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U.S. Coast Guard searches (background) the Laguna Madre on Thursday morning, Feb. 28, 2013, for the body of Port Isabel attorney Ray Marchan (foreground).

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Posted: Friday, March 1, 2013 1:30 am

Laura B. Martinez, Mark Reagan and Melissa Montoya | The Brownsville Herald

“The bridge is higher than I thought.”

Those might possibly be the last words of convicted Brownsville attorney Ray Marchan, speaking to a taxi driver as he exited the cab and dived to his death from the Queen Isabella Memorial Bridge early Thursday morning.

The cab driver said he had not anticipated Marchan’s actions and expressed disbelief in an interview withThe Brownsville Herald just hours after Marchan leapt from the rail into the Laguna Madre.

“He threw himself in on purpose. I don’t understand how people do that to themselves. I’ve never seen anything like that,” cab driver Lorenzo Hernandez said. “He threw himself over, the moment it happened I stood up immediately.”

It took more than 12 hours to recover Marchan’s body from the waters Thursday, the same day he was to report to a federal prison in Fort Worth to begin serving a 42-month sentence on racketeering charges. A federal jury in June found Marchan guilty on all seven counts of racketeering, aiding, extortion, and mail fraud in connection with the case of former state District Court Judge Abel C. Limas.

An acquittal was issued on the mail fraud case, but the other charges were upheld. Marchan had filed an appeal. Most recently, Marchan had sought to remain free on an emergency bond pending the results of his appeal, but on Wednesday a federal judge denied that appeal.

Deputy Chief Gus Reyna of the Cameron County Sheriff’s Department said Marchan’s body was found at 5:15 p.m. near boating channels in Port Isabel commonly known as The Fingers.

It is not immediately known if Marchan’s body suffered any trauma. An autopsy was expected.

The U.S. Coast Guard, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Brownsville Fire Department dive team searched the waters for most of the day after they received the report that Marchan had gone off the bridge.

THE TAXI RIDE

At a news conference, Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said a taxi cab driver picked up a man at Marchan’s house on Fireside Drive in Brownsville just after 3 a.m. Thursday.

The passenger asked to be driven to South Padre Island, Hernandez told The Brownsville Herald.

According to Hernandez, on the way to the Island his passenger complained of nausea and asked him to pull over so he could vomit. However, when Hernandez first tried to pull over to the side of the road, the man urged him to drive a bit farther and then stopped him on the bridge.

That’s when Marchan commented about the height of the bridge and exited the cab, Hernandez said.

Hernandez told the passenger to be careful because the wind was strong, cautioning him not to lose his footing on the bridge.

“I thought he was going to vomit into the water, but instead he stood up on there,” Hernandez said.

The man lifted himself up onto the railing and leapt into the Laguna Madre, the cab driver said.

The Coast Guard’s nearby South Padre Island Station received a call at 4:15 a.m. that a man had jumped off the bridge and disappeared into the waters of the Laguna Madre between Port Isabel and South Padre Island.

FINANCIAL TROUBLES

According to the Cameron County Tax Assessor and Collector’s Office, Marchan owed $73,857.74 in back taxes on his home at the time of his death. The taxes date back five years, officials said.

Carlos Rodriguez, a supervisor at the tax office, said the county filed a lawsuit against Marchan in 2010 demanding that he pay the taxes owed or forfeit his home to the county. That lawsuit is pending.

For much of Thursday, authorities exercised caution, saying they could not confirm Marchan was dead until a body had been found.

Though Marchan had been scheduled to report to federal prison Thursday, he had not been disbarred from his profession, according to sources. As a practicing attorney since May 1983, he had been appealing his conviction and therefore could not be disbarred, said Kim Bueno, public affairs administrator for Chief Disciplinary Counsels Office of the State Bar of Texas.

The Disciplinary Counsels Office had filed an interlocutory suspension against Marchan requesting that he be suspended until his criminal appeal is final. A hearing on the issue had been scheduled for April 8.

If his appeal in the criminal case was rejected, the DCO would have moved forward to get Marchan disbarred.

“Under our rules disbarment is proper if there is any type of prison or jail sentence,” Bueno said.

http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_a0afcbde-8230-11e2-8386-001a4bcf6878.html

WASHINGTON POST HITS OBAMA!

It's an amazing thing to see liberals actually come to the obvious truth rather than to hide behind their manufactured rhetoric & bully everyone else into submission with their rants. Enjoy it while you can, because you won't see much of it... JAN 

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Wow…this from an Liberal writer.  Looks like Woodward opened the proverbial Pandora’s Box. It’ll be interesting to see how the White House reacts to this one. My question is, why now?  At last, long last, the truth on the guy in charge.................................... WASHINGTON POST HITS OBAMA! Finally, the Washington Post speaks out on Obama! This is very brutal, timely though. As I'm sure you know, the Washington Post newspaper has a reputation for being extremely liberal. So the fact that its editor saw fit to print the following article about Obama in its newspaper makes this a truly amazing event and a news story in and of itself. At last, the truth about Obama and his obvious socialist agenda are starting to trickle through the protective wall built around him by our liberal media. I too have become disillusioned. A brilliant commentary out of none other than the Washington Post. 18 Jan 2013 By Matt Patterson (columnist - Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner) Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job? Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?  Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest? Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves. Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years. And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly? In short: Obama is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.

Assassination of U.S. Citizens

 

Assassination of US Citizens The Department of Justice has released a document that they claim justifies the killing of U.S. citizens in the name of national security. This my friends, is nothing short of TYRANNY. STOP THE TYRANNY! DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS! TELL CONGRESS: REINSTATE HABEUS CORPUS & POSSE COMITATUS NOW - REPEAL NDAA In the beginning, the DOJ legal argument attempts to make it appear that only "U.S. citizens who are senior operational leaders of al-Qua'ida or an associated force of al-Qua'ida" are considered eligible for assassination. However, by the end of the analysis, the DOJ document has moved beyond "foreign countries" to include any geographic area and authorizes lethal force against any person classified as a potential hostile by the President or by any "high level official of the U.S. government "even when there is no evidence to support such an accusation. Sound too "Orwellian" to be true? Sadly, it is not. In the DOJ's paper "Imminent threat" is redefined to include a citizen plotting about some threat at some distant time. The government does not have "to have clear evidence that a specific attack...will take place in the immediate future." And though much is made about the Law of War, the citizen to be assassinated can be far from the "actual hostility." The DOJ eliminates the barriers of "geographic limitations," and asserts the ability to "follow" the target to a "a new nation." Let us not forget the provisions of the NDAA that allow the President to transfer the powers under the "Law of War" to the FBI, making it possible for that "new nation" to be the U.S. No Constitutional protections, no review of a judge, no jury of your peers, no requirement of actual "imminent threat," and no need for you to be caught on the battlefield (unless you remember that the government has already declared the ENTIRE PLANET to be a battlefield!). STOP THE TYRANNY! DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS! TELL CONGRESS: REINSTATE HABEUS CORPUS & POSSE COMITATUS NOW - REPEAL NDAA In criminal court, to put someone in prison or sentence them to death, the burden of proof that must be met by the government is "beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt." In order to get a search warrant the Fourth Amendment requires the government to meet the standard of "probable cause" as reviewed and approved by a judge. The Fifth Amendment requires that before the government can take someone's life they are guaranteed an indictment by a grand jury and conviction by a jury of their peers. One would think that at least these standards would apply if the government is going to take a citizen's life. Unfortunately that is not the case here and the only reference the DOJ makes to the Constitution is to point out that it DOESN'T APPLY! What is the burden of proof for the President to assassinate US citizens? According to the DOJ, the government must simply "demonstrate" that the United States' interest in preventing an anticipated threat of violence outweighs "the person's interest in his life," again, with no "clear evidence that a specific attack...will take place in the immediate future." Citing their standard of proof, the government quotes the court of Cf. Hamdi, 542 U.S. at 535: "the Court accords the greatest of respect and consideration to the judgments of military authorities...the scope and discretion of that discretion is necessarily wide." And of course in this case, that scope the government asserts, would be transferred to the "high-level official of the U.S. government" making the determination. STOP THE TYRANNY! DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS! TELL CONGRESS: REINSTATE HABEUS CORPUS & POSSE COMITATUS NOW - REPEAL NDAA It is interesting to note that throughout its paper the DOJ continually appeals to the "government's inherent right to defend itself" while this administration does not seem to recognize such a right among its citizens. Will we be given the same deference when we defend ourselves? Will George Zimmerman be given an inherent right to self-defense under the same standards as the government asserts? Apparently this administration only claims such a right for the government? The framers said each of us have an inherent right to self-defense (Sam Adams said, "The rights of the colonists are these; First life, Secondly liberty, and third property and the ability to defend them"). What's the Big Deal? What is wrong with the Executive branch of a government engaging in the assassination of our citizens, who are classified by the government as combatants against this country, absent due process? If they can do this without a "speedy and public trial," we are trusting the government to convey truthful and accurate information to justify their actions. Our founders were intimately aware that the governments often have their own perspective on things and have the power and tools to justify their actions at all levels. Their point would be that a government not only has an agenda, but also has the power to control and manipulate information. Richard Henry Lee stated that we must not only guard against "what men do, but what they may do." They knew the unrestrained power of the government must be continually checked against the Liberty of the people. STOP THE TYRANNY! DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS! TELL CONGRESS: REINSTATE HABEUS CORPUS & POSSE COMITATUS NOW - REPEAL NDAA What about the fact that the government has already redefined who is a "terrorist"? Just look at Janet Napolitano's report, as head of the Department of Homeland Security, warning America regarding who is a terrorist; "rightwing extremists" concerned about illegal immigration, abortion, increasing federal power and restrictions on firearms - and returning war veterans. "Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration." can Our founders knew that in a government that has the ability to define the enemy, and the uninhibited inclination to define its own citizens as terrorists, tyranny is already established. Unrestrained power of the government must be continually checked against the Liberty of the people. It is Liberty that is the most important asset to any peace loving nation. Benjamin Franklin is quoted to have said, "Those who would trade Liberty for temporary security deserve neither Liberty nor security." How could he make such a bold statement? Because he knew from history that trading Liberty will NEVER result in greater security and once Liberty is traded, you never get it back. STOP THE TYRANNY! DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS! TELL CONGRESS: REINSTATE HABEUS CORPUS & POSSE COMITATUS NOW - REPEAL NDAA For Our Children, KrisAnne KrisAnne Hall President About KrisAnne Hall: KrisAnne Hall is a former prosecutor and Constitutional attorney who was fired from her job for teaching the Constitution to citizen groups. She is a disabled veteran of the US Army, a Russian linguist, a mother, a pastor's wife and a patriot. Her former employer, State Attorney for Florida's 3rd Judicial Circuit, gave her a choice - give up her First Amendment right to speak on her own time or be fired. KrisAnne said, "My First Amendment rights are worth more than a paycheck and I will not surrender them." KrisAnne now serves as Unite In Action's President and Director of Legal Affairs and travels the country teaching the Constitution and the history that gave us our founding documents. Unite In Action, Inc. is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, managed by an all-volunteer staff, which focuses on nonpartisan civic education and advocacy regarding important national issues. For more information, please go to www.UniteInAction.org or write us at PO Box 398, Nashville TN 37011-0398.

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Windsor Queen Alledgely hospitalized

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21649494

Based on what's been going on in the past few weeks, I suspect the following is likely:

1. This is a cover story. The spokesperson is possibly lying, covering up what the real reason for the queen' absence which brings me to the next conclusion.

2. The case in Brussels regarding crimes against humanity is very real. This disappearence is but mere days before the 3/4 deadline mentioned, meaning that the queen is in hiding.

3. The Windsor faction is on its last legs.

-Vigilance

Worldwide Currency War Erupts Plus Protocol News

Tom Heneghan explosive intelligence briefings ALL patriot Americans MUST know, with sources inside American/European intelligence agencies and INTERPOL, reporting what is really going on behind the scenes of the corporate-controlled, fascist, extortion-friendly propaganda U.S. media's massive deceptions

Sunday March 3, 2013
Worldwide Currency War Erupts
Plus Protocol News

by Tom Heneghan
International Intelligence Expert
Terry Duffy, Executive Chairman and President,CME Group source cdn2.benzinga. com


UNITED States of America - It can now be reported that Bank of America's margin call, involving short positions aka naked call options written on the Japanese yen and naked put options written on unleaded gasoline futures, has now increased to $20 BILLION.

Note: Bank of America is also involved in a major attempt to suppress silver and gold prices as to support the stock market bubble.

The original $10 BILLION margin call was issued by the CME Group in Chicago over one week ago.

Reference: CME Group President Terry Duffy immediately flew off to Germany looking to engineer a bail out for Bank of America with more derivative hocus pocus.

Note: Bank of America is clearly in total violation of the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 and the CME Group are enabling them to get away with it.

At this hour, the new leadership of the People's Republic of China, which is on the verge of a major depression, is poised to flood the world currency markets with Chinese yuan while simultaneously buying Japanese yen.

The Chinese government is now on a major collision course with the crooked U.S. Fed and the corrupt Central Bank of Japan.

P.S. Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocol implementation remains imminent as U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, officials at Austrian banks and financial officers of the People's Republic of China continue round the clock negotiations reference Protocol implementation.
 Reference: All out war between the U.S. Treasury, the IMF and the corrupt, privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve and its bank stooge Chairman Bernard Bernanke is about to begin.

Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarrett

P.P.S. At this hour both U.S. Treasury Jack Lew and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde have directly communicated with U.S. President Barack Obama and expressed their concern over White House leaks (concerning Protocol implementation) that were engineered by Obama Administration official Valerie Jarrett and none other than First Lady Michelle Obama.
 The recipient of these leaks concerning Protocol implementation was none other than Washington Post journalist and editor, Bush-Clinton Crime Family Syndicate stooge and scumbag, Bob Woodward.

Item: It should be remembered that Woodward has done tremendous damage to the United States on behalf of his 'handlers', the Bushes and the Clintons.

Of course Woodward is a total fraud since most of his White House books on various U.S. presidents were written by Washington Post journalist Walter Pincus.

Messages to President Obama:

1. Please impose the Volcker Rule now before it is too late and stop sociopath Federal Reserve Chairman Bernard Bernanke from bailing out crooked banks giving them free casino chips using American Taxpayers' money and illegally comingling Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocol funds.

2. Have U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew immediately implement the Wanta-Reagan-Mitterrand Protocols that will return $1.5 TRILLION back to the U.S. Treasury. There will then be no need for you, President Obama, to invoke automatic spending cuts and large tax increases for average Americans over an alleged budget impasse, which upon Protocol implementation will not exist.

In the words of the famous Chicago Bears football coach Mike Dikta "Who are you shitting?"

P.P.S. At this hour, the former PFG CEO Russell Wasendorf scandal is now escalating.

Sources close to the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois are reporting more indictments of former PFG personnel are imminent.

Wasendorf Sr. with
Bush Crime Family's Barbara Bush

We can now divulge that the U.S. Attorney in Northern Illinois has new evidence showing that Wasendorf Sr., his son Russell Jr. and PFG's former Compliance Officer used a 845 corporate account to launder customers' segregated funds through U.S. Bank and the Nazi German 'Skull and Bones' Deutsche Bank on the behalf of the neo-Nazi 'Skull and Bones' Bush Crime Family.

Reference: Former U.S. Bank employee Hope Timmermann is now singing like a canary.

The U.S. Attorney is also sitting on new evidence that the former PFG Compliance Officer had direct liaison to the corrupt National Futures Association (NFA), an alleged self regulatory body, and that the NFA and PFG were totally complicit in the conspiracy to loot PFG customers' segregated accounts.

Reference: Once again former U.S. Bank employee Hope Timmermann is singing like a canary.

Russell Wasendorf Jr.'s FOREX ponzi
image bizjournals. com

Finally, there is also new evidence fingering the former PFG Compliance Officer in conspiring with NFA personnel to engineer NFA (National Futures Association) entrapment calls against PFG's own retail IBs (introducing brokers) so as to frame the IBs and then terminate them and, accordingly, steal all of the IBs accounts on behalf of Russell Wasendorf Jr., who was busy operating a FOREX currency ponzi scheme.

Question: It is late evening, is Terry Duffy of the CME Group having dinner with Bush Crime Family crony Angela Merkel and Russell Wasendorf Jr. at the Deutsche Bank cafe?

Guess who is going to pay the bill. The one that possesses the most derivatives.

Stay tuned for future intelligence briefings in which we will have an update on the IGF-1 illegal performance enhancing steroid drug scandal involving members of the Southeastern Football Conference and ESPN's attempt to shut down the NCAA and turn intercollegiate football to NFL lite.


'Pervasive' Fraud by Our 'Most Reputable' Bankshttp://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/16261-pervasive-fraud-by-our-most-reputable-banks

What Do the Bank of Japan, China's Government and the Fed Have in Common?
http://investmentwatchblog.com/what-do-the-bank-of-japan-chinas-government-and-the-fed-have-in-common/#Te2VHpZyzxebtysp.99

China Central Bank Says It Is "Fully Prepared For Looming Currency War"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-02/china-central-bank-says-it-fully-prepared-looming-currency-war

This Video Will Change Your Life

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