Can cool heads prevail and a major false flag or political assassination be averted in Cleveland in a few weeks?
Cleveland takes out $50 million ‘protest insurance’ over RNC security fears
RT | June 30, 2016
http://on.rt.com/7hcb
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Fearing trouble at the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC), officials in Cleveland, Ohio have voted to quintuple the city’s insurance plan to $50 million.
The $9.5 million purchase from AON Risk Services was announced Wednesday by the Cleveland’s Board of Control, a considerable increase from the $1.5 million invested in a $10 million insurance policy in March.
The huge hike in coverage was motivated by an AON study that polled 40 different insurance providers and found the RNC was facing a particularly hostile climate this year.
“They just kind of evaluated the risks they believed to be associated with the convention,” Cleveland Finance Director Sharon Dumas told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “They analyzed the national trend of conflicts and the risks associated with the convention, and we concurred.”
The new policy will protect against damage to public property, out-of-town law enforcement and their equipment, and will go towards legal fees claims made by people arrested during the convention.
Openly Carried Guns to Be OK Near Republican Convention
William Gallo | July 02, 2016
Voice of America
http://bit.ly/29jbLxH
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FILE - Cleveland police walk with pedestrians as they patrol downtown, March 17, 2016. City officials have been coy about plans for handling convention protests, saying only they are prepared for “challenges.”
Among the items protesters will be banned from carrying at this month's Republican National Convention in Cleveland: explosives, large knives, umbrellas with metal tips, and tennis balls.
Something they will be allowed to carry: guns.
Thanks to Ohio state laws, anyone within the 8-square-kilometer "event zone" in downtown Cleveland will be able to openly carry legally owned firearms. With a valid permit, they can even carry a concealed weapon.
And city officials cannot change that.
"It's the state law, and we have to follow the law, so yeah," Dan Williams, a spokesman for the Cleveland mayor's office, told VOA when asked whether protesters would be able to carry guns in the event zone.
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Excerpt from Carl Bernstein's report about Voice of America's historical link to the CIA. Recognize a few names on this list? Zbigniew Brzezinski, for instance. How about Cord Meyer and Bill Moyers?
THE CIA AND THE MEDIA
How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up
By Carl Bernstein
http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
In 1964 and 1965, (CBS News president Richard) Salant served on a super-secret CIA task force which explored methods of beaming American propaganda broadcasts to the People's Republic of China. The other members of the four‑man study team were Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a professor at Columbia University; William Griffith, then professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology., and John Haves, then vice‑president of the Washington Post Company for radio‑TV5. The principal government officials associated with the project were Cord Meyer of the CIA; McGeorge Bundy, then special assistant to the president for national security; Leonard Marks, then director of the USIA; and Bill Moyers, then special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson and now a CBS correspondent.
...Accompanied by a CIA officer named Paul Henzie, the committee of four subsequently traveled around the world inspecting facilities run by Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty both CIA‑run operations at the time), the Voice of America and Armed Forces Radio. After more than a year of study, they submitted a report to Moyers recommending that the government establish a broadcast service, run by the Voice of America, to be beamed at the People's Republic of China.
