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Did JFK predict his own death?

Paul Brandus
The Week
Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:27 UTC
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© Corbis"God, I hate to go to Texas," Kennedy told a friend, saying he had "a terrible feeling about going."
He was certainly preoccupied with the possibility of assassination

As utterly shocking and traumatic as the assassination of John F. Kennedy was, the one person who might not have been surprised that it happened was JFK himself.

It's worth remembering, as the 50th anniversary of JFK's death approaches, that the young president had a morbid fascination with sudden death - and sometimes speculated that he would die at the hands of an assassin.

"Thank God nobody wanted to kill me today," he said to a friend half a century ago tonight while flying from Florida to Washington. How would it happen? By someone firing at his motorcade from a high window, he thought.

Kennedy also confided in the friend, Dave Powers, that he really didn't want to go to Texas later that week.

"God, I hate to go to Texas," JFK said, adding that he had "a terrible feeling about going."

And on the morning of his murder, Friday, November 22, that terrible feeling was still with him.
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Alarm Clock

Hospital holds girl for 9 months after parents argue diagnosis

Beau Berman
foxct.com
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:01 UTC
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Justina Pelletier with her parents
It's a medical "mystery" that has left a Connecticut family baffled and heartbroken.

After a long history of medical problems, a West Hartford teenager is now "trapped" inside a hospital with seemingly no way out.

Fox CT spent the past few months investigating the emotional case.

It has been a bitter custody battle, and nine months after it started, it's still going on.

In December 2012, Justina Pelletier was an active 15-year-old girl who would go ice skating, laughed and spent time with her family.

But just two months later, her family says their nightmare began.

"[Exhales] It's beyond any wildest nightmare that you could think of," says Justina's father, Lou Pelletier.

Her longtime West Hartford psychologist has also been following the case.

"It's the most bizarre situation ... I've ever been involved with," says Dean Hokanson, the clinical psychologist who has worked with Justina the past five years.
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Best of the Web: President John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address


Sott.net
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:09 UTC
President Kennedy delivered his inaugural address on January 20, 1961. The public was not fully aware of what had happened when, on that day, a new administration (that was really a new regime) took over in Washington. Largely inspired by George Pope Morris, the Civil War poet, and by Abraham Lincoln, the new President's Inaugural Address was one of the finest pieces in the history of American literature. This long sermon in blank verse with key words that rhymed was the thunderclap announcing the birth of a new state. It was the advent, not of a dynasty, but of the intellect.

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In the enemy camp people listened, people read, people were moved and sometimes shaken, but they preferred to voice their amazement that President Kennedy had invited mostly writers, artists and scientists to the inauguration -- Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Pearl Buck, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, John Hersey, Robert Frost, Saint John Perse, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Ludwigmies Van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Paul Hindemith, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Fritz Reiner, Eugene Ormandy, and one lone journalist, Walter Lippman. "There's nobody left at Harvard" became a popular wisecrack when the composition of the Presidential team was announced. But some only half-laughed. In the months that followed, America, anaesthetized by eight years under Eisenhower, awakened to discover that she had a President with both a brain and a heart.

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Best of the Web: Matt Damon on the need for Disobedience to the State


Matt Damon
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:16 UTC
Matt Damon reads from Howard Zinn's 1970 speech "The Problem is Civil Obedience'. The extract of the text is just 5 minutes, but it packs in a lot of truth, truth that is even more relevant today than it was in 1970; truth that so many people around the world, and especially in the 'Western world' need to hear, take to heart and act upon.

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Ambulance

Latvia store collapse: Deaths rise as Riga rescue continues


BBC News
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:35 UTC
At least 45 people have been killed when the roof of a supermarket collapsed in the Latvian capital Riga. Rescue efforts are continuing and police have launched a criminal investigation. Three of those killed were emergency workers who were helping people trapped when more of the roof came down. The number of deaths makes this the former Soviet republic's worst disaster since the country became independent in 1991.

Police say they expect the number to rise further. It is unclear how many more people could still be inside.The cause of the collapse is unclear although reports say a garden was being constructed on the roof at the time.

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A view from a nearby building revealed the extent of the damage
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Bizarro Earth

22 veterans kill themselves every day: more US soldiers dying from suicide than combat

Michael Vincent
ABC News
Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:22 UTC
In the United States, America's commander in chief has paid tribute to his nation's veterans. Since 2001 official figures show more US soldiers have died from suicide than in combat - a horrific toll of . A new documentary called Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 highlights the attempt to save former soldiers from self-harm.

Listen here:
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Heart - Black

Witness says Inuit girls came up with their own plan to stop attacks by priest

Bob Weber
The Canadian Press
Mon, 18 Nov 2013 10:58 UTC
Catholic priest Eric Dejaeger
© Chris Windeyer / The Canadian PressCatholic priest Eric Dejaeger leaves an Iqaluit, Nunavut courtroom Jan. 20, 2011 after his first appearance for six child sexual abuse charges in Igloolik dating back to the 1970s.
Iqaluit, Nunavut -- A witness at the trial of a priest facing dozens of sexual abuse charges involving Inuit children testified Monday that the girls in her community were forced to devise a foul way to stop him.

The woman, who can't be named under a court order, told a pin-drop silent courtroom that the only thing the girls could think of to fend off Eric Dejaeger was to empty their bowels while he attacked them.

Many, court heard Monday, were unsuccessful at preventing his attacks.

One woman told court how, when she was a little girl, Dejaeger taped her feet and right hand to the bed frame in his room and sodomized her. Court heard the priest forced a group of children to watch him having sex with his large dog.

Another man said he was a young boy when Dejaeger forced him to perform oral sex -- then struck him for doing it.

Witnesses leaving court after their testimony could be heard in the room outside howling wordlessly in grief and pain.

The trial in Iqaluit, Nunavut, started with Dejaeger pleading guilty to eight counts of indecent assault. Testimony began on the remaining 69 charges he faces, including sexual abuse, indecent assault, making threats and confinement.

The first witness described her home town of Igloolik, Nunavut, as a friendly place between 1978 and 1982. She said it was common for children to gather at the Catholic church, where they had room to play and were given crayons and pictures to colour.

When Dejaeger first arrived in 1978, he was "normal," said the witness, who was five at the time.
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Heart - Black

When children are traded

Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:18 UTC
Nicholas D. Kristof
© Damon Winter/The New York Times Nicholas D. Kristof
"Born in October of 2000 - this handsome boy, 'Rick,' was placed from India a year ago and is obedient and eager to please."

"We adopted an 8-year-old girl from China. ... Unfortunately, we are now struggling, having been home for 5 days."

"Prayerfully seeking a loving and nurturing family for our 14-year-old daughter who has been with us for almost a year. She honestly is almost a model child."

This is "private re-homing," something that once meant finding a new home for a dog that barked too much. Now it refers to families recycling their adopted children, often through Internet postings.

There are commonly no courts involved, no lawyers, no social service agencies and no vetting of the new parents. There's less formality than the transfer of a car.

Private re-homing of adoptive children was explored in a devastating five-part investigative series this fall from Reuters. The reporters found that on one Yahoo message board, a child was offered for re-homing on average once a week (Yahoo has since closed the board). Most of the children ranged in age from 6 to 14 and had been adopted abroad, but some were American-born.

When one troubled Russian girl was 12 years old, she was re-homed three times within six months and told Reuters that, by the time she was 13, a boy at one of the homes had sex with her - and then urinated on her.

A Chinese girl crippled by polio ended up in a home where a woman with an explosive temper was eventually overseeing 18 children. The girl says that the woman confiscated her leg brace, which she needed to walk. And, according to court records, the woman, as a form of punishment, once ordered her to dig a hole in the backyard - for her own grave.

"You die here and no one will know," the Chinese girl quoted the woman as saying. "No one will find you."
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Flashback SOTT Focus: John F. Kennedy, The Secret Service and Rich, Fascist Texans

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net
Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:00 UTC

Comment: This is the penultimate article in a series of 12 articles written in 2006 commemorating (at the time) the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of JFK. This year, 2013, is the 50th anniversary of what can, in hindsight and in Truth, be called the Day America Died.

Anyone who has taken the time to study the facts about that fateful day in Dallas, TX, will already know that JFK was deliberately murdered by a cabal of psychopathic warmongers who were opposed to his plans for a more peaceful world. That same cabal is still in power today, and it has extended its reach across the globe.

We will be featuring one article per day between now and the anniversary.

You can find the rest of the JFK series on the right hand bar of Sott.net. You can also purchase a Kindle of the whole series on Amazon.

If you do nothing else, just take the time to watch the Sott.net/QFG produced version of 'Evidence of Revision', a three disc set that presents archive footage that will leave you in no doubt who killed JFK and why.


John F. Kennedy, The Secret Service and Rich, Fascist Texans



A handbill circulated on November 21, 1963 In Dallas, Texas, one day before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.


On November 21st, 1963, 44 years ago today, the 1,035th day of John F. Kennedy's tenure as President, he asked the Congress for $95.7 million in supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 1964. He also asked his economic advisers to prepare a "War on Poverty" program for 1964. Then, President Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy departed for a two-day trip to Texas. It was to be his last full day on Earth.
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Stormtrooper

Saudi Arabia man arrested by 'vice police' for giving out free hugs

Felicity Morse
The Independent, UK
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:57 UTC
Free Hugs
© The Independent, UK
A man who decided to offer 'free hugs' in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh has been arrested by the state's religious police.

Abdulrahman al-Khayyal went out onto the streets along with a friend carrying a placard saying 'free hugs', apparently inspired by a viral video of a campaign posted on YouTube earlier this week.

In that video Bandr al-Swed was filmed hugging young men, in a three minute clip that racked up over a million views in three days.

Inspired by the cuddling campaign, 21-year-old Al-Khayyal announced on Twitter that he was going to offer free hugs in Tahliya, one of the main shopping streets.

However the two men were arrested and their 'free hugs' banners seized, CNN Arabic reported.

Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested the two men in Riyadh for violating local laws and engaging in "exotic practices", Al Hayat newspaper said. They were then made to sign a pledge that they would not go out again.
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