency stations are established along with phone numbers and a website to help people find each other. No one in the impacted area can go home. Shelters are opened. Most have cell phones, but not everyone. About half the dead have been identified by address, but the remaining identifications, for people on the street or away from their homes when the cloud hit, often have nothing to identify themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As the Responders begin their work, what they find is death and silence. Eerily, watering systems come on, along with lights, preprogrammed television shows, and alarms. But nothing living stirs. No birds are in the trees, no animals appear alive, as they make their rounds. Eventually, predators, human and animal, do appear, but this is also horrifying. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It took less than a week before Responders began to see doors and windows broken in, valuables stolen from under the dead eyes of the owners. Soon, they could recognize the patterns. The police began a perimeter watch, but the area was so large this proved to be ineffective. The state National Guard was then taken off their duty and redeployed as guards. Surveillance by cameras soon followed, with drones watching from above, throughout the night hours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These looters were summarily imprisoned, as much for their own safety as to serve justice. The mood of spared friends, family, and neighbors made more permanent, and immediate, sentences, likely. Two of what the public came to call, ‘carrion eaters,’ were found by in front of city hall, hanged from a light post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the crowd who watched the two cut down was shouted. “They should have hung the oil executives with them.” Another voice responded, “Hey! Where are they now?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Attacks by larger groups of looters on Responders resulted in issuing first pepper spray and then guns to responding teams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The deaths of two Responders, one a volunteer from the outlying community put fuel on the fire of rage, now building as the initial shock faded. The funeral for the two, one of whom had been a friend of Jen’s from their church, was attended by 100,000 people. The flow of volunteers from other parts of the country, some of whom had realized their own areas were also at risk, mounted. Survivors whose areas had been cleared used their homes, businesses, and community buildings to house them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Explaining why he had come, a volunteer from the Philadelphia area said, “It could have been my family. My Mom and Dad live behind us, one block from the refinery. They all urged me to come, for them, too.” Pausing, he continued. “I had a sister. Five years ago she died of cancer. She was 24. We all felt it was the refinery who caused it. She was a real go-getter, fought for her life every day. I’m here for our parents, and for her, Ashley.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ashley’s name appeared on a new wall at the Memorial the next day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Receiving the stolen property resulted in imprisonment. None of the perpetrators would be released, the public was told, until the honored dead, the victims, had been, finally laid to rest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First responders ask for, and receive, treatment for trauma, not from physical injuries but to cope with the nightmares they take back to their own homes. Soon, their work has been organized to give them relief time, as more First responders arrive from across the country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dying of HFA poisoning is ugly, painful. During the 19-minutes of burning skin, eyes and lungs, bringing helpless terror, their bodies are dissolving. Children would have died calling for their mothers and fathers or other caretakers. Those last few minutes would have been overwhelming agony. Responders see it in what is left of their faces and opaqued, damaged eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As more dead were cleared from cars, either trapped or wrecked in traffic, the tally mounts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some cars are filled with suitcases, boxes of photos, and treasures, telling their own stories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tow trucks lined up for miles, their drivers enduring the stench, which will grow worse, before it begins to fade. Street after street, they wait, load, and deliver the residue of lives lost to their next stop. It was slow, clearing pile up, after pile up, of cars, trucks, and pedestrians clutching bags of their possessions. Often, people doing this work dehumanize the dead. But not here. The dead are treated with respect. After all, no one else knew what could happen either. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The twisted, crumpled bodies of people struggling to escape had suddenly, realized their danger. Frantic to escape, they had headed for streets, away from the advancing cloud of death. Sometimes, they were right, sometimes wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the aftermath, people seek explanations. What they got was rhetoric. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The Mayor, the Governor and President Trump, were all present when the memorial to the dead and maimed was dedicated. Initially it had stood at a neighborhood park at the far end of the kill zone. Now, it was permanently set on land </span>next to a Mormon Stake Center nearby. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Survivors had grown indifferent to all visitors who were only there as sightseers. They were tired of being told, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">again and again, the disaster is less monumental than it could have been.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> At first, they had been stunned, then quiet. Now they were indifferent, ignoring them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The media accompanying the President, those with the Governor realized this was news, news which would redefine those they covered. Who ignores the Governor of California and the President of the United States? </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There had been no eager voters, waiting to shake hands, no cheers, only sullen glances and gestures aimed at Secretary Tillerson, who had accompanied the Presidential Party. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But these people did. Instead, they were busy with relief work and reassembling what was left of their lives and businesses. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> It was the memorial which held the interest of the survivors. Its hastily built walls, filled with photos of the dead and missing, flowers and stuffed animals had been moved, rebuilt, and planted with flowers, fruit trees and vertical gardens, producing organic vegetables. People need to eat when they are working. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Here, they held the memorial services for those they had lost. Here, they prepared meals for the continuing flow of volunteers from other towns, states, and countries, who had come to remember their dead. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> After making their remarks, the politicians departed, relieved to be finished with this unpleasant confrontation with reality. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> One reporter took in all of it. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without authorization from his editor, one reporter began digging in to Tillerson's history with Exxon. What he found both shocked and elated him. A graduate of BYU, Simon Young was the great-great-grandson of Brigham, one of the early leaders of the Mormon removal to Utah. Many of his fellow journalists noted his decided resemblance to his ancestor. Simon would comment he was really more like his mother's family, but they rarely took this seriously. But this was true. Simon's mother, a leading figure in the Women's Relief work in Provo, was a graduate of BYU herself - and a full-blooded Samoan now on Mission in Africa for the Mormon Church. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The dishonesty and cynicism of the publishing industry had come as a shock to his values and sensibilities even though Simon no longer considered himself to be an active Mormon. He might have lost his belief in being a Saint, but his values and honesty were intact. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Simon had been the first to accompany a Responder Team</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> into the silent neighborhoods. His articles had resulted in complements and a raise. And best, he had been temporarily assigned to follow the continuing events with survivors and the Kill Zone.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> It had been the interview, and resulting story on Jen and her family which had brought the reassignment. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Here it would stay. The, greeted those looking for comfort, reason, and a cessation of pain. Some may have found peace, but most found a growing outrage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Interviewing residents and volunteers Simon had seen the beginnings of a different America. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Residents had early realized authorities had done exactly nothing to bring multiple problems with the refinery under control. rotests that nothing could be done were heard and choked down with bile, both by the survivors and by countless others. Not all of the media saw this, but some did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Grasping the reality of dead bodies on American streets, the pathetic sight of dead pets, children, holding on to each other into death, continued to sink in deeply, ever more deeply. Millions swallowed the fact that instead of the three million, who could have died, the death toll meter had climbed at an estimated 1,457,439 after a month of clean up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every man, woman and child in America felt the harsh reality. The emergency personnel, drawn in, willy nilly, from the entire Western United States, was left with the stink of death in their nostrils, and no answers. But this lack only </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After being told not to follow up a story on Hillary Clinton's campaign, he had decided to leave the distinguished paper who had hired him. Despite his doubts, family mattered to him, he had come to realize. And if he was going to leave he wanted to make sure he had made a place for himself which would be remembered. The deals cut, the payoffs made, to evade accountability were there. And it was not just with the refineries. Spills were handled in exactly the same way each instance. Victims from former spills, explosions, and fires caused by Exxon, and other oil corporations. Over the last weeks, taking time off work, Simon had found and interviewed thirty of them, also learning many had died after being exposed to oil's toxic effects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Funerals begin to take place, but these brought no release, only more outrage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The need for relief for those who were maimed, but did not die, is estimated to have cost, in one month, $379-Billion. Eventually, the overflow of victims, first from local hospitals, then military hospitals, then hospitals in California and finally to hospitals as far away as New York, took a further toll on surviving family members. Airline and charter companies donated their services, but costs to survivors continued to rise. Forced to choose, some of the maimed survivors chose to stay and die rather than be separated from their families. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While still in the hospital, victims discovered their medical insurance companies would not pay their bills. These liabilities had been passed first to the reinsurance companies, who were paid to extend coverage to local retail providers of insurance. Those names people recognized. But as the billions in reserves failed for the reinsurance companies, as well, things grew more complicated. Trillions of dollars in costs were mounting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the first responders finally reached the refinery they found evidence the explosion was set by Terrorists. The public discovers, to their shoc<span style="background-color: white;">k, the government had previously arranged to accept 3% of the reinsurance company’s profits for covering them as another reinsurer. But this was before the public announcement of U. S. insolvency was made by the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, ex-ExxonMobil CEO. Tillerson had personally unloaded the 35-year liability of the Torrance refinery onto a depreciation-oriented PBF Energy corporation, which also owns 2 more HFA refineries in Philadelphia and Louisiana.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dwayne had just arrived at work when he heard about the explosion from one of his partners, who was asking about his family. It was 7:32am. Turning around, he saw Jen drive in to the parking lot and started running toward them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The moment Dwayne reached the car and saw her he took her around to the passenger seat, strapped her in, checked the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">girls, and headed to the hospital. Jen was nearly the first person treated for burns, these to her eyes. The physician, luckily, knew exactly what to do. Visibly distressed, told her, as if he was reading from a manual, exactly what he would be doing. </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Later, Jen learned she, Abby and Molly were three, of 0nly five people, to make it out of Kendal Commons. Jen suffered some damage to her eyes, but, because of the early treatment, so many could not find, her vision is now nearly normal. Over and over again she is told she is lucky. Suffering from the trauma common to survivors, Jen sometimes wishes she had chosen differently, though holding Abby and Molly brings relief. Everyone in her neighborhood, her extended family, were gone. Even thinking about Jacque and her family is too painful for thought. The decision she had made </span>in one instant, as she ran out of their home, dragging the girls, will haunt her forever. She, Jen, is still around to be haunted. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When they arrived at the hospital the emergency room physician did not even ask what had happened. Directing all of them into a treatment room, he picked up supplies he had placed on a table near the receiving room. He could see it in their eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"How long was the exposure, were all of you exposed? </i> The doctor glanced at Dwayne, who shook his head,<i> "Just them. I was already at work."</i> The doctor noded, demanding tersely,,<i>"How long was the elapsed time, in total?"</i> Moving Jen onto a treatment table he examined her eyes. <i>"From 6:25 until now, I guess."</i> Jen choked out the words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The waiting room is filling up, Jen can see the burns and their eyes. One baby is screaming with pain. Nodding, the doctor turns to the nurse, rattling out his instructions. </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"2.5% Calcium gluconate is the emergency treatment for skin. Eyes require flushing with 1,000cc at 1% Calcium Gluconate. Lungs require 1.5% vapor with oxygen (or edema will set in from the treatment) as well drowning from HF damage. Good thing your husband brought you in immediately. Later today we will be out, and waiting for supplies. You are also lucky my brother helped write the report for the United Steel Workers. 74% of the hospitals in all of California are extremely unprepared for an HF catastrophic release. The nurse will finish for you. Now, let me take care of the girls. We are going to be busy." </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jen will never forget that day. As they drove away from the house, leaving their neighbors behind, after less than one minute of the news report, Jen, saw the miasma of the cloud coming toward them. Gunning the engine, she held her breath, yelled to the girls not to breathe. and to close their eyes tight. Plowing through the first gases, Jen headed for the entrance to the freeway, watching the cloud, which seemed to be chasing her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Slamming on the news in her car, Jen ignored people standing on the road, watching the cloud approach them, seeming bewildered and frozen. Stifling a scream, she headed straight for the next turn, ignoring the stop lights. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As she turned onto the last street before the freeway Jen saw one car was crammed against a telephone poll, the driver writhing on the ground, gasping. Driving past, trying not to look, she cut through a center meridian, filled with ice plant. Her tires squished and slipped. She began to shake, afraid they would be stuck and unable to move. Struggling to gain traction, she looked over her shoulder at the dense white wall catching up to her. The tires suddenly leaped off the curb. From there, the freeway entrance was straight ahead. Fishtailing around two other cars with dying drivers, Jen charged onto the freeway, veering into the right, nearly off the road. Nearly hitting a truck she slid into the space behind the semi. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was mayhem. Cars were backed up, drivers were out of their cars, arguing over collisions. One man kept punching his phone and looking for emergency vehicles, not seeing any. Maneuvering the car through the morass, with agonizing slowness, Jen edged around a final collision, this one serious. Before, she would have stopped, but now she could see that in front of her the freeway was nearly clear. She pressed her foot firmly on the gas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jen did not stop until she saw on her car’s computer navigation screen she was out of the danger zone 20-miles later. Eyes burning, she then took a longer, clogged arc route headed for Dwayne’s office. Telling the girls to keep their eyes shut and buried in their pillows, she began to sob, her chest heaving. All three of them were still dressed only in their sleepwear, and barefoot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The above text is a partial synopsis from the movie script, “19 Minutes,” copyrighted by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, and now pending registration with the Writers Guild of America. Direct any inquiries to Pillsbury-Foster’s agent, Brock d’Avignon at brock@freedomi.tv. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Valero <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9 HFA refineries</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ConocoPhillips <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6 (T. Boone Pickens is not active, yet can intervene for his water-pipeline legacy) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Marathon <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HollyFrontier <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PBF Energy <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tesoro <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 2 or 3 (one being acquired) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ExxonMobil <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2 (having sold some off to liability disposal allies like PBF) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CHS/National Co-op <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>CVR Energy/Refining <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2 (Carl Icahn 82%, advisor to President Trump versus carbon credits since HF refineries cannot make ethanol) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>all other refiners <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 13 own one HF refinery each among other holdings. For example, Charles Koch’s Flint Hills Resources as a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, owns 19 other modern H2SO4 catalyst refineries, but has had this one HFA refinery for over 20 years. Several of the others are single refinery operations. After an accident, they change ownership to keep locals off-balance, but never change their HFA depreciation business plan. 25% changed hands in the last 3 years. ARDMAC will see about that now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">See AvertAlert Reinsurance Disaster-Mitigation by Acquisition Consortium (ARDMAC) Excel sheets for details on who to have some meaningful discussions with. Available upon request to: <a href="mailto:freedom@freedomi.tv">EMAIL</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We come from every point on the political spectrum. If we lived within twenty miles of a refinery when we discovered what you have read here, we moved. But many of us have family members still in danger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our goal is holding the responsible parties accountable, enforcing restitution for the damage done to individuals and families, and cleaning up our air, water and land. We are tired of a dialogue stuck on climate change when lives depend on getting off oil and becoming sustainable. You can argue the point. We are moving on to saving lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remember, for every dollar spent on ending pollution 20 – 40 dollars are saved on medical care. Money is the cost which matters least, but money drives many to act. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We analyzed the failures of the present system, and identified ways to establish liability for polluters. The most consistent failures are caused by government. Through Congress, the polluting industries have been able to limit liability, in contradiction of the centuries old Common Law model for strict accountability. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through the EPA, polluters are routinely either excused from having done damage, or given hand-slap fines for enormous damage to people and the environment that never amount to more than 10% of the CEO’s salary. It is a show to persuade people problems are being solved. Given recent events, this is not going to change. And when something is this important it cannot be left to bureaucrats. The people must control their own data, for their own health and to ensure an accurate database is built. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Protesting and petitions for redress for grievances have not, and will not work. But enforcing accountability, and ensuring Americans understand these threats to our health and very lives, will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eliminating petroleum must happen; first by forcing them to pay their real costs of doing business. Insurance companies can do a lot about these risks to others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is how real accountability works. When the nuclear industry had its liability for any mistakes no longer covered, 4 years ago, safe designs were adopted and investment in nuclear energy began again. For the first time in 25 years, 3 nuclear plants are being built far safer than the ‘someone else pays,’ corrupt business era, when liability belonged to everyone and thus no one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are not pro nuclear. We do support strict liability for all damages done to people, air, water, land and nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Additionally, we need to begin a transition for all forms of energy and get serious about real sustainability, for the environment, for our own lives, and economically. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We cannot wait for this to work for the oil industry, however. The potential costs are too high. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We can no longer tolerate HFA refineries, not for America and not elsewhere on Earth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our plan is to take over the refineries, with enforced buy-outs, if necessary, and convert them. Along with the conversion to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We are approaching the reinsurance companies and collateral bankers for these investments. We are putting together a team of experts to carry out these conversions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These conversions are a good start to ending pollution and cleaning up our air, water and land. But more steps remain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Building an accurate database is becoming easier as the applications from technology advance. Today, CNN ran an article by Selena Larson titled, “Google uses Street View cars to collect pollution data.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We need this data to keep the reinsurance companies informed on the real potential risks and ensure people get the medical help they need. Technology is providing more tools to us all the time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Along with monitors which show you the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) pouring off refinery’s, we can record these locally. This is one of the projects we have planned for PACTpeopleAct.org, beginning in the 19 areas most at risk today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But there is more. A study carried out EDF, Google Earth Outreach and researchers from the University of Texas at Austin outfitted Google (GOOG), utilized “the Street View cars with environmental monitoring tools from Aclima to measure air pollution as they drove down neighborhood streets.” The resulting study noted large variations in pollutants related to health clustered around specific kinds of businesses. The pollutants traced were levels of Black Carbon, Nitric oxide, and Nitrogen dioxide, all associated with causing major illnesses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An accurate database, translate this to, “chain of evidence,” is essential for enforcing accountability for the polluting industries by all insurers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As to the marketplace, the work done was for the linked Global Burden of Illness Project that states that for every dollar spent on curtailing pollution, $30 to $40 is saved in medical costs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our approach to this problem is both local and shared for multiple purposes. We looked for ways accountability and sustainability were being impeded, first. Then, we looked for ways we could solve the existing problems. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> PACT People Act, is the local model designed to assist local areas to build an accurate database for individuals, litigation, and for providing to the insurance industry actuaries accurate projections for risk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Agents Green, working with PACT, provides more effective alternatives to petroleum-based products, coupled with information and interesting presentations to local residents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The insurance and reinsurance industry needs to accurately reflect real hazards and risks, and ensure these are reflected in their premiums. Pollution of all kinds and its impact on our health, is one of these risks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With Avert Alert we provide this service and make the industry aware of issues they have overlooked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If the oil industry had paid for the costs to people, air, water and land, oil would have become unaffordable and the alternative energy industries would now be farther advanced. This was a massive fraud, carried out with the cooperation of our own government. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adjusting the costs to the oil companies and hitting them for liability will eventually solve the problem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But another problem we identified is mainstream acceptance of the facts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is the continuous disinformation campaign, run by public relations groups, some outside the corporations and some working as divisions within corporations, to create what we call, “one-way ideological media.” The distrust and disagreements over the facts, divide Americans today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our tool for unity is based on interactive communication delivered through mainstream outlets in forms allowing broad participation with personal media seen on mass media. Gripes, half-baked ideas, always good for helping people learn to think through complex issues, and better solutions, can occur when we debate and the audience can PhoneVote on the ideas, see the facts, and decide for themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Americans need to begin a dialogue with each other. We aim to make this happen by inviting your ideas, questions, complaints, comments on both moral responsibility and legal issues, and sustainable solutions that are proven to work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our first show is Congressional Clearing House TV, to be run on Freedom Interactive TV Networks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In each of us there are resources for succeeding with the innovations we bring. We invite you to bring your personal commitment to the necessary work we have outlined. Additionally, check the list on Freedom TV Networks. </span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-line;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Creativity and a passion for change is calling to each of us today - and if the world we know and those we love, are to survive, we need to act now. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Signed, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Melinda Pillsbury-Foster</span><br />
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-51079540398695211962016-07-21T00:46:00.000-04:002019-02-06T17:28:23.764-05:00Who Can You Trust?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Trusting
anyone means knowing they will tell you the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">How
many lies does it take to kill the credibility of the liar, and kill
trust? One time, twice? How about three times? What about if it is a
huge lie, one that costs you? What if your life, and the lives of
those you love are endangered by those lies? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Read
this carefully. These are direct quotes, most of them written by
Exxon's own scientists. Lives depend on what happens in the next
years. All of us are at risk. Instead of trusting anyone, get the
facts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Compiled
by <a href="http://exxonknew.org/timeline/">Exxon Knew TimeLine </a></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Additional
sources listed on the Exxon Knew site. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1968
- Stanford Research Institute communicates to Exxon and the American
Petroleum Institute, “<i>If CO2 levels continue to rise as present
rates, it is likely that noticeable increases in temperature could
occur.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1977 –
1978 </span>– <span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Exxon's
Products Research Division informs their employer,</span></span> “<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>Man
has a window of five to ten years before the need for hard decisions
regarding energy strategies might become critical.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1980
– Imperial Oil, Exxon's Canadian subsidiary, publishes a “Review
of Environmental Protection Activities for 1978-1979,” which
states, </span>“<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>There is no doubt
that increases in fossil fuel usage.... are aggravating the potential
problem of CO2 in the atmosphere.” </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Exxon
and industry leaders are meeting regularly to discuss the problem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1981 –
Exxon knows they are causing Climate Change. They choose between
responsibility and profits. Responsibility lost. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1982
– Exxon's Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Laboratory: “<i>The
consensus is that a doubling of the atmospheric CO2 from its
pre-industrial value could result in an average global temperature
rise of (...5.4±</i> <i>1.7°</i> <i>F.) There is a unanimous
agreement in the scientific community that a temperature increase of
this magnitude would bring about significant changes in the earth's
climate.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1983
- ExxonMobil slashes climate research. This is the five year limit
set by Imperial Oil in its 1978 – 1979 Review. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">1988
– We pass the ten year mark. Climate Change Denial is well
launched. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Climate
Change Denial begins, continuing until 2016.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAani0BVTB_8CLJjtMyWgtksfUBmy0-xXujGlbX34KTxTwZy5SnbSUIfUIf3-UOUxMQMS5e3u5hqX8E1A2uojb2IMx2qk3Tft58XaZHNgevrk-lI2yLT-pe-u-xbtKBWPJPz9b/s1600/s1-1024+temp+rise.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAani0BVTB_8CLJjtMyWgtksfUBmy0-xXujGlbX34KTxTwZy5SnbSUIfUIf3-UOUxMQMS5e3u5hqX8E1A2uojb2IMx2qk3Tft58XaZHNgevrk-lI2yLT-pe-u-xbtKBWPJPz9b/s640/s1-1024+temp+rise.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">From:
Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.climateinvestigations.org/exxon_mimics_big_tobacco_s_first_amendment_plea">April
19, 2016</a> – Exxon claims their statements are protected under
the First Amendment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In the wake
of oil spills, explosions, and more ExxonMobil left behind them a
stark record of deceit along with a consistent refusal to pay for the
damage being done to people and their property. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">What does
this tell us about Exxon, the largest oil company in the world? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">They lie to
us routinely even when they know our lives and property are at risk. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Trust
Exxon's own words, which indict them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Coming Next: Part II - Death by Profits </span>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-78312757188125811552016-06-26T23:10:00.000-04:002019-02-06T17:29:23.865-05:00Three Strikes. Time for real changes, government and their sheltered corporations. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Southern
California is in no wise prepared for a major earthquake. We should
be, however. Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California
Earthquake Center, said at the National Earthquake Conference in Long
Beach, California, that the San Andreas fault is “locked, loaded,
and ready to roll.” He added, “a massive earthquake could strike
anytime.” Thomas's comments were quoted in the </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/3068337/california-earthquake-prediction-san-andreas-fault-line-ready-to-go/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span lang="zxx">Inquisitor</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">.
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>Strike One. </b></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Southern
Californa is also unprepared for the perfect storm of brush fires
which the long drought, die off of trees and vegetation, and high
temperatures have delivered. Notice the news today. If you live in
several parts of the southland just open your window and sniff the
air. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>Strike Two.</b></span></div>
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<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">These
are problems caused by nature. We should have been prepared for these
– but we weren't. Since we pay a lot for governmental agencies at
the local, county, and state levels who claim they are in charge of
ensuring we are safe it is fair to say they 'did not do their job.' </span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">It
is also fair to say they should held accountable for their failure to
do so. If we survive we should ask this question loudly and accept no
excuses. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>Strike Three.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The
third danger hanging over our heads makes these first two impinging
hazards far more serious. This involves a significant lack of
oversight by those same agencies and the corporations they were
supposed to be watching. The corporations, the utilities and oil
companies who expect prompt payment from us, had all the control
necessary to prevent the present situation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Quoted
in the Times they said, ““</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>Southern
California’s smaller cities and large businesses must take the
threat of a crippling earthquake far more seriously than they have
been, a committee of business, public policy and utility leaders said
Thursday, saying action is needed to “prevent the inevitable
disaster from becoming a catastrophe.””</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">We
thought the enormously expensive infrastructure of government and the
utility companies were handling our safety and their own business. We
were wrong. </span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The most revolting and
telling sign is the number of utilities and government agencies
lining up, joined by Disney, to recommend (Your not going to believe
this) another organization be formed to look at the problem. This is
like starting a committee while the ocean is coming over the deck of
the Titanic. Notice the attempt to slide out of the line of fire from
the public outrage which should engulf them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Among these pampered
individuals are, according to the Times article cited above,
“</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>executives for Southern
California Edison, the Southern California Gas Co., the Walt
Disney Company, and Wells Fargo, along with the Los Angeles Economic
Development Corporation, USC, the Port of Los Angeles and the
Southern California Assn. of Governments.” </i></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Mickey
Mouse can be overlooked. The rest cannot. They had well paid and
qualified experts on tap but nothing happened – unless you look at
their end of the year bonuses and raises. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">These folks want to,
</span>“<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>create a Southern California
Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative, intended to highlight the
unresolved earthquake risks and convince decision makers to fix them.
The group issued a </i></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="https://bedrosian.usc.edu/blog/research-updates/issue-briefs/strengthening-socal-southern-california-disaster-risk-reduction-initiative/" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span lang="zxx"><i>report
</i></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>with
recommendations on Thursday.”</i></span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>Convince decision
makers?</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">”
How stupid are these people? Send them to Kern County to fight the
fires there, then they will not need to be convinced. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This
is a CYA moment if I have ever seen one. You have the same players
who have never maintained their infrastructure lining up to justify,
in advance, what is now poised to happen to people and property for
which they are, by government, not held responsible when they cause a
disaster. As you may know, their 'natural monopolies' are treated as
an extension of government which also holds itself as not responsible
for what happens to us, the people who are being squeezed to pay the
bills, which includes their salaries and bonuses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">These
hazards include the potential for disaster in the Cajon Pass. This is
where the San Andreas fault cuts through California, and where the
full force of an earthquake is most likely to be felt. </span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Consider for a moment
this looming threat on the edge of Southern California’s sprawling
metropolis. The Cajon Pass is a narrow mountain pass where the San
Andreas fault, which travels down the length of California and then,
</span>“<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>intersects with combustible
natural gas and petroleum pipelines, electrical transmission lines,</i></span><strong>
</strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>train tracks and
Interstate 15 north of San Bernardino. </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Did
it, along with the petroleum infrastructure suddenly appear, perhaps
caused by Harry Potter? No, it did not. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>A huge earthquake on
the San Andreas could move one side of the fault as much as 30 feet
from the other. Such an earthquake would rupture flammable
pipelines and lead to a catastrophic explosion so powerful it leaves
behind a crater.” </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Read
that again. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This is a time to
remember Porter Ranch clearly and distinctly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Governor Brown just
declared Kern County a Disaster, which is certainly true as the wild
fire there is continuing its merry course and has already burned more
than 46 square miles, destroyed over 100 buildings and killed at
least two people, maybe more. Do you want to bet more is not coming? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Edison and other
utilities have, historically, resisted vigorously any attempt to
enforce readiness for disaster and with maintaining their facilities.
But now they are faced with the meltdown of the petroleum industry
and realize their very existence is now in question. Therefore,
instead of admitting their culpability, they are attempting to create
a false record showing concern for the dangers they knew all along
existed for us for which they could not be held accountable. They sat
there, like steaming dog turds until the fires had started and the
media was trumpeting the imminent threat of a major quake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">It is also likely these
unnatural monopolies will be seeking subsidies to upgrade. They must
realize the public remembers all too well the wrongs done by the
petroleum industry within the last 18 months. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This comes at a time
when ExxonMobil is still facing the possibility of impacting more
than a quarter million people living within three miles of the
Torrance Refinery. Pause to consider the impact of an earthquake, and
fire on that facility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The problems Edison now
admits must be handled, itemized in the Times article, include: </span>
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“<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i><b>Reduce the
risk of catastrophe at the Cajon Pass would be to put shutoff valves
on both sides of the San Andreas fault on petroleum and natural gas
pipelines. If the pipelines are automatically turned off during the
earthquake, it could prevent huge amounts of fuel from being ignited
if the pipelines break.”</b></i></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">What
an interesting idea. Now ask yourself why they did not take these
steps 20 years ago. </span></span></span></strong>
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<strong>“</strong><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>In
cities, water pipes and natural gas lines will burst during shaking.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>The
reality is disturbing — burst water pipes could leave parts of
Southern California without running water for six months. Natural gas
pipelines can fuel dangerous city fires.”</b></span>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">3.</span></span></strong><strong>
“</strong><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i><b>Large
businesses and local politicians may be underestimating the
worst-case scenario.</b></i></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This 'advice' from the
petroleum industry is truly ironic as it is their irresponsibility
and the lack of awareness of existing building technologies which
would have largely reduced these hazards, along with the failure of
government to carry out the duties they are paid to perform. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">4.</span></span></strong><strong>
“</strong><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>Many Southern
Californians don’t know their neighbors, and that’s going to hurt
neighborhoods’ ability to recover.”</i></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">And whatever happens it
is someone else's fault, not theirs because you don't have time to
socialize when you and your wife are each working three jobs to make
ends meet. </span>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">5.</span></span></strong><strong>
“</strong><strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>Many cities do not
require collapse-prone buildings to be retrofitted.”</i></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">And yet fees are
extracted from those building structures using the justification this
money is paid to ensure the structures are safe. But most are not
safe, and the affordable sustainable technologies are very slow to be
approved by these same agencies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Cities and towns refuse
to allow the use of proven technologies exist which can provide
safety from earthquakes, fires and flooding. While others around the
world are already using these in America they remain largely unknown
because of the collusion between government and existing construction
interests. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The first reconstruction
which Californians should demand is of government and the
corporations who run government. Visit </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://agentsgreen.us/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Agents
Green</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> to
contact us and get information on sustainable materials what else
should be done. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Note:
One
year ago, through our former organization, Disaster Alert News Service (DANS), we provided
modeling, analysis, correlations and background on the oil industry
in the immediate aftermath of the Refugio Spill. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was our <a href="http://acpvision.blogspot.com/2016/05/dans-sheets-6282015-what-we-published.html">first sample</a> of what we can do. No one else had this and both the 'environmental organizations' and the media ignored our news releases with the information. Some used these. No one attributed. Being continuously ripped off by news outlets and organizations which pay large salaries to multiple employees disgusted us. Some quit. Dave and I kept going. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This blog went online in early 2005. I generally stopped publishing articles here out of frustration since it seemed no one cared about what I was uncovering. Today I stopped by and noticed large spikes in traffic even though I have published nothing here since January. Would you like to share why you come? I am perplexed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For a list of other attempts made to break through visit this <a href="http://www.pillsbury-foster.info/Blank.html">page</a>. I think I have most of the sites on the list. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The article below was originally published on <a href="http://acpvision.blogspot.com/">ACP Vision & Action</a> the article and announcement site for <a href="http://ecoalert.us/">EcoAlert</a>. </span></span></span></div>
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SHEET 1</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,
one of two models supplied)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Marplot
map of Hydrogen Sulfide from the spill point appears in purple,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> extending
to the Threat Point 2 miles downwind (blue cross) and beyond, as
indicated.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
This is one of the worst oil
spills in Santa Barbara history. Therefore, we, now EcoAlert,
prepared this review for what we knew then and what actions we
recommended. This could impact some of the indictments revealed this
week and perhaps expand the criminal investigation to hold all
responsible parties accountable.</span></div>
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Shortly after the spill we
asked about the locations and timelines of the 5 Plains employees who
reportedly worked out of EXXONMobil’s Las Flores Canyon Facility.
We recommended that each of the workers involved provide signed
affidavits as to their whereabouts and actions. We emphasized that
all correspondence including emails, telephone logs and faxes by the
operator in the first 24 hrs. be included in the body of evidence in
case criminal action is eventually pursued. We provided an <span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://acpvision.blogspot.com/2015/07/exxons-oil-plains-pipe-tyrannosaurus-in.html">article
with, time line</a></u></span></span>
from the available information. This went out as a news release on
July 7<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We
argued that, </span>
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“<i>Plains knew the names and
whereabouts of all of their employees during the first few hours of
the spill incident. We further claimed that they knew the condition
of their little ten miles of pipe. They surveyed it in 2012 and again
in 2015, and they made numerous repairs and external inspections. We
know it does</i><strike><i>
</i></strike><i>not take
months to pull up these records on a 10-mile stretch of their 18,000
mile pipeline network. So, if they failed to release this information
voluntarily, they should have been subpoenaed.”</i></span></div>
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We also questioned EXXONMobil’s
role in creating and responding to the pressure anomalies in the
Plains Line 901 pipeline located only a short distance from their
temporary storage tanks at the oil treatment center. We pointed out
that Plains owned only ten miles of pipeline in the Refugio area, the
rest of pipeline upstream from the spill is owned by EXXONMobil, who
also controlled the offshore platforms where the oil originated.</span></div>
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Secondly, we criticized the
function of the Unified Command in providing explanations and public
relations for Plains actions which might have been criminal. We
pointed this out at the time. This has been borne out by the 46 count
indictment against Plains and their Environmental and Regulatory
Compliance officer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;">One
year ago we recommended alternatives to the way spills and other
similar disasters be handled. We were right and strongly suggest our
proposal be adopted. </span></span>
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Furthermore, we expressed
concern for the health of clean-up workers and recommended a list of
names and contacts for everyone who was involved with clean-up or
remediation be obtained. </span>
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Nothing has<span style="font-size: small;"> been done about
this. At the time, we sent information on the symptoms of petroleum
poisoning to the Santa Barbara County Medical Society, asking they
distribute the information, by email, to their members. The
information supplied was based on the BP Gulf Spill and supplied by
Science Corp. It was prepared by <span style="color: black;">Michael
R. Harbut, MD, </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Professor,
Clinical Medicine Director, Environmental Cancer Initiative, Chief,
Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine. Petroleum
poisoning follows patterns. We wanted local physicians to know what
to look for. </span></span></span></span>
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Finally, we recommended 21<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>
century technologies (like drones and modeling) to monitor and track
the initial stages of the spill dispersal. We had supplied some of
these for the first hours after the Refugio Spill. </span>
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Few of these recommendations
have been implemented so far, but it is not yet too late. The
Attorney General can still subpoena all communications between Plains
and EXXONMobil in the region within 24 hours of the spill in the
region. The Unified Command can be pressured to release all of its
monitoring and modeling data of the spill and its associated air and
water pollution dispersal. The health department still needs to
collect medical histories on all cleanup workers who are potential
victims. </span>
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Ultimately, the entire spill
response bureaucracy needs to be updated with the latest technologies
and modernized with geospatial real-time assessment and decision
making. Grounds existed for criminal indictments immediately after
the spill. Essential upgrades and improvements for all of their
facilities, including refineries, are long over due, as we have
witnessed in California and across our country. (Graphs from article)
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innocent people and minimize the environmental impacts on the
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maintenance and deliberately but people and the environment at risk
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-47196815634381900472016-01-23T18:25:00.000-05:002019-02-06T17:31:30.821-05:00A Real Conservative<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The short article below was published in Observations from Melinda's World, a sort of journal of short pieces which appeared occasionally in the local paper in Ashtabula, Ohio, where I was marooned for a while by circumstances beyond my control. I met many good people there - but it was never home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A local Congressional race moved me to call all the candidates and ask them for their positions on issues which defined Conservatism in the era of Barry Goldwater, a real American hero. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is the first in a series to help all of us understand how a slow policy of repositioning can change our world and our perceptions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was, and remain, a real Conservative, translated as Classical Liberal, Libertarian and advocate of compassion, community, and living the values of Christ, Master and Savior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I'm going to start publishing short articles on <a href="http://observationsfrommelindasworld.blogspot.com/2014/10/no-95-april-29-will-real-conservative.html">Observations</a> about once a week. They will also appear on Here. </span></div>
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letter written by J. Craig Lewis urging support for Matt Lynch as the
Republican candidate for the 14</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Congressional District in the coming primary. Lynch is the GOP
challenger David Joyce will face on May 6th. Lewis, with fevered
urgings worthy of an oncoming tsunami, urged voters to act
immediately. The reasons given were Obama Care and the accusation
the incumbent, Joyce, is part of a cabal of “sleeper cell
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candidates claim to be Conservatives.</span></span></div>
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take a pause here to understand the word, “Conservative.' Brace
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Today's
Republican Party is controlled by Marxists who identify themselves as
'Conservatives.' NeoConservativism was introduced to the GOP by a
Trotskyite (Marxist), Irving Kristol, in the 1970s. Kristol was also
a follower of Leo Strauss who taught lying is their natural right
because they are 'destined to rule.' </span></span>
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registered Republicans are, at present, entirely unaware of what has
happened over the last 40 years.</span></span></div>
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Taft, Republican candidate for President from Ohio, was a
Conservative. Barry Goldwater was Mr. Conservative. The present
misunderstanding of the word, “Conservative,” is the result of a
covert operation carried out by Rockefeller Republicans beginning in
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real conservative follows the Constitution, keeping government local
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left copious quotes which left no doubt about what it meant to be a
Conservative. Brevity is a virtue here. </span></span></span></strong></span>
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in the Military -</span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
“You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country.
You just need to shoot straight.” </span></i></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">~Barry
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woman's right to have an abortion </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">- </span><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Today’s
so-called ‘conservatives’ don’t even know what the word means.
They think I’ve turned liberal because I believe a woman has a
right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant
woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
It’s not a conservative issue at all.”</span></i></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">~Barry
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of marijuana - Goldwater endorsed an Arizona initiative to legalize
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marijuana</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></div>
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on damage to private property and health resulting from oil spills
and fracking </span></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> - </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">“While
I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it
entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to
live in a clean and pollution-free environment.” </span></i></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">~Barry
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has no one has been willing to write even one article about the
matter of the double teaming by the Clintons and Blumenthals, acting
for the Bush Administration, to keep Saddam Hussein in Iraq during
the build up to the opening of hostilities?</span></span></span></div>
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made contact with the Bush Administration and the Clintons were given
the job of persuading him there was no real danger of invasion. This
took place in late October or early November, 2002.</span></span></span></div>
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the timing of events having Saddam leave Iraq would have made it
impossible for the Bush White House to get what they wanted. The
absence of any Weapons of Mass Destruction to be documented, except
those provided by George H. W. Bush, was a bullet in the brain to
their plans still reverberating. What if Saddam left, a richer man
ready to write his memoirs, perhaps?</span></span></span></div>
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was not to be tolerated. Action was taken. I suspect many other
issues very much on point today when the two likely nominees for
president at Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, both of whom know exactly
what went down.</span></span></span></div>
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interest in this is to clear this record and other false statements
which have continued to impact me for the last 17 years.</span></span></span></div>
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Fund - Sex, Lies and the Tape</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You
may remember my name because of the Kerfuffle which took place
between my daughter, Morgan Pillsbury, and John Fund, then of the
Wall Street Journal. Although the story started in October of 1998 it
came into public view when Morgan agreed to be interviewed by John
Connolly for an article which was to appear in Talk Magazine. Fund
scotched its publication.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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Fund's attorney, John J. Walsh</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
article, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Sex,
Lies and the Tape,”</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
appeared on Weasel Search on September 4, 2001. It was a provocative
scandal for those onlooking. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.americanpolitics.com/fundpillsburyfull.mp3"><span style="color: #103cc0;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Full
Tape is available here</span></span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
interview was entirely Morgan's doing. I very reluctantly agreed to
talk to Connolly to confirm a few points. The article was inaccurate
on many specifics, these most likely arising from Morgan's lies.
Morgan's history of deceptive behavior started when she was still a
child, causing enormous problems for everyone in the family until one
by one we stopped talking to her. I was last because I could not
believe she could not change.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back
to the subject, Saddam and his offer to leave Iraq, if paid.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Excuse
the back story here, necessary to explain how I found out what was
happening.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
was spring, 2002. Fund had tried to have Morgan murdered, sending
someone to her apartment late at night with a key. The dead bolt was
not engaged. Morgan, standing next to the door, which lead directly
into the small kitchen, threw herself on the door, dropping the
phone. She screeched. I was on the other end of the phone, hearing
this. Gabbling into the phone, hysterical, she told me what had
happened. I told her to call the doorman. A photo was caught of a
burly man leaving the building. On my instructions she then called
the police. They never arrived.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
bolt hole was arranged for with a couple in Georgia who knew about
the battering Morgan had suffered from Fund earlier.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Now,
what I am going to tell you was conveyed to me by Morgan. I had long
since learned she could not be trusted to tell the truth. The
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.americanpolitics.com/fundpillsburyfull.mp3"><span style="color: #103cc0;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Weaselsearch
Tape</span></span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
came into existence because she and I were arguing about her having
had a relationship with Fund. He had denied this to me only a few
months earlier. The Tape proved, on this occasion at least, Morgan
was telling the truth.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not
trusting someone and wanted them hurt or dead can be two very
different matters.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Morgan
and I had been looking for someone to help with the Fund matter that
spring. Morgan asserted Fund still had items belonging to her. She
wanted them returned. I eventually retained an attorney for her named
Gary Fish. Otherwise, Morgan handled these issues herself.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Enter
Sidney Blumenthal</b></span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Morgan
called during this period to tell me Sidney Blumenthal, who had
refused to help her, unconcerned about the attempt on her life.
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/search?q=blumenthal"><span style="color: #103cc0;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Email</span></span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
June 23, 2002.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Around
this time someone put a device put on Morgan's computer. She called
me, outraged, she said, when the information appeared in drafts of
Sydney's book, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Clinton's
War.” </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">She
then told me she had returned the favor, putting the same thing on
Blumenthal's computer. This was apparently true because she started
sending me copies of emails Blumenthal wrote his wife and chapters of
the book which were passing between him and his editor.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
told her what she was doing was illegal and she should stop but
consider reporting Blumenthal to the appropriate authorities.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Morgan
ignored my advice, as usual.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
I was likely being naive, anyway. </span></span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
was a lot on my plate and Morgan, then in her early 30s, was not my
top priority. I was then, and am still, the sole caretaker for my
son, Arthur. He is disabled from two major brain injuries, the first
caused by a motorcycle accident, the second from a suicide attempt
six months later. These and other family responsibilities, plus being
disabled myself, caused me to put Morgan on the back burner when I
knew she was physically safe.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Giving
up trying to change Morgan, I told her to stop sending me Sidney's
emails and other correspondence.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
in November of 2002 Morgan called me up and asked if Uday was the
same as E-bay. Morgan did not follow current events unless she was
somehow involved herself. She has always been this way.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
conversation resulted in her sending me an email between Blumenthal
and his son about a correspondence then ongoing. Max Blumenthal was
sending on emails to Uday. Uday was providing information to his
father and sending back his father's responses.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
chain of dialog began with Saddam and ended with the Clintons. They,
the Clintons, were trying to persuade Saddam the build up to war was
just bluff. Saddam, it seemed, had contacted the Bush White House by
some method not discussed in correspondence with the offer to leave
Iraq if he was paid.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Needless
to say this was a shock. Perhaps it is a joke, I thought.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copying
the code part of the email I emailed it to Dr. Dean Ahmad, a good
friend of mine, who I knew would be able to tell me where it
originated. Dean said it was from the Emirates and well could have
originated from Baghdad.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
is possible I am naive but it never occurred to me, and was not
included in the correspondence I saw, that the Bush administration
knew this was going on. With most Americans, I remembered what had
transpired between the Clintons and NeoCons who were now firmly
entrenched in the White House. It seemed more likely to me the
Clintons, for some reason not in evidence, were doing this for their
own purposes. But I thought it was my responsibility to report it to
someone – but not Bush, who I well knew could not be trusted.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
only person I knew who I thought I could trust was Donald Steury, who
is married to an old childhood friend, Rochelle Wandzera. Rochelle
and I had remained close over the years and I saw them when I was in
the DC area and they visited me in California when they were out
there. Donald was then the historian for the CIA.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
information was conveyed to Donald with Morgan's contact information.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
soon as Donald retired last year the couple stopped talking to me or
returning my emails. The matter of Saddam had never been discussed
after my report in 2002. Until then Shelly and I chatted regularly
but I felt she was becoming increasingly distant. </span></span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is possible I would not have believed Morgan or taken any action if
not for having directly discussed the matter with Eric Buchanan. Eric
and Martha Buchanan were the couple Morgan was then living with in
Roswell, Georgia. Eric confirmed what was happening. He and Morgan
had managed to bug Uday's computer, too, he told me. The subject line
had read – Women without Veils.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
The last phone number I had for Eric is:404 276-7351 </span></span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
short while later Morgan told me the FBI had contacted her and asked
she continue to monitor UDay's computer. This surprised me. She told
me she was doing so and reporting to them as events unfolded. I had
no direct contact.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Morgan
called to tell me the ping she was receiving from Uday's computer
moved to CIA Headquarters in Virginia when the bunker buster hit
Saddam's bunker at the beginning of the war. I turned on the news and
the announcement took place a short while later.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unnerved
and shocked I did not ask for any proof. My expectation has been that
there would be some kind of inquiry or investigation regarding what
the Clinton's had done. Nothing of the kind took place, of course.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eventually,
the billions of unexplained money surfaced. A friend of mine in whom
had confided, Connie Ruffley, who runs the Western Office for
Judicial Watch, commented this was probably the Saddam Pay-Off cash.
That had not occurred to me before her comment about 4 months ago. </span></span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
the War in Iraq swung into full action I had a sinking feeling. I was
not surprised when, later, the Clintons experienced sudden wealth.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
was impossible not to know someone was working very hard to destroy
me financially and damage my credibility over the next years. If you
want documentation for anything, just ask. There is another chunk of
story here which also points to more forms of conspiracy and
corruption from the Bush White House but I'm trying to keep this
short.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
tried to get the story out in my book, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Greed
– The NeoConning of America,”</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
published in 2004. That did not work.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why
has no one has been willing to write even one article about the
matter of the double teaming by the Clintons and Blumenthals, acting
for the Bush Administration, to keep Saddam Hussein in Iraq during
the build up to the opening of hostilities?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saddam
made contact with the Bush Administration and the Clintons were given
the job of persuading him there was no real danger of invasion. This
took place in late October or early November, 2002.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Given
the timing of events having Saddam leave Iraq would have made it
impossible for the Bush White House to get what they wanted. The
absence of any Weapons of Mass Destruction to be documented, except
those provided by George H. W. Bush, was a bullet in the brain to
their plans still reverberating. What if Saddam left, a richer man
ready to write his memoirs, perhaps?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
was not to be tolerated. Action was taken. I suspect many other
issues very much on point today when the two likely nominees for
president at Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, both of whom know exactly
what went down.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My
interest in this is to clear this record and other false statements
which have continued to impact me for the last 17 years.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>John
Fund - Sex, Lies and the Tape</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You
may remember my name because of the Kerfuffle which took place
between my daughter, Morgan Pillsbury, and John Fund, then of the
Wall Street Journal. Although the story started in October of 1998 it
came into public view when Morgan agreed to be interviewed by John
Connolly for an article which was to appear in Talk Magazine. Fund
scotched its publication.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
I was not consulted. </span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-20-legal.html"><span style="color: #103cc0;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Letter
</span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">from
Fund's attorney, John J. Walsh</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
article, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Sex,
Lies and the Tape,”</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
appeared on Weasel Search on September 4, 2001. It was a provocative
scandal for those onlooking. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.americanpolitics.com/fundpillsburyfull.mp3"><span style="color: #103cc0;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Full
Tape is available here</span></span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
interview was entirely Morgan's doing. I very reluctantly agreed to
talk to Connolly to confirm a few points. The article was inaccurate
on many specifics, these most likely arising from Morgan's lies.
Morgan's history of deceptive behavior started when she was still a
child, causing enormous problems for everyone in the family until one
by one we stopped talking to her. I was last because I could not
believe she could not change.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back
to the subject, Saddam and his offer to leave Iraq, if paid.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Excuse
the back story here, necessary to explain how I found out what was
happening.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
was spring, 2002. Fund had tried to have Morgan murdered, sending
someone to her apartment late at night with a key. The dead bolt was
not engaged. Morgan, standing next to the door, which lead directly
into the small kitchen, threw herself on the door, dropping the
phone. She screeched. I was on the other end of the phone, hearing
this. Gabbling into the phone, hysterical, she told me what had
happened. I told her to call the doorman. A photo was caught of a
burly man leaving the building. On my instructions she then called
the police. They never arrived.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
bolt hole was arranged for with a couple in Georgia who knew about
the battering Morgan had suffered from Fund earlier.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Now,
what I am going to tell you was conveyed to me by Morgan. I had long
since learned she could not be trusted to tell the truth. The
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.americanpolitics.com/fundpillsburyfull.mp3"><span style="color: #103cc0;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Weaselsearch
Tape</span></span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
came into existence because she and I were arguing about her having
had a relationship with Fund. He had denied this to me only a few
months earlier. The Tape proved, on this occasion at least, Morgan
was telling the truth.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not
trusting someone and wanted them hurt or dead can be two very
different matters.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Morgan
and I had been looking for someone to help with the Fund matter that
spring. Morgan asserted Fund still had items belonging to her. She
wanted them returned. I eventually retained an attorney for her named
Gary Fish. Otherwise, Morgan handled these issues herself.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Enter
Sidney Blumenthal</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Morgan
called during this period to tell me Sidney Blumenthal, who had
refused to help her, unconcerned about the attempt on her life.
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/search?q=blumenthal"><span style="color: #103cc0;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Email</span></span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
June 23, 2002.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Around
this time someone put a device put on Morgan's computer. She called
me, outraged, she said, when the information appeared in drafts of
Sydney's book, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Clinton's
War.” </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">She
then told me she had returned the favor, putting the same thing on
Blumenthal's computer. This was apparently true because she started
sending me copies of emails Blumenthal wrote his wife and chapters of
the book which were passing between him and his editor.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
told her what she was doing was illegal and she should stop but
consider reporting Blumenthal to the appropriate authorities.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Morgan
ignored my advice, as usual.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
I was likely being naive, anyway. </span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
was a lot on my plate and Morgan, then in her early 30s, was not my
top priority. I was then, and am still, the sole caretaker for my
son, Arthur. He is disabled from two major brain injuries, the first
caused by a motorcycle accident, the second from a suicide attempt
six months later. These and other family responsibilities, plus being
disabled myself, caused me to put Morgan on the back burner when I
knew she was physically safe.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Giving
up trying to change Morgan, I told her to stop sending me Sidney's
emails and other correspondence.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
in November of 2002 Morgan called me up and asked if Uday was the
same as E-bay. Morgan did not follow current events unless she was
somehow involved herself. She has always been this way.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
conversation resulted in her sending me an email between Blumenthal
and his son about a correspondence then ongoing. Max Blumenthal was
sending on emails to Uday. Uday was providing information to his
father and sending back his father's responses.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
chain of dialog began with Saddam and ended with the Clintons. They,
the Clintons, were trying to persuade Saddam the build up to war was
just bluff. Saddam, it seemed, had contacted the Bush White House by
some method not discussed in correspondence with the offer to leave
Iraq if he was paid.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Needless
to say this was a shock. Perhaps it is a joke, I thought.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copying
the code part of the email I emailed it to Dr. Dean Ahmad, a good
friend of mine, who I knew would be able to tell me where it
originated. Dean said it was from the Emirates and well could have
originated from Baghdad.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
is possible I am naive but it never occurred to me, and was not
included in the correspondence I saw, that the Bush administration
knew this was going on. With most Americans, I remembered what had
transpired between the Clintons and NeoCons who were now firmly
entrenched in the White House. It seemed more likely to me the
Clintons, for some reason not in evidence, were doing this for their
own purposes. But I thought it was my responsibility to report it to
someone – but not Bush, who I well knew could not be trusted.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
only person I knew who I thought I could trust was Donald Steury, who
is married to an old childhood friend, Rochelle Wandzera. Rochelle
and I had remained close over the years and I saw them when I was in
the DC area and they visited me in California when they were out
there. Donald was then the historian for the CIA.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This
information was conveyed to Donald with Morgan's contact information.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
soon as Donald retired last year the couple stopped talking to me or
returning my emails. The matter of Saddam had never been discussed
after my report in 2002. Until then Shelly and I chatted regularly
but I felt she was becoming increasingly distant. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
is possible I would not have believed Morgan or taken any action if
not for having directly discussed the matter with Eric Buchanan. Eric
and Martha Buchanan were the couple Morgan was then living with in
Roswell, Georgia. Eric confirmed what was happening. He and Morgan
had managed to bug Uday's computer, too, he told me. The subject line
had read – Women without Veils.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
The last phone number I had for Eric is:404 276-7351 </span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
short while later Morgan told me the FBI had contacted her and asked
she continue to monitor UDay's computer. This surprised me. She told
me she was doing so and reporting to them as events unfolded. I had
no direct contact.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Morgan
called to tell me the ping she was receiving from Uday's computer
moved to CIA Headquarters in Virginia when the bunker buster hit
Saddam's bunker at the beginning of the war. I turned on the news and
the announcement took place a short while later.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unnerved
and shocked I did not ask for any proof. My expectation has been that
there would be some kind of inquiry or investigation regarding what
the Clinton's had done. Nothing of the kind took place, of course.</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eventually,
the billions of unexplained money surfaced. A friend of mine in whom
had confided, Connie Ruffley, who runs the Western Office for
Judicial Watch, commented this was probably the Saddam Pay-Off cash.
That had not occurred to me before her comment about 4 months ago. </span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As
the War in Iraq swung into full action I had a sinking feeling. I was
not surprised when, later, the Clintons experienced sudden wealth.</span></span></span></div>
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
was impossible not to know someone was working very hard to destroy
me financially and damage my credibility over the next years. If you
want documentation for anything, just ask. There is another chunk of
story here which also points to more forms of conspiracy and
corruption from the Bush White House but I'm trying to keep this
short.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
tried to get the story out in my book, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">“Greed
– The NeoConning of America,”</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
published in 2004. That did not work.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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adjective: <b>neoconservative</b>;
adjective: <b>neo-conservative</b></div>
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<strong>1</strong>.
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“relating to or denoting a return to a modified form of a
traditional viewpoint, in particular a political ideology
characterized by an emphasis on free-market capitalism and an
interventionist foreign policy.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Not
modified, reversed. </span><i> </i></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> No
one has seen a single example of a real free-market in decades. A
real free-market cannot exist where it is controlled by government.
Did you think, perhaps, the petroleum industry is an example of a
free-market? Hardly, it is crony capitalism or geriatric
mercantilism. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Another
real Conservative said, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>“While
I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it
entails, I am</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i> an even
stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and
pollution-free </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>environment.”
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~Barry
Goldwater</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And
Conservatives, traditionally, were accused of being isolationists
because of their opposition to war. Taft, the most prominent
Conservative before WWII, resisted voting for war and was attacked
for his stance by everyone. </span></span>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-39428550695393890992015-07-09T14:43:00.001-04:002019-02-06T17:34:14.853-05:00Oil Wars Continue - The Refugio Spill - Rex & Greg on the Beach<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">DANS, CEO</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let's start at the beginning. The oil which poured out of the pipe originated from the Hondo Drilling Platform, owned by ExxonMobil. It was transported via ExxonMobil pipes to Las Flores, an ExxonMobil Facility, and then began its transport by Plains All American Pipeline through the Plains connection to the ExxonMobil Tank. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Five Plains employees are at work in a room at ExxonMobil's Las Flores Pump Station where their company's ten miles of pipeline begins a few feet from one of two massive tanks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A mechanical issue is reported. The pipeline, carrying Exxon crude from <a href="http://dansvoices.blogspot.com/2015/07/hondo-field-oil-characteristics.html">Hondo</a>, shuts down at Sisquoc Pumping Station due to unknown reasons. At 10:47AM, approximately, Las Flores shuts down, reporting a pressure surge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Exxon owns the three drilling platforms, Hondo, Heritage and Harmony, located in the Santa Barbara Channel. Exxon owns the pipeline which feeds into the Las Flores Canyon Processing Facility along with the room provided to the five Plains employees who oversee the exit of Pipe 901 from Las Flores. The Refugio Spill will take place three miles into the 901. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1">The ten miles of pipe owned by Plains on this route, known as Pipeline 901, had been cited by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) as needing immediate repair in the Corrective Action Order issued by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), dated June 3, 2015. Plains had been aware of the problems since the test was done a month earlier, two weeks before the spill took place on May 19</span><span class="s2"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s1">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1">The May 5</span><span class="s2"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s1"> In-Line Inspection (ILI) revealed four areas requiring, <i>“ immediate investigation and remediation”</i> on Pipe 901. Loss of original metal was reported as <i>“54 and 74% of the original pipe wall thickness.” </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1">Because of the corrosive nature of crude, high temperatures used for transport and weathering pipes need constant monitoring. <i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1">The Hondo Crude flowing through Pipe 901 on May 19</span><span class="s2"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s1"> was heated to 126 degrees so it could be transported. The profile for the Hondo Crude includes Sulphur 4.3 % by volume (sour oil) . </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When heated, the Sulfur will be ready, if exposed to oxygen, to react, becoming Hydrogen Sulfide, a highly poisonous gas. The Hondo Crude also contains Benzene, which also becomes gaseous when released to the air. Both, being heavier than air, could have, absent a breeze, flowed down to the beach. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The five Plains employees controlled a valve in a small building, like a maintenance shed, a few feet inside the Exxon Facility. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s3"> </span><span class="s1">Pipeline 901 crosses the manifold carrying the oil, owned by ExxonMobil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">150 feet from the tank is a manifold where pipes come together. This is exposed. A spur crosses the main pipeline. The pipelines, perpendicular to the main line, lead to a small building about six car lengths long and 2 car lengths wide where it stops. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1">This is where the valve is believed to be located. It is also the place where the Smart Pig, used to test Pipe 901 on May 5</span><span class="s2"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s1"> was inserted, traveling all the way to Refugio and beyond. The Smart Pig reported to Plains' contractors, who let Plains know, there were problems with 901, providing them with the data. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Plains had not been ordered by Jeffrey D. Wiese, Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, to stop pumping so they continued to do so. It was a judgment call. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sisquoc Pump Station shuts down both the backup and main pumps. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">10:50:00AM</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Refugio Spill has not yet taken place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The pumps at Las Flores shut down due to a high pressure reading. An operator restarts the pumps at the Sisquoc Pump Station, which is about 50 miles north of the spill site. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Between 10:53 an 10:55 first Las Flores and then Sisquoc restart pumping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How much pressure is too much when the pipe is already having issues? This is a judgment call. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pressure gauges are old technology and subject to multiple misreadings. Many oil companies now use Ultrasound monitoring, which provides precise bi-directional and highly dynamic flow measurement and the non-intrusive clamp-on technology to ascertain flow rates, a better indicator. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Plains is still on old technology in other ways as well. No automatic shut off valve is on the system although Santa Barbara County requires this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Sisquoc back-up pump goes down, followed by the main pump, according to the company. It is not possible to restart the pumping. At Las Flores pumping continues. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Due to<b> </b>“pressure anomalies” occur that morning, a Plains operator at the Midland Control Center in Texas remotely shuts down the ruptured pipe and finally stopping the pump at Las Flores. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A 9-1-1 call reporting strong oily odors comes in to the Fire Department Dispatch Center for Gaviota. In response, a crew from County Fire Station 18 goes out on the bluffs to investigate the strong odor and follows it down to the beach at Refugio where 901 is bleeding oil through the culvert, onto the beach and into the Pacific Ocean. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The potentially fatal concentration of Hydrogen Sulfide and Benzene, dispersed to the area north and east, will have dissipated from its maximum ten minute high by the time emergency personnel arrive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It could have been worse. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Exxon and Plains appear, by reports, to follow the same protocols for monitoring flow in the pipelines in Santa Barbara County, this being a pressure reading. No mention is made of ultrasound technology. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What did Exxon know about the problems with 901 and when did they know it? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why is Exxon not also under investigation? Why have litigants failed to name the corporation in their law suits, as is usual in similar circumstances? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="s1">Why wasn't ExxonMobil asked to answer questions at the June 26</span><span class="s2"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s1"> Hearing in Santa Barbara? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Does Exxon have any data which is relevant to the ongoing investigation? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, how about some answers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Company Safety Records: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Plains All American Pipeline - </span><a href="http://www.sbck.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Plains-Spill-Record-Fact-Sheet-5-29-20151.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #1b7d38; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;">Environmental Record</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our thanks to Channel Keepers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ExxonMobil - <a href="http://dansvoices.blogspot.com/2015/07/exxonmobil-their-record.html">Environmental Record</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our thanks to the great people who provided the original research.</span></div>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-92203457930348735402014-10-26T00:52:00.002-04:002019-02-06T17:35:12.616-05:00John Fund - Pimping the Vote<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="font-size26"></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It
is ironic that John Fund claims some kind of victory by pointing out
a highly marginal way of stealing a few v</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">otes
via the unusual opportunity of finding unused ballots. In his recent
</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>article,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390893/james-okeefe-strikes-again-john-fund">James
O’Keefe Strikes Again</a>,</i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">
the back slapping was thick and gleeful. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">James
O'Keefe, again, scored a media event in these last days before the
coming election. This time he was not dressed up in his pimp dudes,
but he should have been. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
election would have to extraordinarily close for this kind of voter
fraud to matter. Argument like these are like blaming the national
debt on shop lifting by senior citizens. It happens, but it is rare.
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
Big Game is being run by the Number Two Man on Fund's own speed dial,
Karl Rove. Stealing Elections was essential if the Number One Man on
Fund's speed dial in the same period, Dick Cheney, of Halliburton,
was to win and so become even richer. The three are linked by common
interests as well as a solid and long term friendship. </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">They
scratch each other's backs, as the expression goes. </span></span></u></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
John beats up a woman, or otherwise misbehaves, they are there for
him. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fund,
having made himself a kind of a 'reputation' for pimping the idea of
Voter Fraud lays it on thick and cheesy in his article. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
other side, located in Colorado, make themselves look pathetic
because a NeoCon had to give them this exciting idea – and these
twits golly gosh, gee'd all over James O'Keefe instead of showing him
the door. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Franklin’s
state director, Meredith Hicks, told O’Keefe that committing voter
fraud using unused ballots was perfectly okay. “</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>That’s
not even lying or stealing, if someone throws out the ballot. If you
want to fill it out you should do it,”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
she told O’Keefe on tape. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Note:
Cheating is always wrong. It destroys trust in the integrity of the
entire electoral process and is repulsive in anyone. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That
said, can't you see this woman rooting round in people's trash cans
looking for those ballots? How would you know when they would appear?
Many of these ballots will end up in the trash, but only after
election day.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>
“Oh. Never mind, that was yesterday.” </i></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Others
will be used as grocery lists, book marks, made into paper airplanes
and other purposes for which they were not intended. Some will also
be used for voting. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Really,
it makes you cringe. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is a magnitude of difference between this level of electoral
dishonesty and the Big Game. That is where the real money is and
this article is evidence John Fund is still Pimping for the same
folks who profited by murdering a million and a half Iraqis, killing
off babies doomed by the effects of DU to short and horrible lives,
and other war crimes galore. Remember Bush and his administration's
excitement over 'rendering' people? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You
can't say Fund is not consistent. So are No. One SpeedDial and No.
Two SpeedDial. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To
get the money you have to win the election and if you are Dick Cheney
or George Bush you can't win unless you cheat. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rove
is not into retail, he is all about Whole Selling out America with
Ballot Fraud via cool electronics. He has made millions this way.
Cheney, No. Two SpeedDial, made billions. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fund
and Friends are all Pimps. They should dress the role. </span></span>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-69504449357142796092014-09-12T06:06:00.001-04:002014-09-12T06:06:20.026-04:00No. 114 – September 11, 2014 – What Happened to World Peace? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">by
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As
the memorials for September 11, 2001 end it is time to remember the
potential for peace which existed in the days following. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
world grieved with us. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ordinary
people around the globe reacted with outpourings of sympathy,
protesting these acts of terrorism. World leaders immediately
responded, condemning the murders and offering support. Among these
leaders was Vladimir Putin. Russia's president urged <i>"the
entire international community should unite in the struggle against
terrorism,</i>" also saying the attacks were <i>"a blatant
challenge to humanity."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Libyan
leader Muammar Qaddafi called the attacks "horrifying"
telling Muslims that <i>"irrespective of the conflict with
America it is a human duty to show sympathy with the American
people." </i><span style="font-style: normal;">Mohammed Khatami,
president of </span>Iran, expressed,<i> "deep regret and
sympathy with the victims."</i> Yasser Arafat, Palestinian
president, denounced the attacks. Appearing stunned, he repeated
how, <i>"unbelievable"</i> they were. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Saddam
Hussein expressed sympathy for those who died.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">North
Korea also offered its sympathy to Americans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Few
people demonstrated anything but sympathy for America. <span style="font-style: normal;">Prayers
and vigils by people of most faiths took place as across the world
tens of thousands came out to protest the attacks. </span></span>
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">So,
who planned the attacks? </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Osama
bin Laden adamantly denied</span></span><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
involvement in the 9/11 attacks in an interview by Ummat, a Pakistani
daily, published in Karachi on September 28, 2001 He expressed his
views on the loss of life, saying, </span></span></em><i><span style="background: transparent;">“Islam
strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children, and other
people</span></i><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">.”
</span></span></em></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Osama
went on to say,</span></span></em><span style="background: transparent;">
</span><i><span style="background: transparent;">“They
needed an enemy. So, they first started propaganda against Usamah and
Taleban and then this incident happened.” </span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Speculating
who was to blame, he advised looking, </span></span><i><span style="background: transparent;">“within
the US system,”</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">
or for those responsible, or for persons who seeking conflict
between Islam and Christianity. Finally, he suggested involvement
by American intelligence agencies. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span></span>
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">Terror,
Obama said,</span></span><i><span style="background: transparent;">
“is the most dreaded weapon in modern age and the Western media is
mercilessly using it against its own people</span></i><strong><i><span style="background: transparent;">.”</span></i></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><strong><i><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></i></strong><i><span style="background: transparent;">
</span></i></span>
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</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">According
to the CIA 15 of the 19 hijackers had Saudi citizenship, 2 United
Arab Emirates, 1, Egyptian and 1 Lebanese. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span>
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</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">No
plan to invade Saudi Arabia was suggested by Bush. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span>
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</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">Afghanistan
was not involved in 9/11, yet we invaded them. Iraq had no weapons
of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein expressed his willingness to
leave Iraq, if paid. But we invaded. Millions died. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: transparent;"> </span></span>
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</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background: transparent;">These
wars were policy built on lies. Find those who benefited and you
have all the answers. </span></span>
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Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-9019603968968644022014-08-31T23:23:00.001-04:002014-08-31T23:47:26.546-04:00Saddam Hussein and 9/11 The unexpected connection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">by
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"> </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">September
11, 2001 began as a perfect day in New York City. The first taste of
autumn was in the air. It felt like a wonderful time to be alive. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Then,
everything changed. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">In
those endless hours after the first plane hit, we waited to find out
if those we loved had survived. People around the world were praying
for us and for America. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">From
home in California I prayed for my daughter, Morgan, who was to have
been in the Twin Towers that morning. Later, I learned the trip
planned for her to replace her fiance's bank card had not happened
because they quarreled. After their squabble John Fund went off in a
huff to his office in the Wall Street Journal. He returned late in
the day, covered with white dust, accompanied by two security guards
who had walked with him across the bridge to Jersey City. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">My
relief when Morgan answered her phone brought me to tears. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">In
the first shock and grief following 9/11 millions around the world
opened their hearts to America. It seemed as if the long ached for
peace, bringing humanity together, was within our grasp. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">The
next week, touched by the memory of fear and hope I wrote this poem. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.pillsbury-foster.info/First-Violet-1---65.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">First
Violet Series</span></span></span></span></u></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
</span></span></u></span></span></a></span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">No.
20 - Crimson Blossoms Sheer and Rend </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Crimson
Roses rent the sky; bringing down the autumn sun.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Fracturing
the pillared towers;</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.45in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Sudden
death writ red as flowers. </i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>My
mind arrested; could not accept, the changes sudden that deformed</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>The
world I knew was shattered there, </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.53in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>inside
an autumn newly born. </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>The
scenes surreal, the tears, the shock; the frantic search for those we
love. </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Trembled
tones and dust choked eyes.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>The
fall of towers from the sky. </i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Deforming
shock of memories, rescinding trends of history. </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>From
grief surrendered; steel bent scope.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Was
reborn an edge for hope. </i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Our
courage spent as offered gift; lives to save mean more than risk. </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>A
shroud of dust had cloaked the sky</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>A
cloak of courage, death denied. </i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>A
thousand little moments bled, in mind made journey, our griefs
unsaid. </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>As
human actions moved our minds.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Ears
heard</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>
echoes of the divine. </i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Erupting
roses burned our eyes, remaking worlds we will not see. </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.51in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Recasting
all our best beliefs; </i></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.51in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>replacing
them with soul seared grief. </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Transforming
death; unbending love; our undeflected will to hope.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>These
the gifts that roses brought</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.52in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>revealing
need for truer scope. </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">We
all felt the potential for coming together, I think. But time taught
us how differently a small group of people viewed 9/11.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">That
outpouring of compassion from across the globe was transformed into
the wet dream of NeoCon greed. Afghanistan was invaded. Harsh voices
urged more violence based on what we now know were lies. The
bipartisan trust according the White House was used with calloused
disregard of the truth. Further events were manufactured to keep us
in fear. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">And
the political operatives, masquerading as media, were accorded heady
powers as the rush for death and profits began. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">John
Fund, whose speed dial's first two numbers are Dick Cheney and Karl
Rove, was doubtless briefed on the exciting opportunity 9/11
presented for carrying out the war against Iraq. Invading Iraq was in
the plan when George W. Bush lied his way into the White House in
2000. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">For
Fund, 9/11 and its aftermath included the opportunity to evade
charges of domestic violence. For Karl Rove and company, everything
is political. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">The
next year and a half were surreal. It was as if the shock of falling
towers continued as a psychic barrage. It was a time which changed me
and my personal world, forever. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Part
II</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Why
Saddam Hussein Had to Die </b></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
November, 2002 I was asked, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">“</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Is
Qusay something like E-Bay?”</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">
The query came from my daughter, Morgan. She and I are now estranged.
</span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">That
November, Morgan was in hiding with a sympathetic family in Georgia,
following an attempt on her life by John Fund, her former lover.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Although
Fund was employed at the Wall Street Journal as a journalist, serving
on their Editorial Board from 1995 - 2001, his real job was as a
political operative. By the late 90s he was working for what would
become the Bush Administration. His long career in the field of
disinformation began with the Koch brothers in 1979. At the time he
was claiming to be a Libertarian. He also claimed he had run for
office. Both of these were lies according to Justin Raimondo in his
article, </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2006/04/26/john-fund-vs-the-truth/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">John
Fund vs. the Truth</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">,
published in Antiwar. Com April 27, 2006. </span></div>
<div dir="LTR" id="Section1" style="text-align: justify;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Lying
to the public, manufacturing evidence, and destroying lives, was
standard practice for the NeoCons in control of the Bush White House.
Viewing themselves as possessing the right to rule they were
following the political philosophy of Leo Strauss.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">John
came into his association with them already trained. As an operative,
John Fund inserted fabricated information into public consciousness.
I can say this with authority because he kept in touch with me,
feeding me lies which included both Democrats and their political
enemies within the Republican Party. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Protecting
Fund was important to the NeoCon White House. Protecting their
constructed scenario for the War in Iraq being sold to the public,
was essential. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">In
the years leading up to the opening of the War in Iraq ordinary
Americans still believed those in control of their government
understood their obligation to act only on the facts and act justly.
We were wrong. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">This
narrative uses one story, a minor one, involving one woman without a
conscience, Morgan Pillsbury Gell, to illustrate the ruthlessness and
lack of human values at the core of the Bush Administration. These
policies continued with Obama without change. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>The
Personal is also Political - Demanding Proof </b></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Morgan
was a manipulator and a liar, and my entire family knew this from the
time she was still in her teens. But we did not know about
psychopathy – then. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="147f4deed023981b_yui_3_10_0_1_1408455326"></a>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Morgan
came by the condition, which can be inherited, through my first
husband, Richard Lee Barteaux, a psychopath who was supported by his
wealthy parents all of his life. Richard died of </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://barteauxthefamilystory.blogspot.com/2012/07/richard-lee-barteaux-death-certificate.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-weight: normal;">severe
cirrhosis of the liver</span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">in
1983. </span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
left him after six months and never saw him again for good and
sufficient reasons. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
began to demand Morgan provide evidence for events too incredible to
believe in 1999. She and I were no longer speaking when she called me
from her apartment in Jersey City to tell me she was broke and
starving. She said she had been in a relationship with John Fund for
nearly a year. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Having
asked John Fund, who I had known politically since 1979, about the
relationship the previous March, I told her she was lying. John
claimed to know her only casually, having fed her cat for her once. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">At
that moment, John called her. Putting me on hold, Morgan took his
call, </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.apj.us/fundpillsburyfull.mp3" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx">recording
it</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">.
Calling me back she said, “</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Just
listen.”</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">
What I heard was a stunning indictment of any claim by John Fund to
honesty. At the very time he an I were talking Morgan was in Los
Angeles aborting his child. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">This
would become known as the Weasel Search Tape for the website which
originally hosted both tape and article, published in 2001. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Although
I told Morgan, in the strongest possible terms, she should walk away
from the relationship and return to college, she refused the offer.
Instead she asked me to help her find a job in New York. I agreed to
assist her. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">During
the year I paid for an apartment in New York Morgan spent far more
time with Fund than looking for a job. She later told me he was
living at the apartment with her about half the time. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">At
the beginning of 2001 it was clear Morgan had no interest in working
for a living and I ended my assistance to her. With the plane ticket
I provided she returned to New York from California. Occasionally, I
heard from her but her focus continued to be her relationship with
Fund. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">On
May 2, 2001, Morgan called to tell me she had just heard from John,
who had phoned her, dead drunk. The reason for celebration was the
end of the Blumenthal - Drudge suit for libeling Blumenthal as a wife
abuser. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">This
event seemed to mark a change in their relationship. Soon, he asked
her to move in with him. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Sex,
Lies, and the Tape </b></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">But
there were complications. Morgan had provided interviews about her
relationship with Fund to John Connolly of Vanity Fair. She had also
provided Connolly with the 1999 recording, now known as the Weasel
Search Tape.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">If
you read through the </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.lifestealers.org/Characeristics-checklist.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx">characteristics
of psychopathy</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">,
according to Dr. Robert Hare, Morgan's actions, and those of the
NeoCons make chilling sense. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">The
beatings started after Connolly's article,</span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.apj.us/sc20010904connolly.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
“</span></span></u></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx"><i>Sex,
Lies, and the Tape,”</i></span></span></span></u></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
was published, September 4, 2001. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Morgan,
born July 5, 1967, was then 34 years old. Later I learned,
psychopaths court disaster because they enjoy living on the edge.
This behavior was in evidence all of her life. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">While
the trauma of 9/11 was playing out, with its grief, anguish, and
shock, most Americans, being emotionally normal, still trusted their
government. The NeoCons in the White House used this opportunity for
carrying out plans already made for war. Instead of using the tragic
events to enact peace, they invaded Afghanistan, and continued their
plan to invade Iraq. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">In
parallel with these events, Morgan and John were spiraling down to
violence. John would batter Morgan multiple times. I heard this
happening on the phone, as did Eric Buchanan, the husband of the
couple who later hid her in Georgia. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Although
what Eric and I heard was offered as evidence many times, we were
ignored. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Part
III</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Domestic
Violence is a Crime</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Listening
to what was transpiring through the phone that day nauseated and
sickened me. That first time I still did not believe Morgan, who had
told me about the beatings a few days earlier. That changed after
this first incident.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">It
started with Morgan's voice dropping and growing unsteady as the
sound of the door opening came through the phone. She left the phone
on, probably putting it down. Then John began talking. He accused her
of breaking 'the rules,' talking to other people and repeating a
bewildering list of requirements she was to follow to retain his
trust. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">His
voice began rising. It sounded like he was beginning to snarl, like
he was an animal preparing to attack. Even more frightening, Morgan
sounded like a little girl, her voice growing shaky and rising in
pitch. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
heard something crash, like it was knocked over. This was followed by
the sound of a hand hitting flesh. Morgan cried out but I could not
understand her words. John, however started laughing, a deep,
maniacal sound that made me shudder. I could not stop listening, but
my hands were shaking and I had to use both of them to hold on to the
phone. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">It
went on for a long time. Blow following blow, each accompanied by her
little girl voice, begging him to stop. Finally, I heard him ask what
she had made for dinner. From Morgan, there was no sound. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
hung up and called the Jersey City Police. It was not long before I
had the number memorized. I began to learn how events are
manufactured and altered beyond recognition. John knew a lot of
people in politics. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">The
police and the authorities in New York and New Jersey knew these
incidents had been heard both by myself and by Eric Buchanan. Neither
of us were ever called or mentioned in their reports. We offered
statements. Neither of us was allowed to give one in the months, and
years, which followed. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Criminal
Minds – Political Lies </b></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
vacillated between rage at how Morgan was being treated and wondering
if she deserved it, as everyone else in the family believed. My third
daughter, Ayn, told me, “</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>We
should let John solve the problem for us.” </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">She
meant Morgan. But even though Morgan was a liar she was still, then,
my child. I could not turn my back on her. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Those
screams and the sound of John's maniacal voice still haunt me today,
even knowing she has no conscience or empathy for others. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
had felt as if the blows were landing on my own body. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">In
late January Morgan finally listened to my pleas and agreed to move
to an apartment in New York, for which I paid. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">A
few days later she called and told me John had found her and moved
it. It felt as if my stomach had dropped out. I was dizzy and
nauseated. To say it was surreal understates the case. I could not
believe she had permitted it. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">But
she began sending me scans of John's mail, which he would leave there
on the floor, for instance, the letter to him from </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-10-letter-from.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx">Fidelity
Investments</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">,
dated January 25, 2002. John is also a habitual liar, then claiming
Morgan was out of his life. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">In
March I flew in to see some plays with a friend, calling Morgan from
the taxicab a few blocks away. When Morgan answered the phone I could
hear John talking in the background. When I arrived Morgan was bloody
and he was gone. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
insisted she file a police report, as any normal person would do. I
hoped the police in Manhattan would be different. Initially, they
were. But what I did not know, because she did not tell me, was that
John had been promised help by Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. He had
apparently found her so he could extort the proof in the form of the
</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/morgan-notarized-affidavit-dated.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx">notarized
statement</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">.
She did this because John offered to pay her. I was stunned to learn
she would lie for money without blinking. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
had never imagined domestic violence would be viewed as a political
issue and handled accordingly. I was wrong. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">An
attempt on Morgan's life took place in late April, 2002. Someone with
a key turned the first lock. Morgan, who was talking to me on the
phone as she stood in the tiny kitchen next to the entry door, threw
the deadbolt. I immediately told her to call security. The camera
showed a man's back leaving the building. The Manhattan police
refused to investigate.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">The
search began for someplace where she would be safe. Morgan left New
York as if she was headed to spend a weekend in the Hamptons, her
other possessions shipped, one box at a time, ahead of her. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Desperately
Seeking Help </b></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">During
the time we were desperately looking for help Sidney Blumenthal had
ignored our pleas for assistance. The police and DA's office were
refusing to follow the law in the case of domestic violence filed by
Morgan against John Fund on </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-15-charges-of.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx">February
19, 2002</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">.
</span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">It
was Fund who had come up with the idea for Matt Drudge to libel
Blumenthal as a wife beater. Instead of helping, Blumenthal tried to
persuade Morgan to supply material for his book, “</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Clinton's
War.“ </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">The
request was made via this </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/sidney-blumenthal-email-to-morgan-june.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx">email</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx"><u>,</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">
dated June 22, 2002. Morgan refused and was very angry with his
dismissal of a real case of domestic violence and the attempt on her
life. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">She
was even angrier a short time later. Blumenthal, she discovered, had
stolen the information he had requested from her computer, using a
keylogger. She had found the Keylogger and traced its origin. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Morgan
returned the favor. Soon, she was reading the never ending revisions
of Sidney's book and his emails. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">When
Morgan left New York I stopped having nightmares about flying in to
view her body. During this time, the ramp up to the invasion of Iraq
was mounting. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>The
Ramp Up to War </b></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">In
September of 2002, along with the rest of Americans, I listened as
the claims for Weapons of Mass Destruction began, were debunked, and
then began again, reaching the level of hysteria. In October, the
National Intelligence Estimate became available. It was all remote,
horrible, but without immediate impact on us. I thought. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Morgan
had never kept up on unfolding events for anything but what
immediately interested her. However, what interested her had changed
somewhat, beginning in early summer, 2002 due to events in her own
life. By November she had been monitoring traffic to and from the
computer owned by Sidney Blumenthal for six months. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Later,
I realized what must have been happening in the background, out of
sight. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Part
IV</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Saddam
Considers His Options</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Having
considered his options, Saddam Hussein, whose career had started as
an operative for the CIA, offered to leave Iraq, if he was paid. He
could have had no illusions about what happen if Iraq was invaded.
But he probably believed the powers set against him would be happy to
lower their transaction costs for getting access of Iraqi oil. He was
wrong, too. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">The
Bush agenda had assigned a role for Saddam. He was to be the villein
in the drama, now launched. Therefore, his continued presence was
essential. Bush wanted him dead, and dead he was going to be, the
facts not withstanding. How much this would cost in money, lives and
suffering, was not an issue. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">But
someone had to keep Saddam in place and this could not be anyone
associated with the Bush Administration. So, in late 2002 Bill and
Hillary Clinton, aided by Sidney Blumenthal, undertook the job via
emails which flowed through the Blumenthal computer. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Reassured,
Saddam Hussein stayed in Iraq.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Morgan
was still reading Sidney's emails in between baking cookies in the
middle of the night and trips with Mrs. Buchanan to Walmart. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">When
Morgan sent me the first email involving Saddam Hussein I had a
friend, expert in computers, ascertain where the email sent to
Blumenthal originated. The answer came back, the Emirates, likely
Baghdad. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
knew perfectly well it was illegal for the Clintons, now private
citizens, to manipulate policy. I still could not imagine a
presidency which routinely manipulated events for their own profit as
anything but treason. I also could not imagine this kind of
cooperation between Bush and Clinton, given what the NeoCons had done
to Bill during the Monica Lewinsky Debacle. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
knew it was my duty to inform authorities, which I did. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">In
the mean time, Morgan and Eric had managed to get a keylogger on
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Qusay's</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">
computer by using a subject line which read, “</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i>Women
without Veils.” </i></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Morgan
was watching on March 20, 2003 at about 02:30 UTC, or about 90
minutes after the lapse of the U.S. 48-hour deadline for Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq ended. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">According
to The Pentagon, 36 Tomahawk missiles and two F-117 launched GBU-27
bombs were used in this assault. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">The
targets were high-level Iraqi governmental officials, including
Saddam Hussein himself, and were based on intelligence which led the
U.S. government to believe it knew his movements. Civilian buildings
were also hit. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">On
May 29, 2003, it was claimed the Bunker never existed, but the
computer was definitely hit. Morgan told me about watching as the
ping moved to CIA headquarters in Virginia, calling me immediately
afterward. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
had told Morgan the Clintons and Blumenthal would be charged with
treason. When this did not happen I realized I had failed to
understand the NeoCons running the Bush Administration. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We
would now become targets ourselves. This began April 1, 2003. See the
</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://johnfund.blogspot.com/p/evidence.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="zxx"><span style="font-style: normal;">John
Fund site</span></span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">/Time
Line & Evidence. Scroll down to April Fool's Day, 2003. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">We
knew too much. Our credibility needed to be destroyed. With Morgan,
this was not hard to do. Even I, her mother, did not believe her
without hard proof. With me this was somewhat more difficult. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">I
had been active in politics and organizations for years. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Overtly,
they ignored me. The DA's office refused to take a statement from me
regarding John Fund's battery of Morgan. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Knowing
most people are ignorant of the law they secured what they needed to
put paid to Morgan's credibility. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
the spring of 2003 John Fund received from Green Hills Software,
Inc., the corporation for which my former husband was Senior Vice
President, an uncertified deposition Morgan had given in early 2001.
This went up on a website he and his girl friend, </span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-funds-women-gail-heriot-passion.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Gail
Herriot</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
put up on </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030621110745/http://www.johnfund.com/"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">June
21</span></span></u></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">st</span></span></sup></u></span></span></a><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
The site came down soon after May 17</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">th
</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
2014, shortly after I published an article pointing out the
deposition was illegally obtained and used.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">On
April 9</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Dan O'Dowd incorporated the </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://greedville.blogspot.com/p/fallen-heroes.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Fallen
Heroes Last Wish Foundation</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
with a goal of providing $5,000 each for college to 100 orphans of
servicemembers who died in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The site was
announced on the April 10. </span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
return for their assistance Green Hills Software, Inc., began getting
defense contracts, eventually becoming a major supplier of software
for drones through Green Hills and, eventually, its wholly owned
subsidiary, </span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.ghs.com/news/20081117_integrity_global_security.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">INTEGRITY
Global Security</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Green Hills President O'Dowd also made sure I did not get the stock
due me from my divorce. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">This
was another “Throw Mama from the Train” deal like the one Dan
O'Dowd had made with my former husband, his Senior Vice President,
Craig Franklin in late 1997. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Craig
had made sure Dan's partner, Glenn Hightower, could not exercise his
buy out option by orchestrating a walk out of critical personnel
during due diligence. In return, O'Dowd had a new stock option
agreement written by an attorney in Los Angeles, Anne Fisher. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">The
campaign to destroy our credibility and my financial resources picked
up steam as Operation Iraqi Freedom continued. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">John
persuaded Eric Alterman and other ambitious journalists to write hit
pieces. Alterman's piece appeared in The Nation on May 15, titled, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
"</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/who-framed-john-fund"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Who
Framed John Fund?</span></i></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">,</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"
published in The </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nation.
Herriot wrote an </span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Heriot-Libelous-Letter-.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">email
letter</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
to Gene Gaudette, an editor of the site where the Connolly article is
still hosted. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="stcpDiv"></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On
July 22, 2003 Wendy MacElroy, a struggling writer who called her self
a feminist while supplying articles to men's groups explaining why
women are as violent as men, traded a hit piece for a continuing gig
at Fox News. The </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/07/22/false-rape-charges-hurt-real-victims/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">article</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">False
Rape Charges Hurt Real Victims.</span></i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">MacElroy
did not bother to call either myself of Morgan. I had known MacElroy
personally since the 70s. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Cheney
arranged to have me hit with IRS liens. With the public relations
extravaganza on the war then building I knew all too well it was
unlikely anyone would pay attention or believe me. </span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">For
the next eleven I was left caring for a disabled son, 24/7 with no
money and no resources. When I say we nearly starved several times I
am not exaggerating. I know how ruthless these people are from very
personal experience. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">But
over the next years the learning curves of millions has continued.
Our world had changed and so have we. What has not changed is the
lack of conscience in those who today hold power. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">Today,
we have endured the trauma of endless wars, destroying nations,
murdering millions of innocent people. All of this was carried out to
profit a small elite who also have further plans for us. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;">The
individuals who orchestrated this reign of terror, controlled by both
major political parties, are following the same marching orders now
as they did then. For them, there are no rules. </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">For
those of us who empathize, trust, and love, seeing is believing.
Those without conscience have no limits.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">Today,
the reality of psychopathy, those without conscience, is finally
sinking in. Theories on the meltdown of the economy now acknowledge
the impact of the disordered. Agencies such as the FBI take it into
account. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">I
learned in ways which were immediate and personal. Questions from an
entire lifetime were answered when I realized Morgan is a psychopath,
too. Understanding how the lack of a conscience alters behavior
forced me to see the world through their eyes. It was a frightening
moment. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pieces
of an enormous puzzle suddenly fit for me personally, politically,
and spiritually. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">In
their hands 9/11 became not a beacon for peace but a much desired
justification for endless war and profits. They have no beliefs.
When you hear them use the words and images which touch our hearts
and evoke our trust they are feeling only the satisfaction of having
fooled us. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republican,
Democrat, there is no difference. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">We
must lose our illusions and move past the barriers constructed to
keep us divided. </span></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">Saddam
was marked for death because he knew too much. Having been part of a
previous scam he had to have realized he had finally been scammed
himself. The power he thought he held was illusion. The illusion
killed him. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">He
had become more useful as a symbol for evil than as a hired player in
their game. The fact he had nothing to do with 9/11 was irrelevant.
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">Learn
to see through the eyes of a psychopath. Understand them, act
locally, where we can better observe those around us. At the same
time, be aware of what is happening around the world. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 255, 255);">Real
security is only possible when facts are transparent globally and
locally. When this is so we are no longer vulnerable to manufactured
illusions. We need this because only then will p</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">eace,
justice, and a clean and healthy Earth be possible for our children. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Notes: Murdoch's incoming team looked over John
Fund's work and let him go, unaware he was not there to
write but as a political operative. He is is now employed
at National Review. <br />
</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Here is the </span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: small;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://johnfund.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">site</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
I put up which seemed to make him rethink keeping his own
site
active. </span></span>
</div>
</div>
Melinda Pillsbury-Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15407874300095337146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15169051.post-60272333794983790142014-07-23T14:53:00.000-04:002014-07-23T14:54:52.770-04:00How the NeoCons 'Managed' Saddam Hussein<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Part
One of Four </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;">-
And Why the Facts Matter </span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><i>I'm
not a journalist and the facts don't matter.” </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
- Rayelan Allen, RMN owner and editor</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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“<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>All
politics is personal,” </i>or <i>“the personal is political.”</i>
Early feminist sayings</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In
November of 2002 we had been lied to about Weapons of Mass
Destruction, the reason given for invading Iraq, resistance to the
war was waning. Standing in the way, though this was not publicly
known at the time, was Saddam Hussein, who was very willing to leave
Iraq forever – if he was paid. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Paying
him off would have been far cheaper than the cost of the war. But it
would not have accomplished the real goals. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
real drive for war was oil and the dollar. The details were carried
out by a group of people who had no conscience, willing to lie
themselves into power and lie, cheat and steal to keep it. Together,
they have changed our world, bringing us to the precipice of
destruction. These are the acts of individuals who behave in exactly
the same way in their personal lives. I know.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
build up to war, constructed by the Bush White House, took place as
events in my own life played out in shocking ways but which proved to
be highly informative in a horrible way.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
strategies used by those I was forced to deal with personally were
the same as those used by the NeoCons who were driving us to war. At
the time, I was fighting to protect my daughter, Morgan, from the
consequences of her life-long bad behavior and judgment. Later, I
realized this was not possible. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">She
is a psychopath acting on the mistaken belief she can get away with
anything. Harming others, or even killing them, was perfectly
acceptable to her. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Our
internal values determine all parts of our lives and for all parts we
are responsible and accountable. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">How
many people died because of the War in Iraq and the lies told to us?
At least a million and a half, though the total is probably higher. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">How
many people misdirected their life efforts through patriotic fervor
incited by people who had intentionally used the symbols and language
of honor to defraud us? The number is unbearably high. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">How
many of us have struggled to understand how this could have happened?
</span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Hold
the impact of the war and how this was accomplished in mind as we
consider what happened from the time this story began in 1997 until
the invasion of Iraq began in the spring of 2003.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><b>The
Personal </b> </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
first became active in politics during the Goldwater campaign. My
goal was to achieve social justice and individual empowerment. While
pursing these goals I joined the Libertarian Party in 1974. I
managed campaigns, ran for office, did fundraising and organized. I
left when it was clear the Kochs had destroyed any potential for
effective action in 1988. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
studied the problem of organizations while remaining active. In 1997
I was a Regent for the National Federation of Republican Women and
coping with the continuing crises generated by my husband, Craig
Franklin. Not filing his taxes, when he owed nothing, was typical of
Craig's irresponsible behavior. I wrote this article about what we
called, “The Tax Crisis,” in 2008. </span><a href="http://melindapillsbury-foster.blogspot.com/2008/05/your-not-paranoid-irs-is-out-to-get-you.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>You're
Not Paranoid – The IRS is out to get you. </i></span></a>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">After
I solved the problem Craig decided to leave me and take all the money
with him. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Beginning
in 1997 Morgan, who had committed the incredibly ugly act of working
with Craig to defraud me of millions of dollars during our divorce,
had, in October of 1998, started a sexual relationship with an old
boy friend of mine, John Fund, then on the Editorial Board of the
Wall Street Journal. She wanted a rich husband and decided he would
do. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Always
ambitious, she had emerged from her childhood, which had traumatized
her entire family, functionally illiterate – and her previous
prospect for marital bounty, <a href="http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/">Eugene
Volokh</a>, had flown the coop the month before. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">She
was actually traveling with my estranged husband, on a tour of New
York, London, and Paris, when she and John started their affair.
Would she have hesitated if she had known how promiscuous John had
become, enabled by the power accrued as a NeoCon operative?
Probably not. But she might have played things differently. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">John
Fund was placed at the WSJ in 1984 by connections who maintained
close ties with the people who were already working to put Bush in
office by stealing the election in 2000. Positioned as a journalist
he is actually a political operative, his first experiences in this
coming through the Koch Brothers' attempt to take over the
Libertarian Party. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Taking
up with your mother's former boy friend, someone you have referred to
as 'Uncle John' since you were a child, is scandalous behavior, there
is no other word for it. This type of behavior is normal for Morgan.
</span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
had no idea this was going on because I was thousands of miles away
caring for my oldest son, Arthur, who had attempted suicide by
shooting himself through the brain on March 22, 1998. It would be
another year before he would be able to even go to the bathroom
himself. My entire focus was on his care.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Morgan
and I were not talking because her deviousness and lies had included
attempting to persuade me she needed a heart transplant in an attempt
to get me to turn off her brother's life support. She called me to
ask for his heart. This happened, I later realized, soon after she
had been paid $10,000 to do this by my estranged husband, Craig
Franklin. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">One
of the reasons psychopaths get away with so much is our inability to
believe the ugliness of their real motives. This is also true in
politics. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">When
John started his liaison with Morgan he expected a job as
speechwriter for the Bush administration, still two years in the
future. They were already discussing war with Iraq. John would
assist, pushing the agenda in the media.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">After
years of dealing with Morgan I knew not to believe her if she did not
offer proof but I had no reason to distrust John. So, in September,
1999, for practically the only time in her life, Morgan told the
truth, with proof. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Puzzled
at the persistent rumors about a relationship between her and John,
I called to ask him. John and I had been chatting regularly for over
twenty years. Asked about the relationship he expressed shock. He
denied it, saying he had fed her cat for her once or twice. I
believed him. He was completely persuasive, giving the impression of
absolute openness. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
was the </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.apj.us/fundpillsburyfull.mp3"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">WeaselSearch
Tape,</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
recorded by Morgan in September of 1999, which changed my mind. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This
is a man who helped lie us into war. His personal ethics match the
ones he uses professionally. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">One
afternoon that September Morgan called me to beg for help. She was
broke and about to be evicted from her apartment in Jersey City.
John, she said, had forced her to abort his baby the previous March
and then dumped her. A heated discussion ensued as I relayed to her
my recent conversation with John. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Hearing
a call coming in, Morgan put me on hold. It was John. She recorded
her conversation with him. You can listen to it on the tape above.
A few minutes later I had heard the whole of it. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
was stunned and confronted him on the phone soon afterward. He hung
up on me. His cover blown he moved to the next strategy, distancing.
</span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">As
a result of a </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/exhibit-3-october-27-1999-fax-to-wall.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">fax</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
I sent to the WSJ moments later, the job as a speechwriter for the
Bush White House, already being promised, vanished. The fax, I was
told, was copied at least five times on its way to his office. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
illusion of family values needed to be retained. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Instead
of a job in the White House, which John had earned through his work
as an operative for the NeoCons, then coming to power, he was told to
write a book about how liberals steal elections. This would provide
cover for the electronic hacking about to begin. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="productTitle1"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="title1"></a>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Elections-Voter-Threatens-Democracy/dp/1594030618/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1406047870&sr=8-2&keywords=stealing+elections"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Stealing
Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy</i></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">,
would be published September 24, 2004.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
relationship between John and Morgan seemed to stabilize for a while.
Fund spent nearly half his time at the apartment I rented in NY at
the Rivergate. I was rarely there. John told me he intended to
marry Morgan, who he said really loved. I wished them well, glad
they had come to some resolution. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">But
then, in December of 2000 Morgan realized he was sneaking into my
empty room to </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/morgan-phone-bill-from-nyc-apartment.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">call
other women</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">,
including Federal judge Diane Sykes, late at night. He left emails
where Morgan could find them. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
received copies of these from Morgan via email. This one, Fund sent
on </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-funds-women-diane-sykes-thursday.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">July
22</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> this same
year, was typical. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Morgan's
relationship with John continued, headed for rockier and rockier
ground as the number of 'other women' Morgan discovered increased.
</span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Despite
this, they moved in together in Jersey City in July of 2001, just
days after Morgan had vented to John Connolly of Vanity Fair. From
those interviews Connolly wrote an article titled, </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.apj.us/sc20010904connolly.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>“Sex,
Lies and the Tape.”</i></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
Over my objections Morgan had given him a copy of the tape she had
made in 1999.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
article was published September 4, 2001, along with the tape. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Connolly
had arranged for the article to be published in Talk Magazine - but
Fund intimidated Tina Brown into canceling the story by having his
attorney, John J. Walsh, call and make threats. Walsh later billed
for services, producing this </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-20-legal.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">letter.</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
Morgan also found a <a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/talk-magazine-funds-cost-for-neoconning.html">Work
Memo</a> later. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Instead,
the article was published only online on a site called WeaselSearch,
from which it got its name. When the site folded it was hosted on
American Politics Journal, where it is today. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">What
Fund did to stop publication is standard operating procedure for
NeoCons. He used this later against me. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">But
because the article refuted the lies John had continued to tell, a
scandal erupted anyway.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Understandably,
this event did not contribute to bliss in John and Morgan's
relationship but the reasons were far more complex than just one
little article. </span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Morgan
called me, outraged. She had refurbished John's apartment at his
request and he was refusing to pay her back. When she moved in the
utilities had been turned off because of his non-payment and the
plumbing did not work. I made her produce the receipts since I still
did not trust her. She kept track of payment for cleaning supplies
and repairs, which were complete before she told me John was
battering her in the later part of September. </span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
violence, she later said, had begun one evening after an event at the
ALEC Conference in New York in early August. </span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
had hoped the relationship would work out. To say it didn't vastly
understates the case. </span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
did not believe her until I heard it happening over the phone, which
happened in late September. When I heard John's demonic glee as he
pounded her I felt obligated to take action. As I have said, Morgan
lies. Another friend of her's, Eric Buchanan, confirmed he had also
heard this taking place on another occasion. Both of us advised
Morgan to leave him. She refused. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">During
this time </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-funds-women-molin.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Carol
Divine Molin</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">,
a Republican Woman, called me to express concern for Morgan as a
battered woman. She told me she counseled women who had been
battered. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Then
it came out that her motive was reigniting her brief fling with Fund
by assisting him with Morgan. The fling had taken place some time
earlier, after Fund spoke to a group to which Molin belonged. Liking
what she saw, evidently, she took him home with her. Fund's parting
words were, by report,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i> “You
got to swallow.” </i></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">We
learned Molin had complained to the management at the Wall Street
Journal about how she had been treated the year before. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
beatings continued. Morgan filed police <span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-11-charges-of.html">reports</a></u></span></span>
in New Jersey. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Morgan
became aware John was still lying about their relationship, saying he
barely knew her, while she was living with him. At one point she
used her cell phone so I could hear him telling these lies to Lloyd
Grove from the Washington Post. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Listening
to him lie was stunning. Again, I begged her to leave. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">After
she found even more emails, from a growing list of other women, she
agreed. The emails included these between him and Michele Davis, on
<a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-fund-correspondence-with-michele.html"><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u>January
13</u></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><sup>th</sup></u></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u>
and 18</u></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><sup>th</sup></u></span></span></a><sup>,
</sup> and this <span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-funds-women-gail-heriot-passion.html">Email</a></u></span></span>,
revealing the sexual relationship he had begun with law professor
Gail Heriot, also on the 13<sup>th</sup> of January. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Christine
Hall Reis, a new bride, offered the services of herself and her
friend, Julie Currie, from Kroll Opposition Research to John on
</span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/john-funds-women-christine-hall-reis.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">January
21, 2002</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">.
Christine had sent an unusual photo of herself to John, which he
printed and left on the floor, where Morgan found it. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Morgan
moved out of the apartment in Jersey City and into an apartment I
rented for her in New York around January 24 - 26, 2002. I breathed
a sigh of relief, but it was not over. The craziness escalated. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">John
found out where Morgan was living and moved in with her. He left a
litter of papers there, some of which Morgan scanned and sent me to
prove this was happening. This letter from <a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-10-letter-from.html">Fidelity
Investments</a> is dated January 25, 2002. Morgan picked it up off
the floor in her Manhattan apartment after John left it there.
Another incident of battery soon took place just moments before I
arrived at the apartment. When I walked in I saw Morgan bloodied
and bruised. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
New York </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-15-charges-of.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">police
report</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> was
filed. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">John
had been told by his two closest friends, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove,
who occupied adjacent spaces on his speed dial, he needed to provide
evidence Morgan had lied. Which she might well have done. But
there were witnesses. Buchanan and I had heard beatings take place
and were ignored by authorities. Neither of us were ever called
though the authorities knew we were witnesses. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Fund
received help from some of the other women in his life. A few of
these were victims themselves, unaware of what was really happening
and are not named. Others, like Gail Heriot, whose relationship with
Fund began in a hotel room in December of 2001 or January of 2002,
assisted in building the website Fund used to insert lies into public
view and wrote letters for him, libeling both Morgan and myself. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Desperate,
we sought help from people who were politically at odds with the
NeoCons. One of these individuals was Sidney Blumenthal. </span>
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It
was at this time Blumenthal put a keylogger on Morgan's computer to
steal information about Fund. He had refused to help, trying to
persuade her it was enough to <a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2014/07/sidney-blumenthal-email-to-morgan-june.html">expose
him</a> politically. So Morgan returned the keylogger favor, against
my advice. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">While
she can't write a literate sentence Morgan was a wiz with computers.
It was this act which would expose to us the strategy adopted by the
Bush White House to ensure the War in Iraq was not stopped in
November of 2002. </span>
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">An
attempt to kill Morgan took place in May, 2002. I heard this over
the phone as the key turned in the door of her apartment. Morgan
threw herself against it and engaged the dead bolt. I believed her.
She is not that good an actress. </span>
</div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Then,
she went into hiding with a couple in Georgia.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">As
the campaign to sell the fiction of Weapons of Mass Destruction was
hammered into accepted fact Morgan was following Sidney via his
emails and reading early chapters of his book, Clinton's War.
Occasionally she would forward me a copy.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">By
November war appeared to be inevitable. Then, Morgan called me and
asked if U-Day was something like E-Bay. The keylogger had turned up
something with more surprises than Blumenthal's book. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Saddam,
in communication with Blumenthal, wanted to cut a deal to be paid to
leave so war would not be necessary. I had the origin of the email
checked out and the expert said it had come from the Emirates and
Baghdad was a likely source. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
appointed agents for insuring Saddam would stay put were the Clintons
and their old friend, Sidney Blumenthal. This activism on their
parts <span style="font-style: normal;">is likely the real source of
the largess which flowed into the Clinton coffers, not Hillary's
public speaking abilities or investment savvy. </span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
previous January Fund had forced Morgan to sign a 'confession' saying
no abuse had taken place. The documents were dated January 24, 2002,
just before she moved out. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Evidently,
Fund promised to pay her what he owned her if she signed and,
stupidly, she did. Since an accounting of what Fund owed matched
what was asked if you add in the outdated checks Morgan found while
cleaning, which Fund had given her, it is likely Rove and Cheney
decided this was not enough 'proof' to be persuasive. </span></span>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Eric
and I knew the statement was hogwash and would have so testified. </span></span>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
real campaign to destroy our credibility began in 2003, after Fund's
friends realized they had more than one political operation to
protect. They needed to protect John, a pivotal political operative,
and the truth about Saddam. </span>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">So
evidence was sought and obtained through trade with those holding it.
</span>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Craig,
my former husband, was Senior Vice President of Green Hills Software,
Inc. He and the company's president, Dan O'Dowd, had made a deal in
1997 to defraud their partners. Dan would have a fake stock option
agreement made to deny me a marital share during our divorce and
Craig would lead a walk out to keep Glenn Hightower, Dan's partner,
from exercising his buy out option when Dan exercised it and made him
an offer. </span>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Morgan
had supplied a recording of Craig gloating about this and in late
1999 I had filed a law suit. Morgan gave a deposition on February
22, 2001. The suit settled and the deposition was never certified,
making it illegal to copy. </span>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Green
Hills Software, LLC. exchanged a copy of this deposition for defense
contracts. Today, Green Hills Software, Inc. is a billion dollar
company heavily into drone technology and supplying the Military
Industrial Complex. </span>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
campaign to destroy our credibility began in early 2003. </span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">On
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">January
23, 2003 Fund filed an answer to Morgan's <a href="http://johnfund.com/images/document_4/4_01.html">law
suit</a> in New York.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">On
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">April
1, 2003 Melinda's webmaster received a <a href="http://justtheevidence.blogspot.com/2013/01/john-fund-exhibit-7-letter-to-group.html">threatening
letter</a>. </span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On
April 3, 2003, Dan O'Dowd decided the desperate need for
servicemembers was to provide a measly $5,000 for a child's college
education. He amount pledged, $100.000, with matching funds up to
$250.000. The non-profit was incorporated on the 9</span></span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
and announced publicly on April 10</span></span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
The is an embarrassingly minor contribution for a corporation which
made billions from contracts flowing from the military. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /><br />On
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">April
7, 2003 Craig Franklin handed an enveloped copy of Morgan's
<a href="http://johnfund.blogspot.com/p/evidence.html">Deposition</a>
to Anne</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Fisher,
his then girl friend, telling her it contained Morgan's deposition.
It was addressed to John Fund. It was a Green Hills</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">envelope
with the postage paid by the company in advance. </span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On
April 8, 2003 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030408143832/http://ruthlesspeople.com/">RuthlessPeople</a>
was down. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /><br />On
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">May
11, 2003, Mother's Day morning, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">
I</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
wrote an email responding to questions received early that morning
from Eric Alterman for an article which would be published on the
15</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />On
May 15, 2003 Eric Alterman's hit piece, "</span></span><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/who-framed-john-fund"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Who
Framed John Fund?</span></i></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"
was published in The </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nation.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /><br />On </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">May
16, 2003 Gene</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Gaudette,
Editor of American Politics Journal, received a <a href="http://www.ruthlesspeople.info/Heriot-Libelous-Letter-.html">Letter
via email</a> from Gail Heriot, one of Funds many girl friends
libeling us. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">On
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">June
21, 2003 JohnFund.com, a hit site, appeared online. The site came
down sometime after May 19</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
this year. It can be viewed through the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140517232415/http://johnfund.com/">WayBackMachine.</a>
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br /><br />On </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">July
22, 2003 Wendy MacElroy, who calls herself a feminist but focuses her
attack pieces on women, traded a hit piece on Morgan for a gig at Fox
News. Wendy, who has known Melinda since the 1970s, failed to call
her or Morgan. The <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/07/22/false-rape-charges-hurt-real-victims/">article</a>
is titled, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>False
Rape Charges Hurt Real Victims. </i></span>
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<div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During
this time Melinda received notice from the IRS claiming she owed
money. The IRS refused to tell her why since her returns were
produced by a CPA and documented all expenses. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Carried
out this way, the NeoCon campaign was masked and did not appear to
have any relationship with the War in Iraq. It was all 'personal.' </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">But
all parts of our lives reflect our values, which is why trying to
separate the two in this was is wrong. </span>
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<br /></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Clearly,
everyone else had agendas which had nothing to do with the simple,
provable fact John Fund committed domestic violence. This is a crime
and should be prosecuted even if the victim has lied previously and
is a jerk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span>
</div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In
2004 I wrote </span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/GREED-NeoConning-America-Melinda-Pillsbury-Foster/dp/1411609794/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405822343&sr=8-1&keywords=greed+-+the+neoconning+of+america"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>GREED
– The NeoConning of America</i></span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">,
a lightly fictionalized autobiography framed around my daughter, not
myself. I am now reissuing a non-fiction version, which includes
“the Bunker in Georgia” Story. That story about Saddam began in
</span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://greedtheneoconningofamerica.blogspot.com/2013/03/chapter-sixteen-signal-from-bunker.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Chapter
16 - A Signal from the Bunker</span></a></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">,
in subsection </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>The Bunker in
Georgia.</i></span></div>
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<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Saddam
also knew too much. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">No
one read the book, though the reviews were very good. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I
wonder what would have happened if I had understood the ruthless lack
of conscience these people carry behind smiling, and lying, faces in
both their personal and professional lives. What choices would I have made, personal and political?</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The
next years were given over to stark survival and caring for my son.
Since Morgan had drained me of money this was much more difficult. I
fought back because I had to, using the only tool I could afford, the
truth. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Stay
tuned for Part Two</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: small;"> - What
Happens When You Know Too Much </span>
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