Fox News reports OBL death a few days too early

According to this Tweeter, she saw the Fox News ticker report that Osama bin-Laden was dead on April 28. So either she got into Twitter and hacked her account to change the date stamp, had a psychic premonition, or this is for real.

Here is a link to the Twitter account in question:

http://twitter.com/#!/megneverlands

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Flashback to another pre-emptive reporting by the press...

Teen Arrested For Asking Cop About Unwarranted Raids

On May 6th I began shooting film for a new video project about unwarranted raids in Wahpeton nd, I was standing on a public street filming a notorious officer (Dustin Hill) who commonly practices unwarranted searches and seizures. He asked if I 'needed something' I responded by telling him 'no, I'm just filming a story about unwarranted raids in wahpeton' . He immediately
placed me under arrest for interfering with a police investigation, or hindering as he also coined it. There was no investigation going on, he was simply talking to a citizen on public property. I was taken into an interview room where I remained cuffed for roughly an hour, I was questioned by an officer without ever being read my miranda rights while he harrassed and grilled me.
After telling him the United States Constitution gives me the right to film in public he left, he returned after a long period of time and told me to stand up so he could remove my cuffs. I was then told to grab my camera and leave, and notified that I had 'Pissed Dustin Hill Off' I was released with NO CHARGES and my parents were never notified of my detainment, this is Orwellian authoritarian tactics of detaining a minor illegally for exercising his rights to intimidate him. I'm currently looking for the most effective avenue to seek legal action against the department but I would encourage anyone who is concerned about this issue to RESPECTFULLY and PROFESSIONALLY
contact the Wahpeton ND police dept at 701-642-7722 and voice your concerns . One act of disobeying the constitution under the protection of a shiny badge, is a strike against the rights of all men and women. I hope you will all stand with me in this fight against those who seek to overstrectch the boundaries of authority.


Robert Wanek,
Thank you

THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS AND CONFLICT SHORT OF WAR

Here is the PDF document:

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB241.pdf

The following article discusses the document and offers some choice excerpts.

1994: Army War College Paper Proposes use of Computer Generated Insurgents


In 2008, Old-Thinker News reported on a 1994 strategic paper published by the U.S. Army War College titled “Revolution In Military Affairs And Conflict Short Of War,” written by Dr. Steven Metz (who works for the RAND Corporation) and James Kievit. Recent events have made this paper even more precient than ever. The document outlines an eerily familiar scenario in which a group of revolutionaries within government hijack control of the levers of power and begin a program of pre-emptive war, psychological operations at home and abroad, and false flag attacks blamed on “…computer generated insurgent leader[s]“.


In July of 1994 the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) produced the paper titled Revolution In Military Affairs And Conflict Short Of War that uncannily forecasted the future in a “hypothetical future history” written in the year 2010. The hypothetical situation contains many disturbing predictions, several of which have come true. After a series of terrorist attacks, foreign policy “fiascos” and various disputes between “supporters of multinational peace operations” and “isolationists”, a small number of “revolutionaries” recruits members in all branches of the U.S. government and shift American foreign policy to a practice of pre-emption.


Computer generated insurgents claim responsibility for attacks that U.S. forces carry out, traditional boundaries between military and law enforcement are abolished, subliminal conditioning is used in combination with propaganda, and bioelectric tags are implanted in citizens. As predicted in the document, 2010 is the year that the revolutionaries’ goals would be met.


2012 Election


With stunning accuracy, the election of 2012 is mentioned in the document as being an extremely important date in America’s history, as “…Americans are beginning to question the economic, human, and ethical costs of our new strategy…” The document continues “…There are even rumblings of discontent within the national security community as the full meaning of the revolution becomes clear.”


Globalist architect Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted last year that “…For the first time in all of human history: mankind is political awakened…that’s a total new reality…total new reality.”


With Osama bin Laden’s recent resurrection in the minds of the world population, the real world revolutionaries have moved ever closer to meeting their goals. The over-the-top nature of the deception, however, is having the effect of waking up individuals who were undecided as to whether or not they were being duped. One example out of several is this photo of various white house staff that were reported to have “…watched the bin Laden raid in real time.” It has now been revealed that there was a 25 minute “video blackout” during the raid, making it impossible for them to have seen anything at all. Never the less, the establishment is running with its attempt to carry out one of the largest scandals in history.


With this in mind, here are several pertinent excerpts from the Revolution in Military Affairs document:

The Revolutionaries’ rise to power

“This series of fiascos [terrorist attacks on the United States at home and abroad] led a small number of American political leaders, senior military officers, and national security experts to conclude that a revolution was needed in the way we approached conflict short of war. They held the Vietnam-inspired doctrine of the 1980s and 1990s directly responsible for these disasters. Only radical innovation, they concluded, could renew U.S. strategy and avoid a slide into global irrelevance.”

“The revolutionaries’ first task was to recruit proselytes throughout the government and national security community. Initially the revolutionaries, who called their new strategic concept “Dynamic Defense,” were opposed by isolationists who felt that new technology should be used simply to build an impenetrable electronic and physical barrier around the United States. Eventually the revolutionaries convinced the president-elect following the campaign of 2000 that Dynamic Defense was both feasible and effective–a task made easier by his background as a pioneering entrepreneur in the computer-generated and controlled “perception-molding” systems developed by the advertising industry. The President was thus amenable to the use of the sort of psychotechnology which formed the core of the RMA in conflict short of war.”

…

“The first step in implementing Dynamic Defense was reshaping the national security organization and its underlying attitudes and values. Technology provided opportunity; only intellectual change could consolidate it. With the full and active support of the President, the revolutionaries reorganized the American national security system to make maximum use of emerging technology and new ideas.

This loosely reflected the earlier revolution in the world of business, and sought to make the U.S. national security organization more flexible and quicker to react to shifts in the global security environment. The old Cold War structures–the Department of Defense, Department of State, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Council, and others–were replaced by two organizations.”

…

“This integrated the military, civilian law enforcement, the diplomatic corps, and organizations responsible for gathering and analyzing intelligence. Since so many of the conflicts faced by the United States were “gray area” threats falling somewhere in between traditional military problems and traditional law enforcement problems, the organizational division between the two was abolished.”

…

“One of the turning points of the revolution came when its leaders convinced the President and key members of Congress that traditional American ethics were a major hindrance to the RMA. This was crucial: the revolutionaries and their allies then crafted the appropriate attitudinal vessel for the RMA. Through persistent efforts and very sophisticated domestic “consciousness-raising,” old-fashioned notions of personal privacy and national sovereignty changed.

This was relatively easy since frustration with domestic crime had already begun to alter attitudes and values. In fact, the RMA in conflict short of war was, in many ways, a spin-off of the domestic “war on drugs and crime” of the late 1990s when the military… became heavily involved in support to domestic law enforcement. The changes in American values that accompanied that struggle were easily translated to the national security arena. Once the norms concerning personal privacy changed, law soon followed.”

…

“With values changed, technology then opened the door to profound innovation. Vast improvements in surveillance systems and information processing made it possible to monitor a large number of enemies (and potential enemies)… As they advanced into the electronic and bioelectronic era, it was necessary to rethink our ethical prohibitions on manipulating the minds of enemies (and potential enemies) both international and domestic. Cutting-edge pharmaceutical technology also provided tools for national security strategists.”

…

“All of this reorganization and technological development was simply preface for the full flowering of the revolution in military affairs. American leaders popularized a new, more inclusive concept of national security. No distinction–legal or otherwise–was drawn between internal and external threats. In the interdependent 21st century world, such a differentiation was dangerously nostalgic.”

The Strategy

“The actual strategy built on the RMA was divided into three tracks. The first sought to perpetuate the revolution. Its internal dimension institutionalized the organizational and attitudinal changes that made the revolution possible, and pursued future breakthroughs in close conjunction with business, the scientific community, and local law enforcement agencies — the core troika of the 21st century security. The external dimension actively sought to delay or prevent counterresponses by controlling information and through well-orchestrated deception.”

…

“The second track consisted of offensive action. Our preference was preemption. In a dangerous world, it was preferable to kill terrorists before they could damage the ecology or strike at the United States… When preemption failed, the United States sought either passive containment where strikes (electronic, psychological, or physical) were used to limit the spread of the deleterious effects of a conflict. For opponents with the ability to harm the United States, the military preemptively destroyed their capabilities.”

…

“By 2010, the RMA accomplished its desired objectives.”

Operation Cerberus, computer generated insurgents and subliminal conditioning

“Probably the finest hour of the new warriors was the Cuba preemption of 2005–Operation Ceberus.”

“Potential or possible supporters of the insurgency around the world were identified using the Comprehensive Interagency Integrated Database. These were categorized as “potential” or “active,” with sophisticated computerized personality simulations used to develop, tailor, and focus psychological campaigns for each.”

“Individuals and organizations with active predilections to support the insurgency were targets of an elaborate global ruse using computer communications networks and appeals by a computer-generated insurgent leader.”

“Psychological operations included traditional propaganda as well as more aggressive steps such as drug assisted subliminal conditioning.”

“Since all Americans in Cuba had been bioelectrically tagged and monitored during the initial stages of the conflict, the NEO went smoothly…”

“The attitude-shaping campaigns aimed at the American public, the global public, and the Cuban people went quite well, including those parts using computer-generated broadcasts by insurgent leaders–”morphing”– in which they were shown as disoriented and psychotic. Subliminal messages surreptitiously integrated with Cuban television transmissions were also helpful.”

“In fact, all of this was so successful that there were only a few instances of covert, stand-off military strikes when insurgent targets arose and government forces seemed on the verge of defeat. U.S. strike forces also attacked neutral targets to support the psychological campaign as computer-generated insurgent leaders claimed credit for the raids. At times, even the raids themselves were computer-invented ‘recreations.’” [emphasis added]

Resistance beginning to emerge as “The Eagle Movement” rises

“Perhaps most important, Americans are beginning to question the economic, human, and ethical costs of our new strategy. A political movement called the “new Humanitarianism” is growing, especially among Americans of Non-European descent, and seems likely to play a major role in the presidential election of 2012. There are even rumblings of discontent within the national security community as the full meaning of the revolution becomes clear. Since the distinction between the military and non-military components of our national security community has eroded, many of those notionally in the military service have come to feel unbound by traditional notions of civil-military relations. This group has founded a new political party – The Eagle Movement – which is beginning to exert great pressure on the traditional political parties for inclusion in national policymaking. The traditional parties are, to put it lightly, intimidated by the Eagle Movement, and seem likely to accept its demands.”

http://www.blacklistednews.com/1994%3A_Army_War_College_Paper_Proposes_use_of_Computer_Generated_Insurgents/13791/0/0/0/Y/M.html

4 police officers resign in protest of fascist orders

CACTUS, TEXAS - Right now an area city is scrambling to find new police officers after four out of five people in their department resigned. The former Cactus officers tell NewsChannel 10 they walked off the job after a heated disagreement with the city manager.


According to the officers, Steve Schmidt-Witcher was trying to get them to arrest people who were speaking out against him at a public meeting back on April 19.


"It makes me sick that we go over to another country to help them out with democracy. and they won't let these people who are citizens of the united states have democracy," Former officer Mike Broyles said.


"We were just not willing to stand by and allow ourselves to be used a threat against the people," said Tim Cropley, another former officer.


Word of those allegations is spreading fast in Cactus. Now the City Council has set a special meeting to consider firing the city manager. That will take place Tuesday night at 7.


Schmidt-Witcher declined to comment for this story.

http://www.newschannel10.com/story/14584078/cactus-police-officers-resign

Smokin Smarties kiiiid

Proof of time travelers?

Tear it down - Old Crow Medicine Show

Interview with an Orgasm

Drunkest guy ever! (2001: A drunk odyssey)

BREAKING NEWS: Bigfoot killed in Japan!

Life without parole for Kingston killers

KINGSTON — Convicted murderers Trevor “Little T” Mattis and Gary “G-Money” Griffin were sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday during a sometimes-chaotic proceeding marked by the killers’ numerous outbursts and one of them being dragged from the courtroom after swearing at the judge.


The two were taken immediately after their sentencing to the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill, where they will be processed into the state prison system.


Mattis, 23, and Griffin, 30, were convicted on April 15 of first-degree murder for the February 2010 gangland slaying of 21-year-old Charles “C.J.” King Jr. on Cedar Street in Midtown Kingston. Authorities said Mattis shot King in the head, execution-style, with a gun supplied by Griffin as retaliation for King testifying against Mattis’ brother in a previous Kingston shooting case.


In sentencing Mattis and Griffin — said by authorities to be members of a Bloods-related gang called Sex Money Murder — Ulster County Judge Donald A. Williams said he wanted to send a “clear and unequivocal and resounding message” that gang violence will not be tolerated in Ulster County.


Williams told Mattis he would have sentenced him to death if capital punishment still was on the books in New York.

Story continues at this link:

http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2011/05/06/blotter/doc4dc41cdd61a46094671606.txt







I didn't follow this case too closely, but it does leave a bad taste in my mouth. First of all, I don't see how it is justice, or how someone can be called a murderer, simply for providing a gun to someone else who pulls the trigger and actually commits a murder. I know that the law has been twisted these days to make it that way "legally" but I still don't go for it. Even if his accomplice was standing right there next to him, I still can't see why he should not have been given 25-to-life for his role, a token less than the actual killer. And even then, only if it could be PROVEN that the accomplice did in fact knowingly conspire to commit murder, rather than just happened to be there when the other man decided to pull the trigger.

Now, point two I would like to point out here, is that the one defendant appears to have a legit gripe about how unfair the trial was, and if I were a judge, I would see it as grounds for an appeal without question.

Mattis accused (Prosecutor) Carnright of having a “super conflict of interest” because Carnright, when he worked as a public defender, represented a co-defendant of Mattis’ in a prior case in which Mattis was convicted of robbery and sent to prison.


“Carnright knew I was innocent, he knew that,” Mattis said. “It’s the same thing he did this time. This man right here knew we were innocent.”

To the judge, he (Griffin) said, “I have got no justice, especially from you, your honor, who were supposed to referee but instead played prosecutor.”

I think he is right. The judge never should have allowed such a conflict of interest in his courtroom. These two men may in fact be guilty in the death of the victim, but I do not see this as a victory for justice in any way.

Meanwhile, in other news today, we see that a police officer can commit a cold-blooded murder on video, and all he gets is a 30-day suspension...

http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/05/officer-cleared-in-murder-found-dead.html

Time Traveler Meets Himself?

Officer cleared in murder, found dead

In 2003, Chicago Police Officer Alvin Weems shot a man in the face, killing him. In the video below, you will see that the victim of the shooting was not an aggressor, and clearly not a deadly threat of any sort. You will also see that the officer is not in uniform, and is roaming the train station with a gun in his hand, appearing more like a stickup man than a police officer. The video was only made available after an uphill battle against police who sought to suppress the video. You will also note that what is seen on the film, contradicts official statements made by Officer Weems as well as other officials.

Despite the obvious truth and gross lies of officials, the officer was subsequently cleared of almost all wrongdoing, suspended 30-days for tardiness, and then promoted to Detective.

Following the video, is a linked article reporting on the alleged suicide of Officer Weems.



Article:

Cop caught on video killing unarmed man in '03 found dead in home

Crying Over Spilled Semen

The finding that women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms and women who are not sexually active, leads one researcher to conclude that semen contains powerful—and potentially addictive—mood-altering chemicals.


Study author Gordon G. Gallup, Ph.D., a psychologist at the State University of New York in Albany, also found that women who routinely had intercourse without condoms became increasingly depressed as more time elapsed since their last sexual encounter. There was no such correlation for women whose partners regularly used condoms.


Gallup's survey of 293 college women also found that those who did not use condoms were most likely to initiate sex and to seek out new partners as soon as a relationship ended. "These women are more vulnerable to the rebound effect, which suggests that there is a chemical dependency," says Gallup.


Semen contains hormones including testosterone, estrogen, prolactin, luteinizing hormone and prostaglandins, and some of these are absorbed through the walls of the vagina and are known to elevate mood.


Gallup controlled for variables including method of contraception, frequency of sexual intercourse, as well as the women's perception of their relationship. He concedes that women who regularly have sex without condoms might share personality traits that make them less susceptible to depression. But the behavior most often associated with non-condom users is sexual risk-taking, and studies have found no correlation between high-risk sexual behavior and lower rates of depression.


Gallup's study, which he deems "the first serious attempt to investigate the effect of semen chemistry on women," titillated the public and rankled some academics upon publication in Archives of Sexual Behavior. Gallup says he has since replicated the findings with a sample of 700 women and will examine whether "semen withdrawal" places women at an increased risk for depression when they are premenstrual, menopausal or have just given birth, as many women abstain from sex during these periods.

The original article can be viewed at Psyhcology Today by clicking this link:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200210/crying-over-spilled-semen

And here is the abstract of a similar study:

The intravaginal absorption of male generated hormones and their possible effect on female behaviour


P. G. Ney


Clinical School of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand.


Available online 21 April 2004.


Abstract


In this paper I hypothesize that a woman through her vagina absorbs sufficient quantities of the prostaglandins from her partner's semen, to affect her mood. The vagina appears to have an active transport mechanism which readily absorbs the hormones found in seminal plasma. The seminal secretions include estrogens, F.S.H., LH, testosterone, and at least 13 prostaglandins. Prostaglandins have a modulating effect on neurotransmitters. Evening Primrose Oil (E.P.O., Efamol) may improve depressed mood by facilitating the production of prostaglandins. I have described a depressed, child abusing mother who was possibly getting insufficient exogenous prostaglandins post-partum to maintain her pre-partum mood state because she was avoiding intercourse with her husband. When her mood improved on E.P.O., she began enjoying her husband and her child. If these observations and deductions are correct, regular amounts of seminal plasma may be important in maintaining a woman's affective health and E.P.O. may be useful in treating depressed abusing mothers.

The full study can be purchased at this link:

PDF file for purchase

Yonkers cop guilty of assault and filing false charges on victim

WHITE PLAINS – A former Yonkers City Police officer faces up to seven years in state prison when sentenced in August for assaulting two people in a bar and then falsifying business records by writing up a false police report.


Raul Ramiriz, 31, of Yonkers, pled guilty to the two counts of assault in the second degree and one count of falsifying business records in the first degree, all felonies.


Ramiriz was assigned to a radio car in the overnight shift on April 12, 2010 when he went to a bar at the request of his brother who was there. He was not dispatched to the bar, but went inside, assaulted to people and initiated criminal charged against one of them.


In an effort to cover up his misconduct, Ramiriz wrote up a false police report and filed a false misdemeanor information.


Internal Affairs was notified and initiated an investigation that led to the indictment,

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2011/May/05/Ramiriz_plea-5May11.html

UPDATE:

He turned in his shield and will spend 8 weekends in jail. 

http://www.news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?articleId=280804&position=1&news_type=news

Aviation Geeks Scramble to ID bin Laden Raid’s Mystery Copter

The May 2 raid on Osama bin Laden’s luxury compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, had it all: painstaking intelligence-gathering, a heroic Navy SEAL assault team, satellite and drone surveillance, and biometric forensics.


And now this: a possible super-secret, stealthy helicopter, unknown to the wider world before one crashed during the assault.


Aviation specialists are picking apart pixel-by-pixel the dozen-or-so photos of the copter that have appeared online. They’re assembling digital mock-ups of the aircraft and comparing them to lost stealth designs of the 1980s and ’90s. Speculation abounds, and so far no one from the government is commenting. But depending on what the copter turns out to be, it could shed new light on everything from the abilities of U.S. commandos to the relationship between the United States and Pakistan.


Opinions about the copter seem to fall into three basic camps. The most-cautious observers believe the wreckage is from a conventional chopper that got so badly mangled during the crash that it became unrecognizable. In the center, there are those who think the helicopter is an Army MH-60 Blackhawk tweaked to make it quieter and more stealthy. On the fringes, the true believers are talking about a brand-new, radar-evading helicopter design.


Considering the proliferation of bewildering photos from the crash site, the conservative viewpoint seems unlikely. Equally, the notion of a brand-new “black” helicopter seems far-fetched, especially considering the Army’s long history of heavily modifying existing rotorcraft for secret missions.


That leaves an upgraded, stealth-optimized MH-60 as the most likely candidate — a conclusion that jibes with CIA director Leon Panetta’s assertion Tuesday that the 25-man strike team was “carried in two Blackhawk helicopters that went in.”


A story by ace reporter Sean Naylor in Army Times, published just minutes after the initial version of this post, supports this conclusion. Naylor quotes a retired Special Forces aviator saying the special Blackhawk, modified by Lockheed Martin, has “hard edges, sort of like an … F-117″ stealth fighter from the same company.


According to a source who spoke to our own Spencer Ackerman, the modifications might have taken place with the help of a mysterious Army organization called the “Technology Applications Program Office,” located at Fort Eustis, Virginia. The rumored nickname? Airwolf. That’s right, like the cheesy ‘80 TV show.

Full article at link:


http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/aviation-geeks-scramble-to-i-d-osama-raids-mystery-copter/

Rental company caught spying on customers through their computers

PITTSBURGH – You didn't pay your bill. We need our computer back. And here's a picture of you typing away on it, the computer rental company told a client as it tried to repossess the machine.


Those allegations appear in a federal lawsuit alleging that the firm, Atlanta-based Aaron's Inc., loaded computers with spyware to track renters' keystrokes, make screenshots and even take webcam images of them using the devices at home. The suit filed by a Wyoming couple Tuesday raises anew questions of how invasive custodians of technology should be in protecting their equipment.


Computer privacy experts said Aaron's, a major furniture rental chain, has the right to equip its computers with software it can use to shut off the devices remotely if customers stop paying their bills, but they must be told if they're being monitored.


"If I'm renting a computer ... then I have a right to know what the limitations are and I have a right to know if they're going to be collecting data from my computer," said Annie Anton, a professor and computer privacy expert with North Carolina State University.


But the couple who sued Aaron's said they had no clue the computer they rented last year was equipped with a device that could spy on them. Brian Byrd, 26, and his wife, Crystal, 24, said they didn't even realize that was possible until a store manager in Casper came to their home Dec. 22.


The manager tried to repossess the computer because he mistakenly believed the Byrds hadn't paid off their rent-to-own agreement. When Brian Byrd showed the manager a signed receipt, the manager showed Byrd a picture of Byrd using the computer — taken by the computer's webcam.

Read the rest of the details at this link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110504/ap_on_re_us/us_rental_computer_spyware

People who want to learn about how to conduct the right kind of business can learn more about how to earn an advanced business degree at http://www.onlinephd.net. There is certainly a need for businesspeople who are fair and do not spy on people.

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NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment

May 4, 2011: Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity.


Researchers confirmed these points at a press conference today at NASA headquarters where they announced the long-awaited results of Gravity Probe B (GP-B).


"The space-time around Earth appears to be distorted just as general relativity predicts," says Stanford University physicist Francis Everitt, principal investigator of the Gravity Probe B mission.


"This is an epic result," adds Clifford Will of Washington University in St. Louis. An expert in Einstein's theories, Will chairs an independent panel of the National Research Council set up by NASA in 1998 to monitor and review the results of Gravity Probe B. "One day," he predicts, "this will be written up in textbooks as one of the classic experiments in the history of physics."


Time and space, according to Einstein's theories of relativity, are woven together, forming a four-dimensional fabric called "space-time." The mass of Earth dimples this fabric, much like a heavy person sitting in the middle of a trampoline. Gravity, says Einstein, is simply the motion of objects following the curvaceous lines of the dimple.

Get the rest from the horse's mouth at this link:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/04may_epic/

Papers please

Incidents like this are, right now, the front line of the battle between tyranny and liberty. Different states have different regulations when it comes to traffic enforcement, but many require that you show a driver license on demand even without probable cause for a traffic stop. Regrettably too, many courts have upheld that these Gestapo-like checkpoints do not violate the Constitution, when clearly they do. In a free country the police should not be able to detain a citizen without a warrant, or at the very least some evidence that the citizen is guilty of a crime.

A video of two young men being arrested at an Escondido sobriety checkpoint in February shows police breaking the window of their car after the driver refuses repeated requests to roll down his window and show his driver's license.

EDITED to add:

The viewer should take note though, that the laws which govern traffic enforcement are different than that of a person simply walking down the street.

On the other hand, sometimes the police resort to tactics like this even against a woman minding her own business inside her own home.

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How to beat a photo-radar ticket in Colorado

The Standoff that Wasn’t Really a Standoff

Over 50 officers, including officers of the South Suburban Emergency Response Team (SSERT), complete with camouflage, armored vehicle, and assault rifles, were involved in a “standoff” with a reportedly suicidal man who turned out not to even be home. The mayor and many residents of Oak Forest Illinois are outraged over the fact that thousands of dollars of taxpayer’s money was wasted on the “standoff”. Unfortunately their outrage is not directed at the police’s complete over reaction, but instead at the man who committed no crime, but still had his home vandalized by the people supposedly sent to “help” him.


The incident began when a concerned friend of Mark Fitch called the police to report that he was suicidal and armed. Oak Forest Chief of Police, Greg Anderson, said “The initial information we’re going off of is a friend who is very concerned about him where he had made suicide allegations that if police came, they would find him dead.” In response to this information more than 50 officers surrounded Fitch’s home and evacuated many of the surrounding homes. The police then attempted to contact Fitch on his home phone, but could not reach him. This was the first indication that he was not home. Eventually, the police contacted Fitch on his cell phone. The police say that he never indicated that he was not in the house, but they have not said whether or not they even asked.


It turns out that Fitch was sitting at a local bar watching the whole thing unfold on the news. Who can blame him for not telling the police, “hey, I am down at Beggar’s Bar” when he can see on T.V. that several heavily armed men and their itchy trigger fingers have come to do what at most should have been a “wellness check”.

Full article at CopBlock.org, you gotta read it, I love their blog...

http://networkedblogs.com/hrHWv

Syrian troops fire on civilians (video)

When power is threatened this is the result. If you think this could never happen here, I have two words for you, Kent State. It will happen again, and I fear that when the pressure valve blows next time, shit like this will be widespread.

This is amateur footage of Syrian troops opening fire on civilians. Sadly, you can gather that many of these people know each other well. I wish I understood what they were saying. Maybe a reader can help with a brief translation if they can stomach to view this.

It is a Facebook video so you will need a Facebook account to view it. But be warned, this video is absolutely horrific in its graphic brutality. I have not seen anything so terrible in a very long time. Most folks have probably never seen anything this bad, I am not fucking kidding, this video is bad. If you have reservations about viewing it, you probably should not.

<<<-WARNING: Extremely graphic and disturbring imagery->>>

Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puo6R_NuQcY

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=110316595720652&oid=196201400416158&comments

A related news article from Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/05/us-syria-idUSLDE73N02P20110505

Full-body searches coming to a mall, church, museum near you

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." ~Fourth Amendment

Jury finds police killed man illegally at G20 summit

A British inquest jury has ruled that a 47-year-old man who died of internal bleeding on the fringes of violent protests against the 2009 G20 summit in London was illegally killed by a police officer. Ian Tomlinson, a homeless newspaper salesman, collapsed and died on the edges of the demonstrations against the G-20 meeting. A pathologist initially ruled that the death was consistent with natural causes, but video showed Tomlinson being shoved to the ground by a riot gear-clad officer. Other pathologists ruled that his death could have been the result of his confrontation with police.

Photos of other dead in Bin Laden raid just released

See the photo album at this link:

((( CAUTION: Some photos in this album are graphic )))

http://www.reuters.com/subjects/bin-laden-compound

No closure for 9/11 victims' families and survivors

This really pisses me off to no end. Since the very first hours after the attacks of September 11, 2001 we have been fed a string of lies, and stonewalled from getting any real answers to very serious questions. And now the whitewash is complete. No body, no photos, and weak promises of "Bin Laden is dead."

Well, he may indeed be dead. But this whole yarn spun straight from the pages of some Tom Clancy novel is a bunch of bullshit. So let's just recap the events of the past few days here to get the facts straight.

Late Sunday night, while most people in America were going to bed, we began to hear rumors that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. Initial reports from "inside White House sources" said that he had been killed in a missile strike about a week earlier, and that the news was delayed so that they could positively identify the remains through DNA analyses.

But when U.S. President Barack Obama came to the podium in the White House to make the official televised announcement, the story was quite a bit different. According to the President, OBL was killed that very day, in a daring raid by commandos. Okay, fine. Maybe some miscommunication in there, maybe a little deliberate obfuscation by the inside sources to cover their own butts for talking to the press. I roll my eyes, but okay, let's give a little benefit of doubt there. But let's have a look now at how the rest of the story has unfolded.

To begin with, the White House has already changed their story a number of times since the President's official announcement. Now we are not talking about leaked insider information being misinterpreted. We are talking about the White House making authoritative statements of fact, and then reversing themselves. The excuse they use is "the fog of war." Bullshit I say. If they didn't "know" they wouldn't have shared the information. They keep slipping up, getting called on it, and have to change their story each time to make it appear believable.

The Raid.

So as I said, it went from a missile strike a week earlier, to a daring commando raid on a compound less than a mile from a prestigious Pakistani military academy. Doesn't say much for Pakistan's ability to protect their borders for one thing. Okay though, let's assume that it was within the capabilities of US elite forces, without any Pakistani clearance, to storm a compound a mile away from their equivalent to our West Point.

As it is being reported now, a forty-man group of operators from CIA SOG, and so-called SEAL Team 6 (who don't even officially exist), flying in two Blackhawk helicopters descended upon the compound in the dark of night. There was a "fierce" firefight, even though, according to their own reports, OBL had no body guards. Several people are reportedly killed, including two couriers, the same couriers it is believed who led them to the compound to start with, and one of OBL's sons. One of OBL's wives is allegedly wounded in the raid as well, and another woman is killed.

The raid culminates with the execution of the alleged terror mastermind himself, Osama Bin Laden, with a precise shot to the forehead, and another in the chest. Initial reports claim that he was armed and that he used his wife as a shield. But as it turns out now, he did not use his wife as a shield, and in fact was not even armed. So what does that really say about our most elite military unit? That they cannot take in an unarmed man alive. A man who should have been taken alive at all costs even if he was armed. Forget about the moral questions of arbitrarily executing an unarmed man, even one so loathed as OBL. But consider the treasure trove of intelligence that was lost by killing him, if in fact he was the terror mastermind he has been made out to be all along.

The dead part of "wanted, dead or alive" is there because we were willing to pay for his remains if someone else killed him. US forces though? US forces should have taken him alive at all costs. It is clear though, that this operation never intended to take him alive at all. This was an assassination mission right from the start. Why? Because we already know everything he knows. We did not need to wrest any information from him. We needed to silence him. And why the "need" to silence him? Well ask yourself this. Why wasn't he wanted for the 9/11 attacks? On his official wanted posted at the FBI, not a single mention of 9/11.

And al-Qaeda? No such thing.

He needed to be brought to justice so that the world would know once and for all that OBL was indeed the terror-chief he has been portrayed as ever since 9/11. That indeed the threat has been real all along, and not staged to further American geo-political agendas, imperialism and war profiteering by the corporations who control the US government.

At some point during the raid one of the helicopters went down due to some mechanical failure. Some reports say that it overheated from hovering for too long in ambient air temps that were too high. So somehow they managed to squeeze 40 men and a dead body into a single helicopter along with a "treasure trove" of computer hardware.

The compound had no internet connection and no telephones, yet contained this supposedly marvelous cache of intelligence data. And nevermind of course, that they had just executed the most important piece of intelligence they could have ever gotten their hands on.

The Body.

Along with the assassination team and the electronics hardware, the body of Osama Bin Laden was loaded onto the Blackhawk helicopter, and brought back to a base in Afghanistan. A base allegedly so modern and well equipped in the middle of the most ferocious war zone in a third world country, that they were able to make a thorough and conclusive DNA identification of the remains, in a matter of a few hours.

Meanwhile, here in New York State, an autopsy alone can take days. The full lab reports in a the recent high-profile murder of teenage girl who's body was dumped in a suburban ballpark took over a month to complete. Yet in the middle of some stone-aged desert town the U.S. managed to get a conclusive, highly technological, complete scientific analyses of the remains of the most wanted criminal in history done in a matter of a few hours. Of course, we had to do this, in order to make sure that we conformed with Islamic custom to bury the body as soon as possible. How convenient.

So we bury the body in the Arabian Sea. Wait what? We go to all this trouble and then just dump his body in the ocean. What ocean? The Arabian Sea. Now, I know most Americans are terrible at geography and if they actually looked at a map they couldn't tell you the difference between Australia and Afghanistan, but here's a big clue folks. They are opposites, Australia is an island, surrounded by ocean. Afghanistan on the other hand, is a land-locked country, surrounded by the land of other coutnries. There is no ocean on any of it's borders.

Abbottabad, the city where this raid is said to have taken place, is on the Northwestern frontier of Pakistan, along their disputed border with India. That city is a thousand miles from any ocean. So we rushed the body from Abbottabad, to some base in Afghanistan, did a rush autopsy, lab work and DNA test, then packed his corpse onto some other aircraft, another helicopter or light transport plane capable of landing on an aircraft carrier over a thousand miles away, to get his body dumped in the ocean in less then 24 hours. The flight times alone for such a journey really stretch the believability if you stop to actually think about this story we are being told.

Okay, so let's assume that the bullshit story of trying to conform to Islamic tradition is true. We really did want to bury him with the dignity of his faith which says it should be done quickly. Why dump him in the ocean? That is actually an affront to his religious dignity. A Muslim who dies on land is supposed to be buried in the land. Now their faith does allow for burial at sea if the person dies at sea and cannot be buried in the land, but that was not the case here. It is also offensive to transport the body. Muslims are supposed to be buried in the land where they died, and are not to be transported. The body is to be washed and shrouded, placed in a Mosque, funeral prayers offered, and then be buried within 24 hours.

Tombstones, elaborate grave markers, and gravesite offerings are discouraged. Which basically shoots down the American excuse that they didn't want his grave to turn into some terrorist shrine. Besides that, there were plenty of other things that could have been done to prevent that. Like bringing the damn body back to the States for one thing. For another, they didn't seem so concerned about what happened to the corpse when they offered to turn over the body to Saudi Arabia, who declined.

Okay, to recap, we went out out of our way and bent over backwards for one tenet of his Islamic faith while ignoring just about all the other funeral traditions, and while ignoring the need for scientific analyses of the remains, to pack his dead ass back onto another helicopter and fly him over a thousand miles, back out across Pakistan by the way, to drop him on a ship and dump his body in the ocean. And that makes sense to people? Why go to all that trouble to dump him in the ocean if they weren't hiding something?

The Photo.

On the night of the announcement, several main stream media outlets began circulating a picture of what was believed to be the body of Osama bin Laden. A fairly gruesome image, that fits the description that the White House is still using. A bullet entry wound just slightly off center in the forehead, with both eyes exploded in their sockets.

That photo was quickly proved to be a fake, and the propaganda machine was pushed back on its heels. Of course, most of us expected to see a photo, and when the first one proved to be a fake, we expected to see the "real" one. Today, President Obama has decided that he will not release an "authentic" photo of the body. And it appears that a bunch of morons out there are just fine with that.

Supposedly, the President does not want to incite unrest, does not want it plastered over front pages and television screens where the children might see it (oh no, not the children), and is basically saying "America doesn't do that, we are better than that." Yea right. Every other time we killed someone, like Saddam's sons, the pics were released. We have always released pictures of the bodies. And even this time we are doing it. We will get to see pics of OBL's son who died in the raid as well as a few other people in the compound. But no pic of the grand prize.

How the FUCK do Americans find this reasonable?

Especially considering all the questions and conspiracy theory swirling about 9/11 still a decade later, this event had to be executed perfectly. to give real closure to the victim's families and survivors of the 9/11 attacks. To leave Americans no doubt whatsoever that Osama bin Laden was dead, and that the whole thing went down the way they said it went down. But nooo, our government couldn't even get that right. You know why don't you?

I mean seriously, are they just trying to prove how fuckin stoopid Americans really are?!

FBI raids wrong place digging for WoW gold?

FBI agents recently raided at an apartment at University Towers in Ann Arbor as they investigate potentially fraudulent sales or purchases of virtual currency that people use to advance in the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft, records show.


No arrests have been made, FBI Special Agent Sandra Berchtold, a bureau spokeswoman in Detroit, said Wednesday.


Berchtold said she could not comment further on the March 30 raid because many documents in the case remain sealed.


The apartment is home to two men, a sophomore and a junior at the University of Michigan. The sophomore, who was there during the raid, told AnnArbor.com that he thinks the FBI has the wrong people and he and his roommate don't play World of Warcraft, known as WOW.

Full article at link:

http://www.annarbor.com/news/crime/fbi-agents-search-university-towers-apartment-during-probe-involving-world-of-warcraft-gamers/

FBI 'patch-over' of San Fran PD

San Francisco cops assigned to the FBI's terrorism task force can ignore local police orders and California privacy laws to spy on people without any evidence of a crime.


That's what a recently released memo appears to say — and it has sent shockwaves through the civil liberties community.


It also has members of the S.F. Police Commission asking why a carefully crafted set of rules on intelligence gathering, approved in the wake of police spy scandals in the 1990s, were bypassed without the knowledge or consent of the commission.


"It's a bombshell," said John Crew, a long-time police practices expert with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.


The ACLU obtained the document April 4 under the California Public Records Act after a long battle. It's a 2007 memorandum of understanding outlining the terms of an agreement between the city and the FBI for San Francisco's participation in the Joint Terrorism Task Force.


And, according to Crew, it effectively puts local officers under the control of the FBI. "That means Police Commission policies do not apply," Crew said. "It allows San Francisco police to circumvent local intelligence-gathering policies and follow more permissive federal rules."


Veena Dubal, a staff attorney at the Asian Law Caucus, agreed: "This MOU confirms our worst fears," she said.

Read the full article at link:

http://www.sfbg.com/2011/04/26/spies-blue

The biggest bomb ever - Tsar Bomba

Land of Confusion

On the record re: Pakistan

I have been saying it since last night that this would be used as a pretext to invade the nuclear-armed Pakistan. I have been saying it in various forums, but I just want to go on the record here today, so if it does indeed happen, I can say "Nya nya told ya so." Call it, vanity I guess, lol.

Teacher shaves for first time since 9/11

EPHRATA, Wash. — A middle school teacher vowed after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that he would not shave his beard until Osama bin Laden was caught.


Gary Weddle kept his word Sunday evening.

Read the full story at link:

http://www.policeone.com/bizarre/articles/3627974-Wash-teacher-shaves-for-first-time-since-9-11/

How much do you trust television news?

Won't get fooled again - When false flags don't fly

Photo of dead Bin-Laden is obvious fake!

To begin with, the photo that is now being broadcast by news networks...

...has actually been being circulated around the internet for over a year. Here is a full screen shot, followed by a zoom of the time/date stamp in the frame...

...That's right. December 8 2010. But wait, it gets better. Not only has the pic been floating around for months, it is also a bad photoshop job of one of his most widely circulated photos...

...Now we flip it...

...And, heeeeere's Mirv...

You can cleary see that the lines on the lover portion of his face are EXACT, despite the fact that he is 15 years older and has been on the run. Think about how different Saddam Hussein looked after a year on the run. You can also see classic photoshop errors such as blurred edges, and non-matching color tones. 

So now the only question really is, how long do we have to wait for the "good" pics to get cranked out of Langley's photoshop?











Oh, and in case you haven't heard, they already dumped his body in the ocean... allegedly anyway.

http://stationsixunderground.blogspot.com/2011/05/obl-to-be-buried-at-sea.html

EDIT to add:

Just found a copy of the original photo...

OBL to be buried at sea

Osama bin-Laden sleeps with the fishes. Wayyy too convenient! And what about the rights of his family? Why should they not be allowed to take custody of his remains?

ABC News' Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) reports: Now that bin Laden has been killed and his body has been positively identified, what is to be done with his remains?


U.S. officials tell me the last thing they want is for his burial place to become a terrorist shrine.


To avoid that, an informed source tells me, the intention is the bury his body at sea -- leaving no definitive location for the final resting place of his body.


A senior administration official tells my colleague Jake Tapper this about the body: "We are ensuring it is handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition. It's something we take seriously and therefore it's being handled in an appropriate manner.‬"


Under Islamic tradition, ABC's Zunaira Zaki reports, the body would be washed by Muslim men and buried as soon as possible, usually by the next prayer (Muslims pray five times a day), although there may be delays under certain circumstances (for autopsies, for example). The body is usually buried in a simple white sheet -- whether buried in the ground, or at sea.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/05/osama-bin-laden-body-headed-for-burial-at-sea-officials-say.html

EDIT to add:

Updates are coming in now that Osama bin-Laden has already been buried at sea according to Muslim customs. 

So now that really does beg the question, how certain could they have been of his identity? DNA testing often takes weeks, even months. Further complicating thorough testing and identification of this magnitude is the possibility that he may have been a Chimera, which is in layman's terms, a person with two separate sets of DNA. Or, of course, just a sibling.

Serious discrepency already emerging on death of OBL

Many sources are reporting that Osama bin-Laden was killed last week, and that the announcement was not made until today in order for DNA testing to confirm the kill.

However, that is not what POTUS said in his speech tonight...

"And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.


Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/02/remarks-president-osama-bin-laden

Photo alleged to be OBL's remains at this link:

http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo27/superjackinthebox/83d34736.jpg

We got him!

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No Tears for Dead Cops

While I can personally feel sad for the death of a particular person who may work as a police officer, I certainly do not grieve the loss of any police officer just because they are a cop. That is the job they do, and the risk they choose to take. And it makes my stomach ill when a person who has chosen to be a professional oppressor is glorified in death. A dead cop is no martyr.

So in that spirit, I have chosen to promo my friend's Facebook page here. Head on over and click him with a "like" if you don't like hypocrisy and tyranny.

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