by Timothy Chilman

email: timothychilman@yahoo.com

There are twice as many biographies of Hitler as there are of Churchill, and three times as many as for Rooseelt and Stalin. Photo: billium12

Adolf Hitler. The name is synonymous with evil. He was responsible for the deaths of millions of people. It is said that there exist more than 700 biographies of him: more than twice as many as for Churchill and three times as many as for Roosevelt and Stalin. And so the question inevitably arises: what was he like in the sack?

First of all, did Hitler have the necessary equipment? The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner to the CIA, tracked down Hitler’s family doctor, Dr. Eduard Bloch, to New York, to which he had relocated as a refugee. Dr. Bloch said that as a child, Hitler was “genitally normal.” There are, however, widespread rumors that this did not last. The humorous, British song from the Second World War, Hitler Has Only Got One Ball, popularized the idea. This song was sung to the tune of Colonel Bogey, which was the theme of the 1957 film, The Bridge on the River Kwai. There are many who believe the song got it right.

Researchers can always be found who will say, “Investigation demonstrates that Hitler acted very much like certain kinds of neurotic monorchids.” However, the strongest evidence that Hitler was monorchic is the account of a priest, Franciszek Pawlar, who had received the confession of Johan Jambor, a front-line medic serving with the German army during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Jambor died in 1985 at the age of 94, but had revealed his secret to the priest, who made a note of the conversation.

Hitler as a soldier during the First World War

Jambor collected injured soldiers for some hours. He recalled Hitler, who was referred to as “the Screamer” by those present because he screamed so much for help. His legs and abdomen were bloody. He had lost a testicle, and asked the doctor: “Will I be able to have children?”

The story was confirmed by Jambor’s friend Blassius Hanczuch, who said that after the Nazis came to power, Jambor suffered nightmares and blamed himself for saving Hitler.

The story was reported by the sordid British tabloid, The Sun. Neither the document nor the witness have been produced, but German army records show that Hitler was wounded in the groin at the Somme. Ian Kershaw, who authored a recent, much-respected biography of Hitler, said that the wound was to Hitler’s left thigh. The story was repeated by print and electronic sources on both sides of the Atlantic, which included some serious broadsheets.

In his 1968 book, The Death of Adolf Hitler, ex-Red Army intelligence officer Lev Bezymenski claimed that the Soviet autopsy of Hitler discovered that he possessed only one gonad, but later admitted this was untrue, and was one of several alterations he made at the behest of the KGB.

Allegations of Hitler’s homosexuality began when he was in power. The idea has featured in a number of books, most notably The Pink Swastika, by Pastor Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, and The Hidden Hitler, by Lothar Machtan. The Pink Swastika’s audience can be gauged by that fact that it was sold by the right-wing loonies at WorldNetDaily at a discount of $12.

Hip, homosexual poet, Allen Ginsberg, testified to the Supreme Court that the Nazi party was heavily homosexual.

The Pink Swastika quotes Allen Ginsberg, the hip, homosexual poet who in 1966 testified at an obscenity trial concerning William Burroughs’ book, the Naked Lunch. Ginsberg was asked by a Justice of the Supreme Court whether there might, at some point in the future, be a political party comprised of homosexuals. Ginsberg said it had already happened with the Nazis under Hitler. The exchange was related by the Gray Lady.

Lothar Machtan is a German historian with impressive academic credentials. Joachim Fest and Alan Bullock’s classic biographies of Hitler were used by Machtan as sources, and made some of the same points, although they were not emphasized.

During his younger years in Vienna, Hitler and his best friend frequented areas notorious for homosexual doings. Hitler stayed at a flophouse known universally as a hotbed of butt piracy. The records of the police in Vienna listed him as a “sexual pervert,“ although no offences are listed and this might have been no more than a suspicion. In May 1913, he moved to Munich, known as “a regular El Dorado for homosexuals.“ Machtan’s evidence is circumstantial, but men have gone to the gallows on circumstantial evidence.

Hitler can be placed elsewhere on the spectrum of sexuality. Hitler: the Missing Years was a book written by Ernst Hanfstängl, who became a close friend of Hitler in the 1920s after seeing him speak in a Munich beer hall but later fell out with him. He claims to have come up with the chant of “Sieg Heil.“ He recounted that his wife said of Hitler: “Putzi, I tell you he is a neuter.” He said that Hitler often remarked that he would never marry a woman because Germany was his bride. Hanfstängl wrote a report on Hitler for President Roosevelt, which Roosevelt described as his “bedtime reading“ during the war.

Homosexual Ernst Röhm was instrumental in Hitler's rise to power.

Hitler’s ascent to power was due in a large part due to the influence of two brilliant homosexuals: Ernst Röhm, who became the head of the paramilitary Sturm Abteilung (Storm Troopers), and Dietrich Eckart. It was often said that Hitler’s tolerance of Röhm was because the latter could prove Hitler was an anal astronaut, and that Hitler had Röhm killed in the Night of the Long Knives to deal with the problem.

In a 1931 exposé of the Nazis (short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or National Socialist German Workers’ Party), the Munich Post mirrored Allen Ginsberg by accusing party members of “the most shameless practices,“ activities forbidden by paragraph 175 of the penal code, which declared homosexuality a criminal offense.

Machtan detailed the soi disant “Mend Protocol,“ which was the testimony of dispatch rider Hans Mend. Mend had served alongside Hitler in the Great War and swore up and down that he had witnessed Hitler engage in homosexual acts with a fellow runner, Ernst Schmidt. Mend was subsequently found to be a liar and blackmailer, but he initially made his allegation in his memoirs, before Hitler became famous, and therefore was not seeking attention. Machtan claimed that Hitler was denied promotion because of his ass banditry.

Hitler formed intimate attachments to a number of men. He is said to have referred to one, Albert Förster, the obviously homosexual Danzig Gauleiter, as “Bubi,“ a nickname commonly used by homosexuals for their partners.

Hitler was a model soldier during his four years in the Army. He was excessively submissive to his officers, frequently volunteering to to do their washing and see to their clothes: he assumed the feminine role. His attitude to the Hitler youth could possibly be construed as motherly. Revisionist historian, David Irving, said that wimmen who have read Hitler’s book, Table Talk, “marveled at his insight into the female psyche.“

Hitler's friend, August Kubizek, around the time of Hitler's infatuation with Stephanie Isak

Hitler was a stalker. He became interested in Stefanie Isak, an attractive woman, in 1905, when he was 16 years old. He and his friend, August Kubizek, would loiter to see her when she crossed a bridge to go to the main square of the town where she lived at 5p.m. every evening. Isak was not Jewish, but her name appears so, and it was not mentioned in his official biography, which was a heavily edited version of Kubizek’s memoirs. Hitler believed she was Jewish.

Hitler was too yellow to introduce himself. But then words, he believed, were unnecessary. He was convinced that Isak intuited his beliefs, and agreed wholeheartedly. When Kubizek displayed doubt that Hitler could know what Stefanie thought without speaking to her, he became enraged, and said, “You simply don’t understand, because you can’t understand the truth meaning of extraordinary love.”

Hitler would write love poems about Isak with such titles as Hymn to the Beloved. Hitler’s face lit up with “fervent ecstasy” when he read these poems to Kubizek. She was unaware that Hitler was stalking her. Hitler would be deliriously happy when she smiled at him, and “crushed” when she ignored him.

Hitler seriously considered kidnapping Isak, but gave up on the idea for lack of funds. He then considered suicide, jumping from the Danube bridge. Isak would, of course, have to die with him. Hitler’s mood lightened in June 1906, at the Linz flower festival, when Isak smiled at him and threw him a flower from her festival carriage. “She loves me,” he said to Kubizek. “You have seen! She loves me!” He kept the flower in a locket for years.

In 1926, Mimi Reiter was a 16 year-old shop-girl in Obersalzberg, a preferred location of Hitler’s. In an interview with the German magazine, Stern, in 1959, she told of a picnic she had had with Hitler in some woods. He hugged her “real tight” and kissed her, but “He didn’t know what to do.” Hitler lost interest in her and she attempted suicide by hanging, then married but left her husband. Rudolf Hess later enjoined her to meet with Hitler in Munich. She later said that sex occurred: “I let everything happen.” A relationship was not possible because he could not be linked to a woman who had left her husband. By 1934, Hitler wished Reiter to become his lover, but she wanted marriage, and Hitler said that would have interfered with his “big mission.” Reiter’s sister confirmed Hitler’s interest in her.

Geli Raubel

In 1925, Hitler met Geli Raubal, the daughter of his half-sister. She was 19 years old. He fell madly in love with her, although she gave no more than a little affection in return. He was then no more than Member Number Seven of the Nazi party, and she made him neglect his political duties. Rather than turn up for meetings, he would spend his evenings strolling the parks of Munich with Geli on his arm. Hitler’s family did not take to the idea of his marrying his step-niece. One day in 1931, after seeing Hitler, she wrote him a letter explaining why she could not marry him, her Onkel Alf. After posting the letter, she locked herself in a room and shot herself with Hitler’s Walther 6.35 pistol.

There are stories that Hitler partook of the kind of sexual strangeness that would be expected of him. It is said that he was a copraphile: he got Raubal to shit in his mouth. The claim was made in an OSS report, which was published under the title, A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend. Erns Hanfstängl and one-time Nazi leader, Otto Strassner, who both had axes to grind with Hitler, told the same story.

Although it is not clear how this information was obtained, the OSS report quotes the then-dead Raubal as saying Hitler would ask her to squat over him and defecate upon him. He is known to have liked this view. Röhm is widely-quoted as having said, “He is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that you can see their behinds, that’s what he likes, especially when they’ve got big round ones. That’s Hitler’s sex life.”

There would be a very sound explanation for why he enjoyed such a thing. Hitler’s mother was abstemious to a fault. There was never a speck of dust in the house. Hitler’s toilet training is likely to have been harsh. This usually leads to “residual tension in this area.“ Fantasies become fixated around the topic.

Hitler’s speech and writing could be construed as displaying such a fixation. The subjects a person considers important enough to mention reveal subconscious leanings. Scientific experiments have borne this out. So we have…

“…dragged into the dirt and filth of the lowest depths.”

“Charity is sometimes actually comparable to the manure which is spread on the field, not out of love for the latter, but out of precaution for one’s own benefit later on.”

“And when he <the Jew> turns the treasures over in his hand they are transformed into dirt and dung.”

“You don’t understand: we are just passing a magnet over a dunghill, and we shall see presently how much iron was in the dunghill and has clung to the magnet.” (the “dunghill” was the German people.)

The OSS report often refers to the work of Freud, which has since been discredited. Hitler, it said, often had shit on his mind, and a number of historians and biographers have been convinced that he also had it in his mouth.

Renate Müller

Renate Müller was a singer and one of the most successful actresses in Germany. She knew Hitler in the mid-1930s. Once, she appeared dejected at the studio where she worked. Her superior inquired why, and she told him of her one-night stand with Hitler. They had both undressed, whereupon Hitler lay on the floor and begged her to kick him. She declined. He flagellated himself verbally until she acceded to his wishes. This excited him much, and he begged for more. She committed suicide shortly after.

Eva Braun was one of the three daughters of a conventional Catholic family in Munich. Her school grades were average. She liked romantic novels, Hollywood movies, gymnastics, and dancing. After leaving a convent school, she began work as a studio assistant for Heinrich Hoffman, the official photographer of the Nazi Party. She was 17 years-old, fresh-faced, and chestnut haired when she met the 40 year-old Adolf in October 1929. He had opened a door to enter a room, where Eva stood on a ladder, giving him a good view of her legs.

A relationship did not begin until late in 1931, when Hitler was on the rebound after the suicide of Geli Raubal. Hoffman said that “never, in voice, look or gesture, did Hitler behave in any way that suggested any deeper interest in her.” He never allowed the pair of them to be seen in public for fear of losing popularity with females. He stated that he was “married to the destiny of Germany.”

Hitler treated Braun awfully. She was not allowed to be present for dinner if important guests were in attendance. He hated her wearing cosmetics, dressing in anything but the most unflattering clothes, smoking, and sunbathing nekkid. Fortunately, he was absent much of the time. He made his views of wimmen abundantly clear, and once said to his confidante, the Nazis’ favorite architect, Albert Speer, that “A highly intelligent man should take a primitive and stupid woman.” He occasionally purchased dirt-cheap jewelry for Braun.

Eva Braun

The collection of shoes Braun acquired in the course of many shopping trips provided little solace. Speer said she showed “gay serenity,” but she attempted suicide twice, shooting herself in the throat and missing her jugular in 1932 and taking an overdose of sleeping pills in 1935. These were cries for attention instead of determined attempts to kill herself. Hitler was unswayed.

In 1935, Braun wrote in her diary: “If only I had never set eyes on him! I am utterly miserable. I shall go out and buy some more sleeping powder and go into a dreamlike state.” Her cousin, Gertrude Weisker, said, Braun was “the unhappiest woman I ever met.”

Professor Theo Morell was the last of the eight personal physicians used by Hitler during his time in power. People commented on his body odor, causing Hitler to reply: “I do not employ him for his fragrance, but for his medical care of me.” Morell said that Hitler, like Churchill, had a low libido. Hitler and Braun had separate beds, but it is known that he liked her to wear chamois leather underwear.

Professor emeritus of medicine Hans-Joachim Neumann and historian Henrik Eberle used documentary evidence, principally the papers of Theo Morell, and present-day medical analysis to produce the book, Was Hitler Ill? The book says that by the end of the war, Hitler was taking 82 different medications. Hitler took considerable quantities of an anti-flatulence medication which included strychnine, a nerve agent which is an ingredient of rat poison.

Theo Morrell was Hitler's personal physician and stank like a polecat.

Hitler was scared of pills, so everything was injected. Theo Morell was christened “Herr Reichinjektionmeister” by Hermann Göring, who was addicted to morphine by the end of the war and not one to talk. Hitler was given a drug with the same intended effect as Viagra: it contained testosterone and was made from the semen and prostate glands of young bulls.

Friends and relatives of Eva Braun say she giggled upon seeing a photograph of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain sitting atop a sofa in Hitler’s flat in Munich in 1938. Braun remarked: “If only he knew what goings-on that sofa has seen.“

While sex appears to have occurred, it will not have been much. Hitler’s valet, Heinz Linge, said in a television interview that his wife was Hitler’s housekeeper, and she never found stains on the sheets. Hitler’s bedding was adorned with an eagle atop a swastika, betwixt the letters A and H and inside a circle. A bedsheet cover and pillowcase was sold at auction by Dreweatts for $3,150.

It has been widely speculated that Hitler had syphilis. Morell’s notes show that he had an abnormal heartbeat, which is an indicator of syphilitic aortitis. From 1941, Hitler received regular injections of iodide salts, then a therapy for cardiac syphilis. His restrictive palsies, gastric pain, chest pain, neck pustules, dizziness, encephalitis, and oh-so-well documented flatulence are all associated with syphilis, and led Robert Berger, a cardiac surgeon at Harvard Medical School, to conclude that Hitler may well have suffered from the condition. Morell was one of Germany’s principal experts in the disease. Hitler may have been diagnosed with syphilis at a field hospital in 1918, when he was recovering from a gas attack, and it is possible that documentary evidence of this was destroyed on the orders of Heinrich Himmler.

And there we have it. Hitler’s girlfriend could expect chamois leather underwear, much farting, and possibly syphilis, but not much sex, and even what there was would have been pharmaceutically-assisted. She would, perhaps, have shat in his mouth. Sooner or later, it is very likely that she would have killed herself. At least the uniforms were cool.

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Was J. Edgar Hoover a tranny?

The National Observer said that the name J. Edgar Hoover is associated with transvestism as closely as “Rolls” is with “Royce” and “Laurel” with “Hardy.” So what is the truth of it? Did he honestly feel more comfortable wearing a fluffy gown, a suspender belt, and false eyelashes?

Ralph de Toledano, a mainstay of the conservative movement in the United States throughout the latter half of the 20th century, said, “You know, there’d been a lot of talk about Hoover and this and that and the transvestite stuff and so on. Nonsense. Hoover had one wife, and that was his Federal Bureau of Investigation, that was his whole life.”

Hoover with Clyde Tolson, who was quite possibly his lover

Homosexuality on Hoover’s part was highly plausible. Hoover resided with his mother until her death in 1938. For over 40 years, he was inseparable from his right-hand man, Deputy Director of the FBI, Clyde Tolson. Both were bachelors and they vacationed together. Hoover and Tolson are buried side-by-side. Gay activists now have been known to include Hoover and Tolson in their lists of famous gay couples. The pair were treated as a couple by high society: Hoover would never be invited to dinner sans Tolson. They double-dated with Broadway star, Ethel Merman and Sherman Billingsley, the owner of the Stork Club, when the latter two were in the throes of an affair. They did the same with Richard and Pat Nixon. In the 1960s, FBI agents referred to them as “J. Edna” and “Mother Tolson.”

The film, J. Edgar, which was directed by Clint Eastwood, portrayed Hoover and Tolson as unrequited lovers. They kissed, held hands and quarreled like lovers, but may not have gone further than that. Hoover is seen donning his recently-deceased mother’s dress, but the film does not make him out to be a fully-fledged tranny. But then, it never mentioned COINTELPRO, either.

Hoover shortly before his appointment as head of the FBI

Rumors of Hoover’s homosexuality appeared as soon as he became head of the FBI in 1926. A magazine article in the 1930s described his “mincing” manner of walking. He was somewhat dandyish, and favored white linen suits as a young man. His voice was highly affected, and Leonardo DeCaprio had a hard time mimicking it in J. Edgar. Hoover kept classical statues of male nudes in his home. Many people sensed that his relationship with Tolson went beyond friendship. An article published by Fordham University, one of the best 60 universities in the United States, described Tolson as Hoover’s “true love.” When Hoover died in 1972, President Nixon exclaimed: “Jesus Christ! That old cocksucker!” It is possible he was not speaking figuratively.

The transvestism thing was described most comprehensively in Anthony Summers’ gossipy 1993 biography of Hoover, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover. Summers had previously written of the JFK assassination. He repeated explosive allegations by Susan, the one-time fourth wife of liquor magnate, Lewis Rosentiel, a bootlegger who made his fortune after the repeal of Prohibition by starting the United States’ largest distillery, Schenley Industries.

Susan says that she and her husband were met at the door of Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel by Roy Cohn, formerly an aide to Senator Jospeph McCarthy and a Republican power broker. Taken to the bedroom of a suite, Mrs. Rosentiel says she saw Hoover, whom she had met previously in her townhouse in the Upper East Side of New York. Mrs. Rosentiel’s husband had told her that Hoover granted him access to influential politicians, and he returned the favor by paying off his gambling debts.

Hoover was reportedly seen wearing stockings and a short skirt, Photo: Tvinhose1

According to Susan, Hoover was in drag: he wore a black dress that was “very fluffy, with flounces” in addition to “lace stockings, high heels, and a curly black wig.” He wore make-up, false eyelashes, and a very short skirt, the dirty slut. He sat with his legs crossed. Mrs. Rosentiel said Hoover looked like a flapper. Cohn had warned her not to comment, and gave the FBI Director’s name as “Mary” when he introduced her to him. Hoover said, “Good evening,” as if it were the first time they had met.

Two blond boys entered the “tremendous bedroom, with a bed like in Caesar’s time,” and on orgy commenced. Hoover removed his dress and underclothing, to reveal a garter belt. The boys “work[ed] on him with their hands,” with one wearing rubber gloves. Then, her husband “got into the act,” after which Cohn had “full sex” with both boys.

One year after, the same occurred again. Now, the boys wore leather, with Hoover in a red dress and black feather boa. One boy read from the Babble, while the other fondled Hoover wearing gloves. Hoover “grabbed the Bible, threw it down, and told the second boy to join the sex.” Mrs. Rosentiel’s husband invited her to participate, but she declined.

Do we trust the originator of this uncorroborated story? Hoover provided Lewis Rosenthiel with damaging information concerning his wife when they divorced in the late 1960s. Mrs. Rosentiel testified against her husband and his partners in organized crime. She spent a while at Riker’s Island for attempted perjury in 1971, having pleaded guilty. Journalist Ronald Kessler met her at her place, in a single-room occupancy hotel in New York which cost her $98.95 a night. She was paid by Summers, and again by Frontline and the BBC. Kessler said, “I believe that paying for information calls into question its credibility.”

Robert M. Morgenthau, later in life

Mrs. Rosentiel attempted to spread her story for years, once to an opponent of Hoover, attorney Robert M. Morgenthau of New York. She annoyed him with repeated phone calls after 5:30p.m. when his secretary had departed. He passed the information to William Hundley, the head of the Justice Department’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. Hundley asked a Justice Department attorney to investigate. Hundley said Mrs. Rosentiel “had a total ax to grind” and that her story was constructed “of whole cloth.” He told this to Summers, who was not deterred.

“Outing” is the alleging that a prominent figure is gay, and in political cases uses gossip over sexual identity as a political weapon: the target is made out to be not only a pervert, but a hypocrite. During the presidency of Bill Clinton in the 1990s, sexual gossip was increasingly employed to articulate political resentment, a practice which had begun in the early nineteenth century.

Adlai Stevenson was persecuted by Hoover

Allegations of Hoover’s homosexuality were richly deserved. Hoover oversaw the spreading of accusations of homosexuality of political enemies such as then Illinois Governor and later two-time presidential candidate and U.N. ambassador, Adlai Stevenson. Articles by gay journalists in the early 1980s following a discrimination lawsuit by a gay FBI agent revealed that FBI agents collected the underwear of politicians for blackmail purposes. Hoover closely followed the sexual shenanigans of President Kennedy.

Mr. Rosentiel was linked to the Mafia figures, Frank Costello (formerly Francesco Castiglia) and Meyer Lansky at New York legislative committee hearings in 1970. Blackmail of politicians was central to Mafia operations. According to Summers, “several Mafia sources” claimed that Hoover was blackmailed over his sexuality using photographs of him and Tolson. A source who saw one photograph said it clearly depicted two men in sexual congress, but was too blurry to allow for identification.

A photographic record of his homosexuality could perhaps explain Hoover’s reluctance to even acknowledge the existence of organized crime, although some say this was because he preferred easy targets to more easily inflate his arrest statistics. The blurb of Summers’ book states, “Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold on America.” When world-class journalist Robert Mass asked one of Lansky’s closest associates about the photograph, the ancient mafioso replied: “Are you nuts?”

The Miami field office of the FBI complained that its investigation of Lansky, initiated by Hoover, was not generating enough meat to countenance the manpower devoted to it, prompting Hoover to reply that “Lansky has been designated for ‘crash’ investigation.” He said the significance of the endeavor could not be overemphasized, and that he desired a vigorous and detailed investigation. Lansky’s apartment was bugged. Hoover’s attitude to the Mob had changed after publicity surrounding the historic 1957 Appalachin Meeting of about 100 mobsters. Had the Mob had anything on Hoover, it would have turned up in the many wiretaps mounted after Appalachin. Let’s ignore that bit.

It is claimed that Wild Bill Donovan arranged for incriminating photographs of Hoover to be obtained when he conducted a feud with him.

Summers claimed that the photographs originated from the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner to the CIA. While feuding with OSS boss William “Wild Bill” Donovan, Hoover had attempted to obtain compromising information, as was his wont, and Donovan retaliated.

Is it plausible that the events Mrs. Rosentiel describes took place at a one of New York’s most fashionable hotels, rather than a safe house? It is as believable as the claim by Joe McCarthy that the State Department contained 205 known communists – which was widely circulated by the press with no further investigation. Let’s have some more of that.

The transvestism of John Edgar Hoover has not been proven and is highly unlikely. It has only one source, an embittered, impoverished perjurer. Even hardcore Pinkoes who resent all that Hoover stood for dismiss the story.

Was Hoover, the most powerful ever lawman of the United States, a tranny? Hell, yes! Come on, the guy was fucked-up. Were he not a tranny, he must have been a serial killer, rapist, or pedophile. This is actually the least worst option. After Hoover’s death, his associates, led by Tolson, destroyed many of his files. Hoover knew all about blackmail, having done so much of it, and it is no surprise that his tracks have been erased. Summers also says that Hoover ignored a warning of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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U.S. government documents tell of a planned invasion of Canada. Such a thing has been attempted before.

Quebecois defend against American attack in 1775

The first major military effort of the American Revolutionary War was an invasion of Canada led by Benedict Arnold prior to his turning traitor. In the course of Mr. Madison’s War (1812-1815), several invasions were attempted. It was in 1839 that Americans in Maine challenged Canadians over a border squabble known formally as the Aroostock War and informally as the Pork ‘n Beans War. No shots were fired, but an American cow, a Canuck pig, and a few American militiamen were injured. In 1866, 1870, and 1871, around 800 Americans of Irish extraction sought to deliver a blow in the name of Irish liberty by invading Canada. In the 1866 episode, they traversed the Niagara River and moved to Ontario, bested some Canadian militiamen, and then fled in the face of British soldiers.

The premiere Confederate warship, the CSS Alabama, was built in the United Kingdom

During the War of Northern Aggression (1861-65), the United Kingdom came close to war with the Union. Confederate sympathizers sheltered in Canada, from which they launched raids. One of the ships the United Kingdom built for the Confederates was the CSS Alabama, which destroyed or captured 65 ships. British diplomat Lord Lyons wrote to his superior: “There can, unhappily, be no doubt that three-quarters of the American people are eagerly longing for a safe opportunity of making war with England.” The United Kingdom’s sympathies for the Confederates were the prime reason for the emancipation of slaves by Abe Lincoln – the United Kingdom opposed slavery so British support for Johnny Reb would be undermined. In 1895, President Cleveland threatened the Untied Kingdom with war over a border dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana (present-day Guyana).

In October 1970, in response to Québécois separatist activity, U.S. troops and armor moved to the Canadian border and prepared to occupy Montreal and Ottawa, according to an interview the Royal Canadian Mounted Police director of counter-intelligence gave to the Toronto Star in 1973. The story was confirmed by a nameless Canadian army officer. It is rumored that U.S. armed forces were put on alert at the time of the sovereignty referendum in Quebec in 1980.

The poster for "Canadian Bacon"

The idea of invading Canada has manifested itself in American popular culture. The 1995 film, Canadian Bacon, had American president Alan Alda decide to stimulate the economy through initiating conflict with Diet America. His call to arms was: “Surrender pronto, or we’ll level Toronto.” The 1999 film, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, saw the United States declare war on Canada. 2002 saw the right-wing magazine, the National Review, featured an essay entitled “Bomb Canada: the Case for War,” which suggested the the United States mount a lightning raid on Canada, where something would be blown up, possibly a vacant hockey stadium. Canada would then stop wasting money on the frippery of universal healthcare and instead lavish cash on its underdeveloped military. Author Jonah Goldberg said that this would transmogrify “Canada’s neurotic anti-Americanism” into “manly resolve.”

The website, invadecanada.us, lists many sound reasons for invading Canada, although it says it doesn’t want the permafrost bit. Alaska would be joined to the rest of the United States, for starters – so many Alaskans perpetually complain of being separate from the “continental 48 states.” An invasion could be justified, as so often, by humanitarian reasons: the magnetic north pole is in Canada, and Santa Claus must be protected.

The military hero of the United States is General Douglas MacArthur. That of Canada is Dudley Do-Right. They don't really compare, do they?

Success, the website says, would be guaranteed. The military hero of the United States is General Douglas MacArthur, while that of Canada is Dudley Do-Right. Due to Canada’s French streak, the white flags would be out before U.S. forces even left home.

War Plan Red was a plan to defeat the British Empire. The Empire was Red, while Canada was Crimson. The plan was approved in May, 1930, by the Secretaries of War and the Navy. Its objective was: “ULTIMATELY, TO GAIN COMPLETE CONTROL OF CRIMSON.”

In a joint Army/Navy mission, troops would travel the 370 miles from Boston to St. Margaret’s Bay and seize the port of Halifax early in the war. This would isolate Canadian forces from their British allies: Halifax is the only ice-free port on the east coast, and it was where the transatlantic cable came ashore.

Among the other targets were Montreal, then Canada’s largest city, Quebec, the railroad hub of Winnipeg, and the nickel mines of Ontario. The Navy would take the Great Lakes and blockade Canada’s essential Pacific and Atlantic ports. Power plants near the Niagara Falls would be captured so that, as Peter Carlson put it in the Washington Post, the people of Canada would “freeze in the dark.”

Winnipeg is 60 miles from the U.S. border. Seizure of Quebec and Winnipeg would, the plan said, cripple those Canadian industries which depended on steam power. The plan said that Winnipeg was “the nerve center of the transcontinental railroad,” control of which would effectively separate the eastern and western halves of Canada, and prevent transportation of men, oil, grain, coal, and meat to eastern Canada. British Caribbean possessions would be conquered to prevent a British attack from the south. Carlson added that the plan would “bring these Molson-swigging, maple-mongering Zamboni drivers to their knees!”

War Plan Red assumed the British would capture Hawai’i, the Philippines, the Panama Canal, and Guam.

In 1934, the plan for the U.S. invasion of Canada was changed to include chemical weapons.

An amendment to the plan was made in 1934 in a memo to the Joint Board from Colonel W. Krueger and Commander A.S. Carpender. The U.S. Army was directed to prepare for the use of chemical weapons against Canada. This would, needless to say, be a humanitarian move, as abbreviating the war would save American lives.

The plan anticipated a long conflict as “the RED race” was “phlegmatic” and well-known for its talent for fighting to the bitter end. The British Empire would be greatly assisted by its generous supply of darkies from around the Empire: “Some of the colored races however come of good fighting stock, and, under white leadership, can be made into very efficient troops.”

Invasion of Canada by the United States was enough of a risk that the Canadian military formulated countermeasures. The solution was to attack first, and divert U.S. attention for long enough for British reinforcements to arrive. Defense Scheme No. 1 was drawn up by First World War hero, James Sutherland “Buster” Brown, who loathed Americans. His total annual budget was $1,200, and he entered the United States in plain clothes to take pictures and obtain free maps from gas stations.

Brown proposed the rapid deployment of flying columns to occupy Seattle, Minneapolis, Great Falls, and Albany. Fancy a Republic of New England? Surprise, he said, was more important than preparation. The American military recognized that a number of American beaches such as Ocean City and Rehoboth would be “excellent” locations for British landings.

Defense Scheme No. 1 was withdrawn in 1928, two years before War Plan Red was authorized, but it could have been dusted off. The United States was undeterred. A military expert, Captain H.L. George, testified to Congress that Canada’s thousands of lakes could serve as bases for seaplanes, from which aircraft could take off and bomb Baltimore and Boston. A secret reconnaissance team was sent to Labrador and Hudson Bay to identify concealed Canadian seaplane facilities. George made those wily Canucks sound really scary. He began: “They know now what they are going to bomb. They know where every railroad crosses every river. They know where every refinery lies. They know where every power plant is located. They know all about our water supply systems… Now they are dispersed widely out over this area. Their location is most difficult for us to learn, for our own air force to learn. We have to hunt them up.”

There is a sizable Canadian fifth column within the United States

Canada has always maintained a sizable fifth column within the United States. These days, it is spearheaded by the likes of Mike Myers and Celine Dion. The news departments of the major television networks are riven with Canucks, and in the event of hostilities, the United States could expect to lose the information war, just as it did in Vietnam. These potential insurgents have thoroughly penetrated U.S. society, and you might be sitting next to one right now! As the plan put it, “it would be necessary to deal internally” with these undesirable elements, plus domestic “pacifists” and other professional complainants. We’re talking internment camps.

The weather would be an obstacle to a U.S. invasion of Canada, so all that “Red” forces need do would be to delay the advance by “Blue,” destroying bridges and railroad tracks and the like. War Plan Red conceded that operations between November 1st and April 15th would be “difficult, if not impossible.”

While any army should prepare for every possible eventuality, War Plan Red went beyond the drawing board. Concrete measures were undertaken to facilitate the invasion of Canada. In 1931, the U.S. government dispatched record-breaking flying hero (and Nazi sympathizer) Charles Lindbergh to Hudson Bay to determine the prospects for using sea planes in warfare.

In February 1935, $57 million was allocated to construct three air bases close to the Canadian Border, to allow for pre-emptive attacks on Canadian airfields. They would be given the appearance of civilian airports. This can be seen on p61 of the February 11-13, 1935 Hearings of the House of Representatives Committee on Military Affairs. The testimony was supposed to be secret, but it was published mistakenly and ended up on page one of the New York Times on May 1. The Canadian government protested, but President Franklin Roosevelt gave reassurances that the United States was not considering war.

Prior to his election to President, Theodore Roosevelt said war between the United States and the United Kingdom was "the greatest boon I could confer upon this nation."

Half-a-dozen years before himself being elected president, President Roosevelt’s fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, penned a letter to General James Harrison Wilson on November 5, 1895 which was quoted in The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It said that “the greatest boon I could confer upon this nation” was a prompt war with the United Kingdom to take Canada. He said, “I will do my very best to bring about the day.” So of course, we believe the other Roosevelt’s protestations.

In August 1935, the United States held what was then its largest ever peacetime mobilization of forces when 36,000 troops converged south of Ottawa and 15,000 were held in reserve in Pennsylvania. The scenario was a vehicle-borne invasion of Canada. It was well-documented by the Souvenir of the First Army Maneuvers: The Greatest Peace Time Event in US History.

In 1939, as the Second World War began, the U.S. Army War College and Naval War College planned an “Overseas Expeditionary Force to Capture Halifax from Red-Crimson Coalition.” War Plan Red received much more attention than War Plan Black, the plan for war with Germany, with whom the United States actually went to war.

When questioned about War Plan Red, the director of the Canada Institute in Washington said, “I’ve never heard of it.” The spokesman for the Canadian Embassy in Washington said, “I remember sort of hearing about this.” The mayor of Sudbury, Ontario, where nickel mines were prime targets of the plan, said, “It’s the first I’ve heard of it.” A Pentagon spokesman said that he was unaware of War Plan Red, but conceded that he would not admit to it even if he were not. The mayor of Winnipeg, another major target, said that weather would cause a U.S. invasion of Canada to end up like Napoleon’s venture into Russia: “I’m quite convinced that you’ll meet your Waterloo on the banks of the Assiniboine River.”

Any invasion of Canada by the United States is likely to begin at Fort Drum, half an hour from the Canadian border. In 1984, Fort Drum accommodated only an engineering battalion, but it was later expanded in the largest Army construction project ever by the Corps of Enginqueers, although there was already a surplus of military bases. Now, Fort Drum is home to a rapid assault light division and a reserve armored division of 30,000 troops.

Perhaps the Canadian Airborne Regiment could have halted a U.S. invasion of Canada, if only it had not been disbanded in 1995.

It would be simplicity itself to seize the Canadian military communications center at Kingston, Ontario and cut Canadian forces off. Taking Highway 2 and Highway 401 would prevent reinforcements from reaching Toronto and the capital of Ottawa. “Surrender pronto, or we’ll level Toronto.” Perhaps the Canadian Airborne Regiment could have stopped it, if only it had not been disbanded in 1995.

Unlike paratroopers or Marines, the 10th Mountain Division is not designed to attack defended borders. It specializes in surprise attack, and is trained and equipped for house-to-house combat and winter warfare. There is a center for urban warfare at Fort Drum. Fort Drum’s troops are not well-disposed to rapid deployment to overseas troublespots because of the area’s chronic bad weather: snowfall is 10 feet on average, and a nearby village boasts the New York State record of 40 feet. The site is actually used for Arctic weather training, and the Corps of Enginqueers found that Fort Drum had the worst weather in all the eastern United States.

The light vehicles and helicopters of the 10th Mountain Division would be considerably better suited to an attack on Ontario or Southern Quebec. Invasion was also planned in 1888, 1893, 1896, 1909, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, and 1921. In 1896, the Secretary of the Navy instructed Commodore “Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!” Gridly to evaluate Canadian defenses and plan an invasion. Gridly recommended the attack originate below Ogdensburg, close to present-day Fort Drum. It would have been a surprise attack not preceded by a declaration of war, just like Pearl Harbor. War games in 1910 produced the headline “Canadian Army Crushed” in New York.

The official spokesman for Fort Drum said, “We most certainly are not preparing to invade Canada” and that the idea was difficult to believe. Many Canadian soldiers were training there, he said: “I bumped into a Canadian officer in the bathroom the other day.”

If the United States wished to conduct war against Canada, an excuse could be manufactured, such as the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana in 1898.

It will not be long afore the oil runs out, unrestrained commercialism has left U.S. aquifers too poisonous to supply drinking water, and global warming has turned the U.S. heartland into desert. Then, the United States will gaze north, covetously. A crisis will be manufactured, along the lines of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction or the USS Maine, and then the United States will invade. It could so easily be flavored as some kind of Christian crusade. The American public can be deceived into allowing its soldiers to be sent anywhere on the flimsiest of pretexts.

War Plan Red acknowledged that the Royal Navy could not

Obesity in the U.S. military has doubled since 2003.

be defeated, and even now it is down to about three ships and NO AIRCRAFT CARRIER, the famed British ingenuity could perhaps pull off a naval blockade to starve the United States of oil. Hey, the United States is rather large and its terrain passable. Mayhaps Mexico could be persuaded to undertake a little irridentism, and bring the Texicans back into the fold. Fuck you, Major General Paul Vallely. U.S. cities are densely populated, and would be highly susceptible to the merest hint of cold steel. Obesity in the U.S. military has doubled since 2003.

The hostile intentions of the United States toward Canada are plain to see, and should they become so evident as to guarantee public support, the United Kingdom would be well-advised to get its retaliation in first, just like with Defense Scheme No. 1. It would be time to send in the lads, and the British Empire would rise again.

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More and more companies are requiring their customers to forfeit driver’s license identification when purchasing products.

If you’re buying an Xbox game at Target, the clerk may want to scan your driver’s license.  If you’re dropping off a package at UPS, the clerk may want to scan your driver’s license.  If you’re buying a drink at the bar, the server may want to scan your driver’s license.  If you’re buying medicine for a cold, the pharmacist may want to scan your driver’s license.

America is nearing the police end game state now, requiring people to prove their identities to do anything.  It’s the modern version of “Papers, please”, when proof of identification was required to travel anywhere within Nazi Europe in WW2.

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A girl infected with smallpox in Bangladesh in 1973.

Dubbed “the virus that should never have been created”, an extremely deadly modification of the H5N1 Bird Flu virus has been developed in a laboratory.

The most frightening aspect of the virus is the ease in which it spreads.  It can travel in the air and people coming into contact with those already infected are certain to catch it.

Scientists not sure whether to publish doomsday virus recipe

If it isn’t enough to make such a deadly virus to begin with, the scientists who created it are ready to publish the procedure in a scientific journal for the whole world to see.  They’re ready to reveal their findings, but not sure if they should.

Half of human race to die

Scientists predict it could kill half the human population, or 3.5 billion people, if it is released from the laboratory.

Those of us alive now are lucky to be born at a time when most of the world’s lethal diseases have been virtually eradicated.  Smallpox spans back to 10,000 B.C. and is responsible for 500 million deaths in the 20th century alone.  Through vaccination, it was certified eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1979.

Why the virus is so deadly

One reason why the new virus is so deadly is because the human race has never had any time to develop immunity against it.  As mentioned before, smallpox came about in 10,000 B.C.  Other diseases, like measles and cholera, have been around for centuries as well.  When these diseases first spread, the death count was catastrophic.  The few humans to survive were the ones that had natural immunity against the virus, which they passed on to their children.  Those that did not have immunity died, and could not pass on their weak genes.

If this new doomsday virus were to be released, our generation would be the unfortunate first wave to experience it.  That means widespread death and very low odds of survival for you and everyone else.

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Jessica Lynch

Tiny, blond, 19 year-old Private Jessica Dawn Lynch was a clerk with the 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company of the U.S. Army, who had joined up to escape the 15 percent unemployment of her home in West Virginia. The motto of the 507th is “Just fix it.”

Jessica’s duties likely included completing forms to requisition parts and documentation of their arrival. She and six comrades were captured and eleven died after their convoy made a wrong turning and was ambushed in Nassiriya, a city spanning the Euphrates river which had featured sporadic fighting since U.S. Soldiers first reached it. Frank Thorp, a senior military spokesman, said, “Reports are that she fired until she had no more ammunition.”

Jessica was taken to the local hospital. Shortly after midnight on April 1, eight days after her capture, Navy SEALs and Army Rangers stormed the hospital, a raid that was captured by night vision camera. The U.S. soldiers said that they came under fire, but rescued Jessica. One witness said, “It was like a Hollywood film. They cried, ‘Go, go, go’, with guns… and the sound of explosions. They made a show – an action movie like Sylvester Stallone or Jackie Chan, with jumping and shouting, breaking down doors.”

When the video of the assault was released hours later, General Vincent Brooks, a U.S. Army spokesman said, “Some brave souls put their lives on the line to make this happen, loyal to a creed that they know that they’ll never leave a fallen comrade.” A movie called Saving Jessica Lynch was later made about the episode.

U.S. military records state that Jessica was raped vaginally and anally by barbarous Iraqs who had sworn fealty to the really evil dictator, Saddam Hussein.

It was all truly heroic, and largely truly untrue.

The soldiers of Jessica Lynch's unit supported Patriot missiles.

Three days into the invasion of Iraq, the 507th was the last in a column of 600 vehicles traveling to Baghdad. The 33 soldiers of the unit, which supported the MIM-104 Patriot missiles of the 32nd Air Defense Artillery, had been active for between 60 and 70 hours, with only occasional stops and minimal communications. The soldiers were cooks, mechanics, computer technicians, and welders.

The convoy comprised two tow trucks, three Humvees, and 11 five-ton trucks. Two of the latter had “bobtailed” 40 foot-long M-870 trailers.

Shortly before dawn of Sunday, March 23, the convoy was instructed to leave the main road and turn north onto Highway 7, when it should have been told to take Highway 1. The grouping became known as the “Wrong Way Convoy.” It passed through the eastern suburbs of Nassiriya and left the city without incident. One soldier said that the company commander, Captain Troy King, told him that his GPS “plugger” had “frozen,” and contact with the NAVSTAR satellites used by GPS devices had been lost.

Every soldier of Jessica's unit had at least an M-16 rifle.

Every soldier had at least an M-16 assault rifle. Four soldiers carried a squad automatic weapon (SAW), which is an M-249 5.56mm light machine gun. A five-ton truck had a belt-fed .50-caliber machine gun atop, manned by Corporal Damien Luten. The soldiers, however, were maintenance personnel, and while all had undergone minimal battle training, they were not expected to engage in combat. They were supposed to enter a town only after it had been secured by combat forces, and even then, they should always have been protected.

When the navigational error was realized, the convoy performed a U turn and went back to Nassiriya. Armed men were seen standing on rooftops. What a U.S. Army report called a “torrent of fire” began, commencing with the impact of a rocket-propelled grenade against a vehicle, which killed three soldiers.

PFC Patrick Miller

Deserving of attention is PFC Patrick Miller. His truck was stricken by gunfire. Miller exited the vehicle. He saw an Iraqi setting up a morter in the back of a truck. “I thought, ‘Holy shit.’ So I shot, and he fell down.”

He turned and found himself facing man with an RPG. He hit the ground, and then there was an explosion. “There was dirt everywhere.”

He checked to establish whether he was still in possession of his arms and legs, then saw another man trying to load the mortar. He shot the man. As he said, “And I did that probably six more times after that.”

When he saw 30 or 40 Iraqi soldiers, he realized the show was over. He disassembled his weapon so it could not be used by the Iraqis and was then was gang-tackled. The Iraqis argued over who would take him. His Kevlar armor was taken from him, and a piece of paper bearing numbers was found in his helmet: radio frequencies. He told the Iraqis they were the prices of power steering pumps. The paper was thrown in to a fire.

In the pouch of Miller’s flak vest was found a can of chewing tobacco, which he told the Iraqis was “man candy.” He put a piece in his mouth to demonstrate. Some Iraqis did the same, but were sick. He wanted to laugh, but decided it would perhaps be ill-advised.

He said he was not maltreated, but he was asked questions. One Iraqi asked why he had come to Iraq, and he replied that he was told to come. The Iraqi asked why he had not refused, and he responded that he would have gone to jail. The Iraqi did not understand.

The performance of the other U.S. soldiers was less stellar. Many suffered what a Pentagon report termed “weapons malfunctions,” which the report suggested resulted from “inadequate individual maintenance,” although support troops have more opportunity for this than the average infantryman.

Jessica was in a Humvee when her unit was attacked.

Jessica’s Humvee was hit by an RPG, killing the five other occupants. There was a six inch gash across her head, her spine was fractured in two places, her right foot was crushed, and her left leg was broken above and below the knee, with splintered bone shoved through nerves, muscles, and skin. The U.S. Army had said that Jessica fought until her ammunition was exhausted, but this turned out not to be true. During an interview with ABC, Diane Sawyer asked her: “Did you go down like, somebody said, Rambo?” Lynch replied: “No. No. I went down praying to my knees. And that’s the last I remember.”

Jessica blacked out, probably because she had broken her back. It was the deadliest day of the war for U.S. forces. One soldier of the 507th said, “They left us there. They were supposed to protect us and they didn’t. We were all alone with no protection. That is not supposed to happen. We are always supposed to be protected.”

She awoke in hospital. In I Am a Soldier, Too: the Jessica Lynch Story, author Rick Bragg said that U.S. Army medical records stated that Jessica was raped vaginally and anally. Jessica was “adamantly opposed” to including that detail, but yielded to pressure from Bragg. The doctors who treated her deny the allegation. This was not Bragg’s first brush with controversy. He resigned from the Gray Lady after accusations that one of his stories relied unduly upon the work of a freelance journalist.

Dr. Jamal Kadhim Shwail, the first to treat Jessica, said he initially saw her unconscious and in shock from blood loss. She was wearing a flak jacket and none of her clothes had been removed or even unbuttoned. Her boots had not been removed. Four other doctors helped to treat her. The flak jacket was removed and her clothes cut away to expose her injuries. An area around her groin was cut to allow insertion of a catheter to drain urine. Shwail did not notice signs of rape, but was not looking for them: “The thought did not cross my mind.” Jessica’s injuries were consistent with an auto crash.

Soon after, Jessica was transferred to Saddam Hospital, which is now known as Nassiriya General. Dr. Mahdi Khafazji operated upon her fractured right femur. He cleaned her body prior to surgery, and did not see indications of sexual assault. He said, “I examined her very carefully. I cleaned her body, including her genitalia. She had no sign of raping or sodomising.” He said, “If she had been raped there is no way she could have survived it. She was fighting for her life, her body was broken. What sort of an animal would even think of that?”

The Army said Jessica was stabbed, but doctors found no such wound.

Jessica received the best care the hospital was capable of providing. She was given the only specialist bed in the hospital. A female nurse, one of only two on the floor, was permanently at her bedside. Nurse Khalida Shinah said, “I was like a mother to her and she was like a daughter.” Jessica said that the doctors who helped her were called traitors by those loyal to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Dr. Khudair al-Hazbar, then deputy director of the hospital, said, “It was war, but we cared about her and we did everything we could for her. I spoke to her every day. She was frightened, but polite to us. I know she is grateful”.

A nurse would sing to Jessica. “It was a pretty song and I [could] sleep.” She said, “I learned to put trust [in the hospital staff]. I kind of had to. If I didn’t, I felt like they could easily have said, ‘Here, just take her; do what you want with her.’” She says she is thankful to the hospital workers, because they saved her life.

Dr. Harith al-Houssona said that, two days before the raid that rescued Jessica, “I told her I will try and help you escape to the American Army but I will do this very secretly because I could lose my life.” Her placed her in an ambulance and instructed the driver to go to a U.S. checkpoint. When he approached, U.S. soldiers opened fire. He beat a retreat.

The day before the raid, waiter Hassam Hamoud said he saw a U.S. advance party in the town. The team’s interpreter asked him where the hospital was, and asked if soldiers were present. Hamoud replied in the negative.

The raid to rescue Jessica was the first mission of ex-NFL star Pat Tillman, who later provided another conspiracy theory when he was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. In his journal, he had written: “Do not mistake me – I wish everyone in trouble to be rescued, but sending this many folks for a single low ranking soldier screams of media blitz.”

The rescue party arrived by helicopter and the raid took place at night.

Doctors were restrained and one patient handcuffed to a bed frame. Dr. al-Hazbar said, “They attacked the hospital at night. There were explosions outside which broke the windows. The patients were terrified. The Americans knew the Iraqi military had gone so why they didn’t come for her quietly, I don’t know.”

Jessica said, “I had no idea if it was the U.S. military or Iraqi insurgents dressed like us. I was wondering, ‘Is this a tactic to get me out of the hospital and take me somewhere and kill me?’ I was so, so scared deep inside.”

Jessica being rescued

One soldier entered Jessica’s room, tore the U.S. flag from his uniform, handed it to her, and said, “We’re American soldiers, and we’re here to take you home.” She replied: “Yes, I’m an American soldier, too.” It was the first rescue of an American POW since the Second World War.

Jessica’s rescue has been credited to Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, a lawyer, who decided he had to inform the Americans of her location after seeing her slapped. He was granted asylum in the United States and secured employment with the Livingston Group, a lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C. run by former GOP Representative bob Livingston. He signed a six figure deal to produce the book, Because Each Life Is Precious: Why an Iraqi Man Came to Risk Everything for Private Jessica Lynch. This became the basis of the made-for-television NBC movie, Saving Jessica Lynch. Jessica does not remember him, and says she was never slapped.

When the BBC made the documentary, War Spin, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman was asked to release full video of the raid rather than an edited version. He declined, and would not comment on what resistance was faced by the raiders.

Jessica receiving medals

For being captured without firing a shot, Private First Class Jessica D. Lynch, United States Army, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V” under Executive Order 11046. The Combat “V” was not for taking a bridge or an airfield, but because somebody made a wrong turn. She also received a Purple Heart, the Prisoner of War medal, and an honorable discharge from the Army.

Jessica split the $1 million advance from publisher Albert A. Knopf for the book I Am a Soldier, Too with Bragg. On its first day of sale, not one copy had been soldby midday at a Barnes & Noble store on Chicago’s North Side. People lined up around the block for Hillary Clinton’s memoir. Jessica’s book was outsold by The South Beach Diet.

Support troops are now given more training with their weapons, including live fire combat training, and navigation. A “virtual staff ride” has been devised, a computer simulation of what happened to the 507th.

Pat Tillman

Jessica testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The chairman, Henry Waxman, accused the government of manufacturing “sensational details and stories” about the rescue of Jessica and the death of Pat Tillman.

Jessica said that the stories told about her were untrue, but if they had inspired troops or rallied the nation, perhaps some benefit had come from them. She said she was confused why untruths had been told, as there was no shortage of true heroes, such as Lori Piestewa and the soldiers who rescued her. PFC Piestewa was Jessica’s best friend, and the pair shared rooms and tents. She was the driver of the Humvee in which Jessica was travelling at the time of the attack in Nassiriya, and the first female soldier to die in Iraq. Jessica told the Committee that Patrick Miller really did fight to the end. Later, she said that her testimony was “the scariest thing” she ever did.

When she awoke in hospital, Jessica feared she would be paralyzed for life. For a while, she was unable to control her bowels. Her medical problems were long-standing. She continued to experience pain and found it difficult to stand for a prolonged period. For a while, amputation of one of her toes was considered. She had problems with her bowels, bladder, and kidneys (“We usually just say kidney, because it’s less embarrassing.) She continues to fear being alone and has nightmares where she dreams of being chased through woods. When she gets depressed, she distracts herself by baking: “Anything chocolate and sweet. I love to mess around with stuff like that.” She receives occasional hate mail, which she shreds.

Doctors were concerned that she would never be a mother, but she produced 7 pound, 10 ounce Dakota Ann in 2007 in collusion with boyfriend Wes Robinson (who had replaced Sergeant Ruben Contreras) and after a C-section. The bastard is named in part after Lori Ann Piestewa. Dakota’s first outfit was a lace-trimmed hunting camouflage onesie and the walls of her nursery were camouflage green and bold pink. Jessica said, “I am Prisoner of War Jessica Lynch. I will always be that. But being a mommy will be amazing.”

Jessica has become a speaker for the Fisher House program, which supplies free housing to families with a member receiving treatment at a Department of Veteran Affairs hospital. She sometimes speaks to groups as large as 50,000. She launched a fund-raising effort called Jessie’s Pals which donates stuffed animals to hospital patients. She also assists the Jessica Lynch Foundation, which provides help to children of veterans.

Patrick Miller received a Silver Star and continues to suffer from his injuries. Nerves were damaged in his arm when his arms were tied behind his back and an Iraqi soldier inadvertently stepped on his elbow as he lay on the floor of a truck. With Jessica Lynch oil paintings (opening bid: $200), fridge magnets, country songs, T-shirts, books, and a movie, he was asked if he was bothered by Jessica’s fame and replied: “Mmm, somewhat.”

An unnamed, senior U.S. officer was quoted by Time magazine as saying, “I think it was the Army looking for a hero.”

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The only problem is, high fructose corn syrup isn’t a brand, and giving it a different name on the ingredients label is deceptive and perhaps illegal.

Although the name change has not been approved by the FDA, companies like Cargill and ADM have already included the switch in national media advertising campaigns.

High fructose corn syrup could be found in almost every kitchen product before the public picked up on its unhealthiness and weight-gaining effects.  Shoppers are explicitly avoiding products whose ingredients contain the syrup, so Big Corn companies have started a campaign to rename the syrup under the more friendly name ‘corn sugar’ to deceive shoppers into buying their products.

Calling it what it isn’t

There has been a lot of attention in the news this week of naming foods what they are not.  For instance, it was recently decided by school lunch directors that pizza is a vegetable.

That is in addition to this ridiculous claim that high fructose corn syrup is corn sugar.  What’s the next food to be renamed for corporate interest?

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L-cysteine can be made in laboratories, but some of it is processed cheaply from human hair collected in China; sweeped up from barbershop and salon floors.

The ingredient is a non-essential amino acid included in bread to speed up the commercial baking and production process of dough in pizza, pastries, and rolls.

The source not only comes from humans.  In recent years, 80% of it has come from duck feathers.  The amino acid can also be extracted from chicken feathers, cow horns, and petroleum byproduct.

Smoke’em Up, Johnny!

Cysteine is one of the 599 additives in cigarettes, but its use or purpose is unknown.

Good for Liver Damage

Cysteine is rumored to to be an effective cure for hangover and liver damage.  It can counteract long-term damage from alcohol use, but it doesn’t have any immediate effects on drunkenness.

So, in other words, if you’re drunk and think eating a roll of dough will help you sober up enough to drive home– it won’t.  Call a cab or friend.

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Aleister Crowley

The mysterious ‘Curse of Tutankhamun’ deaths are alleged to be a hoax by a murderous satanist known by the name of Aleister Crowley.

In the 1920s, London was plagued by mysterious deaths believed to be the cause of ancient Egyptian black magic released from the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

More than 20 people involved in the opening of the burial chamber died in the following years.

But now evidence is surfacing that Mr. Crowley, a bisexual heroine addict who worshiped the devil and idolized Jack the Ripper, is responsible for their deaths.

The book London’s Curse: Murder, Black Magic and Tutankhamun in the 1920s West End does an excellent job chronicling the life of Crowley and connecting the dots to explain the murders.  It’s interesting to note that the majority of victims were acquaintances of Crowley, or shared the same location as him at the time of their deaths.

Once thought an ancient curse; now it seems only the plot of a crazy man.

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When observed carefully, one can see the evil grin, hooked nose, and twisted horn.

How could it remain hidden for so long?

The devil can only be seen in close-up photography; it is too high up to be seen straight from the ground.  Only with the recent advancements in technology could any average person with a zoom-in camera see it.  And although high-end cameras have been around for awhile, it’s much easier to spot when you know it’s there.  No one knew a devil was in the painting.

Why did the painter place the devil in the painting?

The chief restorer says the creator of the masterpiece may have put it in, “to have a bit of fun.”  So you’re telling us, that one of the most talented painters in history, the renown Giotto, painted a devil in his holy portrayal of the life of St. Francis as a joke?

The cleaning guy then gave another explanation, perhaps to hide his embarrassment from the first, saying that the placement of the devil may have been Giotto’s way of spiting his enemies.

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