8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (8)
#23100610 at 2025-05-30 20:41:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28177: He Came, He Conquered, Potus Says Never Far Away Elon Edition
Kissed a girl and went to the lake of fire.
Was it a man all along?
By HALLIE GOLDEN
Updated 2:10 AM GMT+10, May 3, 2025
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Jill Sobule, the award-winning singer-songwriter whose witty and poignant writing first attracted widespread attention with the gay-themed song "I Kissed a Girl," died in a house fire Thursday. She was 66.
Her death was confirmed by her publicist, David Elkin, in an email Thursday afternoon. It was not immediately clear how the fire in Woodbury, Minnesota, started.
"Jill Sobule was a force of nature and human rights advocate whose music is woven into our culture," John Porter, her manager, said in a statement. "I was having so much fun working with her. I lost a client & a friend today. I hope her music, memory, & legacy continue to live on and inspire others."
https://apnews.com/article/singer-jill-sobule-died-b4e86bd7f089df00da536ea9815bce03
#22981877 at 2025-05-02 12:30:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28047: GM TGI Flannel Fryday 47 Bread, Keep It Cerebral Yo's Edition
The KISS that has no Cure
Groundbreaking '90s Singer Who 'Feuded' With Katy Perry Dead at 66
Jill Sobule, the memorable voice behind the 1995 folk-pop hit "I Kissed a Girl," has died tragically at the age of 66. According to TheWrap, Sobule died in a house fire on Thursday morning in Minneapolis. She was 66 years old.
While Sobule may not exactly be a household name, her 1995 hit was a truly groundbreaking tune. Sung from the perspective of a woman who has kissed another woman for the first time, and clearly enjoyed every second of it, the song is widely considered the first true openly gay song to notch a place in Billboard's Top 20.
The lyrics-which include lines like "I kissed a girl for the first time," "And then I felt your hand above my knee," and "Kissed a girl won't change the world, but I'm so glad I kissed a girl!"-may not sound like a particularly wild admission from a woman in 2025, but the world (yes, even the music world) was a much different place 30 years ago.
At the time, the AIDS epidemic was still raging and the military, via Bill Clinton, had recently implemented what came to be known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Even popular culture, which was two years away from Ellen DeGeneres coming out on the fourth season of Ellen and five years away from the first gay kiss between two teenagers on Dawson's Creek, was not exactly a safe space. Which made Sobule's upbeat, peppy tune rather daring-with a totally '90s music video that featured Fabio as Sobule's (heterosexual) love interest.
In 2009, after Katy Perry released her own song titled "I Kissed a Girl," Sobule offered a profanity-laden statement about Perry's song to The Rumpus, saying: "Fk you Katy Perry, you f*ing stupid, maybe 'not good for the gays,' title-thieving, haven't heard much else, so not quite sure if you're talented, fucking little sl*t." She later clarified that the "feud" was all meant in jest, and that she very much welcomed being displaced as America's "I Kissed a Girl" Girl.
Over the course of her near-40 years career, Sobule-who identified as bisexual-released eight studio albums, four EPs, and one greatest hits album. In 2022, she created an autobiographical musical stage play titled F**k 7th Grade, which earned a 2023 Drama Desk Award and was a New York Times Critic's Pick.
Sobule was scheduled to perform on Friday night at Denver's Swallow Hill Music's Tuft Theater. Instead, TheWrap reports, an informal remembrance will be held for the artist.
"Jill Sobule was a force of nature and human rights advocate whose music is woven into our culture," said John Porter, the singer-songwriter's manager, in a press release. "I was having so much fun working with her. I lost a client and a friend today. I hope her music, memory, and legacy continue to live on and inspire others."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/groundbreaking-90s-singer-feuded-katy-003915507.html
#22633946 at 2025-02-22 18:55:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27654: Every Morning President Trump Wakes Up He Thinks About (you) Edition
A Primer in Propaganda
Spoiler Alert: There was no killing of babies in incubators.
PR giant Hill & Knowlton was subsidized by the Kuwaiti royal family, H&K dedicated 119 executives in 12 offices across the country to the job of drumming up support within the United States for the '91 Iraq War. It was an all-out blitz: distributing tens of thousands of "Free Kuwait" T-shirts and bumper stickers at colleges and setting up observances such as National Kuwait Day and National Student Information Day. H&K also mailed 200,000 copies of a book titled The Rape of Kuwait to American troops stationed in the Middle East. The firm also massaged rePorters, arranging interviews with handpicked Kuwaiti emissaries and dispatching footage of burning wells and oil-slicked birds washed ashore.
But nothing quite compared to H&K's now infamous "baby atrocities" campaign. After convening a number of focus groups to try to figure out which buttons to press to make the public respond, H&K determined that presentations involving the mistreatment of infants, a tactic drawn straight from W.R. Hearst's playbook of the Spanish-American War, got the best reaction. So on October 10, 1990, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus held a hearing on Capitol Hill at which H&K, in coordination with California Democrat Tom Lantos and Illinois Republican John Porter, introduced a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah. (Purportedly to safeguard against Iraqi reprisals, Nayirah's full name was not disclosed.) Weeping and shaking, the girl described a horrifying scene in Kuwait City. "I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital," she testified. "While I was there I saw the Iraqi soldiers coming into the hospital with guns and going into the room where 15 babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die." Allegedly, 312 infants were removed.
The tale got wide circulation, even winding up on the floor of the United Nations Security Council. Before Congress gave the green light to go to war, seven of the main pro-war senators brought up the baby-incubator allegations as a major component of their argument for passing the resolution to unleash the bombers. Ultimately, the motion for war passed by a narrow five-vote margin.
Only later was it discovered that the testimony was untrue. H&K had failed to reveal that Nayirah was not only a member of the Kuwaiti royal family, but also that her father, Saud Nasir al-Sabah, was Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S. H&K had prepped Nayirah in her presentation, according to Harper's publisher John R. MacArthur's book Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War. Of the seven other witnesses who stepped up to the podium that day, five had been prepped by H&K and had used false names. When human rights organizations investigated later, they could not find that Nayirah had any connection to the hospital. Amnesty International, among those originally duped, eventually issued an embarrassing retraction.
When asked if it acknowledges the incubator story as a deception, H&K's media liaison, Suzanne Laurita, only responded, "The company has nothing to say on this matter." Pushed further on whether such deception was considered part of the public relations industry, she reiterated, "Please know again that this falls into the realm that the agency has no wish to confirm, deny, comment on."
Written by Ian Urbina at the Middle East Research and Information Project in Washington, D.C. November 12, 2002.
I'm not suggesting that old Saddam was a sweetheart, but seems there were enough true stories to smear the guy, no?
Why do people still believe a word of official narratives?
I'll die baffled.
https://anthonyfreda.substack.com/p/a-primer-in-propaganda
#14366051 at 2021-08-16 07:14:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18175: Dan Scavino WTF is this RINO even saying? Edition
>>14366049
The research mission and White Paper effort also serve as input to the Foundation's second major program, the Afghanistan Charter Project. The Charter will be a declaration of principles, drafted by Afghan scholars and leaders around the world, based on common values and essential elements of culture, history, national unity, education, and economic development. The Charter will represent an historic effort to define the ideals that will help to shape, strengthen, and unite Afghan society now and in the future.
The Foundation is in the process of expanding its current efforts with new programs, such as the National Unity Community Outreach Sectors (NUCOS) Project. NUCOS will consist of committees that will foster local dialogue and cooperation among communities of Afghan-Americans throughout the United States and abroad. Each outreach sector will seek to create meaningful activities that will bring awareness to current Afghan issues, and promote a sense of unity within the community. NUCOS will provide a constituency and a sounding board for the Foundation as it expands program development.
Alongside Congressman Ritter, the Foundation has convened the distinguished leadership and informative guidance of prominent scholars and specialists on Afghanistan and the region, as well as a bipartisan group of key Members of Congress and former diplomatic officials from Afghanistan and the United States. These form the Foundation's Board of Directors, Congressional Advisory Board, Diplomatic Advisory Board, and International Advisory Board.
The Foundation is honored to have as its National Honorary Co-Chairmen two former White House National Security Advisors, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Gen. Brent Scowcroft. Also closely advising and working with the Foundation are Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, RAND Corp.; Dr. Tom Gouttierre, Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska, Omaha, and Vice-President of the Afghanistan - America Foundation. Dr. Frederick Starr, former President of Oberlin College and now Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University; and Dr. Barnett Rubin, Council on Foreign Relations, serve on the Foundation's White Paper Task Force. Dr. Tom Greene, a retired career Foreign Service Officer and former Deputy Special Envoy to the Afghan Resistance, currently serves as the Executive Director of the Foundation. The Foundation's staff consists of young Afghan and American scholars with expertise in human rights law, international relations, and Afghanistan politics and history.
In addition to the above listed individuals, the Foundation's Congressional Advisory Board serves as a channel of contact between the Foundation and senior Members of Congress, many of whom were members of the Congressional Task Force on Afghanistan during the 1980s and early 90s. Today, they serve in senior positions in Congress. Others on the Board are active on human rights issues or have numerous Afghan-American constituents. These include, but are not limited to: Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, Congressman David Dreier, Congressman Duncan Hunter, Congressman Bill McCollum, Congressman James Moran, Congressman John Porter, Congressman Ed Royce, Congressman Gary Ackerman, Congressman Chris Smith, Congressman Tom Davis, and former Congressman Charles Wilson. Additional interested Members of Congress continue to join the Congressional Advisory Board as the Foundation grows.
The Diplomatic and International Advisory Boards also engage a cross section of leadership with the Foundation's work. Members include former Afghan and American Ambassadors, ex-State Department and senior diplomatic officials, intellectuals, business leaders, artists, scholars, educators, and private citizens. These individuals share information, ideas and perspectives with the Foundation by providing political, historical, ethnic, religious, cultural, intellectual, and international perspectives to the Chairman, the Board of Directors, the Executive Director, and others working with the Foundation.
The Foundation's proven track record demonstrates that it has established itself as the premier U.S.-based organization capable of raising the issue of Afghanistan at the highest levels of U.S. policy-making circles. The Foundation is in the process of enlarging its Board to include outstanding members of the Afghan Diaspora as well as concerned Americans.
The Afghanistan - America Foundation, while still young, has received individual, corporate, foundation, and government support. The Afghanistan - America Foundation welcomes your participation, input, and ideas. If you would like to be part of this unique partnership, please contact us at (202) 543-1177, or by fax at (202) 543-7931, and e-mail: info@afghanistanfoundation.org
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#6883555 at 2019-06-30 20:56:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8804: Sunday Funday. The Afternoon De[Dark To]Light Edition
Weather Forecasters Across the USA Extremely Concerned About the Deployment of 5G
U.S. METEOROLOGISTS 'DEEPLY CONCERNED' OVER 5G ROLL-OUT
U.S. weather forecasters are the latest group to sound the alarm that the race to introduce 5G technologies may have adverse consequences.
In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), U.S. meteorologists called the potential for 5G mobile technologies to disrupt communication between weather satellites "deeply concerning," according to the BBC.
The letter was signed by the American Meteorological Society, the National Weather Association and the American Geophysical Union. They oppose a FCC proposal to share a radio spectrum band with mobile companies, arguing that sharing the radio band may lead to a delay in life-saving data, according to Newsweek.
"[Interference will] postpone dissemination of vital information to the public to aid and protect life, property, businesses, and government operations. The loss of seconds can mean the difference between safety and grave risk to life and property," said John Porter, an executive at AccuWeather, in a separate letter to the FCC, as Newsweek reported.
Experts warned that sharing the 1675-1680MHz band could cause delays in public service alerts about severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes. The letter by the U.S. meteorologists piggy backs on a letter sent to the FCC Chairman by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) asking him not to issue 5G licenses "until the FCC approves the passive band protection limits that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) determine are necessary to protect critical satellite?based measurements of atmospheric water vapor needed to forecast the weather."
Results of the study are expected in 2020.
Wyden and Cantwell said that the "ongoing sale of wireless airwaves could damage the effectiveness of US weather satellites and harm forecasts and predictions relied on to protect safety, property, and national security."
They reprimanded the FCC for beginning the auction "over the objections of NASA, NOAA, and members of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). These entities all argued that out-of-band emissions from future commercial broadband transmissions in the 24GHz band would disrupt the ability to collect water-vapor data measured in a neighboring frequency band (23.6 to 24GHZ) that meteorologists rely on to forecast the weather," as Ars Technica reported.
The extent of the radio wave interference will depend on where new 5G networks are, said Prof. William Webb, independent consultant and author of the book The 5G Myth, as the BBC reported.
"If it's only deployed in city centers, it probably won't cause interference," Webb said to the BBC. "But if it's used in large volumes near the meteorological sites then yes it could."
Prominent U.S. agencies are not the only ones asking for more time before 5G licenses are issued. The new mobile technologies have also faced resistance in Europe. In April, Brussels banned the implementation of 5G technologies due to concerns over radiation.
"I cannot welcome such technology if the radiation standards, which must protect the citizen, are not respected, 5G or not," said Céline Fremault , Brussels' Environment minister, as the Brussels Times reported. "The people of Brussels are not guinea pigs whose health I can sell at a profit. We cannot leave anything to doubt," she added.
Under the current radiation standards in Brussels, a pilot project is not possible. Fremault said she does not intend to make an exception for faster Internet speed.
However, the GSMA - an organization that represents mobile network operators - believes that 5G services and weather sensing services can co-exist, according to the BBC.
"We cannot allow these scare tactics to prevent us from reaping the huge societal and economic benefits of 5G networks," said Brett Tarnutzer, the trade body's head of spectrum, as the BBCreported. "We urge everyone to simply look at the facts and not get drawn in by misleading rhetoric."
https://www.ecowatch.com/tahini-health-benefits-2639015684.html
#5479162 at 2019-03-03 08:50:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7005: A Notch In Our Belt Edition
>>5478409
Apparently there was a story on false memories and the False Memory Syndrome Foundation on Frontline. Below is a letter written by the brother of Peter Freyd claiming the FMSF is a fraud.
William Freyd on "Divided Memories"
[Copyright, 1995 William Freyd.]
WGBH Re: Frontline 125 Western Avenue Boston, MA 02134 April 17, 1995
Gentlemen:
Peter Freyd is my brother. Pamela Freyd is both my stepsister and my sister-in-law. Jennifer and Gwendolyn are my nieces….
The False Memory Syndrome Foundation is a fraud designed to deny a reality that Peter and Pam have spent most of their lives trying to escape. There is no such thing as a False Memory Syndrome. It is not, by any normal standard, a Foundation. Neither Pam nor Peter have any significant mental health expertise.
That the False Memory Syndrome Foundation has been able to excite so much media attention has been a great surprise to those of us who would like to admire and respect the objectivity and motives of people in the media…. We do not understand why you would "buy" such an obviously flawed story. But buy it you did, based on the severely biased presentation you made of the memory issue that Peter and Pam created to deny their own difficult reality.
For the most part, you presented very credible parents and frequently quite incredible bizarre and exotic, alleged victims and therapists. Balance and objectivity would call for the presentation of more credible alleged victims and more bizarre parents. While you did present some highly regarded therapists as commentators (Dr. Herman, for example), most of the therapists you presented as providers of therapy were clearly not in the main stream. While this selection of examples may make for much more interesting T.V., it most certainly does not make for objectivity and fairness.
I would advance the idea that "Divided Memories" hurt victims, helped abusers, and confused the public. I wonder why you thought these results would be in the public interest that Public Broadcasting is funded to support.
Sincerely, William Freyd
cc: Congressman John Porter Ervin S. Duggan
Related Letter: Follow-up to Frontline by William Freyd
Following is the APA-style citation for this article, which may be copied and pasted into your document.
Freyd, William. (1993). "Divided Memories: Letters to PBS and Frontline" in Moving Forward, Vol. III, No. 3. Retrieved from the World Wide Web: http://movingforward.org/v3n3-cheit.html Retrieved from the "way back machine" since both the movingforward.org and magazine no longer exist.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/trauma-and-dissociation/false-memory-syndrome-background-william-freyd-confirms-the-abuse-existed/460716240696474
#300852 at 2018-02-08 03:25:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #368: Brick by brick, we shall dismantle the machine of fear and hate.
>>300836
61. Fairfield, Calif.-based NorthBay Healthcare CEO Gary Passama retired in March.
62. Metairie, La.-based East Jefferson General Hospital President and CEO Mark Peters, MD, retired, effective March 16.
63. Detroit-based Henry Ford Hospital President and CEO John Popovich, MD, announced his retirement, effective at the end of the second quarter of 2018.
64. John Porter, president and CEO of Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Avera Health, is retiring in 2018, ending a 44-year career with the organization.
65. Byron Quinton, president and CEO of Clarion (Pa.) Hospital, retired at the end of October.
66. Pasadena, Calif.-based Huntington Hospital President and CEO Steve Ralph is retiring at the end of the year or in early 2018, ending a 22-year tenure as leader of the hospital.
67. William T. Richardson, president and CEO of Tift Regional Health System in Tifton, Ga., is retiring, effective January 2018.
68. J. Anthony Rose, president and CEO of Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., is retiring at the end of December.
69. Queensbury, N.Y.-based Hudson Headwaters Health Network CEO John Rugge, MD, retired, effective July 1.
70. Cartersville (Ga.) Medical Center President and CEO Keith Sandlin will retire in January 2018.
71. Galesburg (Ill.) Cottage Hospital CEO Barry Schneider retired, effective May 2.
72. Linda Shroyer, CEO of Potomac Valley Hospital in Keyser, W. Va., is retiring at the end of the year.
73. Falls Church, Va.-based Inova CEO J. Knox Singleton, 69, revealed plans to retire July 1, 2018.
74. Port Huron, Mich.-based Lake Huron Medical Center CEO Rebekah Smith, RN, is retired in spring 2017.
75. Broken Bow, Neb.-based Melham Memorial Medical Center President/CEO Michael J. Steckler announced his retirement plans, ending a 32-year tenure.
76. Norwalk, Ohio-based Fisher-Titus Medical Center President and CEO Lorna Strayer is retiring in 2018.
77. Indian River Medical Center in Vero Beach, Fla., announced the retirement of CEO Jeffrey L. Susi by the end of 2017.
78. Leesburg, Va.-based Inova Loudoun Hospital CEO H. Patrick Walters retired.
79. William Webster, president and CEO of Medical Center Health System in Odessa, Texas, is retiring, effective in January 2018.
80. Saint Vincent Hospital in Erie, Pa., announced in March its CEO Scott Whalen is retiring, but did not specify when.
81. Houston-based Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center CEO Terry Wheeler retired, ending a 14-year tenure.
82. Petersburg (Ark.) Medical Center CEO Elizabeth Woodyard, RN, is retiring in June 2018.
83. Butte, Mont.-based St. James Healthcare CEO Chuck Wright retired, effective Feb. 17.
#279256 at 2018-02-05 23:48:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #340: OIG excitement edition
>>279218
Wayne convicted for murder of two adults
adult ex-convicts John Porter and Jimmy Ray Payne.
My bet is they did not want evidence of what happened to the kids in the public eye. None were solved just implied.