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[multiplicity-positivity]

Info and Resources for Questioning Systems

Our old post with resources is out of date and doesn’t have that much information, so we’ve decided to put this together! Please let us know if we should make any corrections or if you have resource ideas you’d like us to add to this post.

NOTE: Before we get started, it’s so important to mention that every system should rule out trauma first before considering other origins. This is because complex dissociative disorders can present in covert ways, and function by hiding trauma from some alters. Even if you’re certain you’re not traumatized, please research and understand complex dissociative disorders before learning about other origin types. It’s possible to not remember or misunderstand trauma. Ruling it out first will save you a lot of difficulty and heartache in the future!

NOTE 2: As a system, we understand the terms “tulpa” and “tulpamancy” are cultural appropriation, and believe that as a community a different term for these systems should be selected. However, until that happens, we will continue to link handy resources for these sorts of systems.

Now, onto the resources!

This is not a complete list! If there’s any resource you’ve found useful and would like us to add, please get in touch!

Websites:

CDD (DID and OSDD-1) Specific:

Beauty after Bruises, and especially their article on myths and misconceptions about DID

Multiplied by One, a DID nonprofit that has a wealth of resources on dissociative disorders and CPTSD (and offering support for those in need!)

First Person Plural, another great nonprofit

ISSTD’s public resources

The Cleveland Clinic’s page on DID

Survivors’ Network (not to be confused with the Survivors’ Network Discord) page on DID

The National Alliance on Mental Illness’ info on dissociative disorders

DIS-SOS, a blog with tons of info on trauma, dissociation, and living with both

osdd.one, a site with information on complex dissociative disorders with a focus on OSDD-1

NAMI Michigan’s DID fact sheet

The Healthy Place’s blog on Dissociative Living

Non-CDD Specific:

What is Plurality/Multiplicity? by YoppVoice

More than One

Tulpa.io, Tulpanomicon, and Tulpa.info, all sites where tulpas, thoughtforms, willomates, and their creators can share their experiences

The Daemon Page

Daemonism 101

Manchester Metropolitan University’s Understanding Multiplicity

Plurality-Resources (traumagenic, not CDD, specific)

The Plurality Playbook, a resource for plurality in the workplace (for employees and managers)

Endogenic Hub

The Dissociative Initiative includes resources for both CDD systems and others who experience multiplicity

Soulbonding Info Carrd

Pluralpedia, a plurality wiki created and maintained by systems for systems

Podcasts:

The System Speak Podcast

The Bag System Podcast

Tumblr Blogs:

@pluraldeepdive

@system-society

@dear-systems

@plural-culture-is

@subsystems

@plurals-helping-plurals

YouTubers:

The Alexandrite System

FragmentDID

The Rings System

The CTAD Clinic

(psst! if you’re an endogenic/not-trauma formed system YouTuber, please let us know! we’d love to check out your videos and add your channel to this list!)

Other:

This Google Drive folder has 13 books on mental health, with a focus on dissociative disorders and trauma.

This Google Drive folder also has a bunch of great resources (keep in mind there are some repeats in both drives)

UTEP’s Mental Health Awareness Training infographic on dissociative disorders

Our own posts on Understanding DID, Establishing Contact with Headmates, Dissociative Amnesia, and Depersonalization vs. Derealization

Seeking help through therapy:

(specifically specialists in dissociative disorders)

Psychology Today’s search page for finding therapists who specialize in dissociative disorders

Carolyn Spring’s article, How to find a therapist for a dissociative disorder

The ISSTD’s Find a Therapist page

Websites we do NOT recommend can be found here! Note: some of the resources we’ve linked here have their own links to websites we don’t recommend. Please use your best judgement when visiting sites, and understand that we as a system DO NOT endorse the sites listed in the link above, even if we’ve included resources that link to those sites.

We hope y’all are able to find some of this useful! Again, please let us know if you have any resources you’d like us to add to this list. Thanks so much, everyone!

[toasttt11]

sister

June 11, 2022

Grace Smith pulled into the driveway coming home from her semester at Boston College, she left her bags in the car not really caring to get them as she wanted to see her family specifically her little sister.

Grace opened the front door and smiled walking into home, “Mom, Dad, Annie!” Gracie called out to her family.

“Oh darling!” Colleen gasped happily hurrying to her eldest daughter and pulled her into a tight hug, she rocked them back and fourth in the hug.

“Hi mom.” Grace smiled widely hugging her mother back.

“Dad.” Grace smiled hugging her dad.

“Hi Grace.” Bill smiled holding the back of her head pressing a kiss to the top of her head.

“Where’s Annie?” Gracie smiled looking between her parents wondering about her little sister. She watched them share a look and their smiled fade slighty.

“In her room, she uh hasn’t left much since we’ve been home.” Colleen told her eldest daughter, they knew something happened before they left Michigan with the way Gabe left the house with out a goodbye or how sad Ryan looked before he left and Willa didn’t come say bye to Ryan.

“Something happened?” Grace looked worriedly at her parents she was wondering why Willa was not answering her but figured she was just out on the water and off her phone.

“We’re not exactly sure what.” Bill explained, Grace nodded and turned around heading down the hallway and up the stairs towards Willa’s room, she knocked on Willa’s blue door and paused waiting for a sound but didn’t hear any, Grace opened the door seeing her little sister under a pile of blankets on her bed.

Grace walked into her room shutting the door behind her. She walked over sitting on the bed next to the lump of a body and pile of blankets, “Hi Annie.” Grace smiled softly talking towards the pile of blankets, Grace has always called Willa, Annie after her middle name Annabella.

Willa didn’t move nor did she make any sound, Grace just smiled fondly use to Willa hiding and being silent whenever she was upset and didn’t want anyone else to see that.

Grace pulled the edge of the blanket and plopped down next to Willa pulling the coverts over her head, she frowned seeing the dry tears scattered across Willa’s face.

Grace knew questing her sister would not get her to open up so she put her arm over Willa and pulled her little sister closer letting Willa cuddle to her and just say there silently under the blanket holding her sister.

Willa and Grace laid there for a while in comfortable silence before Willa spoke up in a quiet whisper, “I like Ryan.” Grace hummed having already known that, “And Gabe.” Willa whispered admitting it out loud. Grace hummed slighty not all that suprised as she has seen and heard how fond Willa is of Gabe.

“That’s what’s wrong?” Grace gently proded, Willa shook her head soflty.

“No, they both like me back.” Willa voice cracked with emotion, she’s been overwhelmed for a while now because of this, “And i don’t want to hurt them, they are my best friends.”

Willa would be crushed is she lost her best friends, when Willa loves she loves hard and she is very passionate about the people she cares for her.

“Oh Annie, you’re allowed to like both of them and they have to understand that you’re not trying to hurt them and you’re coming from a good place.” Grace reassured her little sister while a thought popped up in the back of her mind as a solution for the three.

“But what if-“ Willa protested looking at her sister.

Grace gently cut her off, “Shush, Annie it’s okay to like more than one person. You have such a big heart i would be surprised if you only loved one person.” Grace pressed a soft kiss to her little sister’s forehead.

“Come on let’s get you packed.” Grace pulled the blanket off of them and pulled Willa off the bed.

“Do i have too.” Willa groaned looking up at Grace with puppy eyes.

“Yes we are leaving tomorrow.” Grace gave Willa a stern look, The Smith’s were heading out to their vacation house.

“Ok.” Willa reluctantly got off her bed and followed her big sister to her walk in closet.

Grace pulled out Willa’s suitcase and opened laying it down on the floor, Grace hummed looking through her little sister’s clothes and started picking out some putting them in to the suitcase.

Willa just sat on her closet floor watching her sister pack her bag, Grace has always packed Willa’s bag because Grace has always enjoyed packing and organizing things and Willa never cared if Grace did it.

“This is cute!” Grace wiggled her eyebrows teasingly at her little sister, as she held up a blue and white bikini.

Willa just fondly rolled her eyes at her sister.

Grace zipped close the suitcase picking it up, “There!” Grace smiled proudly at Willa.

“Thank you.” Willa smiled nodding her sister, Grace just smiled and walked over putting her hand out for Willa to grab and stand up.

“Alright you feeling better or do we need smoothies?” Grace smiled softly throwing her arm around her sister and ruffling her hair. Grace and Willa always go get smoothies when they are having a bad day.

Willa let out a fond chuckle, “I think we need smoothies.” Willa smirked with a false seriousness.

“I think you are right dear sister of mine.” Grace nodded back with a serious face, “Get you shoes and meet me downstairs!” Grace called back as she walked out of Willa’s bedroom.

Willa just fondly smiled shaking her head, she walked over to her desk where she left her sandals, she slipped them on before she saw her phone light up, and she looked at her phone seeing a lot of notifications and a lot from Gabe and Ryan not surprising her at all because she knew both of them were to stubborn to stop talking to her.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Peter Stone at The Guardian:

Donald Trump’s extremist attacks on top Democrats as “the enemy from within” and talk of deploying the military against political foes if he wins the election are stark signs Trump will endanger the rule of law in America, say former US justice department officials and scholars. Trump’s threats – singling out ex-speaker Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and others as “the enemy from within” and “more dangerous than China [and] Russia” – jibe with his earlier incendiary talk of using a return to the White House to seek “revenge” against political foes led by Joe Biden. He also suggested the military could be used to quell violence at the polls from “radical left lunatics”. Those comments, along with Trump’s adamant refusal to say clearly he will accept the election results if he is defeated, prompt critics to say Trump poses unprecedented dangers to the US constitution. Critics call Trump’s campaign rhetoric especially worrisome since it squares with his efforts after he lost the 2020 election to falsely claim the voting was rigged, while scheming to overturn the results before a mob of his allies on January 6 attacked the Capitol as Congress was certifying the results.

Alarm about a second Trump term were heightened this month when Trump’s former chief of staff and former four-star marine general John Kelly condemned him in the Atlantic as unfit to govern and having said: “I need to have the kind of generals that Hitler had.” Ex-justice department officials are appalled by Trump’s demonizing his political foes as “the enemy from within”, words used by the demagogic senator Joe McCarthy, and ruminating about using the military against them to exact revenge. “Trump’s anti-democratic, authoritarian rhetoric has been ratcheted up the closer we draw to the election,” said Michael Bromwich, a former inspector general at the justice department. “Rather than keeping a covert enemies list, he publicly names his enemies against whom he vows to take action. The implications for a Trump justice department, charged with dealing with Trump’s lust to retaliate against these enemies, are frightening to consider.”

Bromwich said: “People who take their oath to the constitution seriously have trouble wrapping their heads around someone who views the constitution and the rule of law as nuisances to be circumvented rather than a set of principles to be scrupulously honored.” Other justice department veterans express similar worries about a second Trump term. “Trump’s rhetoric is dangerous for two reasons. Using the powers of the presidency to go after his political rivals is an incredibly dangerous deviation from democratic norms and the rule of law,” said Barbara McQuade, a former federal prosecutor in eastern Michigan and a law professor at the University of Michigan. “The rule of law requires that we apply the law equally to everyone, and not in retaliation for political activity or speech. Second, the military is to be used against our foreign adversaries, not our own citizens. These tactics are things we see in authoritarian regimes, not democracies. Following through on these threats would change the country as we know it.”

Fears about how Trump would rule in a second term have metastasized as former senior top officials in his first administration have gone public, labeling him a fascist and unfit to be president again. Mark Milley, Trump’s ex-chair of the joint chiefs of staff, was in quoted in Bob Woodward’s new book calling Trump “fascist to the core”. Kelly, too, told the New York Times that Trump met the definition of a “fascist” and “prefers the dictator approach to government”, and once said that “Hitler did some good things”. Trump in turn attacked Kelly last Friday, calling him a “whack job” and boasting that he had fired Kelly, who was a “nutjob to start off with. These are phoney stories by a general that got fired.” Thirteen former Trump officials signed a letter supporting Kelly’s charges and attacking Trump’s “disdain for the American military and admiration for dictators like Hitler”.

Trump’s obsession with having a military loyal to him as Hitler did, fits with a larger pattern in Trump world: Trump and his allies have made it clear that loyalty to Trump will be a prerequisite to serve in a new administration, and that moderate Republicans would not be welcome. Critics say Trump is intent on creating an administration without the kinds of guardrails that existed with people like Kelly and Milley as checks against his authoritarian instincts, a point that is underscored by Trump’s campaign talk of using the justice department to seek “revenge” on his enemies.

There are real fears of a 2nd Donald Trump term being a fascistic one.

[antoine-roquentin]

This series is shaping up to be about covert attempts by institutional power structures to undermine the health and safety of the international working class. The previous part, Part 4, is here. You can find a cool easter egg by seeing who the magazine in the bottom right image was delivered to.

The above is a dossier compiled by a right wing business intelligence group and purchased by the CIA not long after the events I’m about to share occurred. It is hosted on the CIA’s website for declassified files, the Reading Room. It was prepared by Fulton Lewis III, an outspoken supporter of the Rhodesian government and the son of a Hearst-sponsored anti-communist radio broadcaster, sort of the Tucker Carlson of the 40s and 50s. We don’t have the CIA’s own assessments because those are still classified.

When we last left the crew of the spaceship Ramparts, they were dealing with infiltration, incompetence, hedonism, an inability to secure funding, and the heady addiction of fame. Things were about to get worse as their own interpersonal disputes had come to the fore. Keating had seen his power at the magazine get whittled away as incentives in the form of shares for other backers became necessary. At the time, Hinckle counted among his friends Howard Gossage, an advertising whiz kid who helped popularize Marshall McLuhan and did the Sierra Club's first campaign. He frequently went to Gossage for advice. The two came up with a plan to push Keating into the 1966 Democratic primaries for the 11th district of California (later held by Leo Ryan, a CIA critic killed at Jonestown, and now held by Nancy Pelosi) as a way of reducing his influence on the day to day operations of Ramparts. In the midst of a meeting, they had two staff members slip away and come back with signs that said "Keating for Congress" and "Keating the people's choice".

By the start of 1966, however, the election bug had spread through the offices, both because it allowed Ramparts to make the news it reported on as salacious as possible, and because the Democratic Party had largely denied ballot access to anybody who was anti-Vietnam War. Bob Scheer, the foreign editor, ran in Oakland, and Stanley Sheinbaum, the Michigan State University professor who'd exposed the CIA's role on campus, ran in Santa Barbara. All gained 40-45% of the vote, mainly by cohering those opposed to the war. One thing in particular all three did was bring together the black vote (for instance, Julian Bond, mentioned previously in the series, campaigned for Scheer). Their campaigns were run by a coterie of Ramparts staffers, namely CPUSA member Carl Bloice as well as Berekeley lecturer Peter Collier, and were endorsed by a combination of black and Hollywood luminaries, for instance Dick Gregory, the civil rights activist and stand-up comedian, and Robert Vaughan, Napoleon Solo on the Man from Uncle and both a murderer and a victim on Columbo (see him argue about Vietnam on Firing Line with William Buckley here). Some of the opposition research on the three came directly from CIA files and was given to the establishment candidates by LBJ's press secretary Bill Moyers.

With the elections lost, Ramparts needed a new spin on things to bring back all the anti-electoral politics radicals. Fortunately, in nearby Oakland, a new group had just been founded called the Black Panther Party. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale like to portray their group as their own innovation, two upwardly mobile college kids shooting the shit late at night. The group they'd been part of prior to the BPP, the Maoist Revolutionary Action Movement, described them as "adventurists" for their desire to put theory to practice and finally organize in the community instead of just talking about it. Whatever the case, Newton learned from Robert Williams' Negroes with Guns that California law, influenced by white supremacist vigilanteism, allowed anyone to openly carry a weapon even in the presence of police. He went to Chinatown, bought copies of Mao's Little Red Book for cents, and sold them for dollars in Oakland as part of a course in organized self-defence, then used the money to buy shotguns and M-16s for use by graduates of the course. By February 1967, Ramparts staff writer Eldridge Cleaver had made contact at a speaking event for Malcolm X's widow Betty Shabazz, where the Black Panther Party founders and their cohort were the only ones armed. Cleaver invited them to the Ramparts offices for a sit down.

Remember the bit from the last part about Shabazz' bodyguards? That was Seale, Newton, and Co. Their arrival caused  Hinckle's police buddies to get worried, and they put out an APB and surrounded the building, much to Newton's consternation. Hinckle suggested they go out for a drink, but nobody was buying it. Newton stared down a cop, who undid his holster. Seale put his hand on Newton, who told him off. "Don't hold my hand, brother." Seale released it, because that was his shooting hand. Newton taunted the officer. "You got an itchy trigger finger?... OK, you big, fat, racist pig, draw your gun!" All the Ramparts' staffers who'd come to watch as well as the officers' backup got the hell out of Dodge. Eventually, even the officer backed down. It was the first time the BPP had ever gotten the police to back down. It brought admiration from the entire Ramparts staff, who soon made the magazine the semi-official outlet of the BPP. And it brought Cleaver into their fold. They appointed him spokesman/Minister of Information within weeks. The following is the only news footage from that day shot after the incident, the rest having been lost, with Scheer in the background at one point:

And that wasn't even the most shocking thing going on at Ramparts. This series has previously mentioned the National Student Association as a bunch of debate nerds who essentially trained to have public speaking and organizing on their resume for future employers. The thing about the NSA was, it was a CIA front, and generally suspected as such. In 1947, there was an implosion of student politics' international facing groups. Those who had seen the Soviets fight in the Second World War generally accepted their claims to want world peace on their face, while the groups aligned with the Catholic Church teamed up with disparate right wing WASPs and Jews to fight back. The CIA had taken these students (to note, these were largely men in their late 20s or early 30s, grad rather than undergrad) under their wing and organized them into a front group that could report back on invitational events held in Eastern Europe. In turn, the top echelons of the NSA had to be sworn into legal secrecy as a prerequisite of participation, with the reward being entry into the old boys network of politicians and bureaucrats which virtually guaranteed a job.  

The CIA fucked up. In 1965, the elected president of the NSA was Philip Sherburne. He was sworn into secrecy on the source of funding for their new HQ and general operations, as was normal for the group. But he disliked that they had only one source of funding, and he wanted the NSA to be independent. At the time, the grassroots in the organization who followed international politics and hewed to the left had managed to get some of their membership into power, but they had felt straitjacketed by the CIA's complete control of NSA finances. Many wanted to join in on the anti-war marches. Sherburne and others, spurred on by abrogation of Juan Bosch's regime in the Dominican Republic and the electoral fraud that brought the American-backed opposition to power, worked to find alternative sources of funding. They sent one an NSA man as part of the operation, but he got cold feet and worked with Sherburne to expose it. In response, the CIA had a number of top NSA men declared eligible for the draft in Vietnam. Bureaucratic fights ensued, involving the lives of students in America, Spain, Vietnam, and elsewhere. Finally, Sherburne went above the CIA's head to vice president Hubert Humprhey. In response, the CIA went and cut all of Sherburne's independent lines of funding. Unbenkownst to them, Sherburne had made a relatively radical student named Michael Wood his outside line to donors. He'd told Wood not to approach certain groups because they were backed by "certain government agencies". Wood had surmised that this meant the CIA and gone and picked up the only book out on the Agency: The Invisible Government, by David Wise and Thomas Ross. When he saw that the NSA's funding for 1966 had the same donor groups backed by the CIA, he realized Sherburne had lost and stole the files.

Twice the New York Times had published articles critical of the CIA in some form. In 1965, Texas congressman Wright Patman, initially elected on his support of the Bonus Army and ever a thorn in the establishment's side, had investigated 8 charitable foundations and found them to be CIA cutouts. The NYT had written an article on this as well as replies from the funded orgs (Encounter Magazine and the Congress for Cultural Freedom). In 1966, spurred by Ramparts' articles on MSU, NYT reporter Tom Wicker wrote of the allegations and added details of other botched operations around the world he'd heard from sources over the years. This brought the ire of the agency. In 1961, in response to details of the Bay of Pigs invasion being published in The Nation before it occurred, President Kennedy told his aides to bother him when details showed up in the New York Times because it otherwise did not matter. The CIA had actually worked hard to kill the very same story before the NYT could publish it so by the time the invasion failed, Kennedy apparently exclaimed that he wished more details had been published in the NYT so that the invasion would have been stopped. CIA agent Cord Meyer made the postscript of Part 3 of this series as the handler of much of the CIA's work through cutouts and allied groups like AFL-CIO, especially in in regards to  the effort to influence the media known as Operation Mockingbird. Meyer and his wife, Mary Pinchot, were next door neighbours to the Kennedy's before JFK became president. Pinchot divorced Meyer after their child was killed in a car accident in 1957. She moved in with her brother-in-law, Ben Bradlee, later of Pentagon Papers and Watergate fame and played by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post. In 1961, James Jesus Angleton, head of counterintelligence at the CIA, tapped her phone and discovered she was in a sexual relationship with JFK, including visits at the White House. When Pinchot was murdered in October 1964 in what was termed a robbery (a black man was arrested but acquitted), a friend of the family heard (he said) about the murder on the radio and phoned Bradlee first and Meyer second. Bradlee went to go find her diary and found Angleton sitting in her house (his garage) reading it. They later destroyed it. After that, Meyer became an alcoholic and compiled an enemies list of the CIA that included the Vice President. He was already fearful of a leak and told his subordinates to go after NSA staff but did not determine who Sherburne had told until his wiretaps of Ramparts phone lines informed him.

Ramparts, of course, knew that they had been tapped and kept phone calls brief. Scheer phoned Judith Coburn of the Village Voice and asked for her discretion. Wanting to break into a field dominated by men, Coburn felt like she was being called by a rock star, but nonetheless found it absurd that Scheer believed his calls to be tapped. She knew the CIA to be involved in assassinations like Lumumba's and thought their dealings with a minor org like the NSA were absurd. Ultimately, she helped by confronting a number of figures on their work. Eventually, a young WASP Harvard undergraduate who was on retainer from Ramparts named Michael Ansara got the call. His blog about it is excellent reading, located here. I quote:

One evening in the cold months of early 1967, my phone rang. A strange voice, obviously from New York asked, “Is this Michael Ansara?”

“Yes.”

“This is Sol Stern from Ramparts. Bob Scheer says you are our man in Boston.”

“Well . . . OK.”

“Listen I need you to do some work for us right away. I cannot tell you what it is about. I am calling you from a phone booth. Will you do it?”

“Well, what kind of work and are you willing to pay me for it?”

“It is research into two Boston based foundations. We will pay you $500.” 500 dollars was a lot of money. I had no idea how to research foundations, but I thought, what the hell. I could really use the money.

“Sure. What exactly do you want me to do?”

“I can’t tell you anything more than to find everything you can on the Sidney & Esther Rabb Foundation and Independence Foundation. They are based in Boston. I will call you in several days. You cannot call me. You cannot tell anyone what you are doing. You cannot mention the name Ramparts. Can I count on you?”

“I guess so. Sure. Yes.”

Ansara knew a much older man, an economist and lawyer who had sway in the Democratic Party named George Sommaripa. Sommaripa suggested Ansara go to a guy he knew at the IRS. Ansara did, and was told that under no circumstances could he have access to the files on two CIA cutout foundations. Chastened, Ansara complained to Sommaripa, who'd gotten the IRS clerk his job. A few days later, Ansara went back. The IRS clerk told him he could have any box he wanted, provided he did not go past the 990 form on the cover. He went past for the first two foundations and found that money came from an anonymous donor and in equal amounts went right out to the NSA. Ultimately, he pulled the files for 110 foundations, every single known group that the CIA used. He would look at the incorporation files for the foundations, see a lawyers' name, and look him up. Every time, the lawyer was an OSS operative during WW2, the predecessor org of the CIA. One of the lawyers had founded a firm with Sommaripa, a man named David Bird. Ansara confronted Bird, and Bird did not even stop to hang up on Ansara before phoning a contact at the CIA.

Left to right: Hinckle, Stern, Scheer.

A major corroboration of the story came from three students in New York who were disgusted by American foreign policy in Latin America. One in particular, Fred Goff, had been sent to the Dominican Republic with Allard Lowenstein (part 3) to observe the election of the pro-American candidate over the anti-American one. Goff had discovered that a man that Lowenstein had said he trusted on the country was actually a CIA agent, Sacha Volman. Another, Michael Locker, had done a paper about the CIA based on the NYT articles. Together, they walked in the doors of the AFL-CIO's American Institute for Free Labor Development and asked directly about the CIA, prompting a crashing sound and the institute's director, Thomas Kahn, planner of the 1963 March on Washington and the long-term romantic partner of Bayard Rustin, to scream at them.

The problem was when it came time to do the story. Sometimes, the researchers were paid by Ramparts. Other times, they received cheques from the Interchurch Center, a strange agency that serves as a front for charitable giving from the Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Reformed, Methodist, and United Churches in America. James Forman, mentioned in previous parts, once led a picket in favour of reparations from them. Ramparts staff demanded they talk to them by picking up pay phones that would ring at designated times, a dismal failure. Other times, Hinckle, Scheer, and Sol Stern would fly in, book rooms at the Algonquin, and order massive amounts of takeout and booze. 15 to 20 people would be in a hotel room trying to negotiate who would be writing the story by continent, or by year, or by foundation. At one point, Coburn broke into the NSA HQ and unwittingly stole the original deed to their land, where it remained undiscovered in Ramparts' files till the 2010s.

On New Year's Eve, 1966, Lowenstein was hanging out with the new members of the NSA leadership when he informed them that Ramparts was writing about their relationship with the CIA. "The usual sloppy Ramparts piece, lots of flash, little substance," he said. The CIA had known since at least Thanksgiving. A lower level NSA official who'd just been sworn in went to meet with Hinckle and Scheer. The duo, while nonchalantly throwing darts, offered the Ramparts donor list as an incentive to tell all, but he refused. Sherburne attempted to find counsel in a lawyer who'd once opposed the CIA's new Langley HQ on NIMBY grounds. Meyer had threatened the lawyer's brother, working in Bogota with USAID, but the lawyer persisted. Undaunted, Meyer got word to Douglass Cater, the first president of the NSA and now an advisor to LBJ. LBJ bumped it to Lowenstein and the CIA to develop a response, which was to hold a press conference with an article in Henry Luce's (the man, not the monkey) Time Magazine that this was all well known since the 1965 congressional hearings, that the money was not that impressive, that the Soviets had done much more, etc.

This could have killed Ramparts. The IRS was already looking for any sign of foreign influence as an excuse to shut down the magazine. It needed some sort of relationship with the establishment press in a way that would let it gain influence without keeping it from the areas it wanted to report on. At the very same time, both Time and the NYT were reporting on the survival of Ramparts: Keating had attempted a coup and lost a board vote 13-1, with Mitford and other backers providing anonymous quotes that while they disliked the "Animal Farm-ish" nature of the issue, they needed Ramparts to stave off a fascist dictatorship in America. Hinckle followed by setting up an astounding agreement with the New York Times and Washington Post: they would get full access to Ramparts' files on the CIA right now, before the White House could set up a press conference, in exchange for letting them run full page ads for days for their next issue.

The day the Times went to press, February 13, 1963, was termed by former CIA director Richard Helms in his memoirs as "one of my darkest days". The press pushed, smelling blood. President Johnson ordered a suspension and review of CIA funding for outside orgs. The CIA initially tried to find a way to blame a dead president, Truman, but realized that its own documentation on the program, written by Cord Meyer, claimed that then-director Allen Dulles did not have any responsibility to inform the president of what he had ordered. Switching tactics, they turned on their press weapon, known as the Mighty Wurlitzer, and claimed that the CIA would have been remiss to not conduct these operations. "I'm glad the CIA is immoral" was the headline of an article by Meyer's boss, Thomas Braden. He described $250 million a year the CIA believed to be spent by the Soviet Union on cultural subversion, to which a mere handful of dollars from the CIA could not compare. No evidence for the accusations was provided, of course. Finally, Helms pulled in a favour from Robert Kennedy and had him testify to the press that his brother had authorized the funding, carried over from the days of Eisenhower. 12 former NSA presidents (including Lowenstein) came out and said the relationship was above board. All had worked for the CIA at least once after they'd left the NSA, but that was not revealed in their letter.

The strategy was a half-success. All the foundations funded by the CIA fell apart and students around the world became suspicious of CIA infiltration. Much of what Ramparts found was investigated by Congress repeatedly over the next decade, culminating in the reforms that came out of the Church Committee, which Helms claimed in his memoirs was sparked by Ramparts and Watergate. Certainly press readership was high, and many stories were published in the NYT and WaPo confirming and furthering the work done. At the same time, the CIA escaped with only a few new rules on its behaviour. President Johnson was a paranoic and was more concerned about using the CIA as a tool against his domestic enemies. He authorized a much larger role for MHCHAOS in punishing his enemies (remember the cryptonyms? MH was the most illegal, as it meant the USA). Many of those fingered were considered liberals in good standing and were part of the labour movement, particularly AFL-CIO higher-ups. They fell in line with the rhetoric about communist subversion because they knew they'd be the ones punished if things went further.

Interestingly, a few months later, the NSA held a vote on integrating an anti-Vietnam War and anti-draft stance into its platform. Traditionally, the CIA had worked from the shadows to suppress these votes. This time, Allard Lowenstein whipped in favour of the anti- stance and it won. Lowenstein soon became a fixture in the anti-LBJ movement, leading the call to bring Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy into the Democratic presidential primaries. To a large extent, the organizations that were closed to the CIA had been products of decades-old relationships and worked in ways that nobody had bothered to improve. Within the CIA, a tension had always existed between bureaucrats with their own fiefdoms and up and comers with new ways of doing things. To a large extent, this scandal simply pushed the former out and made room for the latter, who would not do things like create financial records with the exact same dollar amounts going in and out, or act so bluntly when it came to manipulating staff. While the CIA may have suffered a little in the short term, it was an act of "creative destruction" that improved how the CIA did business. For Ramparts, on the other hand, things were going to get much worse now that they had drawn the ire of the intelligence community. While the magazine reached its peak distribution of 250,000 copies a month, it still did not bring in enough money to cover its expenses, and it was about to be faced with a much larger funding crisis: the Six Day War.

AFTER ALLEN DULLES RETIRED, the director bragged about the NSA operation. “We got everything we wanted. I think what we did was worth every penny. If we turned back the communists and made them milder and easier to live with, it was because we stopped them in certain areas, and the student area was one of them.”... Edward Garvey, who also worked at CIA headquarters, puts it more dramatically: “My God, did we finger people for the Shah?”... Stephen Robbins, despite his limited CIA involvement during his year as president, echoes Garvey’s concern: “It’s South Africa that keeps me up at night.”

[thomasce]

Project: Windchill - WIP Intro

This is the adventure of one young man - Jeremy Elden, a young, previously-normal college student - to bring down the systems that oppress the community he didn’t know he belonged to. In fact, he didn’t even realize it existed.

In the face of adversity and oppression from the powers that be, Jeremy must learn to harness the new power inside him as he grows to accept that the people he was meant to trust hid pertinent information about the world. Now, he has to relearn everything he thought he knew with his mentors and friends - both new and old. 

Can he live up to being their chosen one? Or will he fall short in the sea of powers that are so much stronger than him?

Everybody knows there’s 12 months in a year. But what if there were more? What if humans, just like other mammals in the world, hibernated during the coldest, cruelest months of the year? What if that wasn’t a biological response? What if humans were forced into this slumber, losing three months of their lives to an uncontested war?

Details:

Genre: Adult speculative fiction novel

Setting:  Midland, Michigan

Themes:  fighting against oppression, freedom of expression, self-discovery

Content Warnings: character death, explicit and graphic depictions of violence

Features: LGBTQ+  protagonist and supporting characters, multiracial cast

Status: Draft 1 (Act 1/3)

Projected Release Date: TBD

The Rebellion

~ The Protagonist ~

Jeremy Elden (21) - a spirited college student. His new kid status hasn’t gotten him many friends in the rebellion, but his place in the prophecy definitely does. But is he really “the chosen one” like these people say? Or is he just cannon fodder for their fight against their oppressors?

~ The Supporting Cast ~

(art by @jasperygrace​ on Tumblr) Quincy Jackson (25) -  a human lie detector. He first met Jeremy in the creative writing club on their college campus two years prior. They didn’t really speak until the next year, when they started hanging out regularly to write outside of school. But when Quincy appears on Jeremy’s doorstep, Jeremy has to rethink everything he knew about his friend.

Terrence Jackson (25) - the brute force powerhouse of the Rebellion. Terry is Quincy’s twin brother, the “body” to Quincy’s “soul.” The two are inseparable, but how will their tight bond hold up in the war they find themselves thrown into every year?

David Marino (22) - a young man with a strange fascination - Jeremy. What started as hero worship slowly fades once he realizes that Jeremy is an absolute disaster with no idea how to save the world. David is determined to help Jeremy on his journey to save the mutants of the world before they are eradicated by the powers that be. How is he supposed to do that when he has no plan?

Frost (???) - a young woman with a mysterious past. Her jovial, friendly nature disarms the adults of the Rebellion, but she quickly turns as cold as her powers when pushed too far about her past. She gets along with everyone, but will she get along with Jeremy when he becomes the new symbol of the Rebellion?

Elliot Lachman (48) - Jeremy’s very tired mentor. He is the right hand of the Rebellion’s leader, Julia, and takes charge in Jeremy’s training to become the savior of the world’s mutant population. His knowledge of the world has gotten him to where he needs to be, but how long will it be until that knowledge runs out?

The Extermination Task Force

Beelzebub (20) - the leader of the mutant extermination task force, a covert operations team under the federal government’s control. Bael was taken in by the government’s covert ops team at a young age and given his new name, hiding his old self deep in the recesses of his mind. Is he meant to stay under the government’s hold for the rest of his life? Or will he find freedom in unlikely places?

Samael (19) - the right hand to Bael in the task force. He was born with only two eyes, but his handlers determined that “biblically accurate angel” fit him better. He is always hesitant to cause destruction in the world despite the angel he was named after being the Angel of Death. How long can he last in the government’s control? Will he cave under the pressure?

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About the Author

C. E. Thomas is a writer and artist with an interest in mythology and conspiracy theories. While they do not believe in these stories, they like to incorporate them into their works. They are currently pursuing a degree in Biological Sciences and hope to work in the pathology field.

[beardedmrbean]

COVERT TWP. — The owner of Palisades Nuclear Plant, Holtec International, took a step forward Tuesday in efforts to reopen the shuttered plant.

Holtec jointly announced with Wolverine Power Cooperative a long-term power purchasing agreement they say will pave the way for the plant to restart.

It's true a purchase agreement was an important step in the plant's reopening checklist, but it’s not the final piece of the puzzle. Holtec Director of Government Affairs and Communications Patrick O’Brien confirmed to The Sentinel that Holtec is still waiting on a decision on its loan request from the Department of Energy and full approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

“We’re still in the process with (the DoE)," he said. "We’re hoping to hear by the end of the year, one way or the other. We still feel like that’s a good timeline.”

The agreement announced Tuesday, Sept. 12, states Wolverine will purchase up to two-thirds of the power generated by Palisades for its Michigan-based rural electric cooperatives. The company's project partner, Hoosier Energy, will purchase the rest.

“We are thrilled to enter into this partnership,” Kelly Trice, president of Holtec Nuclear Generation and Decommissioning, wrote in a press release. “The executed power purchase agreement represents a significant milestone in our journey towards reopening the plant, a historic moment for Michigan and the country.

“The repowering of Palisades ensures Michigan has sufficient energy to meet future demand and mitigate the impact of climate change, while creating hundreds of high-paying Michigan jobs, expanding the local tax base, and unleashing economic opportunity within the region and beyond."

Officials say reopening Palisades will “greatly enhance electric reliability” by generating “consistent and carbon-free energy” in the state.

“Ensuring reliable and affordable electricity in Michigan is crucial,” said Eric Baker, CEO of Wolverine. “The restart of Palisades offers a practical, long-term solution to electric reliability in our state and aligns with Michigan's ambitious goals to reduce carbon emissions.”

Palisades shuttered in May 2022 after 50 years in operation. The 800-megawatt plant employed around 600 people full-time. A recently published study estimated the closure had an economic impact of over $250 million in Berrien, Cass and Van Buren counties.

Just months after it closed, an effort to reopen the plant was announced. Holtec's first loan application failed, but the second, ongoing attempt was launched in early 2023.

Holtec has already secured a $150 million investment from the state. In addition to obtaining the DoE loan and getting approval from the NRC, Holtec will need to rehire and retrain staff. Officials have estimated it will take about two years to get Palisades operational again, if and when the process begins.

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[hotnew-pt]

EUA planejam reabrir usina nuclear fechada desde 2022 #ÚltimasNotícias #tecnologia

Hot News Tudo sobre EUA Pela primeira vez, uma usina nuclear fechada nos EUA pode ser reaberta com apoio federal. O Departamento de Energia (DOE) anunciou empréstimo de US$ 1,52 bilhão (R$ 8,27 bilhões, na conversão direta) para restaurar a usina nuclear de Palisades, localizada em Covert Township, Michigan, fechada em 2022. Apesar de ser fonte controversa entre ambientalistas, a energia…

[gazetadoleste]

EUA planejam reabrir usina nuclear fechada desde 2022; saiba motivo

Pela primeira vez, uma usina nuclear fechada nos EUA pode ser reaberta com apoio federal. O Departamento de Energia (DOE) anunciou empréstimo de US$ 1,52 bilhão (R$ 8,27 bilhões, na conversão direta) para restaurar a usina nuclear de Palisades, localizada em Covert Township, Michigan, fechada em 2022. Apesar de ser fonte controversa entre ambientalistas, a energia nuclear está ganhando destaque…

[isfeed]

The US could bring a shuttered nuclear power plant back to life next year

A control panel in the control room simulator of the Holtec Palisades Training Center in Covert, Michigan, US, on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. | Photo: Getty Images For the first time, a shuttered nuclear power plant in the US could reopen thanks to federal support. The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $1.52 billion loan to help restore a nuclear generating station in Covert Township,…

[breakingnewsbreakthrough]

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Hospitals in trouble, covert gunmakers, and assembly line layoffs

10:24 a.m. EDT: "DMC, Henry Ford didn't protect patients from 'sexual predator,' class action lawsuits say"

I know that the police are prone to hyperbole in press conferences, but to label a sexual predator "one of the worst [he's] ever seen," well that's bad. You don't need me to tell you that, but this is one of two cases this month where the DMC is alleged to have covered for or facilitated abuse of a sexual nature in their facilities. I don't understand how hospital administrators can hear complaints like this and provide cover for the perpetrators, though I'm not sure it's profit-motivated like some protestors think. It's possible that money is a factor given the way our healthcare system works, but it's more likely to be a public image issue than anything having to do with money. There's already pretty low trust among some Black residents of Detroit and the area's hospitals, and allowing that trust to erode any more could have incredibly far-reaching consequences. I don't think attempting to keep this under wraps was the best choice, which is all but confirmed by how massively this has blown up in their faces. We'll all see what happens, I suppose.

1:20 p.m. EDT: "Saab to build $75M munitions production facility in Grayling"

Hmm, I didn't know they made guns! I suppose this is an example of that thing where every company either makes products or provides services for the military and/or prisons. Yes, that one. That one too. I hesitate to say this, but this is bad, actually? Michigan is so concerned with inviting industry to the state in order to revitalize it that they're not being picky about what that industry is. The site being in Grayling is suspect as well, given the military camp in the area supposedly testing privately-produced munitions. I'm not sure we need to "Make this in Michigan," Gretch, but I suppose 69 people will be gainfully employed, and that's more important than anything else.

4:15 p.m. EDT: "Skubal stifles Rays as Tigers continue surge toward playoffs"

Ah, the fabled half game. Will the boys make it this year? If they do, I hope the areas around Comerica are declared "gun-free zones," for all our sakes.

5:18 p.m. EDT: "Stellantis cuts workers at Sterling Heights, with more layoffs planned"

I wish I could hire a correspondent within the union to tell me what this means. From what I can gather, Stellantis pulled the plug on nearly 2,000 jobs, amounting to unemployment for many the union calls "supplemental employees." I hate to just recite the article at you, but that's all I've got. I have a feeling trucks aren't selling as well as the company would like, given the cuts affecting mainly the plants producing the Ram 1500s. I truly wish I could provide more insight, but unless Shawn Fain appears in my house and starts explaining the labyrinthian eccentricities of UAW-Big 3 relations to me, I'll have to leave it at this.

On a personal note:

Had therapy today. Is it shocking I'm in therapy? I know, I seem so well-adjusted.

I've been told in no uncertain terms to stop being so hard on myself, and I find that ignoring my therapist's advice is not only a waste of money, but makes me unhappy as well, so easier on myself I shall be. There's truly no upper limit on the amount of hatred I can direct inward, and I'm not sure I understand what it means to be content with oneself. In case my morose nature doesn't come across well in these posts, I tend towards self-serious and sullen, and I don't think it all can be chalked up to my clinical depression. I can't puzzle out which parts of my personality are a result of that depression and how much are truly me. How can you divorce a part of yourself from the rest and assign it a root cause? How do you know if you're wrong? I'm sure part of growing up further will be learning to find peace in my own specific "thing" and to stop looking outward for something I can only find within myself; namely who I am. I don't have a zinger or a profound statement to end on. That's all, folks.

Until tomorrow,

DM

[orderjackalope]

The only thing standing between John Yates Beall and the Confederate prisoners-of-war on Johnson's Island was the USS Michigan… Well, that and a terrible con man and the cowardice of his own men.

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/resist-at-your-peril/

(This episode is part two of Rapscallions!, a three-part series about Confederate cloak-and-dagger operations in the final year of the Civil War. Part three will be released on 10/7.)

Key sources for this episode include Adam Mayers' Dixie and the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union; John Bell's Rebels on the Great Lakes: Confederate Naval Commando Operations Launched from Canada, 1863-1864; Duane Schultz's The Dahlgren Affair: Terror and Conspiracy in the Civil War; William A. Tidwell's April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War; and The Memoir of John Yates Beall: His Life, Trial; Correspondence, Diary, and Private Manuscript Found Among His Papers, Including His Own Account of the Raid on Lake Erie.

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[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

The scandalous stories told about the Unification Church in Korea and Japan

Miss Young Oon Kim was the first Unification Church missionary to the United States. She arrived in the midst of a raging snowstorm on January 4, 1959. She came as a student to the University of Oregon in Eugene but left school to live in a vacant house in Oakhill, a semi-rural settlement several miles east of Eugene to be near her three best contacts. The Oakhill group migrated several hundred miles down the coast to San Francisco in late 1960. There, they put energy into improving the Principle text, obtaining legal incorporation, purchasing a three-story building as a training center, and direct person-to-person witnessing. In July 1962, they opened up mission territory in surrounding Bay Area communities.

By the end of that year, the group had expanded to Los Angeles and Sacramento and grown to more than fifty members.

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From

Doomsday Cult A Study of Conversion, Proselytization and Maintenance of Faith

by John Lofland University of Michigan

Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1966

pages 86-87

In 1961, one of the members [who spoke German, probably Peter Koch] meticulously assembled a handwritten mailing list of about 2,000 people.

Young Oon Kim advised that Koreans and Japanese be omitted. She said that students from these countries were likely to have heard the scandalous stories told about the Unification Church in that part of the world and thus were poor prospects in a missionary campaign.

Peter wanted to send a letter to each person, but one that would appear to be a personal communication. A form letter, printed on the cult’s multilith press, had such a personally typed appearance (if one did not look too closely and notice that the margins were justified). Peter signed each letter and hand addressed and personally stamped each envelope. The envelopes thus appeared to enclose personal greetings rather than to be bulk mail.

The letter itself was a masterpiece of studied ambiguity and covert presentation.

…

No religious language was used, nor was the “Divine Principle” mentioned. The only hint of millenarianism is the reference to the “event which will bring about great changes in this world within the very near future” and its “revolutionary effect.” Emphasizing solidarity, the letter is addressed to Peter Koch’s “fellow student” and states that he is “a foreign student as you are,” even though the thirty-five-year-old Peter was no longer a student.

There was some indecision as to whether to post them all at once or simply a few at a time. Kim advised that if they were sent all at once Peter would be swamped and unable to give adequate attention to each person. He should send a limited number at a time.

Peter began sending about a hundred letters a week. Still unemployed, he was always by the phone waiting to receive inquiries. Roughly 500 letters were sent out by mid-November. They produced many inquiring phone calls and many vague explanations in an attempt to get people to the apartment. Eight people appeared to be introduced to the DP. One of them, a Chinese graduate student in economics, became a convert.

The letters continued in December, only now at the rate of about 300 a week. Peter meticulously reported the final results in the cult’s newsletter:

I have sent letters to over 1,900 students from practically all countries of the world, but the results are not very impressive. Out of an estimated 150 students who called me on the telephone, thirty-six came to hear the cassette tape on the Divine Principle.

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Pak Chung-hwa interviewed about Moon’s “SEX relays”

How “God’s Day” was established by Sun Myung Moon in 1968

Sun Myung Moon found guilty in 1955; started two year jail sentence

Ewha Womans University sex scandal as told in the 1955 newspapers

Sun Myung Moon’s Theology of the Fall, Tamar, Jesus and Mary

Ritual Sex in the Unification Church – Kirsti L. Nevalainen

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Professor Eileen Barker: “It is said, and there seems to be a lot of evidence for this, that in the early days [Moon] had a lot of sexual relationships which were described as being part of some kind of religious, spiritual ritual. We are hearing stories over and over again about this. … the allegations from a lot of women and people, men as well as early followers, does seem to be pretty enormous. It is just not one person who has been making these claims.” January 7, 2013, BBC Radio 4

In 1984 Professor Eileen Barker wrote: “But the following year [1955] Moon was imprisoned again. The Unificationists say that this was on a trumped-up charge of draft evasion, but it has also been reported that he was charged with ‘injuring public morals’, or, according to another account, that ‘his indictment was initially draft dodging but was later changed to adultery and promiscuity.’ Similar rumours (which persist to this day in Korea)31 alleged that he was engaging in ritual sexual practices.

Note 31  In conversations with scores of non-Unificationist Koreans the first information I have been given about the Unification Church has, in almost every instance, been that Moon engages (or has engaged) in immoral sexual practices with his followers.”The Making of a Moonie: Brainwashing or Choice?  Eileen Barker   pp 42, 265

[nawapon17]

How a shuttered power plant in Michigan could pave the way for more nuclear energy

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Hamas Linked, Terrorism Financing CAIR enjoys IRS charitable status. This must stop

Please support this effort by filing your own complaint letter to eoclass@irs.gov. Feel free to use any part of this letter

Dear IRS;

Please accept this letter in lieu of and in addition to a later filing of a form 13909 due to length, although all information required by form 13909 will be contained within.  

This complaint concerns an organization which calls itself the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), EIN number 77-0646756.  CAIR's address is 453 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington D.C.  20003.  Today's date, which is presumably the date of referral is July 6, 2024.  The violation of regulations concerning IRS 501 (c) (3) status include involvement in terrorism, terrorist financing and illegal activities.

Names of the persons involved include Nihad Awad, Omar Ahmad, Abdurahman Alamoudi, Randall Todd Royer, Bassem Khafagi, Rabih Haddad others

Nihad Awad is the current National Executive Director of CAIR, Omar Ahmad is the co-founder of CAIR, Abdurahman Alamoudi is CAIR's Northern Virginia Director, Randall Todd Royer is CAIR Communications Specialist and Civil Rights Coordinator, Bassem Khafagi was the former CAIR Community Affairs Coordinator, Rabih Haddad was a CAIR fundraiser in Michigan.

Dates of violations extend from October 1993 to the present. 

Description of alleged activities:

On an October day in 1993, men from around the country had gathered together in the meeting room of a Philadelphia Hotel. They came from different places and they worked in different fields but they all had one thing in common. Membership in a covert organization, known as the Palestine Committee, with a single goal, to do whatever it took to support Hamas, a group formed by the secretive Muslim Brotherhood to wage a violent jihad against Israel and the Jewish people. Since it’s founding the Palestine Committee had committed itself to raising millions of dollars for, and spreading propaganda on behalf of, Hamas in the United States.

The members of the Palestine Committee feared that the signing of the Oslo Accords would soon lead the U.S. government to designate Hamas as a terrorist group. They knew that to continue their work, they would need help. A new organization, designed to defend their interests, push their message and keep law enforcement off their back. That organization would come to be called the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR. But there was one thing the members of the Palestine Committee didn’t know. The FBI was recording every word they spoke as they conspired. 

The transcripts of the infamous so-called “Philly Meeting” would become key primary evidence in the Holy Land Foundation Trial, the massive Hamas terror finance trial that would lead to convictions on all 108 charges against key Hamas financiers. The federal judge in that trial would rule that the government provided “ample evidence” for associating CAIR with Hamas, and for its status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case.  Both Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad attended the meeting and went on to found CAIR.

CAIR’s connection with Hamas was most recently brought to CAIR national director Nihad Awad gave a speech referring to the horrific Hamas October 7,2023 stating that he was “happy to see the event and that Palestinians in Gaza have a right to self defense but that Israel does not. The speech so shocked the White House that a spokesman for President Biden condemned the remarks by Nihad Awad, the national executive director and co-founder of CAIR. 

Additionally, in 2014, the United Arab Emirates officially designated CAIR as a terrorist organization.  In 2006 the co-founder of CAIR's parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine was sentencedto 57 months in prison on terrorist financing Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a designated terrorist organization and ally of Hamas also involved in the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.  In 2004, CAIR's northern Virginia director Abdurahman Alamoudi pled guilty to terrorism and conspiracy charges and was sentenced to 23 years.  

Islamic convert Randall Todd Royer, CAIR communications specialist and civil rights coordinator trained with al Qaeda linked Kashmiri terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and was charged with conspiring to aid  al-Qaeda and Taliban battling US troops in Afghanistan and sentenced to 20 years on April 9, 2004. In September 2003 CAIR former Community Affairs Director Bassem Khafagi pled guilty to bank and visa fraud and agreed to be deported to Egypt after he had financed terrorism and published materials advocating suicide attacks against the US and other illegal activities that had taken place while he was employed by CAIR.  CAIR Michigan fundraiser Rabih Kaddad was arrested on terrorism related charges and deported from the US due to his work as Executive Director of the Global Relief Foundation, which was accused by the Treasury Department of financing al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

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Name  Richard Roy Blake

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Francis Eugene “Hill” Harper (born May 17, 1966) is an actor and author. He is known for his roles on CSI: NY, Limitless, and The Good Doctor.

A member of the Democratic Party, he is running in the 2024 United States Senate election in Michigan.

He adopted the name “Hill” as a tribute to both his maternal and paternal ancestors.

He has been acting since the age of 7.

He then graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He graduated with a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He received his MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He was a full-time member of Boston’s Black Folks Theater Company, one of the oldest and most acclaimed African American theater troupes in the country.

He has received several honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates from both Westfield State College and Howard University.

His first roles recurring role was on Married... with Children while making his film debut in Confessions of a Dog. He had his first acting role in Get on the Bus. He went on to further demonstrate his versatility in such films as Hav Plenty and He Got Game.

He had roles in films ranging from Beloved to Loving Jezebel, to The Skulls. He did some of his most acclaimed work in the Visit. He portrayed Leshem Stonehenge Apocalypse.

He played coroner-turned-crime scene investigator Sheldon Hawkes on CSI: NY for nine seasons.

It was announced he would be joining the cast of Covert Affairs as a series regular.

He starred as “Hard Rock” in the Off-Broadway play ToasT. He starred as “Rooftop” in the Off-Broadway play Our Lady of 121st Street. He has portrayed Dr. Marcus Andrews on The Good Doctor.

His acting career includes voice-over work with CSI: NY the Video Game, Breathe Bible, and a podcast called Legal Wars.

In November 2015, he received a call to adopt a baby boy. He agreed, and by May 2017, the adoption was finalized. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha #sigmapiphi