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Washington, D.C., I’m a little late this week because of what I just found out. It seems that a person, or persons, currently unknown, poured molasses into the oil system of several of the Presidential helicopters! It was discovered when a guard noticed traces of the molasses dripping on side of the craft and a thorough check disclosed that not one but two helicopters had been sabotaged.
The molasses would have heated up inside and gummed up the moving parts, causing a crash. Very few staffers are aware of this which, according to the Marine source who told me, must have happened within the past week. I asked several non-government mechanics I know (my car is always having engine trouble) about this and both told me that this is an old trick and guaranteed to freeze up the machinery.
Add to this the discovery of a bullet impact mark on one of the heavily bullet-proof windows of the Oval Office. Nothing was noticed for several days and then a man tending the grounds saw it. No one knows when it happened but a week is about the closest anyone can come. They were trying to figure out where the shooter was located but apparently since only one surface was damaged, there was no way to figure this out. If the bullet had penetrated and hit the President or some more important object like a desk, figuring the trajectory would be relatively easy.
A Secret Service man told me that Bush has had more serious death threats than any other President since Abraham Lincoln but there is a total blackout on such comments. Obviously, new security measures have to be taken but I have no idea what they are. I do note that there are more anti-aircraft weapons on the White House roof than on the Battleship Iowa!
Letters to the Editor
From: Eric De la Freniere delafreniere_eric@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, October 29th 2006 4:49 PM
To: tbrnews@hotmail.com
Subject: Fake Historical Book
Into That Darkness (Random House, 1983), by Gitta Sereny
I was asked to do a college book review for this book and wanted to supply more specific information than the author provided. The book is woefully short of fact and very long on rambling mea culpas. I took a passage by Sereny and used it as a basis for my attempts at verifications:
“Franz Stangl, the son of a night-watchman, was born in Altmuenster, Austria, on 26th March, 1908. After working as a weaver, Stangl joined the Austrian police in 1931 and soon afterwards the illegal Nazi Party.
After the Anschluss, Stangl was quickly promoted through the ranks.of the SS. In 1940 Stangl became superintendent of the Euthanasia Institute at Schloss Hartheim where mentally and physically handicapped people were sent to be killed.
In 1942 he was transferred to Poland where he worked under Odilo Globocnik. Stangl was commandant of extermination camps in Sobibor (March, 1942 - September, 1942) and Treblinka (September, 1942 - August, 1943). Always dressed in white riding clothes, Stangl gained a reputation an an efficient administrator and was described as the "best camp commander in Poland".
During the Second World War he stole vast sums of money from the inmates and deposited it in Schutzstaffel (SS) bank deposits. This included 145 kilograms of gold from rings and 4,000 carats of diamonds.”
Every bit of this information, dramatic though it might read, is a fiction. All of the personnel records of the German SS and their police are available both at the German government’s Berlin Document Center and through copies of their records at the U.S. National Archives. A close search of these tens of thousands of pages of official German records, easily accessible to the public, discloses that there was no Fritz ( or Franz,) Stangl in either the SS or the German Police and that a roster of SS officials working for the KL or Concentration Camp system does not show any person with the name Fritz (or Franz) Stangl at Treblinka camp or any other camp. In point of fact, the records show that no one under that name was a member of the SS, the Camp System, the German Police or the Nazi Party.
Also, extant records of the German banking system which did have bank accounts for the SS camps shows no record whatsoever of a Franz Stangl and no deposits of “145 kilograms of gold from rings and 4,000 carets of diamonds,” in his name or in the name of Treblinka camp.. In addition, the so-called ‘Leopold Files’ in Austrian State Archives which contains an enormous amount of material on the early Nazi party in Austria does not show anyone with that name either as being a member either of the Nazi party or the SS or Austrian police..
In short, Stangl was a fictional character, invented for the sake of an interview by Gitta Sereny and, most fortunate for her, published post mortem. (Stangl was purported to have died, having confessed his sins to Gitta Sereny, shortly before she began her book, later entitled “Into That Darkness” This book, purported to be an introspective interview with a remorseful SS camp commandant who, according to Gitta Sereny, murdered over 900,000 Jewish inmates of Treblinka camp located in Poland.
Again, camp records, now in Russian archives and readily available to researchers, shows that there were only a total of 135,000 inmates in that camp from its inception in 1942 to close in April of 1943 and that the death tolls were approximately 13,500, in the main from typhus infections. It would be interesting to learn where Franz Stangl found his “4,000 carets of diamonds. “ Most likely in the author’s fertile imagination!
“Falsehood is an amorphous monster, conceived in the brain of knaves and brought forth by the breath of fools. It's a mortal pestilence, a miasmic vapor that passes, like a blast from hell, over the face of the world and is gone forever. It may leave death in its wake and disaster dire; it may place on the brow of purity the brand of the courtesan and cover the hero with the stigma of the coward; it may wreck hopes and ruin homes, cause blood to flow and hearts to break; it may pollute the altar and disgrace the throne, corrupt the courts and curse the land, but the lie cannot live forever, and when it's dead and damned there's none so poor as to do it reverence.” ~William Cowper Brann
And all the sons of Congressmen! And the two adorable 100 Proof Bush daughters! (Ginna and Tonic)
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ~H.L. Mencken
“That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ~Theodore Roosevelt
"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage, torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, and bombing of civilians, which does not change its moral color when it is committed by our side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~George Orwell
"Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable." ~Senator Edward M. Kennedy
“George W.Bush is deeply interested in Deep Space Exploration. His next project will be to circle Uranus and search for Kingons…..”
~Dallas Herald
“A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.” ~Pat Robertson
"The voters decide nothing. Those that count the votes decide everything." ~J.V. Stalin
“The Senior White House staff is living proof that Pentecostal mongoloids regularly cohabit with chimpanzees, frogs and Norway rats”
~Dr. Myron Kalbfuss, Biology Department, Stanford University
America’s Enemies!
There are four entities who represent the most dangerous enemies to American liberties since George III.
They are:
1.The Neocons or Likudists who owe their personal allegiance to another country and now completely control our foreign policy. They lied and deceived us into the Iraq war and are demanding that more and more American soldiers die to preserve their own country and ideals.
2.The Christian Evangelical right who is trying to force the United States into becoming a theocracy under their rule. They know in their hearts that they alone can restructure a secular humanist America into their idea of Heaven on Earth.
3. An element of American society that call themselves Patriots and are obsessively militaristic and great admirers of the corporate or fascistic state. Many of these have been very minor members of the American military and as a counterbalance to their reserve or rear area tours of duty, are rabidly in favor of draconian military action, the bloodier the better. Usually these drumbeaters are too old or too fat to fight and have no sons of draft age.
4. George W. Bush, who is the worst president in the history of the United States and directly responsible for the huge death tolls in Iraq, is determined to rule the United States until God puts a stop to him and is even more determined to force the American people into becoming obedient, Christian and self-sacrificing lemmings who worship at his shrine and march in step.
We gather information, on a daily basis, from many websites. There are a number of publications that are well worth viewing for their intelligent reporting of national and international news. All of those sources, listed below, are daily newspapers with the exception of the Asia Times. The latter is a very well written site with in-depth articles that are worth reading.
The New York Times: www.nytimes.com
The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com
The Christian Science Monitor: www.csmonitor.com
The Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: www.seattlepi.nwsource.com
Asia Times www.atimes.com
Note: Very little of the information in this edition of TBR news has come from the mainline American media. It is just not there. Most of it has come from foreign sources and the Internet. Most of our sources can be seen on the main page.
I remember an old British saying: ‘Treason doth never prosper/What’s the reason? Why if prospers, none dare call it treason!’ Apt. Or as a Greek writer once said, ‘Boys kill frogs for sport but the frogs die in earnest.’ Good morning, frogs, and be sure to die in earnest
"People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief of the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility ~Eric Hoffer “The True Believer”
NEVER, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this. Her setting out in life, like the rising of a fair morning, was unclouded and promising. Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm. Her conduct regulated by the nicest steps, and everything about her wore the mark of honor. It is not every country (perhaps there is not another in the world) that can boast so fair an origin.
To see it in our power to make a world happy – to teach mankind the art of being - so to exhibit, on the theatre of the universe, a character hitherto unknown, and to have, as it were, a new creation entrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated, nor too gratefully received.
She is now descending to the scenes of quiet and domestic life. Not beneath the cypress shade of disappointment, but to enjoy in her own land, and under her own vine, the sweet of her labors, and the reward of her toil. In this situation, may she never forget that a fair national reputation is of as much importance as independence. That it possesses a charm that wins upon the world, and makes even enemies civil. That it gives a dignity which is often superior to power, and commands reverence where pomp and splendor fail.
It would be a circumstance ever to be lamented and never to be forgotten, were a single blot, from any cause whatever, suffered to fall on a revolution, which to the end of time must be an honor to the age that accomplished it: and which has contributed more to enlighten the world, and diffuse a spirit of freedom and liberality among mankind, than any human event (if this may be called one) that ever preceded it. ~Thomas Paine: The American Crisis New York, December 9, 1783
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