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		<title>NASA is Sending Astronauts to Space for Good</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Newser) – NASA is hatching an audacious plan to send astronauts into space to colonize Mars and other planets—and never return. The project, known as the Hundred Year Starship, has already received more than $1.5 million in funding, the Daily Mail reports, though that’s a small fraction of what the roughly $10 billion ship would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iamfreedommusic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996586&amp;post=557&amp;subd=iamfreedommusic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Newser) – NASA is hatching an audacious plan to send astronauts into space to colonize Mars and other planets—and never return. The project, known as the Hundred Year Starship, has already received more than $1.5 million in funding, the Daily Mail reports, though that’s a small fraction of what the roughly $10 billion ship would ultimately cost. NASA’s hoping to raise money from interested billionaires—Google’s Larry Page has already expressed interest. “You heard it here,” said the director of NASA’s Ames Research Center. “The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds. Twenty years ago, you had to whisper that in dark bars and get fired.” New research has found that a one-way mission to Mars would be cheaper and more feasible than a round-trip. Astronauts would get regular supply shipments, but would be expected to be at least marginally self-sufficient.</p>
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		<title>Depopulation by the Government</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1922, Margaret Sanger wrote The Pivot of Civilization with an introduction by eugenicist H. G. Wells. The Rockefeller Foundation “enthusiastically supported the concept of ‘eugenics,’ which encourages the reproductive efforts of those deemed to have ‘good’ genes, while discouraging or stopping procreation by undesirables. But Rockefeller and others were anxious to go even further [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iamfreedommusic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996586&amp;post=550&amp;subd=iamfreedommusic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 1922, Margaret Sanger wrote The Pivot of Civilization with an introduction by eugenicist H. G. Wells. The Rockefeller Foundation “enthusiastically supported the concept of ‘eugenics,’ which encourages the reproductive efforts of those deemed to have ‘good’ genes, while discouraging or stopping procreation by undesirables. But Rockefeller and others were anxious to go even further to mold America’s breeding patterns along evolutionary lines.”1 John D. Rockefeller Jr., per the advice of Raymond B. Fosdick, provided financial backing for Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood movement.2 Sanger, a feminist and birth control activist established the first family planning clinics in New York City. Several U.S. foundations financed eugenic research, including the Carnegie Institution, which funded Davenport’s eugenic studies at Cold Spring Harbor, and the Rockefeller Foundation, which gave grants in the 1930s for eugenic research at the Galton Laboratory at University College in London and to the Cornell Medical School in New York.3 Advocates for population control and the study of eugenics include Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Wilson, president of Harvard and Irving Fisher, president of Yale and president of the Eugenics Research Association in the 1920s plus a host of other very public vocal figures.4 President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court where he served from 1902 to 1932. Holmes was an advocate for selective breeding and issued the sterilization verdict in the case of Carrie Buck in 1927. He said, “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”5 Sir Frederick Pollock, a Pilgrims Society member and law professor at Oxford, was the editor of Law Quarterly Review from 1885 to 1919. He was in close communication with Harvard-educated Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. during a sixty-year period of time. Researcher Charles Savoie maintains that the Pilgrims Society was closely connected to America’s Supreme Court for more than a century.6 The Rockefeller Foundation financed what is known as Psychiatric Genetics, a new specialty. The Foundation restructured medical training in Germany including managing the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics and Human Heredity under the direction of Swiss psychiatrist Ernst Rudin, supported by his trusty protégés, Otmar Verschuer and Dr. Franz J. Kallmann. In 1932, the British eugenics’ movement appointed Dr. Rudin as president of the worldwide Eugenics Federation. The eugenics movement promoted the killing or sterilization of burdensome people, individuals that Henry Kissinger referred to as “useless eaters.”7 Rockefeller funded the Kaiser Wilhelm Eugenics Institute in Germany, founded in 1927. The Bush family joined John D. Rockefeller and the British Royal Family in sponsoring the eugenics initiatives that gave rise to Hitler’s racial hygiene programs. Prescott Bush was later found guilty of trading with the Nazis during WWII. According to court records, the Rockefeller family and their Standard Oil Company supported Hitler more than they did the allies during the war. In fact, one judge declared Rockefeller guilty of treason. Dr. Gary Glum documented the insidious eugenics programs to create a “superior race,” which were initially sponsored not by Adolph Hitler, but by the American elite like the Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harriman, Morgan, DuPont, Kellogg and Bush families.8 Hitler, who had been financed by international bankers, became Chancellor of the Third Reich on January 30, 1933. Wilhelm Frick, the minister of the interior, introduced the early sterilization law which was enacted within six months after Hitler was appointed chancellor. Sterilization was used for “life unworthy of life.” Certain individuals who reportedly warranted serialization included those with: “congenital feeblemindedness (now called mental deficiency), an estimated 200,000; manic depressive insanity, 20,000; schizophrenia, 80,000; epilepsy, 60,000; Huntington’s chorea (a hereditary brain disorder), 600; hereditary blindness, 4,000; hereditary deafness, 16,000; grave bodily malformation, 20,000; and hereditary alcoholism, 10,000. The projected total of 410,000 was considered only preliminary, drawn mostly from people already in institutions; it was assumed that much greater numbers of people would eventually be identified and sterilized.”9 After the Nazis took power, I.G. Farben and Rockefeller’s Standard Oil merged into a single entity which contained beneficial provisions for each company. I.G. Farben was, until 1937, controlled by the Warburg family who had collaborated with Rockefeller in crafting Nazi eugenics. Standard Oil maintained their alliance with I.G. Farben even after the U.S. entered the war. In 1940-41, I.G. Farben constructed a large industrial complex in Poland adjacent the Auschwitz concentration camp where they planned to use slave labor to make gasoline from coal. Standard-Germany president Emil Helfferich admitted that Standard Oil financed part of the operations at Auschwitz.10 In the fall of 1941, Secretary of War Henry Stimson contacted Dr. Frank B. Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences, to discuss the further development of biological warfare. This was prior to America’s entry into World War II, but according to his diary Secretary Stimson was well aware of imminent events. Shortly afterwards, President Roosevelt authorized Stimson to create a civilian agency to supervise biological warfare under the jurisdiction of the Federal Security Agency. George Merck, owner of Merck Pharmaceutical and close adviser to Roosevelt, was appointed director of the new War Research Service.11 Frank McDougall participated in the area of public health within the old League of Nations. He made the connection between community health, nutrition, and agricultural development and economic policy. The U.N., in a conference in Hot Springs between October 16 and November 1, 1945, formulated the U.N. Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture. Officials drafted the constitution of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). McDougall was a chief architect and promoter of the organization.12 The Bureau of Human Heredity relocated from London to Copenhagen in 1947 where they moved into a newly constructed building paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation. The initial International Congress in Human Genetics after World War II was convened in Copenhagen in 1956. Verschuer, Rudin’s protégé, was by then a member of the American Eugenics Society, synonymous with Rockefeller’s Population Council. Dr. Kallmann, a director, also organized the American Society of Human Genetics which directed the Human Genome Project. Later, the Rockefellers relocated the U.S. eugenics movement to their family offices where they also controlled future population control and abortion advocacy groups. The Eugenics Society later became the Society for the Study of Social Biology.13 U.S. State Department Policy Planning Study #23, 1948, headed by George F. Kennan, concluded, “We have about 50 percent of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”14 John Foster Dulles, then chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation, concluded after observations acquired on a number of tours abroad that there was a “need to stop the expansion of the non-white populations.” In 1952, Frederick Osborn, an officer of the American Eugenics Society, assisted John D. Rockefeller III in organizing the Population Council and served as its first administrator. In 1958, Eisenhower selected William H. Draper to head a committee to evaluate appropriate military actions in other countries. Draper suggested that a better focus should be the threat of population explosion and a study on depopulation procedures for poorer non-white countries that pose a national security threat to the U.S.15 Apparently, a burgeoning non-white population might reduce available resources that would be put to better use by white populations. Additionally, growing populations produce resentful individuals who aggressively oppose elitist policies. In 1965, the Population Action International (originally known as the Population Crisis Committee), was founded by Hugh Moore, Lammot du Pont Copeland and William H. Draper Jr. The worldwide organization is headquartered in Washington, DC. Since 2001, in conjunction with the Population Action International, and with the encouragement of Congress, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) distributes information in foreign countries in an effort to initiate family planning and cover other reproductive health programs. In 1961, John D. Rockefeller III presented the Second McDougall Lecture to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. This predated by a decade Rockefeller’s population protocols that would become part of Kissinger’s NSSM 200. Rockefeller, in his address, said, “To my mind, population growth is second only to control of atomic weapons as the paramount problem of the day.”16 The Rockefeller Foundation funded England’s eugenics movement. The Rockefeller family had early ties to the House of Rothschild to which the gigantic Standard oil trust owed its beginnings. Presumably, the Rothschilds, a Talmudic family with early Masonic and Illuminati connections, actively promoted and financed eugenics and depopulation behind the scenes. By the 1960s, the Eugenics Society of England embraced Crypto-eugenics, under which they would participate in eugenics without actually calling it eugenics. The Rockefellers lent their support to England’s Eugenics Society by establishing the International Planned Parenthood Federation, in conjunction with the Eugenics Society. This formed a private, global system in which the elite could choreograph an international holocaust, within the context of offering humanitarian services, all under the jurisdiction of the U.N. flag, another Rockefeller front organization.17 George H. W. Bush of Texas, who served in Congress from January 3, 1967 to January 3, 1971, originated a legislative investigation of world overpopulation.18 Dr. D. M. MacArthur, Deputy Director of Research &amp; Technology for the Pentagon, Department of Defense, requested $10 million from the Congressional House Subcommittee on Appropriations to develop a biological weapon through House Bill 15090. On June 9, 1969, the House Republican research task committee, chaired by George H. W. Bush, heard testimony from General William H. Draper, of the Population Crisis Committee and Dr. William Moran of the Population Reference Bureau. Draper reported that there were three issues relevant to population control – the census of 1970 in the U.S. and of 1971 in Britain should be worldwide and not limited to two countries, accelerating contraception, and the World Health Organization should implement their international programs such as inoculations, etc.19 Leading World Health Organization scientists, as noted in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, had requested that viruses be created in order to study their affects on humans. The Department of Defense, now funded with $10 million, intended to conduct studies on immune-system-destroying agents for biological warfare. In 1983 Dr. Robert Strecker, an internist and gastro-enterologist who is also a trained pathologist with a Ph.D. in pharmacology, produced The Strecker Memorandum wherein he claims that the AIDS virus is man-made. Working in conjunction with his brother, attorney Ted Strecker, they discovered thousands of documents verifying the man-made origin of AIDS. Strecker maintains that it was virologically impossible for HIV to have emanated from monkeys; the disease was unknown in Africa before 1975. Strecker claims that the World Health Organization (WHO), funded by the Department of Defense, initiated testing on a lymphotrophic virus, a bovine virus that could also infect humans. In 1977, the WHO instigated a massive campaign in Africa to eradicate smallpox among the urban population. Over 100 million Africans were deliberately inoculated with AIDS-contaminated smallpox vaccine. In 1978, over 2,000 white male homosexuals were inoculated against hepatitis B by the Centers for Disease Control and the New York Blood Center, also with AIDS-contaminated vaccine.20 Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD) funded the hepatitis B vaccine research that Dr. Strecker claimed spread HIV to homosexuals in the U.S.21 These kinds of weapons were apparently a viable concern immediately after 9/11 as John Bolton gave an address at the Biological Weapons Convention on November 19, 2001 in Geneva, Switzerland, stating our concerns about “terrorists” using biological and chemical weapons.22 We have trained many foreigners in the use of biological and chemical weapons at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize after he directed the dispersion of tons of Monsanto’s toxic Agent Orange in Vietnam. This chemical, containing dioxin, continues to negatively affect Vietnamese citizens and former U.S. military personnel and their children with horrendous birth defects and neurological disorders. Conversely, Ali Hassan al-Majid, who dispersed chemicals in Halabja, was recently executed for the same activities. Kissinger orchestrated the precedent-setting secret bombing of neutral Cambodia over a four-year period, allegedly to protect Americans in Vietnam. From 1970 onward, Congress had prohibited bombing in Cambodia in every military appropriations bill except for that open-ended purpose – protecting U.S. citizens – but apparently not from Agent Orange.23 According to Time magazine of April 19, 1976, “Since the Communist victory last year, an estimated 500,000 to 600,000 people, one-tenth of Cambodia’s population, have died from political reprisals, disease or starvation . . . To escape the bloodbath; at least 25,000 Cambodians have fled across the border into Thailand. They tell tales of people being clubbed to death to save ammunition. Others have been bound together and buried alive by bulldozers, or suffocated by having plastic bags tied over their heads.”24 Generating further resentment, the U.S. installed Lon Nol, who collected millions of dollars in U.S. economic aid. He declared himself Chief of State, Prime Minister and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces after he disbanded the Assembly in October 1971 in order to declare emergency rule. He then permitted the U.S. to carpet bomb Cambodia.25 Lon Nol retired to Hawaii on April 1, 1975 with half a million dollars, compliments of the U.S. taxpayers.26 Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge with its killing fields, the essential liquidation of the middle class, famine, the destruction of the economy and concentration camps followed America’s activities in the area. From Kissinger’s Indochina bio warfare experiments, President Richard Nixon commissioned Kissinger to direct the compilation of a National Security Council population policy. The work was completed during President Gerald Ford’s administration. Their efforts resulted in The National Security Study Memorandum, NSSM 200, Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests, dated December 10, 1974. It was officially adopted as U.S. policy on November 26, 1975, with Memorandum 314 by President Ford. It is still in effect, as it has never been rescinded. Each succeeding administration implements the population policies using its own methodology. The NSSM 200 was declassified on February 8, 2007. Population control serves the U.S. strategic, economic, and military interests at the expense of the developing Third World or Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs). The plan claims that their population growth is detrimental and a grave threat to U.S. national security in four ways: (1) large nations may gain political power (2) The U.S. and its allies need the strategic materials from those countries. (3) A high birth rate means more young people who are more likely than older people to challenge global power structures (4) Population growth in relatively disadvantaged countries jeopardizes U.S. investments.27 NSSM 200 has special implications for thirteen countries – India, Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, Ethiopia and Colombia. NSSM 200 listed Brazil which, at that time, had a population of over 100 million which dominated the continent demographically. By 2000, the population projections totaled about 212 million people.28 That kind of population growth was unacceptable to the elite. In 1975, Kissinger traveled with Gerald Ford to Indonesia, where they met with the U.S.-backed and armed dictator Suharto, who oversaw the killing of millions during his 35-year reign. The day after Ford and Kissinger left, Indonesian forces invaded the independent territory of East Timor. One-third of the territory’s population was exterminated during the subsequent 20-year occupation, but this had little impact on continuing American and Western arms shipments to the regime in Jakarta. Recently released documents establish that Suharto received a green light for the invasion from the U.S. President and Secretary of State. Nixon and Kissinger, along with John Negroponte, a Kissinger aide and the officer in charge of Vietnam on the National Security Council, arranged a chaos-creating government coup in Cambodia in March 1970. Negroponte would later act as Ambassador to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and as director of national intelligence from 2005 to 2007. On March 26, 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported, “While ambassador to Honduras from 1981-85, Negroponte directed the secret arming of Nicaragua’s Contra rebels and is accused by human rights groups of overlooking — if not overseeing — a CIA-backed Honduran death squad during his tenure.” The CIA had unlimited funds to assist the government in its depopulation efforts. In concert with Oliver North, “He also helped orchestrate a secret deal, later known as Iran-Contra, to send arms through Honduras to help the Contras overthrow the Sandinista government.”29 Negroponte had charge of the US Embassy in Honduras when hundreds of Hondurans labeled as “subversives” were seized, raped, tortured and slaughtered by Battalion 316, a Honduran intelligence unit trained, funded and supported by the Pentagon and the CIA. Battalion 316 also participated in the CIA’s covert operations in Nicaragua.30 Negroponte was Deputy Secretary of State under Condoleezza Rice. On October 2, 1979, Robert S. McNamara, president of the World Bank and former secretary of defense during the Vietnam War, in speaking to a group of international bankers said, “We can begin with the most critical problem of all, population growth,” concluding that, “Either the current birth rates must come down more quickly, or the death rates must go up&#8230;There are, of course, many ways in which the death rates can go up. In a thermonuclear age, we can accomplish it very quickly and decisively.” It is a surprising statement in view of the crypto-eugenic position taken by the American Eugenics Society, a stand which McNamara, evidently a dedicated eugenicist, would have certainly been aware of. It can only be assumed that he did not agree with the society’s stand, and was arrogant enough to ignore it.”31 McNamara and Maurice Strong, a Rockefeller operative and ecological agitator, organized the UN Earth Summit in Stockholm in 1972.32 The New York Times claimed that Strong was the “Custodian of the Planet.” Strong is indebted to George H. W. Bush who maneuvered Strong into the position of Secretary General of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development, the Earth Summit, convened in Rio de Janeiro, which elevated global economic and environmental regulations.33 Strong thinks that people should be required to have a license in order to have a baby. The Population Plan was initially implemented by Brent Scowcroft, a long-time Kissinger colleague and Vice-Chairman of Kissinger Associates and National Security Advisor under Ford from 1974–1977 and George H. W. Bush from 1989–1993. CIA Director George H. W. Bush (November 1975 to January 1977) assisted Scowcroft who co-authored A World Transformed with George H. W. Bush. In addition to the National Security Advisor, the Secretaries of the Departments of State, Treasury, Defense, and Agriculture are responsible for executing the population plan. Each administration uses those agencies and determines its own strategy for depopulating the planet. Scowcroft was President George W. Bush’s Chairman of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 2001 to 2005 and also assisted President Barrack Obama in selecting his national security team. Scowcroft apparently facilitated Obama’s efforts to continue Bush’s warfare depopulating strategy in the Middle East. In 1974 the United Nations convened the World Food Conference in Rome where they focused on two issues, as suggested by the U.S. The first topic was worldwide population growth and food shortages. The second agenda item was escalating food prices as a consequence of an allegedly decreasing world food supply. Both oil and grain prices were increasing at about 300 to 400 percent annually. A supposed food crisis coupled with America’s capacity as the world’s biggest food producer placed the U.S. government in charge of food and prices resulting in an alliance between grain traders and the U.S. government which lead to genetic tampering.34 The Reagan Administration accommodated Monsanto and other private companies who manufactured questionably safe food products designed for worldwide trade. Genetically modified (GMO) products, with little or no testing, were introduced in the U.S. market. Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush, former CIA Director, was the chief proponent within the Reagan Administration for this innovative field of genetically modified products.35 U.S. citizens were intentionally vulnerable, as GMO labeling had been forbidden by the FDA.36 Monsanto’s expensive, elite Terminator seeds, fertile only for one planting, “in the hands of one or more governments intent on using food as a weapon, Terminator was a tool of biological warfare almost ‘too good to believe.’”37 Given that so many third world countries are managed according to Anglo-American eugenics interests, Terminator seeds provide ample opportunity for tyrants to stage famines. During the 1960s and 1970s the indigenous non-white population of the U.S., through the Indian Health Service of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, operated an methodical lost generation program against Native American women of childbearing age wherein they sterilized about forty-two percent of those living on reservations without informing them. This was accomplished in conjunction with other medical procedures. Allegedly, this program was terminated in 1976 after allegations were made and confirmed. No officials lost their jobs or suffered judicial consequences as a result of implementing of participating in this program. They were, after all, simply following government procedures as it pertained to domestic non-white populations.38 More recently, in the 1990s, the World Health Organization dispensed tetanus shots among women between the ages of fifteen and forty-five in Nicaragua, Mexico, the Philippines and some African countries. Unknown to the women, the tetanus shots were laced with Chorionic Gonadotrophin or (hCG), a natural hormone, which, when combined with tetanus toxoid, prevents a women from sustaining a pregnancy. This program, to impose a state of permanent sterilization, was financed by the Rockefeller Foundation and began in 1972. Sterilization is incredibly appalling but it does not stop there. The depopulation efforts, conducted by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Defense, include more aggressive protocols. The British military, whose tactics we have frequently adopted, first used biological warfare as early as 1385 when they tossed the remains of plague victims and diseased animal carcasses into their enemy’s towns. In North America, Lord Jeffrey Amherst had his men distribute smallpox-laden blankets among the vulnerable Indian population in order to decimate their enemy without firing a bullet. Amherst’s tactics created an epidemic among the Cherokees in 1783 which helped George Washington’s forces and ended the Cherokee’s resistance. The Masonic-based Smithsonian Institution has acknowledged Amherst’s use of biological warfare, “During the bitter fighting in 1763-1764 General Jeffrey Amherst ordered that the Indians around Fort Pitt be infected with gifts of smallpox (laden) blankets. The Indian uprising failed, and Fort Pitt was easily relieved after a smallpox epidemic broke out among the warriors besieging the fort.”39 The U.S. Army repeated Amherst’s biological warfare tactics by distributing smallpox-infected blankets to the Mandans at Fort Clark in present day South Dakota. This led to the smallpox epidemic of 1836-40. The Mandan, out of about 2,400 there were only thirty-one survivors.40 The U.S. Army repeated this deadly tactic by introducing blankets laden with the same disease to the Missouri River Mandans during the 1830s. Biological warfare became U.S. government policy after the British used it against France’s Indian allies during the French and Indian Wars (1754–63). Accordingly, during the 19th century, the U.S. Army disseminated contaminated blankets to the Indians for extermination purposes. Smallpox, now available in a dry state, and cholera were very effective.41 Quite possibly, smallpox, a highly contagious disease, had claimed the lives of more Northern Plains Indians, a “virgin population,” in one year, 1837-1838, than all the military expeditions sent against them. The Indians used a very descriptive name for smallpox – rotting face.42 The U.S. military also conducted germ warfare by injecting Filipino captives with plague and beriberi germs during our occupation of the Philippines beginning in 1898. In 1998, in South Africa at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission the following testimony was given, “The United States encouraged South Africa’s apartheid regime to develop a Chemical Biological Weapons program that was aimed at the country’s black population. Dr. Wouter Basson, the South African general who headed the project from its inception in 1981, testified from notes he made of a meeting with US Major General William Augerson. He (Augerson) feels that chemical warfare is an ideal strategic weapon because infrastructure is preserved together with facilities and only living people are killed. The warm climate of Africa is ideal for this type of weapon because the diffusion of the poison is better and the absorption is increased by perspiration and increased blood flow in the persons who are targets.”43 Genocidal war is about body counts – un-armed men, women and children are all total war targets to fulfill the objective of world population reduction. However, war destroys a lot of infrastructure. Accordingly, other methods were developed that are equally effective and might even increase profits in other service industries, also affiliated with the elite who consistently view other humans as sources of profit or commodities, even in death. Genocide, under other pretenses, is regularly practiced to limit “excesses” in order to preserve the earth and its resources for the “fittest.” Elite-controlled governments are indifferent to the slaughter, starvation, slave labor, and suffering of others, as evidenced by a callous response from former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright when questioned about the 500,000 children who died in Iraq as a result of the U.S.-imposed sanctions. She said, “It was worth it.”44 The Malthusian-mentality elite believe in the survival of the fittest rendering the vast majority of the earth’s population as expendable. Choreographed economic crisis, sanctions (government-imposed famines), man-made famines, wars, directed energy warfare, diseases, and mass migrations into hostile territory are all methods of thinning out the population. Abortion, peddled as pro-choice, and homosexuality, promoted as an alternative life style, all contribute to birth reduction rates. Both Alfred Kinsey’s sexual revolution and Gloria Steinem’s women’s movement were funded and facilitated by the elite. The greedy elite manage to conceal their miserable machinations by distracting the masses with mindless entertainment and addictive substances from which they also derive profits. Many Americans think that God sanctions our every action against other ethnic groups just because we are American. God almost certainly does not sanction everything that the U.S. government does. In reality, the fallacious claim of divine sanction cloaks the enormity of state-sanctioned wickedness. The U.S. could and should use its power for good. Apparently, we establish our own ethical standards, totally exempt from all culpability and, according to Henry Kissinger, our behavior should not be internationalized. In other words, we condone and even support unilateral attacks on other countries but other countries may not act in the same manner. The children of every country should have the same rights and protections as white American children.</p>
<p>-Courtesy of ConspiracyArchives.com</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rapper T.I. may have been sippin&#8217; on sizzurp after all the night of his felony drug possession arrest &#8212; because cops say dude had the main ingredient, codeine, when he was busted. T.I.&#8217;s probation officer just filed documents in Georgia that say L.A. County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies found codeine, marijuana and ecstasy in T.I.&#8217;s possession during the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iamfreedommusic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996586&amp;post=548&amp;subd=iamfreedommusic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Rapper T.I. may have been sippin&#8217; on sizzurp after all the night of his felony drug possession arrest &#8212; because cops say dude had the main ingredient, codeine, when he was busted. T.I.&#8217;s probation officer just filed documents in Georgia that say L.A. County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies found codeine, marijuana and ecstasy in T.I.&#8217;s possession during the September 1 arrest. As we first reported, T.I. had several Styrofoam cups in his Maybach that night (pictured above). Sizzurp &#8211; aka codeine syrup &#8212; is commonly served in Styrofoam cups. The document also states that T.I. tested positive for opiates the day after the arrest, but does not name a specific drug. Neither marijuana nor ecstasy are opiates. UPDATE: Sources connected to the case tell us that despite the presence of codeine &#8212; there was no codeine syrup &#8230; the essential ingredient in sizzurp</p>
<p>Courtesy of TMZ</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t it [strange] that once T.I. was released from prison, he has been downhill??  I mean, he comes out doing music with those who are speculated to be &#8220;Free Masons&#8221; ie. Diddy, Jay Z, Ricky Rozay, etc.. and now he&#8217;s been caught up on some CRAZY drug charges.  Almost convinces me that HE TOO, has joined forces.  What do you think??  [PRESS IT]</p>
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		<title>Obama has NOT forgotten HBCU&#8217;s</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presidents of some 70 historically black colleges, meeting here this week, started their day Monday with a trip to the White House to hear President Obama deliver a strong commitment to continued federal support for their institutions. President Obama reminded them of the support his administration has already provided the institutions, through increased federal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iamfreedommusic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996586&amp;post=536&amp;subd=iamfreedommusic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>The presidents of some 70 historically black colleges, meeting here this week, started their day Monday with a trip to the White House to hear President Obama deliver a strong commitment to continued federal support for their institutions.</p>
<p>President Obama reminded them of the support his administration has already provided the institutions, through increased federal money and policies meant to help them become more financially stable.</p>
<p>&#8220;Strengthening your institutions isn&#8217;t just a task for our advisory board or for the Department of Education; it&#8217;s a job for the entire federal government. And I expect all agencies to support this mission,&#8221; he said, according to a transcript of his remarks.</p>
<p>The federal government is putting $1-billion into grants to help minority-serving institutions improve in areas such as planning, management, endowments, or faculty development. In addition, the $40-billion increase in Pell Grant funds approved by Congress this year is expected to benefit a large number of minority students who come from lower-income families.</p>
<p>The private session with President Obama was part of an annual conference organized by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The president has declared this week Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week to coincide with the two-day conference, being held at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel here.</p>
<p>Charlie Nelms, chancellor of North Carolina Central University, said the president&#8217;s remarks affirmed the role of minority-serving institutions as vital to helping the country attain the highest proportion of degree holders in the world—a benchmark President Obama wants the nation to reach by 2020. &#8220;It was a reiteration of the fact that in order to get to where we&#8217;re trying to go in terms of degree attainment, we have to go through and with HBCU&#8217;s, that we have a role to play, and that the larger higher-education community can learn something from us,&#8221; Mr. Nelms said.</p>
<p>College leaders are also holding closed-door sessions with other top federal officials during the conference to discuss ways that the institutions can benefit by tapping into agency programs for assistance in various areas, such as earning research grants.</p>
<p>At the same time, administrators at black colleges are joining in discussions with their peers and higher-education experts about ways they can improve the management of their campuses through more effective fund raising and attracting partnerships with private corporations.</p>
<p>John S. Wilson Jr., executive director of the White House initiative, has said he wants the conference to inspire college leaders to turn their campuses into &#8220;cathedrals&#8221; of higher education—institutions that can support excellence both in the physical and academic structures as well as create an atmosphere where students develop a positive moral and ethical character.</p>
<p>Irma McClaurin, president of Shaw University, said Mr. Wilson and the White House are taking the right steps. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been waiting a long time to get the support at the national level for historically black colleges and universities,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They serve a very important purpose, and I think this vision &#8230; is the direction that we need to go.&#8221;</p>
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<div>Andrew Holmes, Michael Wagnon, Jeremy Morlock and Adam Winfield are four of the five Stryker soldiers who face murder charges. Photograph: Public Domain</div>
<p>Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret &#8220;kill team&#8221; that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.</p>
<p>Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians.</p>
<p>In one of the most serious accusations of war crimes to emerge from the Afghan conflict, the killings are alleged to have been carried out by members of a Stryker infantry brigade based in Kandahar province in southern <a title="More from guardian.co.uk on Afghanistan" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.</p>
<p>According to investigators and legal documents, discussion of killing Afghan civilians began after the arrival of Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs at forward operating base Ramrod last November. Other soldiers told the army&#8217;s criminal investigation command that Gibbs boasted of the things he got away with while serving in Iraq and said how easy it would be to &#8220;toss a grenade at someone and kill them&#8221;.</p>
<p>One soldier said he believed Gibbs was &#8220;feeling out the platoon&#8221;.</p>
<p>Investigators said Gibbs, 25, hatched a plan with another soldier, Jeremy Morlock, 22, and other members of the unit to form a &#8220;kill team&#8221;. While on patrol over the following months they allegedly killed at least three Afghan civilians. According to the charge sheet, the first target was Gul Mudin, who was killed &#8220;by means of throwing a fragmentary grenade at him and shooting him with a rifle&#8221;, when the patrol entered the village of La Mohammed Kalay in January.</p>
<p>Morlock and another soldier, Andrew Holmes, were on guard at the edge of a poppy field when Mudin emerged and stopped on the other side of a wall from the soldiers. Gibbs allegedly handed Morlock a grenade who armed it and dropped it over the wall next to the Afghan and dived for cover. Holmes, 19, then allegedly fired over the wall.</p>
<p>Later in the day, Morlock is alleged to have told Holmes that the killing was for fun and threatened him if he told anyone.</p>
<p>The second victim, Marach Agha, was shot and killed the following month. Gibbs is alleged to have shot him and placed a Kalashnikov next to the body to justify the killing. In May Mullah Adadhdad was killed after being shot and attacked with a grenade.</p>
<p>The Army Times reported that a least one of the soldiers collected the fingers of the victims as souvenirs and that some of them posed for photographs with the bodies.</p>
<p>Five soldiers – Gibbs, Morlock, Holmes, Michael Wagnon and Adam Winfield – are accused of murder and aggravated assault among other charges. All of the soldiers have denied the charges. They face the death penalty or life in prison if convicted.</p>
<p>The killings came to light in May after the army began investigating a brutal assault on a soldier who told superiors that members of his unit were smoking hashish. The Army Times reported that members of the unit regularly smoked the drug on duty and sometimes stole it from civilians.</p>
<p>The soldier, who was straight out of basic training and has not been named, said he witnessed the smoking of hashish and drinking of smuggled alcohol but initially did not report it out of loyalty to his comrades. But when he returned from an assignment at an army headquarters and discovered soldiers using the shipping container in which he was billeted to smoke hashish he reported it.</p>
<p>Two days later members of his platoon, including Gibbs and Morlock, accused him of &#8220;snitching&#8221;, gave him a beating and told him to keep his mouth shut. The soldier reported the beating and threats to his officers and then told investigators what he knew of the &#8220;kill team&#8221;.</p>
<p>Following the arrest of the original five accused in June, seven other soldiers were charged last month with attempting to cover up the killings and violent assault on the soldier who reported the smoking of hashish. The charges will be considered by a military grand jury later this month which will decide if there is enough evidence for a court martial. Army investigators say Morlock has admitted his involvement in the killings and given details about the role of others including Gibbs. But his lawyer, Michael Waddington, is seeking to have that confession suppressed because he says his client was interviewed while under the influence of prescription drugs taken for battlefield injuries and that he was also suffering from traumatic brain injury.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our position is that his statements were incoherent, and taken while he was under a cocktail of drugs that shouldn&#8217;t have been mixed,&#8221; Waddington told the Seattle Times.</p>
<p>-Courtesy of the gaurdian.co.uk</p>
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<p>PRESS IT!</p>
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		<title>[YOU] Fuel the Fire &#8211; Blood Diamonds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conflict happening across the African continent is much [more] that civil war.  You, in the western world do not understand that [YOU] indirectly, are fueling this fire.  How, you say?? You buy Diamonds &#60;&#60;  Diamond dealer sales to you &#60;&#60; Diamond Dealer/middle man trades guns for #Blood Diamonds  &#60;&#60;  African miners risk their lives for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iamfreedommusic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996586&amp;post=524&amp;subd=iamfreedommusic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;">The conflict happening across the African continent is much [more] that civil war.  You, in the western world do not understand that [YOU] indirectly, are fueling this fire.  How, you say??</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">You buy Diamonds &lt;&lt;  Diamond dealer sales to you &lt;&lt; Diamond Dealer/middle man trades guns for #Blood Diamonds  &lt;&lt;  African miners risk their lives for the diamonds  &lt;&lt; <strong>Guns in Africa separates the haves from the have-nots</strong>  &gt;&gt;  The Rebel leaders are the Haves, helpless victims are the have nots &gt;&gt;  The Rebel leaders evoke fear by killing and chopping of limps for favor of  higher officials  &gt;&gt;   high officials remain in power  &gt;&gt; No Change  &gt;&gt; The cycle repeats itself.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;">Sound Familiar?</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">If you <em>continue</em> to buy jewelry, new model cell phones, new flat screen tv&#8217;s, etc you are helping to fuel this fire.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Want to end this??  STOP BUYING ^THESE^</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Where there is NO demand, there can be no Supply!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Peep this new Kanye Video, and *think* of how it relates to this message</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">-Published by the AP, 2008</p>
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		<title>Naomi Campbell Involved in Blood Diamonds Trial</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naomi Campbell flirted with Liberia&#8217;s former president across the dinner table at Nelson Mandela&#8217;s presidential mansion in 1997 and boasted the following morning that Charles Taylor had given her a huge diamond during the night, Mia Farrow and another witness testified at Taylor&#8217;s war crimes trial Monday. Prosecutors hope testimony from the actress-turned-human rights activist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iamfreedommusic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996586&amp;post=521&amp;subd=iamfreedommusic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Naomi Campbell flirted with Liberia&#8217;s former president across the dinner table at Nelson Mandela&#8217;s presidential mansion in 1997 and boasted the following morning that Charles Taylor had given her a huge diamond during the night, Mia Farrow and another witness testified at Taylor&#8217;s war crimes trial Monday. Prosecutors hope testimony from the actress-turned-human rights activist and from Campbell&#8217;s estranged former modeling agent will help tie Taylor to the illicit &#8220;blood diamond&#8221; trade that fueled Sierra Leone&#8217;s civil war. Both contradicted Campbell&#8217;s account from the witness stand last week that she did not know the nature or value of what she had received. The episode was a surreal interlude of glamour in a grim case focused on murder and mutilation in the jungles of West Africa. Taylor says he is innocent of 11 war-crimes charges linked to allegations he supported rebels during Sierra Leone&#8217;s vicious 11-year civil war, which ended in 2002 with an estimated 100,000 dead. He has dismissed suggestions he was involved in the diamond trade as &#8220;complete, complete nonsense.&#8221; Farrow, however, recounted what she called the &#8220;unforgettable&#8221; memory of an excited Campbell coming down for breakfast the morning after Mandela&#8217;s dinner party, so excited she could hardly sit. &#8220;She said &#8216;Oh my God, last night I was awakened by men knocking at the door and it was men sent by Charles Taylor and he sent me a huge diamond&#8217;,&#8221; Farrow said. WATCH MIA FARROW CONTRADICT CAMPBELL&#8217;S TESTIMONY ON THE TODAY SHOW Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Campbell, who resisted appearing before the war-crimes court for months, testified under subpoena Thursday that she was given several small &#8220;dirty-looking&#8221; stones by men she didn&#8217;t know after the function in Pretoria. The British model said she hadn&#8217;t known they were diamonds, nor who had sent them, and said Farrow was the one who suggested the gift was from Taylor. Defense lawyers accused the prosecution of calling the unlikely witnesses as a publicity stunt to raise the profile of the trial, which has gone on for more than two years. Taylor himself was on the stand for seven months, portraying himself as an African liberator and statesman who sought to bring stability and peace to his turbulent corner of the continent. Taylor&#8217;s chief counsel, Courtenay Griffiths, said Farrow was unlikely to accurately remember what happened at a breakfast 13 years ago. He noted that Campbell received three uncut diamonds &#8211; not the single diamond Farrow insisted she heard Campbell talk about. The defense also suggested Farrow&#8217;s credibility was tainted by her activism, particularly her campaigns for the victims of Africa&#8217;s wars. Farrow, 65, conceded she had never seen the diamond or diamonds herself, and that Campbell might not have used the word &#8220;huge.&#8221; But she insisted remembering Campbell only mentioned a single diamond. South African businessman Jeremy Ractliffe, the former head of the Nelson Mandela Children&#8217;s Fund, confirmed last week he had three stones he had received from Campbell to donate to charity after the 1997 dinner. He said he hadn&#8217;t done anything with them because he feared that a blood diamond scandal might attach to Mandela or Campbell as a result. He has now handed them over to South African authorities and they have been identified as uncut diamonds, but their origins are unknown. In court, Judge Julia Sebutinde asked Farrow whether it was possible she might have seen the 2006 movie &#8220;Blood Diamond&#8221; and been influenced by its plot, which centers on a single large diamond. But Farrow denied any suggestion that she was confusing reality with Hollywood. Agent Carole White, who fell out with Campbell several years ago, told the court that Taylor and her then-client enjoyed each other&#8217;s company at the dinner table. &#8220;I think she was flirting with him and he was flirting back,&#8221; she said. At one point during the meal, White said, Campbell leaned back to speak to her. She &#8220;was very excited and she told me he was going to give her some diamonds,&#8221; White told the court. She said Campbell later appeared disappointed when she saw the uncut diamonds and they were &#8220;not very impressive and not enormously big.&#8221; But under cross examination, Griffiths strongly challenged White&#8217;s testimony. &#8220;You have a very powerful motive for lying,&#8221; he said, noting that White is suing Campbell for millions of dollars over an alleged breach of contract. Campbell has served community service twice after pleading guilty in minor assault cases. A few of her former aides and maids have sued her, accusing her of violent outbursts and usually settling on undisclosed terms.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG (AP) &#8212; A trustee of a Nelson Mandela charity said he will leave the organization after being caught up in a scandal involving supermodel [Niaomi Campbell], a warlord and rough diamonds. The Nelson Mandela Children&#8217;s Fund announced Wednesday that its former chief executive, Jeremy Ractliffe, was stepping down from the charity&#8217;s board after he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=iamfreedommusic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12996586&amp;post=519&amp;subd=iamfreedommusic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft" title="Jeremy Radcliff" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01692/Jeremy-Ractliffe-2_1692052f.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="293" />JOHANNESBURG (AP) &#8212; A trustee of a Nelson Mandela charity said he will leave the organization after being caught up in a scandal involving supermodel [Niaomi Campbell], a warlord and rough diamonds. The Nelson Mandela Children&#8217;s Fund announced Wednesday that its former chief executive, Jeremy Ractliffe, was stepping down from the charity&#8217;s board after he acknowledged that he secretly possessed alleged &#8220;blood diamonds&#8221; for more than a decade. His possession of the diamonds came to light earlier this month when supermodel Naomi Campbell testified she gave them to Ractliffe in 1997. She said she received them from three men who came to her hotel room after she attended a 1997 Children&#8217;s Fund charity event also attended by then-Liberian President Charles Taylor. Prosecutors had called Campbell to help prove Taylor traded in illegal diamonds to arm Sierra Leone rebels. Campbell testified during Taylor&#8217;s war crimes trial that she did not know the source of the diamonds, but other witnesses said she bragged about getting them from Taylor. Campbell said she gave Ractliffe the diamonds the morning after she received them, as a donation for Mandela&#8217;s charity. Ractliffe said he didn&#8217;t tell the foundation about the diamonds, and kept the stones in a safe for 13 years until he handed them over to police after Campbell&#8217;s testimony. South African police, who have opened an investigation into whether charges might be filed against Ractliffe, said Thursday the investigation was not yet been completed. In a statement, the Children&#8217;s Fund said Ractliffe regretted not having informed other officials about receiving the three uncut diamonds earlier, &#8220;and acknowledges that had he done so, he and the board could have found a better and lawful way to manage the situation.&#8221; It added Ractliffe had apologized &#8220;for the anxiety and possible reputational risk his conduct may have caused.&#8221; The fund said he would not seek re-election in a board vote scheduled later this month and would resign from the board of the fund&#8217;s U.S. affiliate. Ractliffe, a respected businessman, has said he kept the stones and did not report them to authorities in a bid to protect the reputations of Mandela, Campbell and the charity, of which he was a founder. It is illegal in South Africa to possess a rough diamond because of possible links to conflict zones, money-laundering and other crimes.</p>
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