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Thanks again, Lisa Graves for your most illuminating article! It really galls me how these plutocrats have elected to DESECRATE THE GODDESS THEMIS by using her name for a spying, personal-information-data-gathering-big-brother- impersonator-secret-information corporation, and how they have PERVERTED what she really stands for. They now worship the goddess Ayn Rand- you know - the one who was in love with a serial killer. Instead of Team Themis, they should have selected the name Team Ayn Rand. If you look her up, here is some of the treasure trove you will find on goddess Rand, who is more like one of the Greek Furies, IMO: "Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected all forms of faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism, and rejected ethical altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed all forms of collectivism and statism, instead supporting laissez-faire capitalism, which she believed was the only social system that protected individual rights..." Ayn, I Got Mine, Go Frack Yourself, b!tch on wheels Rand! Orion is another famous Greek name. In Greek literature he first appears as a great hunter in Homer's epic the Odyssey, where Odysseus sees his shade in the underworld. Orion played several roles in ancient Greek culture. The story of the adventures of Orion, THE HUNTER, is the one which is most popular; he is also the personification of the constellation of the same name; he was honored as a hero, "in the Greek sense..." Now, we have the corporation, Orion Strategies, a lobbying firm in Washington run by Randy Scheunemann. whose main job is to feed its "framed-information" to journalists and to affect the way a story is spun in the media. It functions as a neoconservative "echo chamber", and it has on several occasions been involved in hyping and pushing wars. Again, here we have the creation of some plutocrats who have DESECRATED THE GREEK GOD ORION, by stealing the name of a pure and popular hero of Greek mythology, and calling their corporation "ORION." Need to know more nauseating information about Orion Strategies? Well, although it is very subversive and decadent, it is better to be depressingly informed than to be ignorant of these demons. Ken Silverstein writes: "Orion is run by Randy Scheunemann, a former advisor to Donald Rumsfeld who helped set up the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq and was a leading advocate for the U.S. invasion in 2003. The committee in turn was created by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), whose other leaders included Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol, founder and editor of the Weekly Standard. Scheunemann was John McCain’s foreign policy advisor during his 2008 presidential campaign, and later worked for Sarah Palin. In 2010, Orion hired Michael Goldfarb, a McCain presidential spokesman who previously worked for PNAC and who was a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard (and who even as a lobbyist continues to periodically write for the magazine). Lake is also an ardent conservative whose reporting championed the Iraq war. Orion seeks to create a media echo chamber on Georgia and Russia. Essentially it works like this: Tbilisi’s lobbyists generate contacts and information that they feed to sympathetic journalists. Orion frequently arranges interviews with Georgian officials and, not infrequently, stories centering on their charges magically appear soon afterward. Orion has wined and dined some reporters on its tab or picked up their travel expenses. There’s certainly nothing illegal about that but it’s worth noting that lobbyists are barred from maintaining these sorts of relationships with members of Congress because it so clearly presents, as we say in Washington, at least the appearance of impropriety." Orion is friendly to and works with government officials and politicians whom its reporter friends regularly cite (especially McCain). Orion also works very closely with experts and organizations cited by these reporters, like the Foreign Policy Initiative, whose board of directors includes William Kristol, Robert Kagan and other neocons from the PNAC and the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq.