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Mott The Hoople, 1973 German TV Appearance
http://youtu.be/7uTLEPkbl7M
http://youtu.be/koJxSCSGDkA
24 June 1973 Hits a Go Go, Seeheim Germany
durch die Sendung führt Eddy Becker Mott The Hoople - Drivin‘ Sister Kaminski & Gottemeier - Hauptsache daß man von Gestern ist Wind - Josephine Lynsey De Paul - Sleeping Blue Nights Greater Union - Heaven Help Greater Union - Jimmy Webb Medley Deke Leonard - Diamond Road Wind - The Princess And The Minstrel Amiel Cartwright - Pretty Baby Mott the Hoople – Honaloochie Boogie Lynsey De Paul - All Night Wolfe Tones - The Black Ribbon Band
So it appears Deke Leonard was filming the same show, doing his first solo single, which explains how he came to be there. Deke was a friend of Overend Watts.
Notice Lynsey DePaul was also there - according to Campbell Devine's book this is the event where the name Ariel Bender was coined.
In Deke's latest book "Maximum Darkness" he writes:
"I did the show (it was only miming to ‘Diamond Road’, my latest single, but it was three minutes of exposure on Teutonic TV). Mott The Hoople, old friends, were on just after me and I, coming off, passed them, going on. Ian Hunter grabbed me and dragged me onstage with them, where I mimed to their latest hit, ‘All The Way To Memphis’, sharing a mike with Ian. That was a nice gesture, don’t you think? Of course, it screwed up all the camera angles, rehearsed the previous day, and induced a collective nervous breakdown among the studio technicians. But great art requires great sacrifices, especially by somebody else."
Deke actually shares the mic with Overend; the performance appears to be a tape over live vocals.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
Judicial Watch Uncovers Coverup in Minneapolis Islamist Exploration
JW Investigation Uncovers Questions about Minneapolis Explosion
When an explosion occurs in a Muslim neighborhood at a building owned by a person previously implicated as a terrorist financier, one would think that authorities might conduct a thorough investigation. But the results of an independent Judicial Watch investigation - that required a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to get key information - shows that authorities dropped the ball on the deadly January 1, 2014, explosion.
At 8:16 a.m. on New Year's Day in Minneapolis, a building at 516 Cedar Avenue containing a grocery store and several apartments exploded, killing three people and injuring 13. All of the apartments were occupied by single men. Many were hurt while jumping out of the burning building's windows in order to escape the carnage.
The building was owned by Garad Nor, the owner of a money-transfer company who had initially been implicated as a terrorist financier by the U.S. Treasury Department. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
But within months of the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. agents raided and blocked the accounts of five Minneapolis money-transfer operations, including his company Aaran Money Wire Service Inc.
Nor, who also goes by the name Garad Jama, was in Dubai the day he learned through CNN that his name was listed among 62 individuals and organizations that the U.S. government said had helped fund Osama bin Laden.
He returned immediately to defend himself, and nine months later, after he sued several members of then-President George W. Bush's cabinet, Nor's name was finally removed from the United Nations list of entities believed to have terrorist ties. The U.S. Treasury Department unfroze his business' assets.
The apartment building was also adjacent to the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Civic Center, a mosque which lists the Muslim Brotherhood as a contact on its website "Links" page. Immediately after the blast, FBI spokesman Kyle Loven said that the agency was aware of the explosion, "but it would be sheer speculation to theorize what may have occurred here as far as any mosque or any other business in the area." Amazingly, within 48 hours, the FBI denied any terrorist activity was associated with the explosion.
Documents separately obtained by Judicial Watch from the State Fire Marshal Division of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, however, reveal that the explosion apparently was never thoroughly investigated.
In his January 10, 2014, report, Deputy State Fire Marshal Investigator Ronald C. Rahman admitted, "I did not retain any evidentiary artifacts from the scene." Furthermore, in his concluding report on the case Rahman wrote, "[T]he cause of this incident must be classified as 'Undeterminable.'"
Before the building's destruction, G. Schmitz, fire investigator for the Minneapolis Fire Department who was on the scene on the day of the explosion, reported, "The origin of the fire is undetermined."
Suggestions by some that the fire may have been caused by "some kind of gas leak," were quickly refuted by Minnesota's Centerpoint Energy spokeswoman Becca Virden, who stated that they "can detect a gas leak even when you can't detect it - highly sensitive equipment. They have checked there were no gas leaks reported before and there are no gas leaks in the area now." Virden added, "We had no natural gas in the area."
The documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the State Fire Marshal Division of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety substantiate doubts that a gas leak caused the explosion. Check out these details from a February 28, 2014, supplemental report filed by Deputy State Fire Marshal Rahman:
- Interview of building occupant Abdi Ali Qobey, who was in apartment #5, on the same floor and across the hall from apartment #2, which blew up: "He was awake and lying in bed at the time of the incident... He did not smell (the odorant of) natural gas."
- Interview of building occupant Adani Ali, who was in apartment #1, which was directly involved in the fire: "He did not smell an odor of natural gas."
- "In review with Mark Bishop, a private fire investigator with Prairieland Fire and Forensics, who was retained by Centerpoint Energy, on the date of the incident gas company officials tested the odorant in the natural gas and found it to have an appropriate amount. Testing of the soil outside the structure in the area of the natural gas supply piping failed to reveal any fugitive gas in the soil."
The Obama administration also conspicuously avoided any kind of serious investigation. How do we know?
Documents your JW obtained from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) through a March 12, 2014, FOIA request, reveal that ATF agents were explicitly told not to conduct an investigation of the explosion - after they had already begun preparations for their trip to Minneapolis. In an April 15, 2014, email from a St. Paul ATF group supervisor to a colleague, the supervisor wrote: "Additionally, at the request of the Minneapolis Fire Department, ATF did not respond to this incident." Why would the Minneapolis Fire Department make such an unusual request, particularly under such suspicious circumstances?
From here, the story gets even stranger. An ATF "Report of Investigation" dated January 13, 2014, says that ATF agents "were notified (the document does not say by whom)...that the City of Minneapolis was intending on tearing down the structure prior to a scene examination taking place:"
On January 2, 2014, ATF was in contact with the Minnesota State Fire Marshal's Office regarding the fire. Additional ATF personnel were also in contact with members of the Minneapolis Police Department. Plans were made to assist with a scene examination on January 3, once the bodies were recovered and the structural integrity was examined.
ATF personnel made plans to be at the scene of the fire on the morning of January 3 in an effort to determine the cause of the explosion and ensuing fire. ATF personnel were notified on the afternoon of January 2 that the City of Minneapolis was intending on tearing down the structure prior to a scene examination taking place. They (not identified) believed the fire was related to a natural gas leak in the building. The building was torn down and was then turned over to insurance representatives.
Even a novice sleuth would agree that it's pretty hard to conduct any meaningful investigation when the possible crime scene and evidence it contains is destroyed.
So what's going on here?
Why is there such reticence on the part of those who are charged with protecting public safety?
We are taking steps to find out. We want to see what, if anything, has been done to seriously investigate an explosion that remains highly suspicious. To this end, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain records regarding the FBI's response to the January 1, 2014, explosion of an apartment building.
The lawsuit, filed after the DOJ failed to respond our FOIA request to the FBI, asks for:
Any and all records regarding, concerning or related to the investigation of the January 1, 2014 explosion and fire at the Cedar-Riverside apartment complex in Minneapolis, Minnesota, based on searches of the FBI's Electronic Case File system, Central Records System and Electronic Surveillance records, as well as any cross-referenced files concerning the explosion and fire.
Our investigation has raised questions about this explosion and why state and federal officials were so quick to close this case, tear down the building and leave the community without answers about what really happened in Minneapolis. The local Somali community there has provided many recruits for ISIS, so there is urgency to resolving this case.
This building explosion and the building owner's links to both Somalia and to terrorist financing should sound alarm bells.
The official explanation that the explosion was due to a natural gas leak doesn't bear scrutiny.
The FBI's and Justice Department's stonewall, which is forcing us to go to federal court, suggests these agencies have something to hide.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
2nd Military Hero in French Islamist Attack Injured in Reprisal Attack
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/10/08/breakdown-a-closer-look-at-the-fight-that-led-to-spencer-stone-stabbing-in-sacramento/
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
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Saturday, October 3, 2015
Fryeburg Academy Enforces Sharia, Fires Coach for Free Speech
Two days after posting an open letterto Obama, written by “An American Citizen,” on his personal Facebook page, a lacrosse coach said he was forced to resign by school officials at Fryeburg Academy in Fryeburg, Maine.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Oregon College No Gun Zone Connection to Islamist
2nd reprisal attack
Hero who stopped French Jihadi had attended college.
Armed vet prevented from stopping Islamist inspired attack.
Muslim associate glorified guns and violence.
We know Harper Mercer’s only male friend was a jihad sympathizer who praised “the brave Mujahideen heroes.” And said, “The Mujahideen freedom fighters of Palestine. My brothers and sisters keep on doing your thing. Allahu Akbar.” “my brave soldiers keep on fighting for the liberation of Palestine against Israel. f*ck Israel. Kill the Jews. jews are the only infidels.” “The Quran ….. holy book of muslims”
A tweet sent out by an allegedly Islamic State affiliated Twitter account claimed responsibility for the Umpqua College Shooting carried out in Roseburg, Oregon. The tweet was sent out by @K_H_O00, but the account has since been suspended by Twitter for terrorist propaganda.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
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Saturday, September 19, 2015
Trump Muslim
Trump
Let us do journalism 101: who is the man who asked the question? What is his background because he put on a T-shirt that means we've identified him? Let us do religious studies 101: what does it mean to be a Christian, what does it mean to be a Muslim?
No, let's just join the circus and heat up controversy.
Friday, September 18, 2015
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Muslim Kid Provokes School and Invents Fraudulent Clock
Hopefully, more provocative Muslim kids will invent clocks so these miscreants leave the country.
The picture of the device posted does make it look a suspicious package and nothing like a clock. In fact, you can't tell time with this kid's alleged clock. He wanted attention and he got it.
Another bomb threat called in.
If a Muslim kid reinvents a clock he is acclaimed as a genius. Someone should tell Obama that clocks already have been invented.
What kind of weird high school kid brings a bizarre package to school and expects to be rewarded for it? What parent would let a kid walk into an English class with it? The kid disobeyed his engineering teacher and carried it to English class. What would an engineering project be doing in an English class?
The clock rang in his back pack during the second class and the teacher would have acted very irresponsibly if she did not investigate to protect the other children.
The picture of the device posted does make it look a suspicious package and nothing like a clock. In fact, you can't tell time with this kid's alleged clock. He wanted attention and he got it.
Note also how the family already has an attorney who represents Muslims from the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America. It looks like a deliberate provocation to me.
Naturally, the Muslim Brotherhood CAIR organization is all over this story.
Meanwhile, if you are a patriotic kid who wants to wear an American flag to school you will be suspended. I bet Obama will not invite a patriotic kid to the White House for exercising free speech.
Another kid will not get an invite either.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
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