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·         FW: LA DANSE DU BONHEUR (from Denise Morse)

·         FW: Happy Holidays from the SPLC

·         FW: "Bill Moyers: "Democrats Bow Down to Wall Street"

·         FW: CLG Exclusive: CIA Torture Queen Bought $825K House While Torturing Her Way to the Top

·         FW: I don't want to imagine a world without The Nation

·         FW: A mysterious text ... hidden in a prayer book

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From: Lois Rose
Subject: FW: LA DANSE DU BONHEUR (from Denise Morse)

What a beautiful song and dance, the kids will like this especially i think.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pwe-pA6TaZk?rel=0

 

 

From: Southern Poverty Law Center
Subject: Happy Holidays from the SPLC

 

 

From: Judy Burnette
Subject: "Bill Moyers: "Democrats Bow Down to Wall Street"

Bill Moyers | Democrats Bow Down to Wall Street


Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company

Moyers writes: "Obama's commitment to trade is just another example of his indebtedness to Wall Street for massive campaign contributions."
READ MORE

 

 

From: CLG Newsletter
Subject: CLG Exclusive: CIA Torture Queen Bought $825K House While Torturing Her Way to the Top

News Update from CLG on 20 December2014 and a part of Nesletter 27 December2014; http://www.legitgov.org/
Link is here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

Previous edition: 'Did CIA torture violate Nuremberg ban on human experimentation?'

CLG Exclusive: CIA Torture Queen Bought $825K House While Torturing Her Way to the Top By CLG staff writer, www.legitgov.org 20 Dec 2014

The redacted (525 of 6,700 pages) C.I.A. torture report has revealed possible war crimes and violations of the Nuremberg ban on human experimentation by C.I.A. agents and U.S. military contractors. On December 19, 2014, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Peter Maass revealed the name of the C.I.A. senior officer at the center of the C.I.A.'s torture scandals: Alfreda Frances Bikowsky.

Now, CLG can report that Alfreda Bikowsky purchased (and likely still lives in) a well-appointed ranch house in Mclean, Virginia. Nestled in a wooded lot at 1437 Brookhaven Drive, the well-concealed house is a short 19-minute, 12-mile commute to the Central Intelligence Agency in Reston, Virginia. Formerly owned by Michael E. Geltner, the property was sold to Bikowsky for a mere $825,000 by realtor Michael Chang in April of 2012. [Click here to see image.]

Thus, while Bikowsky's victims are probably scarred for life, she apparently lives quite comfortably under White House and intelligence cover in a lovely northern Virginia McMansion.

Reporting for the New Yorker on December 18, investigative reporter Jane Mayer had this to say about Bikowsky's illustrious career at the C.I.A.:

The NBC News investigative reporter Matthew Cole has pieced together a remarkable story revealing that a single senior officer, who is still in a position of high authority over counterterrorism at the C.I.A.--a woman who he does not name--appears to have been a source of years' worth of terrible judgment, with tragic consequences for the United States. Her story runs through the entire report. She dropped the ball when the C.I.A. was given information that might very well have prevented the 9/11 attacks; she gleefully participated in torture sessions afterward; she misinterpreted intelligence in such a way that it sent the C.I.A. on an absurd chase for Al Qaeda sleeper cells in Montana. And then she falsely told congressional overseers that the torture worked.

Apparently, bungling critical national security intelligence information, while torturing and hunting the wrong people, constitute quite the career path at the C.I.A.

North Korea was NOT behind the Sony hack according to multiple security experts who discredit FBI findings and reveal that the attack was an inside job --Almost every expert stated that they believe the hack had to have been an inside job  --Findings of the FBI are being called into question by many of the cybersecurity industry's leading experts 25 Dec 2014 It seems that Kim Jong-un may be right, at least according to numerous cybersecurity experts and hackers who have come forward to not only point out the flaws in the FBI's investigation, but also possibly reveal the identity of the culprit. Kurt Stammberger, a senior vice president with cybersecurity firm Norse...said that given the severity of the hack it had to have been an inside job. Stammberger, whose company decided to carry out their own independent investigation, told CBS News; 'We are very confident that this was not an attack master-minded by North Korea and that insiders were key to the implementation of one of the most devastating attacks in history.' That's not all either, as he says their research seems to be pointing them towards a woman named Lena who even claims be a member of Guardians of Peace.

North Korea blames the US for Internet outages 27 Dec 2014 North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of being responsible for Internet outages it experienced in recent days amid a confrontation between them over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures. North Korea's main internet sites experienced intermittent disruptions early in the week for reasons that U.S. tech companies said could range from technological glitches to a hacking attack. "The United States, with its large physical size and oblivious to the shame of playing hide and seek as children with runny noses would, has begun disrupting the Internet operations of the main media outlets of our republic," the North's National Defence Commission said in a statement. "It is truly laughable," a spokesman for the commission said in comments carried by the North's official KCNA news agency.

CIA in CLG Website Logs, Reading About Their Torture Queen By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 23 Dec 2014 Once again, CLG has noticed that the Central Intelligence Agency has been enjoying CLG's news items. On Sunday, the C.I.A. accessed CLG Exclusive: CIA Torture Queen Bought $825K House While Torturing Her Way to the Top. Below are some of the log entries.

relay201.net.cia.gov    3    37    521.76 KB    21 Dec 2014 - 11:54

198.81.129.193 - - [21/Dec/2014:11:53:02 -0500] "GET /CLG-Exclusive-CIA-Torture-Queen-Bought-825K-House-While-Torturing-Her-Way-Top HTTP/1.1" 200 8665 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0"...

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From: John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Subject: I don't want to imagine a world without The Nation

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From: sang kang
Subject: Fw: A mysterious text ... hidden in a prayer book

Today's classic TED Talk

William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of
Archimedes ... hidden in a prayer book


14:53 minutes · TEDxSummit

A 2,000-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over ... that hides a secret book of ancient knowledge. It sounds like fiction, but as ancient books curator William Noel tells us, it's real. Hear the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previously unknown writings from ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes -- and others.

Watch now »

 

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