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Is Gina McCarthy denying realty?  Is she lying?  Or is it something else?  Here’s Gina McCarthy, Obama’s newly appointed Administrator of the EPA, Sept 20, 2013: “Among scientists, there is near universal agreement that climate change is happening, it’s human caused, and it’s a threat to our health and welfare.  The 12 hottest years on record have come in the last 15. Last year was the warmest year ever in the contiguous United States…We know that carbon pollution is the most prevalent heat-trapping greenhouse gas, warming our planet and fueling climate change.”  Earth to Gina…

Factually speaking, among scientists, YES there is near universal agreement that climate change is happening.  NO, it’s NOT human caused (only a trivial amount of warming and cooling results from human activities), and the statistically insignificant human contribution of CO2 and warming are NOT a threat to our health and welfare.  NO, the 12 hottest years on record have NOT come in the last 15.  In fact, the last 15 years have been slowly cooling according to the UN IPCC and other national climate organizations.  Last year was the NOT warmest year ever in the contiguous United States, it was 1934 according to NASA’s records, and by the way there was not much human-caused CO2 around in 1934.  And, we have known for many decades that carbon is NOT pollution, but just the contrary, we know that carbon is a necessary element for almost all life on earth.  We know (NASA knows, UN IPCC knows, etc.) that carbon dioxide is the NOT most prevalent heat-trapping greenhouse gas warming our planet and fueling climate change; we know that water vapor is by far the most prevalent heat-trapping gas, accounting for 95% of the greenhouse warming effect, and we also know that humans have no control over, and no significant contribution to water vapor in the atmosphere.  Gina’s entire message at the link below and all of the very expensive ramifications of EPA’s climate change regulations are dependent upon her false statements.

Are you going to allow this person to steal from you and your family hundreds or thousands of dollars in over-priced and over-regulated energy?  That’s exactly what will happen if Gina McCarthy remains in office.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-mccarthy/time-to-act-on-climate-change_b_3954969.html

“Lincoln’s argument was that either slavery is right or freedom is right, and that the country couldn’t long stand if it was divided on which was so. There was an argument that slavery should be allowed to spread and be protected as a good thing, and there was an argument that slavery violated America’s principles and should be kept from spreading. There’s almost an exact parallel today, because the people who founded our country believed and wrote—and established a Constitution to provide—that there must never be unlimited rule by any man or group of men over other men. And our government is getting to a place where it threatens to become limitless…”

In his introduction to The City and Man, Leo Strauss writes this:  “However much the power of the West may have declined, however great the dangers to the West may be, that decline, that danger, nay, the defeat, even the destruction of the West would not necessarily prove that the West is in a crisis: the West could go down in honor, certain of its purpose. The crisis of the West consists in the West’s having become uncertain of its purpose.”

“It is certainly true that the vast majority of our nation’s elites today— those who welcome the results of yesterday’s [November 2012 US ] election—are creatures of modern historicist thought, which explicitly rejects the kind of objective principles—equality under God, inalienable rights—on which America was founded. According to modern historicism, the only objective truth is that one can’t know an objective truth. President Obama embraces this view in no uncertain terms in his book The Audacity of Hope: “Implicit . . . in the very idea of ordered liberty,” he writes, is “a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or ‘ism,’ any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single unalterable course . . . .” So much for individual rights and limited government…”

“This view, which drives modern liberalism or Progressivism, has been on the ascendant. But remember when you quote Strauss that his works were intended to constitute a revival of the West. The West is heavily besieged from within, but it’s not dead. We are obviously a house divided right now, and I think it’s safe to say that conditions are going to get significantly worse before they get better…the principles of that animate our government today, which are antithetical to the principles of the American Founding, lead to policies that cannot work, will not work, and result in obvious injustices. That is weakness, and that provides cause for hope. But by the way, there is a parallel with the great twentieth century tyrannies: The modern bureaucratic form of government cannot remain accountable to the people, so in the fullness of time it will become despotic. That’s not the intention of anybody who runs it today, or at least not very many people. But that is its direction.”

“The experts who run the modern bureaucratic state think they are architects of a perfectly rational society. They think of themselves as scientists, and of the running of government as something more like science—the science of administration—than politics. They think they can coordinate society comprehensively so that no one is left out. That’s why they think of their work as something good and as something high. The problem is that what they are trying to do defies human nature—the human nature that led James Madison to write famously that men are not angels, and that led the Framers of the Constitution to divide government in order to limit government—and so what these experts are doing will ultimately lead to despotism…”

“…explaining the problem of the modern bureaucratic state. This form of government proceeds by rules, and rules upon rules, and compliance with those rules becomes a key activity of the entire nation. That results in bureaucracy, and in the inefficiencies of bureaucracy. Constitutional government, on the other hand, proceeds by clearly stated laws. Not grasping this is an important failure of conservative statesmen today. … Laws are passed by elected (and thus accountable) representatives, they cover everybody equally, and we can all participate in their enforcement because they are easy to understand. Not one of those three things is true of the regulations imposed by independent boards such as those established under Obamacare and Dodd-Frank.” ~ Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College. December, 2012.http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/2012_12_Imprimis.pdf

At the very least, Extortion 17 – like the Benghazi tragedy – is an impeachable and courts martial offense called Command Negligence.  Extortion 17 and Benghazi both require a special committee appointed by Congress with Congressional subpoena power and the power to protect witnesses and members of the committee and their staff.  The committee must be complemented by a staff of non-government, professional crime investigators and lawyers, and former senior intelligence and military officers.

The deaths of the American military members including 15 members of Seal team VI soon after the death of Osama Bin Laden and the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and other Americans in Benghazi are a far worse offense than the cover up and theft of papers known as Watergate.  In the Watergate scandal, two term President Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency rather than be impeached by the House and tried by the Senate.  President Obama, and so far, the Congress are missing Nixon’s morality, ethics and appreciation of country and office.

Recent information on the Extortion 17 tragedy and scandal is here:  http://extortion17.com/

The impeachable / DoD courts martial charge is Command Negligence:

“Commander: An individual vested with command authority in a DoD Component….”

“Gross Negligence: An extreme departure from the course of action to be expected of a reasonably prudent person, all circumstances being considered. The act is characterized by a reckless, deliberate, or wanton disregard of foreseeable consequences.”

As defined by the Dod here:  http://comptroller.defense.gov/fmr/archive/12arch/12_07.pdf

Here is the some of the press coverage from August 12, 2011:

The U.S. Defense Department released the names of U.S. military personnel killed in the downing of a helicopter in Afghanistan carrying many members of Seal Team VI.

Thirty-eight people were killed in that attack, eight of them Afghan military personnel. It was the single largest loss of life for U.S. troops since the Afghan war began in late 2001.

Of the 30 Americans, 17 were Navy SEALs. Twenty-two of the dead were U.S. Navy personnel, the Pentagon said. Fifteen were SEALs belonging to the top-secret unit that conducted the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at a compound in Pakistan. Two others were SEALs assigned to a regular naval special operations unit.

Five were so-called conventional forces with particular specialties who regularly worked with the SEALs. The other eight U.S. troops killed were three Air Force forward air controllers and five Army helicopter crew members.

NATO said it killed the militants responsible for the attack. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid rejected that, saying a NATO airstrike killed a separate group of insurgents.

The following list was provided by the Defense Department:

The following sailors assigned to an East Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit were killed:

Lt. Cmdr. (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall, 32, of Shreveport, La.

The Shreveport native was in charge of Saturday’s mission in Wardak province near Kabul. His father, John Kelsall, who heads Lakewood, California’s, Chamber of Commerce, told CNN affiliate KTLA in a statement, “The country will never understand the level of service those guys gave us.” KABC reported that Kelsall, 33, was trained in San Diego, and he met his wife of three years while attending the University of Texas.

Special Warfare Operator Master Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Louis J. Langlais, 44, of Santa Barbara, Calif.

Langlais enlisted in the Navy in June 1986 and began training to be a part of the SEAL team three years later. After joining the Navy Parachute team for three years, he moved on to serve in several East Coast-based SEAL teams for 10 years, according to the Navy.

During his service, Langlais received four Bronze Stars with distinction for valor, two Joint Service Commendation Medals, medals for his work in the war on terror and for his marksmanship, among many other medals and ribbons.

Special Warfare Operator Senior Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Thomas A. Ratzlaff, 34, of Green Forest, Ark.

The 34-year-old Green Forest, Arkansas, native had a motto, according to CNN affiliate KYTV: “There’s two ways to do things: Do them right or do them again.”

Ratzlaff enlisted in 1995 and served in two Special Warfare Units during his time, according to the Navy. During that time, he received several awards, including the Bronze Star Medal with Combat for valor. Ratzlaff leaves behind two sons – 6 and 11 years old – and a wife who is expecting the couple’s third child in November. KYTV spoke to his high school teachers. He played middle linebacker for the football team. Science teacher Bruce Culver joked that he was the best at dissecting frogs, and his friend Kevin Disheroon told the station that Ratzlaff always wanted to be a SEAL. He went to boot camp just weeks after his 1995 graduation from high school.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician Senior Chief Petty Officer (Expeditionary Warfare Specialist/Freefall Parachutist) Kraig M. Vickers, 36, of Kokomo, Hawaii

More than 200 surfers paddled off Sandbridge – one of Vickers’ favorite spots for stand-up paddling – and locked hands in honor of the 36-year-old Navy SEAL who rode the waves of Virginia Beach, The Virginian-Pilot newspaper reported.

Vickers was stationed in Virginia Beach and lived there with his pregnant wife and three children – 4, 7 and 18 years old. Back in his hometown of Maui, Hawaii, friends and family also fondly remembered the brawny former high school wrestler and football player. Mary Jane Vickers told CNN affiliate KITV that her son was a good Christian and family man, not to mention a “devoted father, son and serviceman.” Following Tuesday’s “paddle out” in Virginia Beach, those attending whooped, splashed and cast hundreds of flowers into the ocean.

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Brian R. Bill, 31, of Stamford, Conn.

The Stamford, Connecticut, native was a man of ambition. The chief petty officer and SEAL was a mountaineer who wanted to complete the seven summits – the highest peak on each continent – and he wanted to one day be an astronaut, CNN affiliate WFSB reported. He also was a skier, a pilot and a triathlete, his stepfather, Michael Parry, said, further describing Bill as thoughtful, compassionate and “remarkably gifted.” A graduate of Norwich University in Vermont, Bill played tennis, soccer and hockey in high school, and coaches said there was a quiet toughness about him.

“We’re mourning, if anything else, his unfulfilled dreams,” Parry said during a news conference.

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) John W. Faas, 31, of Minneapolis, Minn.

Faas enlisted in the Navy in 1999 and became a SEAL in 2001.

Among many awards, he earned three Bronze Stars with valor distinctions and a National Defense Service medal, according to the Navy.

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Kevin A. Houston, 35, of West Hyannisport, Mass.

The Cape Cod native lived in Chesapeake, Virginia, with his wife and three children, according to CNN affiliate WVEC. In 1994, he graduated from high school (where he captained his football team) in a wheelchair after having a nasty motorcycle accident. He became a SEAL a few years later.

“He was born to do this job.” his mother told the station. “He’d do it all over again.”

Just weeks ago, according to CNN affiliate WTKR, Houston gave an American flag – which he’d worn under his armor during his last three Afghanistan tours – to veteran Chris Kelly, a man who inspired him. Kelly told the station he was too heartbroken to be interviewed.

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason, 37, of Kansas City, Mo.

The Navy SEAL’s former high school peer Eric Marshall, now the vice principal of their Kearny, Missouri, alma mater, said he remembers Mason as “a tough kid.”

“It didn’t surprise anybody that he was able to have that type of success, and achieve Navy SEAL status,” Marshall told CNN affiliate KSHB-TV.

John Ball, one of Mason’s former teachers and football coaches, told KSHB-TV that someone approached him asking if he remembered Mason, who graduated in 1992 before moving on to Northwest Missouri State University, where he played baseball. Ball said he immediately remembered his former student and his occupation. “I looked at him and said ‘Don’t tell me, don’t tell me, don’t tell me,’ ” Ball told KSHB-TV. Mason lived in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with his two sons and his wife, who is expecting a third child in November, KSHB-TV reported.

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Stephen M. Mills, 35, of Fort Worth, Texas

The father of three children – 1, 13 and 18 years old – had a tremendous sense of humor, friends and family told CNN affiliate WTKR, and the 14-year Navy veteran loved being a SEAL. A sister of the 36-year-old chief petty officer told CNN affiliate KVUE that he never bragged about being a SEAL, despite a decade in the elite force.

“He loved his teammates as brothers. He’ll always be remembered as a loving person,” Ashley Mills told the station.

His cousin, J.B. Abbott, told KVUE that the central Texas native was “very proud and very brave.”

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician Chief Petty Officer (Expeditionary Warfare Specialist/Freefall Parachutist/Diver) Nicholas H. Null, 30, of Washington, W.Va.

Null, 30, enlisted in the navy in 2000 and had been a SEAL since 2009, according to a bio from the United States Navy.

Originally from West Virginia, Null’s many ribbons, medals and awards included two Bronze Stars, two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation medals, and three Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medals.

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Robert J. Reeves, 32, of Shreveport, La.

The 32-year-old chief petty officer grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, with Lt. Cmdr. Jonas Kelsall, who was in charge of the Afghanistan mission that ended with Saturday’s helicopter crash. They went to school, played soccer and became Navy SEALs together. On a Facebook page set up in Reeves’ memory, one poster said, “You could always make the boys laugh, dude.”

Another described him as “sweet, funny and kind-hearted … More than anything, though, Rob was most passionate about the Navy and his role as a SEAL.”

Special Warfare Operator Chief Petty Officer (SEAL) Heath M. Robinson, 34, of Detroit, Mich.

Robinson enlisted in the Navy in 1996 and completed SEAL training in Coronado, California, in 2000. He moved from the West Coast in 2004 to serve on four East Coast special warfare units, according to the Navy.

Robinson earned four Bronze Stars, three of which had special distinctions for valor, in addition to many other medals and awards.

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL) Darrik C. Benson, 28, of Angwin, Calif.

He was born and raised in Angwin, a small town in Napa County, California, so it was natural that people wanted to know about his SEAL training. Those who knew him, however, say he was low-key and not one to talk about himself, CNN affiliate KGO-TV reported. He went to a private high school, where he was a good student and athlete.

Benson joined the Navy in September 2001, and he became a SEAL in 2003, according to the Navy. Benson has earned a Bronze Star and a Presidential Unit Citation, as well as many other medals, awards and ribbons.

His grandfather, Carlyle Benson, told affiliate KTVU that he recently earned his commercial pilot’s license and wanted to be a pilot after he left the military. Darrik Benson served in the Navy for 12 years, and Carlyle Benson said he was “a fine boy” and “one of the top men in his group.” He met his wife, Kara, in San Diego, and she moved to Virginia with their 3-year-old son to be closer to him.

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL/Parachutist) Christopher G. Campbell, 36, of Jacksonville, N.C.

The Navy SEAL, 36, from Jacksonville, North Carolina, told his family that if he were killed in the line of duty, he would want a donation made to the Wounded Warrior Project, according to CNN affiliate WNCT. His high school friend, Joe Baile, told CNN affiliate WCTI that years would go by between their visits, but “then we’d be at somebody’s house and they’d stop by when everyone was home for Christmas or something like that and play basketball together.”

Joe’s dad, Jack, coached Campbell’s high school football team. He recalled that Campbell was small for football when he joined the team his junior year, but “he didn’t have a whole lot of fear of anything.”

Information Systems Technician Petty Officer 1st Class (Expeditionary Warfare Specialist/Freefall Parachutist) Jared W. Day, 28, of Taylorsville, Utah

Day enlisted in 2002, according to his Navy bio. He served at the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic Detachment in Keflavik, Iceland, until July 2004, then began SEAL training.

He had been part of the East Coast SEAL team since 2007. He earned a Joint Combat Commendation Medal with a distinction for valor, an Army Commendation Medal, a Joint Service Achievement Medal, and several other medals, ribbons and awards.

Master-at-Arms Petty Officer 1st Class (Expeditionary Warfare Specialist) John Douangdara, 26, of South Sioux City, Neb.

Douangara, a native of Sioux City, Nebraska, enlisted in the Navy in 2003 and joined his East Coast SEAL team in 2008.

He earned a Bronze Star with a distinction for valor, a Presidential Unit Citation and many other awards.

Cryptologist Technician (Collection) Petty Officer 1st Class (Expeditionary Warfare Specialist) Michael J. Strange, 25, of Philadelphia, Pa.

Charles Strange told CNN affiliate WPVI that three SEALs delivered news of his son’s death to his Mayfair, Pennsylvania, home Saturday. Michael Strange, a 25-year-old petty officer, was on his third tour in Afghanistan, and his brother said Michael – a member of SEAL Team 6 – always wanted to be in the military. Sources told the station that in addition to his parents and two siblings, Michael Strange also left behind a fiancée. He had just purchased a home in Virginia.

“Michael loved this country, he loved Philadelphia, he loved North Catholic [High School, where he graduated], he loved Mayfair, he loved his friends.” his father said.

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL/Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist) Jon T. Tumilson, 35, of Rockford, Iowa

The town of Rockford, Iowa, is proud to call Tumilson one of its sons. The 35-year-old Navy SEAL graduated from high school in 1995, but neighbors recall his holiday visits as he was often seen jogging through town, CNN affiliate KCCI reported. Tom Dow, who has known Tumilson’s family for years, told another affiliate, KIMT, that Tumilson was “young, full of life, good-looking kid, big and strong, real nice boy.” Neighbor Leann Ginther said he was a hero.

“Just the fact that he sacrificed his life for all of us back here … I guess that’s what freedom is, is them doing that for us, but way too young of a guy to be losing his life,” she said.

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL) Aaron C. Vaughn, 30, of Stuart, Fla.

Kimberly Vaughn met Aaron Vaughn in Guam when she traveled there with the Washington Redskins cheerleaders to entertain the troops. She said she last spoke with her husband the day before the fatal crash and, Kimberly Vaughan said, “We got to tell each other we loved each other, so it was a great conversation to have.” Kimberly Vaughn said she still plans to build their home in Virginia Beach, where she will raise their two children. His wife described her husband as a “warrior for Christ, and he was a warrior for our country, and he wouldn’t want to leave this Earth any other way than how he did.”

“Even if you could tell him that this would have happened, he would have done it anyway,” she said.

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL) Jason R. Workman, 32, of Blanding, Utah

The Navy SEAL was one of four brothers, the oldest a West Point graduate, according to CNN affiliate KTVX. Workman grew up in Blanding, Utah, and gained a reputation as a compassionate guy who worked hard and loved sports. Family friend Rick Eldredge said of the 32-year-old petty officer first class, “He would do anything to help the guy across the table from him. … He was just willing to do anything for anybody, and he’s proven by giving his life to this country,” affiliate KSL-TV reported.

Late last year, Workman, who has served in the Navy for eight years, returned home to train police officers, the station reported. He was planning to do so again in December. His family released a statement saying he loved his job and was “the best of the best.” He left behind a 21-month-old son.

The following sailors assigned to a West Coast-based Naval Special Warfare unit were killed:

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 1st Class (SEAL) Jesse D. Pittman, 27, of Ukiah, Calif.

Pittman enlisted in the Navy in March 2005 and completed SEAL training in March 2006, according to the Navy.

Pittman reported to the the Naval Special Warfare Training Center Detachment in Kodiak, Alaska. He returned to the West Coast SEAL team in 2007.

Special Warfare Operator Petty Officer 2nd Class (SEAL) Nicholas P. Spehar, 24, of Saint Paul, Minn.

Spehar enlisted in the Navy in 2007.

He became a SEAL in 2008 and was a member of the West Coast SEAL team, according to the Navy. Among his many awards, Spehar earned an Army Commendation Medal and two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals.

The soldiers killed were:

Chief Warrant Officer David R. Carter, 47, of Centennial, Colo. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), Aurora, Colo.

The National Guardsman had dreamed of being a pilot since his high school days in Kansas, CNN affiliate KDVR reported. He was a chief warrant officer at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, Colo. “He was flying our nation’s elite forces into combat and, as an aviator, for him that is what he wanted to do,” Col. Chris Petty, a fellow pilot and Carter’s friend, told KDVR.

Carter’s family friend Yolanda Levesque spoke at a news conference in Centennial, Colorado, on a hilltop selected because its view of the surrounding hills was one of Carter’s favorites, according to KDVR. “He was an outstanding husband and father, son, brother and soldier,” Levesque said. “He was a friend to all who met him … quick with a smile and always with a twinkle in his beautiful blue eyes.”

Chief Warrant Officer Bryan J. Nichols, 31, of Hays, Kan. He was assigned to the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), New Century, Kan.

Bryan Nichols always wanted to be a solider. His father was in the Army and fought in Vietnam, his ex-wife Jessica Nichols said. Bryan and Jessica met in sixth grade, and she said he enlisted in the military before they had graduated high school. Nichols worked his way up through the ranks, and eventually piloted a helicopter with which he’d had a boyhood fascination. “He came across the Chinook …” she recalled. “His father flew Chinooks.” During the years Bryan and Jessica were married, he did three deployments. She had their son, Braydon, who is now 10. Bryan and Jessica’s marriage ended amicably, and he remarried.

Together with Bryan’s new wife, the three helped raised Braydon. The little boy dreamed also of flying one day, alongside his father, Jessica Nichols said. The boy, instead, posted an iReport on Saturday about his fallen father, in the hopes that the world would never forget him.

Sgt. Patrick D. Hamburger, 30, of Lincoln, Neb. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), Grand Island, Neb.

Chris Hamburger said his brother Patrick knew he was about to embark on an important and secret mission when he spoke to his family for the last time. A helicopter flight engineer, he arrived in Afghanistan for his first tour of duty just days before the crash. Patrick Hamburger had a 2-year-old daughter with Candie Reagan, whom he was planning to marry when he returned to Nebraska next May, his brother said. He was also helping raise Reagan’s 13-year-old daughter. Hamburger sent an e-mail to Reagan the day before his death.

“Please don’t worry about me,” Hamburger wrote. He added, “this place isn’t going to change me, I’m going to change this place.”

Sgt. Alexander J. Bennett, 24, of Tacoma, Wash. He was assigned to the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), New Century, Kan.

After his 2009 deployment to Iraq, the Army specialist moved from Tacoma, Washington, to Overland Park, Kansas, to learn how to be a Chinook mechanic. Sgt. 1st Class Kirk Kuykendall, who was at home in Overland Park recuperating from a helicopter crash himself, told CNN affiliate KCTV that he served with Bennett in Iraq and considered him like a son.

“You wouldn’t find a better flight engineer or soldier. … Wherever Alex goes, I will go so I can pay my final respects,” Kuykendall said. Bennett loved cars and the military, and pal Edward Tuck fondly recalled in a KOMO interview the time they spent under the hood of a Honda talking about life.

Another friend, Jessica Hall, told the station that Bennett was always smiling and joking. “He died doing exactly what he loved, she said. “Alex was a hero.”

Spc. Spencer C. Duncan, 21, of Olathe, Kan. He was assigned to the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), New Century, Kan.

Duncan left his hometown in Kansas because he wanted to serve his country, The Olathe News reported.

“He wrote how much he loved his job as a door gunner on a Chinook helicopter,” the local paper said. “But he also told his friends that in the quiet amid the stark landscape of Afghanistan, he missed the Kansas sunsets, lying in a truck bed listening to the radio and cuddling with his sweetie.”

The airmen, who were assigned to the 24th Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Field, N.C. that were killed were:

Tech. Sgt. John W. Brown, 33, of Tallahassee, Fla.

The technical sergeant from Siloam Springs, Arkansas, studied pre-med before joining the U.S. Air Force to become a pararescueman, his mother, Elizabeth Newlun told CNN affiliate KFSM. His friend, Jon Woods, told the station that Brown was popular, athletic and loved a challenge. “He was just an all-American G.I. Joe, just a great guy who loved his country,” Woods said.

Newlun read KFSM a letter that Brown’s uncle had written, describing the airman as “Rambo without the attitude” and “brave but never arrogant, powerful but always gentle.” He was married and had no children.

Staff Sgt. Andrew W. Harvell, 26, of Long Beach, Calif.

The combat controller with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron was not only a “bad-ass warrior” but also, a loving husband to wife Krista and caring father to sons Hunter and Ethan, his wife said in a statement.

“We will miss him forever but we take solace knowing he gave his life serving his country and fighting for what he believed was right.”

Harvell was stationed at Pope Air Force Base, which this year was merged with Fort Bragg, before heading to Afghanistan, according to the Air Force.

Tech. Sgt. Daniel L. Zerbe, 28, of York, Pa.

The 28-year-old Air Force medic joined the military right after graduating from high school in 2001, according to CNN affiliate WGAL-TV. A native of Red Lion, Pennsylvania, who wrestled and played football, Zerbe was a team player who could always be counted on, his former football coach told the station. His friend, Mike Vogel, who joined the Marines after high school, called Zerbe an “absolute hero,” and Red Lion schools superintendent released a statement, saying, “Dan wanted to make a difference in the world, so he joined the military,” according to CNN affiliate WHTM. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/12/pentagon-releases-names-of-chinook-crash-victims/

Here is the Press Release from the Extortion 17 parents and concerned public

Three families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference on May 9, 2013 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. to disclose information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, just a few months after the successful raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden that resulted in the master terrorist’s death.

Accompanying the families of these dead Navy SEAL Team VI special operations servicemen were retired military experts verifying their accounts of how and why the government is as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as is the Taliban.

The areas of inquiry at the press conference will include but not be limited to:

1. How President Obama and Vice President Biden, having disclosed on May 4, 2011, that Navy Seal Team VI carried out the successful raid on Bin Laden’s compound resulting in the master terrorist’s death, put a retaliatory target on the backs of the fallen heroes.
2. How and why high-level military officials sent these Navy SEAL Team VI heroes into battle without special operations aviation and proper air support.
3. How and why middle level military brass carries out too many ill-prepared missions to boost their standing with top-level military brass and the Commander-in-Chief in order that they can be promoted.
4. How the military restricts special operations servicemen and others from engaging in timely return fire when fired upon by the Taliban and other terrorist groups and interests, thus jeopardizing the servicemen’s lives.
5. How and why the denial of requested pre-assault fire may have contributed to the shoot down of the Navy SEAL Team VI helicopter and the death of these special operations servicemen.
6. How Afghani forces accompanying the Navy SEAL Team VI servicemen on the helicopter were not properly vetted and how they possibly disclosed classified information to the Taliban about the mission, resulting in the shoot down of the helicopter.
7. How military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen Navy SEAL Team VI heroes who disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen by damning them as infidels to Allah. A video of the Muslim cleric’s “prayer” will be shown with a certified translation.

National socialism should not be a forbidden subject for intelligent discussion.   Prior to WWII, national socialism or fascism, later called Nazism, was supported by Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, King Edward of England, Prescott Bush (father of President George H.W. Bush), Charles Lindbergh and many more. There are MANY aspects of the current government in America that are the same as pre-war fascism. In fascism, the government controls industry, property and the means of production, as compared to communism where the government owns industry, property, and the means of production. The military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned about is still here today and growing. Obamacare is a healthcare industrial complex, an entire industry controlled but not owned by the government. Prior to WWII, Germans took similar control over their healthcare industry, and later took control over all means of production.  Given the alliances being formed between the Obama administration and Muslim Brotherhood countries, It is worthwhile to remind that in pre-WWII and in WWII, Muslim countries supported the fascist “Axis” states.  

Canadian-born writer Mark Steyn says it well and with wit.  Steyn’s article at the link below reveals the future of Obama’s “progressive” America. Read it and see the future of your children and grandchildren.

The United States is Detroit, the nation and city with narcissist politicians who justify their behavior and policies by their perception of other people. A healthy psyche with integrated morality would not be blaming other people for their own actions, feelings and inadequacies. “They locked their car doors when I approached, until I became a Senator,” is intentionally disconnected by a character disorder from crime rate statistics and the underlying cause of the statistic.  He looks away, ignoring anything that distorts his narcissist image.

The President ignores the facts of life in the black community and America as a whole. In the character disordered narcissistic mind, the fact that almost all terrorist murders have been perpetrated by a single group is twisted into his policies which spread fear and increase his and the group’s power. The President forbids use of the term Islamic terrorist or similar.  “I did it because I could,” is the mental state of a man or woman who walks on the waters of their own mind.  

Always blaming others, blaming the scared lady in the elevator who clutches her purse, instead of recognizing himself and his absent parents as the cause of his self-loathing, and then taking responsibility for himself, the leader of the so-called “progressive” movement is missing the morality that comes from being grounded in natural law and family values.  No parent told him, “Stop that! Now!” Today’s Congress and courts are mostly ducks of the same narcissist feather.

Narcissist politicians instinctively blame those who fear them; Bible and gun clingers have the high moral ground and, in the narcissist mind, they must be put on the defensive and brought down to the narcissist’s level at all costs.  Narcissist character disorders will say and do anything to fill their emotional void. “I did it because I could,” said Bill Clinton of his abuse of power and young intern Lewinsky.

Politics is their chosen career, suasion and cant are their skills, and they have no morals but self.  For them, morals and God are pablum for the people.  With no one to blame for their own deep self loathing, they defend the Trayvon Martins of the world because they know they could have been Trayvon had it not been for the helping hands of others…the narcissist did not build it himself…and those helpful others are despised and eventually thrown under the bus.  They realize that many among the throng on perpetual welfare and government employ suffer with their same moral affliction, and so that throng becomes their political constituency, their hoodies, their unions, their praetorian guard, and their judges.

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. . . . ” ~ Dr. Samuel Johnson.

“The Downfall of Detroit: It took only six decades of “progressive” policies to bring a great city to its knees.” By Mark Steyn http://www.nationalreview.com/article/353959/downfall-detroit-mark-steyn

Must read blockbuster editorial in USA Today by Jonathan Turley, a liberal law expert, frequent pundit on mass media TV, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

“From unilateral military actions to warrantless surveillance that were key parts of the basis for Nixon’s impending impeachment, the painful fact is that Barack Obama is the president that Nixon always wanted to be. Four decades ago, Nixon was halted in his determined effort to create an “imperial presidency” with unilateral powers and privileges. In 2013, Obama wields those very same powers openly and without serious opposition.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/03/25/nixon-has-won-watergate/2019443/

Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are working Massachusetts to elect to the Senate – on June 25th – Ed Markey, a 37 year member of the U.S. House. For 36 years Markey has been on the House Telecommunications Committee, where he is ranking member. Markey has allowed massive government surveillance of citizens, contradicting his sworn oath to the Constitution and its 4th Amendment. Markey is also the ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, which has enabled huge basins of untapped oil and gas found on federal lands throughout the United States to be held off the market. This land belongs to “The People.” 94% of federal onshore lands and 97% of federal offshore lands are off-limits to oil and gas drilling. There is no question that Ed Markey and his Democrat colleagues are keeping oil and energy prices too high. Ed Markey is one of the primary ideologues behind one of the largest frauds ever perpetrated on the American people and the world, the global warming/climate change swindle. Democrats want Markey to replace John Kerry in the Senate where Kerry was THE primary ideologue for global warming/climate change.

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Here is the music to accompany the pictures.  http://youtu.be/SegAoSpHJck

“… in the light of denials from technology companies about granting “direct access” to servers… In the interests of aiding the debate over how Prism works, the Guardian is publishing an additional slide from the 41-slide presentation which details Prism and its operation…The slide details different methods of data collection under the FISA Amendment Act of 2008 (which was renewed in December 2012). It clearly distinguishes Prism, which involves data collection from servers, as distinct from four different programs involving data collection from “fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past”.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server-collection-facebook-google

Watch this. This is probably the most important video any of us will see in many years.  Twelve minute video interview.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

“I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things.  I, sitting at my desk, have the power to wiretap anyone…” “Turn key tyranny.”… “Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten – and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.”  This is Edward Snowden in the video linked above, the American whistle-blower behind revelations about the NSA surveillance of all Americans.  Snowden is a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.  Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen Hamilton and Dell.  The U.S. government already says Snowden is a criminal; no charges, no trial.  The UK government says he is not welcome there.  He says he does not expect to see home again.

Here is presidential candidate Obama slamming the Bush administration on warrant-less wiretaps and secret NSA letters permitting surveillance of citizens.  In 2008 Candidate Obama essentially agreed with Snowden.  “Our Constitution works,” said Obama, then he promised and has gone about “fundamentally changing” it.    On surveillance and many other issues, Obama has “evolved” since becoming President.     http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-Rdi_RNRpdk

The government is using a vast secret database and spying on all citizens to protect itself from citizens, citizens like the Tea Party and major contributors to the wrong campaign, citizens like U.S. veterans returning from duty in Afghanistan, rather than to protect citizens from terrorists.

Shortly after the Boston Marathon bombing, Former CIA Director James Woolsey said: “You won’t look for the real problem if you’re deterred by political correctness… We’re not focused on terrorists…we are not focused on terrorists and their backgrounds, behavior patterns and the like…” After he left his position at the head of the CIA, Woolsey was a VP at Booze Allen Hamilton.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/thefold/fmr-cia-dir-woolsey-were-not-focused-on-terrorists/2013/04/22/9aafd5d4-ab53-11e2-a198-99893f10d6dd_video.html

Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), who authored the PATRIOT Act,  wants a 2011 order lifted which prevents the FBI from entering Muslim mosques for surveillance and undercover stings,  although the FBI can enter churches of other religions.   Mosques are places where Islamic radicals such as  Anwar-al-Awlaki preach their terrorism to susceptible young Muslim men.    Awlaki influenced U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan who shot and killed 13 members of the U.S. military on a U.S. military base in Texas.  Awlaki also influenced the Tsarnaev brothers, the young Islamic bombers at the Boston Marathon before Awlaki was blown up by an Obama drone.  “It certainly sets Islamic places of worship at a level that is different from places of worship of any other religious denomination, whether it be Christian or Jewish or Hindu or whatever and that shouldn’t be the case,” Sensenbrenner said.

Former Florida Congressman, lieutenant colonel Allen West ponders, “As I ponder the NSA records data mining episode here are my thoughts. This is like carpet bombing vs. precision attack. Can someone explain why we weren’t listening to Anwar-al-Awlaki and his conversations with Major Nidal Hasan? Why weren’t we able to track Carlos Bledsoe’s travel to Somalia and Yemen to receive terrorist training? Why didn’t we pay attention to warning signs of Abdul Mutallab (underwear bomber) with a one-way ticket and little baggage traveling from Nigeria to America? Why weren’t we paying attention to the Tsarnaev brothers’ travels and connections to Chechen Islamic terrorism — heck Russia warned us? Why is it that in October 2011, 57 Islamic organizations — several with ties to Muslim Brotherhood — sent a letter to then counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan demanding we purge training materials and punish instructors they deemed “offensive” and we didn’t say “shove it” and target THEIR records? We’d rather carpet bomb Americans to cover our cowardice in confronting Islamic extremism. Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) blasts Congress, the Executive Branch, the NSA, The Patriot Act, NDAA about the NSA scandal on the floor of the House.  1 minute 25 second video. .https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t5-Q5fSbofQ

“This assault on personal privacy affects the Facebook generation more than anyone else. Your generation is completely digitized and uploaded. Everything you do is traceable via phone, email and bank records. And it is you, more than anyone, who should be outraged by this astounding assault on your constitutional right to personal privacy.” …”I do not think this is what Verizon customers had in mind when they signed up for the “share everything plan” and I want these customers to join me in filing a class-action lawsuit against the NSA. I’m asking all of the internet providers, all of the phone companies and their customers to join me in protecting our rights to privacy. Our Constitution is consistently ignored and it is time we take a stand. I encourage all Americans, especially the millennials, to stand with me in this fight to protect our constitutional right to privacy.” ~ Senator Rand Paul      http://www.policymic.com/articles/48043/the-nsa-is-spying-on-you-here-is-how-you-should-fight-back

The NSA Scandal is about liberty vs the state, not Democrats vs Republicans.   Congressman Sensenbrenner expressed his concern in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder about the NSA program: “How could the phone records of so many innocent Americans be relevant to an authorized investigation as required by the Act?”   http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/13979-nsa-scandal-not-about-republican-vs-democrat-its-about-liberty-vs-the-state

As I said in my previous blog post, (https://budbromley.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/to-1984-or-not-that-is-the-question/) the people of America are receiving a full-on propaganda onslaught in the mass media intended to convince Americans to allow the government to continue their invasive intelligence gathering.   James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, who shortly after the Boston Marathon told us “‘We’re not focused on terrorists,”  now this week tells us on Greta van Susterin’s show that Edward Snowden has done great harm to the nation.   A June 9, 2013 editorial in the Wall Street Journal by Judge Michael Mukasey says the same thing.   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324634304578535492421480524?mg=reno64-wsj.html%3Fdsk%3Dy

Mr. Mukasay might otherwise be a good judge, but consider the following information about him. Judge Michael B. Mukasey allowed a U.S. citizen CIA/DIA Asset (a spy paid by US government for many years) to be held without trial until the final days of the G.W. Bush administration, confined in a psychiatric hospital on a Texas military base without due process. She was the long time CIA/DIA Asset responsible with two others as intermediary between US and Iraq and Libya at the UN. After she was arrested, her CIA/DIA handlers were forbidden to testify on her behalf. She is the cousin of Andrew Card, who was Chief of Staff to G.W. Bush. Judge Mukasey agreed to the demands of federal prosecutors that undergo psychiatric evaluation while she was incarcerated, even though she had already had a full year psychiatric evaluation by an independent psychiatrist.

Mukasey finally agreed to released her when the government’s prosecutors and the government’s psychiatrists wanted to involuntarily drug her. She was held under the auspices of The Patriot Act beginning prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and released without charges or trial only days before Obama took office 2009.

Her name is Susan Lindauer and she was an American political prisoner in America. On behalf of the CIA, along with 2 other CIA Assets and the UN Ambassador to Syria, she negotiated agreement that Saddam Hussein would remove himself from power, allow the unconditional inspection of Iraq for WMD by U.S. and U.N. teams, and allow exceptionally favorable terms for U.S. oil companies in Iraq oil contracts. All of that was done PRIOR TO the invasion of Iraq by U.S. forces, and of course PRIOR TO all the death and destruction that was the Iraq War. She made this agreement known to her CIA handlers in the weeks PRIOR TO to the invasion of Iraq. She also informed her cousin Andrew Card, she informed Colin Powell and she informed John McCain and others, all in writing. And then her house was raided and she was arrested.

Do not believe the efforts to persuade you.  Our government does bad things to its citizens, then covers them up, and the mainstream press rarely if ever exposes the government.  Telling the truth can get you arrested in America, DNA tested, door broken down, property confiscated, internet and email stolen, credit cards monitored, GPS location tracked, healthcare denied, tax audited, reputation slandered, fired, followed, filmed, blown up by a drone, your friends impersonated on social media in attempts to trap you, psychiatric evaluated, involuntarily drugged into idiocy, held secretly and indefinitely without habeas corpus, held without proper legal representation, all without a warrant or being charged with a crime.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden is telling all of us that the U.S. government and its contractors can and do listen and wiretap without court orders and they go backwards in NSA databases to build cases against people who are targeted by the government.

Case on point:  “We have access to President Obama’s Skype,” said a spokesperson for Anonymous, “and we’re only afraid it’s too absurd to be true.”  If Anonymous can hack the Skype account of President Obama, then they can also hack into the database containing all of your records, and so can Chinese, Russian and Nigerian hackers.  http://www.chronicle.su/news/anonymous-infiltrates-prism-intercepts-obamas-skype

Another case on point:  “Obama, presenting detailed examples of cybertheft, told the Chinese delegation [including Chinese President Xi] that the United States has no doubt that the intrusions are coming from within China.” June 8, 2013.  President Obama is accusing the Chinese of cybertheft.  But, how did the Chinese gain the ability to monitor U.S. telecommunications?  That would be the satellite-based systems that President Clinton allowed the Chinese to buy from Loral in return for multimilion dollar campaign contributions to Democrats, although the DOJ secretly cleared Loral of wrongdoing.    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-warns-xi-that-continued-cybertheft-would-damage-relations-us-officials-said/2013/06/08/04843edc-d075-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop

And next from our emperor, “Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks. Top-secret directive steps up offensive cyber capabilities to ‘advance US objectives around the world. ” Read the 18 page secret presidential policy directive here:  http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DrudgeReportFeed/~3/o0UYwxNLX6o/obama-china-targets-cyber-overseas

Blogger Alan Caruba tells us, “It’s a matter of distrust.”  Yes, indeed, Mr. Caruba, distrust of our own government.  http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2013/06/its-matter-of-distrust.html

Part of the court docket for Susan Lindauer: