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RAND PAUL FILIBUSTERING DIRTBAG JOHN BRENNAN

 Rand is making his pop and Jimmy Stewart proud. John Brennan is a scumbag who will murder Americans with drones when ordered to do so. FUCK HIM!!!

Rand Paul begins talking filibuster against John Brennan

By Ed O’Keefe , Updated:

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) began speaking just before noon Wednesday on the Senate floor in opposition to the nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA, saying that he planned to speak “for the next few hours” in a rare talking filibuster.

Watch live video from the Senate floor below:

Paul, who strongly opposes the Brennan nomination and the Obama administration’s use of unmanned aerial drones, becomes the first senator to make use of the procedural tactic in more than two years and the first to do so since the Senate approved a bipartisan rules reform package in January.

“I will speak until I can no longer speak,” Paul said. “I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.”

Paul began his filibuster at 11:47 a.m. Eastern time. Around the one-hour mark, he acknowledged “I can’t talk forever” and said his throat was getting dry.

At the start if the 1 p.m. hour, Paul was the only senator on the floor. Just 30 people watched from the Senate gallery above while a few security guards, stenographers and Senate pages held their appointed spots on the floor. In the rafters, a man responsible for operating the Senate television cameras was seen reading a newspaper.

At 2:57 p.m., after Paul had been talking for more than three hours, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) joined the filibuster and gave Paul a break. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined at 3:08 p.m. The three senators are now taking turns talking, with Lee and Cruz alternately asking Paul questions.

Paul’s comments from the Senate floor come as he’s raised objections in recent weeks. Paul first threatened to filibuster the Brennan nomination in late February, when he sent a letter to administration officials asking whether the U.S. government would ever use a drone strike to kill an American on U.S. soil.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. responded to Paul’s inquiry Monday, saying the administration has “no intention” of carrying out drone strikes on suspected terrorists in the United States, but could use them in response to “an extraordinary circumstance” such as a major terrorist attack.

Paul called Holder’s refusal to rule out drone strikes within the United States “more than frightening.”

On Wednesday, Paul elaborated on his concerns: “When I asked the president, can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It’s an easy question. It should have been a resounding, an unequivocal, ‘No.’ The president’s response? He hasn’t killed anyone yet. We’re supposed to be comforted by that.”

Paul noted that he has voted for Obama’s previous Cabinet nominees, including Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and suggested his cause was not partisan.

“I have allowed the president to pick his political appointees,” Paul said. “But I will not sit quietly and let him shred the Constitution. I cannot sit at my desk quietly and let the president say that he will kill Americans on American soil who are not actively attacking a country.

“I would be here if it were a Republican president doing this. Really the great irony of this is that President Obama’s opinion on this is an extension of George Bush’s opinion.”

Paul also said that he was “alarmed” at the lack of definition over who can be targeted by drone strikes. He suggested that many college campuses in the 1960s were full of people who might have been considered enemies of the state.

“Are you going to drop … a Hellfire missile on Jane Fonda?” Paul asked.

By the 2 p.m. hour, Paul said he would continue to speak as long as he can, but he admitted: “Ultimately, I can’t win. There’s not enough votes.”

Brennan has gained the support of some Republican senators, even as others want to hold up his nomination in hopes of getting more answers from the White House on the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. His nomination easily cleared the Senate Intelligence Committee this week, suggesting he would have the 60 votes required to end Paul’s filibuster and bring the nomination to a vote.

Any senator can opt to hold the floor to speak on any matter, but the practice of speaking for hours on end is rare, especially in the modern-day Senate where the chamber’s rules are used more often to block legislation or to hold show votes on trivial matters.

Paul’s talking filibuster is the first conducted by a senator since December 2010, when Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) held the Senate floor for more than eight hours in opposition to Obama’s proposed tax-cut plan.

The longest filibuster in the Senate was Sen. Strom Thurmond’s (D-S.C.) 24-hour filibuster against the 1957 Civil Rights Act (Thurmond later became a Republican). Two other senators — Sens. Alphonse D’Amato (R-N.Y.) and Wayne Morse (I-Ore.) — have also filibustered for more than 20 hours.

ENGINEERING CONSENT – BERNAYS & CIA KILL 200,000 INNOCENT PEOPLE

It is good to see SSS being so proud of his fine organization and his favorite President. The 200,000 Mayans sacrificed so the CIA and the U.S. could expand their Empire was worth it. There was a Cold War to be won.

It looks like Dwight Eisenhower and our patriots in the CIA liked Eddie Bernays and his propaganda methods. The long-term impact on the people of Guatemala was devastating. It seems self interest and crony capitalism existed in the 1950s too.  Alan Dulles, the head of the CIA, and his brother were major shareholders in the United Fruit Company. I wonder if the CIA coup gave them a good ROI.

The operation, known by the code name Operation PBSUCCESS, lasted from late 1953 to 1954. The CIA armed and trained an ad-hoc “Liberation Army” of about 400 fighters under the command of a then-exiled Guatemalan army officer, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, and used them in conjunction with a complex and largely experimental diplomatic, economic, and propaganda campaign. The CIA established the Voice of Liberation radio station, located across the border in Honduras relaying programming originating in Miami, and pretended to be the spontaneous voice of patriots opposed to the elected government. The operation effectively ended the experimental period of representative democracy in Guatemala known as the “Ten Years of Spring”, which ended with Árbenz’s official resignation. Following the coup, the Guatemalan Civil War began, a civil war involving some of the most brutal counterinsurgency of its time (including years of massacres of Maya Native Americans, since characterized by Historical Clarification Commission as genocide). 40,000 to 50,000 people were disappeared during the war and approximately 200,000 were killed.

Upon deposing the Árbenz Guzmán government, Castillo Armas began to dissolve a decade of social and economic reform and legislative progress, and banned labor unions and left-wing political parties, a disenfranchisement that radicalized left-wing Guatemalans. If you’d like to read up on the thirty six years of CIA created horror, click this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War

Guatemala ended up being in a 36 year civil war and it was the result of our CIA working in conjunction with the Father of Propaganda and Corporate America for the benefit of the few. I believe this is what they call corporate fascism.

X-Files on Dead Pentagon Illuminati Apparatchiks

OK, here is a really interesting story to speculate on.  Who offed this Pentagon Military Intelligence official and why?

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John P. Wheeler 3d died from blunt-force trauma.
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John P. Wheeler 3d died from blunt-force trauma.
Del. report: Wheeler died from blunt-force trauma

By Kathleen Brady Shea and John P. Martin

Inquirer Staff Writers

The former Pentagon adviser whose body turned up last month in a Wilmington landfill was fatally assaulted, authorities said Friday.

John P. Wheeler 3d died from “blunt-force trauma after being assaulted,” Delaware’s chief medical examiner said. The ruling answered one question about Wheeler’s Dec. 31 death, but left many others unanswered.

The one-paragraph statement offered no new details about Wheeler’s unexplained behavior in his last days – when he was seen wandering around Wilmington disoriented – or clues to who killed him and dumped his body in a Newark, Del., trash bin.

Carl Kanefsky, a spokesman for the medical examiner, said the office released the ruling after getting toxicology results, the last piece of evidence it needed for a determination.

Kanefsky refused to elaborate on or release those results, but acknowledged they were a factor in determining the cause of death – effectively ruling out any suggestions Wheeler might have been poisoned or overmedicated, or might have passed out on his own.

Lt. Mark Farrall, a Newark police spokesman, said the investigation was continuing.

“The only thing I can say is to reiterate what I’ve said before: We’re looking for information on how Mr. Wheeler got to Newark,” Farrall said.

A 66-year-old New Castle, Del., resident, Wheeler had been scheduled to take a train Dec. 28 to Wilmington from his consulting job at Mitre Corp., a defense contractor outside Washington.

The next night, an employee at a Wilmington parking garage reported seeing him coatless, confused, and holding one shoe. The next day, he was captured by a surveillance camera in a downtown building, again looking disoriented.

That was the last time he was seen alive.

His body tumbled out of a truck as it delivered trash to the Cherry Island landfill in Wilmington just before 10 a.m. Dec. 31. Farrall said investigators have determined that the truck made 10 pickups that morning in Newark before going to the landfill.

Wheeler’s tragic end contrasted with a lifetime of achievement: a West Point graduate and veteran who worked as secretary at the Securities and Exchange Commission, aide to Pentagon leaders, and executive director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

One unresolved mystery concerns the four-year dispute Wheeler had with a neighbor who was building a house across from his. Wheeler felt the project was out of scale for the historic neighborhood.

A law enforcement source has said police linked Wheeler to an arson attempt at that house days before he disappeared. But there has been no evidence disclosed that it played a role in his death.