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Postby Burnt Hill » Thu Feb 25, 2016 4:23 pm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/02/24/scalia-may-have-forgotten-to-hook-himself-up-to-sleep-apnea-machine-why-that-can-be-dangerous/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_tyh-scalia-115pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Did sleep apnea contribute to Justice Scalia’s death? His unplugged breathing machine raises that question.

Only one thing appeared amiss: a breathing apparatus. The small device, called a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine, was on the nightstand next to him — but unplugged and not turned on.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby 82_28 » Fri Feb 26, 2016 1:03 am

I had a bunch of people alone in a cabin CO and I filmed it all once. Unfortunately I no longer have the footage. But I created a fake cult in which everyone wore green robes. They were the robes the bed and breakfast provided -- we were at a wedding. I forget the chant I made up. It was great fun. Gah. What was the chant? Where is the footage? Lost to time.

It was hilarious though and not evil. But I got at least 15 people to play along. In fact everyone did.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:03 pm

Scalia Took Dozens of Trips Funded by Private Sponsors
By ERIC LIPTONFEB. 26, 2016

The West Texas ranch where Justice Antonin Scalia was staying when he died. It is owned by a businessman whose company had recently had a matter before the Supreme Court. Credit Matthew Busch/Getty Images

WASHINGTON — Antonin Scalia was the longest-tenured justice on the current Supreme Court and the country’s most prominent constitutionalist. But another quality also set him apart: Among the court’s members, he was the most frequent traveler, to spots around the globe, on trips paid for by private sponsors.

When Justice Scalia died two weeks ago, he was staying, again for free, at a West Texas hunting lodge owned by a businessman whose company had recently had a matter before the Supreme Court.

Though that trip has brought new attention to the justice’s penchant for travel, it was in addition to the 258 subsidized trips that he took from 2004 to 2014. Justice Scalia went on at least 23 privately funded trips in 2014 alone to places like Hawaii, Ireland and Switzerland, giving speeches, participating in moot court events or teaching classes. Just a few weeks before his death, he was in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Many of the justices are frequent expenses-paid travelers, a practice that some court scholars say is a minor matter, given that many of the trips involve public talks that help demystify the court. But others argue that the trips could potentially create the appearance of a conflict of interest, particularly when the organizations are known for their conservative or liberal views. Some groups at times use the presence of a Supreme Court justice as a way to pull in members or other paying guests.

Supreme Court Travel
A look at the numbers of privately paid trips taken by Supreme Court justices from 2004-2014, ranked top to bottom by frequency of travel per year.

Scalia
258 trips in 11 years
23.5 trips per year
Breyer
185 trips in 11 years
16.8 trips per year
Sotomayor
67 trips in 5 years
13.4 trips per year
Kennedy
132 trips in 11 years
12.0 trips per year
Ginsburg
117 trips in 11 years
10.6 trips per year
Alito
83 trips in 9 years
10.1 trips per year
Kagan
33 trips in 4 years
8.3 trips per year
Thomas
86 trips in 11 years
7.8 trips per year
Roberts
48 trips in 10 years
4.8 trips per year
Source: Center for Responsive Politics
“I am worried about the public perception of gratitude, even if there is no effect on your behavior,” said Stephen Gillers, a professor at the New York University School of Law who specializes in legal ethics. “And the greater the luxury, the greater the risk of public suspicion.”

Ethical standards prohibit judges from accepting gifts from anyone with a matter currently before the court. But those guidelines presented no barrier to John Poindexter, who invited Justice Scalia to stay at his West Texas ranch.

Mr. Poindexter is the owner of J. B. Poindexter & Co., a manufacturing firm based in Houston with more than 4,000 employees. One of his companies, the Mic Group, was a defendant in an age discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee who unsuccessfully petitioned the Supreme Court for a review last year.

Mr. Poindexter, according to a former general manager at the ranch, is also a leader in a group known as the International Order of St. Hubertus, a worldwide organization of hunters, as, apparently, were several other guests during Justice Scalia’s visit. The Washington Post first reported the guests’ ties to the hunting group.

Mr. Gillers and other legal experts said they saw nothing wrong with Mr. Scalia’s accepting a free room at Mr. Poindexter’s lodge. While the Ethics in Government Act, adopted after Watergate, requires high-level federal employees, including judges, to fill out disclosure reports for reimbursements worth more than $335, the visit to the ranch might not have required a formal disclosure, because accommodations provided by a private individual are exempt under current rules.

But Gabe Roth, the executive director of an organization called Fix the Court, said that the Supreme Court needed a formal vetting process for privately funded trips, similar to the one used by Congress, where ethics committees sign off on trips before lawmakers take them.

“This is just part of the pattern of a lack of transparency from the high court,” he said. “It is impossible to tell if there is a specific breach of any conflict of interest laws.”

After Justice Scalia, the second most active traveler on the current court is Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who took 185 privately paid trips from 2004 to 2014, according to a database built by the Center for Responsive Politics, based on individual reports filed by the justices.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., based on a yearly average, had the fewest of these privately funded trips — a total of 48 from 2005 to 2014, the last year for which records are available. Over all, Supreme Court members disclosed 1,009 paid trips between 2004 and 2014.

The destinations often are luxurious, including the Casa de Campo Resort in the Dominican Republic, where Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was listed as a speaker for an event last February, or Zurich, where Justice Scalia traveled at least three times on privately funded trips.

In 2011, a liberal advocacy group, Common Cause, questioned whether Justice Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas should have disqualified themselves from participating in the landmark Citizens United case on campaign finance because they had attended a political retreat in Palm Springs, Calif., sponsored by the conservative financier Charles G. Koch. Mr. Koch funds groups that could benefit from the ruling.

The disclosure report filed by Justice Thomas made no mention of the retreat. It said only that he had taken a trip, funded by the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, to Palm Springs to give a speech.

Over roughly a decade, Justice Scalia took 21 trips sponsored by the Federalist Society, to places like Park City, Utah; Napa, Calif.; and Bozeman, Mont. The Federalist Society also paid for trips by Justice Alito during that period, but not for any liberal justices, the disclosure reports show.

“There are fair questions raised by some of these trips about their commitment to being impartial,” said Stephen Spaulding, the legal director at Common Cause. “They are dancing so close to the line with overtly political events.”

Legislation is pending in the House and the Senate that would require the Supreme Court to create a formal ethics system, beyond the Ethics in Government Act, similar to the one that governs actions of all other federal judges. That system is known as the Code of Conduct for United States Judges.

Chief Justice Roberts has argued that the Supreme Court, even though it generally abides by this judicial ethics code, is not obligated to do so. It restricts how much judges can be paid for private travel, and limits other activities outside the court, such as allowing private organizations to use “the prestige of judicial office” for fund-raising purposes.

“The questionable activities of some of our Supreme Court justices have been well documented,” including “participating in political functions,” Representative Louise M. Slaughter, Democrat of New York, said in a statement explaining why she introduced the legislation last year. She was referring to the trips by Justices Scalia and Thomas to the events sponsored by Mr. Koch.

But Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, said that liberal groups’ focus on the trips simply offered them an avenue to criticize conservative justices when in fact they had done nothing wrong.

“They are creating an ethics issue to try to put pressure on justices to get them to rule a certain way,” he said.

The disclosure reports show that the majority of the privately funded trips — by far — are sponsored by universities, both in the United States and around the world.

Richard L. Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine, said that society could benefit when justices — who are paid about $250,000 a year, far less than they would earn in private practice — leave Washington to speak about how the court works.

“It makes the opaque court more transparent and explains what is going on,” he said.

In a new study, Dr. Hasen also found that in part through their travel, justices have increasingly gained a celebrity status, with websites like SCOTUS Map tracking their trips, based on public announcements, long before they show up in any disclosure report.

“Justice Sonia Sotomayor runs into Hillary Clinton at a Costco, and that makes national news,” Dr. Hasen said. “Now they are celebrities, so we just hear about them more.”
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:52 pm

Justice Scalia Spent His Final Hours With Members of an Ancient, Secretive Society of Elite Hunters
The mysterious International Order of St. Hubertus is steeped in the heritage of European nobility, the "royal hunt" — and war.
By Paula Young Lee / Salon February 26, 2016


When Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly on Feb. 13, he was at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Texas, hunting for pheasant and chukar. It has now been revealed that he was in the company of 35 members of an “exclusive fraternity for hunters called the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian society that dates back to the 1600s.” According to the Washington Post, the owner of the ranch, John Poindexter, and Scalia’s traveling companion are both high-ranking members of the group.

It sounds like a terrific setup for a conspiracy theory. But how secret can a society be if it has offices and a website? Its existence is out in the open. The tricky part is pinning down the names of its members. Was Scalia one of their official numbers? Probably not, given that the Order is “under the Royal Protection of His Majesty Juan Carlos of Spain, the Grand Master Emeritus His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke Andreas Salvator of Austria and our Grand Master … His Imperial and Royal Highness Istvan von Habsburg Lothringen, Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary.” In other words, the named ranking members are passionate about hunting to the point of folly. They also tend to be royal or, if American, officers in the military. I would not be surprised to learn that princes Charles, William and Harry are members. (Though Elizabeth I was renowned for her hunting skills, there don’t appear to be any women in this Order.)

There are reasons for both the high level of social privilege as well as the commitment of its members to an activity that many Americans find both anachronistic and offensive. The Order’s motto is “Deum Diligite Animalia Diligentes” or “Honoring God by Honoring His Creatures.” No less quaint to modern ears is the affirmation that the “a true knightly order in the historical tradition.” So what’s the history here? Let’s start with the name of the order itself. Hubert (or Hubertus) was a French saint and bishop of Lìege in the 700s who took his story from Saint Eustace, who began his life as a Roman soldier named Placidus. As described in the Golden Legend, 1275:

So on a day, as he was on hunting, he found a herd of harts, among whom he saw one more fair and greater than the other… And [the hart] spake to him, saying: Placidus, wherefore followest me hither? I am appeared to thee in this beast for the grace of thee. I am Jesu Christ.


In medieval illuminations, the hart of St. Eustace/St. Hubert appears with a crucifix suspended between its antlers, which have 10 prongs to represent each of the Ten Commandments. This is the origin of the much-mocked “holy hunter,” who combines reverence for God’s creations with a (seemingly contradictory) love of hunting wild creatures.

Crucially, until the 19th century, hunting in Europe was traditionally restricted to members of the nobility who had the express permission of the king to hunt his land. This could cause resentment among nobles as well as the peasantry. For example, Forest Law was the central conflict in “Robin Hood,” as the merry men, starving peasants all, were forbidden to hunt the King’s forest, and so they resorted to poaching. We have nothing today that resembles the theologically saturated performance that was the royal hunt, which involved hundreds of men, horses and dogs for a protracted activity that was ceremonial, symbolic and limited to ten quarry animals: Five noble beasts blessed by God, and five “black beasts (bete noirs)” who were creatures of the devil.

Yet the truest of hunters wasn’t a saint, but Sir Tristan (or Tristram) of Lyoness, who was also the first and best of knights. To those who would “learn the art of venery or hunting,” wrote George Turberville in 1576, “let him give eare, to skilfull Trystrams lore.” There are many versions of Tristan’s legend, but one of the oldest, an early 13th century German manuscript, devoted extensive passages to hunting lore. Sir Thomas Malory made most of those passages disappear in his celebrated “Morte d’arthur” (“Death of King Arthur”), first published in 1485. By the time the 19th century rolled around, Tristan was too busy reading poetry to his uncle’s wife, Ysolde, to go galloping after wild deer.

Notably, however, it wasn’t until the 17th century that the royal hunt was understood as a sublimated form of war. It was in 1695 that Count Franz Anton von Sporck founded the Order of St. Hubertus in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia, now the modern Czech Republic. At this moment, I cannot independently verify what the “history” section of the Order’s website claims, but it affirms that in 1938, after Austria was absorbed by the German Reich, “Herman Göring demanded membership in the Order and executed the Grand Prior when he was denied.” Later, surviving members “were authorized by Halvor O. Ekern, chief political advisor of the US Armed Forces in Austria to use their sporting guns to provide winter food to the rural population, avoiding not only famine but helping to save the country from falling behind the Iron Curtain” after the end of WWII.

Göring was not only Reichsmarschall and founder of the Gestapo, but Jagermeister (or Hunting Master) during the Nazi era, and the Library of Congress has dozens of images on file documenting his enthusiasm for the activity. He was a good hunter but a terrible human being, and that the men of the Order of St. Hubertus would rather die than make him a member says something about their values. Once the Order of St. Hubertus was reinstated in 1950, the American diplomats and generals involved in bringing about the end of WWII were the first American members. In 1967, 1st Lt. Don Feeney (U.S. Army 7th medical brigade, 56th medical battalion) was stationed in Germany, and each battalion had an officer assigned to interact with the local authorities. Among other things, Lt. Feeney had to work with the forest manager to compensate locals for damage after American military maneuvers. He eventually received permission to shoot two deer, but never undertook it, as it was simply too different from American practices. What he described was more a cull than a hunt, as he was to shoot two aged bucks that the forest manager had specified, and under his supervision. The following year, in 1968, George Wood founded the first American branch of the Order of St. Hubertus.

1950 is not that long ago, but the world has drastically changed. Today, the International Order of St. Hubertus asserts that its members are also wildlife conservationists. Again, it is difficult to interpret this without additional material to assess, but it is also the case that ethical hunters are, in fact, dedicated to preserving the wildlife as well as the wilderness. That desire to preserve nature was what prompted the Great White Hunter himself, Theodore Roosevelt, to create the National Park system. One crucial difference is that Scalia was not “in nature” but at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, which offers hunting as an activity for all of its guests, not just nobles. (What its website describes is a drive, not a canned hunt, so requires shooting skills but not expert hunting abilities.) Today, the human relationship to nature and animals is very different from what it used to be three centuries ago. What hasn’t changed, alas, is the human tendency to war.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sat Feb 27, 2016 11:55 pm

Maybe the aristocrats didn't appreciate the power given to their corporate underlords in Citizens United?
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Grizzly » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:30 am

Can someone explain to me the big deal or significance of thomas clarence asking questions On the case ;what's the big media making a deal out of it? So after 10 years this judge asks a question what's the metal understand can somebody clue me in?
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Postby Grizzly » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:32 am

Grizzly » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:30 am wrote:Can someone explain to me the big deal or significance of thomas clarence asking questions On the case ;what's the media making a deal out of it? So after 10 years this judge asks a question l dont understand can somebody clue me in?
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Postby Grizzly » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:33 am

Grizzly » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:32 am wrote:
Grizzly » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:30 am wrote:Can someone explain to me the big deal or significance of thomas clarence asking questions On a case ; what's the media making a deal out of it for? So after 10 years this judge asks a question l dont understand can somebody clue me in?
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:48 am

Scalia is speaking from the grave :P
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Postby IanEye » Tue Mar 01, 2016 1:50 pm

Grizzly » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:33 am wrote:
Grizzly » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:32 am wrote:
Grizzly » Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:30 am wrote:Can someone explain to me the big deal or significance of thomas clarence asking questions On a case ; what's the media making a deal out of it for? So after 10 years this judge asks a question l dont understand can somebody clue me in?


Basically, Scalia was a servant of the oligarchy, but he had a higher status than Thomas.

Scalia's masters would tell him how to rule on a particular case before the Supreme Court.

Scalia in turn would pass this information onto Thomas, who would also adopt this mindset and ruling, in lockstep with Scalia.

Now that Scalia is dead, Thomas gets to ascend in status, but he has to do more work (actually pose questions regarding the case).
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Iamwhomiam » Tue Mar 01, 2016 4:45 pm

That's more politely put than what I had in mind, slad.

It's not just that no one ever expected him speak out, but that the few sentences, questions, really were important to the matter before the court.

The case is contesting the right of states to confiscate weapons owned by one accused, but not yet proven guilty of domestic violence.

The first link given in the HuffPo article linked to below explains the issue now before the court.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clarence-thomas-gun-rights_us_56d46b25e4b0871f60ec0c61

Mother Jones' take:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/02/justice-clarence-thomas-speaks
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby semper occultus » Wed Mar 02, 2016 7:14 am

...FWIW... :shrug:

Owl: Veterans Today on Justice Scalia’s Death — Murder, Pedophelia, and More….

http://www.phibetaiota.net/2016/03/owl-veterans-today-on-justice-scalias-death-murder-pedophelia-and-more/

Three articles by Gordon Duff of Veterans Today suggest Justice Scalia was a major figure in blocking prosecution of elite pedophiles, and perhaps a pedophile himself.

Scalia Murdered After Obama Meeting: White House confrontation over FBI file leads to Scalia killing [by pedophiles, not Obama]

Scalia Sleeps With the Fishes: Worst person in the world found dead in Texas “rent boy ranch,” playground for Mike Jagger and Charlie Sheen

Accusations: Former Victim Claims Scalia Was a Pedophile

Phi Beta Iota: For some time now we have been concerned about the FBI’s not being allowed to do its job against religious, financial, and ideological traitors — and elite pedophiles. We consider elite pedophilia the final veil that will — along with increased public awareness of how rigged the system is against the 99% — the natural foundation for a populist revolution that restores integrity to governance, the economy, and society. There are at least four points that Gordon Duff brings out that we consider worthy of public reflection:

01 Whether Scalia was a pedophile or not, he appears to have been the top jurist in America with secret society and Vatican ties, and perhaps in a position to block legal action against elite pedophiles.

02 Elite ranches (or in the case of Bill Clinton’s friend, Jeffrey Epstein, Caribbean islands) are immune from legal scrutiny and may be a primary means by which child slaves are kept isolated and available.

03 We ignored the Franklin Scandal in Kansas, and we evidently ignored the Boston Scandal as well (today the topic of a movie, Spotlight), with the result that today elite pedophilia and trade in children continued without pause.

04 Whether sarcastic or not, Scalia is on record as asking if pedophiles should be protected as gays are protected — this raises the question of values. As trans-gender and trans-age claimants insist on the right to use bathrooms with the other gender, or in the case of one notorious 50 year old, to play with seven year olds) the question has to be asked: at what point does a society reserve the right to prohibit harmful practices including pedophilia and bestiality?

We have no direct knowledge but we do believe, on the basis of substantial secondary evidence, that the FBI is not being allowed to do its job; that elite pedophilia along with elite financial crime are the rot in our system; and that only full exposure will help us cleanse our society. This is an international problem. Elements of Wall Street, the City of London, and the Vatican appear to be the three corners of the Satanic triangle that is threatening to eat the heart of civilization.
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Re: Justice Antonin Scalia has died

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Wed Mar 02, 2016 7:34 am

semper I keep reading that Duff makes that accusation about Scalia. That he was a pedophile and possibly worse,. but every time I see the link it there is nothing of that accusation on the page.

It looks like this.

Scalia Sleeps With the Fishes

Worst person in the world found dead in Texas "rent boy ranch," playground for Mike Jagger and Charlie Sheen

(The Luca Brasi Death pic)

… by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

Justice Scalia was found dead at a “ranch” in Texas where he was a “guest.” When the Washington Post asked the host, John Poindexter, about Scalia’s “free ride,” Poindexter pointed out that nobody pays at his ranch; all are “free guests.” What Poindexter is evasive about is what goes on there, what services are also given and who is invited.

An examination of Scalia’s history as a continual “free guest” is telling. This is a man who never picked up a bill and, as with his hunting trip with Dick Cheney during the lawsuit against Cheney and his energy task force, Scalia didn’t care if his fellow “guests” had cases before the court. Let’s look at this man, who I see as a strong contender for “worst person that ever lived.”

The worst thing to happen to the United States since the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court, pushed through by corporate “hitman” Scalia. He put the mob in charge of Washington and lived on the fatted calf for his efforts. From Salon:

Antonin Scalia was one of the most profoundly dishonest men in the history of American public life. He made Richard Nixon seem almost quaint by comparison. But that’s not the impression being broadcast to the world today.

Scalia’s death has let forth an elite love fest of such remarkable intensity, you’d think he was war criminal Henry Kissinger.

Maybe if you weren’t an elite lawyer, or media commentator, but rather someone to had suffer as a result of his bigoted cruelty? Maybe then you’d see things a bit differently, if you were someone close to Leonel Herrera, or Anthony Davis. Who are those men, you say? Two men facing execution with credible claims of actual innocence, that’s who.

If the law does not protect the innocent, then it’s hard to conceive what the law is for. Yet, Scalia—so deeply devoted to the rule of law — repeatedly held that it did not.

In his 1993 concurrence in Herrera v. Collins he wrote:
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction.

Sixteen years later, in the case of Anthony Davis, after seven key eyewitnesses recanted their testimony, some fingering a man who testified against Davis, Scalia wrote:

This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is “actually” innocent.

So you’re innocent? So what? That was Scalia’s “judicial philosophy” in a nutshell. He was the giant of the conservative legal world for three decades—its Ronald Reagan—and that’s precisely what he stood for. That’s what the conservative legal world stands for.

Who really owned Scalia is the Koch Brothers, who have feted him and his silent friend, Clarence Thomas. Other than his cavalier attitude about killing innocent people, something Scalia laughed about continually, finding executions of the innocent not just acceptable but actually amusing.

You see, Scalia was a bit of a Scrooge. We know why he died, his heart was four sizes too small.

Scalia hated women, part of his upbringing in a dysfunctional family but he also hated people of color and, as he became more and more powerful and insulated, his raging hatred against America and all but the rich and powerful became impossible to miss.

Scalia dies, not from a knife in the back or a pillow over is face but by his own words and deeds, a monster.

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then a big red block with this in it:

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Nothing in there about his pedophilia. I've seen quotes from it and screen shots that look different to page as it is now but nothing where I could read what seems to be a different page with the original article.
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Postby semper occultus » Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:43 am

Interesting...I don't consult VT but David Steele seems to hoover up prodigous amounts of data from all types of sources....
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Postby Joe Hillshoist » Wed Mar 02, 2016 9:02 am

I was only looking at it to read that specific article. There were things online about the article being censored and that seems to be the case.
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