Interview w/ Sargon Of Akkad on #GamerGate

Everything you always wanted to know about #GamerGate* (but were afraid to ask!) Sargon Of Akkad joins Media Monarchy to give his take on the play control of one of the most popular games around: Divide and conquer! It's video games, sexism, corruption, coins and more on our first look at GamerGate!



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Media/Memes: Profits, Porn, Plagiarism and more

Liberty Media to Grab SIRIUS XM*

Open Road Films Aims to Fill Screens and Lift Profits*
Discovery Invests in Digital Textbooks in Hopes of Growth*
Hologram performances present celebrity estates with new afterlife opportunities, and issues*
Actor Shia LaBeouf Says There Will Be Real Sex in Director Lars Von Trier's New Film 'Nymphomaniac'*
Porn Productions Halted After Adult Film Actor Tests Positive for Syphilis; prompts industry-wide moratorium*
In a Lawsuit Over a Song, a Plaintiff’s Unusual Approach*
Fareed Zakaria Offers Explanation for Plagiarism*
Cast of 'Assassins' Revival to Reunite for Roundabout Benefit*
At 44, Actress/Author Molly Ringwald Continues to Act But is Focused on Writing Too*
Kiss rockers back ‘pretty’ Pussy Riot’s rights, but don't think much of their music*
New J.J Abrams "Revolution" Trailer Official 2012*
Revealed: One thing that DIDN'T black out J.J. Abrams' Revolution*
Justin Bieber will appear on 'The Simpsons,' fans emit collective "D'oh!"*
Tony Scott: Divine Sacrifice of the King*
Phyllis Diller: sassy, screeching, rapid-fire stand-up comedy;
opened door for 2 generations of funny women, dead at 95*
Harry Harrison, a Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction, Dies at 87*
William Windom, Emmy Winner and TV Everyman, Dies at 88*
SXSW music festival director Brent Grulke dead at 52*
Scott McKenzie, Singer Known for ‘San Francisco,’ Dies at 73*
"San Francisco" singer Scott McKenzie dead at 73*

#MediaMemes: Mad Men, Models, Mars and more

'Mad Men' Ring Opening Bell at NYSE*
Bobbi Kristina not engaged to ‘brother’*
Kim Kardashian's ex Ray J 'has a ton of Whitney Houston sex tapes and erotic photographs in his possession'*
No cocaine found in Whitney Houston’s hotel room, coroner says*
#TitanicMemes: Céline Dion Not Dead, Just Killed by Twitter*
New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads*
Hitler's 'bizarre' plan to 'rule the world' from Hollywood*
Is Mars Bad for Hollywood Box Office?*
Roku's Wood Says A La Carte Cable Coming This Year*
Video: CIA spying on you through your electronics*

new world next week - may19

new world next week: episode074 -
wrath of kahn, exploding watermelons, veitch v. canada


Welcome back to the New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week:

Story #1: IMF head Kahn Arrested for Sexual Assault
Related: Do International Bodies Look the Other Way?
Background Video: Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins

Story #2: China's Latest Food Scandal - Exploding Watermelons!
Related: Central China Hit By Drought, As Reservoirs Become 'Dead Water'

Story #3: Filmmaker Suing Province, Police Over G20 Arrest
Related: Charlie Veitch Arrested In Pre-Crime Raid For "Conspiracy To Cause Public Nuisance" at Royal Wedding
Background Video: Into the Fire

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previous episode: may12 -
skype sellout, alert plan, nle '11

markets go wild after imf head kahn arrested for sexual assault

from washington post: A New York criminal court judge denied bail to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, after he was charged with attempting to rape a housekeeper at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn, also charged with a criminal sex act and unlawful imprisonment, made his first courtroom appearance after being pulled off a Paris-bound plane minutes before takeoff Saturday afternoon. Prosecutors had planned to bring him before a judge Sunday before deciding to delay a day so they could search him for physical evidence. Authorities allege that Strauss-Kahn, 62, attempted to rape a housekeeper at the Sofitel in Midtown Manhattan, where he was staying; police said she later picked him out of a lineup. He planned to plead not guilty, according to his attorney, Benjamin Brafman, who has defended a number of high-profile clients...

police kill gunman who held 3 at discovery channel

eugenicist took hostages, issued anti-human manifesto
from newstimes: A man who railed against the Discovery Channel's environmental programming for years burst into the company's headquarters with at least one explosive device strapped to his body Wednesday and took three people hostage at gunpoint before police shot him to death, officials said. The hostages — two Discovery Communications employees and a security guard — were unhurt after the four-hour standoff. Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said tactical officers moved in after officers monitoring Lee on building security cameras saw him pull out a handgun and point it at a hostage. An explosive device on the gunman's body detonated when police shot him, Manger said. Police were trying to determine whether two boxes and two backpacks the gunman had also contained explosives. A law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing said authorities had identified James J. Lee as the likely suspect.

related updates:
eugenicist gunman exposes dark side of envirocult*
environmental activism can lead to madness*
video: oswald's pro-cuba protest ... er, uh ... james j. lee money toss protest*

unrelated murder/mayhem updates:
video: 48ft yacht, worth $1m, registered with/to[?] US govt, washes ashore in florida, engine running, lights on, nobody aboard*
police shoot & kill spokane preacher*
winnipeg chief family court judge on bondage website*

fbi releases 2,352 pages on ted kennedy documenting sex & threats

marilyn monroe sex parties, death threats & richard nixon:
secret ted kennedy documents revealed
from cbsnews: The FBI today released over 2,000 pages from its files on the late Sen. Ted Kennedy... For decades after gunmen shot down his brothers, Sen. Edward Kennedy lived under constant assassination threats of his own, sometimes chillingly specific, as he became a target for extremist rage, previously private FBI documents disclosed Monday [jun14].

8/20 newspurge: leary, cho, stone, disney, s&m, surveillance

history/mystery:
timothy leary & the cia*
scotus orders review of death row inmate troy davis's case*
fromme-peltier: inequality of mercy*
cho's missing mental records released*

media/memes:
fcc 'diversity officer' targets talk radio*
the fairness doctrine is dead, long live the fairness doctrine*
'indictments are coming' in jackson case*

oliver stone revealing 'secret history of america'*
your tax dollar$ at work for michael bay*
why the recession will lead to a renaissance in film noir*

murder/mayhem:
gunmen kill 7 women in russian sauna*
woman sets herself on fire in west dade mall*
savage boutique immolation*
3rd disney world death in recent weeks*
body in suitcase identified as missing swimsuit model*
lawyer killed in alleged s&m triangle at ny lawfirm*

warwhores:
new army camera promises super-wide surveillance*
expert warns new mind drugs eyed by military*
poll shows most americans oppose war in afghanistan*
iraq forces admit lapses after blasts kill 95*
US troops to return to northern iraq*
cia hired blackwater to help hunt terrorists*
cia hired blackwater for assassin program*
report: lithuania hosted secret cia prison
uk 'can't find' $13b in military hardware*

envirohealth: big pharma, vatican pills & the 'smart grid'

antidepressant use doubles in US, study finds
from alertnet: Use of antidepressant drugs in the United States doubled between 1996 and 2005, probably because of a mix of factors, researchers reported on Monday. About 6 percent of people were prescribed an antidepressant in 1996 - 13 million people. This rose to more than 10 percent or 27 million people by 2005, the researchers found. "Significant increases in antidepressant use were evident across all sociodemographic groups examined, except African Americans," Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University in New York and Steven Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia wrote in the Archives of General Psychiatry. "Not only are more U.S. residents being treated with antidepressants, but also those who are being treated are receiving more antidepressant prescriptions," they added.

world's largest science group rejecting man-made climate fears*

catholic bank owned shares in birth control pill company
from bbc: A Roman Catholic bank in Germany has apologised after admitting it bought stocks in defence, tobacco and birth control companies. Der Spiegel newspaper discovered the bank had invested 580,000 euros in British arms company BAE Systems. It also invested 160,000 euros in American birth control pill maker Wyeth and 870,000 euros in tobacco companies. The bank apologised for behaviour "not in keeping with ethical standards".

pacific northwest nat'l lab gets $timulu$ for 'smart grid' research*
(flashback: smart grid: govt spying targets rural america)

what’s really in obama's health care reform bill –
here's a plain english translation
from natural news: What’s really in Obama’s health care reform bill? Almost no one knows, and here’s why: It’s 1,017 pages long and written in an alien form of bureaucratic English that can barely be decoded by earthlings. And yet, astonishingly, a U.S. Army translator has been found who speaks “Washington Doublespeak” and he was kind enough to decode the bill and post his plain-language findings...

video: white house asks people to spy on health care dissidents

7/9 newspurge

murder/mayhem:
'miracle baby' stolen from her grave*
miracle baby grave robbery in connecticut*
connecticut police say possible ritual in theft of body*
staten island park scene of unholy goings-on*
chicago graves dug up to resell plots*
300 graves tampered with near chicago*
jailers let tiller killer mail pamphlets justifying murder*
employee injured in virginia apple store shooting; suspect sought*
analysis: air france 447 crash mystery deepens*
south carolina serial killer on the loose*
sc police look for five-fold serial killer*
police: sc spree killer slain in US shootout*
walt disney monorail crash kills driver*
former nfl quarterback steve mcnair shot dead*
police: mcnair shot dead in sleep by girlfriend*
1 dead, 18 injured in florida lightning strike*
dc's marion barry arrested again*
los angeles detective from rodney king trial kills self at station*
advertising executive held ex-wife hostage in connecticut*
hostage suspect arraigned in hospital then transferred to prison*
man gored to death in spain's running of the bulls*

obamessiah & the apostles of war:
the life & times of obamabush:
even acquitted detainees will be held indefinitely*
obama delivers remarks at g8 summit*
global warming agreement reached at g8 summit*
obama set for emotional visits to vatican & ghana*
rasmussen poll shows obama approval ratings plummeting*
franken sworn in, fills final senate place from '08 election*

police state int'l:
pervasive surveillance under obama*
fake nation tests tomorrow's special forces*
missouri natl guard train to kill 'militia insurgents' in exercise*
ohio reserve unit wages war on noth dakota mosquitoes*
georgia freemasons at loggerheads over admission of black man to lodge*
nsa plans massive data center in utah*
nafta superhighway returns from the dead*
video: the militarization of the US police force*
bill gives atty gen power to designate gun owners, tax protesters as terrorists*
video: bill may force home energy audits*
registered traveler customers file class-action lawsuit*
fate of registered traveler data up in air after vendor quits program*
bill banning forced identity-chip implants clears house*
will your id soon be a microchip under your skin?*
closer to 1984 than one would care to wish?*
lockheed ensures census security*
US martial law exercises july 27*
survey: US is largest importer & exporter of small arms*
tax evaders, ed & elaine brown, guilty of plot to kill feds*

warwhores:
kucinich: troop movements are not a 'withdrawal'*
dahr jamail: US occupation of iraq continues unabated*
marines in for the long haul in southern afghanistan*
video: mullen says US troops will have 'long-term relationship with afghanistan'*
beale afb airman killed in police shootout after murdering fiancee*
australia probes navy 'sex game' aboard hms success:
bedding female colleagues for cash prizes*
dozens of US troops found on neo-nazi site*

oregon oddities:
bonnie tinker, 'seriously pissed off granny' from portland, dies after bike accident*

obamessiah & the apostles of war: continuity of scandals

in stark legal turnaround, obama now resembles bush*
obama's promise of a new beginning now hollow*
obama's doj tries to stop geronimo lawsuit against skull & bones*
house panel approves bill expanding oversight of nsa*
the left gatekeepers & tax exempt foundations*
obama calls for immigration reform at prayer breakfast*
obama relaunches immigration debate in US*
obama administration looks to colleges for future spies*
hr675: building obama’s civilian national security force*
obama, citing his smoking woes, signs tobacco law*

obama's curious call on huffpo reporter for iran question*
land of the 'free,' home of the czars*
obama won't apologize for cia role in chile*
obama names dhs management honcho*
impeach obama*

and then the rest of the phony left/right fools:
rep neugebauer: 'i don’t know’ if obama is a citizen*
schwarzenegger jet makes steep emergency landing*
sotomayor quits all women’s club after gop criticism*
sotomayor resigns from all-women club*
sotomayor quits women's club after gop criticism*
nv gop senator john ensign admits affair, claims extortion*
south carolina governor’s whereabouts unknown, even to wife*
awol south carolina gov. mark sanford has entire state in a tizzy*
s carolina governor admits affair after mystery trip*
video: sanford says "i've been unfaithful to my wife"*
sanford admits affair with woman in argentina*
video: giuliani says dems cheat as often as gop*
s carolina gov mark sanford admits infidelity & resigns from gop leadership position*

video: sanford’s alleged mistress reporting on 9/11*

carradine questions: sex acts & secret societies

flashback: david carradine dead of apparent suicide

carradine family seeks fbi, forensics expert help
from ap: The family of David Carradine is asking the FBI and a private forensics expert to help investigate the "Kung Fu" actor's death, attorney Mark Geragos said Saturday, the same day Thai police said surveillance footage indicated no one had entered his hotel room before he died. Carradine's brother Keith met Friday with the FBI and filed reports that could lead to the agency opening its own inquiry, said Geragos, who represents Keith Carradine. The family will also seek a private autopsy by famed forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden to determine whether another person could have been involved, Geragos said. The actor's family hopes the body will arrive in Los Angeles by Monday, Geragos said, but he did not give specifics. Geragos said the family intervened because of conflicting information about Carradine's death and a lack of direct information from Thai authorities. "All we really know is not much more than what the public knows, and that's disturbing," Geragos said.

carradine a fan of 'potentially deadly' deviant sex acts,
ex-wife said in court papers

was actor carradine murdered for investigating secret societies?
from infowars: During a segment that aired on the Larry King Show, CNN correspondent Jerry Penacoli says the death of David Carradine “was abnormal, the death was not natural." ... Later in the segment, Penacoli says a filmmaker and director named Damian Chapa, who worked with Carradine, said he “believes that there was foul play” in Carradine’s death.

“And he said that no one else knows this but his family - Carradine’s family and friends and people closest to him, but David was very interested in investigating and disclosing secret societies. So whatever that means…”

It means you can end up dead.

author claims carradine’s father was ordo templi orientis member
from kurt nimmo: In a response to a review of his book Blood on the Altar: The Secret History of the World’s Most Dangerous Secret Society, author Craig Heimbichner mentions several prominent members of Ordo Templi Orientis, the order of the Temple of the East, or the Order of Oriental Templars, including John Carradine, father of the recently deceased David Carradine who allegedly planned to investigate and disclose secret societies. Martin P. Starr, author of The Unknown God: W.T. Smith and the Thelemites, also claims the elder Carradine was a member of Aleister Crowley’s co-masonic Ordo Templi Orientis. In Sex and Rockets: The Occult World or Jack Parsons, John Carter and Robert Anton Wilson write that Carradine is said to have read poetry at the opening of the Agapé Lodge of the OTO in Pasadena, California. OTO draws from the traditions of the Freemasonic, Rosicrucian and Illuminist movements of the 18th and 19th centuries, the crusading Knights Templars of the Middle Ages and early Christian Gnosticism and the Pagan Mystery Schools.

twilight language: carradine: killed by an illuminatus?

update: forensics expert determines david carradine did not commit suicide
from kurt nimmo: The Associated Press is reporting that an independent forensics expert who examined David Carradine’s body has concluded that the actor did not commit suicide. Carradine’s family “released a statement from Dr. Michael Baden, who said Carradine’s death wasn’t a suicide. He said further information from Thailand is needed for a final determination,” it is reported. On June 4, a preliminary police investigation concluded that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the suite’s curtains. It cited police as saying there was no sign that he had been assaulted. “More than anyone I have ever met, David Carradine was a generous man who loved life,” recalled 'Look' writer director Adam Rifkin, who cast Carradine as his father in 'National Lampoon’s Homoerectus'. “I find it extremely hard to believe that David — who was such a hard-working, energetic and beloved Hollywood legend — was done in by his own hand.”

econocrash: homes, fronts, bank riots & a global currency

an ugly bias is back: blaming jews for financial woes

1 in 8 US homeowners late paying or in foreclosure
from reuters: About one in eight U.S. homeowners with mortgages, a record share, ended 2008 behind on their loan payments or in the foreclosure process as job losses intensified a housing crisis spawned by lax lending practices, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Thursday. With unemployment at a 16-1/2-year high and expected to continue rising until mid- to late 2010, more borrowers will pay late or fall into foreclosure this year, said the group's chief economist. "While California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona and Michigan continue to dominate the delinquency numbers, some of the sharpest increases we saw last quarter in loans 90 days or more delinquent were in Louisiana, New York, Georgia, Texas and Mississippi, signs of the spreading impact of the recession," said Jay Brinkmann.

1000s protest across US against govt's financial policy or bloggers charge 'tea party' anti-stimulus protests are corporate front

mi5 alert on bank riots
from daily express: Top secret contingency plans have been drawn up to counter the threat posed by a “summer of discontent” in Britain. The “double-whammy” of the worst economic crisis in living memory and a motley crew of political extremists determined to stir up civil disorder has led to the ­extraordinary step of the Army being put on ­standby. MI5 and Special Branch are targeting activists they fear could inflame anger over job losses and payouts to failed bankers. One of the most notorious anarchist websites, Class War, asks: “How to keep warm ­during the credit crunch? Burn a banker.” Such remarks have rung alarm bells in Scotland Yard and the Ministry of Defence. Intelligence sources said the police, backed by MI5, are determined to stay on top of a situation that could spiral out of control as the recession bites deep. The chilling prospect of soldiers being drafted on to the streets has not been discounted, although it is regarded as a last resort.

frustrated building owner lets sex shop open in alexandria

cnbc analyst: global bank & global currency within 15yrs
from paul joseph watson: Head of market analysis for Schneider Foreign Exchange Stephen Gallo told CNBC yesterday [feb25] that the financial crisis will lead to the creation of a global central bank and a global single currency within 15 years, echoing the call of top globalists who have exploited the problems they created to push for a new world financial order. Highlighting the significance of the introduction of the Euro, Gallo said that the single currency was “where we are headed globally on a monetary basis over the course of the next 10 to 15 years.” ... As we have highlighted before, the elite have exploited the problem that they created to push for increased centralization and regulation of the world economic system in the pursuit of a de-facto global financial dictatorship.

portland mayor, sam adams, reels from sex scandal

with all eyes on the inaugural bread & circus, this little buzzkill sneaks in & reminds us that politicians will always lie if they think they can get away with it... staytuned

from oregonian: Portland Mayor Sam Adams is expected to make his first public statement today in response to news reports that he had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old in summer 2005 and, on the eve of his campaign for the city's highest office, lied about it and urged the young man to lie as well. Wade Nkrumah, the mayor's spokesman, said Adams plans to issue a public apology at 1:30 p.m. today in the Rose Room at Portland City Hall. Adams said Monday that he made a mistake in not admitting the relationship when reporters first asked about it in September 2007. He did not describe the relationship itself as a mistake. "I should have been honest about what happened, but I was not," he told The Oregonian from Washington, D.C., where he is attending a national mayors conference and the presidential inauguration. "I apologize."

update1: adams stays home as support crumbles
from oregonian: Mayor Sam Adams holed up in his North Portland house Wednesday, making phone calls and apologizing, but every sign - from eroding support among gay and lesbian leaders to the deafening silence from Adams' political mentors to his own tone of voice -- signaled resignation. "I've been involved in Oregon politics for a long time, and I obviously understand people's anger and frustration," Adams said Wednesday. His somber tone was striking in contrast to the firm determination to stay in office he expressed earlier this week... On Wednesday, The Oregonian, the Portland Tribune, the Portland Business Journal and Just Out, a Portland-based news magazine covering gays and lesbians, all called for his resignation. That last publication may not be a household name to many Oregonians, but its condemnation is a particularly bitter and significant blow for Adams, the first openly gay mayor of a top-40 U.S. city.

envirohealth: sonar, vets & condom corn

navy to train with sonar off hawaii
from ap: The U.S. Navy was granted a one-year permit to train with sonar and bombs in Hawaii waters so long as it tries to protect whales and other marine animals from harm. The Navy warned that whales and other marine life may be harmed, or even killed, though that wasn't expected. Some marine species - particularly beaked whales - appear much more vulnerable to harm from sonar, and scientists are not sure why. The National Marine Fisheries Service still is considering Navy requests to train with mid-frequency active sonar in waters off Southern California, the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. The Marine Mammal Protection Act requires the Navy to ask for the fisheries service's permission to carry out activities that may affect marine mammals. The authorization that took effect Jan. 5 also allows the Navy to set off bombs and fire guns during Hawaii drills.

flashback: navy must cut sonar use off california

veterans exposed to incorrect drug doses
from ap: The top Republican on the House Veterans Affairs Committee demanded Wednesday that the VA explain how it allowed software glitches to put the medical care of patients at its health centers nationwide at risk. "I am deeply concerned about the consequences on patient care that could have resulted from this 'software glitch' and that mistakes were not disclosed to patients who were directly affected," said Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind. "I have asked VA for a forensic analysis of all pertinent records to determine if any veterans were harmed, and I would like to know who was responsible for the testing and authorized the release of the new application." Patients at VA health centers were given incorrect doses of drugs, had needed treatments delayed and may have been exposed to other medical errors due to the glitches that showed faulty displays of their electronic health records, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.

no need for condoms: genetically-engineered corn can do the job
from greenpeace: New research from Austria [968kb PDF] shows that a commercial strain of Monsanto-made GE corn causes mice to have fewer and weaker babies. What is this doing to human fertility? Regulators around the world said Monsanto’s GE corn was as safe as non-GE strains. It has been approved in many countries and regions including the US, the EU, Argentina, Japan, Philippines and South Africa. China approved the GE corn for animal feed back in 2005. Until this research, under the Austrian Ministries for Agriculture and Health, none of the regulators had seriously questioned the safety of Monsanto's GE corn. The biotech industry is playing a game of genetic roulette with our food and with our health.

bondage babe bettie page dies at 85

from reuters: Bettie Page, one of America's most photographed pin-up girls during the 1950s, died in Los Angeles on Thursday from pneumonia, her agent said. She was 85. Page was a ubiquitous sight during the 1950s, propelled to stardom when she posed for Playboy as Miss January 1955. Soon her image was gracing playing cards, record albums and bedroom posters across the country.

She stopped modeling in 1957, retreated from the public spotlight and turned to religion. She enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in the 1980s, as a new generation of fans became obsessed with her legacy. Her agent, Mark Roesler, said Page was admitted to a Los Angeles-area hospital four weeks ago. She never regained consciousness after suffering a heart attack earlier this month.

With her dark bangs, alluring blue-gray eyes and wide smile, Page cultivated an innocent girl-next-door persona. The one-time school teacher was nice, but clearly also naughty. Some of her photos featured spanking and bondage. "Bettie Page embodied the stereotypical wholesomeness of the Fifties and the hidden sexuality straining beneath the surface," authors Karen Essex and James L. Swanson wrote in their 1996 book "Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend."

Page professed to be mystified by all the attention, saying she never felt particularly attractive and had to wear a lot of makeup to cover up her large pores. After she found God, she was initially ashamed of having posed nude. "(B)ut now most of the money I've got is because I posed in the nude," she told Playboy last year. "So I'm not ashamed of it now, but I still don't understand it."

childhood obesity, smoking & sexual activity linked to media exposure

from eco child's play: Common Sense Media published the report, Media and Child and Adolescent Health: A Systematic Review, which reviewed 173 of the best studies from the last 30 years which examine the connection between media exposure and negative health effects on children. The average modern child spends nearly 45 hours a week with television, movies, magazines, music, the Internet, cellphones and video games, the study reported. By comparison, children spend 17 hours a week with their parents on average and 30 hours a week in school, the study said... Download the Executive Summary of the report (2.2mb PDF) and read it for yourself, then start a “media diet” for your family.

foley: i’m not a pedophile because the pages were almost 18

from thinkprogress: Today, former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) finally broke his two-year silence after the revelations about his lurid IM conversations with congressional pages. Foley conceded that his behavior was “extraordinarily stupid,” but throughout the AP interview, he stayed on the defensive:

-Says he’s not a pedophile: “The work I was doing was involving young children … You know, you hear the term ‘pedophile.’ That is prepubescent,” Foley said, noting a “huge difference” from lurid chats with teens on the brink of adulthood.

-The children didn’t say no: “There was never anywhere in those conversations where someone said, “Stop,” or “I’m not enjoying this,” or “This is inappropriate,” he said.

"It was a “momentary lapse of judgment,” Foley claimed. But he “carried on the computer conversations for months, asking about masturbation, sex, and other details,” the AP notes.

UPDATE: Watch an interview with a West Palm Beach television station:

flashback: elitist perversion far deeper than foley

history/mystery: opium, mlk, jfk, churchill & nazis

deadly diversion: opium trafficking, cia & the challenger disaster
from alex constantine: The Challenger disaster took its sweet time gestating - several years to piece it all together, in fact. I'm completely aware that this story will be doubted initially by anyone unfamiliar with the many relevant facts (and by standard American donut heads long subjected to Big Cable's herd programming) - it's my unfortunate lot in life to report these things - and that's why I suggest chasing down my sources and reading anything relevant available on the Net. In the past, when I've posted this story, a Conserva-Troll invariably posts a link to it and opines with a dismissive yawn, "I don't believe the government blew up the Challenger. ... " In a fascist state, reality is squeezed through a lens of willful ignorance by media programmers and their enabling victims.

Mae Brussell's work on Challenger: There was thick layer of ice on the shuttle's launcher that morning - yet NASA claimed over the course of several days to be waiting for the temperature to rise. This is not an incidental detail. (The American prole brain is conditioned to explain essential facts away, but this one is comprehensible only in the wider context of intention in which it is consistent, not an unexplained contradiction.) I've posted this before, but like many stories I write, the significance of it is lost in a sea of Orwellian historical revision - not mine, the military-industrial media machine's. The Challenger blew up at roughly the same moment that a witness swore in to testify on federally-sanctioned heroin smuggling and money laundering - at that very moment NASA launch conditions were ideal for mass murder, as engineers from Thiokol testified openly, and prolonged flight that morning was impossible. The engineers stated that they knew the O-rings would give, that the Challenger would explode, and signed a group statement in advance that they would assume no responsibility for the decision to launch. That came from above. It is on record, not to be ignored but understood. They knew the cannon was loaded. This is not another "incidental" anomaly ... The reporters attending the drug testimony scurried out of the room when the shuttle exploded - the press never ran the story. How "coincidental." ...

Let us reconstruct the Challenger disaster and the drug testimony as they occurred - this set of facts explains the lingering anomalies, which, as I say, are not so incidental - given the bloodshed that ensued, not to mention widespread heroin addiction ... and a bonus - I tussle with a completely disingenuous Conserva-Troll.

the mystery of the missing opium (ask mi6 where it is)
from bbc: It’s a mystery that has got British law enforcement officials and others across the planet scratching their heads. Put bluntly, enough heroin to supply the world’s demand for years has simply disappeared. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) describes the situation as “a time bomb for public health and global security”. This week’s Map of the Week comes courtesy of the UNODC. It shows their latest estimate of opium production in Afghanistan - another bumper year. A crop of 7,700 tonnes will produce around 1,100 tonnes of heroin - it basically works on a 7:1 ratio. The mystery is that the global demand for heroin is less than half that. In other words, Afghanistan only needs to produce 3,500 tonnes to satisfy every known heroin user on the planet. Look at the graph, though. For the past three years, production has been running at almost twice the level of global demand. The numbers just don’t add up.

one-time mlk lieutenant gets 15yrs for incest
from ap: A one-time top lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for having sex more than a decade ago with his then-teenage daughter. The Rev. James L. Bevel, 71, a key architect of the 1963 Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Ala., and other pivotal moments of the civil rights movement, was convicted earlier this year of a single count of incest. The assault occurred in the early 1990s in Loudoun County, when Bevel was working closely with the Virginia-based organization led by political extremist Lyndon LaRouche. The 15-year sentence imposed by Circuit Judge Burke McCahill was the most severe allowed. Sentencing guidelines called for probation only.

marilyn & jfk's lovechild sues for share of fortune
from contact music: A man claiming to be the lovechild of MARILYN MONROE and former U.S. president JOHN F. KENNEDY has launched a court battle for a share of his 'father's' estate. New Yorker John R. Burton - who has changed his name to John Fitzgerald Kennedy - has come forward 45 years after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The 53-year-old has filed papers at Manhattan federal court insisting he deserves a fair share of Kennedy's fortune. He also calls for DNA testing to prove he is the late president's eldest son. The lawsuit reads, "In his will, each child of President Kennedy was to receive a certain amount of money each year pursuant to the terms in said will." Susan Frunzi, representing the Kennedy estate, tells the New York Post, "I assume it's a frivolous lawsuit, and it wouldn't be the first time that people have filed frivolous lawsuits against this family." John F. Kennedy had two children with his wife Jackie Kennedy; Caroline and John Jr., who died in a plane crash in 1999. Although he was rumoured to have had an affair with Monroe before his death in 1963, there's no evidence to suggest she bore his child.

flashback: the man who says he's jfk's son

churchill ‘bribed franco’s generals to stay out of the war’
from times online: Winston Churchill authorised millions of dollars in bribes to stop General Franco from entering the Second World War on the side of Germany, a new book claims. The British wartime leader persuaded Juan March, a Spanish banker, to act as a secret agent, organising payments of millions of dollars to the generals. In return the generals persuaded Franco not to side with Hitler. The plot was revealed by the historian Pere Ferrer in Juan March: The Most Mysterious Man in the World, after researching papers in British and US archives. In the summer of 1940 Churchill was convinced that Spain would enter the war on the side of Hitler after receiving reports that Franco and the Germans were planning to invade Gibraltar. Ferrer has claimed that a British officer, Alan Hillgarth, came up with a plan to bribe the generals, believing that Franco's high command was corrupt and, because they were not paid much, would be open to bribery.

student tracks down nazi war crimes suspect
from telegraph: The 89-year-old former member of the notorious Waffen SS, whose name cannot be revealed for legal reasons, is accused of participating in the murder of 60 Jewish slave workers in 1945. The massacre took place in Deutsch Schuetzen in Austria and the victims were buried in a mass grave which was only discovered in 1995. The name of the man first occurred in a trial in 1946, where witnesses claimed he took part in the execution. He was however never charged and returned to his home in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia where he still lives under his real name. Andreas Foster, 27, a student of political science in Vienna, was researching the case for an university project and acquired documents on the man from German archives. After realising that authorities never attempted to arrest the man, he managed to track him down by a simple search in the telephone directory. "The Waffen SS man was mentioned by name in court files and other documents and his identity has been known since 1946," said Mr Foster. He alerted his university mentor, Professor Walter Manoschek, who then travelled to Germany unannounced and visited the alleged war criminal and interviewed him on camera. In the interviews, the man claimed not to be able to remember anything about the massacre but confirmed that he was stationed on the site as a member of the SS at the time when it happened. Prof Manoschek then compiled a file on the case, including the video tapes, and sent it to German prosecutors who have now opened an investigation. "We will examine and evaluate the vast amount of material and interview the possible witnesses," a spokesman for the prosecutors in charge of Nazi war crimes said.

thesis on nazi occultism pulled by university
from waikato times: Waikato University has abruptly pulled a student's thesis from its library after complaints from the subject of the research - a right-wing extremist. The thesis, exploring satanic and neo-Nazi themes, had already been marked and published, earning its author top marks. It is a highly unusual move to remove a student's work after publication. The thesis, published six months ago and titled Dreamers of the Dark: Kerry Bolton and the Order of the Left Hand Path, a Case-study of a Satanic/Neo Nazi Synthesis, was submitted as part of a Masters degree by philosophy and religious studies student Roel Van Leeuwen. Mr Bolton is a well-known figure both in New Zealand and Australia in the far-right movement, and is a former National Front secretary. The university's student newspaper, Nexus, reported today the thesis was available to read at the university's library and on-line publishing repository, as recently as two weeks ago. Nexus reported neither Mr Van Leeuwen nor the thesis co-supervisor, Professor Dov Bing, were notified prior to its sudden removal.

hitler planned 'big brother' style television to broadcast nazi propaganda
from constantine institute: The Nazis were preparing public TV screens, including sets installed in public laundries so housewives could tune in, across the nation, according to a Russian documentary based on papers and tapes found in his bunker. Prototype programmes included the filming of executions of supposed traitors to the Nazis and an early reality TV show, depicting the wholesome Aryan life of a young German couple for the rest of the population to model themselves on. The crude system would transmit the TV picture to a screen and the sound to a radio receiver. The discovery came to light first in 1945, when dozens of boxes with tapes were found in the ruins of the Reich Council by Soviet soldiers, the programme claims.


nazi graveyard discovered deep in the amazonian rainforests
from daily mail: They left their scars on the world even here, deep in the Amazon rainforest. A few etched swastikas on a wooden cross and some grave markers reveal how the Nazis planned to create a colony for the glory of the Fatherland. The graveyard and structures built by the fanatical explorers were left for decades, forgotten, to rot in the jungle. But they were rediscovered during research for a book that chronicles the Nazis' madcap plan back in the 1930s to create an outpost for a master race thousands of miles from Germany. The book, The Guayana-Projekt. A German Adventure On The Amazon, says Hitler's henchmen believed they were destined to settle the world like pioneers of America's Wild West.