Joe Paterno, 85, dies in State College

Joe Paterno has died at the age of 85 after experiencing serious complications from lung-cancer treatment.

The health of Paterno, who had fought the disease for two months, had grown progressively worse after he recently broke his pelvis in a fall at his home in State College, Pa.

"It is with great sadness that we announce that Joe Paterno passed away earlier today," said a statement from Paterno's family, released Sunday, shortly after 10 a.m. ET. "His loss leaves a void in our lives that will never be filled.

"He died as he lived. He fought hard until the end, stayed positive, thought only of others and constantly reminded everyone of how blessed his life had been.

"His ambitions were far reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them. He was a man devoted to his family, his university, his players and his community."

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AP Photo/Gene J. PuskarJoe Paterno won a Division I-record 409 games and two national titles in 46 seasons at Penn State.

Paterno died at State College's Mount Nittany Medical Center, where he had been undergoing treatment.

Paterno remained connected to a ventilator into Sunday, individuals close to Paterno's family told The Washington Post.

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Allen Stanford - Broke, Sick and Lonely

No one calls him Sir Allen Stanford anymore. He is inmate number 35017-183.

On Monday, the Texas financier heads to court in Houston to battle charges that he operated a $7 billion Ponzi scheme from Stanford International Bank Ltd, his offshore bank on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By all accounts, his was a life of luxury, filled with private jets, yachts, mansions and the sport of cricket.

Deemed a flight risk in June 2009 by a federal judge, the 6-foot billionaire has been in jail, sporting prison-issue green and orange jumpsuits and shackles instead of the dark, tailor-made suits he once ordered in bulk.

Stanford, a native Texan who was knighted by the government of Antigua in 2006, is accused of misleading investors about certificates of deposit (CDs) issued by his offshore bank, in one of the biggest white collar fraud cases since Bernard Madoff.

The CDs were touted as safe, with funds "generally invested in investment grade bonds, securities and foreign currency deposit," according to literature distributed by Stanford's brokerage firm.

Instead, prosecutors allege, Stanford invested CD proceeds in illiquid pet-project investments that included Caribbean real estate, a Cowboys and Indians magazine and a pawn shop operator. He also loaned more than $2 billion to himself.

The alleged Ponzi scheme started to unravel in late 2008 as the financial crisis deepened and more and more investors asked for redemptions, a situation that left Stanford scrambling for cash.

Prosecutors will likely rely heavily on the testimony of the firm's former Chief Financial Officer James Davis, who pleaded guilty in August 2009 and has been cooperating with the government. The two men were college roommates at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

In past interviews, Stanford has blamed Davis, a theme that is likely to be repeated by the defense at trial.

"I didn't oversee anything in the investment portfolio, that was the CFO's responsibility," Stanford told Reuters in a 2009 interview. "The CFO had investment committees, the chief investment officer reports to him."

Stanford, 61, has pleaded not guilty to 14 criminal counts of fraud, obstruction of a federal investigation and conspiracy to launder money.

Among the alleged crimes prosecutors expect to prove to the Houston jury is that Stanford was involved in falsifying financial statements and made false statements about Stanford International Bank's financial condition.

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Stanford's health has declined since his arrest. He was injured in a jailhouse brawl in 2009 and suffered from an addiction to a powerful anti-anxiety medication. He has hepatitis B and cirrhosis of the liver, and, if convicted, will likely spend he rest of his life in prison.

The SEC seized all of Stanford's assets in February 2009 after filing a civil lawsuit. His lawyer at the time, Dick DeGuerin, said the government's action did not even leave enough money for his client to buy underwear.

Once No. 205 on Forbes' list of richest Americans, Stanford's defense is paid for with U.S. tax dollars and his 81-year-old mother is struggling to help.

"I've maxed out my credit cards and I'm on my last few thousand dollars of savings," said Sammie Stanford.

She even had to do a reverse mortgage on her home "to get some extra cash," she said in December after a court hearing.

After his arrest, Stanford had a bevy of women, four of whom are mothers of his six children, attend his court hearings. He had a "fiancee" half his age even though he remains legally married.

Stanford lavished the women in his life with trips on private jets, luxury homes and, in one instance, spousal support payments of $100,000 per month, according to court documents.

His oldest daughter, Randi, lived in a luxury Houston high-rise paid for by her father, for whom she worked.

Court records from a 2007 paternity case, that was settled, showed Stanford also paid about $150,000 a year in child support for two other children who lived with their mother in a $10 million house in Florida.

But now, in addition to losing his fortune, Stanford has only the support of his parents and family and not the harem of loyalists seen earlier.

Only his mother lasted through the entire three days of testimony last month at a hearing in which Stanford was judged competent to stand trial.

The man who once ran a business with operations in 140 countries has different priorities now. In a recent court hearing he could be heard complaining about being served a peanut butter sandwich on stale bread.

The case is USA v. Robert Allen Stanford, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, No. 09-cr-00342.

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Global Warming or Global Farce

CO2 gas is purportedly the main cause of Global Warning, creating a “greenhouse” effect. The atmosphere has a natural supply of "greenhouse gases." They capture heat and keep the surface of the Earth warm enough for us to live on. Without the greenhouse effect, the planet would be an uninhabitable, frozen wasteland.

Before the Industrial Revolution, the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere was in a rough balance with what was absorbed in natural sinks. For example, plants take in CO2 when they grow in spring and summer, and release it back to the atmosphere when they decay and die in fall and winter.

The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions. Since part of this re-radiation is back towards the surface, energy is transferred to the surface and the lower atmosphere. As a result, the average surface temperature is higher than it would be if direct heating by solar radiation were the only warming mechanism. Wikipedia

Global alarmist blame man solely for this problem. Since the Global alarm has been sounded, billions of dollars have been made selling Global Warming product to "Save the planet."

When billions of dollars are involved, it's usually a "fly in the ointment." Especially since the major outspoken Global Alarmist have been caught doing what would be considered Global damage.

One of the most outspoken people on Global Warming is Al Gore. He flies everywhere in his private jet, polluting the air several times more per person than if he had taken a commercial jet or drove. Gore also owns a mansion that consumes more electricity in one month than the average American consumes in an entire year. No solar panels, no solar water heater.

After Gore was exposed as a major contributor to Global Warming, he then decided to make his house more energy efficient. Why did it take an embarrassment, and public humiliation before Gore took notice? It’s because he and other Global Alarmists know that Global Warming is a farce. Therefore, it would be moot for him and his partners in crime to cramp their lifestyles, when their rhetoric scares the masses and forces them to acquiesce and conform via their pocketbooks.




Global Alarmists were discussing fudging the numbers to make Global warming sound more feasible via email. Many of their e-mail accounts were hacked.

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The Invisible Hand - Illuminati

Wikipedia defines the Illuminati or "The Enlightened" as: A name that refers to several groups, both historical and modern, and both real and fictitious. Historically, it refers specifically to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on May 1, 1776.

In modern times it is also used to refer to a purported conspiratorial organization which acts as a shadowy "power behind the throne", allegedly controlling world affairs through present day governments and corporations, usually as a modern incarnation or continuation of the Bavarian Illuminati. In this context, Illuminati is often used in reference to a New World Order (NWO). Many conspiracy theorists believe the Illuminati are the masterminds behind events that will lead to the establishment of such a New World Order.

The Illuminati is purportedly a secret society organized a couple millenniums ago by Jesuit priests; continued by a council of five men, one for each of the points on the pentagram. These men formed what was called "The Ancient and Illuminated Seers of Bavaria." A society of Luciferian Freemasons immersed in mysticism and eastern mental disciplines. One primary goal was to develop the super powers of the mind. Their alleged plan and purpose is world domination.

For centuries, the Illuminati have been rumored to be the hidden motivational force encouraging global domination, centralized control of the world's economic systems; a New World Order.

Organizations such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve, and the International Criminal Court are reported to be appendages of the Illuminati.

The Illuminati are the driving force behind efforts to brainwash the masses through thought control, manipulation of beliefs through the press, the educational system, political leadership of the nations, and religion.

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