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Corruption in H.U.D. and the Easton Housing Authority

In the http://www.billybytes.com/blog/ post of June 15, 2006, I write about the Easton, Pennsylvania, HOPE VI project of the Easton Housing Authority (EHA) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Development in Washington, D.C.

Fellow blogger, Nazareth resident Bernie O’Hare III, in a post dated March 14, 2007, and featuring me, Bernie also makes references to the HOPE VI project.

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Sheldon Adelson, Pal of POTUS Geo. W. Bush

The Morning Call, a Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, mainstream news media print publication, carried an April 3, 2008, column by Washington Post nationally syndicated columnist George Will titled “Gambling global appeal profits Venetian’s Adelson.”

This column is titled “The Mogul Who Bet on Vegas,” the mogul being Sheldon Adelson, the third richest man in America after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and the owner of the Venetian casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Macao, Communist China, the latter being the largest casino in the world.

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Truncheon Luncheon

The Billy Bytes Blog scooped The Excess-Times (kisses officialdom’s ass to excess at all times) and its pimp reporter to officialdom’s johns (including, literally, Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan) Kurt Bresswein.

The latest Billy Bytes post hit the Internet ether at 12:11 a.m. this morning, whereas procurer Bresswein’s article didn’t hit the newsstands until much later this morning.

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Shad Season 2007

Lafayette College President Arthur J. Rothkopf is an adept aviator. He learned to fly as a Deputy Secretary of Transportation under President George H.W. Bush, who appointed him to the job.

Upon Bush’s November 1992 defeat at the hands of Bill Clinton, Bush dispatched Rothkopf to Lafayette College as its president (Rothkopf was an alumnus of the the class of 1955) to lay groundwork for the Presidential election of 1996, who turned out be Senator Bob Dole, of course, who, upon his failed run, was hired by Pfizer to hawk Viagra.

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The Saga of Three Seniors Named Mae and One Named Casey Kays

Billybytes Publications have investigated and established the nexus between octogenarians Anna Mae Kessler, age 81, a former resident of 574 Bangor Road, Plainfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Alice Mae (Nee Kays) Kitchen, 86, of Hainsburg Village, Knowltown Township, Warren County, New Jersey.

Anna Mae Kessler and Alice Mae Kitchen share more in common than just the initials of their middle name (which also, not coincidentally but through the inscrutable intervention of God Almighty, is also the middle name of my mother, Ida Mae Givens. age 92.

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The City of Easton’s New Urban Village Including Riverwalk

Pennsylvania Act 71 of July 1, 2004, “legalizing” slot machine and horse racing-track (casino/racino) gambling occurred only four months following the admission by leaders of the National Museum of Industrial History including its Executive Director Stephen Donches that the project lacked sufficient funding to proceed.

The same kind of scam is being employed in Bethlehem’s sister city, Easton, located nine miles to the east on State Route 22 and on the Delaware River bordering New Jersey, to construct an interstate transportation bus terminal and/or depot-parking garage-shopping center-condominium mutation in the flood plain of the Delaware River and a major Delaware River tributary, Bushkill Creek.

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Cover-up!

“As director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs [OIRA] at the White House of Budget and Management [OMB], Susan E. Dudley will have an opportunity to change or block all regulations proposed by government agencies,” as reported by Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Joel Havemann at Latimes.com.

Much of the plot to overthrow our government through a bloodless coup centers on the so-called “Lehigh Valley,” a geographical area in eastern Pennsylvania, whose borders, like shifting sand (quicksand, that is) undulated with the latest U.S. Bureau of Census figures used to establish Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

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“Escape from Freedom” - Erick Fromm

Here are the officials who are destroying our more-than-200 year-old county: Resident George W. Bush, Fuentes Fox, and Jim Martin, Condoleezza Rice, and Michael Chertoff.

The so-called Security and Prosperity about to be implemented by the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and the the World Trade Organization (WTO) is destroying United States sovereignty and, that of Mexico and Canada - just as the Bush Administration violated the sovereignty of the Iraqi people under his administration’s revolutionary doctrine of “preempt strikes.”

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Ladder at Convergence of Delaware and Lehigh Rivers

Billy Bytes Blog post titled “The Selling of Easton, Pennsylvnia’s. Environment,” dated August 17, 2006, describes the ladder at the convergence of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers.

This is not the fish ladder that enables the fish to negotiate the dam off Scott Park. Rather, it’s the ladder proposed by this public-private partnership: the City of Easton and its Parking Authority; Northampton County and LANTA (Lehigh and Northampton Transit Authority); the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC); Lafayette College and Arcadia Properties.

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I Accept Support from Only One PAC, “Pennsylvanians Against Casinos”

“Atlantic City Aiming Higher as Casinos Slip,” published in today’s edition of The New York Times, is turning increasingly to money and sex to survive:

“Money is one way Atlantic City is fighting back [against the growing casino gambling competition], sex another.”

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