Morley Safer, 60 Minutes Anchor, Dead at 84

[From article]
Morley Safer, the CBS newsman who changed war reporting forever when he showed U.S. Marines burning the huts of Vietnamese villagers and went on to become the iconic 60 Minutes correspondent whose stylish stories on America's most-watched news program made him one of television's most enduring stars, died today in Manhattan. He was 84. He had homes in Manhattan and Chester, Conn.
Safer was in declining health when he announced his retirement last week; CBS News broadcast a long-planned special hour to honor the occasion on Sunday May 15 that he watched in his home.
A huge presence on 60 Minutes for 46 years -- Safer enjoyed the longest run anyone ever had on primetime network television. Though he cut back a decade ago, he still appeared regularly until recently, captivating audiences with his signature stories on art, science and culture. A dashing figure in his checked shirt, polka dot tie and pocket square, Morley Safer -- even his name had panache -- was in his true element playing pool with Jackie Gleason, delivering one of his elegant essays aboard the Orient Express or riffing on Anna Wintour, but he also asked the tough questions and did the big stories. In 2011, over 18.5 million people watched him ask Ruth Madoff how she could not have known her husband Bernard was running a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
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"Morley was one of the most important journalists in any medium, ever," said CBS Chairman and CEO, Leslie Moonves. "He broke ground in war reporting and made a name that will forever be synonymous with 60 Minutes. He was also a gentleman, a scholar, a great raconteur - all of those things and much more to generations of colleagues, his legion of friends, and his family, to whom all of us at CBS offer our sincerest condolences over the loss of one of CBS' and journalism's greatest treasures."
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Safer was a familiar reporter to millions when he replaced Harry Reasoner on 60 Minutes in 1970. A much-honored foreign correspondent, Safer was the first U.S. network newsman to film a report inside Communist China. He appeared regularly on the CBS Evening News from all over the world, especially Vietnam, where his controversial reporting earned him peer praise and government condemnation.
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Safer's piece from the Vietnamese hamlet of Cam Ne in August of 1965 showing U.S. Marines burning the villagers' thatched huts was cited by New York University as one of the 20th century's best pieces of American journalism. Some believe this report freed other journalists to stop censoring themselves and tell the raw truth about war. The controversial report on the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" earned Safer a George Polk award and angered President Lyndon Johnson so much, he reportedly called CBS President Frank Stanton and said, "Your boys shat on the American flag yesterday." Some Marines are said to have threatened Safer, but others thanked him for exposing a cruel tactic. Safer said that the pentagon treated him with contempt for the rest of his life.
He spent three tours (1964-'66) as head of the CBS Saigon bureau. His helicopter was shot down in a 1965 battle, after which Safer continued to report under fire. In 1990, he penned a memoir of his Vietnam experience, "Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam" (Random House), in which he goes back to reminisce and to interview the enemy's veterans.
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Then in August 1975, with a new Sunday evening timeslot, Safer put 60 Minutes on the national stage. Interviewing Betty Ford, the first lady shocked many Americans by saying she would think it normal if her 18-year-old daughter were having sex. The historic sit-down also included frank talk about pot and abortion.
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It was another Safer story that would become one of the program's most honored and important. "Lenell Geter's in Jail," about a young black man serving life for armed robbery in Texas, overturned Geter's conviction 10 days after the December 1983 segment exposed a sloppy rush to injustice.
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His conversational wit with his subjects was just as sharp as his written word. In a profile of the prim Martha Stewart, a smirking Safer passed her livestock pen and said to the domestic diva, "Your barnyard? It's remarkably odor-free."
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CBS News hired the Canadian-born Safer in 1964 in London, where he was a correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He got the job in an odd turn of events. One of Safer's CBC colleagues seeking a job with CBS sent a demo tape of a roundtable he anchored that included Safer. CBS news executives liked Safer better and gave him a job in the London Bureau. The young correspondent took over his new job behind the desk once occupied by another CBS legend, the late Edward R. Murrow.
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Safer was born Nov. 8, 1931 in Toronto and eventually became an American citizen, holding a dual citizenship. Telling MacLeans he felt "stateless," he believed this status was an advantage. "I bring a different perspective and I have no vested interests," he told the magazine in 1998.
Growing up, he was influenced by the writing of Ernest Hemingway and decided he would be a foreign correspondent. He attended the University of Western Ontario for only a few weeks when he dropped out to begin writing for newspapers.
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Safer was asked to characterize his legacy as a journalist in a November 2000 interview with the American Archive of Television. "I have a pretty solid body of work that emphasized the words, emphasized ideas and the craft of writing for this medium. It's not literary, I wouldn't presume to suggest that. But I think you can elevate it a little bit sometimes with the most important part of the medium, which is what people are saying -- whether they're the people being interviewed or the guy who's telling the story. It's not literature, but it can be very classy journalism."
He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Jane, one daughter, Sarah Bakal, her husband, Alexander Bakal, three grandchildren, a sister, and brother, both of Toronto.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-morley-safer-dies-at-84/

60 Minutes' Morley Safer dies at 84
Longtime CBS newsman Morley Safer of "60 Minutes" and Vietnam War reporting fame dies at 84
2016 May 19

White House Promotes Research Funding To Control Brain Functions

Whitehead Institute and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA study the brain with substantial funding from E. Fuller Torrey who promotes forced drugging of humans. Never hear about the potential for elimination of freedom by an ambitious dictator if they ever succeed. Here is evidence that the White House has no concern about abuses of power by government or politicians. In Germany they are implementing the Therapeutic State as broadcast on 60 Minutes, CBS news, Sunday April 3, 2016. Psychiatrists are not elected and are not held accountable or their misguided errors. They promote the idea that the genes of psychiatrist have been cleansed of mendacity, greed, and sadism. They predict the future in courts encouraged by spineless judges.  

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-is-prison-60-minutes-goes-to-germany/

Prisoners are coddled and treated as victims. It is the same policy guideline which Angela Merkel used to justify opening the gates to Middle East migrants. The futility o such misguided response to criminal violence was shown many years ago in the Broadway hit show West Side Story.

[From article]
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
BRAIN Initiative
President Obama is making new investments in the “BRAIN” Initiative — a bold new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind and uncover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure brain disorders like Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, autism, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.
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The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, or BRAIN, as the project is now called, aims to reconstruct the activity of every single neuron as they fire simultaneously in different brain circuits, or perhaps even whole brains.
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Brain mapping under the guise of research has the strong appearance of being a whole lot more than someone’s laboratory investigation. Consider the very telling excerpt in which project managers state that they want to implant electrodes in hundreds of cell membranes by an army of nan0particles which will allow these nanoparticles to become apart of the cell membrane functioning.
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The lesson is clear, embedded chips can turn normal people into crazed killers and it can take crazed killers and turn them into passive beings. Interestingly, the most famous graduate of the MK Ultra program was the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/28/the-brain-mapping-project-obamas-brave-new-world-the-loss-of-free-will/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-brain-mapping-project-obamas-brave-new-world-the-loss-of-free-will

The Brain Mapping Project: Obama’s Brave New World–The Loss of Free Will
March 28, 2016

Dave Hodges

CIA Funded Mind Control Experiments - Bull & Cat Tests by Dr Delgado in the 1960s
https://youtu.be/Ni2FFSAhTcA



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The Common Sense Show 3/20/16 (2d hour)

This video also includes a discussion of how the globalists will block Trump from ever getting the nomination. One has to wonder if any aspect of this nature will ever be applied and could it be applied to this, the most controversial election in American history.
Technology is neutral. What makes technology evil is the inherently sinful nature of man. At the State of the Union Message, Obama wholeheartedly endorsed the project. It easy to understand why. This is Obama’s Brave New World. This will prove to be evil incarnate.

[about one hour]
https://youtu.be/E5S0tkhVG8o

Impaired Driver in Crash That Killed 60 Minutes' Bob Simon

Bob Simon, left, and crash scene

[From article]
CBS newsman Bob Simon’s black-car driver was a rookie with nine license suspensions who is suspected of speeding during the fatal crash — and had just one hand on the wheel because he had a “dead” left arm from a suicide attempt, sources said Thursday.
Investigators believe Abdul Reshad Fedahi, a 44-year-old Afghan immigrant who lives in a homeless shelter, mistakenly hit the gas instead of the brake after sideswiping a car on the West Side Highway at about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, law enforcement sources said.
“He hit the gas pedal instead of the brake. He sped up after hitting the car,” a law enforcement source told The Post.
“There were no skid marks,” a source said.

http://nypost.com/2015/02/12/bob-simons-driver-likely-hit-gas-instead-of-brake/

Bob Simon‘s driver had ‘dead’ arm, 9 prior license suspensions
By Larry Celona, Georgett Roberts and Jamie Schram
New York Post
February 12, 2015 | 3:15pm

Updated: Texts Of Steve Kroft To Mistress, New York Post Ambush

Posted January 31, 2015 5:35 PM ET; Last updated April 11, 2015 7:58 PM ET


Sultry Manhattan lawyer Lisan Goines poses for CBS journalist Steve Kroft (inset) in one of a series of steamy selfies. Photo: Michael Sofronski (inset)


[video embedded]
[From article]
TV journalist Steve Kroft got a taste of his own medicine when he was hit with an ambush interview about his leggy mistress Friday night on the Upper West Side.
The married “60 Minutes” newsman — known for jumping in front of interview subjects with a microphone — spat back a sarcastic retort when a Post reporter stuck a camera in his face to ask for his side of the story.
“The Post would be the first one I would give it to,” sniffed Kroft.

http://pagesix.com/2015/04/11/steve-kroft-gets-testy-when-asked-about-alleged-mistress/?_ga=1.61672431.212440808.1402078759

Steve Kroft gets testy when asked about mistress
By Kevin Fasick
New York Post

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April 11, 2015 | 12:46am

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[From article]
A source close to Kroft’s lover told The Post that the TV hotshot was “really paranoid about right-wing zealots” finding out about their affair and using the tawdry details to try to destroy his career and CBS.
The sexts between Kroft and Lisan Goines — obtained exclusively by The Post — include a nude selfie of the lusty lawyer that she sent to her much-older lover. Other photos show her wearing a red thong and busting out of a black bra.
But “dress in Washington is Either professional or Laura Bush,” Kroft messaged his illicit squeeze in advance of their September 2011 play date at the Park Hyatt on 24th and M streets in DC.
“Don’t dress like Beyoncé,” Kroft warned the Harvard-educated beauty, according to the source.
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The source, however, said Kroft was proud to boast to Goines about his closeness to the leader of the free world — and let slip that Obama “hates” his attorney general, Eric Holder.
“[Kroft] definitely said Obama feels comfortable with him, because he was the first person to take him seriously when he was running for president,” the insider said.
“They have a rapport. They used to smoke together.”
http://pagesix.com/2015/01/31/bombshell-sexts-have-60-minutes-steve-kroft-in-hot-water/?_ga=1.247801025.778711258.1422742311

‘Don’t dress like Beyoncé': The sexts of Steve Kroft
By Leonard Greene and Laura Italiano
January 31, 2015 | 6:57am
New York Post

Bob Simon, CBS News, 60 Minutes Host Dead In NYC Car Crash

Bob Simon poses on the roof of the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, in March 5, 1999.

Photo: AP

[From article]
The CBS reporter died when the Lincoln Town Car he was riding in crashed with a Mercedes and then lost control and plowed into a pedestrian expansion near 30th Street at about 7 p.m., according to sources.
Cops had to cut off the top of the Lincoln to free Simon and the driver, who, according to a law enforcement sources, was treated for a possible heart attack by EMTs.
The driver of the Mercedes said the livery driver was driving erratically.

http://nypost.com/2015/02/11/60-minutes-bob-simon-killed-in-car-crash/

60 Minutes’ Bob Simon killed in car crash
By Larry Celona and C.J. Sullivan
February 11, 2015 | 9:24pm

New York Post

CBS News Anchor Married Steve Kroft Exposed Having Hot Affair With Married Woman

Steve Kroft
Photo: FilmMagic
"Hi, I'm Steve Kroft." Too Hot For 60 Minutes?

[From article]
Another time, the 69-year-old newsman asked Goines, 41, “What exactly would be your preference,” the Enquirer reported.
“U all over and deep inside of me,” Goines responded.
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“Working late. Just ordered out. Would rather be eating your pudding,” he allegedly wrote.
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The newsman — who boasted to Goines that he was the “go-to’’ interviewer for President Obama — had some particularly unusual tastes in bed, the mag said. One time, he was “pouring champagne in her behind and drinking the bubbly,” the report claims.
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Kroft and Goines, who is also married, consummated the affair a week after he first passed her his hotel key, the report said, when the soon-to-be lovers met at the $700-a-night Four Seasons hotel.
“Steve booked the room for two nights,” the source told the magazine. “The first night they had oral sex, and the second night, they went the whole way.”

http://pagesix.com/2015/01/07/60-minutes-host-steve-kroft-exposed-in-nasty-affair/?_ga=1.164982780.212440808.1402078759

‘60 Minutes’ host Steve Kroft exposed in nasty affair
By Leonard Greene
January 7, 2015 | 4:00am
New York Post, Page Six

CBS 60 Minutes Correspondent Lara Logan Quarantined After Liberia Ebola Report

[From article]
NEW YORK (AP) - Lara Logan of CBS News is being quarantined in a South Africa hotel for three weeks as a precaution after visiting an American-run hospital treating Ebola patients in Liberia for a "60 Minutes" report that aired Sunday.
CBS said Monday that Logan's 21-day self-quarantine will end this Friday. Neither Logan nor the four other CBS employees in South Africa have shown any sign that they are infected with the virus.
Logan, speaking in a "60 Minutes Overtime" web interview from the room where the CBS crew put its report together, admitted to some cabin fever as she waits out her stay. She said the South African government had given the crew permission to work at the hotel.

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/27345187/cbs-logan-quarantined-after-ebola-report

CBS' Logan quarantined after Ebola report
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer

Psychiatrists Attack

The psychiatric industry has such a tight hold on public discourse about their business, that anyone who disagrees with them and anyone who criticizes psychiatry is designated a Scientologist. I'm surprised they limit their character assassination to that. Why not just call all critics tin foil hat wearers too? The first rule of propaganda is to discredit critics. How does what the control freak psychiatric industry does differ from what U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy did to alleged Communists? Today (June 9, 2014) as I did errands one more Harvard University employee asked me if I was leafletting for Scientology. It shows how limited the range of thought is on the misguided and dangerous business of the fake science of psychiatry. Ask Peter Breggin what they did to him after he dared to testify in court about psychiatric abuses of children. 

On or about June 3, 2014 the dedicated, thoughtful, imaginative, brutal, arrogant, hateful and hostile, graduate student in psychology at Harvard University Medical School returned to her mission. She resumed her monotonous, relentless, daily sleep disturbances every one or two hours, and her high tech remote tampering with my computer to cause it to crash, with concurrent character assassination. 

On June 8, 2014 a thoughtful couple, one man one woman, took time from their busy lives, shot dead two Las Vegas police officers, who were having lunch. They went on to shoot a civilian and then they killed themselves. No one was watching them. They were free to roam the land and plan their depraved violence. Las Vegas does not share the same public safety priorities as Cambridge MA and Harvard University campus police, who stalk, harass, provoke, insult, threaten, ridicule, humiliate and slander me every day all day. 

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2014/jun/09/neighbors-couple-suspected-las-vegas-killing-spree/

It makes any attempt to enjoy life or to pursue happiness, a right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, impossible. In early June 2014, PBS re-broadcast a special called, Happy. It described some of the ways that people enjoy their lives and live long ones. Being harassed every day, isolated from friendly people, and surrounded by hateful and hostile people, does not encourage happiness, nor does it enable long life. But that is what this charming Harvard University employee is doing every day in the name of some misguided good. Likely the good is covering up many years of criminal abuses by her, and her associates. It is a campaign which local, state and U.S. officials and human services professionals in Massachusetts ignore, and encourage by default.

For about one week during the last few days of May and the first few days of June 2014 a group of police psychiatrists took control of the surveillance and harassment, giving the graduate student a needed respite. The following events added to the reasons why my opinion of psychiatry changed from skepticism to outright hostility and fear. I was always skeptical of psychiatry after reading Thomas Szasz's and Peter R. Breggin's books, and listening to Dr. Fred Baughman speak before Congressional committees. Here's a link to some anti-psychiatry resources

http://www.antipsychiatry.org/
Psychiatry is an arbitrary discipline with an undeserved image as benevolent and scientific. It is a method of social control with no Due Process protections, masquerading as a healing profession. 




60 Minutes broadcasts regular features promoting the psychiatric industry. The show has extensive funding from drug companies so it is not surprising. They never note that they get a lot of their advertising from the drug industry. On Sunday June 8, 2014 Steve Kroft hosted another one of these promos for drug treatment for persons accused of mental illness. As usual his expert was E. Fuller Torrey a well known hater of persons with disabilities, who he describes as dangerous and in need of forced psychiatric drugs. Nowhere on the feature did Kroft mention the role of psychiatric drugs as a cause of violence. He blamed the usual suspect, a fantasy illness made up by consensus. They used to blame a chemical imbalance of the brain, for mental illness. Until they were challenged by some disabled persons. The American Psychiatric Association was unable to provide any evidence for that elusive chemical imbalance. Like the dedicated propagandists that they are, now they show pretty images of the brain and say there is evidence of the illnesses we made up by consensus. They do not establish any connection between the images and the illness. They just say it and it is broadcast by the obedient, conformist, useful idiots among the journalism elite.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/untreated-mental-illness-an-imminent-danger-2/

A group of computer professionals held a three-day meeting (May 30, to June 1, 2014) to encourage and to facilitate making government information accessible to voters and taxpayers online. During the course of my visit I encountered a young man wearing sunglasses. He was speaking with another young man who enthusiastically boasted about his new job. He worked as a web designer and then took a new position working for the City of Somerville. He described his duties which included answering calls from citizens and residents about problems with city services.

At some point I related some of my experiences with local governments, Somerville, MA and Cambridge, MA. After adding details about speaking to the city council, writing bills for the state house (one about regulating use of human subjects in medical research) and hosting a local cable access TV show, I expressed what I thought of as the way to interact with public officials. I said they do not listen. Instead of getting upset, or banging one's head against the wall I take my lesson from Jessica Mitford. She allegedly said, "You can't change the world. But you can embarrass the guilty." I said, "That works." 

The man with the sunglasses expressed his horror at someone having such opinions. He became hostile and aggressive. He asked me what I meant about use of human subjects in experiments. I said usually people accuse me of being against research. I told of one research misadventure I saw in the Boston Globe. Four people died in gene therapy trials at two Harvard University Medical School teaching hospitals in Boston. He kept interrupting me asking questions as if I was a witness at a trial. "How do you know that? They were desperate," he said.

I said "I know they were desperate. But that did not justify using them without informed consent." I called the Boston police to ask if they investigated the deaths. The spokesman for the police told me "They do their own investigations."

"Oh," I said, "If I was arrested for homicide could I do my own investigation too?" She told me not to call there any more and hung up.

It is a First Amendment right to make inquiries of the police, a prominent division of the government. I called the next day and explained the First Amendment to the woman. She again told me not to call them. Then I called to the state Medical Examiner and to the District Attorney. State law requires that deaths in hospitals must be reported to one or the other. Neither office received reports of the deaths. The penalty for not reporting the deaths was $50. Not much of an incentive, especially for Harvard University Medical School researchers. They always act in the name of good.

One of eleven bills I wrote in 2001 and had eleven hearings at the state house, was to increase penalties for not reporting deaths in hospitals. I realized that if a person was used as a human subject (or if medical researchers said he was a human subject) for medical research and someone decided to kill him, the killer would never be found. Because the police and the state agencies do not investigate such deaths. Convenient way to kill, I thought. Negligent homicide is still homicide. I learned later that 90,000 to 100,000 persons die each year in American hospitals due to medical negligence. That is seldom mentioned by dedicated journalists.

This was met with hostility by Sunglass Man. I was careful not to say anything that would upset him more. I did not know if he was easily provoked to violence or just angry at me. He acted as if he knew me. He seemed to be extremely angry with what I was saying. When I told him of Jessica Mitford's doctrine, he walked away and said. "I'm done."

Done? What was he doing? This was a computer professional meetup. In retrospect I think he was a police employee doing an evaluation. Evaluations without consent violate state and U.S. privacy laws. One problem is due to the extreme arrogance of psychiatrists and especially Harvard University affiliated psychiatrists. They believe that laws do not apply to them. I think Mr. Sunglasses was a psychiatrist or worked with them. How many people react to discussion about use of human subjects in research passionately? Most people lose interest immediately. This guy was upset. 

His antagonism was like that of the people who harass me every day. Control freaks get upset when they are unable to get and keep control of another human. They react violently in cases of domestic assault some of which lead to homicide. Maybe he was one of the temporary replacements conducting harassment for the usual graduate student?

It took me a few days to connect the dots between the recent reaction to a comment I posted about Harvard University's former Provost, psychiatrist Steven Hyman. He is the task force chairman to make Harvard University compliant with the requirements of Title IX of the Education Act of 1972. His statements attracted my attention for two reasons. He is a psychiatrist. Why is he chairman of that task force? What knowledge does he bring to address the issue? I realized it was two. Spineless leaders attribute extraordinary knowledge, omniscience, to psychiatrists. Second he was the Provost and knows about obtaining U.S. taxpayer grants. Non compliance with Title IX jeopardizes those grants. Harvard University gets about $175 million each year, not chump change. Hyman is also a prominent researcher in psychiatry in Cambridge.

So I made a comment which you can see, at this link.

http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2014/05/solution-to-harvard-universitys.html

You will also see some reactions to it.

Then there was another related series of events described at this link

http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2014/06/erasing-history-again.html

My question, "Is Sunglass Man more of that?" On June 2, 2014 I ate at home, and began to feel groggy. I realized that someone had placed drugs in my food. That is a violation of the poisoning statute, a felony. It happened several times to me during the past 43 years of brutal criminal harassment in mostly three states. Psychiatrists believe that they know what a person needs--drugs. And if the person refuses to take the drugs the control freaks force them on the person. One way is to provoke the person and have him arrested and held in a mental hospital. Then they can force drugs freely with no opposition or protection from the abuse.

They try to do that to me. I do not react to their constant provocations. Psychiatric proactive arrogance then implements Plan B. Harvard University administration, i.e., building superintendents can provide access to the apartment. Someone placed psychiatric drugs in my bottled water which I purchase because the tap water was occasionally polluted. Thwarting them at one entry caused them to commit a burglary to poison my food supply. Charming, no? Not the first time. Was it the same Sunglass Man? Was he working for Professor Hyman? I have no evidence. But I have my suspicions. It is not surprising to me because it's been done too often previously. I am not under the care of any psychiatrist or any psychologist. There is no court order to allow placing drugs in my food. It is three felonies. If there was enforcement of laws against psychiatrists for offenses like this the professional might lose his license. Or it could have been one more of those wannabes, crime family or police employees who once worked as a guard at a mental hospital and thinks he is psychiatrist.

That explains my hostility, my antagonism and fear of psychiatrists. Police agencies will not address such criminal abuses even though they are felonies. Psychiatrists get a pass and Harvard University employees, have a de facto exemption from criminal liability. That is a Massachusetts problem.

From about 1960 to 1974, two large organizations of criminals, politicians, government officials were engaged in a national war for power. I call them the Kennedy Cult and the California Syndicate. I was adopted by the Kennedy Cult when I was student in college. They admired the skills I showed during the student protests in 1968 at Columbia University. Without me knowing it, the California Syndicate began harassing me. To them I was the enemy. I was clueless about the war and these organizations at the time. I loved everyone and treated everyone with respect. I avoided unpleasant people. I attended law school and the attacks continued. Still I was clueless why people would harass me and insult me. I did nothing to provoke them. In retrospect I now understand what was going on. It was war and they saw me as a leader of the Kennedy cult. I was important to both organizations. One supported me the other attacked me.

When the war ended the two organizations continued their conflicting relationships with me. It continues today but takes different forms. At some point the Kennedy Cult changed their efforts defending me and created a false profile so that they could reduce the amount of resources spent defending me from the California Syndicate. One of their operatives said to me, "If you're not a lawyer you're nobody." The new profile included but was not limited to "a retired drug dealer," and an "Italian American homosexual." Previously the profile was "black, Jewish, homosexual from New York." The California Syndicate added "He's a racist. He's homeless and mentally ill." Fast forward to 2014 the Kennedy cult employs psychiatrists and psychologists, some from Harvard University Medical School. They do evaluations without consent, a violation of state and U.S. privacy statutes. But no problem. Psychiatrists and Harvard University affiliates are above the laws. These sociopaths have exemptions. So why not give some drugs to this unfortunate man? They seldom know any history beyond he is "mentally ill, and poor."

After several years (20 or more) of complaining to city, state and U.S. officials about criminal abuses by police employees and crime family associates, this is what transpired in June 2014. The Kennedy Cult which adopted me during their war, and made me a target, declared that none of the previous 43 years of criminal abuses happened. They simply erased it from history! How convenient. If I disagree, they simply say, "He's mentally ill and needs treatment, preferably drug treatment." But they know I will never willingly ingest psychiatric drugs, known toxic chemicals with a propaganda image of benevolence. 

On or about June 1-3, 2014 I came home and had dinner. When I began to feel groggy I knew someone had placed drugs in my foods. There is no evidence of a break-in. That means someone gave the drug carrier entry to my apartment, where he put the drugs in my foods, in violation of the state poisoning statute, a felony. It is not the first time that happened. There are psychiatrists and some omniscient chumps who worked as guards in mental hospitals who designate themselves psychiatrists who know how to get needy persons to take the drugs in order to cure them of their illnesses made up by consensus. The Kennedy Cult treats people without consent. "Who needs consent? We know what you need. We are psychiatrists and know everything. And we are morally superior. Our genes have been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism."

Moving along into June 2014, I was joined in my life journey by some thoughtful gentlemen from New Hampshire once again. Whenever the team of control freaks in Massachusetts that annoys me each day runs out of useful idiots to harass me they reach into neighboring New Hampshire where there are plenty more who anxiously join in harassing a 70-year-old white man they say is disabled, mentally ill. I was surprised to learn how many police, human services professionals, politicians, and ordinary folks, as limousine liberals refer to ordinary civilians, have a strong urge to harass, belittle, ridicule, intimidate people they believe are weaker than they are. The fundamental flaw among the public is that government thugs only harass strong, wealthy and powerful people. It is the complete opposite. They focus only on weak people. As explained by Roger Morris in his book, Partners in Power, about the Clintons, the preferred leaders are weak with relaxed rectitude. They fear targeting strong people who are capable of returning fire and doing harm to the fragile image of the weak leader. Thus they only target weak people who cannot fight back, or at least are perceived as unable to do so.

Persons with disabilities are likely targets for these control freaks, predators, bullies and sadists. The New Hampshire team arrived and began intense harassment as per the usual pattern when a new team of lawyer, psychiatrist, and thugs begin their efforts. They try to recreate the police frame-up from 1990 when the California Syndicate hired Cambridge and Somerville police to provoke me and to arrest me after I complained to the chiefs of both police agencies. They paid seven lawyers not to put on a defense. Of the five judges involved, one threatened to have me put into a hospital if I testified about what happened to me. Another judge refused to appoint any more lawyers and ordered me to appear and represent myself.

So much for erasing history and declaring me mentally ill because I do not trust either of these criminal organizations. I am not certain that a third national organization is now trying to provoke me as the previous two organizations did. I suspect that the Midwestern Outfit has now begun the same kind of harassment and provocation as the California Syndicate did before them.

Lara Logan, Bold, Beautiful, Risk Taker

Lara Logan


[From article]
She began an affair with Michael Ware, a swashbuckling correspondent for Time and CNN known for his emotional reportage from the streets of Baghdad.
By late 2007, Logan had another boyfriend in the wings: Joe Burkett, a government contractor in Baghdad who, Gawker uncovered, had worked for a firm called the Lincoln Group. Burkett was a former Texas Army National Guard member whose company did public relations for the military, courting reporters and trying to inject positive war stories into the media. Logan had met and dated Burkett once before in Afghanistan, but it became more serious when they reconnected in Iraq. He began paying regular visits to the CBS compound.
Nobody was as surprised by this turn of events as Ware. After a few drinks one night, Ware entered the CBS compound, walked up to her quarters on the second floor, and discovered Logan and Burkett in flagrante delicto. A loud fight ensued.
[. . .]
With tensions high, Logan blamed Pilgrims for letting Ware enter her quarters when its people knew she was with Burkett.
[. . .]
“Jeff [Fager] believes in popular TV,” says a colleague. “The part of the business that involves reporting scary stories, on which you have to spend time and resources on investigations and fact-checking and sources—all of that annoys the hell out of him.”
[. . .]
“Fager has gotten rid of any structural oversight,” says a former 60 Minutes producer. “He doesn’t like people challenging him. There’s nobody to go to if you have a problem.”

http://nymag.com/news/features/lara-logan-cbs-news-2014-5/

Benghazi and the Bombshell
Is Lara Logan too toxic to return to 60 Minutes?
By Joe Hagan

Published May 4, 2014

CBS Journalist at 60 Minutes Misled By Source, Used For Broadcast

[From article]
The report also said Logan should not have done the story in the first place after making a speech in Chicago a year ago claiming that it was a lie that America's military had tamed al Qaeda.
[. . .]
'The most important thing to every person at 60 Minutes is the truth, and today the truth is we made a mistake. That's very disappointing for any journalist, that's very disappointing for me.
‘Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong and in this case we were wrong.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514060/Lara-Logan-producer-suspended-false-60-Minutes-report-Benghazi.html

Lara Logan and her producer 'suspended' over false 60 Minutes report on Benghazi after she was forced to make humiliating on-air apology for 'disappointing mistakes'
60 Minutes aired an interview with a security contractor who claimed to rush over to the American consulate after the attack began in 2012
After the interview with Dylan Davies aired, CBS learned that Davies told the FBI a different version of events
Logan apologized for being 'misled' less than a week after the segment aired on October 27 but today CBS announced her leave of absence
By MEGHAN KENEALLY and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:51 EST, 26 November 2013 | UPDATED: 18:37 EST, 26 November 2013

Mike Wallace, Actor, Book Review

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/mike_wallace_is_here_zFJp3orQARVyPzT2dug92O/0

‘Mike Wallace is here’
How the ‘60 Minutes’ journalist invented a trench-coat persona to turn that phrase into a threat
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:02 AM, March 4, 2012
Posted: 11:11 PM, March 3, 2012

Miners Safe in Chile After 17 Days

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100822/ts_afp/chileaccidentmining

Trapped miners in Chile are alive after 17 days
AFP
August 22 2010

CBS, 60 Minutes Promotes Psychiatry


Mr. Safer believes in psychiatry, which is no more than personal opinion masquerading as science. Mr. Ayers does not sound ill. Is uttering profanity a mental illness too? That is the problem with psychiatry. If a person says or does something that a psychiatrist does not like or does not understand, the psychiatrist declares it a mental illness. Journalists promote this business. Do the drug company advertisements on 60 Minutes have any influence on their perspective? When has 60 Minutes done a feature on discrimination toward persons accused of mental illness? How many persons with disabilities does 60 Minutes or CBS News employ?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/22/60minutes/main4882450.shtml?tag=FeatureBoxTabsContent;FeatureBoxTabs2

or

http://tinyurl.com/d3nmoh

How Mr. Ayers And Mr. Lopez Became Friends
Morley Safer Reports On A Unique Urban Fable That Happens To Be True
60 Minutes
CBS News
March 22, 2009

60 MINUTES: Duke University Rape Case

60 MINUTES: Duke University Rape Case

Lesley Stahl April 15, 2007
60 Minutes
524 West 57th Street
New York NY 10019 Duke Rape Case

Dear Lesley Stahl,

I write about a recurring pattern on 60 Minutes denigrating persons with
a history of mental illness.
On Sunday April 15, 2007 Lesley Stahl interviewing Roy Cooper, North
Carolina Attorney General, reported, “After his three-month investigation
Attorney General Cooper realized that the accuser was clearly mentally
unbalanced. Records Nifong himself filed in the case show Crystal Mangaham had a
long psychological history and has taken anti psychotic medication like Depakote
and Seroquel.”
What is the connection between being “clearly mentally unbalanced,” and
committing a crime or falsely accusing another person?
Do you believe that mental illness causes crime or violence? There is no
causal connection between an accusation of mental illness and crime or violence.
But it is a pervasive stereotype among journalists, police, prosecutors and some
psychiatrists.
If anything it is the psychiatric drugs which cause people to act
irrationally. American journalists are mostly ignorant of British clinical
studies which prove that connection. I am aware that Mike Wallace is a spokesman
for the drug industry. I see the many ads from drug companies which sponsor your
show.
I write and speak to politicians, journalists, police and
prosecutors about this problem. As in your report there are frequent immediate
references to a history of mental illness to explain crime or violence. At
arraignments an inappropriate time, prosecutors regularly cite a history of
mental illness, as if it was the cause of the accused’s actions. They repeat
allegations from neighbors, relatives, lovers and police as if all of them are
psychiatrists. It shows how arbitrary psychiatry is.
On one occasion US Rep. Delahunt (D-MA) when he was a District Attorney in
Massachusetts said of a suspect that “there is no history of mental illness” as
if that would explain the crime.
I called to the headquarters of the Mass state police. I asked why
the police do not listen to a person they believe to have a mental illness. He
said “because you cannot rely on what they say."
I said, “That implies that normal people do not lie.”
With respect to discrimination, persons with disabilities have the same
legal protections as members of racial, religious, sexual orientation and gender
groups. But people, including journalists and prosecutors prioritize kinds of
discrimination.
I’m aware of how laws are written. The public discourse regarding
psychiatry is controlled by the psychiatric industry, the drug industry, the
human services corporations and the academic research industry.
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is a lobbyist for the drug
companies. They get $2-$3 million each year from drug companies to promote drug
treatment. Journalists often quote NAMI as an advocacy organization for the
rights of patients.
I want to register my objection to the portrayal of the accuser in the
Duke rape case. I do not defend her. I was skeptical of her accusations as soon
as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson arrived on the scene. I live in Cambridge, MA
the incubator for limousine liberals and the PC movement. There are few places
with public discourse as distorted as in Cambridge. The upper class liberals in
Cambridge does not tolerate criticism. They do not advocate equal opportunities
for persons with disabilities.


--
Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA