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THREAT MATRIX 2015
FReepers who care | 01-01-2015 | TM CREW

Posted on 01/01/2015 11:37:10 AM PST by KC_Lion

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To: LucyT

http://fox2now.com/2015/12/10/fbi-alerted-about-bulk-cell-phone-purchases-at-3-missouri-walmarts/


321 posted on 12/10/2015 3:11:13 PM PST by sweetiepiezer (MY COUNTRY WAS OF THEE!!!!)
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To: LucyT

This is another location; video on the page says there were SEVEN (7) locations and it has a map.

Another Bulk Cell Phone Purchase Reported in Ava
http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/mass-phone-purchases-in-ava


322 posted on 12/10/2015 5:48:02 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

The terrorists have a fascination with the St. Louis arches IIRC. I’m still worried about schools and Christmas services. I haven’t got to the article yet but Las Vegas Catholic churches had some “former” Muslims causing disruptions.


323 posted on 12/11/2015 2:23:59 PM PST by daisy12
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To: daisy12

The choice of Las Vegas is probably not a coincidence.


The Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas confirmed to a local news station that there have been “multiple disturbances at several of their properties.”

The group’s emphasis of their Muslim background in their videos concerns Catholics in the area in light of the recent terror attacks, and several Catholics told local ABC affiliate KTNV Channel 13 News that they find the aggressive protests so unsettling that they fear for their lives.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/nevada-catholic-churches-targeted-in-bizarre-string-of-protests-11856/


324 posted on 12/11/2015 2:28:01 PM PST by daisy12
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325 posted on 12/11/2015 10:10:41 PM PST by LucyT
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To: Old Sarge; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; freeangel; kalee; TWhiteBear; Salvation; WildHighlander57; ...

Posting on TM because I don’t know where this should be posted.

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From xxx | 12/13/2015 7:10:34 AM PST read

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JOHN ROBERTS RECOUNT AID IN 2000 WAS EXTENSIVE

Miami Herald, The (FL) - July 27, 2005

Author/Byline: MARC CAPUTO, mcaputo@herald.com

U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts played a broader behind the scenes role for the Republican camp in the aftermath of the 2000 election than previously reported - as legal consultant, lawsuit editor and prep coach for arguments before the nation’s highest court, according to the man who drafted him for the job.

Ted Cruz, a Bush domestic policy advisor who is now Texas’ solicitor general, said Roberts was one of the first names he thought of while he and another attorney drafted the Republican legal dream team of litigation ‘lions’ and ‘ 800-pound gorillas,’ which ultimately consisted of 400 attorneys in Florida. Until now, Gov. Jeb Bush and others involved in the election dispute could recall almost nothing of Roberts role, except for a half hour meeting the governor had with Roberts sometime after the election.

Cruz said Roberts was in Tallahassee helping the Bush camp for ‘a week to 10 days,’ and that his help was important, though Cruz said it was difficult to remember specifics five years after the frenetic, sleep-depriving pace of the 2000 recount.

HELD IN HIGH REGARD

But one thing was certain, Cruz told The Herald: ‘There was no one better for the job.’ “ He is one of the best brief writers in the country. Just like a good journalist or a novelist, he can write with clarity, concisely and can paint a picture with words, “ said Cruz.
Roberts, a constitutional law expert with a top Washington law firm at the time, is now a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C. Roberts was a no-brainer for the recount effort: His 25 - 14 win loss record at the U.S. Supreme Court was one of the most impressive.

And, like Cruz, he was a member of a tight-knit circle of former clerks for the court’s chief justice, William Rehnquist - a group jokingly referred to as “the cabal.”
Soon after getting the call from Cruz, Roberts traveled to Tallahassee from the Washington offices of Hogan & Hartson to lend advice and help polish legal briefs. Later, Roberts helped participate in a dress rehearsal to prepare the Bush legal team for its appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Cruz’s account is the first to place Roberts firmly within the George Bush vs. Al Gore battle, filling in substantial blanks in the memories of everyone from Bush’s campaign lawyer, Ben Ginsberg, to the governor. In state politics, his star is rising - Immigrant dad taught solicitor general value of America’s system

Austin American-Statesman (TX) , January 15, 2006
Author/Byline: Mark Lisheron, AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

The route back to Texas

It was the Chief (Rehnquist) who helped steer Cruz to (Chuck) Cooper in 1997 when he was starting his own law firm in Washington, one that would take on the federal government on behalf of private clients and states.

I. While working for Cooper, Cruz began collecting political donations for George W. Bushs first presidential run. At a Bush fundraiser in 1999, he met Bush aide Joshua Bolten. “He asked me what this campaign needed a lawyer for, and I started listing all of these policy concerns,” Cruz said. “The next thing I know, he asked me to join the campaign.”

The campaign needed him particularly after Democrats challenged the results of the 2000 vote in Florida. Bush asked Cruz to help assemble and direct strategy for a team of lawyers who made the case that Bush’s win was legitimate. The Bush administration rewarded Cruz, naming him an associate deputy attorney general and later director of the Office of Policy Planning for the Federal Trade Commission.

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http://www.examiner.com/article/is-ted-cruz-planned-to-become-the-1st-president-of-a-north-american-union

Is Ted Cruz planned to become the 1st President of a North American Union?

http://heavy.com/news/2015/03/heidi-nelson-cruz-ted-cruz-canadian-nationality-wife-family-citizenship-president-job-photos-children/

According to the Times, Cruz met Heidi Nelson while they were both working as political advisers on George W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 2000. They married in May 2001. Heidi Cruz worked in Bush’s White House after he was elected, working as director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council from 2003 to 2004, before joining Goldman Sachs in 2005.

http://www.houston.org/about/board-staff.html#board/212727

Heidi S. Cruz is the Region Head for the Southwest Region in the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. She leads 40 professionals responsible for over $14 billion in investments for clients throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Colorado. In the 1990s, Heidi worked as an investment banker in New York, focusing on Latin America mergers and acquisitions and structured finance. In that capacity, Heidi was involved in advisory engagements and capital markets transactions for some of the largest energy companies in the Americas.

In the public sector, Heidi served in the White House as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, under then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department; and as Special Policy Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, then U.S. Trade Representative. Her publications include a book chapter entitled “Expanding Opportunity Through Free Trade,” a book chapter in EXCHANGE RATE POLICIES FOR EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES, and a Harvard Case Study, “American International Group”. Heidi received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, a Masters of European Business from Universite Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College.

She is currently a member of the Texas Business Leadership Council and serves on the board of the Greater Houston Partnership, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts European Art Sub-Committee, the Advancement Board of the Yes Prep Public Schools of Houston, the Advisory Board of Living Water International, and on the Advisory Board of the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College in California. She lives in Houston with her husband and her two daughters, Caroline Camille and Catherine Christiane.

http://www.lewislevin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Claremont-McKenna-College-.pdf

Heidi Nelson Cruz ‘94 , former Bush Administration official, economic director for the western hemisphere.

Ms. Cruz served as the Director of the Office of Latin America and the Caribbean and Senior Advisor to Treasury Undersecretary John B. Taylor at the United States Treasury Department. From February 2001 to September 2002, Ms. Cruz served as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, United States Trade Representative. She is currently a vice president at Goldman Sachs.

http://www.cfr.org/competitiveness/task-force-urges-measures-strengthen-north-american-competitiveness-expand-trade-ensure-border-security/p8104

Task Force Urges Measures to Strengthen North American Competitiveness, Expand Trade, Ensure Border Security
May 17, 2005 Council on Foreign Relations Ms. Heidi S. Cruz Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_vn064l1L70J:www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/NorthAmerica_TF_final.pdf+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed atbuilding a safer and more prosperous North America. Economic pros-perity and a world safe from terrorism and other security threats areno doubt inextricably linked. While governments play an invaluable 33

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34 Building a North American Community role in both regards, we must emphasize the imperative that economicinvestment be led and perpetuated by the private sector. There is noforce proven like the market for aligning incentives, sourcing capital,and producing results like financial markets and profit-making busi-nesses. This is simply necessary to sustain a higher living standard for the poorest among us , truly the measure of our success.
As such, investment funds and financing mechanisms should be deemed attractive instruments by those committing the capital and should only be developed in conjunction with market participants.

Heidi S. Cruz

(snip)

Heidi S. Cruz* is an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch inHouston, Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr.Condoleezza Rice as the Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council, as the Director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to government service, Ms. Cruz was an investment banker with J.P.Morgan in New York City.


326 posted on 12/13/2015 8:36:46 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT

I’m not sure what the point of this post is, but I’ll be forever grateful to those who worked through the fall of 2000 to keep Al Gore out of the White House.


327 posted on 12/14/2015 5:25:53 AM PST by Jedidah
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To: LucyT
"Cruz told The Herald: There was no one better for the job.’ He is one of the best brief writers in the country. Just like a good journalist or a novelist, he can write with clarity, concisely and can paint a picture with words, said Cruz. Roberts, a constitutional law expert with a top Washington law firm at the time, is now a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C. Roberts was a no-brainer for the recount effort: His 25 - 14 win loss record at the U.S. Supreme Court was one of the most impressive."

You have to wonder what caused him to throw that resume to the wind to contrive a convoluted opinion handing Obama control of our healthcare system and economy.

328 posted on 12/14/2015 9:39:47 AM PST by Baynative (Liberty lost is a high price to pay for the experiment of socialism.)
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/12/breaking-cops-find-buried-explosives-in-mid-missouri-before-mysterious-cell-phone-purchases-were-made/


329 posted on 12/14/2015 4:15:02 PM PST by daisy12
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Trump wrote a book in 2010 espousing nearly the EXACT tough immigration proposals he advocates now, with the addition of strict H1-B restrictions.

Meanwhile just 3 years ago Cruz was endorsing an INCREASE in legal immigration from the insane 1 million/year Ted Kennedy-selected Third Worlders. Cruz also supported legal status for 40 millions illegals, and a staggering 500% increase in H1-B visas to screw American workers.

His uber-establishment wife Heidi co-authored a Council on Foreign Relations plan for a “North American Union”, with the Amero replacing the dollar as our new currency. We’ve all heard about this. But Heidi Cruz WROTE IT!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3372718/posts?page=111#111


330 posted on 12/14/2015 8:34:45 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT

Fascinating information, LucyT. Thanks very much for posting. TM is very appropriate. BTTTT (BUMP-TO-THE-TOP-THREAT)


331 posted on 12/14/2015 8:56:32 PM PST by PGalt
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To: LucyT

Thanks....T M, indeed.


332 posted on 12/14/2015 8:58:57 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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Middle Easterners checking out Bagnell Dam in MO

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3373517/posts


333 posted on 12/16/2015 4:51:44 PM PST by daisy12
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To: daisy12; azkathy

As lawmakers clash over refugees, Syrian immigration quietly tops 100,000 since 2012

Fake Syrian passports a concern

A proposal to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States has ignited a bitter debate in Washington, but more than 10 times that number of people from the embattled country have quietly come to America since 2012, according to figures obtained by FoxNews.com.

Some 102,313 Syrians were granted admission to the U.S. as legal permanent residents or through programs including work, study and tourist visas from 2012 through August of this year, a period which roughly coincides with the devastating civil war that still engulfs the Middle Eastern country. Experts say any fears that terrorists might infiltrate the proposed wave of refugees from United Nations-run camps should be dwarfed by the potential danger already here.

(snip)

Mehlman said the same concerns raised in regard to the refugees - mainly that no reliable documents can be issued in a country in complete meltdown - apply to the Syrians already here.

"All civil order has collapsed, and meaningful background checks are impossible," Mehlman said. "Instead, we rely on cross-checking databases. However, many people with ties to terrorist groups are not in any databases, which means there is no way we can identify them before they arrive here."

Read more:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3373663/posts

334 posted on 12/17/2015 11:28:14 AM PST by LucyT
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335 posted on 12/17/2015 3:30:59 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT; Velveeta; PGalt; appalachian_dweller; ExSoldier
Guess the Religion: Dearbornistan Students Threaten to Murder Christian Girl, Family"

I know where you live I know the street address everything one day Im gonna come and kill you and your whole family If you think Im joking try me . . . Who are the three Dearbornistan male students who threatened a White Christian girl and her family with death? Are their names Mohammed, Ali, and Hussein? Its a near certainty. And heres why:

The student population at Stout Middle School, where White, Christian Brianna Lyons and her family were threatened with death, is heavily Shiite Muslim, and other White female students who have attended the school have been threatened and attacked. I know because I have heard from them and their parents. Stout Middle Schools website lists three Muslim dominated Arab organizations (all of which openly support Hezbollah and HAMAS terrorist groups) on its website and offers Arabic-language instruction and communications with parents.

336 posted on 12/17/2015 6:27:18 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: Rushmore Rocks

As much as the majority of us “love” him these days.


337 posted on 12/17/2015 6:46:45 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: MamaDearest

I really wish I were closer to Dearborn. I would stand watch over these people. Have seen muslims in full burkas around here lately. The invasion is underway.

I never go anywhere unarmed, ever. I hope these folks arm themselves and coordinate with others to form a protective detail.

MD, if you would, please follow up on this story as much as possible. This crap makes my blood boil.

Thanks for the ping.


338 posted on 12/18/2015 4:53:30 AM PST by appalachian_dweller (Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
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To: MamaDearest

Thanks very much for the ping, MamaDearest. When I was in middle school we played football against Stout Jr. High. It looks like they have a head-chopping team these days. The times, they are a changin’.


339 posted on 12/18/2015 7:01:32 AM PST by PGalt
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To: MamaDearest

Nauseating that this is our America.


340 posted on 12/18/2015 12:48:01 PM PST by Velveeta
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