LAUS DEO

Do you know what it means ?
With all the uproar about removing the ten commandments, etc., this is worth a moment or two of your time. Most Americans are not aware of this amazing historical information.

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Do you know what it means ?

One detail that is never mentioned is that in Washington , D.C. There can never be a building of greater height than the Washington Monument.

With all the uproar about removing the ten commandments, etc., this is worth a moment or two of your time. Most Americans are not aware of this amazing historical information.

On the aluminum cap, atop the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., are displayed two words:
Laus Deo.

No one can see these words. In fact, most visitors to the monument are totally unaware they are even there and for that matter, probably couldn’t care less.

These words have been there for many years; they are 555 feet, 5.125 inches high, perched atop the monument, facing skyward to the Father of our nation, over looking the 69 square miles which comprise the District of Columbia, capital of the United States of America.

Laus Deo! Two seemingly insignificant, unnoticed words. Out of sight and, one might think, out of mind, but very meaningfully placed at the highest point over what is the most powerful city in the most successful nation in the world.

So, what do those two words, in Latin, composed of just four syllables and only seven letters, possibly mean? Very simply, they say ‘Praise be to God!’

Though construction of this giant obelisk began in 1848, when James Polk was President of the United States, it was not until 1888 that the monument was inaugurated and opened to the public. It took twenty-five years to finally cap the memorial with a tribute to the Father of our nation,

Laus Deo
‘Praise be to God!‘

From atop this magnificent granite and marble structure, visitors may take in the beautiful panoramic view of the city with its division into four major segments. From that vantage point, one can also easily see the original plan of the designer, Pierre Charles l’Enfant ….. a perfect cross imposed upon the landscape, with the White House to the north. The Jefferson Memorial is to the south, the Capitol to the east and the Lincoln Memorial to the west.

A cross you ask? Why a cross? What about separation of church and state?

Yes, a cross; separation of church and state was not, is not, in the Constitution.

So, read on. How interesting and, no doubt, intended to carry a profound meaning for those who bother to notice.

When the cornerstone of the Washington Monument was laid on July 4th, 1848 deposited within it were many items including the Holy Bible presented by the Bible Society.

Praise be to God!

Such was the discipline, the moral direction, and the spiritual mood given by the founder and first President of our unique republic ‘One Nation, Under God!

I am awed by George Washington’s prayer for America ….. Have you ever read it? Well, now is your unique opportunity, so read on!

‘ Almighty God; We make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy protection; that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; and entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. And finally that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.’

Laus Deo!

It hope you will share this with every child you know; to every sister, brother, father, mother or friend. They will not find offense, because you have given them a lesson in history that they probably never learned in school. With that, be not ashamed, or afraid, but have pity on those who will never see this.

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#ReleaseTheMemo

From the beginning it was a set up to find dirt on Trump campaign insiders and if possible to topple Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations.

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From the beginning it was a set up to find dirt on Trump campaign insiders and if possible to topple Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations.

Before and after the 2016 election. And while this operation had many moving parts and alternating players, the mission to unseat Trump never changed. And it remains ongoing.

Paul Manafort was wiretapped. Cater Page was wiretapped. Donald Trump Jr. was wiretapped. Jared Kushner was wiretapped. Gen. Michael Flynn was wiretapped. And likely there were others.

And none of it was very legal.

In fact, most of it was very illegal, according to federal law enforcement sources who are blowing the whistle on a sweeping scheme to undermine the Executive branch and the electorate’s choice for president of the United States.

And according to high ranking FBI sources, the Bureau played a definitive role in plotting this sweeping privacy breach. But the FBI had much help from the NSA, CIA, the Office of of the Director of National Intelligence, Treasury financial crimes division under DHS, and the Justice Department, federal law enforcement sources confirmed.

The Deep State caretakers involved are familiar names: James Comey (FBI), John Brennan (CIA), James Clapper (ODNI), Loretta Lynch (DOJ), Jeh Johnson (DHS), Admiral Michael Rogers (NSA). And then-director of GCHQ Robert Hannigan who has since resigned from the esteemed British spy agency.

Here is what we now know…

Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself.
To feign ignorance and to seemingly operate within U.S. laws, the agencies freelanced the wiretapping of Trump associates to the British spy agency GCHQ.
The decision to insert GCHQ as a back door to eavesdrop was sparked by the denial of two FISA Court warrant applications filed by the FBI to seek wiretaps of Trump associates.
GCHQ did not work from London or the UK. In fact the spy agency worked from NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, MD with direct NSA supervision and guidance to conduct sweeping surveillance on Trump associates.
The illegal wiretaps were initiated months before the controversial Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
The Justice Department and FBI set up the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner with controversial Russian officials to make Trump’s associates appear compromised.
Following the Trump Tower sit down, GCHQ began digitally wiretapping Manafort, Trump Jr., and Kushner.
After the concocted meeting by the Deep State, the British spy agency could officially justify wiretapping Trump associates as an intelligence front for NSA because the Russian lawyer at the meeting Natalia Veselnitskaya was considered an international security risk and prior to the June sit down was not even allowed entry into the United States or the UK, federal sources said.
By using GCHQ, the NSA and its intelligence partners had carved out a loophole to wiretap Trump without a warrant. While it is illegal for U.S. agencies to monitor phones and emails of U.S. citizens inside the United States absent a warrant, it is not illegal for British intelligence to do so. Even if the GCHQ was tapping Trump on U.S. soil at Fort Meade.
The wiretaps, secured through illicit scheming, have been used by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election, even though the evidence is considered “poisoned fruit.”

Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who spearheaded the Trump Tower meeting with the Trump campaign trio, was previously barred from entering the United Sates due to her alleged connections to the Russian FSB (the modern replacement of the cold-war-era KGB).

Yet mere days before the June meeting, Veselnitskaya was granted a rare visa to enter the United States from Preet Bharara, the then U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York.

Federal law enforcement sources said Bharara was simply following the orders of Attorney General Lynch, who lobbied the State Department to issue the disavowed Russian a B1/B2 non-immigrant visa. This permitted Veselnitskaya entry into the United States for the sole purpose of entrapping Trump associates to use as fuel to commission wiretaps, federal sources said.
Veselnitskaya may have been paid as well by the U.S. government, FBI sources said. It was reported last week that Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier was paid at least $100,000 from FBI funds as well. But that came later, after the wiretapping was well underway.

The illegal eavesdropping started long before Steele’s dossier. Federal sources said the wiretaps on Trump insiders began in late 2015, almost a year before the 2016 election. The targets then were Flynn and Page, sources confirmed. When no smoking gun was recovered from those initial taps, U.S. intelligence agencies moved to broaden the scope through their newly-formed alliance.

Intelligence garnered from the British eavesdropping, which again was merely a front for the NSA, was then used in August 2016 to secure a legitimate FISA warrant on Manafort, Trump Jr. and Kushner. That warrant was issued on or about September, 2016, federal sources confirm.

It was the third time the cabal of U.S. intelligence agencies sought a FISA warrant for the Trump associates and this time it was approved.

FBI sources said finally obtaining the FISA warrant was important because it provided the agencies cover for previous illegal wiretapping which they believed would never be discovered.

“This would make for an incredible string of Senate hearings,” one federal law enforcement source said. “I don’t think they ever thought he (Trump) would win and information would come out about how they manipulated evidence.”

If they release the memo, the American taxpaying public will demand justice, the Deep State won’t be able to weasel out of it. This is the tip of the iceberg, once it’s been breached, it will be like ants on a carcass until there is nothing left but bare, dry bones.

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The sky is falling (and other government shutdown myths)

The hysteria peddlers using this terminology, and the media that purposely play to it, must know these two words emit an extreme emotional response. The phrase essentially becomes a weapon to be used on political opponents.

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OH NO! A “government shutdown”!

The hysteria peddlers using this terminology, and the media that purposely play to it, must know these two words emit an extreme emotional response. The phrase essentially becomes a weapon to be used on political opponents.

This enables the media to have undue influence in spending and undermines the sole power of the House on this issue.

A budget always involves the House of Representatives, as it alone constitutionally must initiate all government spending. “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives” (Article I, Sec. 7, Clause 1). This places the people in charge of taxation. The Senate cannot initiate a tax bill but can adjust any initiated by the House.

So what does a “government shutdown” look like?

Do the president and vice president resign now that the government ends? No, they stay on the job and receive full pay as before.

Does Congress fly out of Washington D. C. the following day and cease to draw their pay, and the Supreme Court cease to deliberate on constitutional questions? Does the army come home and cease to protect us?

No! No, NO!

Do states, counties, and cities no longer function? No again, they have their own tax base and policemen, prisons, and teachers remain in place.

Will we still get mail? Yes. The U.S. Postal Service functions as an independent business unit.

Will we still get Social Security benefits, food stamps, unemployment compensation and veterans’ benefits? Yes!

Why then the hysteria? Because these two words, “government shutdown,” and the possibility of missed food stamps send the largely uninformed into a frenzy—they finally awake from their stupor.

They largely know nothing of the wrangling of government to protect them from themselves and oppose any proposed government diet that might reduce their daily feed. They worshipfully listen to the party and political leaders that are least likely to disturb this base.

There will never be a government shut down because none of these things will ever happen, short of an overthrow of the government from within, the collapse of our financial structure , or a successful invasion from without. So stop the media frenzy and hysterical over-reaction.

The sky is NOT falling and a piece of it didn’t just hit you on the head Chuck Shumer, er, Nancy Pelosi, er, Chicken Little.

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Of plain talk and holes

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Deep State actors and the news media are in a race against reality.
When they are cornered, and they are out of options, Deep Staters have a nasty, but a really predictable habit of racializing everything.

They have been doing it to Donald Trump since the day he announced his candidacy.

Senators Durbin and Graham wanted to force their bipartisan DACA deal on the president, a program as divorced from reality as any episode of the Kardashians.

They thought that they could con Trump into agreeing to their solution that didn’t meet the president’s baseline and actually increased chain migration. The president, to their faces said it was dead on arrival.

Somebody went to the press, who has proven to be a reliable anti-Trump co-conspirator. They pedaled the story that Trump had referred to Haiti and unspecified African countries as s-holes and we should try to get Norwegian immigrants here instead.

SENATOR DICK DURBIN, D-ILL., MINORITY WHIP: “His comments said things which were hate filled, vile and racist. Calling the nations they come from (inaudible), exact word used by the president. Not just once but repeatedly.”

Now the president in a tweet denied that he used that language and Durbin clarified later that the president was referring to African countries whose citizens regularly use the visa lottery system, not Haiti itself. Two Senators who were in attendance at the meeting backed up the presidents’ version.

Now, setting aside the alleged remark for a moment, would you describe any of these countries as Club Med?

Let’s take a look at some of the real facts about a few of the countries that can’t keep their own people from leaving.

Now, let’s begin with El Salvador. Its capital has the highest murder rate in the world.

Somalia is one of the largest state sponsors of terrorism and is a safe haven for terrorists across the globe.

Sudan is one of the four countries on the U.S. state sponsors of terror list in addition to a lot of other bad facts.

Mexico is on the State Department’s “Do Not Travel” list because of safety concerns

They are rank with corruption, repression and,it’s obvious that they offer their citizens little hope of a better life.

In other words, they are hell holes. But, for the Democrats and their media allies who are forever feigning in affinity for the third world, facts don’t matter. After all, race baiting the president is so much more fun.

Trump is not the first profane president. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon are just two in recent memory who were notorious for their salty language. It’s just that the elites and their media lap dogs are so far removed from the people they purport to “serve” that they just don’t get it.

Joe and Suzy Sixpack think it’s wonderful. They think Trump doesn’t go far enough.

They want him to really let loose. They don’t know why he’s pussy-footing around. They love it when he tells it like it is. Trump says what he, and they, believe.

People like their candidates or officeholders to stand up and say what they believe instead of worrying about offending some group. The last president we had who didn’t seem to govern by poll numbers and group think was Harry Truman who was known for “telling it it is”. He also threatened to punch a news person in the nose for insulting Truman’s daughter Margaret. It seems as though President Trump is, in some ways, channeling Harry Truman.

If so, I would like to rework a phrase from the Truman era; “Give ’em hell Donald!”

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Oops, there it is

At 8:07 a.m. local time, all cell phones alerted, “Emergency alert: ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii, seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.”

This was obviously a huge failure of state government that added up to a big”oops!”

Maybe there really was a missile headed to Hawaii, maybe the real “screw-up” is it was one of ours and not one of theirs. Maybe this was a ridiculous and cruel test to see how people would react knowing their lives were about to be cut short by a stubby pork chop with a bad haircut. Whatever the case, you can always judge a calamity not by the act itself, but by the reaction.

Politicians, like politicians do, are trying to make political hay from it. But the question remains; “Exactly what DID happen?”

The National Intelligence Service says Pyongyang “has been implanting malicious codes by sending enticing text messages” from late February to early March 2017, adding that a fifth of those targeted were successfully hacked. The hackers stole text messages and voice communications, and they secured the numbers of senior government officials, it said.

The NIS has not disclosed which officials have been affected. The spy agency also said North Korea hacked a company that provides security software that is used by more than 20 million people for online banking and card payment. The NIS says no one was affected by that attack; only servers were damaged. If the can hack cell phones and bank security software, why no an attack warning system?

The isolated U.S. military silo that contains one of deadliest nuclear arsenals in the world – some 450 warheads that are each 20 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima – is being controlled by computers dating back to 1960s and a launch system that relies on floppy disks.

But security officials maintain their methods are not only functional but hack-free, with the underground control room in Wyoming not connected to the internet, stopping any cyber terrorists gaining control over the weapons.

That brings up a couple of questions;

1) If it’s not connected to the internet is it connected to some other network. If not, how do they communicate between the computers and the higher command? Carrier pigeon maybe?

2) If you are old enough to remember the 1960’s computers that ran off 3.5″ floppy disks, you also remember how easily those disks could get corrupted and send the computer into a tizzy. Was this a good old-fashioned MS-DOS “blue screen” episode?

Maybe it was a hack from an unfriendly country. Maybe it was a glitch from old computer equipment. Or, maybe… just maybe the answer is exactly what is being reported… human error.

Because, when it comes right down to it, artificial intelligence will always be overcome by natural stupidity.

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Bert the Turtle

On Saturday, January 13, 2018 the residents of Hawaii, (and, for that matter, the rest of the world), saw just how woefully unprepared our American society is.

https://youtu.be/KQdl1Fzwf9w

Those Americans who lived through the 1950’s Cold War Era are familiar with the concept of civilian-based civil defense programs. Unfortunately, the societal fabric of the country drastically changed with the fall of the old Soviet Union and Civil Defense in the US went from focus on individual preparation and survival to relying on the government, (in the form of FEMA), to come in after any disaster and pick up what’s left of the pieces.

On Saturday, January 13, 2018 the residents of Hawaii, (and, for that matter, the rest of the world), saw just how woefully unprepared our American society is. Reports of elected officials cowering in their bathtubs with their children, panicking mobs running chaotically at the university, folks standing outside staring at the sky trying to see incoming missiles… all of them without a clue… all of them looking for someone to blame.

“Much to-do has been made about the shock and indignation of many Americans when they learn that their nation has no defense against ballistic and cruise missiles. However, a more glaring, and infinitely less technically complex, deficiency is that all but a few Americans lack even the most basic personal protective equipment and live, work, and study in environments that afford little shelter against chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) incidents”

“Since the end of the Cold War, America’s programs (except those designed to protect key government leaders) to provide shelter, food, and water in the case of a nuclear exchange have essentially disappeared. Although an Office of Civil Defense existed within FEMA to coordinate these programs, the office was quietly closed during the mid-1990s. Questions regarding public and private shelters as well as personal protective equipment (gas masks, chemical suits, etc.) must now be referred to state emergency preparedness offices.”

For years, a political movement determined to disarm America had persuaded the public there was no use in trying to save lives during a nuclear war. We were all going to die. We might as well be vaporized. There was no point in trying to prepare, no point in defending ourselves, no point in living if we were attacked.

This movement ultimately won out and became official national policy during the Clinton years.

But the movement is based totally on lies. People do survive nuclear blasts. Most people survived the initial blasts on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many emerged from the rubble unscathed — only to die a miserable and unnecessary death from fallout. There were dire predictions the two islands would never be inhabited again — or at least for 75 years. Nagasaki and Hiroshima today are bustling metropolises — much bigger, more prosperous and more healthy places to live than they were before the blasts.

There is no question that properly constructed and stocked shelters can and do save lives during nuclear attacks. The proof? Russia has built them. China has built them. The Swiss have built them. All of them, by the way, built based on technology developed by the US government and paid for by US taxpayers — who remain defenseless.

There’s more proof, not all Americans are left defenseless. Your federal government has used your tax dollars to build shelters for itself and its key people — tens of thousands of them. They will survive the inevitable attack on the US. You, the taxpaying public, will not.

That’s the plan. National suicide.

Learning as much as possible about the threats facing us and reasonable measures we as individuals can take to protect ourselves and our loved ones to make up for the shortfall of government assistance is a vital, effort we should make.

It is time that we relearn the lessons taught by Bert the Turtle. It is time we once again, took personal responsibility for the safety of ourselves and our families instead of counting on the government nannies.

People are getting TOO upset and demanding stupid things like “de-nuclearization” (this from Tulsi Gabbard, a supposedly intelligent member of Congress). Sorry, Tulsi, the nuclear genie is out of the bottle. We know how to make them. If you could magically make them all disappear today, someone would have more built within 6 months. Not gonna happen, even in your dream world.

Get used to it, get prepared. I think that’s what shocked people the most, realizing just how unprepared they are. It’s a hash reality, and being slapped in the face with the truth makes some people hysterical and irrational. I fully expect all the blowhards to bluster for a few days about what should be done, and then accomplish exactly nothing.

The intelligent will realize the truth and make their own preparations, realizing they can’t depend on a government that’s as socialist as the state of Hawaii’s is. Even if that includes finding another place to live

A Chicken Coup?

This has been tweeted about by respected law professor Josh Blackman: .@CFPBDirector reverses policies at @CFPB, #Resistance forms “Dumbledore’s Army,” uses text messages and encrypted apps to secretly communicate about government business https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/business/cfpb-mick-mulvaney.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&referer=android-app://com.noinnion.android.greader.readerpro …

The most powerful branch of today’s government is the Fourth: the permanent federal bureaucracy that is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. The Trump administration can best be viewed, perhaps, as a struggle to the death between American voters and the federal employees who are paid to serve them.

The constant media drumbeat of anti-Trump propaganda is, in many instances, taking its’ toll. The question is not; “Will the Trump presidency survive?”, but, more accurately and more darkly; “Will the Republic survive?” And, perhaps, more to the point, will the majority of Americans just shrug and accept what they have been given?

Here we go again

Another vehicle attack, this time in NYC!

Could have been much worse, were it not for a courageous school-bus driver

As has been pointed-out by many, including me, this kind of attack is easily put together, and easily exported.
We’ll see more of it!
The single suspect is “middle-eastern,” and yelled “Allahu Akbar” during the attack. What a surprise
NYC’s dufus mayor almost immediately (wishfully) declared that there was no ongoing threat, long before he had any business saying any such thing. Liberals, in and out of the media, typically tell you what they wish were true, not what is actually true!
He also (as usual) declared the suspect a “lone wolf.” More wishful thinking!
Typical ineffective government response will be the imposition of new restrictions on rental vehicles, which will of course, have zero effect on terrorists. Similar attempts to impose burdensome restrictions on the private ownership of guns are also ineffective. Once more, we’re predictably treated to lots of “security theater,” but precious little actual security, as we see!

What can be done by units of government to effectively address this kind of terrorist attack, and terrorist attacks in general?
All the things they don’t want to do:

Restrict immigration from terrorist nations.
Adopt “criminal profiling” as standard LE procedure
Build a wall on our southern border.
Start deporting illegal immigrants.
Jail those who come back.

Again, none of the forgoing will happen any time soon.

What can we do as individuals?

Understand that you’re “on your own.”
Adopt personal preparedness as a way of life. Keep your head up
Tweak your lifestyle so that you reduce exposure to aggravated risk.
Acquire effective caliber weapons, pistols and rifles, and learn how to use them
Go armed
Have heavy weapons (rifles) always nearby
Be prepared to change plans, particularly travel plans, instantly
Be always ready to act decisively when necessary! Think in advance about what you might have to do, so you won’t hesitate. You will not get a second chance!

Terrorists will kill us all, unless we kill them first! It’s time everyone, in and out of government, confront this stark truth squarely!

All must take serious, personal responsibility for their own safety!
Conversely, when you think you want to be a “victim,” history will happily accommodate you, with no wavering, no regrets!

A quote from the movie “A Few Good Men” is appropriate here:

Nothing to see here… move along

The news cycle and the attention span of the public has moved the Las Vegas shooting incident out of the public consciousness. Nothing more of substance about the alleged shooter has been reported. No more news conferences or information regarding the weapons used or the weapons found.

59 souls reported dead and now two more who had survived fleeing the scene have experienced an equally horrific death in a single car crash just weeks after. And what do we hear from the Main Stream Media? Crickets.

According to the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4964652/Las-Vegas-killer-timeline-chaos-new-revelations.html#ixzz4x1aeToo6

Vegas gunman shot hotel security guard six minutes BEFORE he opened fire on crowd: Police reveal major change to timeline and admit they have no idea why he stopped shooting

Originally cops said that Stephen Paddock’s rampage was disturbed by a guard
Paddock fired through the door of his room, injuring guard Jesus Campos
But on Monday cops changed their story, saying Campos was fired on first
Campos was injured six minutes before Paddock’s 10-minute shooting spree
Cops had used Campos’s interruption to explain why cops weren’t delayed
Cops came just after he was hit, by which time Paddock was silent, they said
Now there’s a 16-minute gap between Campos being hit and Paddock stopping
And it was 20 minutes passed from Campos reporting he was hit to cops arriving
Campos wasn’t investigating gunshots, but instead an ‘open-door’ alarm
The door wasn’t specified, but was likely the stairwell next to Paddock’s room
Paddock had tampered with it to seal it up before the shooting, SWAT team said
Police are once more baffled why Paddock stopped firing on the crowd

Reports from air traffic controllers at McCarran airport of active shooters: https://twitter.com/MikeTokes/status/924508300783185921/video/1

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10:28 PM – 28 Oct 2017

Now in today’s Daily Mail there is this story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5030993/Couple-survived-Las-Vegas-shooting-killed-crash.html#ixzz4x1cq5XTs

Married Californian couple who survived the Vegas massacre die in a fiery car crash just half a mile from their home

Dennis and Lorraine Carver died when their car crashed into a metal gate
The husband and wife had survived the Las Vegas shooting that killed 59 people
Mr Carver is said to have jumped on top of his wife to shield her from the bullets
They escaped uninjured before being killed in the fiery collision two weeks later

Hey, it had to be an unfortunate accident. They died in a car crash didn’t they?

Well, there is this from Huffpo: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-car-hacked_n_3492339.html

According to a prominent security analyst, technology exists that could’ve allowed someone to hack his car. Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post that what is known about the single-vehicle crash is “consistent with a car cyber attack.”

Clarke said, “There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers” — including the United States — know how to remotely seize control of a car.

“What has been revealed as a result of some research at universities is that it’s relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a car, and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver doesn’t want acceleration, to throw on the brakes when the driver doesn’t want the brakes on, to launch an air bag,” Clarke told The Huffington Post. “You can do some really highly destructive things now, through hacking a car, and it’s not that hard.”

“So if there were a cyber attack on the car — and I’m not saying there was,” Clarke added, “I think whoever did it would probably get away with it.”

Oh, well… I’m sure the Powers that Be will get to the bottom of things and tell us the “truth” soon enough,,, time to get back to the breathless coverage about Paul Manafort.

Flip the lever, pull the chain

The only true secrets are those that remain hidden. The only true mysteries, those that can never be solved.

There are events swirling like street dirt driven by the heady gusts of an incoming weather front.

Redacted information from events over a half century in the past withheld; a 180 degree change of direction in the probe regarding an international adversary; sudden information available regarding those alleged to be “good guys” and none of it making any coherent sense unless you have a depth chart hidden in plain sight and therefore mostly overlooked.

We must remember that those pushing the buttons and pulling the levers that control the machine generally are not concerned with controlling particular lives, (especially those of little import to them). They wish to control events, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly. It is about control, power and real wealth, and NOTHING happens without their input and approval.

The only true secrets are those that remain hidden. The only true mysteries, those that can never be solved.