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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-18-06 11:55 PM
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Secrets From Inside the White House
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=94ee6686b90067d631c0c536d39c42ae&threadid=1845896

I don't know how true all of this is. I noticed it's listed in a comedy forum, but the poster explains that later in the thread. If you read the whole thread, there is enough detail that everything seems plausible. It was written by someone who apparently works in the WH.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 12:01 AM
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1. Like the "Voice from the White House" ....
take it with a grain of salt... but enjoy it all the same. :)
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 08:00 PM
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12. Keith Olbermann talked about this tonight...
Edited on Wed Apr-19-06 08:00 PM by 0007
KBR Awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M. (HAL) (By Katherine Hunt)

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co, (HAL), said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The maximum total value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a 1-year base period with four 1-year options. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005. The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said. The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster, the company said.

If no one has ever heard anything about detention or concentration camps within the United States, the above press release would appear relatively harmless. However, if anyone is waiting for the government and KBR to come out and say "Hey, we're building concentration camps for all you minions," before they will take note, you'll be in those camps 'before' you figure it out.

Several items about this concern me greatly. First, instead of paying $385+ million for the next five years to build detention centers or so they say; why not stop the flow at the borders which would be much cheaper? On the other hand, if the illegals are the real problem and reason for building detention centers; why not cancel all jobs for illegals, stop all government payments to illegals and their off-spring and watch the illegal problem dry up like a drought stricken river. You won't have to send them back, they will leave. But that would mean that the illegals are the real problem being addressed, could there are other reasons for these little mini Gitmos?...

Secondly, what are these other detention center type projects? Maybe they learned something in New Orleans, maybe they learned that they needed detention camps in which to send people that lost their homes during this natural disaster. By having Haliburton (Man, why does Hallibuton get all the plush assignments) build local camps, we can herd the mindless little masses into them whenever a natural disaster or even potential disaster occurs. Not to mention NWO orchestrated disasters.

Now I'm sure that many will say, not to worry, no big deal or your just making a mountain out of molehill. Maybe I am, however I believe our country has survived quite well without detention or concentration camps for the past 200 years. Just not sure why King George feels we need them now? Wasn't there another country that built and operated a few concentration camps about 60 years ago? I wonder what little piece of propaganda Hitler used to convince the little minions to look the other way?

Color me naive, but when I hear talk of cages, detention and/or concentration camps, my mind usually wonders in devious directions. I haven't seen anywhere in history where detention centers and so forth were used as freedom enhancing tools. View this anyway you wish, but do so at your own peril. Consider yourself warned, what you choose to do with this information is only up to you.

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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 12:03 AM
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2. I can understand your confusion as to why it's in the comedy section
but i do believe the intent was humor
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badgerpup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 12:15 AM
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3. Actually, this rings rather true...
especially about the nylon stockings...
I'm sure every medical person here is familiar with TED hose, which are used to help prevent phlebitis, or blood clots in the legs...
although constantly remaining in a standing position would either contribute to or possibly exacerbate that condition, would it not? :shrug:
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PublicWrath Donating Member (597 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 12:38 AM
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4. If you read that thread down a few pages..............
It becomes very obvious that the guy is in the know. There's a lot more there as people on the thread quiz him about other stuff. He's say people will be going to jail when the dems get back in (page 5 mid) I'm going back to read some more. The first couple of pages are mostly about the OP, which is a lot of fun, but then things get a little more serious.

"Martin Random" is an interesting guy.
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faithnotgreed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 12:54 AM
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6. i stayed up to 4am one night to read all of it
while the posters do ask some good questions i wish they would have pressed for more
though he does say if he doesnt respond to a question its because he cannot risk it

he does sound plausible
esp since he says he really likes mccain and boxer
and that he cannot stand kerry but believes he won since there was election fraud in ohio 2004

wish he would visit here some time.....
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Extend a Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 12:52 AM
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5. that was on dailykos
last week. It was interesting. Strange but interesting. I sure wouldn't rule it out.
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emlev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 01:13 AM
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7. I'm off to mine nose hair trimmers in Arizona...eom
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cliss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 01:18 AM
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8. Yes, thank you for re-posting this.
There was a link to Daily Kos on this thread by "Martin Random". I just couldn't help it: I had to read the whole damn thing from start to finish. The posts & questions were every bit as interesting as the "scoop" from Our Man on the Scene.

I gave myself a bit of time to think about this story, to give it the "smell" test. As much as I want to believe this is a real anecdote, I don't think it is. Here are my comments:

1) This is a person who has been given an amazing amount of intimacy into these peoples' private space: he can hear Dick Cheney taking a dump on the toilet, he can hear Rumsfeld squeeze out "wet farts", and he knows that Bush is taking an ungodly amount of prescription drugs.

2) Think about it: how many people would have this kind of security clearance? Not many. He must have been in Bush's bathroom, or somehow gotten into his medicine cabinet in order to see how much medication he's taking.

3) Martin does a lot of cussing, uses the F* word, which leads me to believe he is a man. But then, he goes into great detail about Condi Rice's perfume, what's it made of, how much did it cost, and so on. Men usually don't concern themselves with perfume, so I'm tempted to believe this Martin is actually a woman.

4) And really, it makes more sense. A woman, especially an attractive woman, might have more access to the really private places of the White House, like near the toilet while Cheney is taking a dump.

5) This Martin laments that there is so much corruption, so much devilry going on in the White House, and the press corps is complicit in the corruption, etc etc. That's why Martin has decided to divulge all the secrets.

6) Martin explains that there is ONE secret, so huge and dark, that it will become known. The only thing I can think of is 9/11. Maybe the White House is more involved than we realize.
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WFF Donating Member (277 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 01:38 PM
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9. Boy, some of that stuff DOES seem credible
Damn...I wonder
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Chiyo-chichi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 01:53 PM
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10. Well, duh!!!!
"The White house is planting its own men among the press agents at press conferences."
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-19-06 07:57 PM
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11. OK, that one was pretty obvious
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