>DOUGH
Shin Gojira is not evil. He is a lost, sad, scared titan in pain.
>What did they get wind of?
>necklace
>symbolism
sting Wray
https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1613272185342414848
what a dumbass
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obama-center/ct-obama-archives-to-hoffman-estates-20160531-story.html
First stop for Obama library archives? An empty furniture store in Hoffman Estates
Before the doors of President Barack Obama's library open on Chicago's South Side, truckloads of White House archives will be shipped to a former furniture store in the northwest suburbs.
A massive volume of paperwork, electronic data and artifacts will find a temporary home at the old Plunkett Home Furnishings store on Golf Road in Hoffman Estates. As many as 120 employees will be brought in by the National Archives and Records Administration to sort through the material, which ultimately will be part of the Obama Presidential Center.
The National Archives employees will organize, digitize and preserve the contents of what is sometimes called the "president's attic," said John Laster, who directs the Presidential Materials Division at the agency and has toured the Hoffman Estates site.
The space at 2500 W. Golf Road was leased in February by the General Services Administration. Village officials are expected to consider a special use permit for the project, which has the backing of Mayor Bill McLeod, in July. Work at the location could start as soon as October.
"Hoffman Estates, Ill., having the Obama archives for a few years, how do you calculate the benefit of that?" McLeod said. "It's another mention, it's another something about Hoffman Estates people read in the newspapers and this is good, having the archives for a few years, that's really good."
Technically, the National Archives doesn't take legal custody of Obama's documents until 12:01 p.m. Jan. 20, after the next commander in chief takes the oath. But with an OK from the White House, the agency can begin shipping and organizing some materials well before that date, Laster said.
The materials that will wind up in the library are not just from the Oval Office, but from almost every part of the Executive Office of the President. According to Laster, the agency already is providing "courtesy storage" for some of Obama's presidential papers in a location he declined to disclose, though archivists can't yet dig into the boxes of documents. The no-peeking rule does not apply to artifacts such as gifts from foreign leaders or haute couture gowns worn by Michelle Obama that are expected to be part of the collection.
Archivists are bracing for 200 terabytes of electronic records covering Obama's eight years in office. That's a lot — 10 terabytes was enough to hold the printed collection of the Library of Congress, according to a 2000 study by the University of California at Berkeley.
The old Plunkett's store, which was shuttered in 2009 after the housing market crashed, was leased by the government for six years for $11.3 million. The nearly 74,000 square feet of space will not be open to the public, so people will have to wait until Obama's Presidential Center opens to lay eyes on the lode of documents and artifacts.
The center is scheduled to open in 2021, though Freedom of Information Act requests for records won't be accepted until the following year, five years after Obama's term is up. Some records will be off-limits for seven more years under the law that governs presidential records.
With 13 presidential libraries in its portfolio — facilities that cost taxpayers nearly $69 million in the year ending last Sept. 30 — the National Archives is custodian of iconic artifacts past presidents have left to history and the libraries and museums built in their honor.
The collections are an eclectic mix of papers and objects. The George W. Bush Presidential Center possesses the 9 mm Glock pistol Saddam Hussein had when he was captured in 2003. Richard Nixon's library holdings include the one-line letter he sent Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1974: "I hereby resign the Office of the President of the United States." And in Lyndon Johnson's library is one of the fountain pens he used to enact the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Such holdings trigger speculation about what Obama will put on display from his eight years in office. Will Obama spotlight the Iran nuclear deal? His Nobel prize? The Supreme Court's decision to make same-sex marriage lawful? Will he downplay his squabbles with Congress? Or his failed pitch to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago?
Time will tell. What is known is that Obama's White House holdings are likely to surpass those amassed by the two previous administrations, in part because of heavy use of social media, Laster said.
Previous presidential collections have also been stored in temporary quarters before making a landing at their final destination. Bush 43's archives, which includes an estimated 200 million emails, 70 million pages of documents, 4 million photos and 43,000 artifacts, were shipped by truck and military-chartered air to a warehouse in Lewisville, Texas, before making the move to the library.
The archives of his father, President George H.W. Bush, found a temporary home in a strip mall space previously occupied by a bowling alley and a Chinese restaurant, Laster said. Bill Clinton's archives landed for a time in a former Oldsmobile dealership near his future library in Little Rock, Ark.
It took eight flights aboard C-5 cargo planes to carry the shrink-wrapped, palletized boxes from the Clinton White House, Laster said. Clinton's materials include about 80 million pages of documents, 1.8 million photos and more than 100,000 artifacts (including about 25,000 books,) Laster said.
When work commences in Hoffman Estates, 40 tractor-trailer trucks are set to drop off Obama White House materials over the first five months, village records show. Ultimately records will be digitized and paper documents placed in acid-free file folders and boxes by current National Archives employees and new hires, Laster said.
McLeod, the suburb's mayor since 2001, is enthusiastic about getting the archives in Hoffman Estates. He first met Obama when the president was an Illinois state senator and eyeing a 2004 run for the U.S. Senate.
Tentatively, the special use permit for the space will be heard July 6 by the Village Planning and Zoning Commission and July 11 by the Village Board, the mayor said.
With less than eight months left in office, Obama has not yet announced the architect who will design his presidential center, nor where it will rise. Sites in Jackson and Washington parks are under consideration. While backers want Obama's presidential center to be an economic force on the South Side, there are critics who complain that the edifices are excessive, wasteful and used by ex-politicos to burnish their image.
Archivists and scholars disagree. Historian Julian Zelizer, a professor at Princeton, said presidential libraries provide critical insights into Congress and let researchers assess whether journalists got a presidency right and whether the public memory of a president is accurate — or needs rethinking.
Susan Donius, director of the Office of Presidential Libraries at the National Archives, said libraries run by her agency — from Herbert Hoover's to Bush 43's — make it possible for people to study the foundations of democracy without a trip to D.C.
"What I believe is so special is that these 13 institutions provide not only insight into that individual president's administration and time, but also a window into the historical era," she said. "And also they give a wonderful civics education to students and lifelong learners."
https://www.obama.org/wp-content/uploads/BOF-NARA-LOI.pdf
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Former CIA Clandestine Service. Now @SpycraftEnt, @AtlanticCouncil, #NAFO fella.
Sometimes writes. Good Father, Decent Husband and Excellent dog owner.
>The invention of the interwebs was to show the world who is a fucking retard and who is not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/25/jews-germans-us-soldiers-davos-strange-world-war-ii-history/
Jews, Germans and U.S. soldiers: Davos’s strange World War II history
Each year in Davos, Switzerland, world leaders, corporate titans, celebrities and other members of the global elite gather for a week of glitzy discussions on the state of the world. But during World War II, long before the modern confab started in 1971, the city of Davos gathered together a surreal collection of residents that included Nazis, Jews and downed U.S. military pilots.
Beginning in the 18th century, Davos and its supposedly healing mountain air drew scores of consumption patients to sanitariums for treatment. Patients ate five meals and guzzled two liters of milk each day, went for walks and sunned themselves on balconies.
“In the early 1920s it was the melting pot of old noble families, the rich upper class, sick dandies and millionaires from all over the old world,” said Tobias Engelsing, director of the Rosengarten Museums of Konstanz in Germany.
But, as Engelsing wrote in 2007, things took a darker turn in the 1930s. Germany established a Nazi headquarters in Davos, led by a fanatical follower of Hitler named Wilhelm Gustloff. Gustloff used coercion to convince many newly arrived Germans to become members of the party.
Gustloff was assassinated in 1936 by a Jewish medical student, David Frankfurter. And while Nazi activity in the town died down a bit when the war began and Switzerland declared itself neutral, some of the 1,500 Germans living in the town of 10,000 were probably affiliated with the party, according to Timotheos Nilsson, director of Dokumentationsbibliothek Davos, the town’s archival library.
Even so, nestled among the dozens of sanitariums that dotted the town’s mountains was Etania, a clinic for ailing Jews that even had its own synagogue and Jewish cemetery. Founded in the early 1920s, the center stayed open through the war years and into the early 2000s.
>Germany established a Nazi headquarters in Davos, led by a fanatical follower of Hitler named Wilhelm Gustloff.
>Dokumentationsbibliothek Davos, the town’s archival library
>fanatical follower of Hitler named Wilhelm Gustloff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Gustloff
The German cruise ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff was named for Gustloff by the Nazi regime. The ship was sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13 on 30 January 1945 (coincidentally the 50th anniversary of her namesake's birth) in the Baltic Sea while carrying civilian refugees and military personnel from the advancing Red Army. About 9,400 people died, the greatest death toll from the sinking of a single vessel in human history.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/01/08/journalist-paul-sperry-has-more-to-say-as-adam-schiff-starts-acting-nervous-n685409
Journalist Paul Sperry Has More to Say, as Adam Schiff Starts Acting Nervous
In articles for RealClearInvestigations, I outed his anonymous “whistleblower” from the first impeachment of President Trump. It was Eric Ciaramella, a Democrat who had worked in the Trump White House as an Obama holdover. I also exposed Ciaramella’s prior relationship with one of Schiff’s top staffers on the impeachment committee, Sean Misko.
My reporting cast fresh doubts on Schiff’s claims that the 2019 impeachment process happened organically. The New York Times had already busted Schiff lying about prior contacts with the whistleblower. Initially, Schiff publicly stated his office never spoke with the whistleblower before he filed his complaint against President Trump, when in fact a Schiff staffer had huddled with him, something Schiff’s spokesman Patrick Boland was forced to admit after the Times broke the story. (The staffer was never identified.) The prior contacts led to suspicions Schiff’s office helped the whistleblower craft his complaint as part of a partisan operation.
In the censorship demands Schiff’s office sent Twitter, Misko and the “impeachment inquiry” are mentioned. It’s not clear if Ciaramella is, too, since some names are blacked out. Schiff demanded Twitter “remove any and all content”’ related to them.
Schiff told Twitter it was about shutting down “QAnon conspiracies” but as Sperry pointed out that wasn’t it at all.
In his list of demands, Schiff tried to justify banning me by claiming I was promoting “false QAnon conspiracies,” which I have never done and I challenge Schiff to produce evidence to back up his defamatory remarks.
Schiff knew better. He knew “QAnon” was a trigger for Twitter censors, who were suppressing QAnon posts.
Adam Schiff created fake dossier on journalist Paul Sperry and sent it to Twitter censors to convince them to ban Sperry.
Among other things, it falsely claimed Sperry was "stalking" Schiff's staffer Misko in the Senate during impeachment hearings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanged_Man_(tarot_card)