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RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?
9/19/2014 11:05:24 AM

Eight bodies found after attack on Guinea Ebola education team

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EBOLA OUTREACH TEAM STONED AND CLUBBED TO DEATH


Eight bodies, including those of three journalists, were found after an attack on a team trying to educate locals on the risks of the Ebola virus in a remote area of southeastern Guinea, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

"The eight bodies were found in the village latrine. Three of them had their throats slit," Damantang Albert Camara told Reuters by telephone in Conakry.

However, Guinea's Prime Minister Mohamed Saïd Fofana, speaking in a television message that had been recorded earlier, said 7 bodies of 9 missing people had been found.

He said six people have been arrested following the incident, which took place on Tuesday in Wome, a village close to the town of Nzerekore, in Guinea's southeast, where Ebola was first identified in March.

Since then the virus has killed some 2,630 people and infected at least 5,357 people, according to World Health Organization (WHO), mostly in Guinea, neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia. It has also spread to Senegal and Nigeria.

Authorities in the region are faced with widespread fears, misinformation and stigma among residents of the affected countries, complicating efforts to contain the highly contagious disease.

Fofana said the team that included local administrators, two medical officers, a preacher and three accompanying journalists, was attacked by a hostile stone-throwing crowd from the village when they tried to inform people about Ebola.

He said it was regrettable that the incident occurred as the international community was mobilizing to help countries struggling to contain the disease.

(Reporting by Saliou Samb; Writing by Bate Felix; Editing by Robin Pomeroy and Ken Wills)









Three journalists are among the dead after an attack on a group trying to educate locals on the virus in Guinea, an official says.
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9/19/2014 11:12:36 AM

Florida granddad Don Spirit who killed family had also fatally shot son years before

“People’s minds are just sick I guess,” neighbor says


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Investigators leave the scene Thursday of an eight-person murder-suicide in rural Florida. (AP Photo/The Gainesville Sun, Matt Stamey)

Investigators leave the scene Thursday of an eight-person murder-suicide in rural Florida. (AP Photo/The Gainesville …

The Florida man who police say gunned down his daughter and six grandchildren Thursday had been to prison for fatally shooting his young son during a hunting trip 13 years ago, according to court records.

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An undated photo of Don Spirit provided by the Gilchrist Co. Sheriff's Department. (AP)

An undated photo of Don Spirit provided by the Gilchrist Co. Sheriff's Department. (AP)

Don Charles Spirit, 51, phoned the Gilchrist County Sheriff's Department around 4 p.m. Thursday and made a reference to harming himself and others.

“When he called 911, he said enough to alarm us to get someone there, and we needed to get there in a hurry,” Sheriff Robert Schultz said.

But the father and grandfather shot himself as arriving officers approached. Deputies then discovered the bodies of Spirit's adult daughter and six children at the small, rural home near Bell, about 38 miles northwest of Gainesville in north central Florida.

Sheriff Schultz identified the victims as Sarah Lorraine Spirit, 28; Kaleb Kuhlmann, 11; Kylie Kuhlmann, 9; Johnathon Kuhlmann, 8; Destiny Stewart, 5; Brandon Stewart, 4; and Alanna Stewart, who was born in June.

“Them were nice little kids — they’d laugh and cut up going down the road going to school and coming back,” neighbor Betty Dyer told Yahoo News. “People’s minds are just sick I guess.”

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Sarah Spirit (Facebook)

Sarah Spirit (Facebook)

Sheriff Schultz said investigators had no immediate motive for the massacre. He said his officers had answered calls at the home before, “but nothing to this extent.”

Spirit was released from a Florida prison in February 2006 after serving three years related to the shooting death of his son, Kyle Spirit.

He had pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon two years after Kyle, 8, was killed during a hunting outing.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, Spirit said he was walking through the woods with Kyle and another son, 11-year-old Josh, when he pointed out rust on the muzzle of his rifle and it accidently fired, striking Kyle in the head in November 2001.

Spirit had been convicted of felony marijuana possession in 1998, losing his right to own a firearm, but had never applied to restore the right.

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Kyle Spirit, 8, was killed while hunting with his father. (Facebook)

Kyle Spirit, 8, was killed while hunting with his father. (Facebook)

Spirit, who moved his family from Tampa to Bell after the child’s death, told a reporter that he took the plea deal because he couldn’t bear emotional toll of a trial.

“There’s nothing I can do,” Spirit, carrying a crumpled tissue, told the Orlando Sentinel.

The drug conviction was not Spirit’s first encounter with the law. According to public records, in the early 1990s he was found guilty of leaving the scene of a serious accident, depriving a child of food or shelter and battery. Specific details on those charges weren’t immediately available.

Once he was released from prison in 2006, public records show Spirit was awarded a Florida hunting license in 2007 and 2011.








Police say Don Spirit, 51, killed his grandchildren, his daughter, and himself at a home near Gainesville.
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RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?
9/19/2014 5:56:53 PM
18.09.2014 Author: Gordon Duff

US Officials Demanded a 30 Billion Dollars

Bribe

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A day after former Republican Virginia governor, Bob McDonnell and his wife were convicted of 20 counts of bribery and influence peddling, former Republican Tennessee governor Don Sundquist and South Dakota Senator Sheldon Songstad may face, not just the largest bribery charge in world history but indictment for conspiracy to murder as well.

What is amazing about this case is the amount of money involved, totaling $9.5 trillion US dollars, in fact the entire GNP of the United States for several years. Sundquist and Songstad, wanted $30 billion out of the proceeds to pay themselves along with congress, the US Treasury Department, 5 Supreme Court justices and two former US presidents.

Best of all, the whole thing is on tape, a “shakedown” attempt against Ambassador Lee Wanta, former White House intelligence chief under President Ronald Reagan and editor at Veterans Today.

Sundquist and Songstad left, on a recording at Wanta’s embassy, full details, not only of their ability to virtually buy the entire US government and deliver a multi-trillion dollar settlement authorized to Wanta by the US Supreme Court, but were recorded making arrangements for the murder of Wanta as well.

As American humorist, Jim W. Dean so often says, “You just can’t make things like this up.”

The recording was forwarded to the US Department of Justice yesterday and a copy presented to President Obama.

Background

During the 1980s, Lee Wanta was brought into the White House as the first National Intelligence Coordinator. He was tasked by President Reagan and CIA Director William Colby to destabilize the Soviet Union through establishment, with funds from the US Treasury, of a worldwide currency trading scheme.

Wanta, with the help of Reagan, amassed a fortune of $27 trillion, funds earmarked by Reagan to pay America’s national debt, restore the nation’s infrastructure and fund a world free of debt based currencies.

However, after Reagan left office and George H.W. Bush assumed the Presidency, Wanta was kidnapped and imprisoned in Switzerland, transferred to an American prison where he was held without due process for years and the money disappeared, taken by the Bush family.

The rest is history, stolen elections, 9/11, war upon war, and a world that has descended into crashing debt with nearly every currency floating on “air,” derivatives and a sea of Rothschild debt.

Wanta’s story is soon to be featured in a Hollywood film currently under production.

The Fixers

Nobody has heard of Sheldon Songstad, who with former congressman and governor, Don Sundquist, admit demanding a $30 billion dollar bribe from Wanta in order to compel the Supreme Court to issue a pay order on Wanta’s personal funds, based on the case he won, $4.5 trillion plus interest, totaling $9.5 trillion.

This would make Lee Wanta personally the wealthiest nation on earth. While this case has dragged on through the courts, thoroughly and carefully documented, Wanta friends and advisors, many former intelligence officers, including the author, have worked to keep him secure.

The recording of Songstad and Sundquist, 6.01 minutes, was aired on radio yesterday with commentary by Lee Wanta, on the Veterans Today Radio Network to over two million listeners.


The audience heard Sundquist describe how they would settle for as little as $5 billion, as a “retirement nest egg” and how, if Wanta fails to pay, they would arrange for his murder.

Current US Senator Bob Corker, Republican from Tennessee had been on a conference call earlier that included Sheldon Songstad, telling Wanta that his funds would be paid.

In fact, a majority of members of congress including almost all Republicans and many Democrats were to receive shares of the Wanta “payoff.” What had angered so many of them and had precipitated the death threat is Wanta’s statement to all of them that he would file Federal Income Tax Form 1099’s to accompany all payments. This would identify, as required by law, where money went and what services were paid for.

Were Wanta murdered to stop that process, it would require control of not only the Department of Internal Revenue but Treasury as well, to suppress the existence of these documents that would eventually lead to the imprisonment of almost the entire US government.

Beyond Idiocy

As the radio audience listened on, the two Republican Party political “fixers” made several things very clear. The US government was entirely “up for sale” and that they had the connections to arrange for the purchase.

What was amazing is that these two, after phoning Wanta and getting the recording notice on the line, assumed their conference call was private, paying no attention to the fact that the recording continued on while they confessed to what legal experts have identified as dozens of crimes and laid out a trail of bribery and corruption that crosses nearly every level of government, every court and over a hundred of Americas’ highest elected officials.

Shadow Government

This conspiracy involves, at its heart, politicians who have long advocated cuts in public health and education, in veterans benefits, lowering of wages, infringement of individual rights while supporting America’s wars.

These are also politicians at the heart of the Israel lobby in Washington.

According to the Jewish Virtual Library, Governor Sundquist is a close friend of Israel:

“- 1996: Gov. Don Sundquist signed the Tennessee-Israel Cooperation Agreement to promote cooperation between the two countries in trade, arts, culture, education, tourism and university/industry alliances.”

What is made clear is that the United States is far more a criminal organization than a nation. Those who don’t understand how America can say one thing and, with amazing consistency, do something else, often something totally bereft of moral responsibility, I think we may well have made the reasons abundantly clear.

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.



First appeared:http://journal-neo.org/2014/09/18/us-officials-demanded-a-30-billion-dollars-bribe/

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9/19/2014 6:06:09 PM

Scotland votes 'No': Salmond accepts defeat as Cameron says debate has been 'settled for a generation'

The pound has risen sharply as 44.7% vote 'Yes' while 55.3% vote 'No'



Scottish referendum: Scotland votes 'no' to independence

Scotland has voted 'no' in the independence referendum and will stay a part of the United Kingdom.



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The Scottish electorate's rejection of independence was greeted with delight by Prime Minister David Cameron, who said that the victory margin of around 55%-45% had settled the issue "for a generation... perhaps for a lifetime".


Speaking outside Downing Street, Mr Cameron said he would ensure that commitments to further devolution to Scotland made during the campaign would be "honoured in full".

Earlier, Scottish National Party First Minister Alex Salmondacknowledged that his dream of leading his nation to independence was over, telling supporters in Edinburgh: "Scotland has by a majority decided not at this stage to become an independent country.

"I accept that verdict of the people and I call on all of Scotland to follow suit in accepting the democratic verdict of the people of Scotland."

Turnout in the referendum on Scottish independence hit a record high for any election held in the UK since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1918.

Alex Salmond accepts defeat but tells the PM he will expect new powers with rapid course.













The participation rate of 84.5% topped the previous best of 83.9% recorded in the 1950 general election and dwarfed the tallies in recent Westminster polls, which saw 65.1% vote in 2010.

What now for UK? 10 things you need to know

The pound has risen sharply and companies with Scottish links led the FTSE 100 Index higher as a relief rally took hold on financial markets following the rejection of independence.

Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland surged 3% while energy provider SSE, Glasgow-based engineer Weir and Standard Life were up by around 2%.
Scottish Independence result: How historic night unfolded on Glasgow's streets

Sterling climbed by almost 1% overnight to as high as 1.65 against the US dollar as traders reacted to the first poll results showing support for the No campaign.

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Scotland has chosen to stay part of the United Kingdom, spurning independence in a historic referendum.
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RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?
9/19/2014 6:22:26 PM

ISIS: Unanswered Questions


ISISBy Chris Kanthan, NationofChange, Op-Ed,September 16, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/n3nx9vy

The rise of ISIS has been nothing short of phenomenal, and it is turning out to be the next mysterious enemy that the U.S. will be fighting for many years to come. However, before we plunge into another trillion-dollar war, can we get some questions answered by those in power?

· In all the speeches by politicians and the discussions in the corporate media, what is missing is a true analysis of the origins of ISIS. Obama gives moving speeches on the grave threats of ISIS, but forgets to mention that ISIS is a splinter group of the rebels fighting Assad in Syria – the same rebels that the U.S. and its allies have been funding for many years now.

The official story keeps talking about us supporting “moderate rebels,” which makes little sense. Does John Kerry send out a questionnaire for them to fill out a personality test?

It’s impossible to figure out who these people are and what their motives are. There are more fighting groups in Syria than you can count with two hands. They are also from all over the world – including paid-for mercenaries from Chechnya and Libya – and some are affiliated with Al Qaeda, even the groups that Senator John McCain has visited. These “moderate rebels” have committed heinous crimes, including beheadings and the use of chemical weapons. And as the article in the New York Times points out, these rebels are as extreme Islamist and non-secular as they come in that part of the region.

With a blind philosophy of “an enemy of an enemy is a friend,” the U.S. and its allies are indiscriminately pouring in arms and money to the rebels. Israel is even providing medical assistance to the rebels. There have also been many claims in alternative media that Israel trained and funded ISIS; that ISIS is an acronym for “Israel Secret Intelligence Services” Qatar is sending in boat loads of weapons and money; Saudi Arabia has been funding the rise of Wahhabism – Extreme Islam, version 2.0 – in Syria for over a decade now.

The simplistic narrative of good rebels versus bad rebels doesn’t even hold water anymore since the “moderate rebels” just signed a truce with ISIS. Any weapons sent to the moderate rebels can also end up with ISIS, as it has done in the past.

Thus, before we spend hundreds of billions of dollars more on this mess, can we first figure out who the rebels are and how ISIS started? Who are our allies that are funding the rebels and what can we do to stop adding fuel to the fire?

· Here is Washington’s logic: ISIS is attacking Iraq, so we will send arms to the crazy rebels in Syria. Really? How about arming the Iraqi government, or would that be too logical?

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· Iraq has about 800,000 professional military soldiers, active and reserve. How come we never hear about the Iraqi soldiers fighting ISIS? Wouldn’t that be the first priority of the Iraqi government? Isn’t it also strange that we never hear about any ISIS militants being captured?

· How come the NSA has not been able to snoop on ISIS who is so active on twitter and other social media? NSA can listen in on leaders of Germany and Brazil, but they can’t intercept the cell phones and internet communications of ISIS?

· How come a ragtag bunch of rebels can just swoop in on a country and simply take over a land larger than the U.K.? Where do these people get their food, and where do they sleep at night? At Sheraton Hotels? Isn’t it strange that it’s been so hard to fight them?

· Hundreds of westerners have somehow figured out a way to contact ISIS and join them, but the CIA couldn’t send a few undercover agents to join ISIS and report on their locations and activities? And if ISIS is so smart, would they be so naïve to accept random westerners?

And the stories about 16-year-olds from the U.S. joining ISIS is so incredible. How many teenagers have passports or even can get the money or credit cards to buy plane tickets? Don’t they need their parents’ approval for flying alone, and that too in international flights?

· Several pictures show these ISIS lunatics driving a whole bunch of pickup trucks like ducks in a row. How hard is it to have some drones or fighter jets get rid of them in a single attack?

· Finally, what’s the real reason to spend so many years trying to get rid of Assad? It’s all quite preposterous when contrasted to the fact Syria was a secular and a stable country for decades . For many years, Assad and his British wife were quite popular in the western social circles. He met with the Prime Minister and the Queen of England, the President of France, the Pope, American politicians – including Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry, and so on. Diane Sawyer of ABC News schmoozed with Mrs. Assad and the Vogue magazine had a glowing article about her, titled “A Rose in the Desert.”

Is it that Syria refused to allow a pipeline from Qatar? Is it that Syria decided to align itself with Iran and Russia? Is it that Syria started selling oil in Euros and not in U.S. dollar anymore? Is it that there is oil found in Syria’s Golan Heights that Israel wants to exploit (this makes even more sense when you consider that Dick Cheney – along with a Murdoch and a Rothschild – is in the board of Directors of Genie Energy that acquired the right to drill oil in this region).

Or, is it true, as General Wesley Clark revealed, that the neocons have wanted to take over Libya, Syria and Iran, one way or another? And all that is unfolding is just an elaborate geopolitical drama – fueled by the war propaganda of corporate media – to fulfill the neocon dreams of global domination enumerated in the Project For the New American Century?

Americans have the right to know why we are spending trillions of dollars on perpetual wars abroad when we are witnessing a shaky economy, crumbling infrastructure, declining wages, dwindling middle class, rising poverty and astronomical inequality at home.

Sign the petition to “The World’s Leaders: Tell Us the Truth in 2014″ today at:https://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/the-world-s-leaders-tell-us-the-truth-in-2014. –and keep sharing it everywhere! Facebook, Google+, Twitter, email, blogs etc.


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