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Woman Found dead in Republican Congressman's Office
Joe Scarborough recently resigned
from Congress unexpectedly, soon
after a divorce and amid rumors
about his marital fidelity
Reader Comment
Posted December 18, 2001
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old office worker for Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fl), was found dead in the congressman's district office. Police said preliminary findings from Michael Berkland of the medical director's office showed “no foul play or any outward indication of suicide.” Dr. Michael Berkland had recently relocated to Florida. His medical license in the state of Missouri was revoked in 1998 as a result of Berkland reporting false information regarding brain tissue samples in a 1996 autopsy report. Berkland does not deny the charges. AMPOL, 8/9/01
Joe Scarborough had recently resigned from Congress unexpectedly, soon after a divorce and amid rumors about his marital fidelity. He had also abruptly resigned as publisher of the Independent Florida Sun. AMPOL, 8/14/01.
Unbelievably, that was it. The story was simply dropped. A young female employee of one of Florida's Republican Congressmen had died inexplicably in the Congressman's office. There were no witnesses to her death and the cause of death was not apparent, but the police somehow knew there was no foul play. In the scramble to cover up the truth somebody in the police department forgot to tell Dr. Nelson, the Chairman of the Medical Examiners Commission to dummy up. Dr. Nelson said: “What we have here is the death of a healthy young woman who died of a blow to the head, and a lie from the Medical Director's office about this blow which was quite obvious to the naked eye.”
On November 5 the Decision Will Be Made between Freedom and Tyranny
Paul Craig Roberts
Democrats Continue to Block All Efforts to Restore Electoral Integrity.
Some Democrat courts rule contrary to the law on the books.
The Democrat Nevada Supreme Court ruled contrary to law that non-postmarked ballots that arrive 3 days after the election can be counted. This permits non-mailed mail-in ballots to be filled in after the vote count and used to reverse the electoral result. The federal US Appeals Court for the fifth circuit ruled that the US Constitution requires ballots to be counted on election day. The Democrats have declared the US Constitution to be a racist document that they will not abide by despite their oath of office to uphold the Constitution.
Democrat federal district courts required the state of Virginia to restore non-US citizens to its voter rolls. This allows the Democrats to vote the non-citizens. The Democrat Department of Justice (sic) required the state of Alabama to have non-US citizens on the state’s voter rolls. A federal judge dismissed the Republican attempt to have only US citizens on Michigan’s voter rolls.
The Democrat Pennsylvania supreme court illegally ruled that improperly cast mail-in ballots can be counted.
The Democrat district attorney in Philadelphia is suing Elon Musk in an effort to stop Musk’s support of the US Constitution.
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: 2024 Aftermath, Risks, and Insights
Chernobyl, Atomic Tests and Depleted Uranium Warfare Downwinders
by Tracy Turner, with Doug Rokke, Libby Halevy, and Arni Gunderson.
Infrared of German Dissidents Protesting a Nuclear Freight Train Hauling Nuclear Isotope Toxins. 8 grams of some Isotopes are enough to kill 60.5 million persons. Chart explanation below.
On March 11, 2011, The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Japan experienced three meltdowns in reactors 1, 2, and 3 after a tsunami struck in March 2011. The catastrophic event had immediate consequences for the environment and public health and also left a lasting legacy of challenges in nuclear safety and disaster response.
The Illusion of the Saviors: A Comparative Analysis of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris
Chris Spencer
The political astroturf of the United States has been fractured by figures described as "saviors." The political careers of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris epitomize that trend in clay-feet "gods" and "goddesses." Both have cultivated public personas hinged upon metaphors of "hope and change" through their respective legal and political backgrounds. Their actions and decisions often conflict with their rhetorically stated ideologies. This analysis concludes that neither was a savior but rather a manipulator of identity and race politics within a framework that substantiates state overreach and erosion of civil liberties.
The Spiritual Lens: Obama as a Savior
Before the 2008 election, Barack Obama positioned himself as a transformational leader. His eloquence and charisma attracted a diverse electorate, leading many to see him as a messiah who would rescue them from the socio-political perils of the Bush era. His campaign emphasized hope, solidified when he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, symbolizing worldwide expectations for his leadership.
The World of Arabs
Most of the world of Arabs for some four centuries consisted of provinces
under the Ottoman Empire (Sultanate).
by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović
The world of Arabs (the WoA), as a distinctive part of the globe, is of extreme significance for both global politics and the global economy. On the other hand, this region is featured by slow democratic development, political instability, religious extremism (Islamic fundamentalism), and many reasons for long-time inter-ethnic conflicts especially on the Israeli-Arab relations and regional insecurity. It is quite obvious that the WoA needs comprehensive political, social, and economic reforms which the Arab Spring’s protesters clearly requested in 2010−2013. The crucial issues of reforms are about national development and governance, a succession of political authority, removal of political authoritarianism, and Arab relations with Israel and the USA.
The WoA is composed politically of 22 member states of the Arab League Organization (officially, The League of Arab States) including those from the regions of the Middle East and North Africa (the MENA) and connected by numerous bilateral and multilateral conventions and agreements. On the one hand, those 22 member states are different in size, governmental form, and richness of natural resources, but on the other hand, all of them possess many common attributes that are culturally, confessionally, and ethnically unifying them: language, alphabet, religion, history, customs, values, and traditions.
Growing Olive Biodiesel Biofuel Bioenergy Renewable Energy Olive Culture Sustainable Future
by Tracy Turner
The Looming Crisis: Oil Addiction and Agricultural Collapse Threaten Global Food Security
- By 2054: Expected global oil depletion.
- 2007-2017: Olive biodiesel could have mitigated crises caused by reliance on fossil fuels.
- Estimated Starvation Rates: Projected increases in global food insecurity linked to oil dependency.
Longevity of olive trees makes olive biodiesel more practical, economical than other biofuel crops
Next time someone asks you for an alternative to coal, nuclear or fossil oil energy, talk to them about olive tree biodiesel energy.
Undercounting Deaths in Gaza While Claiming It’s the Worst War Ever
41,909 bodies counted, 10,000 missing, death count higher than 51,909
David Swanson, World BEYOND War
We generally accept that if you do a census and only count the people who answer their doors you miss some people, and that you can calculate an estimate that reliably gets closer to reality than the list of people who answer their doors. Of course it will get closer, the more information you can gather. But those insisting that people who do not answer their doors be treated as not existing are widely understood, not as principled fact checkers, but as having ulterior reasons for desiring undercounts.
DIRECT AND IDENTIFIED
The fact is not really disputed that in every war there are people who die without being identified at a morgue. They may die from direct war violence or from starvation or disease resulting from a war’s destruction of hospitals. They may be blown into little pieces, be buried under buildings, drown in the sea, or die hours after being born. There’s no certain way to know the exact proportion between identified and unidentified deaths in a given war. But even in a dense, relatively educated place and even with the growth of social media, a zone in which hospitals, media outlets, power plants, and — in fact — every type of building, have been reduced to rubble is unlikely to set the record for the lowest percentage of unidentified deaths — much less eliminate them altogether.
RUBBLE
In fact, the same government in Gaza that provides the figure always cited in Western media for Palestinian deaths in Gaza (direct deaths from violence) — currently 41,909 — also says, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, that it estimates there are another 10,000 buried under rubble. In other words, the 41,909 are reported as bodies that have been counted, and a large majority of them identified with names (an independent study suggests the reliability of the identified names), but another 10,000 or so bodies are missing and have not been found. The 10,000 may be a very rough estimate, also known as a wild guess. But it’s very likely closer to the truth than is zero. Reporting an estimate of 51,909 would almost certainly be closer to the truth than reporting 41,909. And the very same source you’re citing for 41,909 would tell you that.
Beyond Empowerment: Kamala Harris and the Limits of Feminism
Kamala Harris represents a militant, in-your-face feminism...
Cathy Smith
Kamala Harris is an intensely divisive figure in contemporary politics—an incandescent icon for some, an ongoing disappointment for many others. As the first-ever woman Vice President, she embodies a pivotal feminist moment. But this political achievement does raise some disturbing questions on what empowerment is and for whom.
Wrapped up in Harris's political persona is a profound commitment to security and law enforcement at the expense of those self-same communities that she is supposed to represent. This was taken to its logical conclusion in her tenure as Attorney General for California, where she tended towards tough-on-crime policies that evidently hit low-income and minority communities the hardest. Critics charge that her policies moved closer towards more punitive measures and away from justice itself but underline how feminist tropes of empowerment can be intertwined with state power and surveillance.
These intersections of feminism and state security raise profound ethical issues. A certain stream of feminist thought has allied itself with state interests, which often argue for policies of safety and security at the expense of individual freedoms. Such alliances more often than not further reinforce structures of domination. For example, in the context of the War on Drugs, some feminist leaders supported what was seen as "protectionist" policies that answered calls for increased surveillance and incarceration, which by and large disproportionately attacked already-marginalized communities (Crenshaw, 1991).
The Geopolitics of South-East Europe and the Importance of the Regional Geostrategic Position at the Turn of the 20th Century
South-East Europe culturally and historically is an integral part of the
European civilization, influenced throughout the centuries by East
Mediterranean, Central, West, and East European cultural features.
by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović
Preface
A geopolitical issue of South-East Europe became of very importance for scholars, policymakers, and researchers with the question of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire as one of the most crucial features of the beginning of the 20th century in European history. A graduate collapse of the one-time great empire was accelerated and followed by competition and struggle by both, the European Great Powers and the Balkan national states, upon the territorial inheritance of it. While the European Great Powers had the aim to obtain new spheres of political-economic influence in South-East Europe, followed by the task to establish a new balance of power in the continent, a total collapse of the Ottoman state was seen by small Balkan nations as the unique historical opportunity to enlarge the territories of their national-states by the unification of all ethnolinguistic compatriots from the Ottoman Empire with the motherland. The creation of a single national state, composed of all ethnographic and historic “national” lands, was in the eyes of the leading Balkan politicians as a final stage of national awakening, revival, and liberation of their nations which started at the turn of the 19th century on the ideological basis of the German romanticist nationalism expressed in a formula: “One Language-One Nation-One State”.¹
Democrats Are the New Gestapo
Paul Craig Roberts
Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Democrat Law School Deans Say Free Speech Threatens Their Agendas. Democrats are no longer the party of John F. Kennedy. They and their media whores are the party of Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda.
Fearful of the Public, Western Leaders Turn to Censorship
Ian DeMartinoOn Saturday, former US First Lady Hillary Clinton called for increased federal regulation of the internet and repealing Section 230. “If the platforms… don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control,” she said, raising the question of who “we” represents in that statement.
The recent purge of YouTube accounts, including those from Mark Sleboda, Rachel Blevins, Glenn Diesen, DD Geopolitics, Fiorella Isabel, Larry Johnson, and Eva K. Bartlett, it is clear that the Western leaders are scared of their populations finding out the truth about their policies and actions.
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people,” Former US President John F. Kennedy.
“That’s what they’re afraid of,” Sleboda, an expert in geopolitical relations and a frequent guest on Sputnik Radio, told The Final Countdown. “They don’t trust you to hear an alternate view from the official US government narrative and come to what they consider the right political conclusions.”
Many Americans were taught that freedom was proof-positive that Western-style democracies were superior to other systems.
