More Evidence that Military Doctors Covered Up Signs of Torture

These monstrously immoral crimes still need justice:

Writing in the online journal PLoS Medicine, Physicians for Human Rights senior medical adviser Vincent Iacopino and retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis, a psychiatrist now in private practice, found that medical personnel at Guantanamo concealed mental and physical ailments that signaled abusive treatment.

The report — which represents the first independent review of any Guantanamo detainee’s medical record — is the clearest evidence yet that members of the base’s medical staff were complicit in the torture regime there.

“Medics have an independent, professional responsibility to identify and report incidences of cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture,” Xenakis tells Danger Room. “They had a responsibility to speak up.”

“Personality disorders” and “routine stressors of confinement” were catch-all explanations for psychological disturbances, according to the report. “Temporary psychotic symptoms and hallucinations did not prompt consideration of abusive treatment.”

Neither did apparent physical symptoms. Three of the detainees showed evidence of physical maltreatment: contusions, bone fractures, lacerations, peripheral nerve damage and sciatica. But the medical staff turned a blind eye in their reports. “There was no mention of any cause for these injuries,” Iacopino and Xenakis write.

In their professional opinion, “the specific allegations of torture and ill treatment were highly consistent with and supported by physical and psychological evidence observed in all cases.”

Obama Was Likely Set-Up with a Fake Birth Certificate

This guy makes a lot of sense:

The birth certificate thing is one of the oddest things I have ever seen-- it is SO blatantly fake if you are willing to look into it, but die-hard Dems/Obama supporters are completely blind to this and call you racist if you try to point this out. My thread on this at DU was criticized heavily for racism-- for no reason, and was then "locked". All I was pointing out was how problematic this is-- I really think this is trouble for Obama and he was set-up in some way.

This video from the same guy is kind of interesting:

So I Did the "Adobe Illustrator" Test and Found Layers in the B.C.

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Just like in the videos below.

I also did an important control test, which was to take two documents of mine that were a mixture of typing and hand-writing, which I had scanned into PDFs, and opened them in Adobe Illustrator. Not a hint of layering-- at least not layering of the image. There are layers that represent the color palette but that is quite different from what is seen with the Obama BC.

So something is very weird here.

UPDATE: the problem may relate to the use of "optical character recognition" (OCR) software by the scanner-- but still: why such a ham-handed PDF job?

UPDATE 2: Now it's looking like real fakery. This video points out some of the ways they may have taken a legitimate BC and modified it:


Also this and this and this and this.

What's really annoying is the full court press being put on by the media to mock anyone who questions the BC. Editorial cartoonists are merciless on this, and of course Trump is being savaged. Trump is a doofus and a clown and an asshole, but this BC issue is being used to hang him unjustifiably. It's a total media lynching.

UPDATE 3: This guy does an OCR test on the BC and gets some interesting results (at the end).

UPDATE 4: also this.

Alex Jones: Obama Birth Certificate a Screaming Fake (But the Fake 2nd Hit Videos Are Real, Of Course)

Though he probably right about this being a psy-op, meant to get us all fighting with each other, and neglecting the deeper truths. (Like the plane videos...)

Also, weird that the news that this BC crap obscures is more important news of the blatant militarization of the CIA. It's hard to see that the CIA could get anymore grotesque, but it can.

Anyway-- more info on the BC, via "J":

Kenya (listed as Obama's father's nation of birth) wasn't called Kenya in 1961. It was the British East Africa Protectorate. It was not known as "Kenya" until 1963. (Actually, this isn't entirely accurate-- it was "Kenya Colony" from 1920-1963 --ed.)

In 1961, the hospital Obama was supposedly born in was NOT named the Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital, as shown on the phony certificate. In 1961, the hospital Obama was supposedly born in was named the Kauaikeolani Children's Hospital. It did not change its name to the Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until it merged with the Kapiolani hospital system in 1978. (interesting discussion on Wiki about this -- ed.)

Also, this is good:

33 of the Day: Long Form Birth Certificate Edition

Though Obama's birth date is August 4, 1961, the date 8-8-1961 appears three times, and is the official acceptance date for the birth certificate.

8 + 8 + 1 + 9 + 6 + 1 = 33!

Which is fitting.

NSA Posts Document to Their Website Indicating Intercept of ET Transmissions

WILD!!!

I was able to download the article and it seems legit. The main problem is that while these seem like intelligent ET communications, we don't seem to have any clue what they mean.

(big thanks to J for the link)

US Descending into Outright Fascism

All in the past month--

Police gang attack family attending a funeral, over grieving man having a seizure.

33 year old homeless woman prosecuted and threatened with 20 years in jail for enrolling son in Conn. school. (note the 33)

Detroit Child Protective Services (CPS) use SWAT team to kidnap woman's 13-year old daughter when mother refused to continue administering her the psychotropic drug Risperdal.

TSA "VIPR" team conducts random searches at Georgia train station. VIPR squad conducted "terror drill" at a Florida train station.

Deep Thought of the Day

The first hit video frames still make no bloody sense whatsoever-- motion blur and out of focus-ness can't explain some of these frames, such as the two above.

See also here and here.

Obama Sure Loves His 33's

Obama Makes Case for U.S. Participation in Libya-- .... Still, the United States will continue to work with international partners to provide assistance to the people of Libya, and the United States will hold in trust $33 billion of seized Libyan assets to help rebuild the country.

Jesus, it really is crazy how many 33's he and Biden put out... of course, if Obama is intel, it would explain much. As I have posted before, Obama *did* work for a CIA-linked company after graduating college.

Earlier today I was wondering if Obama's "liberal" domestic policies were just dressing to sell to the public, when the real goal of the Obama presidency is codification of permanent war by executive fiat, and the bipartisan acceptance of torture and indefinite detention. The intel nature of Obama would tend to support the idea that Obama is a classic bait-and-switch politician, ultimately pushing a deep and evil agenda.

Wanker of the Week

Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.)

A real evil mother-fucking asshole of a human piece of shit who forced the little provision into the 9/11 responders health bill that to get treated they must be screened by the FBI's Terrorism Watch List. (The list that in itself is a cruel joke)

It's just so amazingly demented and disgusting and twisted, one sort of runs out of adjectives.

Now, why the Dems let this piece of crap through, I am not going to argue-- apparently they didn't feel so strongly about it, or thought the legislation wouldn't go through otherwise. They could have demagogued the hell out of this, but instead caved in like usual, apparently scared of being called a terrorist or something. But still, just evil motherfuckers, all of the people who pushed this provision.

Wanker of the Day

Former Constitutional Law Professor Barack Obama:

Obama said this when justifying Manning's treatment (video and transcript are here):

We're a nation of laws. We don't let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. He broke the law.

The impropriety of Obama's public pre-trial declaration of Manning's guilt ("He broke the law") is both gross and manifest. How can Manning possibly expect to receive a fair hearing from military officers when their Commander-in-Chief has already decreed his guilt? Numerous commentators have noted how egregiously wrong was Obama's condemnation. Michael Whitney wrote: "the President of the United States of America and a self-described Constitutional scholar does not care that Manning has yet to be tried or convicted for any crime." BoingBoing's Rob Beschizza interpreted Obama's declaration of guilt this way: "Just so you know, jurors subordinate judging officers!" And Politico quoted legal experts explaining why Obama's remarks are so obviously inappropriate.

It may be that Obama spoke extemporaneously and without sufficient forethought, but it is -- at best -- reckless in the extreme for him to go around decreeing people guilty who have not been tried: especially members of the military who are under his command and who will be adjudged by other members of the military under his command. Moreover, as a self-proclaimed Constitutional Law professor, he ought to have an instinctive aversion when speaking as a public official to assuming someone's guilt who has been convicted of nothing. It's little wonder that he's so comfortable with Manning's punitive detention since he already perceives Manning as a convicted criminal.

There Are Few Worse Institutions Than the WaPo Editiorial Page

in terms of evil warmongering. Really, they are just sick, sick, evil people.

Obama Sends Armed Drones to Help NATO in Libya War

Oh for fucks sake. Like this is really going to do anything more than kill a bunch of innocent civilians.

But perhaps that is the point, for our evil overlords.

The iPhone Conspiracy

This story is definitely disturbing:

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) wants answers. After reports Wednesday that Apple's iPhones and iPads secretly store information of the user's location, Franken wrote Apple CEO Steve Jobs a strongly worded letter.

"The existence of this information -- stored in an unencrypted format -- raises serious privacy concerns," Franken wrote.

According to O'Reilly Radar, who broke the story, the Apple products log "latitude-longitude coordinates along with a timestamp." The fact that the data is unencrypted and unprotected, they report, means it could be easily accessed if it lands in the wrong hands. The devices store about a year's worth of data, the researchers found. Their full report can be found here.

"It is also entirely conceivable that malicious persons may create viruses to access this data from customers' iPhones, iPads, and desktop and laptop computers. There are numerous ways in which this information could be abused by criminals and bad actors," Franken wrote.

Franken expressed special concern for iPhone and iPad users who are minors, writing that an "estimated 13% of the 108 million iPhones and 19 Million iPad devices sold are used by individuals under the age of 18."

Then there is this:

The Michigan State Police have a handful of portable machines called "extraction devices" that have the potential to download personal information from motorists they pull over, and the ACLU would like to know more about them.

The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access some information.

About JFK's Head Wounds

In this post, I mentioned the weird orange blob that appears on JFK's head in the Z film. I thought it looks fake and mentioned that the autopsy didn't show such a wound. As noted in comments though, there are photos from the Bethesda Naval Hospital autopsy that show a massive flap coming off the side of JFK's head. This is more or less consistent with the Z film.

Interestingly though, and importantly, Twyman makes the case that the original head wound in Dallas was much smaller and limited to the back of the head, not the side. He contends that JFK's body was manipulated after it left Dallas and before it arrived at Bethesda, and that basically newer head wounds were created, specifically on the side of the head, and that much of the brain was taken out. He thinks, and it makes sense, that this was done to hide evidence of a shot from the front, and also the brain was taken out to remove bullet fragment evidence of the real assassin. He has witnesses at the Bethesda Naval Hospital who say they saw JFK's body come in an unmarked coffin before the JFK body officially arrived in what was apparently an empty coffin in a decoy hearse. His evidence is quite convincing.

In any case, the key point is that if new head wounds were created to match the official story, it stands to reason that the head wound in the Z film was manipulated to match the official new head wounds, and this would be why it looks so fake.

Almost Forgot

Happy "BP Ruined the Gulf Forever" Day.

Obviously, the spill was a huge tragedy for many thousands of people and countless animals, and who knows what the real toll was/is-- and definitely people are still suffering from after-effects. But still kind of funny to think about those articles that predicted the whole gulf would erupt from a giant methane bubble and kill us all-- they sounded so scientific and logical-- but it didn't happen, thank god.

The Weirdest Thing About the Zapruder Film

to me anyway, has always been that massive orange blob on the side of JFKs head after the head shot. We know the z film was totally manipulated, and the blob is undoubtedly painted on. But it is so fake as to be almost laughable-- particularly since the autopsy photos show no such damage-- but the question is: what were the perps trying to show with that?

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By the way, I've learned of some really bizarre theories for the JFK ass'n, that are far more unlikely imo than Greer doing it:
1) Jackie delivering the fatal head wound with a small pistol
2) someone shooting JFK while hiding in the trunk of the limo

UPDATE-- good treatment of the "blob" issue here.

Things I Just Learned About Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand Railed Against Government Benefits, But Grabbed Social Security and Medicare When She Needed Them.

Ayn Rand’s First Love and Mentor Was A Sadistic Serial Killer Who Dismembered Little Girls

Everything I had heard about Rand always seemed to be the opposite of my own political philosophy, and terribly inhumane-- and of course she is a hero to many conservatives. But these two articles show that she was deeply fucked up, and deeply hypocritical. So I guess it all fits together then.

Deep Thought of the Day

Wow, Simon Shack really did wonders for the 9/11 no-plane movement, didn't he?

The Origin of "Birtherism" That the Lamestream Media Will Never Get Into

Back in 2003 or even earlier, Sherman Skolnick fingered Obama as a Kenyan-born British spy.

UPDATE: Politico did a story on the origins of birtherism here, and says it started in 2004; ignore Skolnick's reporting.

Can We PLEASE Just Declare Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan,

bring the troops home, and cut the Pentagon budget in half????

The Deaths from War Never End

WASHINGTON – Handsome and friendly, Clay Hunt so epitomized a vibrant Iraq veteran that he was chosen for a public service announcement reminding veterans that they aren't alone.

The 28-year-old former Marine corporal earned a Purple Heart after taking a sniper's bullet in his left wrist. He returned to combat in Afghanistan. Upon his return home, he lobbied for veterans on Capitol Hill, road-biked with wounded veterans and performed humanitarian work in Haiti and Chile.

Then, on March 31, Hunt bolted himself in his Houston apartment and shot himself.

Friends and family say he was wracked with survivor's guilt, depression and other emotional struggles after combat.

The War Propaganda Never Ends

EVIDENCE IS now in that President Barack Obama grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat to justify military action in Libya. The president claimed that intervention was necessary to prevent a “bloodbath’’ in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city and last rebel stronghold.

But Human Rights Watch has released data on Misurata, the next-biggest city in Libya and scene of protracted fighting, revealing that Moammar Khadafy is not deliberately massacring civilians but rather narrowly targeting the armed rebels who fight against his government.

Misurata’s population is roughly 400,000. In nearly two months of war, only 257 people — including combatants — have died there. Of the 949 wounded, only 22 — less than 3 percent — are women. If Khadafy were indiscriminately targeting civilians, women would comprise about half the casualties.

Obama insisted that prospects were grim without intervention. “If we waited one more day, Benghazi . . . could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.’’ Thus, the president concluded, “preventing genocide’’ justified US military action.

But intervention did not prevent genocide, because no such bloodbath was in the offing. To the contrary, by emboldening rebellion, US interference has prolonged Libya’s civil war and the resultant suffering of innocents.

SWAT Attacks Home School Mom for Refusing to Force Med Child

This is seriously fucked up.

33 Mania

Obama sure loves them 33's-- probably because he is intel. Being very sensitive to 33's, this video made me scream.

Translation: 1 rich person = 33 ordinary old folk.

More fucked up budgetary 33-ness--

The Congressional Budget Office estimate shows that compared with current spending rates the spending bill due for a House vote Thursday would cut federal outlays from non-war accounts by just $352 million through Sept. 30. About $8 billion in immediate cuts to domestic programs and foreign aid are offset by nearly equal increases in defense spending.

When war funding is factored in the legislation would actually increase total federal outlays by $3.3 billion relative to current levels.

Fighting Back Against the Fascists

Look at what happens when one guy fights back against brutality:

33s of the Day (Tax Edition)

IRS Funding Cut Days Before Report Shows $330 Billion In Uncollected Taxes

So the PTB pay most of the taxes, and avoid paying as much tax as they can, apparently.

Deep Thought of the Day

Was the green lawn in the background of the Zapruder film the first example of green screen video fakery?

(I know the Z film was real film and not digital video, but I still wonder if the basic idea was the same)

I've (Finally) Started Seriously Studying the John F Kennedy Assassination

I had read articles here and there, of course had read Anonymous Physicist's pieces on the assassination, and had seen Stone's "JFK" a few times. But I had never really read a book on the event.

So now I am reading Noel Twyman's book "Bloody Treason", which had been recommended by Anonymous Physicist. The book had been out of press, and used copies cost like $200. But now it is available on Amazon kindle, and I'm devouring it. It is excellent.

Also, I've also started going through the Zapruder film a bit.

Check out frame 312 (right before the head shot)

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Look at the driver Greer's head-- how far around he's turned. But look at his body. It's totally unnatural-- there is no way he could turn his head that far with his hands in front of him like that.

The importance of this is that Greer of course, delivered the fatal shot at that moment (and the consequences are seen in frame 313), but many have argued-- "well look at his hands there on the wheel of the car". Except those hands must be fake-- painted in-- since no one can turn their neck around like that without moving their body too! At the same time they painted his hands in front of him, they must have erased his arm raised up, that was holding the pistol.

So, more evidence of Zapruder fakery, and an important example of it too.

UPDATE: If this blowup of frame 312 is to be believed, then Greer's body was slightly turned to the left, making his head turn more natural.

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But it's a big if, as to how well this represents a real scene in time.

Doesn't it look like there is something in Greer's left hand? Something brown?

I still think the head turn is very odd for the driver to make, and especially in that situation and with the timing where the head goes back exactly at the moment of the fatal head shot...

I mean, if you're a secret service agent driving the president, and there is an attack, the last thing you want to do is take your concentration of the road in front of you, and take a hand off the wheel and make a body turn... unless you're up to no good. This is especially true since he had an agent next to him who could have told him what was going on.

All of Egypt's problems Have Been Solved

Oh wait...

CAIRO – Thousands of demonstrators barricaded themselves in Cairo's central square with burned-out troop carriers and barbed wire Saturday and demanded the removal of the military council ruling Egypt, infuriated after soldiers stormed their protest camp overnight, killing at least one person and injuring 71 others.

In a sign the confrontation could escalate, the military warned Saturday evening that it will clear Tahrir Square of protesters "with all force and decisiveness" for life to get back to normal.

The warning could presage a repeat of the scene before dawn, when hundreds of soldiers, including a highly trained parachute unit, swarmed into Tahrir Square, firing in the air and beating protesters with clubs and shocking some with electrical batons. Troops dragged away protesters, while others staggered away bleeding from beatings and gunshot wounds. Witnesses reported two killed, though the Health Ministry insisted there was only one death.

"It was like a horror movie," said Mohammed Yehia, an activist and university student from the Nile Delta who was among the protesters.

A Powerful Anti-War Message from Gerald Celente

Now They are Calling It the March 11 Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake

Get it?

9/11.

What the Heck Is Going on At the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Anyway?

Is Japan's Elite Hiding a Weapons Program Inside Nuclear Plants?

Hmmm????

Actually, it's a very interesting piece that may have quite a bit of normally verboten truth. It's worth noting the TEPCO logo, which has a 3 + 3 circle motif-- 3-3 being symbolic of all things nuclear.



(Big tip of the hat to Anonymous Physicist)

The Youtube War

Another world:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0vChMDuNd0


Al Jazeera has really good coverage of the war, for those interested.

Of course, the Libyan war is all fucked up, the rebels are naturally having trouble against Gadaffi's forces, and lots of people are dying despite the Western intervention. Of course, the bombing was never *really* about stopping the killing.

But, the Youtube coverage is not just of Libya. This video from Bahrain is not showing war but still pretty serious craziness:

Another 9/11 Smoking Gun

Incredible:

Army Command Center at the Pentagon Planned to Hold Exercise in Week After 9/11 Based on a Plane Hitting the WTC

Army officers at the Pentagon were planning a training exercise that would take place less than a week after 9/11 and that would, extraordinarily, be based around the scenario of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. Preparations for the exercise were being made about a week before September 11.

The existence of the planned exercise was revealed by Major General Peter Chiarelli, who on September 11, 2001, was the Army's director of operations, readiness, and mobilization. In that position, which he had moved into about a month before 9/11, Chiarelli was in charge of current operations in the Army Operations Center (AOC) at the Pentagon.

Chiarelli recalled in a February 2002 interview that, after beginning his new position, he had "planned to do an exercise for the Crisis Action Team, the CAT." He said, "In some of my pre-briefings, in learning about the job, it was briefed to me that the Crisis Action Team had not stood up, except for an exercise, in about 10 years in any great role." He therefore had members of his staff design a CAT exercise that, he said, he planned to run on September 17. [1]

Bipartisanship I Can Vote For

This is an excellent segment with Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich-- they pretty much nail every question:

CIA Weirdness

I suppose the easiest explanation is that this woman is just bonkers, but you never know...

The lunatic who attacked the Paul Gauguin masterpiece “Two Tahitian Women” screamed about her hatred of lesbians as she impotently pounded on the clear plastic cover protecting the post-impressionist portrait of a pair of topless Maori gals. The suspect, 53-year-old Susan Burns, screamed “This is very homosexual!” as she attacked the painting on exhibit at Washington’s National Gallery of Art. And then she claimed she has a radio in her head and works for the CIA.

The Daily Mail fills in the details left out by our national embarrassment, the Washington Post:

According to a criminal complaint filed in Washington, D.C. Superior Court, Burns said that the painting is “‘very homosexual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned … I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you.”

Incredible Rates of Cancer in Ground Zero Firefighters

This is virtually proof of radioactive debris in the rubble of the WTC towers:

Firefighters who recovered bodies at Ground Zero are developing cancer at a faster rate than those who worked before the atrocity, medical officials have revealed.

A seven-year study by the New York Fire Department has claimed that there are 'unusual rises' in the number of cancer cases among firefighters who worked in the aftermath of 9/11.

Some types of cancer among 9/11 firefighters are even 'bizarrely off the charts', according to sources who have seen the as-yet-undisclosed federal-funded study.

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The report would be the first to document a cancer-rate increase among rescue and recovery workers.

The city recently settled lawsuits by 10,000 WTC workers, more than 600 of whom have developed cancer.

But officials have so far insisted there is no scientific proof that Ground Zero smoke and dust caused cancer.

An FDNY spokesman gave a statement for Dr. Prezant, saying: 'The study is ongoing, and no conclusions have been reached on whether cancer rates have increased for firefighters.'

But fire union bosses in New York have expressed their concern about the findings.

Al Hagan, head of the fire-officers union, told the New York Post: 'I'm led to believe that the numbers for those cancers across all ranks in the Fire Department of people who worked at Ground Zero is up significantly, and we're all very concerned about it, as are our families.'

Steve Cassidy, president of the firefighters union, said Ground Zero's 'toxic stew' has proven lethal.

He said: 'It's a fact that New York City firefighters are dying of cancer in record numbers.

'We have buried 10 firefighters in just the last 15 weeks, seven with cancer. On Sept. 10, 2001, they were young, healthy firefighters.'

In 2007, doctors at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, which monitors World Trade Center rescue workers, noted blood cancers like multiple myeloma, which normally strikes in the 60s or 70s, were being found in relatively young officers.

The New York state Health Department has confirmed that 345 Ground Zero workers have died of various cancers as of June 2010.

GOP's Plan to Cut Defense Spending: No More Color Copies

Fucking insanity: "The source of Pentagon waste: Two long wars? Overpriced hardware? Nope. "High quality, glossy color prints.""

Silverstein on the Phone on 9/11 Talking About WTC7 Controlled Demolition

Whatever the truth to this story, it's kind of amusing to see that it is now gone from the FoxNews site.

We're All Fucked- 33's and Disasters Coming Quick Now

Radioactive Xe-133 coming to the US and blowing all over us:

It's like a poison wind from the PTB, blowing over us all.

Biden Says $33 Billion in Cuts Weighed in U.S. Budget Talks

The newest US war is killing lots of civilians-- COALITION AIR STRIKES: NOW THE BODY BAGS BEGIN PILING UP IN LIBYA. Of course, the whole damn war is based on lies, as usual.

Videos of the Day

NBC/GE News covers up radiation concerns:


MSNBC's Ed Schultz proven to be a pro-war shill, and gets corrected by Jeremy Scahill


Good summary of fakery in the Zapruder film: