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Earmarking for a Terrorist Museum

The Center for Empowered Living and Learning in Denver, the recipient of a $300,000 earmarked grant in a Senate appropriations bill, is not, as the name might suggest, a New Age school experiment or environmental project. Instead, it’s a museum on terrorism — or at least a terrorism exhibit — on the ground floor of a downtown Denver condominium complex that adjoins the Denver Art Museum.

The CELL, as it styles itself, is an example of the kind of project Congress sometimes helps pay for apparently because it has political influence behind it — in this case, wealthy Denver builder and Republican political contributor Larry Mizel.

“This raises a lot of questions not just on Mizel’s background, but on, ‘Why is this museum being elevated above other museums across the country, and what is the benefit?’” says Steve Ellis, vice president of the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. “It comes down to the question of how are we picking the winners and losers in our educational cash.”

The CELL does have ambitions to spin its exhibit, which reportedly cost about $6 million, into an educational and training program on terrorism.

“It is becoming a regional and national center for counterterrorism preparedness strategy and training that will help average citizens, first-responders and government agencies — including the Department of Homeland Security — better prepare for terrorism risks,” says Deirdre Murphy, a spokeswoman for Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who persuaded appropriators to include the earmark in the Senate version of the fiscal 2010 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education spending bill. He originally asked for $350,000.

In the House, Democrat Ed Perlmutter of Denver had requested $443,000 for the museum, but appropriators turned him down.

The Center for Empowered Living and Learning is a subsidiary of the Mizel Museum of Jewish history and culture, both founded by Mizel, a well-known conservative who has contributed heavily to Republican political campaigns over several decades. He nevertheless has given $4,800 to Bennet’s campaign fund this year. Bennet was appointed in January to succeed Ken Salazar , who was named Interior secretary, and has indicated he will run for re-election in 2010.

Mizel is the founder, chief executive and chairman of MDC Holdings Inc., whose subsidiaries include Richmond American Homes. He’s also one of the founders of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization based in Los Angeles.

The CELL’s first and, so far, only exhibit is called “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: Understanding the Threat of Terrorism” and includes graphic pictures of terrorism victims, a replica of a suicide vest and a movie depicting Denver under terrorist attack. It opened to the public in February.

Last year, the CELL paid the law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP $90,000 to lobby on its behalf on the Defense and Commerce-Justice-Science appropriations bills, according to congressional filings. The museum received no earmarked funding for fiscal 2009, however. So far this year, it has spent a reported $40,000 on lobbying.

The museum’s executive director, Melanie Pearlman, says it plans to use the earmark to improve and expand its public exhibit, particularly its “action center,” which she said helps people learn how they can actively fight against terrorism. Pearlman says this includes efforts such as researching pension funds and other investment vehicles to help ensure the funds aren’t being used unwittingly to prop up terrorist groups.

“What we’ve found,” she says, “is that people don’t recognize that the threat is not just on the coasts but also in the heartland.”

“I really want to stress,” Pearlman adds, “we’re really taking a bipartisan approach specifically to this subject because we don’t want this to become a partisan issue. It’s very important to us.”

In late May, the CELL began a lecture series with a discussion about the value of Guantánamo Bay as a terrorist prison, moderated by former Sen. Gary Hart, a Democrat. {Source}


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The Cell: Recognizing the 8 Signs of Terrorism

Dupe and paid liar John Elway plays his part in the fraud of the 'war on terrorism' by being a mouthpiece for the jewish zionists who produced this video and who want to portray the next wave of terrorists as 'whites.' The ADL probably was involved in the production, at least as consultants.

As usual, the video invokes the false flags of 9/11 and Oklahoma City first. It then works its way into an attempt to create mistrust among your neighbors and strangers who may be out to get you.

Always there is the push to divert our attention away from the actual 'terrorist' threat of our own government, Israel, the CIA, FBI, Mossad, MI6 and other players, including the media, in the game of mind control of the masses.

Some are fooled, the rest of us are not.

I want my money back.