FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
“If you own the press,
you have the freedom to not tell the story.”
– Dr. Stanley Monteith
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from
Ted Gunderson: Why they killed Sonny Bono, 4/8/08
Author: Jeff Fenske Page 611 of 614
Why is there basically a media blackout on this in the US? Shouldn’t this have been big news??
From: Daily Telegraph
SONNY Bono, former husband and singing partner of superstar Cher, was clubbed to death by hitmen on the orders of drug and weapons dealers who feared he was going to expose them, a former FBI agent claims.
Ted Gunderson, now a private investigator, has told the US Globe tabloid that Bono, who served as mayor of Palm Springs for four years, did not die after hitting a tree on a Nevada ski slope in January 1998 as everyone believed.
“It’s nonsense for anyone to now try to suggest that Bono died after crashing into a tree. There’s zero evidence in this autopsy report… to show such an accident happened. Instead, there’s powerful proof he was assassinated. …
The former agent, who has been researching Bono’s accident for the past decade, said top officials linked to an international drug and weapons ring feared the singer-turned-politician was about to expose their crimes – so they had him killed on the slopes.
Related:
Bob Fletcher’s comments at Tomorrow (5/11) on ‘Coast’: “Bob Fletcher will talk about Sonny Bono’s mysterious death” (First Hour)
The Cover-up of Sonny Bono’s Murder, by David Martin
[DVD] Destiny Denied: The Murder of Congressman Sonny Bono
[Audio] Mysterious Death of Congressman Sonny Bono: Bob Fletcher on ‘Coast to Coast AM’ 10/4/08
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On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto – A documentary that Americans won’t ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.
From: Anchorage Daily News
One blast from a can of Counter-Assault bear spray was all it took to make believers out of Carl Ramm and wife Susan Alexander five years ago.
One minute a grizzly bear sow was charging through the thick willows along Peters Creek in Chugach State Park, seemingly intent on flattening the two Anchorage hikers, or worse. And then, just as quickly, the encounter was over.
Ramm pulled the trigger on a canister of Counter-Assault, watched an orange-mist of pepper spray cover the brush and envelop the bear, saw the bear’s eyes go wide and last heard her breaking brush as she beat a retreat.
Ninety-eight percent of the time, this is how things go with bear spray, biologist Tom Smith has concluded. In a paper published in “The Journal of Wildlife Management,” Smith — along with co-authors Stephen Herrero, Terry Debruyn and James Wilder — indicates bear spray might be better than a firearm for protecting yourself against the rare attack.
Bear spray is cheaper. It doesn’t require much shooting skill. And in none of the 83 cases the scientists examined was a bear-spray user seriously injured.
Transcribed by myself. Probably an exact quote, but I couldn’t rewind live radio to make sure.
~”The people who are taking the golden parachutes
don’t have our best interest at heart.”
– Steve Quayle
Coast to Coast AM, 4/19/08
From: GoodFight.org
While the news media did report extensively on Madonna kissing Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, there was something quite significant about the event that went largely unreported.
[…]
Madonna is aware that she is promoting homosexuality to millions of impressionable young people. Madonna admitted to a homosexual magazine that she employs this technique as a means to desensitize viewers, who would at first be disgusted with homosexuality, into accepting homosexuality as normative. Madonna declared:
“They digest it on a lot of different levels. Some people will see it and be disgusted by it, but maybe they’ll be unconsciously aroused by it. If people keep seeing it and seeing it and seeing it, eventually it’s not going to be such a strange thing“ (The Advocate, May 7, 1991, pg.49)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLxLTlxp7r8]Ron Paul Speaks
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=I4wOx3C8Lw8]Carol Paul Honored | Ernest Hancock Speaks, Part I
From: Online Journal
President George W. Bush’s comment to ABC News — that he approved discussions that his top aides held about harsh interrogation techniques — adds credence to claims from senior FBI agents in Iraq in 2004 that Bush had signed an executive order approving the use of military dogs, sleep deprivation and other tactics to intimidate Iraqi detainees.
When the American Civil Liberties Union released the FBI e-mail in December 2004 — after obtaining it through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit — the White House emphatically denied that any such presidential executive order existed, calling the unnamed FBI official who wrote the e-mail “mistaken.”
President Bush and his representatives also have denied repeatedly that the administration condones “torture,” although senior administration officials have acknowledged subjecting “high-value” terror suspects to aggressive interrogation techniques, including the “waterboarding” — or simulated drowning — of three al-Qaeda detainees.
But the emerging public evidence suggests that Bush’s denials about “torture” amount to a semantic argument, with the administration applying a narrow definition that contradicts widely accepted standards contained in international law, including Geneva and other human rights conventions.
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Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from: Actress & Singer Christine Ebersole on The Alex Jones Show, April 11, 2008
“When Martin Luther King would talk about the white supremacists, he called them his ‘brothers.’ He said: ‘they’re my sick brothers, but they’re my brothers.’
See, because it’s really the brotherhood of man. We know that we are all…when we start thinking ‘other,’ ‘other,’ that’s exactly what the New World Order power elite want us to think.”
“Well, this is the point I that I wanted to make, Alex, is that, you know, when I was talking about Martin Luther King and he talks about the white supremacists being his brothers.
There is no enemy. The enemy is the system. The enemy is the system. And that’s what we have to keep our focus on.
Because to create the ‘other’ and create an enemy is doing exactly what the propaganda machines want us to do.
There is always in this business in the United States of America has always been about creating an enemy. And when you create an enemy, a perceived enemy, you create fear, and then that’s how you have control.
And you see, so for us to do it conversely, and say the enemy is these individuals that are involved in this kind of a system, that gets us off the track. Then we’re still perpetuating that illusion that there is an enemy. The enemy is the system; it’s not the individual. Because as individuals, we are created out of the same dirt in God’s image. And that our job is to love one another.
So really what it is: it’s about instructing people about what the truth is.
And so even the oligarchy, even the ones that are in high level of position, it’s really about being able to change the consciousness. It’s not about eliminating these people. Of course, it doesn’t mean that people don’t have to have responsibility, and their are consequences for actions. I believe that there are consequences; there should be consequences.
But really the ultimate, ultimate, ultimate goal in humanity with human beings to one another is to be able to bring consciousness to one another, and wake people up to the truth. And the truth is not that we have another enemy, but we have these powerful systems that are taking away where we have coopted our power, our absolute blinding light that’s within all of us.”
From News with Views
Every four years, conservative “pragmatists” trot out the “We Can’t Let So-And-So Win” mantra. Of course, the so-and-so in question is always the Democratic Presidential candidate. For all of my adult life, I have been listening to so-called “conservative” Republicans warn us of the impending doom that would befall our country if the Democratic candidate were elected. And this year is no different.
This year’s Republican primary did provide a wonderful aberration, however, to the usual choices between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Republicans had an opportunity to nominate a real American constitutionalist, a statesman in the similitude of Thomas Jefferson or James Madison. That man was Texas Congressman, Ron Paul. Unfortunately, the Republican faithful seem to be incapable of discerning the marks of true greatness, not to mention fidelity to constitutional government. It is doubtful that most of them even understand what constitutional government is. And as for Christian conservatives, they can barely see any issues beyond abortion and “gay rights.” To try and convince them to support a constitutionalist candidate is like talking to a brick wall.
So, what choice does the Republican Party offer the American people this year? The worst of all possible choices: good old John “McSame” McCain.
Let’s be clear: a John McCain Presidency will be no better than a Hillary Clinton or a Barack Obama Presidency. In fact, in many ways, a McCain White House will be WORSE than a Democratic one.
On many issues, there is virtually no distinction between John McCain and any potential Democratic candidate. John McCain is no friend to gun owners. He is no friend to pro-lifers. He is no friend to fiscal conservatives. He is no friend to property owners. He is no friend to “family values” voters. He is no friend to America’s blue-collar workers. He is no friend to small business owners. He is no friend to opponents of illegal immigration.
On the other hand, John McCain is a great friend to Big Business. Similarly, he is a friend to Big Government and Big Brother. He is also a friend to open borders, supranational government, regionalism, and American imperialism.
…the reason John McCain would actually be a worse President than either Obama or Clinton is because of the manner in which conservatives go to sleep whenever a Republican occupies the Oval Office. Furthermore, the next couple of years are “crunch time” for this burgeoning North American Union and related issues.
From: Star & Tribune
Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines late Monday announced their plan to merge, a deal meant to create the world’s largest airline and the boldest attempt yet to set a new course for U.S. aviation. …
The two airlines are submitting the deal for antitrust review now in the hope that it can be completed before a new president takes office. U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., intends to fight the merger by holding hearings in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which he leads.
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From: Yahoo
If Delta and Northwest are going to create the world’s largest airline, they’ll first have unions to cajole, politicians to placate, and antitrust regulators to convince.
Two of Northwest’s largest unions immediately declared their opposition.
Most importantly, the airlines will need antitrust approval from federal regulators. In 2001, an attempted merger of United Airlines and US Airways fell apart amid antitrust concerns. Executives at Delta and Northwest said they are aiming to close their deal by the end of this year, which would be before the end of the merger-friendly Bush administration.
From: Live Science
Spring’s bloom may not smell so sweet anymore, as pollutants from power plants and automobiles destroy flowers’ aromas, a new study suggests.
The finding could help explain why some pollinators, particularly bees, are declining in certain parts of the world.
Researchers at the University of Virginia created a mathematical model of how the scents of flowers travel with the wind. The scent molecules produced by the flowers readily bond with pollutants such as ozone, which destroys the aromas they produce.
So instead of wafting for long distances with the wind, the flowery scents are chemically altered. Essentially, the flowers no longer smell like flowers.
I’m not totally crazy about all of the lyrics. But the song…WoW!
Take a breath——————————a DEEP breath!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8gPeI_Mn2M] Live from Abbey Road [Sundance Channel]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-joCD_sJKw] Live from Royal Albert Hall
[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6692349824381071951] AOL Sessions, New York
Grannies On The Road
Sitting on the side of the road waiting to catch speeding drivers, a state trooper sees a car puttering along at 22 mph. He thinks to himself, “This driver is as dangerous as a speeder!” So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over.
Approaching he car, he notices that there are five elderly ladies – two in the front seat and three in the back, wide-eyed and white as ghosts.
The driver, obviously confused, says to him, “Officer, I don’t understand. I was going the exact speed limit. What seems to be the problem?”
The trooper, trying to contain a chuckle, explains to her that ’22’ was the route number, not the speed limit.
A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned and thanked the officer for pointing out her error.
“But before you go, Ma’am, I have to ask, is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken.”
“Oh, they’ll be all right in a minute, officer. We just got off Route 127.”
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From: Daily Mail
Virtually every doctor and scientist will tell you the heart is a mere pump. …
For a few brave scientists have started claiming that our memories and characters are encoded not just in our brain, but throughout our entire body.
Consciousness, they claim, is created by every living cell in the body acting in concert.
They argue, in effect, that our hearts, livers and every single organ in the body stores our memories, drives our emotions and imbues us with our own individual characters. Our whole body, they believe, is the seat of the soul; not just the brain.
And if any of these organs should be transplanted into another person, parts of these memories – perhaps even elements of the soul – might also be transferred.
There are now more than 70 documented cases similar to Sonny’s [Sonny Graham’s], where transplant patients have taken on some of the personality traits of the organ donors.
Professor Gary Schwartz and his co-workers at the University of Arizona have documented numerous seemingly inexplicable experiences similar to Sonny’s.
Read Entire Article | Printable
Related: Man with suicide victim’s HEART takes own life—Even married the donor’s widow
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Retired public defender William Veale presents a concise summary of some of the evidence behind the controlled demolition hypothesis of the complete collapse of WTC buildings 1,2, and 7.
This is a clip from “Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of Our Republic” –
http://www.improbablecollapse.com
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4026073566596731782
From: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Testimony of Lisa F. Jackson Documentary Maker and Director of “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo”
Before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate
“Rape as a Weapon of War: Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict”
April 1, 2008
Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Coburn, and Members of the Subcommittee, I am honored to be asked to come before you to describe from my own perspective some of what I witnessed and heard in the months that I spent in the Eastern DR Congo in 2006 and 2007 shooting a documentary film. During that time I interviewed many women and girls who had survived sexual violence. I talked with peacekeepers, priests, doctors, activists, international aid workers and, most chillingly of all, with a dozen self-confessed rapists, uniformed soldiers in the Congolese army who boasted to my camera about the dozens of women they had raped. What I heard in the Congo has altered the course of my own life, and I hope I can convey to you here today even a small sense of the profound impact that the women – and men -of the Congo had on me.
From: Star & Tribune, 4/10/08
Delta Air Lines pilot union leaders will meet today to consider new contract terms that would apply strictly to the Delta pilots. If the proposal is approved, it likely would allow Delta and Northwest Airlines to announce a merger as early as next week, two people familiar with the situation said Wednesday.
No similar contract offer is going to Northwest’s pilots this week.
From: Coast to Coast AM
Hosted by
George Noory
Guest
Nick Begich
Thursday, April 10
Researcher and lecturer Dr. Nick Begich will discuss creating altered states through the use of frequencies, electronic telepathy, and enhancing ESP.
Coast to Coast AM is live nightly from 10pm to 2am Pacific.
From: InfoWars
VENTURA: “…how can two planes knock down three buildings?”
HANNITY: Pretty easy. It’s 757s– 747s.
VENTURA: But there were three buildings that went down.
HANNITY: There was a lot of fire and there was a lot of damage–
VENTURA: Well, first of all, jet fuel blew up at the start. Jet fuel is four-fifths– and I don’t want to stay on this, I’d rather talk other things– but jet fuel is four-fifths kerosene. It doesn’t burn hot. So, using the analogy that it could melt the metal, then propane burns hotter. So if you turn on your camp stove for three hours, shouldn’t it melt the grates? But it doesn’t, does it?– it doesn’t.
Related:
Ludicrous Hit Piece Attacks Ventura On WTC Collapse Comments
Former Governor Jesse Ventura: WTC Collapse A Controlled Demolition
From: Daily Mail
A cup of coffee a day could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay, research suggests. …
In this study, rabbits fed a cholesterol-rich diet were given 3mg of caffeine a day, the equivalent of a daily cup of coffee for an average-sized person.
After 12 weeks, a number of tests showed that the blood-brain barrier was significantly more intact in rabbits receiving the caffeine. …
The study is not the first to flag up the health benefits of coffee. Caffeine can reduce the risk of asthma attacks and help improve circulation in the heart.
Coffee drinkers have a lower risk of developing certain cancers, as well as Parkinson’s disease and type 2 diabetes.
The drink can keep gall stones and kidney stones at bay and has a mild anti-depressant effect which could reduce the risk of suicide.
The heart is more than a pump
From: MSNBC
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – A man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago and later married the donor’s widow died the same way the donor did, authorities said: of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
No foul play was suspected….
That heart was from Terry Cottle, 33, who had shot himself, Berkeley County Coroner Glenn Rhoad said.
Grateful for his new heart, Graham began writing letters to the donor’s family to thank them. In January 1997, Graham met his donor’s widow, Cheryl Cottle, then 28, in Charleston.
“I felt like I had known her for years,” Graham told The (Hilton Head) Island Packet for a story in 2006. “I couldn’t keep my eyes off her. I just stared.”
From: News with Views
While there are many examples of treachery in human history: those against innocent people, against those who invented something that the more powerful interests did not want to compete with, those against rulers by those who wanted their kingdom, and those against government so they could distort a country’s monetary system for their own financial gain and empowerment. In light of the expanding and evolving global financial crisis, this is where we find ourselves. In reality, we are seeing the global empowerment of a central banking system which is now global. They are now creating the conditions to give them the rest of the regulatory powers they still lack.
If one looks at the financial history of America, they will see from the beginning there was a political and financial tug of war over whether a private corporation, like the Bank of England, would control our monetary system. Alexander Hamilton favored the aristocratic tradition of central banking versus that of Thomas Jefferson who was for limited government that controlled our monetary system.
From: Anchorage Daily News
JUNEAU — Oil giants BP and Conoco Phillips announced Tuesday they’re joining forces on an Alaska natural gas pipeline, news that fired both excitement and doubt in the state capital.
Gov. Sarah Palin and many lawmakers hailed the announcement as healthy progress toward the state’s grandest economic development dream. But some raised questions: Are the companies sincere? Should the state now award an exclusive license plus a $500 million subsidy to a Canadian company touting a pipeline of its own?
BP and Conoco executives in Anchorage said Tuesday their companies will form a new firm to pursue what they call the Denali project — a pipeline costing more than $30 billion from the rich North Slope gas fields down the Alaska Highway and into Canada.
ADN Front Page Spread pdf [while still available]
From: StarTribune.com
Ron Paul remains the longest of long shots to win the Republican presidential nomination, but his Minnesota supporters aren’t going quietly.
Over the weekend, they captured six of a dozen GOP national convention delegates elected at congressional district meetings. The rebellion has left local party officials crying foul, even as state leaders downplay the importance of the unexpected result.
“They’ll be national delegates, but at the end of the day, that doesn’t change anything because John McCain is going to be our nominee,” said party spokesman Mark Drake.
But Marianne Stebbins, who has headed the Texas congressman’s Minnesota campaign for several months, called the victories a tactical triumph designed to bring Paul’s libertarian message to the broadest possible audience.
“If we get enough delegates,” she said, “we’ll be able to get [Paul] speaking time at the convention.”
Related: Ron Paul backers ‘hijack’ delegates