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Record-Thin Sea Ice Faces Big Predicted Arctic Warm-up This Week
If you’re someone who tends to worry about Arctic sea ice losses, this coming week’s weather forecast looks like a bit of a doozy. And when you consider that the sea ice is both greatly weakened and thinned in a number of the major monitors, prospects don’t look very good, presently, for 2017’s summer melt season as whole.

Abnormal Warmth Over Greenland and Baffin and Hudson Bays

Over the next 48 hours, Baffin and Hudson Bays will experience the tail end of what an extreme warm-up that produced exceptional May surface melt over the Greenland Ice Sheet and then shifted westward.



(An extreme early May warming over Greenland this week produced considerable surface melt well outside the 2 standard deviation range. Today, the warmth has shifted west over Baffin and Hudson Bays. Later this week, a similar strong warm-up is predicted to impact the Pacific side of the Arctic Ocean. Image source: NSIDC.)

Temperatures for Hudson and Central and Southern Baffin, according to GFS model runs, will range above freezing over this time period — hitting as high as the low 40s (F) in Eastern sections of Hudson Bay. Over-ocean readings (which tend to moderate, but not, apparently, in this case) that will range from 5 to 15 degrees Celsius above average. These rather high surface temperatures will help to kick sea ice melt throughout these regions into higher gear.

Pacific Side of Arctic Ocean Predicted to Heat Up

Following the Baffin-Hudson warm-up, a large bulge of much warmer than normal air is predicted to extend northward from a broad region extending from Eastern Siberia through the Bering Sea and Alaska and on into Northwestern Canada. This bulge will, according to GFS model runs, by early next week inject periods of above freezing temperatures over a wide region of the Arctic Ocean that includes the East Siberian Sea, the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea. And by this time next week, these same model runs project that 10-16 C above average temperatures will dominate a large region of the Central Arctic — forcing above-freezing temperatures over a broad cross-section of the North Pole zone by May 17.



(The Arctic is expected to experience nearly 2 C above average temperatures with some regions over the Arctic Ocean hitting 16 C [28 F] above average. These are considerable departures for May when temperatures in the Arctic tend to moderate. So much warmth is likely to have an impact on the already greatly thinned Arctic sea ice. Image source: Global and Regional Climate Anomalies.)

So much early season warmth is likely to further impact an already greatly weakened and thinned veil of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean. A cooling cap that even more conservative scientists estimate could be completely removed during a summer as soon as the early 2030s. But in the worst case scenario, and when considering how thin the ice is now, a nearly ice free summer could happen as soon as this year. Few scientists really want to talk about that now — given the likely controversy that would result. But we shouldn’t entirely ignore that possibility for fear of backlash or criticism. Nor should we ignore how such an event would tend to further distort an already disrupted Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation.

Indicators Show Very Thin Ice

Over recent weeks, sea ice area and extent measures have recovered somewhat as temperatures over the Arctic Ocean have moderated a bit from very warm conditions during October through March. However, a number of indicators including PIOMAS’s sea ice volume measure show that despite this mild surface extent recovery, the ice is very weak and significantly thinned.



(PIOMAS sea ice volume measure shows a considerable record low departure through mid April of 2017. Image source: PIOMAS.)

It’s worth noting that a significant portion of the extent recovery over recent weeks can be attributed to strong winds blowing ice out of the Arctic Ocean and into the Barents Sea as well as out through the Fram Strait. Such conditions are not normally considered to be healthy ones for ice retention through summer as ice in the Barents and Fram tends to melt far more swiftly than ice secured in the Central Arctic. And the Fram itself is often considered to be a graveyard for sea ice.

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Border Patrol agent who sexually assaulted girl sentenced to 2 years in prison

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Deputy remains behind bars on child porn charges


Detectives say they recovered a cell phone and laptop with 30 pictures and videos of child pornography-- some showing children engaged in sex acts with adults.
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Federal Law Enforcement Arrested for Trading in Child Rape


From the US Mint Police to the Amtrack Police, there are far more federal law enforcement agencies than most people realize. At last count, by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2008, there were 73 federal law enforcement agencies employing approximately 120,000 full-time law enforcement officers, 84.5 percent of whom are men, with legal authority to make arrests and carry firearms. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) employed four out of every five federal law enforcement officers.
Because the US government is not keeping statistics on child pornography arrests and prosecutions, in particular of their own employees, to gather comprehensive data on all arrests of federal law enforcement officers is difficult. It would require examining annual Inspector General reports for every agency, filing numerous freedom of information requests, and reading, case by case, through thousands of federal child pornography prosecution documents available on PACER. Without institutional support, I haven’t been able to conduct this kind of necessary research. Instead, I’ve profile only 43 federal law enforcement employees arrested on child pornography related charges. It was noticeably more difficult to locate photographs of federal law enforcement officers than of local and state police or professors.
Department of Justice (DOJ)
In 2015, DOJ released, “The Handling of Sexual Harassment and Misconduct by the Department’s Law Enforcement Components,” detailing cases from 2009–2012 among federal law enforcement agencies under DOJ’s supervision.
The report begins with this disclaimer:
“The OIG’s ability to conduct this review was significantly impacted and delayed by the repeated difficulties we had in obtaining relevant information from both the FBI and DEA…. Initially, the FBI and DEA refused to provide the OIG with unredacted information that was responsive to our requests… despite the fact that the OIG is authorized under the Inspector General Act to receive such information. After months of protracted discussions with management at both agencies, the DEA and FBI provided the information without extensive redactions; but we found that the information was still incomplete. Ultimately, based on a review of information in the OIG Investigations Division databases, we determined that a material number of allegations from both DEA and FBI were not included in the original responses to our request for the information. We were also concerned by an apparent decision by DEA to withhold information regarding a particular open misconduct case. The OIG was not given access to this case file information until several months after our request, and only after the misconduct case was closed. Once we became aware of the information, we interviewed DEA employees who said that they were given the impression that they were not to discuss this case with the OIG while the case remained open. The OIG was entitled to receive all such information from the outset, and the failure to provide it unnecessarily delayed our work. Therefore, we cannot be completely confident that the FBI and DEA provided us with all information relevant to this review. As a result, our report reflects the findings and conclusions we reached based on the information made available to us.”
DOJ supervises the United States Marshals Service (USMS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Arrests of federal law enforcement under DOJ’s supervision, on child pornography related charges, include:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
John Kenoyer, the late former FBI Bureau Chief in Augusta, Maine was

John Kenoyer
indicted, March 1986, on child sex abuse charges. Kenoyer had been raping, his children’s ten year old babysitter for over a year. He broke bond and went into hiding after his indictment. Kenoyer was located February 1987, and pleaded guilty to nine charges in June 1987 and was sentenced, September 1987, to nine months in jail followed by two years of house arrest. Kenoyer requested, and was approved by Maine Judge Donald Alexander, to spend his house arrest at Villa Apartments in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho; a complex with a swimming pool, jacuzzi and tennis court. Idaho; however, refused to accept Maine’s sex offender.
Keith Dietterle, a 28 year old FBI Analyst, was arrested, 23 November 2012,

Keith Dietterle
on child pornography charges. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced, 11 September 2013, to more than three years in prison. Dietterle was caught when he sent child sex abuse images/videos to an undercover Washington DC Metro Police (MPD). The MPD officer was posing as a man sexually abusing his 3 year old nephew and 12 year old daughter. Dietterle described the rape of the children as “So hot man … how’d it start?” and discussed meeting the detective to abuse the three year old boy. Upon his arrest, the FBI terminated Dietterle’s employment. Dietterle is a registered sex offender.
Brian Haller, a 40 year old cyber-security expert contractor with the FBI,

Brian Haller
was arrested, 13 April 2015, on child pornography charges. He was sentenced, 8 April 2016, to two days and one night in jail followed by ten years of supervised release.
Haller was caught in the FBI’s bust of a child rape website called PlayPen. At the time of his arrest he had over 600 files of child sex abuse. His on-line name was “jb” short for “jailbait.” Haller told investigators he liked to watch the abuse of children 12 to 14 years old and also younger children, including a 40-minute video in his possession showing the sexual abuse of an 11 year old girl. Haller was lead for the Seattle, Washington FBI/private-sector cyber-security group. He had access to a secure FBI on-line platform and email system.
Donald Sachtleben, a 54 year old former FBI Agent was arrested, 14 May

Donald Sachtleben
2012, and charged on child pornography charges. He pleaded guilty to distribution and possession and was sentenced, 14 November 2013, to eight years in prison. He was also sentenced to charges of disclosing and possessing classified information. At the time of his arrest, Sachtleben was Director of Training at the Center for Improvised Explosives at Oklahoma State University. He was employed with the FBI from 1983 to 2008, as a bomb technician and counter-terrorism investigator. Sachtleben had been using the handle pedodave69@yahoo.com when he was caught sending images of child sex abuse. He wrote, “Saw your profile on (a file sharing network). Hope you like these and can send me some of ours (sic). I have even better ones if you like.”
Samuel Kaplan, a 64 year old FBI information technology program manager, was arrested and pleaded guilty, 3 June 2010, to child pornography possession. Kaplan was sentenced, 27 August 2010, to just under four years in jail followed by 15 years of supervised release. Kaplan worked in the FBI’s Chantilly, Virginia office and used “the FBI’s network to facilitate sexually explicit communications.” He was also trading in child rape from his home computer.
Michael Peluso, a 44 year old FBI Civilian Analyst with an undercover unit in

Critical Incident Response Group, was arrested, 9 January 2015, on child pornography charges. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced, 27 May 2016, to no jail time and supervised parole for life.
Peluso was caught trading child rape on-line by an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Taskforce investigation.
United States Marshals Service (USMS)
Christopher W. McKee, a 37 year old intelligence analyst with the US

Christopher McKee
Marshals, was arrested on three counts of child pornography. McKee pleaded guilty, April 2013, and was sentenced, 15 August 2013, to five years probation with no jail time. McKee maintained a collection of child sex abuse on CDs labelled “teens” and “teen sluts” in his Arlington, Virginia office and also

Christopher McKee’s Statement of Facts
traded in child rape from his government computer. He had downloaded thousands of images/video of child sex abuse. The US Marshals allowed him to resign. McKee is a registered sex offender.
Michael D. Rivera, a 29 year old Deputy US Marshal, was arrested on more than 20 charges including child pornography charges. He pleaded guilty,

Michael Rivera
20 January 2017. In February 2017, he was convicted, in North Dakota state court, of ten misdemeanors and cleared of 11 other charges. Rivera is being held in custody, pending sentencing, currently set in the state case for 13 June 2017, and 17 May 2017, for the federal charges. Rivera was caught for trading in child rape when he was discovered pushing his cell phone under dressing rooms in clothing store changing rooms where

Michael Rivera’s Plea Agreement
women and girls were undressing. Twenty-one girls and women were victims. When investigators searched Rivera’s home they found a laptop with sexual abuse of children as young as six years old. The US Marshal placed Rivera on unpaid suspension after his arrest.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Matthew Barnes, a 34 year old DEA Agent, was arrested, March 2012, on

Matthew Barnes’ Plea Agreement
child pornography charges. He pleaded guilty, June 2015, and was sentenced, August 2015, to just over 5 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release. Barnes was using his government computer to trade in child rape. Barnes was also a member of the Missouri National Guard. Barnes must register as a sex offender.
Darren Argento, a 47 year old, DEA Agent, was arrested, August 2010, for

Darren Argento
child pornography possession and distribution. He was sentenced, 17 August 2011, to 7 months in jail followed by five months of supervised release. At the time of his arrest, Argento had over 73,000 images and over 723 videos of child rape, including of children as young as seven years old. He was caught when he brought his personal laptop, filled with child rape, to the DEA office and asked an IT employee for help backing up files. The IT expert reported the child pornography. Argento is listed as a registered sex offender.
James Patrick Burke, a 39 year old DEA Agent, was arrested, 14 August 2015, on child pornography charges. He pleaded guilty, 2 June 2016, and was sentenced, 6 April 2017, to seven years in jail followed by 15 years of supervised release. At the time of his arrest, Burke had over 2,760 images/videos of the rape and torture of children, including infants and toddlers and children being raped when bound and gagged. Burke must register as a sex offender.
Scott Whitcomb, a 48 year old DEA Agent, was arrested, December 2011,

Scott Whitcomb
on child pornography production charges. He was sentenced, July 2011, to 25 years in jail. Whitcomb had been producing and distributing sex abuse of boys under sixteen years old since 2007. He lured boys to his house with video games and pornography magazines and then, often violently, sexually abused the boys. He had been an Air Marshal, a police officer and a prison guard before joining the DEA.
Department of Homeland Security
Homeland has refused to maintain, and make public, records of employee misconduct. No one knows how many Homeland Security employees have been arrested on child pornography charges. In response to Senator Grassley’s constant requests for information, Homeland’s Inspect General, in 2014, reported that five employees under Homeland’s supervision had been arrested between 1 April 2014–30 September 2014. That information, without any details of the arrests, is listed here.
The following agencies are under the supervision of Homeland Security: Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Coast Guard (USCG), Secret Service (SS), and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Samples of child pornography related arrests include:


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Former FBI agent arrested on child pornography charges
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - Federal investigators have arrested 54-year-old Donald Sachtleben, an Oklahoma State University visiting professor with an FBI career spanning 25 years, for child pornography charges.

Investigators said they were led to Sachtleben last fall when they found a computer of an Illinois man who was arrested for trading child porn. Data from that computer were traced back to Sachtleben, who allegedly had 30 images and video files of child pornography.

His attorney, Kathleen Sweeney, told The Associated Press that a not guilty plea was entered Monday. According to his LinkedIn profile, Sachtleben served as a bomb technician for the FBI between 1983 and 2008. Sweeney said he was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing and Unabomber investigations. He had a distinguished career with no suggestion of any inappropriate behavior.

Sachtleben is jailed and awaiting a hearing on Thursday. If convicted, he could face up to 30 years in prison for possessing and distributing child pornography.

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Pacific Northwest threatened by hottest weather ever recorded; Seattle could hit 100
By Jason Samenow August 2 at 4:19 PM


Excessive heat warnings blanket the western third of Northern California, Oregon and Washington state. High temperatures just inland from coastal locations are forecast to soar to between 100 and 110 degrees.

“We are talking about one of the major sustained heat waves in a long time around here,” writes Cliff Mass, professor of meteorology at the University of Washington. He said that “there is a lot of confidence” temperatures will at least reach the mid-90s in Seattle and notes the GFS model projects a high of 100 on Thursday — a reading he can’t “remember ever seeing”.





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Mistrial declared for Long Island cops accused of shoving bullet in man’s rectum


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NAACP issues travel advisory for Missouri in wake of police brutality incidents, passage of ‘Jim Cr

Wednesday, August 2, 2017, 8:18 AM


The NAACP has adopted a travel advisory for Missouri, the first of its kind issued in the organization’s 108-year history.

The warning to travelers comes after several high-profile police brutality assaults on black residents in the last few years as well as a new “Jim Crow Bill” that makes it harder to sue for discrimination.

“The advisory is for people to be aware, and warn their families and friends and co-workers of what could happen in Missouri,” Rod Chapel, president of the Missouri NAACP, told the Kansas City Star. “People need to be ready, whether it’s bringing bail money with them, or letting relatives know they are traveling through the state.”

Chapel’s state chapter first issued the advisory in early June, and the national organization adopted it last week. The advisory will be ratified in October.

Missouri inmate sexually, physically abuses cellmate for days
Advisories typically come from the State Department and warn about visiting other countries with unsettled political conditions or health hazards.

But the Missouri NAACP crafted its warning in part because of recent incidents that included racist statements to University of Missouri students, a hot glue gun attack on black teens in St. Louis and the May death of Tory Sanders.

Sanders, 28, suffered from depression and lived in Nashville when he went for a drive on May 5, the Riverfront Times reported at the time. A wrong turn landed him in Mississippi County in southeast Missouri, where the married father of eight ran out of gas.



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SEE IT: MTA cop repeatedly punches drunken man in the face during rough Midtown arrest
BY THOMAS TRACY
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Video shows a second group of Baltimore cops allegedly planting evidence in drug bust



Tuesday, August 1, 2017, 7:37 PM




bodycam video showing a second group of Baltimore cops apparently planting evidence has been uncovered, the Maryland public defender’s office announced Monday.

The video shows seven officers “working together to manufacture evidence,” according to The Baltimore Sun.

Police said the video includes “two arrests and the recovery of drugs from a car during a traffic stop.”

The footage released by the public’s defender’s office and obtained by ABC News shows the officers searching through the driver’s car before turning their body cameras off and on. An officer allegedly plants something in the car, and then the others discover the drugs, the video shows.

SEE IT: Baltimore cop suspended after 'drug planting' footage
Charges against the driver in the November arrest were dropped, according to the network.

The same office released a video last month depicting an officer apparently planting drugs in an alley filled with trash. Officer Richard Pinheiro was suspended as a result, and two other cops, Hovhannes Simonyan and Jamal Brunson, were placed on administrative duty.



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Tennessee bride arrested for pulling gun out of wedding dress, pointing it at new husband

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Disgraced Staten Island FBI agent /Congressman Michael Grimm wants his job back after going to prison for tax fraud
BY JILLIAN JORGENSEN

Grimm represented Staten Island and a part of Brooklyn as a Republican from 2011 to 2015. In 2014, the feds indicted the pol, once an FBI agent, on multiple charges.

He won reelection — despite being under indictment — before he gave up his seat after pleading guilty.

Grimm copped to helping prepare a false tax return.

When he pleaded guilty, he admitted to concealing more than $900,000 in receipts from Healthalicious, a Manhattan restaurant he owned.

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Missouri set to execute man despite claims DNA proves innocence
BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, August 22, 2017, 2:10 PM


I just called the Governors office
you do know what to do?

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Second video shows California cop getting punched by man moments before he shoots him (WARNING: GRAPHIC)





Pentagon defies Trump order to halt climate change actions
Defying Trump, Pentagon Moves To Protect Bases From Climate Change

DeSmogBlog, Sept. 18, 2017

The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to protect its bases and operations from rising seas and other impacts of climate change, despite an order by President Trump to halt climate planning.

On March 28th, 2017, President trump issued an executive order that rescinded all climate change actions within federal agencies.

These actions had been mandated by a rule from the former Obama administration that required federal agencies to take the necessary steps to protect their respective agencies from climate threats. The original Obama order required military bases to factor climate change into their planning operations for expansions, existing structures, and future developments.

President Trump signed the March 28th executive order while flanked on either side by coal miners and fossil fuel executives, where he proudly proclaimed to the miners that this order meant that they would be “going back to work,” as reported by The New York Times. However, in spite of his promise, the coal industry has continued on a steady decline even after the rescinded climate protections.

Even though the executive order issued by Trump in March put an end to the requirement that government agencies plan for climate impacts, the Pentagon is still moving forward with plans to protect its military installations in the United States from the growing threat.

As The Military Times points out, the Obama administration order on climate change required the Department of Defense to draft what came to be known as a climate change roadmap in 2014. In 2016, the DoD issued directive 4715.21 which required military bases to begin factoring climate change threats into their planning as a way to preserve bases if catastrophic events like floods or severe storms were to pose an imminent threat.

The Military Times has more:
“…the 2014 roadmap was invalidated by Trump’s March 28 executive order, the Pentagon said. It is also now reviewing directive 4715.21, “to determine if it should be suspended, revised, or rescinded,” Pentagon spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Evans said.”
While directive 4715.21 is being reviewed, the Pentagon has instructed all branches to treat the directive as if it is still in place, meaning that military bases are still doing what they can to prepare themselves for the threat of climate catastrophes. The military is also trying to get around Trump’s executive order by excluding the mention of “climate change” as they work on flood mitigation, drought, and storm plans for their bases.

Regardless of which political party is in power, the United States military has long been at the forefront of climate awareness. As far back as 1965, scientists and advisors began warning then-President Lyndon Johnson about the threat of rising carbon pollution. Unearthed memos from both the Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. administrations show that military leaders were concerned about the threat that climate change posed to the United States, a sentiment that was echoed by the Pentagon during the George W. Bush administration.

The fact that the military has long considered climate change a threat gives hope that we may someday move beyond the politically squabbling over science and move into an era where those in power take the threats seriously and work together to stop looming catastrophes from becoming realities.

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Players kneel during the national anthem following Trump's comments

Though they're usually competing against one another, NFL players came together on Sept. 24, 2017 following President Donald Trump's harsh comments against those who kneel during the national anthem. "Would you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag say, 'Get that son of a b---- off the field right now. Out, you're fired!" Trump said on Sept. 22, 2017. Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem last year as a way of peacefully protesting police brutality against African Americans.



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The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science
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Six people shot at Tennessee church
BY DAVID BOROFF
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Sunday, September 24, 2017, 1:09 PM



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Ocean heating provides quickest way to detect warming
It takes just 4 years to detect human warming of the oceans

New paper illustrates the rapid, consistent warming of Earth’s oceans
The Guardian (U.K.), Sept. 20, 2017

We’ve known for decades that the Earth is warming, but a key question is, how fast? Another key question is whether the warming is primarily caused by human activities. If we can more precisely measure the rate of warming and the natural component, it would be useful for decision makers, legislators, and others to help us adapt and cope. Indeed, added ocean heat content underlies the potential for dangerous intense hurricanes.

An answer to the “how fast?” question was partly answered in an opinion piece just published on Eos.org, the daily online Earth and space science news site, by scientists from China, Europe and the United States. I was fortunate enough to be part of the research team.

To measure how fast the globe is warming, we focused on the extra heat that is being trapped in the climate. The key to measuring the extra heat is by comparing the incoming and outgoing energy – just like you watch your bank account, keeping track of income and expenses to tell whether your bank balance will increase or not.

Okay so how do we measure these incoming and outgoing flows? In our view, the best way is in the oceans. We know that the oceans absorb almost all of the excess heat – so, perhaps we can detect energy increases in ocean waters?

Measuring the oceans is challenging. They are vast and they are deep – measurements can be noisy. Detecting a long-term trend (a signal) within the noise can be a challenge. But this challenge is exactly what we focused on. We wanted to know how large the signal-to-noise ratio is for ocean heat measurements because this would tell us how many years of data are needed to detect warming. Can we detect global warming with one year of measurements? With a decade? Or do we need multiple decades of measurements to be sure the climate is changing?

Our work shows that scientists need less than 4 years of ocean heat measurements to detect a warming signal. This is much shorter than the nearly three decades of measurements that would be required to detect global warming if we were to use temperatures of air near the Earth’s surface. It is also slightly better than the nearly 5 years of sea level rise data that are needed for detecting a long-term trend. This means that the warming is not natural, but rather stems from the human-induced climate change, primarily from increases in heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.

This finding should help change the way we talk about global warming. Normally scientists and the public wait for the official annual “global temperatures” to be released (every January or February) by major research groups like Nasa, Noaa, and the Hadley Centre in the UK. Avid consumers of global warming news often use these air temperatures to “prove” or “disprove” global warming. If it was hot last year, “its global warming!” If last year was cool, “global warming is over!”

But the year-to-year fluctuations of air temperatures are predominantly associated with El Niño and weather variability and mislead those who use any one year as climate-change proof. We saw the impact of fluctuations over the past two decades where a slowing of the rise of global surface temperatures led to false claims that global warming had “stopped” or that there was a “hiatus.” No such cessation occurred for ocean heat content.

Hence global ocean heat content data isn’t so noisy. It represents the total thermal energy in the ocean waters, and is now known with a high degree of certainty (see the figure below), in part because scientists have improved ocean temperature sensing methods and increased the number of sensors throughout the ocean waters.

According to our analysis, the top 10 warmest years of ocean heat content are all in the most recent decade (following 2006) with last two years being the hottest. The heat storage in the ocean corresponds to 3×1023 Joules (a 3 with twenty-three zeroes after it) since 1960. Prior to the 1980s, values are not as well known, and the global record is unreliable prior to about 1960.

In the most recent 25 years, the Earth has gained approximately 0.7 Watts for every square meter of surface area. That may not sound like much but think about how many square meters are required to cover the surface of the Earth. To put these numbers in perspective, the heat increase in the oceans since 1992 is about 2000 times the total net generation of electricity in the USA in the past decade.

We believe, and argue, that ocean heat content is the key to quantifying how fast the climate is changing, and it has important implications for regional patterns of climate. According to Trenberth:

A key reason for the exceptionally active Atlantic hurricane season this year is because of the regional build-up of ocean heat along with its global warming component that fuels hurricanes.

“Ocean Heat Content” should become a standard metric not only for measuring climate change but for testing our computer models that are used to predict the future climate.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... the-oceans




http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editoria ... story.html

Opinion Editorial
Editorial Life in prison? Interrogation without a lawyer? Kids aren't little adults. Stop treating them that way




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Bill O'Reilly plays to thousands of empty seats in Baltimore
BY DAVID ZURAWIK
BALTIMORE SUN Sunday, September 24, 2017, 5:49 PM



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Louisiana restaurant doesn’t show Saints game because of national anthem protests
BY NICHOLAS PARCO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Sunday, September 24, 2017, 3:12 PM

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How a network of citizen-spies foiled Nazi plots to exterminate Jews in 1930s L.A.




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Sen. Bob Corker calls White House ‘an adult day care center’ in Trump Twitter feud
BY JASON SILVERSTEIN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, October 8, 2017, 11:56 AM





https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... semantics/

What we talk about when we talk about talking: The CIA’s guide to semantics
The Agency’s required reading on communication skills came from an aluminum company
Written by Beryl Lipton
Edited by JPat Brown
During what would be the last month of his short-lived tenure as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), William Raborn distributed to his employees copies of a publication he believed had “important and useful things to say about problems in communication.”






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Houston student kicked out of her high school for sitting during Pledge of Allegiance
BY DAVID BOROFF
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, October 7, 2017, 5:50 PM




http://www.latimes.com/local/california ... story.html

A prison newsroom mourns
its former editor in chief,
recently released and then
killed in a crash
By ESMERALDA BERMUDEZ | REPORTING FROM SAN QUENTIN

OCT 8, 2017
Jorge Heredia, an inmate, left, and Jesse Estrin, a facilitator, right, comfort one another during an emotional meeting, mourning the loss of Arnulfo Garcia at San Quentin State Prison. Christina House / Los Angeles Times
Down past the prison yard, where blue lilies grow near a fence topped with barbed wire, the men who manage one of the nation's only inmate-run newspapers were mourning.



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Three shootings in three years, and officer wins back job
Theresa Vargas and Kimbriell Kelly, The Washington Post Published 5:12 pm, Saturday, October 7, 2017





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Former FBI analyst announces bid for Congress in NE Minn.
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https://theintercept.com/2017/10/08/the ... osa-parks/

THE SANITIZING OF MARTIN LUTHER KING AND ROSA PARKS
Jeremy Scahill
October 8 2017, 10:19 a.m.

A lot of the debate around black NFL players kneeling to protest police killings and racism seems to take place in a historical vacuum. The history of athletes and protest is seldom mentioned and, what’s worse, the reason why Colin Kaepernick and his comrades began protesting during the national anthem has been drowned out in the shouting. On #MAGA twitter, flooded in recent weeks with angry mobs calling for a boycott of the NFL, various images have been making the rounds depicting Martin Luther King Jr. with his hand over his heart in respect for the American flag. One photo was accompanied by a message saying MLK “didn’t take the knee in protest of the flag or the anthem, he took the knee in prayer to God.” It was followed by the hashtag #BoycottNFL.

Invoking King’s name on the right is nothing new — ahistorical versions of King have been used to defend gun ownership, racial discrimination, and the Republican Party. In this current climate surrounding the NFL protests, King has once again been transformed into a malleable symbol for rampant deployment by people trying to tell protesters and black people today to shut up. One of the biggest problems with all of this is that it is based on complete fiction and total ignorance of who King actually was and what he actually believed. It is also particularly vile when used to try to suppress protest against police killings.

The same pattern applies to Rosa Parks and her civil disobedience against segregation on public buses. It applies to the civil rights movement in general. Caricatures have been created after being sanitized, historically revised, and made palatable for mass consumption and abuse by crass politicians. It is these sanitized versions that are made into statues, given national holidays, and may one day end up on U.S. currency.

An important and groundbreaking new book coming out in January digs deep into this manufactured mythology surrounding King, Parks, and other figures and movements. It is called “A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History.” Its author is Jeanne Theoharis, a distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College in New York. Her previous book, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” won an NAACP image award and other accolades. Theoharis joined us last week on Intercepted. Below is a transcript of the entire, unedited interview.





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Cops in Florida killed a woman after an apparent hit-and-run crash where she knocked a police officer to the ground while trying to escape.






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Englewood officer found guilty of falsifying deadly traffic crash report
She’s sentenced to 50 hours of community service
By KIERAN NICHOLSON | knicholson@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
October 6, 2017 at 4:57 pm
A former Englewood police officer was found guilty by an Arapahoe County jury on Friday of falsifying a report in a traffic crash, which later became fatal.




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Worried About Trump’s Mental Stability? The Worst Is Yet to Come.
Mehdi Hasan
October 7 2017, 9:12 a.m.





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Seattle City Light has paid $7.8M to off-duty cops in ‘unusual relationship’
Originally published October 8, 2017 at 6:00 am







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Man jailed for mishandling secrets: Hillary deserves lockup
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Russian-Jewish Businessmen Sue After Being Named In Spy’s ‘Trump Dossier’
October 8, 2017 By Reuters


Russian billionaires and businessmen Mikhail Fridman (L) and Petr Aven attend the plenary session of the Congress of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Trump’s campaign and associates, sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters.

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Congress is dropping the ball on Trump's obstruction of justice
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If Toyota and Mazda make electric cars together, where's Subaru?




Oct 6, 2017


At the end of September, Toyota and Mazda announced they would form a joint venture with parts maker Denso to design, test, and build components for a shared electric-car platform.

Earlier interviews with Mazda indicate that the small Japanese maker will create its first all-electric model for volume production by putting a unique body on top of those underpinnings, also used by Toyota.

On reflection, though, that rather begged the question: what about Subaru?


http://www.greencarreports.com/news/111 ... -u-s-plans


Nissan e-NV200 electric van gets longer-range battery; still no U.S. plans

Oct 5, 2017


Nissan Europe said it is rated at up to 280 km (174 miles) on the NEDC test cycle, though a comparable U.S. EPA figure would likely be 120 to 140 miles.

The 2018 Leaf, which is considerably more aerodynamic than the upright e-NV200 van, is rated by the EPA at 140 miles from its 40-kwh battery.

A longer-range Leaf with a 60-kwh battery and range of more than 200 miles will go on sale at a higher price as a 2019 model in the U.S.



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Penguin disaster as just two chicks survive from colony of 40,000
‘Catastrophic breeding event’ leads to demands for a marine protected area to be set up in East Antarctica



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The First Frost is Coming Later



Published: October 11th, 2017

Coming off of a warm September, warmer falls are becoming a trend across the U.S., with the first freeze (temperature below 32°F) of the season arriving later than before. This trend is not limited to one area of the country. The first freeze is coming a full month (31 days) later in Boise, Idaho, 27 days later in Las Vegas, Nevada, and 24 days later in Tupelo, Mississippi.








Lawsuit: Department made police officers target minorities





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Lawsuit: Department made police officers target minorities



HOBBS, N.M.

A New Mexico police department forced officers to target people of color in minority neighborhoods to make quotas, retaliated against those who complained and subjected black officers to humiliating episodes of discrimination, according to a lawsuit by three former police officers.

Lawyers for the one white and two black plaintiffs recently filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging racial discrimination and retaliation within the Hobbs Police Department.




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Madison policeman sentenced to 35 years in prison for sexually abusing children

Updated on October 11, 2017 at 11:51 AM Posted on October 11, 2017
A former Madison policeman was sentenced this morning to spend 35 years in prison and a lifetime on the sex offender registry for molesting child relatives.


William "Woody" Watson, a 59-year-old former cop, was convicted in Limestone County earlier this year of multiple counts of sexual abuse. He was sentenced today by Circuit Judge Robert Baker.

"We are very pleased with the outcome of this sentencing," said District Attorney Brian Jones. "We think it send a clear message that we will not tolerate this kind of behavior in Limestone County.

"We also hope it gives the victims closure and helps them to move on with the rest of their lives," Jones continued.

At trial, testimony showed Watson has sexually abused several family members when they were children, according to prosecutors.

"It was like he thought because he clothed and put a roof over their heads that he could do whatever he wanted," Jones said. Another family member revealed sexual abuse by Watson while on the witness stand.

The judge also declared Watson to be a sexually violent predator, meaning he will face additional penalties after being released from prison, including probation and GPS monitoring for at least 10 years.

Watson initially was arrested in August 2012 when the Limestone County Sheriff's Office was notified of abuse allegations. Watson was indicted on 17 charges the following year. The charges included sexual abuse of a child younger than 12 and abuse of a child between 12 and 16 years old.







https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/us/s ... v=top-news

Courts Sidestep
the Law, and
South Carolina’s
Poor Go to Jail
One homeless man has been
arrested or cited 270 times on the
same charge, trespassing. He has
never been represented by a lawyer.

Oct. 12, 2017


SUMTER, S.C. — Larry Marsh has a history of mental illness and drug addiction. Homeless, he has no place to go. The police in this city have arrested or cited him more than 270 times for trespassing. In December, they got him four times in one day.

For this misdemeanor offense, Mr. Marsh, 58, has repeatedly served time in jail, and was even sent to prison. Not once has he had a lawyer.

Being represented by a lawyer is a fundamental right, enshrined in the Sixth Amendment and affirmed by the Supreme Court, which has ruled that anyone facing imprisonment, even for a minor offense, is entitled to legal counsel. But the promise has been a fragile one, with repeated complaints that people without means are stuck with lawyers who are incompetent, underfunded or grossly overworked.

In municipal courts that handle low-level crimes, poor defendants can face a worse problem: no lawyer at all. Recent reports detail a failure to provide lawyers in Nashville and Miami-Dade courtrooms, and in 2015, Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, held hearings on the issue, saying the right to a lawyer was frequently ignored in misdemeanor cases.

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In Mr. Marsh’s case, lack of legal assistance contributes to a senseless churn through the criminal justice system at great taxpayer expense. In July, a few hours after being released from prison, he was arrested and sentenced to another month in jail. He is due in court again on Thursday afternoon.

Defendants in such cases are typically offered a choice between a $250 fine, which Mr. Marsh cannot afford, or 30 days in jail. Jailing Mr. Marsh costs the city $1,650 a month.

He is arrested so often, he says, because as soon as he is spotted by employees of Sumter’s businesses — the post office, fast-food restaurants and convenience stores — they call the police.

Police Chief Russell F. Roark III said his officers had little choice but to arrest Mr. Marsh.

“He scares customers, so we have to intervene,” Chief Roark said. “But we attempt to do other things than make arrests,” like issuing tickets.

A lawyer could go beyond Mr. Marsh’s guilt or innocence, by pressing for solutions like treatment instead of jail.

Mr. Marsh, who suffered a head injury as a teenager, has no one else to look out for him. He has long been out of touch with family members and says he has no friends.

His disability payments are disrupted every time he goes to jail, leaving him penniless on release. He is at the mercy of the South Carolina municipal courts, an idiosyncratic system in which police officers serve as prosecutors, judges are not required to have college degrees, and public defenders are often absent.

Tess Borden, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, said 139 of the state’s 212 municipal courts have no public defenders available.

The A.C.L.U.’s Criminal Law Reform Project filed a federal class-action lawsuit on Thursday against the city of Beaufort and the town of Bluffton, saying they are violating defendants’ rights. They hope for a ruling that sets a statewide precedent that all jurisdictions must provide lawyers.

Municipal courts, which handle traffic violations and other low-level crimes, are optional for South Carolina cities, which can choose to rely on state courts to hear the cases. They can be lucrative: the state’s 212 municipal courts collect some $20 million a year in fines and fees. Last year there was nearly one municipal case for every nine adult residents.

“Under South Carolina law, municipalities that choose to establish their own courts have a duty to fund public defense,” Ms. Borden said. “Yet the majority of cities and towns flout this obligation, prosecuting poor people without spending a dime on their defense. The result is a grossly unconstitutional system in which lawyers are luxuries available only to those who can afford them.”

It is not clear what entity has the ultimate authority for the state’s municipal courts. Tonnya K. Kohn, administrator for the state Office of Court Administration, said that her office played no role in oversight of municipal courts and that the State Supreme Court was responsible.

But Daniel E. Shearouse, the Supreme Court’s clerk, said Wednesday that the Office of Court Administration — and not the Supreme Court — oversaw municipal court activities. Both Ms. Kohn and Mr. Shearouse declined to comment about defendants not being informed of their Constitutional rights.

In Beaufort, officials did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday, but in an email statement, Debbie Szpanka, a spokeswoman for Bluffton, said: “Bluffton municipal judges inform defendants who appear before the bench that he/she has a right to counsel and if he/she is unable to afford to hire a lawyer that a lawyer will be appointed.”

In the Sumter courtroom where Mr. Marsh has been found guilty dozens of times, judges on a recent day spent minutes on all but a few of the 85 cases involving traffic violations, disturbing the peace, or shoplifting.

Not a single defendant had a lawyer. Police officers, reading from arrest reports, acted as prosecutors and witnesses.




Man wielding hunk of wood shot by Southern California police



https://apnews.com/2331b945396a4517b115b5540a7f3c61


SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Southern California authorities say police shot a man who confronted them with a large piece of wood after he fled from a hospital where he’d been detained on a mental health issue






https://durangoherald.com/articles/1884 ... osession=1

Pressure mounts for Vegas police to explain response time


Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017 10:19 AM

Investigators work among thousands of personal items at a festival grounds across the street from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Friends and relatives of the victims and other concert-goers who survived returned Monday to reclaim baby strollers, shoes, phones, backpacks and purses left behind in the panic as they fled, at a Family Assistance Center at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, left, with Aaron C. Rouse, special agent in charge for the FBI in Nevada, discusses the Route 91 Harvest festival mass shooting at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Las Vegas, Monday. Law enforcement authorities on Monday made a significant change to the timeline of the mass shooting, saying the gunman shot a hotel security guard before he opened fire on concertgoers.


Flowers, candles and other items surround the famous Las Vegas sign at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting Monday in Las Vegas. Stephen Paddock opened fire on an outdoor country music concert killing dozens and injuring hundreds.


Investigators work among thousands of personal items at a festival grounds across the street from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Friends and relatives of the victims and other concert-goers who survived returned Monday to reclaim baby strollers, shoes, phones, backpacks and purses left behind in the panic as they fled, at a Family Assistance Center at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo, left, with Aaron C. Rouse, special agent in charge for the FBI in Nevada, discusses the Route 91 Harvest festival mass shooting at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Las Vegas, Monday. Law enforcement authorities on Monday made a significant change to the timeline of the mass shooting, saying the gunman shot a hotel security guard before he opened fire on concertgoers.
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Pressure mounted Wednesday for Las Vegas police to explain how quickly they reacted to what would become the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history after two hotel employees reported a gunman spraying a hallway with bullets six minutes before he opened fire on a crowd at a musical performance.

On Monday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo revised the chronology of the shooting and said the gunman, Stephen Paddock, had shot a hotel security guard through the door of his suite and strafed a hallway of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino with 200 rounds six minutes before he unleashed a barrage of bullets into the crowd.

That account differed dramatically from the one police gave last week when they said Paddock ended his hail of fire on the crowd in order to shoot through his door and wound the unarmed guard, Jesus Campos.







https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... stigation/

Veteran Seattle police detective fired in strip-club investigation
Originally published October 11, 2017 at 4:45 pm Updated October 11, 2017 at 4:55 pm



A veteran Seattle police detective has been fired over misconduct findings arising from an undercover operation at the Dancing Bare strip club, including admissions of cocaine use and providing marijuana-infused chocolates to a fellow officer.

Philip Wall, 51, was linked during the investigation to the fellow officer, Robert Marlow, who resigned from the Police Department earlier this year after pleading guilty to solicitation to possess the drug MDMA, also known as Ecstasy, and computer trespassing.


Through his entanglement with Marlow and Marlow’s girlfriend, a stripper at the North Seattle club, Wall admitted during an initial internal investigation to using cocaine with them on multiple occasions, according to a disciplinary-action report obtained Wednesday by The Seattle Times under a public-disclosure request.



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Texas inmates use commissary funds to donate more than $50,000 to Harvey victims


BY MINYVONNE BURKE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, October 12, 2017, 9:37 AM



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Manhattan judges caught in fiery exchange of expletives in packed courtroom
BY ELLEN MOYNIHAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, October 12, 2017, 1:01 AM





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Crowd drowns out St. Louis mayor at discussion on police policies
By Ashley Lisenby St. Louis Post-Dispatch






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Sheriff wonders who will wash cars as Louisiana undergoes prison reform


BY CASSIDY GROM
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, October 12, 2017, 1:14 PM



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Ex-deputy convicted of killing other officers dies in prison

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COINTELPRO 'Deja Vu': FBI Says 'Black Identity Extremists' a Major Threat
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A leaked Federal Bureau of Investigation document indicates the bureau has designated "black identity extremists" as a major threat, and could be racially profiling activists as a result. Critics suggest there are strong echoes of the bureau's controversial COINTELPRO program, targeted at civil rights groups.
The US government has declared "black identity extremists" a violent threat, according to a leaked report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) counterterrorism division, suggesting federal authorities may be racially profiling activists.


The August 3, 2017 report said the FBI assesses it "very likely" that Black Identity Extremist (BIE) perceptions of police brutality against African Americans have "spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence."

Incidents of "alleged police abuse" have "continued to feed the resurgence in ideologically motivated, violent criminal activity within the BIE movement."

Black Lives Matter and KKK Groups Clash in Virginia
The report noted specific cases of recent violence against police, most notably Micah Johnson, a 25-year-old shooter in Dallas who killed five officers and said he was targeting white people and law enforcement. Black Lives Matter — a movement protesting the killings of black citizens by police in the US — had no ties to Johnson or other targeted killings of police and has strongly condemned the incident.
Moreover, official figures suggest the number of US police officers killed on the job is a fraction of the number of citizens killed by officers annually, and more white than black offenders kill officers. Around 750 people have been shot and killed by police as of October in 2017 and almost 170 of them were African-American.

The FBI also stated "BIE violence" peaked in the 1960s and 1970s "in response to changing socioeconomic attitudes and treatment of blacks," and possible modern indicators for "BIEs posing a violent threat to law enforcement" include "violent anti-white rhetoric" and "attempts to acquire illegal weapons or explosives." BIE appears to be a new term within law enforcement phraseology.


​The report was released just nine days before violence erupted at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, protesting the removal of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee's statue, which was attended by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and Ku Klux Klan members on the college town. In violent clashes, two Virginia State Police officers and one counter-protester were fatally injured.

A white nationalist demonstrator with a helmet and shield walks into Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. Hundreds of people chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday after violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.


Commenting, interim National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Derrick Johnson stated the report provoked "deja vu."

"In a time when white supremacists are marching down city streets with loaded weapons and torches, organizing rallies of terror around the country, it comes as a great shock the FBI would decide to target black identity groups protesting police brutality and their right to exist free of harm as a threat. In light of this report, the NAACP is resolved to double down on our efforts to advance the rights of black Americans and people of color across this country. We remain steadfast and immovable in our fight for justice and equality — and we are not afraid," Johnson said.

He added the report came as "no surprise" from an organization that had "a history of targeting black civil rights groups and leaders," including wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr. and others fighting for civil rights in the 1960s.

These actions were conducted under the auspices of COINTELPRO, an FBI operation that targeted groups and individuals Bureau Director Edgar J. Hoover deemed subversive between 1956 and 1971. The bulk of the bureau's fury was directed at Civil Rights activists and the Black Power movement, including the Black Panther Party, although anti-war protesters, feminist organizations, independence movements and other New Left groups were also targeted.

How the Murder of Martin Luther King Changed America
Hoover ordered agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of these movements and their leaders. This was achieved by; infiltration of groups by agents and informers, and subsequent exploitation of internal fears of infiltration; using myriad "dirty tricks" to undermine progressive movements; planting false media stories and publishing bogus leaflets and other publications in the name of targeted groups; forging correspondence, sending anonymous letters, and making anonymous telephone calls; spreading misinformation about meetings and events; setting up pseudo movement groups run by government agents; manipulating or strong-arming parents, employers, landlords, school officials and others to cause trouble for activists.
FBI agents also abused the legal system to harass dissidents and make them appear to be criminals. Officers of the law gave perjured testimony and






http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/12/the-c ... lly-underc

The CDC, Like the FBI, Dramatically Undercounts Deaths at Hands of Police
Due to lack of information from death certificates, only half are properly recorded.
Scott Shackford|Oct. 12, 2017 1:50 pm

The media do a better job at keeping track of who the government kills than the government does. Go figure.

By "who the government kills," I specifically mean who the police kill. A new study released this week shows that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which tracks stats on causes of death in the National Vital Statistics System, seriously undercounts how many people in the United States are killed during encounters with police.

The report was put together by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, who compared the CDC's numbers for 2015 to The Guardian's database of people killed in police encounters in the United States.

Not only did the CDC undercount the deaths, but it did so dramatically, catching only half of them. The researchers counted 1,166 fatalities that year. The Guardian's database caught 1,086 of them. The CDC registered only 643.

Justin Feldman, lead author of the study, explained to Reuters that the CDC relies on diagnosis codes in state death certificates that indicate "legal intervention" was involved in the death. But many medical examiners and coroners fail to mention police involvement on these documents.

This seems to happen most frequently with deaths that don't involve guns (such as a person dying after getting Tasered) and with deaths in less wealthy counties. As just one example, none of the 30 people killed by police in Oklahoma in 2015 were included in the CDC count.

The CDC isn't the only agency doing a bad job of tracking these deaths. In fact, the Guardian project—and another by The Washington Post that won a Pulitzer—were devised because the FBI's efforts are so insufficient.

The FBI does have a program to track police killings, but participation is voluntary and many law enforcement agencies do not participate. In some cases, entire states don't participate. So the FBI, tasked with tracking national statistics on violence and crime, does not have good numbers. They've got amazing stats on how many police are themselves killed or assaulted every year. But they don't have reliable figures on how many people the police themselves kill.

The FBI announced in 2015 that it will work on improving these statistics to make them more reliable, but the bureau lacks the authority to mandate full participation by law enforcement agencies. Civil rights groups would like the FBI to try to tie federal grants to participation in the program.

If we don't have the most basic information on how many people the police kill, that makes it all the harder to evaluate the circumstances behind these deaths, the trends they might represent, and whether there are changes that could reduce the risks of someone dying.







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Cooley, Boies Schiller, Kaplan Sue White Supremacists Over Charlottesville
Cogan Schneier, The National Law Journal
October 12, 2017 |


A prominent group of lawyers from firms including Cooley and Boies Schiller Flexner filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday on behalf of individuals injured in the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past summer.
The team of lawyers includes renowned litigators Roberta Kaplan, of the months-old Kaplan and Co., and Karen Dunn, a former associate counsel to President Barack Obama once-rumored to be Hillary Clinton's top choice for general counsel. Also on the case are Cooley partners Alan Levine, David Mills and Robert Cahill. The lawsuit alleges various state and federal offenses by white supremacy groups and individuals during a march and rally Aug.11-12 in Charlottesville that turned violent, killing one person and injuring dozens others.
“The violence, suffering, and emotional distress that occurred in Charlottesville was a direct, intended, and foreseeable result of Defendants' unlawful conspiracy,” the lawsuit said. “It was all according to plan—a plan they spent months working out and whose implementation they actively oversaw as events unfolded on the ground.”
The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The plaintiffs include Marissa Blair, a co-worker and friend of Heather Heyer, a paralegal who was killed when a man hit her with his car while she engaged in counter-protest against white supremacist groups. Other plaintiffs include undergraduate students, law students and staff at the University of Virginia and other residents of Charlottesville.
The defendants are more than two-dozen white supremacy and neo-Nazi groups, including Jason Kessler, the organizer of the event known as the Unite the Right rally, white supremacist Richard Spencer and Alex Fields Jr., the man accused of killing Heyer with his vehicle. Other organizational plaintiffs include the Vanguard America, the National Socialists Movement and the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
In an email, Mike Peinovich, one of the defendants, said "As far as I know these 'lawsuits' are hoaxes."
The other defendants could not be reached for comment.
The lawsuit asks for compensatory, statutory and punitive damages to be determined at trial, as well as whatever relief the court may deem necessary. Among the various claims, the complaint alleges the defendants engaged in a conspiracy to interfere with civil rights, in violation of federal law, as well as civil conspiracy to commit violence against others and intimidate or harass others because of their race, religion or ethnicity, in violation of Virginia state law.
“There is one thing about this case that should be made crystal-clear at the outset— the violence in Charlottesville was no accident,” the lawsuit said. “Under the pretext of a 'rally,' which they termed 'Unite the Right,' Defendants spent months carefully coordinating their efforts, on the internet and in person.
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Forced out over sex, drugs and other infractions, fired officers find work in other departments



NEW ORLEANS — By the time the New Orleans Police Department fired Carey Dykes, the officer had been sued for alleged brutality, accused of having sex with a prostitute while on duty and caught sleeping in his patrol car instead of responding to a shooting.

The 13-year veteran fought to get his job back but lost.

Even so, he returned to patrol months later — working for a nearby police department.

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Dykes is one of dozens of officers forced out of the New Orleans department over the past decade for misconduct who were given badges and guns by other departments, according to a Washington Post analysis of state and city employment records, police personnel files and court documents. At a time of increased scrutiny of police nationwide, the ease with which fired or forced out New Orleans officers found work at new departments underscores the broader challenge that law enforcement faces to rid itself of “bad apples.”

The New Orleans department has long been attempting to reform its ranks and shed a troubled past. In the past decade, the department has fired or otherwise pushed out at least 248 officers. Of those forced out, 53 have been hired by other police departments.





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California wildfire becomes largest blaze in state history


Saturday, December 23, 2017, 5:37 AM


VENTURA, Calif. — The huge wildfire that burned hundreds of homes in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties is now the largest in California’s recorded history.

State fire officials said Friday that the Thomas fire has scorched 273,400 acres, or about 427 square miles of coastal foothills and national forest.

That was 154 acres larger than the 2003 Cedar fire in San Diego that killed 15 people.

Thousands of firefighters and fleets of aircraft have been battling the blaze since Dec. 4. A firefighter and a woman fleeing the blaze died.





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Toasted — California’s 2017 Foreshadowing of the Monster Fires to Come
Part One: The Story of How Global Warming Turned California into Toast.


The Thomas Fire as seen by a webcam located atop Santa Ynez Peak, a 4300′ mountain 17 miles northwest of downtown Santa Barbara on December 10th.
*****

I want you to indulge me for a minute. I want you to put on your scientist hats with me and engage in a bit of an experiment.

Take a bagel. Cut it in half. Dip about 1/3 of it in water for a couple of seconds. Then put the bagel in the toaster oven for about 5-10 minutes. Remove and see the results.

What you’ll find is that the part of the bagel that hasn’t been dipped in water is, well, toast. The dipped part — significantly less so. If you continued to toast the bagel, eventually the heat from the oven will cause the undipped side to burn. Take even more time and the heat would overcome the moisture on the dipped side and cause it to burn as well.
The more heat, the faster both sides of the bagel burn. But the drier side always first. The wetter side always second.

It’s a simple fact that moisture — whether loaded into bagels or soaking into vegetation and the ground — adds more resiliency and resistance to fire. And this year, given the massive amount of moisture that fell across all of California during the winter and spring of 2016-2017 we didn’t really expect summer and fall to be all that bad of a fire season.

That famous Pineapple Express kept delivering storm after storm after storm. Dams were strained to bursting and over-spill. Roads were washed out. Water rescues were performed. And when all was said and done, California had experienced its wettest water-year in all of the last 122. Given such an obscene amount of water flooding the state, we certainly didn’t expect what happened next. All that moisture soaking into lands, soils, trees, vegetation told us a story. It told us a story that we thought we knew.


Accuweather’s California flood forecast from January 9, 2017 is easy to forget given the record fires we see today. But the temperature and moisture extremes experienced are an aspect of a warming climate. These floods inflicted more than 1.5 billion in damages. Source: Accuweather/Wikipedia.
What we didn’t count on was the oven-like heat that followed. Nor the simple fact that resiliency, no matter how strong at first, is not limitless.

Environmentally speaking, heat is the primary factor in fire hazard so long as fuels are present. Drought is also a factor, though a somewhat less certain one because eventually most fuels are consumed if drought sets in for long enough. As with the bagel, enough heat will eventually blast through any moisture loading so long as that moisture is not recharged to great risk of consuming and conflagrating the fuels that soaked up the moisture in the first place.

At its most basic level, this is why global warming promotes fire hazard. If you bake the forests, grasses and shrubs enough, they will burn.

If there is one thing we know about climate change and weather it is that it promotes extremes. Particularly extreme swings between cooler+wet and record hot+dry as the water cycle is thrown through the atmospheric equivalent of a hyperloop. And the level of extremity California experienced from winter to summer ran a six month race from wettest to hottest. For following the early year deluge, 2017 rapidly rocketed into the hottest summer in California history. Temperatures in many places regularly soared to well above the scorching 100 degree mark. Records for all-time hottest days fell like trees before the wild hurricane.


Large sections of the west, including California, experienced their hottest summer on record. Image source: NOAA.
And given so much excessive heat, it didn’t take long for the fires to arise even following a record wet winter.

We won’t go through all the exhaustive numbers of that grim tally of burning. But we will say that more than ten thousand homes and buildings burned. That many souls perished in the blazes. That billions in damages were inflicted. At times, ash and embers rained down across California as if from a volcanic eruption. The skies — marred by great pillars of smoke erupting from a blasted Earth. To say it was merely the worst fire year California has ever experienced would be to do the nightmare of it all an illiterate, unfeeling, lack-compassion injustice.

The summer fires that came with the heat burned mostly the north. The rains, that were so strong in winter took a bad turn once the heat blazed through the lands enough to dry out all that new forest and grass regrowth. Here we were witnessing, before our very eyes, the kind of new conditions 1.1 degrees Celsius worth of global warming was capable of producing.


Firefighter battling the Thomas Fire, which is just 500 acres away from being the largest in California history. Image source: Campus Safety.
Because of that warming, we know now that fire season never really ends any more in California. A point that was driven viciously home as summer proceeded into fall and the fires still raged in October. By December, the heat and dryness had not relented. Not enough at least. The normally wet month had been transformed. And the carry over of that damage done by the furnaces of summer had prepped the land for more burning.

Howling winds from the longest burst of fire fanning winds ever seen for California fed into a new fire. A fire that is now within 500 acres of becoming the largest fire ever to burn in California history. In December. During what should be a wet, cool month. But one that is hotter and drier and fire blasted.

Toasted.

But if we don’t turn back from the warming that caused this, the worst is yet to come.






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Delaware County Community College and Neumann University signed an agreement that will enable Nuemann students to earn a criminal justice degree faster at a lower cost by attending the college’s Municipal Police Academy, according to the colleges.




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Two heterosexual Irish men marry to avoid inheritance tax on property
Matt Murphy, 83, intends to leave his house to his carer Michael O’Sullivan, 58, but it would have left him with a €50,000 tax bill






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IPR Finds Bureau Lacks Policy to Provide Evidence of Untrustworthy Cops to Defense Lawyers


In late April, the "Independent" Police Review (IPR) released a report it began in January 2015 examining the issue of whether the Bureau was letting defense attorneys know about reasons officers testifying in court may lack credibility (such as, say, they were found to have been untruthful). Citing the 1963 court case Brady v. Maryland, IPR found the Bureau had no policy requiring the Bureau to hand over such information. The report details allegations about five officers whose supervisors found to be untruthful, but the Chief overturned those findings. The report reveals an Internal Affairs Lieutenant forwarded that information to the District Attorney's office. Rather than being rewarded for following a US Supreme Court ruling (aka constitutional legal procedures), the Lieutenant was reassigned by then-Chief Reese for his efforts. Much to our surprise, the Oregonian revealed this officer to be Lt. Larry Graham. Graham has had his ups and downs, providing helpful commentary at times during now-defunct Community Police Relations Committee meetings, but also being quite defensive of officers at a few Citizen Review Committee meetings (PPRs #58 and 62). PCW is granting Graham a "Spike Lee Do the Right Thing Award," which we haven't bestowed upon an officer for quite some time, with the caveat that this applies only to his whistleblowing efforts. After all, it was Graham (now a Captain at Central Precinct) who decided to revoke the organizers' permit on May Day (article), so, more actions for the downside column. The Bureau's response to IPR's report claims they will create a policy "within 90 days," so there should have been one by the end of July, but none has emerged.








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CITYTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017
Berkeley Police Review Commission discusses proposed police accountability plan

BY CADE JOHNSON | STAFFLAST UPDATED OCTOBER 27, 2017


Berkeley Police Review Commission met Wednesday to continue discussion on its proposed accountability plan for the Berkeley Police Department, among other items.

The Good Governance Police Accountability Plan outlines a proposed system of accountability to track BPD’s goals, which would be determined with input from the community and would aim to reduce crime and improve safety in the city. The plan will require BPD to host annual training in the hopes of achieving these goals and hire a data analyst to improve data collection and analysis.

PRC Commissioner Andrea Prichett, who proposed the plan to the commission in September, introduced a new component that requires BPD to conduct regular annual or biannual audits of its assets and expenses.

“To have annual goals identified and public would help the citizenry to support the goals of the police department,” Prichett said at the meeting. “It’s about establishing goals and creating methods and metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of the department.”

PRC Commissioner Ari Yampolsky said during the meeting that he felt that even if the plan was approved, the goals identified by BPD might not match the issues that concern PRC commissioners.

“I’m all for the idea of accountability, but when we talk about having an annual strategic plan, or an annual plan, what are we trying to see in that plan?” Yampolsky said at the meeting. “I can imagine a plan that says we want to hire 174 officers, we want to cut down our overtime by 8 percent … (things) internal to the department that don’t really get at the things, I think, that you (want).“

The commission ultimately decided to table its discussion on the plan until the next meeting.

During the meeting, PRC Chair George Lippman proposed adding language to the emergency ordinance passed by City Council in September that allows the use of pepper spray on violent protesters in a crowd setting, but not as a crowd-control tactic. The proposed changes to the policy would prohibit the use of pepper spray on any individuals within a crowd setting.

PRC Commissioner Clarence Ford expressed concern about what tools BPD would use if more restrictions on pepper spray are put in place. BPD Lt. Angela Hawk said the tactics BPD uses depend on the circumstances, but alternatives to pepper spray include “less-lethal options,” such as batons.

The proposed addition to the pepper spray policy passed 5-0, with all commissioners present in favor, except for Ford, who abstained from the vote.

In September, several PRC commissioners attended an exercise for Urban Shield, a highly contentious program that provides training for first responders for critical situations. The commission unanimously voted in support of requesting written observations from those commissioners in order to discuss PRC’s stance on Urban Shield.

“Based on new information, it seems like it would be relevant to review that position and see if that new information … could influence a new vote on (our position),” Prichett said.






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Seth on Jesus
Scientific theories are “proven”, at least partially, based on their predictive value. If a theory has high predictive value then it is more likely to be correct. In this spirit, I am going to place a “theory” in front of this group. Though this “theory” was proposed by “an energy essence personallity” named Seth who was “channeled” by a woman named Jane Roberts, I am only offering it as a theory to be tested by its predictive value. According to Seth’s theory, Jesus did not get a stand in for the crucifixion but rather tried to dissuade a “volunteer”. Here are Seth’s words on this subject:
Here is a portion of what Seth had to say about Jesus:

-Now: For your edification:

Christ, the historical Christ, was not crucified. – You will have to give me time here. (Pause.)

He had no intention of dying in that manner; but others felt that to fulfill the prophecies in all ways, a crucifixion was a necessity. Christ did not take part in it (Pause.) There was a conspiracy in which Judas: played a role an attempt to make a martyr out of Christ. The man chosen was drugged-hence the necessity of helping him carry the cross (see Luke:23) and he was told that he was the Christ. He believed that he was. He was one of deluded, but he also himself believed that he, not the historical Christ, was to fulfill the prophecies.

Mary came because she was, full of sorrow for the man who believed he was her son. Out of compassion she was present. The group responsible wanted it to appear that one particular portion of the Jews had crucified Christ, and never dreamed that the whole Jewish people would be “blamed.”

(Pause at 10.00.) This is difficult to explain even for me to unravel. The tomb was empty because the same group carted the body away. Mary Magdalene did see Christ, however, immediately after (see Matthew 28). (Long, pause.) Christ was a great psychic. He caused the wounds to appear then upon His own body, and appeared both physically and in out-of-body states to His followers. He tried however, to explain what had happened and His position but those who were not in on the conspiracy would not understand, and misread His statements.

Peter three times denied the Lord (Matthew 26), saying he did not know Him because he knew that that person was not Christ.

The plea, “Peter, why hast thou forsaken me?” came from the man who believed he was Christ-the drugged version. Judas pointed out that man. He knew of the conspiracy, and feared that the real Christ would be captured. Therefore he handed over to the authorities a man known to be self-styled messiah–to save, not destroy, the life of the historical Christ.

(10..05. Jane’s pace had speeded up considerably now.)

Symbolically, however, the crucifixion idea itself embodied deep dilemmas and meanings of the human psyche, and so the crucifixion per se became far greater reality then the actual physical events that occurred at the time.

Only the deluded are in danger of, or capable of, such self sacrifice, you see, or find it necessary. Only those still bound up in ideas of crime and punishment would be attracted to that kind of religious drama, and find within it deep echoes of their own subjective, feelings.

Christ knew however, clairvoyantly, that these events in one way or another would occur, and the probable dramas that could result. The man involved could not be swerved from his subjective decision. He would be sacrificed to make the old Jewish prophecies come true, and he could not be dissuaded.

(10:10.) In the Last Supper when Christ said, “This is my body, and this is my blood,” He meant to show that the spirit was within all matter, interconnected, and yet apart–that His own spirit was independent of His body, and also in His own way to hint that He should no longer be identified with His body. For He knew the dead body would not be His own.

This was all misunderstood. Christ then changed His mode of behavior, appearing quite often in out-of-body states to His followers. (See John 20, 21; Matthew 28, Luke 24.) Before, he had not done this to that degree. He tried to tell them however that He was not dead, and they chose to take Him symbolically. (A one-minute pause.) His physical presence was no longer necessary, and was an embarrassment under the circumstances. He simply willed Himself out of it. Now you may take your break.

(“Thank you. It’s very interesting.”) (10:17. “Wow,” Jane said after she came out of trance, “nobody’ll like that.

From “Seth Speaks” (session 560 November, 23 1970)

Your Christ figure represents, symbolically, your idea of God and his relationships. There were three separate individuals whose history blended, and they became known collectively as Christ – hence many discrepancies in your records. These were all males because at that time of your development, you would not have accepted a female counterpart.

These individuals were part of one entity. You could not but imagine God as a father. It would never have occurred to you to imagine a god in any other than human terms. Earth components. These three figures worked out a drama, highly symbolic, propelled by concentrated energy of great force.

(Long pause at 9:52.) The EVENTS as they are recorded, however, did not occur in history. The crucifixion of Christ was a psychic, but not a physical event. Ideas of almost unimaginable magnitude were played out.

(Pause at 9:55.) Judas, for example, was not a man in your terms. He was – like all the other Disciples – a blessed, created “fragment personality,” formed by the Christ personality. He REPRESENTED the self-betrayer. He dramatized a portion of each individual’s personality that focuses upon physical reality in a grasping manner, and denies the inner self out of greed.

Each of the twelve represented qualities of personality that belong to one individual, and Christ as you know him represented the inner self. The twelve, therefore, plus Christ as you know him (the one figure composed of the three) represented an individual earthly personality – the inner self – and twelve main characteristics connected with the egotistical self. As Christ was surrounded by the Disciples, so the inner self is surrounded by these physically oriented characteristics, each drawn outward toward daily reality on the one hand, and yet orbiting the inner self.

The Disciples, therefore, were given physical reality by the inner self, as all of your earthly characteristics come out of your inner nature. This was a living parable, made flesh among you – a cosmic play worked out for your behalf, couched in terms that you could understand.

The lessons were made plain, as all the ideas behind them were personified. If you will forgive the term, this was like a local morality play, put on in your corner of the universe. This does not mean it was less real than you previously supposed. In fact, the implications of what is said here should clearly hint at the more powerful aspects of godhood.

The three Christ personalities were born upon your planet, and indeed became flesh among you. None of these was crucified. The twelve Disciples were materializations from the energies of these three personalities – their combined energies. They were then fully endowed with individuality, however, but their main task was to clearly manifest within themselves certain abilities inherent within all men.

The same kinds of dramas in different ways have been given, and while the drama is always different, it is always the same. This does not mean that a Christ has appeared within each system of reality. It means that the idea of Cod has manifested within each system in a way that is comprehensible to the inhabitants.

This drama continues to exist. It does not belong, for example, to your past. Only you have placed it there. This does not mean that it always REOCCURS. The drama, then was far from meaningless, and the spirit of Christ, in your terms, is legitimate. It is the probable God-drama that you choose to perceive. There were others that were perceived, but not by you, and there are other such dramas existing now.

Now: Whether or not the Crucifixion occurred physically, it was a psychic event, and exist as do all the other events connected with the drama.

Many were physical but some were not. The psychic event affected your world quite as much as the physical one, as is obvious, The whole drama occurred as a result of mankind’s need. It was created as a result of that need, grew out of it, but it did not originate within your system of reality.

Other religions were based upon different dramas, in which ideas were acted out in a way that was comprehensible to various cultures. Unfortunately, the differences between the dramas often led to misunderstandings, and these were used as excuses for wars. These dramas are also privately worked out in the dream state. The God-personified figures first were introduced to man in the dream state, and the way then prepared.=20

In visions and inspirations, men knew that the Christ drama would be enacted and hence recognized it for what it was when it occurred physically. Its power and strength then returned to the dream universe. It had increased its vigor and intensity through the physical materialization. In private dream, men then related to the main figures in the drama, and in the dream state they recognized its true import.

Now: God is more than the sum of all the probable systems of reality He has created, and yet He is within each one of these, without exception. He is therefore within each man and woman. He is also within each spider, shadow, and frog, and this is what man does not like to admit.

God can only be experienced, and you experience Him whether or not you realize it, through your own existence. He is not male or female, however, and I use the term only for convenience’s sake. In the most inescapable truth, He is not human in your terms at all, nor in your terms is He a personality. Your IDEAS of personality are too limited to contain the multitudinous facets of His multidimensional existence.

On the other hand, He is human, in that He is a portion of each individual; and within the vastness of His experience He holds an “IDEA-SHAPE” of Himself as human, to which you can relate. He literally was made flesh to dwell among you, for He forms your flesh in that He is responsible for the energy that gives vitality and validity to your private multidimensional self, which in turn forms your image in accordance with your own ideas.

The private multidimensional self, or the soul, has then an eternal validity. It is upheld, supported, maintained by the energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is.

It cannot be destroyed then, this inner self of yours, nor can it be diminished. It shares in those abilities that are inherent within All That Is. It must, therefore, create as it is created, for this is the great giving that is behind all dimensions of existence, the spilling-over from the fountain of All That Is.

Now we will end our session. __________________________________________

Reference to Paul is in Seth Speaks – Session 586

In that session, he talks of the three men whose lives became confused in history and merged and who became known as Christ. He said the entity was born once as John the Baptist, one as the personality that most stories of Christ refer to and once as Paul. When Paul reemerges historically, he will carry within Him the characteristics of all three personalities.

You really need to read the whole session, as it is too long to print, but it’s very interesting. Seth said, ” Paul was to implement the spiritual ideas of Christ in physical terms, however he grew the seeds of an organization that would smother the ideas. He lingered after Christ, as John the Baptist came before. Together the three spanned some time period……John and the historical Christ each performed their roles and were satisfied that they had done so. Paul alone was left at the end unsatisfied and so it is about his personality that the future Christ will form. …..the entity of which these personalities are part, that entity, which you may call the Christ entity, was aware of these issues. The earthly personalities were not aware of them, although in periods of trance and exaltation, much was made known to them…”

He went on to say that the third personality of Christ (Paul) will indeed be known as a great psychic, for it is He who will teach humanity to use those inner senses that alone make true spirituality possible. Slayers and victims will change roles as reincarnational memories rise to the surface of consciousness. Through the development of these abilities, the sacredness of all life will be intimately recognized and appreciated.

Seth said, “one man had already been born in India, in a small province near Calcutta, but his ministry will seem to remain comparatively local for his lifetime.

Another will be born in Africa, a black man whose main work will be done in Indonesia. The expectations were set long ago in your terms, and will be fed by new prophets until the third personality of Christ does indeed emerge. He will lead man behind the symbolism upon which religion has relied and will emphasize individual spiritual experience, the expansiveness of soul, and teach man to recognize the multitudinous aspects of his own reality..”

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“Jesus, son of Pantera”

About 177 AD the Greek philosopher Celsus, in his book ‘The True Word’, expressed what appears to have been the consensus Jewish opinion about Jesus, that his father was a Roman soldier called Pantera. ‘Pantera’ means Panther and was a fairly common name among Roman soldiers. The rumor is repeated in the Talmud and in medieval Jewish writings where Jesus is referred to as “Yeshu ben Pantera”.

Pantera’s gravestone is the one on the left
In 1859 a gravestone surfaced in Germany for a Roman soldier called Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera, whose unit Cohors I Sagittariorum had served in Judea before Germany – romantic historians have hypothesized this to be Jesus’ father, especially as ‘Abdes’ (‘servant of God’) suggests a Jewish background.

Tib(erius) Iul(ius) Abdes Pantera
Sidonia ann(orum) LXII
stipen(diorum) XXXX miles exs(ignifer?)
coh(orte) I sagittariorum
h(ic) s(itus) e(st)
Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera
from Sidon, aged 62 years
served 40 years, former standard bearer (?)
of the First Cohort of Archers
lies here
The gravestone is now in the Römerhalle museum in Bad Kreuznach, Germany.

It appears this First Cohort of Archers moved from Palestine to Dalmatia in 6 AD, and to the Rhine in 9 AD. Pantera came from Sidon, on the coast of Phoenicia just west of Galilee, presumably enlisted locally. He served in the army for 40 years until some time in the reign of Tiberius. On discharge he would have been granted citizenship by the Emperor (and been granted freedom if he had formerly been a slave), and added the Emperor’s name to his own. Tiberius ruled from 14 AD to 37 AD. Pantera’s 40 years of service would therefore have started between 27 BC and 4 BC.

As Pantera would probably have been about 18 when he enlisted, it means he was likely born between 45 BC and 22 BC. He could have been as old as 38 or as young as 15 at the time of Jesus’ conception in the summer of 7 BC.

In 6 AD when Jesus was 12, Judas of Galilee led a popular uprising that captured Sepphoris, the capital of Galilee. The uprising was crushed by the Romans some four miles north of Nazareth. It is possible (and appealing to lovers of historical irony) that Pantera and Joseph fought on opposite sides. As Joseph is never heard of again he may well have been killed in the battle, or have been among the 2,000 Jewish rebels crucified afterwards.

So Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera is indeed a possibility as Jesus’ father. The only thing we know for certain is that Mary’s husband Joseph wasn’t the father, and that Mary was already pregnant when they married. It could have been rape, or Mary may have been a wild young teen who fell for a handsome man in a uniform, even if he was part of an occupying army. It happens.

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http://gazette.com/article/1618794

Air Force policeman who recorded rapes sentenced to prison



l January 10, 2018 Updated: Today at 6:06 am

A former Peterson Air Force Base security policeman who led a double life while raping sex workers at gunpoint is headed for decades behind bars.

Ex-Air Force Staff Sgt. Desmond Alvis Martin was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in prison for raping four women in Colorado Springs. The sentence will run concurrent to a 48 year-to-life sentence he received last year after being convicted at a trial in Arapahoe County for sexually assaulting another woman under similar circumstances.

A sixth sex worker believed to have been assaulted in Denver was never identified.





https://www.abqjournal.com/1117452/gov- ... tions.html

Governor’s police immunity proposal questioned


A political ploy, a show of support and impractical.

Those were just some of the reactions Wednesday to an announcement from Gov. Susana Martinez that she planned to push for legislation that would give police officers legal immunity for their actions




http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2932018

Cop went to Hooters to relax after fatally shooting teenage girl, family says
BY CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Monday, January 2, 2017, 2:24 PM




http://krqe.com/2018/01/11/judge-rules- ... erque-cop/

Hooters Cop fired


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A controversial fired Albuquerque cop, Jeremy Dear, will not get his job back after all.

A district court judge finally made that clear in a ruling Thursday saying the city was right to fire Dear.

The decision has been a few years in the making as the city originally fired Dear in 2014, but he’s been fighting since then to get his job back.

Dear has been controversial since he shot and killed 19-year-old Mary Hawkes back in April 2014.

Dear claimed the suspected truck thief pointed a gun at him, but he didn’t have his camera on. The city fired him after that shooting saying Dear repeatedly failed to turn on his body cam despite being ordered to do so.

Dear fought the firing claiming the camera policies were unclear. Eventually the decision to fire him was overturned by the city’s personnel board.






https://apnews.com/7b39711f9a6a42d584bf ... conviction

State high court upholds ex-police chief’s murder


PIERRE, S.D.
The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction of a former police chief found guilty in the 2009 death of his pregnant






Hulu joins the ranks of mainstream media deception
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/01/11 ... f-daniels/

The Looming Tower Trailer: Jeff Daniels Drama Shows CIA, FBI Divide
Bleeding Cool News-
Based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Hulu's new dramatic series The Looming Tower focuses on the rivalry and distrust between the CIA and FBI throughout the '90s that may have laid the groundwork for the 9/11 terrorist attack. With the limited series ...








http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.3751324

House votes to extend controversial FISA surveillance program after Trump reverses comments on bill
BY DENIS SLATTERY





http://wjla.com/news/nation-world/fight ... -fisa-bill

Fight erupts over privacy vs. security: Senators Rand Paul and Wyden threatens to filibuster FISA bill
Next week an authority that members of the intelligence community have called the most valuable tool in America's fight against terrorism will expire unless reauthorized by Congress.
The House took the first step on Thursday morning, voting to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Now privacy advocates in the Senate are preparing to fight to reform the controversial government surveillance authority.
Sen. Rand Paul told reporters on Thursday that he plans to filibuster the FISA reauthorization bill when it is brought to the Senate floor.
"I think the Bill of Rights is pretty important. And I think the fact that no American should have their records or their house, or their papers searched without a warrant is a pretty important principle of government, important enough to filibuster," Paul said.
In a statement later in the day, Paul repeated his commitment to "keep doing everything in my power, including filibuster, to oppose this legislation" he says allows the government to conduct warrantless surveillance against innocent Americans.
The House bill, which will reauthorize Section 702 for another six years, will likely be brought to the floor of the Senate as soon as Tuesday, according to sources on the Hill. It will need 60 votes to pass or the authority will lapse on January 19.
Ron Wyden of Oregon, a prominent privacy advocate on the Intelligence Committee, suggested that he could join Rand Paul's filibuster. The Democratic senator said he is currently looking at ways to prevent the bill from getting rushed through the Senate.
"I am going to fight with everything I have in terms of a bill that I think is a big mistake," Wyden told reporters. That includes amending the House bill and ensuring "a real debate" on a bill he charged "does virtually nothing" to protect law-abiding Americans from warrantless government su







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Union confirms suspension of another W-B cop





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-Detroit police officer charged with assaulting man


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Buffalo County jail inmate meal expenses up for 2018
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O’Neill reverses discipline rulings on cops' illegal entry
BY GRAHAM RAYMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 11, 2018, 1:24 AM



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The Bexar County sheriff’s policies and procedures came under public scrutiny last month following the shooting death of a 6-year-old from a stray bullet during the apprehension of a felon on a rampage in a residential neighborhood.





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The truth about a rape: A victim, the cops and a columnist
Editorials
EDITORIALS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, January 11, 2018, 4:10 AM






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Bundy-FBI debacle shows why the feds need to be controlled






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FBI Agent Whines About iOS Encryption, Calling Apple ‘Evil
Jan 11th, 2018 12:46 PM EST | News
Wednesday, during the International Conference on Cyber Security in Mahattan, FBI forensic expert Stephen Flatley called Apple ‘evil geniuses and jerks.’ He says that iOS encryption makes it harder for the FBI to do its job, and would rather throw the safety of millions of people out the window (via PatentlyApple).

Evil Geniuses and Jerks
During his talk, he noted that cracking iPhone passwords “just went from two days to two months,” and asked, “At what point is it just trying to one up things and at what point is it to thwart law enforcement? Apple is pretty good at evil genius stuff.”




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The Latest: Bundy says sheriff has land authority, not feds




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Fired cop investigated for possession of child pornography
By Emilie Eaton Updated 11:25 am, Wednesday, January 10, 2018


San Antonio police officer Mark Walaski was fired last year for dating a woman convicted of prostitution was investigated for other possible criminal acts, including watching his ex-girlfriend's underage daughter shower through a hole in his home's sheet rock, viewing child pornography on his personal computer, and being in the possession of heroin, according to records obtained by the San Antonio Express-News. The documents, which include interviews with multiple sources -- including a CPS caseworker and two officials at the Center for Health Care Services -- portray former Officer Mark Walaski as a man who would use his position as a police officer to control his then-girlfriend and learn about her whereabouts.







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Lincoln County fires deputy of the year charged with sexual assault



Hatch was initially charged with 22 counts of sexually abusing three women when they were younger than 16, one when she was 6.

Assistant Attorney General John Risler, who prosecuted the case, said at the time he would consult with the three alleged victims and the head of the criminal division in the Maine attorney general’s office to determine whether to re-try the remaining counts.




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Killian police chief falsified reports, misused credit card, according to legislative auditor's findings
John Dupont | Livingston Parish News Jan 9, 2018 Updated Jan 10, 2018




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Flint council approves $24.5K payout in police chief whistleblower suit

Updated Jan 9; Posted Jan 9 2018








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FBI Octopus

Detroit FBI head steps down for job with Penske
(WJBK) - The head of the FBI in Detroit is retiring to take on a new job in the private sector.

He is required to step down this year because of age limitations and only with FOX 2 he talks terrorism, crime and what he will miss most about Detroit.

On Nov. 13, 2015 Paris was attacked by terrorists. About 4,000 miles away, David Gelios was named the special agent in charge of the FBI in Detroit.



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Boston FBI head, key figure in bomb probe, steps down gets new job with Penske
AP Published 8:14 p.m. ET June 11, 2013 |
BOSTON The head of the FBI's Boston office, one of the main law enforcement figures during the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, announced Tuesday that he's stepping down to take a private-sector job.

Richard DesLauriers, who's been special agent in charge of the office since July 2010, said he will leave next month after more than 26 years with the FBI. He said he has accepted a position as vice president of corporate security with Penske Corp., a transportation services company, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.





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A group that advocates for the Jewish community and fights anti-Semitism is being recognized by the Minneapolis FBI.

Jan. 11, 2018, at 4:26 p.m.

FBI Recognizes Jewish Community Relations Council for Work



MINNEAPOLIS— A group that advocates for the Jewish community and fights anti-Semitism is being recognized by the FBI.

The FBI announced Thursday that the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas is receiving the 2017 FBI Director's Community Leadership Award.

The award is given annually to people or groups that show extraordinary community service in areas of civil rights or crime prevention.

The FBI says the JCRC organized forums, provided education and addressed community concerns after Jewish community centers and synagogues received threats in early 2017. The group also works to prevent hate crimes and increase cooperation between law enforcement and ethnic and minority groups.







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FBI allows Hitler to escape to South America




These declassified FBI files raise questions about Hitler’s death in the Führerbunker

Jan. 21, 2016, 5:00 PM

A recently declassified, heavily redacted FBI field report contains information about Adolf Hitler’s alleged escape to Argentina via submarine, which is noteworthy considering that Hitler was reported to have committed suicide in 1945 before the Red Army captured Berlin.

The FBI report, dated September 21, 1945 tells the story of a man who aided six top Argentinian officials in landing Hitler onto Argentine soil via submarine and hid him in the foothills of the Andes mountains.



http://www.sharkhunters.com/book1.htm

"Hitler in Argentina!"
BRAND NEW

We are all taught that the Red Army surrounded Berlin and that, faced with capture by the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler and his new wife Eva Braun (Hitler) committed suicide in the Führerbunker. Don't believe it - Josef Stalin knew better as did most of the world leaders of the time! Stalin even made a great fuss about Hitler's escape in statements he made in July of 1945 - more than two months after the alleged suicide.

As you read through this book taken from the file of a Spanish spy who worked for the Reich and who saw Hitler and Eva Braun forcibly drugged and removed from the Führerbunker under orders of Martin Bormann, you will realize that Hitler's suicide was a well conceived escape plan by the man who desperately had to keep the Reich, and thereby Hitler, alive.....Martin Bormann. This book also contains photos of places Hitler lived in Argentina, interviews with people there and in Europe - FBI and OSS files clearly stating that they and the United States Government knew that Hitler did not die in Berlin.







https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4806751/a ... rld-war-2/

FUHRER FLED? CIA suspected Adolf Hitler was alive in Colombia until at least the 1950s after surviving World War 2
It goes on to suggest that Hitler, who would have been aged 66, worked as a shipping company employee before fleeing to Argentina. The report, filed by the CIA's bureau chief in Venezuela, included a picture the informant, Phillip Citroen, claims is him with the fuhrer in the mid-50s.
By Danny Collins
1st November 2017, 7:27 amUpdated: 1st November 2017, 7:38 am
THE US investigated whether Hitler was alive in South America as late as 1955, newly-declassified CIA documents reveal.

The official files show a former SS soldier told spies he regularly met with the Nazi leader in Colombia.

FUHRER FLED? CIA suspected Adolf Hitler was alive in Colombia until at least the 1950s after surviving World War

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Suspended Leechburg police Chief Diebold waives child sex charges to court
Matthew Medsger
MATTHEW MEDSGER | Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, 2:00 p.m.



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‘Shoot black kids’ smoking weed, police chief advises recruit
Published time: 19 Jan, 2018 22:10
Edited time: 19 Jan, 2018 22:48
A former assistant police chief in Kentucky advised a recruit to “shoot” black youths smoking marijuana and to have sex with their mothers if he finds them attractive.
While being interviewed by the police recruit who was writing a paper about “the right thing to do,” Todd Shaw, assistant chief in Prospect, Kentucky, was asked what to do if he encountered juveniles smoking marijuana.

“If black, shoot them,” Shaw responded, according to a letter written by Mike O’Connell, the Chief Legal Officer for Jefferson County to the Mayor of Prospect, John Evans.

Shaw continued with outlandish answers when asked what to tell the kids’ parents, WDRB reports.

“Call their (pa)rents … If mom is hot then f**k her… If dad is hot then handcuff him and make him suck my d**k... Unless daddy is black. Then shoot him,” he wrote, according to the outlet.




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Portland police deny 'kettling' of protesters in response to ACLU lawsuit







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Lafayette Police officer retires amidst internal and criminal investigations
By: Michael Scheidt
Posted: Jan 19, 2018 04:23 PM







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Local school district police chief suspended


The district did not provide any details about the allegations, but several sources familiar with the situation told KWTX that they involve sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.



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Pennsylvania State Police file 5-page response to grand jury's report on trooper-involved shootings

Pennsylvania’s state police force said Friday it will continue to investigate shootings by on-duty troopers, ignoring a grand jury’s recommendation that the agency step aside when a shooting involves one of its troopers and have an outside agency handle the probe.

Earlier this month, the grand jury recommended that an independent agency investigate any fatal shooting involving state troopers, saying “a great deal of confusion” surrounds the state police’s long-time practice of conducting in-house probes of such deaths.









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Man Arrested by Now-Convicted Police to Be Freed From Prison
An anti-violence worker who claimed Baltimore police wrongly arrested him will be freed from prison after a deal was made with federal prosecutors.

Jan. 19, 2018, at 5:34 p.m.

Man Arrested by Now-Convicted Police to Be Freed From Prison




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Former prison correctional officer sentenced for sneaking alcohol, tobacco to inmates
PAT HANSEN for The Montana Standard Jan 19, 2018






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Wichita Cops Arrested in Underground Poker Game
January 19th, 2018 by Daniel Smyth






https://www.thenation.com/article/what- ... eep-state/

What Is the Deep State?
Even if we assume the concept is valid, surely it’s not useful to think of the competing interests it represents as monolithic.


FEBRUARY 17, 2017

see link for full article


“We see the government of God over the world is hidden,” Francis Bacon wrote in 1605, describing the deepest of deep states: the lord’s reign over us, which Bacon thought a good model for earthly rule. “Obscure and invisible” was how Bacon thought government worked best, and King James I agreed, instructing, in 1624, a too inquisitive subject that none shall “meddle with anything concerning our Government, or deep Matters of State.”
Until recently, the phrase “deep state” had been mostly consigned to the bowels of the conspiratorial deep web, but over the past few weeks, since Donald Trump decided to take his fight with the intelligence community public, it has witnessed a remarkable florescence. The “deep state” apparently has Trump in its sights, at least according to former NSA intelligence analyst John Schindler, who tweeted that a friend in the “intelligence community” told him that Trump “will die in jail.”

What is the “deep state”? The New York Times has given us an explainer on the concept, which doesn’t explain much. Things are bad, but not as bad as Turkey or Egypt, the Times says, which really do have deep states; and besides, leaks from the deep state will save us from the deep state.

At least as long as there has been private property, there has been private plotting.
If you do a search on a scholarly database, like Jstor, for the term, you’ll get lots of returns having to do with hypnosis, psychology, and spiritualism. This, in a way, is appropriate, since these activities have to do with the “obscure” interior life of individuals—that is, the opposite of collective categories such as the “public” and the “social,” realms that are presumed in modern democracies to be subject to procedural scrutiny and “freedom of information.”

But what we call modernity didn’t just create the public realm subject to public law. It created the private sphere, centered on the ideal of the property-owning individual and private corporation, and which during our modern times have enshrined Bacon’s and King James I’s ideal. “Good luck researching a private firm,” writes the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. (Even the dogged Seymour Hersh didn’t have much luck when he tried to investigate “the private sector,” as opposed to his métier, the national security state: “The abuse of private power” proved “a much dicier subject for many editors even than the CIA.” Hersh gave up, and wrote his book on Henry Kissinger instead.)
The problem with the phrase is that it’s used to suggest dishonorable individuals are subverting the virtuous state.
So at least as long as there has been private property, there has been private plotting, and talk of a “deep state” has been a vernacular way of describing what political scientists like to call “civil society,” that is, any venue in which powerful individuals, either alone or collectively, might try to use the state to fulfill their private ambitions, to get richer and obtain more power. The first use of the exact phrase I managed to find is this: In 1817, John Fitzgerald Pennie’s “The Varangian, or Masonic Honor,” offered this dialogue of two servants working a large banquet hall filled with contriving earls and knights.

Second servant: “Oh, could I but pry into these deep state secrets! I would give my very head to—

Third servant: “Thus mayst, for aught ’tis worth.… Would I could pry into a venison pasty…. I will see what cheer the buttery yields.”

Second servant: “Then art thou come in right good time: there’s glorious feasting here. But thou, dull fellow, hast no great regard for plots and state affairs.”

Third servant: “No; but I have for the sad state of my deserted bowels.”
Trump might not have control of the deep state, but he does preside over a very sad state.

The problem with the phrase “deep state” is that it is used to suggest that dishonorable individuals are subverting the virtuous state for their private ambitions. A good Marxist, and even an intelligent liberal, however, knows that under capitalism, ambition is considered a virtue, not a vice, and that the whole point of government is to collectively organize subversion. What do you think the “pursuit of happiness” means? It’s this public virtue/private vice false opposition that makes so much of the “deep state” writing slide into, if not noxious Bilderberg anti-Semitism, then “we are a republic, not an empire” idiocy.

But the concept resonates, especially since the modern state is not just an instrument to execute elite ambition but a site of popular demands and class struggle. The private, organized backlash to those demands and struggles is often understood as a “deep state” conspiracy, and that understanding is more often than not correct. The Koch brothers know this, at least according to Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. Kevin Ovenden tells me the term “deep state” was regularly used to discuss Turkish politics in the 1990s, especially the secretive power exercised by the military, bureaucracy, and courts against democratic action.

“Conspiracy, one is tempted to say, is the poor person’s cognitive mapping in the postmodern age.” —Fredric Jameson
Over the last few decades, with the concurrent rise of finance capitalism and the privatization of many facets of national security associated with what we call neoliberalism, “deep state” conspiracies have grown. Some of them are nutty and only add to the fetish, as described (three years before 9/11) by Fredric Jameson: “conspiracy, one is tempted to say, is the poor person’s cognitive mapping in the postmodern age; it is a degraded figure of the total logic of late capital, a desperate attempt to represent the latter’s system, whose failure is marked by its slippage into sheer theme and content.” Slippage between theme and content seems like a nice way of describing the hope held by many liberals that a CIA program of domestic destabilization will save us all from Donald Trump.

By my count, the current usage of “deep state,” as it supposedly relates to Trump’s troubles, entails three overlapping understandings: The first has to do with war, militarism, and intelligence, the secret institutions that have deep roots but were fused together in a powerful way under the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama (Marc Ambinder’s book, Deep State, along with this recent essay in Foreign Policy, are good guides); the second with private corporate power, especially associated with finance, the arms trade, and fossil fuels; and the third with the many embedded bureaucrats of the US government’s many administrative agencies, who, we hope, are leading a passive resistance to Trump’s program of privatization and deregulation. “When the great lord passes the peasant bows deeply and silently farts”—and then tweets about it from a rogue NASA account.




There’s a fourth way the term is used, to refer to an almost hereditary covert caste, running from the men who in the early days of the Cold War set up the modern national security state to the elite who make up today’s “intelligence community.” In 1964, Random House published the bestselling The Invisible Government, by journalists David Wise and Thomas Ross (here’s the CIA’s declassified review of the book, which takes exception to its thesis). More recently, Michael Glennon’s National Security and Double Government updated the argument. Peter Dale Scott was the first, as far as I know, to use the phrase “parapolitics” and “deep politics” to discuss what is now described as the deep state, and he’s the author of numerous books on the dense connections between illegal drugs, covert action, and finance. I’ve always been a bit agnostic about Scott’s work, overwhelmed by the sheer detail, but then I remember that Iran-Contra really did happen. As Michael Parenti likes to point out, conspiracies do in fact exist, both in legal theory and in politics: Watergate, Iran-Contra, the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s/90s, “described by the Justice Department as ‘a thousand conspiracies of fraud, theft, and bribery,’ the greatest financial crime in history” (that we know of).

Much of the writing frames the question as Trump versus the Deep State, but even if we take the “deep state” as a valid concept, surely it’s not useful to think of the competing interests it represents as monolithic, as David Martin in an e-mail suggests. Big Oil and Wall Street might want deregulation and an opening to Russia. The euphemistically titled “intelligence community” wants a ramped-up war footing. High-tech wants increased trade. Trump, who presents as pure id wrapped in ambition motived by appetite, wants it all—which makes him both potentially useful and inherently unstable, simultaneously a product and target of the deep state. In 1956, C. Wright Mills wrote that “the conception of the power elite and of its unity rests upon the corresponding developments and the coincidence of interests among economic, political, and military organizations.” If nothing else, the “Trump v. Deep State” framings show that unity is long gone






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Biography
Lydia T. Blanco
When images of brownish-yellow lead contaminated water coupled with photos of residents whose bodies were covered in blistering rashes surfaced on internet news sites in 2014, people wanted to know what exactly was happening in one of the poorest communities in America -- Flint, Michigan. It was lead poisoning. But it was not until Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician and public health advocate at the Hurley Medical Center, researched and revealed in September 2015 the inhumane and dangerous conditions people were living in there, that the world learned about Flint’s water crisis.

Dr. Hanna-Attisha, is the daughter of Iraqi immigrants, both scientists, who fled Saddam Hussein’s repressive regime for England in the 1970s. Mona was born in England in 1976 and shortly after that her parents moved to the US. After arriving in Flint, her mother taught English to other immigrants and her dad, a metallurgical engineer, worked for General Motors. Soon enough their American dream became a reality.

Flint, located approximately 70 miles north of Detroit, has a population of 100,000 residents, 57% of whom are African-American and 37% white. This city was once the most prosperous middle class community in the US. With the collapse of the auto industry and the auto makers unions, Flint’s prosperity evaporated. Now 42% of the city’s residents live below the poverty line.

Still, after decades of economic disinvestment, public health issues and crippling poverty, no one expected Flint’s citizens to be poisoned.

In April 2014, the City of Flint decided to save money by switching its water supply from the Detroit River and Lake Huron, for which Flint paid Detroit a fee, to the highly polluted Flint River. Flint saved even more money at their own water processing plant by not adding chemicals to the purifying process that would prevent lead from leaching from the city pipes into the water.

Miguel Del Toral of the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged there were unsafe levels of lead in the water system, but nothing was done. A friend who worked for the EPA told Dr. Hanna-Attisha that a scientist from Virginia Tech, Marc Edwards, had found high levels of lead in Flint residents’ tap water. Lead is a neurotoxin that impacts brain development, how people think and behave. It’s effects are especially damaging and incurable for children whose brains are still in formation. Dr. Hanna-Attisha began her own investigation and discovered that the lead levels in children’s blood were 50% higher in 2015 than they had been before the 2014 switch in water sources. By the time she identified the problem, over 8000 children had been irreparably poisoned.

On September 24, 2015 she released a study that revealed that children had high levels of lead in their blood and it was caused by the Flint city council’s decision to save money by using the Flint River as the municipal water source, rather than the well treated water provided by the Detroit Water and Sewage Department. As more children were being poisoned each day, Dr. Hanna-Attisha knew she needed to act urgently and ignored the long scientific process of have peer-reviewed studies done. She held a press conference and testified twice in court against the state of Michigan, which tried to discredit her and her team’s allegations and research. And she was ridiculed her personally.

Dr. Hanna-Attisha’s science, though, was irrefutable. Later, at the press conference in which the State of Michigan acknowledged the lead in water, Department of Environmental Quality officials apologized to Dr. Hanna-Attisha. In his 19 January 2016 State of the State address, Governor Rick Snyder publicly thanked Dr. Hanna-Attisha and Marc Edwards for sounding the alarm about the Flint Water Crisis.

While Dr. Hanna-Attisha admitted that there were moments when she was scared, there was no doubt that she was right. During a TEDMED talk, Dr. Hanna-Attisha said, “As physicians we have taken an oath to stand up as the healers and the protectors. We were fighting for the future that lives and grows inside our children and this was not a fight we could lose. Not on my watch.”

There is no safe level of lead for human consumption. To this day, Dr. Hanna-Attisha and her team are working diligently for the children and families of Flint and in other cities like Baltimore and Chicago where people living in poverty are exposed to lead. Although there is no way to flush led from the body once it’s there, the effects can be mediated by a healthy, high calcium diet. Dr. Hanna-Attsha has been ia leader in the campaign to educate people about the importance of good nutrition, and to make nutritious food available to poor people. “The most potent medication that we can prescribe is to lift our families out of poverty,” she says.

For her role in exposing the Flint Water Crisis and her public health advocacy in response to the crisis, Time Magazine named Dr. Hanna-Attisha one of the Most Influential People in 2016. She was also included in the Politico 50. She was the recipient of the 2016 Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling and the PEN American Center James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Award and as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans of 2016. Hanna-Attisha was also named Michiganian of the Year by the Detroit News.

She was awarded the Rose Nader Award for Arab American activism by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and named the Champion of Justice by ACCESS (Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services). In 2016 Hanna-Attisha was the commencement speaker at Michigan State University, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and Virginia Tech among other universities.[42][43]

Hanna-Attisha has also been recognized by environmental organizations, including the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, the Michigan Environmental Council, the Ecology Center and Children's Environmental Health Network. She was named a Union of Concerned Scientists 2016 Got Science? Champion.

On 30 March 2017, Hanna-Attisha was named an honorary co-chair of the March for Science.





https://robertscribbler.com/2018/01/20/ ... stability/

How Climate Change is Fueling Iran’s Political Instability
Drought.

Year after year after year for the past 15 years, it’s been the reality for Iran.

As with recent severe droughts in places like Syria, Nigeria, India and in other parts of the world, Iran’s drought impacts have forced farmers to abandon fields and move to the cities. It has enhanced economic and physical desperation — swelling the ranks of the poor and displaced. It has produced both food and water insecurity with many families now living from hand and cup to mouth. And it has served as a catalyst for political unrest, protest, and revolt.



(Iran’s Lake Urmia shrinks to ten percent of its former size following a 15 year long drought. Image source: U.S. Department of the Interior.)

Perhaps the most visible sign of this drought’s epic severity is the drying up of the 5,200 square mile expanse of Lake Urmia. The sixth largest salt water lake in the world and the largest lake in the Middle East, Urmia is now a desiccated shadow of its historical range. Just 10 percent of its former size, it is the casualty of both the drought and the dams that have been built to divert water to Iran’s struggling farmers. But it’s not just the lake that’s drying up. In the interior, individual provinces have seen as many as 1,100, or approximately 1/3 of its springs, run out of water.

Iran is on the eastern fringe of the worst drought to hit parts of the Middle East in 900 years. Ninety six percent of the country has been afflicted by escalating drought conditions over the past seven years. A drought so long and deep-running that it has been triggering unrest since at least 2014. A kind of climate change enhanced instability that has been intensifying over recent years.

Iran shows long term precipitation deficits over 2016-2017 and 2010-2017 in this analysis provided by Iran’s Meteorological Organization.)

The growing drought-driven unrest has thrust climate change into the Iranian political spotlight even as populist farmer uprisings are on the increase. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has directed government to “manage climate change and environmental threats.” However, with climate harms so long-running and with distrust in government so deep, even positive action by Iran’s leaders may be viewed in a negative light. Hindering impetus for response and generating a ripe field for the revolt or fragmentation.

From the scientific perspective, it appears that the effects of climate change are already enhancing the most recent dry period. Temperatures are rising — which increases evaporation. So more rain has to fall for soils to retain moisture. Complicating this issue is the fact that rains are expected to decline by 10 percent even as drier soils are expected to reduce rainfall and snow melt runoff by 25 percent over the next twelve years. Both are impacts caused by climate change and the predicted warming of Iranian summers by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius.


(Under business as usual fossil fuel burning scenarios, wet bulb temperatures are expected to periodically exceed the range in which humans can healthily function over portions of the Persian Gulf region before the end of this Century. Video Source: MIT News.)

Moreover, a recent MIT study from 2015 found that major cities in the Persian Gulf region may be driven past the tipping point for human survivability under business as usual fossil fuel burning (Wet Bulb of 35 C +) by climate change before the end of this Century (see video above). This means that during the worst heatwaves under this scenario, it would be impossible for human beings to retain an internal temperature cool enough to support key body functions while outdoors for even moderate periods. This would result in higher incidences of heat injury and heat mortality than we see even during present enhanced heatwaves.

Though it is uncertain whether collapse pressure driven by climate change has reached a tipping point for Iran similar to the events which enabled Syria’s descent into internal and regional conflict, the warning signs are there. The international community would thus be wise to both prepare responses and to broadly acknowledge climate change’s role in the enflaming of this and other geopolitical hot spots.

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Man with mental illness pinned to 170-degree pavement by police wants $26 million
BY BRIAN LISI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, February 8, 2018, 1:39 PM



A California man whose skin was practically seared off after police held him against a burning hot pavement is now seeking $26 million from his city.

On June 23, 2017, eight officers from the Citrus Heights Police Department responded to a report that a shirtless person was behaving strangely at a KFC restaurant and that he had hopped over the counter and attempted to steal the manager's wallet, the Sacramento Bee reports.

When law enforcement arrived, at least two officers forced James Bradford Nelson to the ground on a scorching hot day, when the temperature of the parking lot's surface would reach 170 degrees—enough to fry an egg and then some.

He was held there for at least five minutes









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February 7, 2018
DOJ ordered police notes contradicting the suicide narrative for Danny Casolaro be sealed
Handwritten notes from the Martinsburg Police Department catch the Bua Report in a major lie about the mysterious death of a journalist
Written by Emma Best
Edited by JPat Brown
An examination of the original handwritten police notes about the death of journalist Danny Casolaro contradict the official claims and conclusions of the Justice Department and the Special Counsel investigation led by Judge John Bua. The police notes, originally seized by the federal government and allegedly still under seal, undermine the narrative that Danny Casolaro committed suicide, and appear to provide corroboration that someone took his briefcase containing many of his notes and papers at the time of his death.



MuckRock previously filed a FOIA request with Martinsburg Police Department for records relating to the death of Danny Casolaro, including notes, photographs and autopsy reports. A response dated ten days later, but not received until nine months later (the statutory time limit is five business days), denied the request by referring to the federal government seizing jurisdiction and custody of all documents. This is consistent with previous reports from the Berkeley County Prosecutor’s office that the materials were sealed. Although the records still being apparently sealed, copies were obtained through a combination of Special Access Reviews, visits to different archives, and the cooperation of a number of people who were involved in the case.



In some instances, the Bua Report simply seems to leave out relevant information. One passage in the Bua Report describing threats against Casolaro, for instance, completely misstates the facts as presented in the original police notes. The Bua Report then contends that Casolaro fabricated the death threats while planning to commit suicide because he wanted to make people think he was murdered.



This contention is not only unsupported by the original documentation, it’s contradicted by it. According to the Bua Report, Casolaro began reporting death threats “during the last few weeks of his life,” with only a single report of a death threat being offered by Olga Mokros the Monday before his death. According to the Bua Report, “She could not recall any other specific occasions on which Mr. Casolaro received such a call, even though she was at his house nearly every day.” This statement is directly contradicted by the notes of the police interview with her, in which she said that she had answered the Casolaro phone to hear threats to kill Danny and “cut him into pieces.” According to the notes, this was “months” before his death.



The notes go on to describe a death threat against Danny that she received around the time of his death, which may be the same call described in the Bua Report. It’s not immediately clear if the false statement in the Bua Report is the result of a deliberate decision to ignore the police notes, or if the Special Counsel was denied access to them or not properly informed of their contents.

If this were the only error, or even the worst error, it might do little to undermine the Bua Report’s conclusions regarding Casolaro’s death. It is neither.

Arguably the worst error in the Bua Report is in their response to the question of Casolaro’s missing briefcase, which they concluded didn’t exist. According to the Bua Report, only one witness - a front desk employee at the hotel - thought they might have seen the briefcase. The Bua Report incorrectly claimed that “no other hotel employee recalled seeing Mr. Casolaro with a briefcase.”



Elsewhere, the Bua Report twice describes Lopez as having been “not sure” and decide that since “none of the other hotel employees recall seeing a briefcase or documents … Lopez was probably mistaken.” The conclusion that the briefcase didn’t exist is then used to undermine the statement from William Turner that he had just returned documents to Casolaro, documents which may have related to Alan Standorf, an alleged NSA whistleblower who was murdered and whose records are still withheld by the FBI due to an unidentified 25+ year old pending law enforcement proceeding.



Contrary to the assertions of the Special Counsel’s office in the Bua Report, the original police notes show that there was a second witness at the hotel who saw the briefcase: Barbara Bettinger. According to her statement to the police, Bettinger had seen the briefcase. The Bua Report describes Bettinger as an employee at the hotel, while failing to describe her telling the police she had seen Casolaro’s briefcase.



According to the handwritten police notes, Bettinger saw Casolaro on the afternoon before his death, while standing in the doorway to his room. She noted that he seemed nervous and kept looking over his shoulders.



According to the Bua Report, Bettinger was the last hotel employee to see Casolaro alive when she spoke with him that Friday afternoon.



Most relevantly, Detective John McMillen asked Bettinger “did you notice any paperwork or baggage in the room?” She answered that “yes,” there had been a “briefcase on [the] dresser, open with papers sticking out of it.” She saw the papers on the same afternoon Turner alleges he return papers to Casolaro, though the Bua Report points to inconsistencies in Turner’s retellings of this.



Bettinger signed the notes, affirming their accuracy.



As both the handwritten police notes and the Bua Report note, the police didn’t find Casolaro’s briefcase or papers, which he still had with him in his hotel room the afternoon before he died. Their disappearance means that Casolaro either had at least one unknown interaction with someone or the papers were stolen from his room after his death.

The disappearance of the papers does more than confirm the existence of an unknown player in the final hours, if not the final moments or immediate post-mortem, of Casolaro; they also provide a potential motive for his death: the removal of evidence. The most likely candidate for this unknown player is the deceased Joseph Cuellar, who had not only reportedly threatened Casolaro, but provided contradictory alibis for Casolaro’s death.

As the Bua Report notes, Cuellar had reportedly threatened both Lynn Knowles, an ex-girlfriend, and Casolaro. At the same time, Cuellar referenced Anson Ng, a Financial Times reporter who had been killed in Guatemala and was reportedly looking into aspects of the Inslaw affair. Cuellar denied this, though Knowles continues to stand by her statements. Bua cleared Cuellar of wrongdoing, asserting that witnesses placed him in Washington D.C. on the day Casolaro died, processing out from Desert Storm and into Southern Command.



The Bua Report’s reliance on these witnesses ignores the fact that Casolaro’s estimated time of death was between 7 and 8 AM in Martinsburg, West Virginia - a two hour drive from Washington D.C., which could have given Cuellar time to return before witnesses apparently saw him in D.C.



The Bua Report’s dismissal of Cuellar as a suspect ignores his contradictory alibis. According to a DOJ memo written to the Assistant U.S. Attorney, “Cuellar advised that three (3) to four (4) weeks prior to Casolaro’s death, he left for Panama and was advised of Casolaro’s death through a phone call to Lynn Knowles. Cuellar returned from Panama to attend Casolaro’s funeral.” If Cuellar had left for Panama at that time, he would have already been processed into Southern Command and wouldn’t have returned to Washington D.C. to process out of Desert Storm (nowhere near Panama) and into Southern Command (which did have jurisdiction over operations in and around Panama).



The two alibis are impossible to reconcile. To date, there is no evidence that the DOJ ever investigated the change in Cuellar’s alibi, nor was it publicly reported on. The documentation was only obtained relatively recently as part of a Special Access Review with the National Archives.

Combined with other instances in which the Special Counsel ignored or was left ignorant of relevant information about the Inslaw affair and he PROMIS scandal, these omissions and distortions raise additional questions about the integrity of the Bua Report and its conclusions, which have now been challenged on both the death of Casolaro and on the PROMIS scandal.

As of this writing, over 20,000 pages at the National Archives on Casolaro’s death, the PROMIS scandal and the investigations into the Inslaw affair remain inaccessible to the public. While the Special Access Review for all the documents continues, you can file a FOIA request for individual sections to prompt a speedier release to the public. Previously released sections can be found here. You can read the rejection from Martinsburg PD on the request page, or you can read their separately obtained handwritten notes below.








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Russian hackers ‘successfully penetrated’ American voter systems, U.S. official confirms for first time
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First modern Britons had dark skin and blue eyes, DNA analysis reveals
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, February 7, 2018, 2:20 PM





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FBI informant makes shocking accusations against Clintons, and it's ...
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An FBI informant made shocking accusations against Bill and Hillary Clinton in testimony to Congress according to a report in The Hill. ... The Uranium One allegations against Hillary and Bill Clinton were strengthened significantly by testimony that was leaked to The Hill Tuesday from an FBI informant about the scandal.



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‘Law and Order: SVU’ actress Diane Neal’s independent run for Congress has Dems sweating
BY KENNETH LOVETT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, February 8, 2018, 4:44 PM





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The great forgotten Cincinnati wiretap scandal

By Gregory Flannery

Americans no longer assume their communications are free from government spying. Many believe widespread monitoring is a recent change, a response to terrorism. They are wrong. Fair warning came in 1988 in Cincinnati, Ohio, when evidence showed that wiretapping was already both common and easy.

Twenty-five years ago state and federal courtrooms in Cincinnati were abuzz with allegations of illegal wiretaps on federal judges, members of Cincinnati City Council, local congressional representatives, political dissidents and business leaders.

Two federal judges in Cincinnati told 60 Minutes they believed there was strong evidence that they had been wiretapped. Retired Cincinnati Police officers, including a former chief, admitted to illegal wiretapping.

Even some of the most outrageous claims – for example, that the president of the United States was wiretapped while staying in a Cincinnati hotel – were supported by independent witnesses.

National media coverage of the lawsuits, grand jury hearings and investigations by city council and the FBI attracted the attention of U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and the late U.S. Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.).

As Americans wonder about the extent to which their e-mails, cell-phones and text messages are being monitored, they would do well to look back at a time before any of those existed. Judging by what was revealed in Cincinnati, privacy died long before anyone had ever heard of Osama bin Laden or al Q’aeda.

Turbulence

In 1988 Leonard Gates, a former installer for Cincinnati Bell, told the Mount Washington Press, a small independent weekly, that he had performed illegal wiretaps for the Cincinnati Police Department, the FBI and the phone company itself.

A week after the paper published his allegations, a federal grand jury began hearing testimony.

Gates claimed to have performed an estimated 1,200 wiretaps, which he believed illegal. His list of targets included former Mayor Jerry Springer, the late tycoon Carl Lindner Jr., U.S. District Judge Carl Rubin, U.S. Magistrate J. Vincent Aug, the late U.S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), the Students for a Democratic Society (an anti-war group during the Vietnam War), then-U.S. Rep. Tom Luken (D-Cincinnati) and then-President Gerald Ford.

A second former Cincinnati Bell installer, Robert Draise, joined Gates, saying he, too had performed illegal wiretaps for the police. His alleged targets included the Black Muslim mosque in Finneytown and the General Electric plant in Evendale. Draise’s portfolio was much smaller than Gates’s, an estimated 100 taps, because he was caught freelancing – performing an illegal wiretap for a friend.

Charged by the FBI, Draise claimed he had gone to his “controller” at Cincinnati Bell, the person who directed his wiretaps, and asked for help. If he didn’t get it, he said, he’d tell all. When the case went to federal court, Draise didn’t bother to hire an attorney. He didn’t need one. In a plea deal, federal prosecutors dropped the charge to a misdemeanor. Found guilty of illegal wiretapping, his sentence was a $200 fine. The judge? Magistrate J. Vincent Aug.

If Gates and Draise had been the only people to come forward, they could easily be dismissed as cranks – disgruntled former employees, as Cincinnati Bell claimed. But some police office officers named by Gates and Draise confirmed parts of their allegations, insisting, however, that there were only 12 illegal wiretaps. Other officers not known to Gates and Draise also admitted to illegal wiretaps. Some of the officers received immunity from prosecution in exchange for their testimony. Others invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate themselves.

“Due to the turbulent nature of the late ’60s and early ’70s, wiretaps were conducted to gather information,” said a press release signed by six retired officers. “This use began in approximately 1968 and ended completely during the Watergate investigation.”

The press release, whose signers included former Police Chief Myron Leistler, listed 12 wiretaps, among them “a black militant in the Bond Hill area” and a house on either Ravine or Strait streets rented by “the SDS or some other radical group.”

The retired cops’ lawyer said there were actually three Cincinnati Bell installers doing illegal wiretaps, but declined to identify the third.

The retired officers denied knowledge of “any wiretaps involving judges, local politicians, prominent citizens and fellow law enforcement officers or city employees.”

Getting rid of Aug

Others had that knowledge, however.

Howard Lucas, former security chief at the Stouffer Hotel downtown, said he caught Gates and three cops trying to break into a telephone switching room shortly before President Gerald Ford stayed at the hotel.

“I said, ‘Do you have a court order?’ and they all laughed,” Lucas told the Mount Washington Press.

The four men left. But they returned.

“A couple days later, in the back of the room, I found a setup, a reel-to-reel recorder concealed under some boxes,” Lucas said.

Ford stayed at the Stouffer Hotel in July 1975 and June 1976 – two years after the Watergate scandal, when Cincinnati Police officers claimed the bugging ended.

Then there was the matter of a former guard at the U.S. Courthouse downtown. He said he had found wiretap equipment there in 1986 and 1987, just a year before the wiretap scandal broke.

“I heard conversations you wouldn’t believe,” he said. “I heard a conversation one time. they were talking about getting rid of U.S. Magistrate Aug.”

The wiretapping started with drug dealers and expanded to political and business figures, according to Gates. In 1979, he testified, he was ordered to wiretap the Hamilton County Regional Computer Center, which handled vote tabulations. His handler at the phone company allegedly told Gates the wiretap was intended to manipulate election results.

“They had the ability to actually alter what was being done with the votes. … He was very upset through some of the elections with a gentleman named Blackwell,” Gates testified.

J. Kenneth Blackwell is a former member of Cincinnati Council, and 1979 was an election year for council.

Something went wrong on Election Night, Gates testified. His handler at the phone company called him.

“He was panicking,” Gates testified. “He said we had done something to screw up the voting processor down there, or the voting computer.”

News reports at the time noted an unexpected delay in counting votes for city council because of a computer malfunction.

Cincinnati Bell denied any involvement in illegal wiretapping by police or its own personnel. Yet police officers, like Gates, testified the police received equipment – even a truck – and information necessary to effectuate the wiretaps. The owners of a greenhouse in Westwood even came forward, saying the police stored the Cincinnati Bell truck on their property.

‘Say it louder’

Gates claimed that his handler at Cincinnati Bell repeatedly told him the wiretaps were at the behest of the FBI. He named an FBI agent who, he said, let him into the federal courthouse to wiretap federal judges.

Investigations followed – a federal grand jury, which indicted no one; a special investigator hired by city council, the former head of the Cincinnati FBI office; the U.S. Justice Department, sort of.

U.S. Sen. Paul Simon asked then-Attorney General Richard Thornburgh to look into the Cincinnati wiretap scandal. Federal judges, members of Congress and even the president of the United States had allegedly been wiretapped. Simon’s effort went nowhere. His press secretary told the Mount Washington Press that it took three months for the Attorney General to respond.

“The senator’s not pleased with the response,” Simon’s press secretary said. “It didn’t have the attorney general’s personal attention, and it said Justice (Department) was aware of the situation, but isn’t going to do anything.”

The city of Cincinnati settled a class-action lawsuit accusing it of illegal wiretapping, paying $85,000 to 17 defendants. It paid $12,000 to settle a second lawsuit by former staffers of The Independent Eye, an underground newspaper allegedly wiretapped and torched by Cincinnati Police officers in 1970.

Cincinnati Bell sued Leonard Gates and Robert Draise, accusing them of defamation. The two men had no attorneys and represented themselves at trial. Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Fred Cartolano refused to let the jury hear testimony by former police officers who had admitted using Gates and Draise and Cincinnati Bell equipment. In a 4-2 vote, the jury ruled in the phone company’s favor, officially adjudging the two whistleblowers liars.

During one of the many hearings associated with the wiretap scandal, an FBI agent was asked what the agency would do if someone accused the phone company of placing illegal wiretaps. He testified the FBI would be powerless; it needed the phone company to check for a wiretap.

“It would go back to Bell,” the agent testified. “We would have no way of determining if there was any illegal wiretapping going on.”

The FBI agent was the person Gates had accused of opening the federal courthouse at night so he could wiretap federal judges.

One police sergeant offered no excuses for the illegal wiretapping. Asked why he didn’t bother with the legal niceties, such as getting a warrant, as required then by federal law, he said, “I didn’t deem it was necessary. We wanted the information, and went out and got it.”

At one point, covering the scandal for the Mount Washington Press, I received a phone call from a sergeant in the Cincinnati Police Department. He invited me to the station at Mount Airy Forest, where he proceeded to wiretap a fellow police officer’s phone call. I listened as the other officer talked to his wife.

“Say hello,” the sergeant told me.

I did. There was no response.

“Say it louder,” the sergeant said.

I did. No response.

“You can hear them, but they can’t hear you,” the sergeant said. “Any idiot can do a wiretap. You know that’s true because you just saw a policeman do it.”

Privacy is dead. Its corpse has long been moldering in the grave.







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lieutenant, trooper sentenced to 1 day in prison in State Police overtime scandal

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9/11 Truth Teleconference
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Draft Agenda for July 31, 2019

8 pm (ET) / 5 pm (PT)
Teleconference dial-in # (605) 313-4118
Access code: 464958#

[Note: Some telephone service providers block access to this teleconference service, or require additional charges. If you encounter any of these difficulties, please try calling this alternative number: (425) 535-9195. You will then be required to key in the original phone number above before entering the access code. Please inform of us of any technical difficulties you encounter in accessing the teleconference.]

Greetings all,

The July teleconference will feature some important speakers, some fascinating analysis, and one piece of very positive 9/11-related news.

First up is investigative journalist Christopher Bollyn, who is a major figure in the 9/11 Truth Movement. Christopher, who has been with us on the teleconference before, is the author of the Solving 9-11 set of books and The War on Terror: The Plot to Rule the Middle East. He has written extensively on Israel and Palestine as well as on the history and geo-political background of the events of September 11, 2001. On Wednesday he will be discussing the situation with Donald Trump, 9/11, and the War on Terror. Here is an article on the subject posted recently on Christopher’s website: http://www.bollyn.com/donald-trump-netanyahu-911/

Next we have a piece of great news delivered by Ted Walter, AE911Truth’s director of strategy. Ted will tell us about a historic resolution just passed by the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District just outside of Queen’s, New York, calling for a new investigation into the crimes of 9/11. This is the first fire district to take such a step. The district took this initiative, in part, because it lost a fire fighter at Ground Zero on 9/11 and has at least one other suffering health effects from working at the scene. Here is Ted’s article on the resolution: https://www.ae911truth.org/news/540-new ... estigation.

Our third and final speaker will be Karl Golovin, a retired special agent of the U.S. Customs Service, whose duties over three weeks in November of 2001 included sifting through the rubble of WTC-7 that was brought to Fresh Kils Landfill. Karl will be telling us about a 1952 book he considers essential for understanding geopolitics over the last 1,000 years (and the last 100, especially). It is called The Iron Curtain Over America, by John Beaty The book is available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1519023847/re ... dDbDGF1HE0) and is also accessible for free at the Unz Report:
http://www.unz.com/book/john_beaty__the ... r-america/

This will be followed, as usual, by announcements.

We look forward to having you all join us this Wednesday!

Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee

DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday May 29 Teleconference

I Roll call/ Minutes approval (copied below)/Agenda approval (5 min)

II Trump, 9/11, and the War on Terror [Christopher Bollyn] (20 min + 10 min Q&A)

III NY fire district calls for new 9/11 investigation [Ted Walter] (10 min + 10 min Q&A)

IV An essential book on geopolitics [Karl Golovin] (10 min. + 10 min. Q&A)

IV Announcements

V Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
Google (et al.) censorship
9/11 Truth political candidates
VIII Adjournment

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This draft agenda sent to:
Richard Gage, John Heartson, Don DeBar, Scott Halfmann, Steven E. Jones, William Rodriguez, David Ray Griffin, William Douglas, Steve Alten , Tom Tvedten, Justin Martel, Les Jamieson, Michael Jackman, Michael Wolsey, Peggy Brewster, Barrie Zwicker, Erik Lawyer, Gabriel Day, Kevin Barrett, PhD, Carol Brouillet, Mia Hamel, Paul Craig Roberts, Jack Blood, Diana (for investigar11s.org), Cheryl Curtiss, Jodie Baltazar, Jarek Kupsc, Joseph Culp, Ken Jenkins, Ellen Mariani, Gerhard Bedding, Jack Shimek, Paul Krik, Rock Creek Free Press, Damon Bean, Allan Giles, Kyle Hence, Michael Berger, Dylan Avery, Jason Burmas, Mike Palecek, Donald Stahl, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Ph,D, Don Plummer, Doug Wight, Global Outlook, Paul Zarembka, Penny Little, Bob Cable, Suzanne Warson, Peter Thottam, Ralph Schoenman, Carol Wolman, Scholars for 911 Truth & Justice, Hummux, Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth, Frank Morales, Frank Tolopko, Alan Miller, James Hufferd, Ph.D., Erik Larson, Ted Walter , Suzanne Warson, Frederick Coward, Gordon Duff, Sherri Kane, Leonard Horowitz, William Woodward, Jerry Mazza, William Pepper, Wayne Madsen, David Kimball, Jeffrey Orling, Michael Marino, Lenny Mather (in memoriam), Ken Freeland, Tania Torres, Graeme MacQueen, Yumi Kikuchi, Stuart Hutchison, Roland Angle, Frank Agamemnon , Harold Hilton, Phil Restino, Rich McCampbell, John Zito, Manny Badillo, John Hankey, Oskar Mosquito, Edwin Jewett, Ms Anisa Fattah, Robert Barron, Shelton Lankford, Matthew Hayward, Anna Yeisley, Chris Pratt, Craig Ranke, Susan Lindauer, Barbara Honegger, Democritus Blantayre, Joseph Baltar, Jim Hogue, Sheila Casey, Steve Martin, Ben Collet, Elizabeth Woodward, Runyan Wilde, Susan Wolfe, Adam Ruff, Conrad Gilber. Jonathan Mark, Tonya Sneed, Dan Sutton, Richard Krushnic, Mark Crispin Miller, Byron Belitsos, George Ripley, Laurie Manwell , Susan Serpa, Nicolas Guillermo, Dwain Deets, Craig McKee, Steve Fahrney; Fran Shure; David Petrano, Lawrence Fine, A.K. Dewdney, Steve De'ak, Allan Rees, Art Olivier, Ron Avery, Michael Booth, Jim Fetzer, Laura Katleman, Don Gibbs, Mark Basile, John-Michael Talboo, Julian Stroh, Christopher Gruener, Elias Davidsson, Martin McGee, Adnan Zuberi, Jan Ravensbergen, Rich Aucoin (in memoriam), David Hooper, Don Fox, Bill Wilt, William Jacoby, Ron Neils, John Campbell, Dan Hennen, Barton Bruce, Cheri Aspenleiter, Stephen Phillips, Dick Atlee, Lynn Ertrell, Nita Renfrew. Frank Tolopko, Mark McDonald, Christopher Bollyn, John Paul OMalley, Rodger Bories, Mark Snyder, Jane Clark, Richard Sacks, Tim Michel, Lynn Bradbury, Xander Arena, David Cole, Rick Tufts, Jerry Turner, Rick Shaddock, Rebecca Schmoyer, Mark Mckertich, Kip Beckford, Doug West, PF Soto, Dennis Cimino, Jane Clark, Charles Ewing Smith, Lucy Morgan Edwards, Pablo Novi, David Rolde, Gregory Flynn, Pat O'Connell, Jeff Long, Greg McCarron, Andy Steele, Thomas Robichaud, Doug Mackenzie, Peter Michael Ketcham, Gene Laratonda, Karl Golovin, Steve Jarrott, Neil Marquis, Matt Van Slyke, Tony Hall, Ph.D., Mike Springmann, Ezra Smith, Samuel Smith, Janane Tripp, Daniel Fielding, Gerald Pechenuk, Ralph Lopez, Robert Griffin, Linda McPherson, Marie Spike, Kathy Allard, PhD, Trina Silvers, Julio Gomez, Ann Hendricks, Malcolm Arnold, Nooria Ghafoor, Bonnie Faulkner, Clay Smith, Andrew Kreig

Draft minutes for June 26, 2019

July 23, 2019
Ann Hendricks, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
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Draft minutes for the June 26, 2019 regular conference call

Present were:
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
Marti Hopper, Colorado 9/11 Truth
Barbara Honegger, Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry
Peter Michael Ketcham, formerly of NIST
Nita Renfrew, New York 9/11 Truth
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
Cheri Aspen, San Diego 9/11 Truth
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Cat McGuire, 9/11 Truth Outreach
Karl Golovin
Steve Stodola, Boston 9/11 Truth
Dan Hennen, TAP
Jonathan Mark, Fly By News
Zander Arena
Doug West
Gerald Pechenuk, LarouchePac
David Rolde, Anti-imperialist activist

The minutes of the May 29, 2019 regular conference call were APPROVED.

Book published
James Hufferd spoke about his latest book, Colonel Crystal’s Parallel Universe: A Defense Only Military. This is a novel about a top flight commander in Afghanistan and Iraq who retires and , disillusioned with the U.S. Military, writes down his grievances about U.S. foreign policy. He develops a concept of a defense only military. James said, “All countries have this except for the United States. Russia and China each have one foreign base, but the U.S. has over a thousand military bases and installations on foreign soil.” This novel is James’s 10th book and is available on Amazon and other online bookstores. James’s website is http://911truth.org/grassroots-contacts/

Apollo lunar missions
Jonathan Mark of FlyBy News has been considering the implausibility of the Apollo moon landings, in part because NASA now states it has to learn how to protect the astronauts before they can send them beyond low earth orbit. After 10 years of seeing the public’s resistance to 9/11 facts, Jonathan decided to look to the subject of the future, the exploration of outer space. “They will either have to keep lying about what they claim to have done, using 1960s technology, and keep suppressing the truth, or, they will have to own up to it. And if they own up to it, this could redirect the country because of the popular uprising of all these people realizing they’ve been under cognitive dissonance most of their lives and they will demand change.” Jonathan’s website is https://www.flybynews.com

Strategy for victory
Gerald Pechenuk’s presentation regarded ending perpetual war and the surveillance nightmare of the post 9/11 era. He spoke of Bill Binney’s position that Russia never hacked the DNC computers and the effort to get Binney to testify of this before Congress. “As a result of this lie, that Russia hacked the DNC, the Congress passed a bill that the United States can carry out cyber warfare against Russia, China, Iran and North Korea without it going through the President.” Gerald also told about the petition to have Lyndon Larouche exonerated, which is posted on their website: ttps://larouchepac.com

Colorado Pentagon conference
Barbara Honegger and Bonnie Faulkner attended the May Pentagon conference sponsored by Scientists for 9/11 Truth, and Barbara provided a review. She met Warren Stutt, who had analysed the alleged Flight 77 Flight Data Recorder. His findings were that it indicated a north path for the plane that approached the Pentagon. The conference videos are available at http://www.scientistsfor911truth
Barbara’s rebuttal video can be found here: https://youtu.be/05wSreYUUnY
In response to a question, Barbara presented her theory about why some in the Truth Movement have been accelerating their support for the claim that Flight 77 really hit the Pentagon. She responded that it might be related to the release of the 28 pages and to the ongoing lawsuit by 9/11 family members against the government of Saudi Arabia, which could not succeed if Flight 77 is shown not to have hit the Pentagon.

Announcements
Karl Golovin told of attending a Brookings Institution event on May 29 and asking General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whether a false flag terrorist attack could be used to lead the U.S. into war against Iran. Kevin Barrett wrote an article about this and included the C-Span video link: https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/05/30/dunford/
Barbara Honegger mentioned two developments with potential to increase 9/11 truth awareness. A friend of hers attended a meeting in Europe and discussed 9/11 truth with Admiral Mike Rogers, recently retired NSA director, who seemed to show a positive reaction when learning about the Lawyers’ Committee efforts. Additionally, a film production company that supplies documentaries to Japanese mainstream television is now producing a film about 9/11, after learning of the Lawyers’ Committee Grand Jury Petition.
Barbara also gave an update on September 11 anniversary event planning: Professor Daniele Ganser will be the keynote speaker at the Zurich event; Lawyers’ Committee members will also be speaking. The videos from this eight-hour event will be available on YouTube. A Dutch newspaper about 9/11 is currently being distributed in a different European city every weekend. It will be published in English and be available at the Zurich event. Mick Harrison will be speaking at the 9/11 film festival in Oakland, CA. David Meiswinkle and Andrew Kreig are planning an event for either Washington, D.C., or New York City.
Cheryl Curtiss said the Red Pill Expo in Hartford was most uplifting and encouraging. Richard Gage received a tremendous response and two standing ovations.
Cheryl noted that the July 31 teleconference speakers will be Christopher Bollyn, Adam Ruff, and Karl Golovin.
Call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 10:55 p.m. EST/5 p.m. to 7:55pm. PST. Audio of the June call can be heard here: http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 062619.mp3. The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss (chercurt@aol.com) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee (craigmckee911@gmail.com), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks (hendricks_ann@yahoo.com).

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https://www.rt.com/uk/470185-uk-deaths-cold-homes/

Freezing to death: Unheated homes killed over 16,000 people across UK last winter, govt watchdog finds



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Lawsuit: Tennessee Deputy Strips to Underwear and Baptizes Woman to Avoid Arrest





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Florida Deputy Sues Federal Agents for Injuring him after Blowing Horn at them



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Barr Seeks Access to Encrypted Facebook Messages





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Narcotics cop busted for using confiscated Porsche on stepdaughter’s school prom day
by Mensah M. Dean, Updated: October 4, 2019- 4:00 PM





https://nypost.com/2019/10/04/nypd-cop- ... r-hearing/

NYPD cop in alleged murder-for-hire plot ‘refused’ to leave jail for hearing




Police officer accused of battery after Hollywood cops say he hit a handcuffed suspect

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... rylink=cpy



https://padailypost.com/2019/10/04/ex-c ... ape-trial/

Ex-cop’s own words used against him at rape trial
October 4, 2019 9:00 am




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Ex-cop receives 1 year in jail for criminal sexual conduct involving Lansing students
Posted Oct 04, 201






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Ex-Florida Cop, Wife Accused of Stealing $300,000 From Mom

Published Oct 4, 2019 at 3:17 PM


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Verdict tossed after prosecutors failed to disclose cop faced discipline for lying



https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/04/female-c ... -10863932/

Female cop ‘left in forest by male officers as revenge for reporting sex crime’

Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/04/female-c ... to=cbshare
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https://www.workers.org/2019/10/05/pens ... cop-fired/

Home » Coast to coast » Pensacola, Fla.:People’s victory: Killer cop fired!
Pensacola, Fla.:People’s victory: Killer cop fired!
By Devin Cole posted on October 5, 2019



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Wombat stoning: Hundreds of thousands sign petition to prosecute off-duty cop Waylon Johncock




https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/punjab- ... nt-2112124


Punjab Cop Shoots At Wife Then Kills Himself Over Argument
The cop fired three rounds at his wife with his service pistol. The first shot missed her while the other two hit her on the chest, injuring her severely, police said.



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Paris knife attack – Anti-terror cops take over investigation after deaf police worker who killed four has flat raided



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Cop convicted on firearm charges





https://thegrio.com/2019/10/04/deeply-d ... stigation/

‘Deeply disturbing’ video of Black teen being arrested at UPS under investigation



https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6144 ... -backlash/


This is how you kick facial recognition out of your town
Bans on the technology have mostly focused on law enforcement, but there’s a growing movement to get it out of school, parks, and private businesses too.




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Prosecutor: Video Shows Hollywood Cop Hit Suspect, Fabricated Excuse
TERI BERG | OCTOBER 4, 2019 | 11:41AM




https://www.news-press.com/story/news/l ... 855635002/


Fort Myers police department hires former FBI agent to be inspector general

Melissa Montoya, Fort Myers News-Press Published 4:45 p.m. ET Oct. 4, 2019







https://www.courant.com/news/connecticu ... story.html

FBI AGENT WHO KILLED PREGNANT LOVER ENDS SENTENCE

Los Angeles TimesVictim's Sister Haunted by Slaying a Year After FBI Agent Confessed : Crime: Susan Smith's family, believing her death was motivated by more than an unwanted pregnancy, is pursuing ...


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FBI agent gets 6 years for abduction



The former special agent in charge of the FBI's Toledo office will spend six years in a Virginia prison for abducting his girlfriend last year.
Carl L. Spicocchi, 55, was sentenced Wednesday in Arlington County Circuit Court to 10 years with seven years suspended for an abduction conviction and three years for using a firearm while committing a felony, said Richard Trodden, commonwealth attorney for Arlington County.
Spicocchi pleaded guilty to the charges in December.
During the sentencing hearing, a powerful victim statement was read detailing the Aug. 23 incident in which Spicocchi held his girlfriend against her will and terrorized her, Mr. Trodden said.
"It was a narration of about six hours of sheer terror that the victim suffered at the hands of the defendant," he said.
The victim told the court that Spicocchi had hidden in a closet, armed with tape, a knife, and a gun, and that he then dragged her around her apartment by her hair, stripped her naked, beat her, and threatened to kill her.
The victim said he put the gun to her head and threatened to shoot. And he told her he could cut her veins and know exactly how long it would take for her to bleed to death because of his law enforcement training.
Spicocchi, who was in Arlington on a temporary assignment as a supervisor at the FBI





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THE SECRET LIFE OF J. EDGAR HOOVER
Did J. Edgar Hoover Really Wear Dresses? Welcome to the bizarre world of J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until his death in 1972. Rumors of Hoover's homosexuality were rampant but suppressed during his lifetime. A favorite story is that Mob-friendly lawyer (and deep closet case) Roy Cohn possessed a photograph of Hoover in drag, which he used to blackmail the FBI director into denying the existence of the Mafia. In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, also claimed that Hoover did not pursue organized crime because the Mafia had blackmail material on him. In support of that, Summers quoted Susan L. Rosenstiel, a former wife of Lewis S. Rosenstiel, chairman of Schenley Industries Inc., as saying that in 1958, she was at a party at the Plaza Hotel where Hoover engaged in cross-dressing in front of her then-husband and Roy Cohn, former counsel to Senator Joe McCarthy.

"He [Hoover] was wearing a fluffy black dress, very fluffy, with flounces and lace stockings and high heels, and a black curly wig," Summers quoted Susan as saying. "He had makeup on and false eyelashes." Susan claimed Cohn introduced Hoover to her as "Mary." Hoover allegedly responded, "Good evening." She said she saw Hoover go into a bedroom and take off his skirt. There, "young blond boys" worked on him in bed. Later, as Hoover and Cohn watched, Lewis Rosenstiel had sex with the young boys.
A year later, Susan claimed, she again saw Hoover at the Plaza. This time, the director was wearing a red dress. Around his neck was a black feather boa. He was holding a Bible, and he asked one of the blond boys to read a passage as another boy played with him. It was episodes such as these, Summers declared, that the Mafia held over Hoover's head. "M

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Robert Shetterly/Americans Who Tell The Truth
Frank Serpico
Retired Police Detective, Author, Lecturer : b. 1936
“A policeman’s first obligation is to be responsible to the needs of the community he serves…The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which an honest police officer can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers. We create an atmosphere in which the honest officer fears the dishonest officer, and not the other way around.

• 1971: Became the first New York City policeman in history to testify about widespread corruption in the department. 
• 1972: Received the NYPD's higest award, The Medal of Honor.
• After being shot and testifying about corruption in the NYPD, Serpico lived in Europe for nearly a decade. 
• Al Pacino played Serpico in the 1973 movie about his life. 


https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019 ... aign-trail

Democratic Candidates Face Questions Seldom Heard On Campaign Trail
They defend their criminal justice records and tout proposals at nation’s first town hall held by formerly incarcerated people.


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Mumbai: 'Rapist' inspector's wife refuses  ..

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -city.html

Family of man, 62, who died after being wrongly arrested sue Mississippi city and three cops who 'brutally beat him'




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Maine scientists are looking into how seaweed could get cows to burp less


https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ndon-sewer

Bus-sized fatberg weighing 40 tonnes cleared from London sewer
Blockage in Greenwich prompts Thames Water to reissue warning about waste disposal

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019 ... them-week/


Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign Hosts 'Free-Them Week

The Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign hosted “Free-Them Week” this week to promote prison divestment at the University through a series of seminars, office hours, and workshops.
HPDC launched the week’s events by delivering a 64-page report — released last Wednesday — detailing what they say are the University’s investments in companies with ties to the prison industry to Massachusetts Hall Monday.
The report estimated the University has at least $3 million invested in companies with such ties. It also demanded the University divest and disclose all endowment holdings in companies connected to the industry.
On Wednesday night, students gathered at Harvard Law School for a seminar about connecting Jewish values to calls for divestment and dismantling the U.S. prison system. Participants drew parallels between contemporary prisons and the historic confinement of Jewish people as a basis for solidarity.



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Elm City protests police shooting results

MEERA SHOAIB 12:48 AM, OCT 29, 2019




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Yale-NUS produces groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research

JOHN BESCHE 12:38 AM, OCT 29, 2019





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Princeton, you’ll be OK without us: a response to Penn’s proud legacy opinion

By Rachel Kennedy | Oct 24, 2019


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WATCH: NYPD Cops Point Guns at Subway Commuters to Arrest Fare Evader


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New Mexico Cops Shoot and Kill Mentally Ill Homeless Man


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Getty fire spreads in elite enclaves, a celebrity-studded spectacle of L.A.’s inherent dangers


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html


Florida man spits on Trump supporter wearing MAGA cap in a bar, did it to show support for law enforcement

By BRIAN NIEMIETZ

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Gospel Music Association issues apology to Kirk Franklin in aftermath of proposed boycott over editing his comments about police brutality for telecast

By KARU F. DANIELS

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 29, 2019 | 4:04 PM


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METRO

LES cop busted for ‘shaking down’ suspects for cash:


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WATCH: Missouri Cop Seizes Phone from Woman Recording him Arresting Homeless Man


https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html

NYPD officer suspected of stealing from suspects caught taking cash from undercover cop in sting operation, sources say

By THOMAS TRACY and JOHN ANNESE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
OCT 29, 2019 | 7:26 PM





https://www.courant.com/community/east- ... story.html

East Hartford cop says promotion denied because of her sex, also contends harassment, bullying

By JESSE LEAVENWORTH

HARTFORD COURANT |
OCT 29, 2019 | 8:32 AM
| EAST HARTFORD


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NYPD cop seen slugging teen in viral video has history of excessive force complaints: sources

By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA and THOMAS TRACY

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
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I-Team: Retired NY Cop Believes His Guns Were Seized as Retaliation for Whistleblower Complaint Against Police Academy
By Sarah Wallace
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Domestic Violence Felony charges dismissed against former New Mexico cop



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New Mexico cop admitted to sending explicit texts to 15 year old undercover agent


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THE FBI SPENDS A LOT OF TIME SPYING ON BLACK AMERICANS
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October 29 2019, 10:07 a.m.



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Here’s How Easily New York Could Become the First Major U.S. City to End Solitary Confinement
Natasha Lennard
October 21 2019, 7:00 a.m.



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Before First Federal Execution in Years, Family of Victims Dissents
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Woman who flipped off Trump’s motorcade wins Virginia election

By KATE FELDMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 06, 2019 | 9:47 AM



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Hancock
A new study shows where Stonington could be under water in the next 81 years





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DEA agent lied and covered up crimes to help Mafia friends, indictment says



November 6 2019
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From: Emma Best
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Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: Carl Oglesby
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To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
Records relating to or mentioning Carl Oglesby (July 30, 1935 – September 13, 2011), an American writer, academic, and political activist. He was the President of the leftist student organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) from 1965 to 1966. The Bureau has previously acknowledged having files discussing the subject (see attached).
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
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Brooklyn D.A. releases list of cops with credibility problems

By JOHN ANNESE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 06, 2019 | 7:56 PM





https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ ... story.html

Chicago SWAT team stormed family home with flash grenades to arrest man already in prison, says lawsuit

By BRIAN NIEMIETZ

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 06, 2019 | 4:49 PM





https://apnews.com/1fb0d9256b344d81bc01769d4658bd03


Texas cop who shot woman was critiqued for ‘tunnel vision’




https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/artic ... 815540.php

Livingston cop fired after ride along says officer snorted cocaine in squad car, while on duty
Sanford J. Schmidt, sschmidt@thetelegraph.com Updated 7:10 pm CST, Wednesday, November 6, 20



http://www.startribune.com/prosecutors- ... 564575642/

Prosecutors: Cop charged in shooting had disciplinary flaws



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Fifth Phoenix Cop Fired This Year, This Time for Alleged Stalking
MEG O'CONNOR | NOVEMBER 6, 2019 | 7:00AM



https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/loc ... -on-tinder

Report: Cleveland cop who allegedly raped woman met her on Tinder
Posted: 4:55 PM, Nov 06, 2019



https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/br ... story.html




Orlando cop diagnosed with PTSD after Pulse faces firing this week, with retirement in limbo




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Retired Beloit cop sentenced to federal prison for sex with minor



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Monongahela cop proclaims innocence amid charges of on-duty sexual assault





https://samuelwalker.net/reports/

Driving While Female:
Sam Walker and Dawn Irlbeck are the authors of two reports on police sexual abuse of women, including teenage girls. Read the reports:
* Driving While Female: A National Problem in Police Misconduct
* Police Sexual Abuse of Teenage Girls: A 2003 Update on “Driving While Female
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Michael J. Orlando
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Joint Statement with Department of Justice Deputy Assistant Attorney General J. Bradford Wiegmann and Susan Morgan, National Security Agency, Before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Washington, D.C.
November 6, 2019
Reauthorizing the USA Freedom Act of 2015
Joint Statement for the Record
Chairman Graham, Ranking Member Feinstein, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today about four important provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that will expire at the end of this year unless reauthorized by Congress. As indicated in the Director of National Intelligence’s letter to this committee, the administration strongly supports permanent reauthorization of these provisions.
Three of the authorities—the roving wiretap, business records, and lone wolf provisions—have been part of FISA for well over a decade and have been renewed by Congress multiple times, most recently in the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 (FREEDOM Act). Before that, these same authorities were reauthorized multiple times between 2005 and 2011, each time following extensive congressional review and deliberation. Each renewal gained bipartisan support.
Two of the authorities, the “roving wiretap” and “business records” provisions, have been part of FISA since 2001. These provisions are important in national security investigations and are comparable to provisions available in ordinary criminal investigations. The roving wiretap authority enables the government to continue surveilling a court-approved national security target when the target takes steps to thwart the surveillance. The business records authority allows the government to collect records, papers, and other documents that are relevant to a national security investigation. The government has used these important national security authorities judiciously, with the approval of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), and in the interest of national security.
The “lone wolf” provision was added to FISA in 2004 to close a gap in the government’s ability to surveil a foreign person who is engaged in international terrorism or international proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, but who lacks traditional connections to a terrorist group or other foreign power. Without the authority, the government could not rely on FISA to respond to those kinds of threats. Although the government has not used the lone wolf provision to date, it is critical this authority remain in the government’s toolkit for the future, as international terrorist groups increasingly seek to inspire individuals to carry out attacks, without necessarily providing the kind of coordination or support that would authorize traditional FISA surveillance. 
The fourth authority—the Call Detail Records (CDR) provision—permits the targeted collection of telephony metadata but not the content of any communications. Congress added this authority to FISA four years ago in the FREEDOM Act as one of several significant FISA reforms designed to enhance privacy and civil liberties. It replaced the National Security Agency’s (NSA's) bulk telephony metadata collection program with a new legal authority whereby the bulk metadata would remain with the telecommunications service providers. The CDR authority provides a “narrowly-tailored mechanism for the targeted collection of telephone metadata for possible connections between foreign powers or agents of foreign powers and others as part of an authorized investigation to protect against international terrorism.” H. Rep. 114-109, at 17 (2015). The FREEDOM Act also permanently banned bulk collection under FISA’s business records and pen-trap provisions and under the National Security Letter statutes. As this committee is aware, the NSA recently discontinued the CDR program for technical and operational reasons. But the CDR program retains the potential to be a source of valuable foreign intelligence information. The CDR program may be needed again in the future, should circumstances change. NSA’s careful approach to the program, and the legal obligations imposed by the FREEDOM Act in the form of judicial oversight, legislative oversight, and transparency, support the reauthorization of the CDR program.
We urge the committee to consider permanently reauthorizing these authorities based not only on the government’s demonstrated record and the importance of the authorities to national security, but also on the significant reforms contained in the FREEDOM Act. These include authorizing the FISC to appoint amici curiae to address privacy and civil liberties concerns and enhancing public transparency and reporting requirements under FISA. Four years ago, the FREEDOM Act was passed after extensive oversight and comprehensive hearings, and received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. In the wake of repeated reviews and bipartisan authorizations over nearly two decades, the administration’s view is that the time has come for Congress to extend these authorities permanently.
Roving Wiretap
First, Congress should permanently reauthorize the “roving wiretap” provision. The authority outlined in this provision is similar to the roving wiretap authority that has been available since 1986 in criminal investigations, under the Wiretap Act, and which has repeatedly been upheld in the courts.
The “roving wiretap” provision provides the government an effective tool to use in response to adversaries attempting to thwart detection. To understand the importance of this authority, the committee must consider how FISA functions in ordinary, non-roving cases, and how roving authority is necessary for targets who try to avoid surveillance. Under both regular and roving FISA authority, the government’s application for a court order must identify the target of the surveillance with particularity and must establish probable cause that the target is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power. If the court approves the application, it issues one order to the government and a “secondary” order to a third-party—such as a telephone company—directing it to assist the government in conducting the wiretap. See 50 U.S.C. § 1805(c)(1-2). The secondary order is necessary because, in most cases, the government needs the assistance of a company to implement the surveillance. In an ordinary case, if the target switches to a new communications service provider, the government must submit a new application and obtain a new set of FISA orders. However, where the government can demonstrate in advance to the FISA court that the target’s actions may have the effect of thwarting surveillance, such as by rapidly and repeatedly changing providers, FISA’s roving wiretap provision allows the FISC to issue a generic secondary order that the government can serve on the new provider to commence surveillance without first going back to the court. See 50 U.S.C. § 1805(c)(2)(B). The government’s probable cause showing that the target is an agent of a foreign power remains the same, and the government must also demonstrate to the FISC, normally within 10 days of initiating surveillance of the new facility, probable cause that the specific target is using, or is about to use, the new facility. See 50 U.S.C. § 1805(c)(3).    
The roving wiretap authority has proven to be an important intelligence-gathering tool. The government has used the authority in a relatively small number of cases each year. Those cases tend to involve highly-trained foreign intelligence officers operating within the United States, or other important investigative targets, including terrorism-related targets, who have shown a propen


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Congress Should Understand the Scope of Section 215 Before Voting to Reauthorize It
NOVEMBER 05, 2019
* Security & Surveillance
Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary Committee will conduct a hearing on reauthorization of the USA FREEDOM Act, the 2015 legislation that extended and amended expiring provisions of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act, including Section 215. Unless Congress obtains from the intelligence community clearer, public answers about the information that can be obtained with a Section 215 order, Congress should not reauthorize this authority, which sunsets on December 15. It should adopt this stance because intelligence community officials have failed to disclose publicly whether Section 215 is being used, or can be used, to obtain information that courts have ruled is protected by the Fourth Amendment’s probable cause requirement. We believe such a use would be unconstitutional.
Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act broadened the “business records” provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to enable the FBI to obtain court orders compelling the disclosure of “any tangible thing” (not just business records). To obtain such orders, the government must prove that the tangible thing sought is relevant to a foreign intelligence investigation not concerning a US citizen or permanent resident, or to an investigation to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities.  
In the eighteen years since Congress passed the PATRIOT Act, the government has not disclosed the full scope of the records it can obtain under Section 215
In the eighteen years since Congress passed the PATRIOT Act, the government has not disclosed the full scope of the records it can obtain under Section 215, or the type of records it has obtained using this authority. To make matters worse, government officials further muddied the waters when asked whether revealing, sensitive records could be obtained under Section 215 at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on September 18. 
Members of Congress have been surprised before about the scope of Section 215 orders. In June 2013, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden disclosed court orders issued under Section 215. These orders compelled communications service providers to disclose, on an ongoing basis, records in their possession of all phone calls to, from, and within the United States. The FISA Court (FISC) had determined that these “call detail records” (CDRs) were somehow “relevant” to an investigation, essentially removing the relevance standard as a meaningful check on government intelligence surveillance activity. We argued elsewhere that the CDR portion of Section 215—which has not been used for months, and when used, was used unlawfully—should be repealed. 
Members of Congress risk being surprised again because government officials are being cagey and self-contradictory about the types of records they do obtain, and can obtain, with Section 215 orders. One can infer from the statute, codified at 50 USC 1861, that the government can use Section 215 to compel disclosure of library circulation records and patron lists, bookstore sales records and cust

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Australia fires could be out of control for months, says fire chief
Concern grows over wind changes and high temperatures forecast for later this week


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We depend on the Tongass': Alaskans fight to save US’s largest national forest





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From Barry Seal to Donald Trump
By Daniel Hopsicker -
June 5, 2019
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This is a story about  ‘connections,’ elite deviance and the CIA.  More specifically,  Donald Trump’s connections, a  word which has a long history of usage in organized crime. 
As in,  ‘He’s connected.’
A member of the Mafia is known as a ‘made guy.’ Someone who’s ‘connected’ has been vouched for by a ‘made guy,’ who typically refers to him as “a friend of mine.”
The growth of transnational organized crime has now rendered this lexicon somewhat out of date. Organized crime’s typically hierarchical crime structure—soldiers, button men, capos, underbosses, kingpins—has given way to more informal networks which s



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Climate change is causing more extreme storms in Maine. Here’s how



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‘Apocalyptic’ flooding set to leave an ‘indelible wound’ on Venice as city battles 2nd highest tide in history
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Man walks free after serving 11 years for L.A. robberies he didn’t do





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Off-duty cop working as security guard shot 2 people while trying to stop armed suspects

by Associated Press Wednesday, November 13th 2019





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Alton cop, city face $100K lawsuit after woman says officer caused crash that injured her
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New interfering with police charge could prevent Norwalk cop’s chance at probation program
By Daniel Tepfer Updated 12:19 am EST, Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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White Queens cop says black supervisor harassed her for dating African American man
By Andrew Denney
November 12, 2019 |



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Facebook video of cop entering apartment causes headaches in Opa-locka






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Cop sentenced after pleading guilty to wife’s murder




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NYPD cop gets 9 months for assaulting mentally ill, cuffed teen





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SEE IT: Naked cop caught on video dancing wildly at Arkansas nightclub suspended without pay


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NYPD busts Bronx woman for making 24,000 bogus 911 calls for emergencies that never happened




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Oklahoma cop accused of murdering police chief apparently found 'mumbling,' sitting on top of chief's body



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California has a criminal cop problem. Will State Legislature change the law?
BY THE SACRAMENTO BEE EDITORIAL BOARD
NOVEMBER 12, 2019 01:05 PM
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Hong Kong cop suspended for driving his motorcycle into a crowd





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Wearing a Badge Didn’t Make One Woman’s Case Against a Cop Any Easier
An SDPD sergeant was convicted of stalking a fellow officer. He was allowed to keep his job. She was painted as a “drama queen” in court.




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Why a veteran Chesapeake cop hasn’t been allowed to carry a gun or badge for 4 years

By SCOTT DAUGHERTY

THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT |
NOV 12, 2019 | 12:16 PM
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Georgia cop was in uniform when he robbed hotel guests of $800 and iPhone
Justin Thorne abruptly resigned the police force in October when faced with misconduct allegations. Now he's charged with a robbery at a Georgia hotel.


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school safety cop arrested in Queens for slapping his teenage daughter: NYPD




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Toronto cop admits causing Dafonte Miller's severe eye injury





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November 12, 2019
Vandalism Fears, Racist Cats: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts releases comments on Kehinde Wiley acquisition
Everyone’s a critic, sure, but we weren’t prepared for a racist critique co-signed by two cats.
Written by Tom Nash
Edited by Beryl Lipton
Everyone’s a critic. But nothing prepared us for the racist art critique co-signed by two Virginia cats.
In June, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced its acquisition of “Rumors of War,” a sculpture by world-renowned artist Kehinde Wiley created in response to Richmond’s Monument Avenue. The stretch of tony Richmond real estate started to take shape in the 1890s when Lost Cause backers began erecting equestrian statues of Confederate generals, just as the city’s ascendant Black middle class came under attack from Jim Crow laws. Wiley became inspired by Monument Avenue’s J.E.B. Stuart statue, which he saw while in town for the opening of his 2016 VMFA exhibition, and “Rumors of War” bears a resemblance to the figure—with Stuart replaced.
Wiley unveiled the statue in Times Square in September. It will take its place in front of the VMFA in December. Being a government agency, the comments received by VMFA at the front desk or by email belong to us. Ahead of the December installation, we thought we’d see what people have to say so far.
The bulk of the 29 comments received and provided to us under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act came in just after the announcement, with some trickling in following the unveiling.
Eighteen registered some form of enthusiasm—whether that meant congratulating VMFA Director Alex Nyerges or worrying Virginians would attempt to va

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NYC releases police surveillance archives from 60s and 70s

By LEONARD GREENE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 24, 2019 | 4:41 PM



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Arrested as teens, three men exonerated after 36 years behind bars for wrongful murder conviction
Baltimore prosecutor’s Conviction Integrity Unit finds men are innocent in 1983 slaying of 14-year-old, shot in school hallway for his jacket






11/25/2019
Keystone XL: police discussed stopping anti-pipeline activists 'by any means'
Sam Levin, Willi Parish, The Guardian 
Doctors tell UK authorities Julian Assange 'could die' in jail
Staff, Al Jazeera
States Push Back Against ICE Courthouse Arrests
Douglas Keith, Brennan Center for Justice
Remembering the Battle for Seattle: Organizers Launch Project to Reflect on 20 Years of Lessons
David Solnit, Stephanie Guilloud, Common Dreams




November 22, 2019
Ann Hendricks, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
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Draft minutes for the October 30, 2019 regular conference call.

Present were:
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
Peter Michael Ketcham, formerly of NIST
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
Cheri Aspen, San Diego 9/11 Truth
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Fern Tishman
Lynn Bradbury, Maine 9/11Truth
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
Christopher Bollyn, Solving 9/11
Christopher Gioia, commisioner, Franklin Square and Munson Fire District
Nita Renfrew, New York 911Truth
Bonnie Faulkner, Guns and Butter
Charles Ewing Smith, The Demolition of Truth
 
The minutes of the September 25, 2019 conference call were APPROVED.
 
Jeffrey Epstein and 9/11
Christopher Bollyn presented on Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to Leslie Wexner, Ehud Barak, and Michael Chertoff and about the dissolution of the Iraqi and Syrian states and their military power. He also spoke about the lack of political will to investigate the 9/11 crimes. “We see that the Department of Justice is completely controlled and unable to do an investigation of the government, of itself, or of the crime that changed America. The media, the universities, and the churches have not investigated 9/11. All the institutions that we believe in in our democratic society, somehow being responsible for standing for the truth, have failed us.” Christopher’s new book, Solving 9-11 The Original Articles Vol. ll is available at www.bollyn.com. His recent articles are:                                  The Turkish Invasion of Kurdish-Occupied Syria    (https://www.bollyn.com/#article_16281) and The Epstein Connection to 9/11 (https://www.bollyn.com/#article_16267).

Franklin Square and Munson resolution moving ahead
Christopher Gioia told of plans to get other fire departments in New York behind the Franklin Square and Munson Fire Department Resolution, and behind the Grand Jury investigation. He and his fellow commissioners are taking their initiative across the country and seeking the support of every fire department or district to support the Grand Jury Petition. 
“What happened on 9/11 was evil ‪incarnate‬; it was just tremendous evil that was perpetrated on our country and on our people… That is something we have to fight. I’m not going to stop until justice is done for the people who were murdered.” Christopher said it is critical to keep the pressure and the spotlight on the court to act. He urged everyone to contact U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman and inquire about the status of the Grand Jury investigation.  The address is:   Southern District Court of New York, ‪1 St. Andrew’s Plaza, New York City, NY  10007‬ (or call: ‪212-637-2200‬) https://www.ae911truth.org/news/540-new ... estigation
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Announcements and discussion
1 Cheryl Curtiss said the next teleconference call will be ‪Wednesday, December 4.‬ She also spoke about Max Blumenthal’s arrest, and said updates are posted on https://thegrayzone.com
2 Craig McKee asked for suggestions on how to transfer the archive of the 9/11 List Serve emails to another location, because Yahoo Groups will no longer maintain this older content as of ‪December 14.‬ 
3 Lynn Bradbury said it would be a good idea to exchange email or postal addresses with each other.
4 Nita Renfrew spoke of attending Robert Kennedy Jr.’s presentation on vaccine issues, at which his mic was pulled and the venue immediately closed. He continued his talk outside on the sidewalk. His organization is Children’s Health Defense.
The call began ‪at 8 p.m. EST‬ and adjourned ‪at 9:51 p.m., PST‬/‪5 p.m. to 6:51 p.m. PST‬. Audio of the October call can be heard here:
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The next monthly teleconference will take place ‪on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 8 p.m. EST‬, ‪5 p.m. PST‬. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss (chercurt@aol.com) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee (craigmckee911@gmail.com), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks (hendricks_ann@yahoo.com)



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Detroit police sergeant suspended for response to fatal shooting of cop

George Hunter, The Detroit News Published 5:42 p.m. ET Nov. 25, 2019 | Updated 7:32 p.m. ET Nov. 25, 2019



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Jury Convicts White Cop for Killing Unarmed Black Man



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Jury gets the case in federal trial of St. Paul cop charged with excessive force
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Chicago cop gets 18 months in prison for taking bribes to leak names to attorney service



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A Duel of Dreams
by Linda Backiel
(Oct 01, 2019)
Topics:


Linda Backiel is a criminal defense attorney living in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Naomi Klein, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018), 96 pages, $9.95, paperback.
Naomi Klein travels the world documenting how capitalism feeds on the carrion of societies devastated by disaster. In January 2018, after two hurricanes destroyed much of Puerto Rico’s infrastructure, she participated in a forum at the University of Puerto Rico on disaster capitalism.1 This phenomenon moves fast, but takes a long-range view, she warns.
But because she was here on the ground, navigating darkened roads blocked by mudslides, she also witnessed the will and creative spirit of the Puerto Rican people. After peering down on an island gone dark from an oasis of solar-generated light at Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas, Klein attended a gathering of dozens of organizations in Humacao—where María struck land with winds of 135 miles an hour. In response, they had created community kitchens, community power grids, community wells, and just plain community. One participant expressed the Puerto Rican response to the recent devastation as “a level of resistance and support that I didn’t imagine was going to be possible.”2
In fact, much of The Battle for Paradise describes how grassroots organizations—some decades old, some newly sprung from the debris—





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The Kennedy Autopsy 2
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
November 23, 2019
Fifty-six years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead on the streets of Dallas, Texas. The official story is that a lone nut named Lee Harvey Oswald, without any motive, committed the assassination. During the past several decades, however, the overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence, much of which was intentionally kept secret, points to a national-security regime-change operation to oust Kennedy from office and elevate Vice President Lyndon Johnson to the presidency.
A key to understanding the assassination lies in a critically important event that occurred after the assassination. That event was the official autopsy that was conducted on the president’s body. By understanding the autopsy, one can gain a better understanding of the assassination itself.
That was the purpose of my best-selling book several years ago, The Kennedy Autopsy, which was a synopsis of a watershed five-volume assassination book entitled Inside the Assassination Records Review Board by Douglas P. Horne, who was a staff member of the ARRB in the 80’s
The ARRB was the agency that Congress called into existence to enforce the President John F. Kennedy Records Collection Act of 1992, the law that required the CIA, the Pentagon, the Secret Service, and other federal agencies to disclose assassination-related records that such agencies had insisted on keeping secret since the day of the assassination. The law was enacted in response to the public outcry produced by Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, which posited that the assassination was a national-security regime-change operation carried out by the U.S. national-security establishment. At the end of the movie was a blurb pointing out the national-security establishment’s continued secrecy with respect to its assassination-related records.
The Future of Freedom Foundation recently published my new book The Kennedy Autopsy 2: Lyndon Johnson’s Role in the Assassination, which builds on the mountain of circumstantial evidence surrounding the president’s autopsy supporting the thesis developed by Oliver Stone in his movie and by Douglas Horne in his five-volume book. Specifically, my new book documents the circumstantial evidence pointing to the role that Lyndon Johnson played in the assassination.
Now, before anyone cries “Conspiracy theory!” which is the term that the CIA promoted early on to its assets in the mainstream press to dissuade people from questioning the official version of the assassination, consider the following:
The purpose of an autopsy is to determine the cause of death, which includes a determination of where the bullets were fired from. Since this was a state murder case, Texas law required that an autopsy be conducted on President Kennedy’s body. That duty fell to the Dallas County Medical Examiner, Dr. Earl Rose, who was one of the most competent pathologists in the country.
As soon as Kennedy was declared dead, however, a Secret Service team had the president’s body placed in an expensive, ornate casket and began taking it out of Parkland Hospital. Rose refused to permit them to do that, standing in their way, and declaring that he was required by state law to conduct an autopsy on the president’s body. In loud, screaming voices, the Secret Service team made it clear to Rose that they were operating under orders to take the body back to Washington without permitting Rose to conduct his autopsy. When Rose continued standing his ground, the Secret Service agents pulled back their suit jackets and brandished their guns. Screaming, yelling, and issuing a stream of profanities, they forced their way out of Parkland Hospital with Kennedy’s body, in direct violation of Texas law.
Waiting at Love Field was Lyndon Johnson, who was having seats removed from the back of Air Force One to make room for the casket. That meant that he knew that the casket was coming, which is virtually conclu



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The Pitfalls of a Pit Bull Russophobe



By Ray McGovern
Consortiumnews.com
November 25, 2019

Like so many other glib “Russia experts” with access to Establishment media, Fiona Hill, who testified Thursday in the impeachment probe, seems three decades out of date. 
Fiona Hill’s “Russian-expert” testimony Thursday and her deposition on Oct. 14 to the impeachment inquiry showed that her antennae are acutely tuned to what Russian intelligence services may be up to but, sadly, also displayed a striking naiveté about the machinations of U.S. intelligence.
Hill’s education on Russia came at the knee of the late Professor Richard Pipes, her Harvard mentor and archdeacon of Russophobia. I do not dispute her sincerity in attributing all manner of evil to what President Ronald Reagan called the “Evil Empire.”  But, like so many other glib “Russia experts” with access to Establishment media, she seems three decades out of date.
I have been studying the U.S.S.R. and Russia for twice as long as Hill, was chief of CIA’s Soviet Foreign Policy Branch during the 1970s, and watched the “Evil Empire” fall apart.  She seems to have missed the falling apart part.
Selective Suspicion
Are the Russian intelligence services still very active? Of course. But



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The Sordid History of the FBI's Harassment of Martin Luther King Jr., at the Direction of J. Edgar Hoover — and the Pleasure of Lyndon B. Johnson
By Roger Stone and Phillip F. Nelson
January 22,2015
Amidst all the brouhaha related to the allegedly “false” portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in the movie Selma caused by the LBJ Library’s director, Mark Updegrove, it is noteworthy to call to the public’s attention how the “LBJ defenders” have attempted to absolve President Johnson from involvement with that sordid chapter in American history.  Updegrove’s article was quickly followed by one from Joseph Califano, printed in the Washington Post, that even claimed the Selma march was Lyndon Johnson’s idea.  All of it was quite opposite of the truth, and no amount of “LBJ revisionism” will make it fact.
From the time that Martin Luther King Jr.’s name came to national prominence in December, 1955, J. Edgar Hoover began monitoring his activities, even as King and his closest associates mistakenly presumed, according to Andrew Young, that “we thought of the FBI as our friends, the only hope we had.”[1]   By 1959, Hoover had decided, on his own and without higher authorization, to order his agents to burglarize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) offices to obtain personal information about Dr. King and install telephone wire taps as well as “bugs” to record non-telephonic conversations and assorted other

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noises.  This brazenly illegal activity, of which there were many other cases in addition to King’s, continued into the Kennedy administration.  By 1961, the freedom rides that had begun that year revealed which side the FBI was really on, and it was not King’s.  Attorney General Robert Kennedy had attempted to bring the wiretapping under control, however by that time the SCLC and King had begun fighting back, culminating in a special report attacking the FBI on January 8, 1962.  By then, the FBI had obtained evidence that two people in King’s entourage, Stanley Levison and Jack O’Dell, had ties to the American Communist Party, making it difficult for the Kennedys to cooperate with King until that issue was dealt with or, conversely, for them to end the surveillance under the continuing pressure wielded by Hoover.[2]
During the five years of Hoover’s sleuthing before JFK was sworn in, Hoover had become obsessed with destroying King, and in 1961 he called on his Special Agents in Charge (SACs) of his field offices to cull their files for all the “subversive” information they could gather and send it to the “SOG” (as he called himself, the “Seat of Government”).  Hoover’s assistant, Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, was put in charge of compiling this assortment of innuendo, half-truths and whole lies, sprinkled with sufficient “facts” to make it salable.[3]  By October, 1963, six weeks before JFK’s assassination, Robert F. Kennedy, under pressure from Hoover,



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Blockbusters Buried In The IG Report On FBI Misuse Of Confidential Sources
The media has ignored several significant revelations detailed in the FBI report Inspector General Michael Horowitz released last week.


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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Last week, the leaks began in anticipation of the expected early-December release of the inspector general report on the propriety of the Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) surveillance order. CNN broke news on Thursday that “a former FBI lawyer is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document” related to the 2016 FISA applications.
The press and public are understandably consumed with this news—which is huge if true—but while speculating on that forthcoming report, the media has ignored several significant revelations already detailed in the report Inspector General Michael Horowitz released last week.

That report, issued on Tuesday, summarized the results of the inspector general’s audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Confidential Human Source (CHS) validation processes. While the media reported the main takeaways summarized in the IG’s press release—that the FBI did not comply with attorney general guidelines and that the current process for validating these sources lacked adequate controls—there were four potential blockbusters buried in the 63-page report.
Burying Evidence to Keep It from the Courts
The most startling revelation in the audit concerned how the FBI handles problems with a CHS’s credibility or accuracy. The report first noted that “validation documents relevant to the credibility of a CHS may be discoverable in judicial proceedings,” explaining that:
Discovery in criminal cases is controlled by case law and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. For example, information in the validation report which refers to the CHS’s motivation or vulnerabilities may be discoverable pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) or Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972). ‘Brady’ refers to information known to the government that is material to a criminal case and could tend to exculpate the defendant. ‘Giglio’ refers to information that could be used to impeach a witness for the prosecution.
Then the IG detailed that its investigation revealed several troubling steps the FBI took to avoid the mandates of Brady and Giglio.
We were told by multiple Intelligence Analysts that they received guidance to only state the facts and not to conduct analysis, report conclusions, and make recommendations in the Significant Source Review Panel validation reports. For example, one Intelligence Analyst told us that he was permitted to recommend a CHS receive a polygraph or operational test to the handling agent by phone but not permitted to document the recommendation in the CHS’s validation report. Additionally, multiple FBI officials told us that they believe that field offices do not want negative information documented in a CHS file due to criminal discovery concerns and concerns about the CHS’s ability to testify. For example, one FBI official told us that some U.S. Attorney’s offices will not use a CHS at trial if there is negative documentation in the CHS’s file.
These admissions should outrage Americans: The FBI is intentionally failing to document confidential sources’ credibility and reliability problems so defense attorneys do not learn of them! Or, as the IG report concluded, “by withholding potentially critical information from validation reports, the FBI runs the risks that (1) prosecutors may not have complete and reliable information when a CHS serves as a witness and, thus, may have difficulties complying with their discovery obligations.”

Leslie McAdoo Gordon, a D.C.-based criminal defense attorney and principal at McAdoo Gordon and Associates, branded the FBI’s failure to document issues in a CHS’s validation report a form of evidence tampering. “This ‘what they don’t know won’t hurt them’ attitude is cultural,” McAdoo Gordon told The Federalist. “Like all cultural problems, this is caused by a failure of leadership.”
McAdoo Gordon added that “the integrity of our criminal justice system is seriously damaged when investigations are grounded on information that is biased or dishonest and those problems, moreover, are hidden from the defendant’s advocate and the court.” Unfortunately, there is nothing a defense counsel can do, McAdoo Gordon noted, because they don’t know it’s happening.
Affects Future Knowledge of New FBI Agents
Moreover, as the report makes clear, the failure to document a CHS’s credibility or reliability problems also has future ramifications “because handling agents change and new handling agents can only know the risks if they are documented.” This lack of documentation may also deprive future handling agents “of relevant information about the CHS that could not only jeopardize an investigation





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This week’s FOIA round-up: FOIA finds a foe in AG Barr, Illinois schoolchildren punished with isolation, and Earthjustice reveals toxic DHS plans for migrants
Also: A Portland judge puts a stop to steep FOIA fees, and it’s time to nominate your cRAzY FOIA story for EFF’s Foilies!
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Edited by Beryl Lipton
Read a great FOIA-based news story we should highlight? Let us know and maybe we can include it in our next round-up! Send it over via email, on Twitter, or on Facebook.
AG Barr goes after FOIA
US Attorney General William Barr had some things to say about FOIA last Friday:
The costs of this constant harassment are real. For example, we all understand that confidential communications and a private, internal deliberative process are essential for all of our branches of government to properly function. Congress and the Judiciary know this well, as both have taken great pains to shield their own internal communications from public inspection.
There is no FOIA for Congress or the Courts. Yet Congress has happily created a regime that allows the public to seek whatever documents it wants from the executive branch at the same time that individual congressional committees spend their days trying to publicize the executive’s internal decisional process. That process cannot function properly if it is public, nor is it productive to have our government devoting enormous resources to squabbling about what becomes public and when, rather than doing the work of the people.
The comments were made at a talk given for the conservative activist group The Federalist Society. The talk drew criticism from politicians and journalists alike, including former White House ethics counsel Richard Painter and Congressman Bill Pascrell (D-NJ).
Read more from Colin Kalmbacher at Law and Crime here.
Portland FOIA fees
The City of Portland, Oregon must stop “overcharging members of the public for routine requests for city emails or documents,” according to a Monday ruling by Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Shelly Russell.
The ruling comes out of a civil lawsuit originally filed in September 2018 in response to the city charging over $200 for the release of records. The original request, filed by affordable housing advocate Alan Kessler, sought emails involving a member of the Portland Historic Landmarks Commission. At first, the city denied the request, but Kessler successfully appealed to the Multnomah County District Attorney, at which point the city came up with the steep bill.
The reasoning behind the court’s ruling was that the city “did not meet its burden to show that the fees charged to [the] plaintiff were reasonably calculated.” Furthermore, it ruled that the city’s method for calculating these costs was not “reasonably calculated,” either. Finally, the court ruled that Kessler was entitled to attorney’s fees.
Read more from Alex Zielinski at Portland Mercury here.
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Illinois schools punish children with solitary confinement
An investigation by ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune used public records from over 100 school districts to uncover that Illinois students had been subjected to “isolated timeouts”—periods of being shut away in small, padded rooms—more than 20,000 times, often in violation of the law.
Legally, “isolated timeouts” are appropriate “if the students pose a safety threat to themselves or others.” However, as Propublica reports:
>Children were sent to isolation after refusing to do classwork, for swearing, for spilling milk, for throwing Legos. School employees use isolated timeout for convenience, out of frustration or as punishment, sometimes referring to it as “serving time.”
Fortunately, teachers are required to make a detailed record of every time this tactic is used, and these records provided the backbone of the investigation. Unfortunately, no one is required to read these records, making the process functionally opaque.
Experts cited by ProPublica argue that the practice of “isolated timeouts” has no therapeutic or educational value” and that “it can traumatize children.” The report includes many examples of the trauma children endured. In one case, one child who filled out a “debrief” after being isolated wrote:
“I need help.” “Not to die.”
As a result of this investigation, Illinois lawmakers are taking action. The Illinois State Board of Education moved to take “emergency action” to stop the practice of isolated timeouts. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker called the practice “appalling” and promised to work towards changing the law allowing it.
Read about the investigation from Jennifer Smith Richards, Jodi S. Cohen, and Lakeidra Chavis at ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune here.
Toxic Cages for Migrant Families
On Thursday, Earthjustice and its partners released hundreds of federal government documents pertaining to construction proposals for a migrant family detention facility at Fort Bliss in Texas.
While the construction plans have stalled, the site was intended to house 1,000 unaccompanied minors, with a potential increase to 7,500 by August 2018.
Of particular concern to Earthjustice and partners was the fact that the site was known to be “riddled with toxic hazards from past military operations, spills, storage of toxic chemicals, unexploded ordnances, and firing ranges.” Furthermore, according to Earthjustice, the documents show that the Army and Department of Homeland Security rushed plans for the facility without ensuring that the site was free of toxic hazards.
Earthjustice has made the documents, the results of seven FOIA requests, freely available and searchable on their website, along with two “key expert documents,” hosted on DocumentCloud.
You can view the documents here, and read more from Earthjustice here.
EFF’s Foilies Nominations
On a lighter note, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is now accepting nominations for The Follies, its annual awards for “outrageous, ridiculous, and infuriating responses to public records requests.” These may include “exorbitant fees, excessive redactions, or even the arrest of reporters for simply asking for documents.”
The EFF publishes The Foilies each year during Sunshine Week. Last year’s winners included everything from a San Jose lawsuit over a policy protecting Google contracts to a scanned image of a CD instead of, you know, the actual information on the CD.
You can submit your crazy FOIA stories to foilies@eff.org. The deadline to submit is January 1st in the year 2020, an actual year that will really exist in just one month!
Read more about The Foilies from Dave Maass at the Electronic Frontier Foundation here.

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‪Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9:30-12:30‬
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JUSTICE ROUNDTABLE QUARTERLY ASSEMBLY AGENDA
* ‪I  9:30 –10:00 Refreshments and Networking ‬
* ‪II  10:00 Introductions, Moderator: Nkechi Taifa, Convener, Justice Roundtable ‬
* ‪III  Short Video: The Ungers: A Matter of Time ‬
* ‪IV  FEATURE I: Aging People in Prison: The Impact of Harsh and Lengthy Sentences ‬
‪Discussants:‬
‪Jackie Craig-Bey, Case Mgr. Freddi’s House; Assoc. Producer, Crossroads Radio Show hosted by Roach Brown. Released from prison after serving 15 years.‬
‪Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project. Co-Author, The Meaning of Life; Race to Incarcerate, and more.‬
‪Stanley Mitchell, Owner of transportation business. Released from prison after 38 years under Maryland Unger decision.‬
‪Jose Saldana, Director of RAPP (Release Aging People in Prison). Released from prison in 2018, after 38 years and four Parole Board denials.‬
‪Charlie Sullivan, Executive Director, Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE National).‬
‪ FEATURE II: “BLUE” – Discussion about upcoming opera - A family struggles when their teenage son is shot by the police. https://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/OUOSG ‬
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‪9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference‬

‪The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry has provided this update of the status of its legal initiatives, which participants in tonight's teleconference might want to read before the call.‬
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‪PUBLIC UPDATE FROM THE LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE FOR 9/11 INQUIRY, INC.‬
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‪The Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc. (Lawyers’ Committee), is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote transparency and accountability regarding 9/11. The Lawyers’ Committee is committed to uncovering, and ensuring that the public is fully informed of, the full truth of the events surrounding the tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001.  The Lawyers’ Committee’s primary methodology is to apply the law to the many years of research, investigation, and analysis by scientists, engineers, architects, and investigators and use legal options including federal court litigation to bring the full truth regarding 9/11 to light and to ensure that the victims (direct and indirect) of 9/11 receive substantial justice.‬
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‪Although the prior work of independent researchers, investigators and scientists has gone a long way towards discovering and informing the public as to the truth of what occurred on 9/11, many key facts have yet to be disclosed or acknowledged. Because, as the evidence developed to date indicates, criminal activity and corruption are involved, and because some or all of the federal agencies involved (and private parties) involved have not been forthcoming with the public regarding all the information they possess regarding this tragedy, the use of Freedom of Information Act litigation and the subpoena and discovery powers that accompany other federal civil litigation options is critical to achieving transparency and accountability regarding 9/11. Under the circumstances, key information necessary to a full understanding of what occurred on 9/11 can only be obtained via legal compulsion.‬
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‪The Lawyers’ Committee, in furtherance of its mission, is in the process of conducting multiple federal lawsuits and several independent investigations into various aspects of the events surrounding 9/11. An update on the status of these efforts is provided below.‬
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‪Lawyers’ Committee’s Federal Lawsuit Against the FBI for Disclosure of 9/11 Evidence‬
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‪Considerable public pressure from family members of the victims eventually caused the Congress via legislation signed by the President in November 2002 to establish the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (commonly known as the “9/11 Commission”). The 9/11 Commission was tasked to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks. However, the 9/11 Commission suffered from several publicly acknowledged limitations. Commission Co-Chair Hamilton stated that there were all kinds of reasons that he and others on the Commission thought they were set up to fail. Ultimately, the 9/11 Commission produced a voluminous report which addressed some, but not all, of the then-available evidence relating to the 9/11 attacks. The 9/11 Commission’s 2004 report left many of the key questions of the 9/11 victims’ family members (again) unanswered. The members of the 9/11 Commission themselves acknowledged that additional evidence relating to the attacks would likely be brought forward after their report was issued. Over the ten years that followed, significant additional evidence regarding the 9/11 attacks was in fact publicly reported.‬
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‪The FBI 9/11 Review Commission was established some ten years later in January 2014 pursuant to a congressional mandate. The Review Commission was tasked specifically by Congress to produce, among several other independent assessments, “3) An assessment of any evidence now known to the FBI that was not considered by the 9/11 Commission related to any factors that contributed in any manner to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.” The enabling legislation also required the FBI Director to report to the Congressional committees of jurisdiction on the findings and recommendations resulting from this review.‬
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‪The Lawyers’ Committee’s active lawsuit against the FBI before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case # 1:19-cv-00824) is designed to obtain a federal court order to force the FBI to assess and disclose to Congress, as mandated by Congress, all 9/11 evidence not considered by the original 9/11 Commission, including: 1) evidence of the use of pre-planted explosives and incendiaries at the World Trade Center (WTC) on 9/11; 2) evidence regarding the arrest and later release of several individuals who were observed celebrating the attacks at the WTC early on 9/11 (referred to in FBI reports as the “High-Fivers”); 3) evidence of Saudi and other financing of terrorism and assistance to the alleged 9/11 hijackers; 4) video evidence regarding the Pentagon attack on 9/11; 5) evidence regarding aircraft wreckage and parts recovered at the Pentagon, Shanksville, and WTC; and 6) evidence regarding phone calls reportedly made on 9/11 from hijacked aircraft. The 2014-2015 9/11 Review Commission failed to assess any of the above referenced categories of significant 9/11 evidence.‬
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‪This federal lawsuit has the potential for the Lawyers’ Committee to obtain and use court authorized discovery powers including subpoena power to obtain key evidence and testimony in the process of obtaining the requested court order to ensure that all this 9/11 evidence is provided to Congress and made public, as Congress intended. The Lawyers’ Committee has filed a federal Complaint to initiate this case in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the government was served with summons and the complaint. The FBI has filed a motion to dismiss the case on legal procedural grounds challenging the Lawyers’ Committee’s and the other Plaintiffs’ standing and as well as the enforceability of the mandate from Congress at issue. The Lawyers’ Committee has filed its Memorandum in opposition to the government’s motion and a decision from the District Court could be forthcoming at any time. If the plaintiffs survive the government’s procedural motion, then the parties will brief the merits of the Lawyers’ Committee’s allegations regarding the FBI’s failure to honor this mandate from Congress and the court will decide whether the FBI and DOJ will be ordered to take appropriate actions to assess and report to Congress all of these key categories of 9/11 evidence.‬
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‪Lawyers’ Committee’s Petition to the U.S. Attorney for Submission to Special Grand Jury and Follow-Up Federal Mandamus Lawsuit‬
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‪The Lawyers’ Committee made a public commitment to petition the U.S. Attorney to present 9/11 evidence regarding WTC demolition to a special grand jury. Pursuant to that commitment. On April 10, 2018, the Lawyers’ Committee filed a fifty-plus page original Petition with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The Petition was accompanied by fifty-seven exhibits containing extensive scientific and eyewitness evidence confirming that explosives were used to destroy three WTC buildings (WTC1, WTC2, and WTC7) on 9/11. That evidence included independent scientific laboratory analysis of WTC dust samples showing the presence of high-tech explosives and/or incendiaries; numerous first-hand reports by First Responders of explosions at the WTC on 9/11; expert analysis of seismic evidence that explosions occurred at the WTC towers on 9/11 prior to the airplane impacts and prior to the building collapses; and expert analysis by architects, engineers, and scientists concluding that the rapid onset symmetrical near-free-fall acceleration collapse of three WTC high rise buildings on 9/11 exhibited the key characteristics of controlled demolition.‬
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‪In the months that followed the Lawyers’ Committee also filed with the U.S. Attorney an amended petition on July 30, 2018, adding several 9/11 related federal crimes, and supplements to the amended petition (including related to persons who may have material information regarding the crimes reported) which, like the original petition, focused on the issue of the (heretofore uninvestigated or prosecuted) use of explosives at the WTC on 9/11. The U.S. Attorney, replied to the Lawyers’ Committee in a letter dated November 7, 2018 stating: “We have received and reviewed The Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Inc.’s submissions of April 10 and July 30, 2018. We will comply with the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3332 as they relate to your submissions.”‬
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‪The Lawyers’ Committee’s Petition requests that the U.S. Attorney present this evidence to a Federal Special Grand Jury pursuant to a statutory duty, and the U.S. Attorney has replied to the Lawyers’ Committee via a letter that he intends to comply. The grand jury/DOJ petition supplements filed include information regarding those individuals and entities that may have material information regarding these crimes of 9/11, including those who know of, or were involved in, funding and assisting any of the alleged hijackers or other perpetrators and planners of the crimes of 9/11. The Lawyers’ Committee’s Petition to the DOJ to submit 9/11 evidence to a federal Special Grand Jury is intended to facilitate a grand jury using its own subpoena power to get to the bottom of what happened on 9/11, and determine who perpetrated the crimes of 9/11 and who financed and otherwise assisted the commission of those crimes.‬
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‪Attorneys from the Lawyers’ Committee had a telephone conversation with one of the Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSA) who signed the U.S. Attorney’s letter to the Lawyers’ Committee, asking if the U.S. Attorney could disclose to the Lawyers’ Committee the status of the Lawyers’ Committee’s Petition and whether the Lawyers’ Committee’s evidence had in fact been submitted to the Special Grand Jury. The AUSA stated that he could not share this information with the Lawyers’ Committee. The Lawyers’ Committee’s attorneys advised that they were hoping to avoid the need for filing a federal mandamus lawsuit against the U.S. Attorney regarding their Petition asked if there was any information the AUSA could share with the Lawyers’ Committee regarding the status of the Lawyers’ Committee’s Petition or grand jury process that would prevent the Lawyers’ Committee having to file such a mandamus action. The AUSA stated he could not disclose any such information. As a result, concluding there was no other option to confirm that the Lawyers’ Committee’s Petition and evidence had been submitted to the Special Grand Jury (and that the U.S. Attorney had in fact complied with the law), the Lawyers’ Committee filed a federal mandamus Complaint and Motion for Disclosure of grand jury records in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.‬
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‪Federal law, 28 U.S.C. § 1361, provides for a suit to compel a federal official to perform a mandatory (not discretionary) duty, and Rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure allows for motions seeking to have a court disclose some or all of a grand jury proceeding for good cause. If the court denies the Lawyers’ Committee’s motion for disclosure, or grants the motion and the disclosure shows that the U.S. Attorney has not presented the Lawyers’ Committee’s Amended Petition and evidence to the Special Grand Jury, then the Lawyers’ Committee would proceed via the mandamus petition to seek an order requiring the U.S. Attorney to comply with 18 U.S.C. § 3332 and submit the Lawyers’ Committee’s Amended Petition and evidence, as supplemented, to the Special Grand Jury.‬
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‪The summons and Complaint in this case (case # 1:19-cv-08312) are due to be served on the U.S. Attorney, US Attorney General, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) by December 5, 2019 and will be served as soon as possible prior to that date. Once the service of process is completed, the government will have 60 days to file their answer to the allegations in the Complaint and both sides are likely to file motions with the court thereafter to brief the court regarding the merits of the Lawyers’ Committee’s legal claims. A decision could come from the court as early as Spring of next year.‬
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‪Lawyers’ Committee’s Freedom of Information Act Campaign ‬
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‪The federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) allows for lawsuits to compel federal agencies to produce records improperly withheld from citizens who request such records. The FOIA is an additional important tool in promoting transparency regarding 9/11. In order for the victims of 9/11 to prevail in federal litigation regarding the crimes of 9/11, they need to obtain access to as many of the government’s records, including FBI and CIA records, regarding the events of 9/11, and regarding potential perpetrators and aiders and abettors, as possible. The public and the Congress also need to see, and are entitled to see, these same records so that appropriate actions may be taken to prevent a recurrence of such horrible crimes. Only when such crimes, and all of the perpetrators of them, are fully understood, can such tragic history be prevented from repeating itself, and justice be achieved. Towards this end, the Lawyers’ Committee is pursuing multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, administrative appeals, and FOIA requests.‬
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‪The Lawyers’ Committee has thus far filed three federal court lawsuits active before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the FOIA to obtain federal agency (NIST and FEMA) records related to the demolition of WTC buildings on 9/11. These on-going lawsuits focus on obtaining all raw data collected during the FEMA Building Performance Study (case # 1:15-cv-01991), obtaining NIST records of interviews done with first responders during 2003-2004 (case # 1:19-cv-01070), and obtaining WTC7 data about Column 79 measurements (column 79 is where NIST claims the collapse of building 7 initiated) (case # 1:19-cv-01182). The Lawyers’ Committee also is actively pursuing an appeal in a New Jersey (NJ) Open Public Records Act (OPRA) lawsuit in the NJ courts which is aimed at obtaining records including photographs related to the arrest on 9/11 of individuals the FBI refers to as the “High-Fivers.” In addition, the Lawyers’ Committee has played a key role in supporting Attorney David Meiswinkle (in his private capacity) in pursuing 9/11 records regarding the Flight 93 crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Attorney Meiswinkle’s records request and subsequent appeal led to a mediation which then led to two site visits by Attorney Meiswinkle, the Lawyers’ Committee Executive Director, and Litigation Director Mick Harrison to the Coroner’s Office near Shanksville where voluminous 9/11 records were maintained. As a result, the Lawyers’ Committee obtained many heretofore unavailable 9/11 records related to the Shanksville incident and Flight 93 victims.‬
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‪The Lawyers’ Committee has plans for a more comprehensive FOIA campaign to obtain government agency records related to all key areas of the Lawyers’ Committee’s 9/11 investigation Including funding and assistance to alleged hijackers or other perpetrators or planners of the crimes of 9/11, the incident at the Pentagon, the incident at Shanksville, and potential FBI and other agency 9/11 related misconduct. The Lawyers’ Committee, if available resources allow, will file several more FOIA lawsuits regarding government records in each of these areas of 9/11 investigation that have been withheld by various agencies, including the FBI, DOD, and national security and intelligence agencies.‬
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‪Lawyers’ Committee’s Multi-focused 9/11 Investigations and New Grand Jury Petitions‬
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‪In addition to our on-going inquiry into what happened at the WTC on 9/11, the Lawyers’ Committee is initiating, within the limitations of available resources, investigations, including field investigations and witness interviews, regarding several major aspects of 911 including the Pentagon, Shanksville, and potential government misconduct and obstruction of justice. These new Lawyers’ Committee investigations will include an effort to develop and preserve witness testimony, including by depositions and voluntary affidavits, and to obtain and preserve physical evidence related to key aspects of 9/11. The public will be invited to contribute to these new investigations. Once complete, depending on the results from these new investigations, the Lawyers’ Committee anticipates that additional petitions may be submitted to one or more U.S. Attorneys for further evidence submissions to special grand juries related to Shanksville, the Pentagon, and government misconduct/obstruction of justice.‬
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‪Other Potential Investigations and Legal Actions by the Lawyers’ Committee‬
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‪The Lawyers’ Committee is also evaluating the feasibility of the Lawyers’ Committee preparing and submitting petitions and testimony to relevant committees and subcommittees of Congress in support of a formal investigative and oversight effort by Congress on key 9/11 issues. Congress has authority to conduct oversight of the FBI and other federal agencies as well as the power to subpoena FBI, CIA, and other agency 9/11 related records and testimony from key government officials. The other legal actions and investigations by the Lawyers’ Committee described above are designed to produce both sufficient information to inform such investigative efforts by Congress and to motivate such investigative efforts by Congress. By implementing legal strategies focused on all three branches of the government, the Lawyers’ Committee intends to create a synergy that allows each action to strengthen and facilitate the others.‬
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‪Although no one of these legal and investigative actions may, standing alone, bring out the full truth of 9/11 and achieve complete justice for the families and accountability on behalf of the public, use of all the above legal actions and investigations together maximizes the potential for achieving these worthy goals.‬




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Phoenix Cop Involved in Wife's Alleged Thefts Gets 80-Hour Suspension
MEG O'CONNOR | DECEMBER 4, 2019 | 11:In April 2018, Phoenix police Officer Michael Maya and his wife, Autumn Maya, were arrested for theft, money laundering, and conspiracy, among other charges.
The criminal counts later were dropped against the officer, and he's still on the force. But he still faces the possibility that he'll be stripped of his police officer certification.
According to the Department of Public Safety, Autumn Maya stole guns and body cameras and sold them to pawn shops while she was employed by the state Depar



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Charles Schwarz, cop in Abner Louima police brutality case, lands cushy NYCHA job
By Lia Eustachewich
December 4, 2019 | 10:



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Three NYPD workers arrested within a span of five hours over separate incidents
By Daniel Cassady
December 2, 2019 | 11:



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NEW DEVELOPMENT: Ex-Henry cop accused of choking former NFL player arraigned



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DA’s office investigating second rape allegation against ex-Lithonia cop






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Chicago Cop Who Had Officers Babysit His Son is Demoted

Published Dec 4, 2019 at 7:46 AM

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Why are there so few prisoners in the Netherlands?
The Dutch justice system is cutting jail populations by offering specialist rehabilitation to people with mental illnesses



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Genealogy hobbyist database sells out to FBI-linked forensic genetic sequencing firm
11 Dec, 2019 21:24



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Outrage after Colombia riot police force young woman into unmarked car
* Protester freed after members of public give chase
* Video of incident adds to criticism of police tactics




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Earliest known cave art by modern humans found in Indonesia
Pictures of human-like hunters and fleeing mammals dated to nearly 44,000 years old



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The old made our climate mess. And the young will get us out of it



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Springfield cop, assistant principal arraigned on charges linked to alleged roles in fight with student


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Porn cam cop in trouble again
POSTED 5:29 PM, DECEMBER 11, 2019, BY CHRIS HAYES


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Another Brockton Cop Has Seriously Injured a Pedestrian
* By Christian MilNeil
* Dec 11, 2019



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Alameda County sheriff’s deputy charged with molestation of 15-year-old girl

Megan Cassidy Dec. 11, 2019 Updated: Dec. 11, 201



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Black Panther volunteer still serving hungry kids breakfast, 50 years later

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Record high temperatures hit Fort Myers, Naples just a degree shy of its record

Karl Schneider, Fort Myers News-Press Published 3:17 p.m. ET Dec. 11, 2019





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Maine Mineral & Gem Museum opens, and it’s pretty out of this world
There’s a lot to brag about: ‘We have more of the moon than the world’s 10 leading science museums combined’
By Diane Bair and Pamela Wright Globe Correspondent,Updated December 12, 2019, 7:00 a.m.



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We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.
We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.
A high-profile inspector general report has served as fodder for arguments about President Trump. But its findings about surveillance are important beyond partisan politics.



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Child predators target of sex offender bill

Updated December 12, 2019, 12:00 a.m.
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DECEMBER 12, 2019 | WHOWHATWHY STAFF
WHY SAUDIS KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER



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Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit
Only 10% of donations to the Peter’s Pence collection go to charitable works
By Francis X. Rocca
Dec. 11, 2019 9:54 am ET



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This scenic snowshoe on the Appalachian Trail leads to a frozen waterfall




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How the Prosecution of Animal Rights Activists As Terrorists Foretold Today’s Criminalization of Dissent
Natasha Lennard





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FEDERAL COURT AFFIRMS CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION AGAINST SUSPICIONLESS SEARCHES OF DEVICES AT US BORDER





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Why Did Respected Press Freedom Organization Exclude Assange From Annual List Of Jailed Journalists?





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DECEMBER 12, 2019
Zealots in High Office
by JAMES A HAUGHT
Back in 2003, in a top-secret international phone call, President George W. Bush urged French President Jacques Chirac to join America in invading Iraq on grounds that Christian nations must thwart the Satanic





The Daily Appeal
By Sarah Lustbader (@SarahLustbader)

What is the purpose of sex offender registries?
Two days ago, the Union-Recorder in Georgia published a bizarre editorial. The editorial board noted that the state’s sex offender registry system drives people into homelessness and deprived them of counseling and employment opportunities, but laments this fact only insofar as it allows registrants to “fly under the radar” and makes them “more difficult to track.” Georgia’s registry system, according to the authors, “places too much trust in the honor system” because requiring people to self-register “places too much confidence” in the registrant. They acknowledge that there are “strong penalties” for failing to register, including life in prison, but these apparently don’t go far enough, as some people with convictions could “choose to live on the fringes of the law.” 
“As a society we have determined that in the case of convicted sexual offenders, the potential danger to the general public, and especially children, outweighs their rights to resume a normal life after the debt to society is paid,” the editorial board writes, but “despite all the concerns we have about civil liberties and individual rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we simply have to know where these offenders are and what threat they pose to a community.” The authors propose no solutions. And, more to the point, they betray a fundamental ignorance of the fact that no empirical evidence shows that registries actually protect anyone. Some evidence indicates they make us less safe.  
Sex offender registries weren’t designed to punish people, Dara Lind wrote for Vox in 2016. “The registry was designed for ‘sexual predators’ who repeatedly preyed on children (at least according to the fears of 1990s policymakers). The purpose was supposed to be not punishment but prevention. The theory: ‘Sexual predators’ were unable or unwilling to control their urges, and the government could not do enough to keep them away from children, so the job of avoiding ‘sexual predators’ needed to fall to parents.” But now, 20 years later, “the focus on sex crimes has shifted from sexual abuse of children to sexual assault and rape. The idea that criminals can’t control their behavior has been replaced by attention to the cultural and institutional failures that allow rapes to happen and go unpunished.” As a preventive tool, it hasn’t worked, Lind writes. “Instead, it's caught up thousands of people in a tightly woven net of legal sanctions and social stigma. Registered sex offenders are constrained by where, with whom, and how they can live—then further constrained by harassment or shunning from neighbors and prejudice from employers.”
Despite ongoing stigma against those convicted of sex offenses, there has been some movement away from ever-restrictive sex registries and toward more productive solutions. The political pressure to oppose these efforts, however, is strong. 
Recently, the governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have lifted state restrictions on how close to schools people convicted of sex crimes can live. The bill, which passed the state Assembly and Senate unanimously, would have repealed a state law that bars certain people from living less than 1,500 feet from schools, public parks, places of worship, or youth centers. The bill would also have required people be placed in their home county after being released. In his veto message, Evers said the change would have compromised children’s safety. “In testimony before lawmakers earlier this year, the State Public Defender’s Office said out-of-county placements often happen because counties can’t find a place to house offenders that meet the 1,500-foot requirement,” reports Wisconsin Public Radio. Senator Dan Feyen, a Republican and one of the bill’s sponsors, said he agreed the distance is challenging for some and, in his opinion, arbitrary. “It’s just a number that’s made up.”
In Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court will soon rule on the constitutionality of that state’s sex offender registry law. The latest iteration of the law, which took effect at the end of 2012, increased the “list of offenses subject to registration and notification—including a handful that are not sexual in nature—and imposing more stringent registration and notification rules,” reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. The registry more than doubled. One of the cases before the high court deals with requirements under the current law for people classified as “sexually-violent predators,” those who have committed the most serious offenses and who are considered to have a high likelihood to reoffend. The question is whether lifetime registration, as well as lifetime counseling and community notification, constitute unlawful punishment.  
In another case at issue, lawyers for a biochemical engineer with no prior record who was convicted of aggravated indecent assault and subject to lifetime registration are arguing that the law violates a fundamental right to reputation under the state Constitution. They posit that the law presumes that people convicted of certain sexual offenses cannot change and therefore are prone to reoffending. The lawyers “cite experts and studies that show the public holds a false perception that people convicted of sexual offenses will go on to reoffend, and that their risk for doing so lasts for years,” according to the Inquirer. “They said only a small number of offenders fit that bill, while the rest get lumped into that group, suffering a lifetime of harm. Their arguments go to the heart of the criminal justice reform movement blossoming across the country that aims to reduce harsh penalties for smaller offenses, and reform policies for offenders who, after serving prison time, suffer myriad social and financial hardships.”
Given the growing understanding of just how problematic these registries are, it is perhaps most remarkable that Nigeria is adopting a U.S.-style sex offense registry. “Campaigners have hailed the launch of Nigeria’s first sex offender register as a vital step towards tackling reported cases of sexual abuse, which are rising across the country,” reports The Guardian, in an article that notably lacks comments from critics. “The publicly accessible online register of people prosecuted for sexual violence since 2015 will allow public bodies and police authorities to conduct background checks and identify repeat offenders.”  
Sexual violence indeed seems to be a serious problem in Nigeria, which stigmatizes those who come forward to report abuse. Despite the dearth of statistics, Unicef estimates that 1 in 4 girls in the country have experienced sexual violence by the age of 18 and few receive support. In Lagos, the most frequently assaulted group are children, many of whom are abused by relatives or family friends. Those who do come forward can be treated badly by authorities, according to the Guardian article. “We have cases where victims are being questioned in front of the perpetrators or in open spaces and criticized by officers for not remembering details like the road where the rape occurred,” said Oluwaseun Osowobi, the director of a Nigerian non-government organization that supports survivors of sexual violence. “Cases of sexual abuse are not prosecuted for flimsy reasons,” Osowobi added. “How police collect data is unprofessional and archaic. Police regularly misplace case-files or evidence. Eventually victims become exhausted by the system and give up.”
There is no doubt that this is all problematic and merits urgent attention. But the question is why a system that has already failed in the U.S. should be expected to succeed in Nigeria. Since few people are reported and fewer are convicted, it seems unlikely that anyone will be deterred by the idea that they now “have nowhere to hide,” as Osowobi put it. Beatrice Jedy-Agba, the executive secretary of Nigeria’s Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, said: “It enables bodies such as schools [and] hospitals to conduct background checks and it will deter sex offenders because they will know their names will be published, affecting their employment and role in society.” Until the culture that tolerates sex abuse and stigmatizes victims is inverted, however, it is hard to imagine that anyone will be so deterred. Nigeria and the U.S. would do better to be guided by evidence.




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Kentucky's new Democratic governor allows 140,000 ex-felons to vote
Andy Beshear signs executive order allowing those with non-violent felony convictions to vote after completing their sentences


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Why is this top Democrat absent from the fight against toxic pollution in Cancer Alley?



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‘She was so dangerous’: where in the world is the notorious Ghislaine Maxwell?

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Australia breaks record for hottest temperature ever recorded, as brush fires rage across continent

By KASSIDY VAVRA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
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https://www.theatlantic.com/author/garrett-epps/


THE BATTLE FOR THE CONSTITUTION
A Stunning Vote Reversal in a Controversial First Amendment Case
A Fifth Circuit panel judge has changed his mind about DeRay Mckesson’s liability for violence at a Baton Rouge protest, but Americans’ right to protest is still under assault.
DECEMBER 18, 2019



Garrett Epps
Professor of constitutional la




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homelessness -- and ex cons



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The Nationwide Day of Second Chances will be celebrated ‪on April 30, 2020‬ - it will be a day when hundreds of church-led coalitions across the country will host simultaneous Second Chances Job Fairs for returning citizens and other neighbors facing barriers to employment.


“Better Together Announces Nationwide Day of Second Chances”
Churches, local businesses, and non-profits across the country will band together on a single day to connect thousands of citizens returning from prison with job opportunities.
Naples, Florida–Better Together, a nonprofit service organization, is launching a nationwide effort to recruit and train hundreds of churches to hold simultaneous “Second Chance Job Fairs” across the country.
The first ever Nationwide Day of Second Chances will take place the last week of April 2020, and is expected to connect over 50,000 citizens returning from prison with life changing job opportunities.
“Everyone has a gift they can use to make society better, if given the chance,” says Megan Rose, CEO of Better Together. “We are calling on all churches and communities to get involved in helping our neighbors find work, restore their dignity, and keep families together.”
Better Together has hosted more than 80 job fairs to date, helping people find work in a setting of compassion and celebration. At each event, the job interview rate exceeds 100 percent and one in four people get hired on-the-spot.
Churches participating in the nationwide event will attend two days of training in January 2020, either in person or over a live simulcast, followed by ongoing support, guidance, and coaching from Better Together in preparation for the big day.
Better Together warmly invites church partners in any city to join the movement and connect with other churches in a demonstration of unity, mercy, and celebration.
Churches interested in participating–along with companies looking to sponsor or participate in hiring at the job fairs–can learn more at www.BetterTogetherUS.org/SecondChances.




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These are the actual locations
for millions of Americans. At the New
York Stock Exchange 





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The Push to Quash Criticism of Israel Is a Push to Quash Free Speech
It is not anti-Semitism to criticize a state for enshrining inequality.
By Saree Makdisi



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My client, Travis Runnels, did not deserve to die
The death penalty is the rot at the core of our culture and our values.




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How Out Of Control is Our Surveillance State?
Julian Sanchez, The New York Times 



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Democrats Take a Small Step Toward Decriminalizing Sex Work


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DECEMBER 18, 2019 | GABRIELLA NOVELLO
ARE AMERICANS READY TO JUNK THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?


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December 19, 2019
Ms. Emma Best
MuckRock
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RE: Public Records Request
Dear Ms. Best:
The Massachusetts Department of State Police ("Department") received your request seeking "copies of any Memoranda of Agreement (MOAs), Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs), memoranda of agreement or other liaison, information sharing or prisoner/detainee transfer agreements or delegations of authority with or involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement signed or otherwise put into effect between March 1, 2003 and the present. This includes but is not limited to any agreements entered into under or a result of Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act."
Attached please find records responsive to your request. Please note that the Department has redacted investigatory data and investigatory technique information from the documents pursuant to G.L. c. 4, §7, cl. 26 (f)(investigative exemption). The Department has also redacted private information pursuant to G.L. c 4, §7, cl 26 (c).
If you wish to challenge any aspect of this response, you may appeal to the Supervisor of Public Records following the procedure set forth in 950 C.M.R. 32.08, a copy of which is available at http://www.mass.gov/courts/case-legal-r ... ource/cmr/. You may also file a civil action in accordance with M.G.L. c. 66, § 10A.
Respectfully,
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December 13, 2019
This week’s FOIA Round-up: Afghanistan papers, University of Michigan’s $1.2 million NDAs, and a massive ruling in Virginia
Written by Adrien Salzberg
Edited by Beryl Lipton
Read a great FOIA-based news story we should highlight? Let us know and maybe we can include it in our next round-up! Send it over via email, on Twitter, or on Facebook.
Washington Post publishes Afghanistan Papers after years-long FOIA battle
In the biggest FOIA story of the week, The Washington Post published Monday its assessment of materials released after a three-year FOIA fight with the Department of Defense: a report, including transcripts and audio recordings, spelling out how the war in Afghanistan fueled corruption and how federal officials made statements about the war’s progress they knew to be false.
For the most part, names of federal officials were redacted from the audio recordings: only 62 out of 366 were identified. For the most part, officials spoke candidly under the understanding that what they were about to say would not be made public. The Post is asking a federal judge to force the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) to reveal the names.
The Post filed a FOIA request with SIGAR in August 2016 to obtain the documents. While the agency first responded indicating the records would be released in a few weeks, they stopped returning reporters’ phone calls and emails and claimed they were being kept in the dark by the agency’s attorneys. The day after Michael Flynn was announced to be President Trump’s national security advisor, SIGAR finalized the request as entirely unreleasable under Exemption b(5) and would not respond to appeals or duplicate requests.
Read the full series at The Washington Post.
The University of Michigan spent $1.2 million on NDAs and lump sum payments in 6 months
Documents show the University of Michigan paid over a million dollars to former employees in non-disclosure agreements signed between November and May.
The Michigan Daily filed nine FOIA requests to obtain the contents of settlement agreements signed by two senior human resources representatives at the university. The tenth settlement had already been publicly reported.
It is unclear whether the sum represents all of the university’s settlements over the six months. According to The Daily, the public university’s budget contains no mention of these settlements, which university spokesman Rich Fitzgerald claimed were divided by unit and listed under salaries.
Fitzgerald also disagrees with the characterization of these agreements as “buying silence.”
“If you sign an agreement and you still think the University has done something wrong and you wanted to file a complaint…there is nothing in that agreement that precludes you from doing that,” he said. “It says disparagement, it doesn’t mean you can’t disagree with University policy. People do that every day around here.”
A former employee also in an agreement with the college who spoke anonymously told The Daily that “Coming out of an adversarial situation, such language can only be seen as silencing.”
Read the full story at The Michigan Daily.
Private foundations connected with public colleges are not subject to Virginia FOIA

The Virginia Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that no matter how closely they are tied to public colleges and universities, private non-profit foundations are not subject to the state’s Freedom of Information law.
The lawsuit was filed last year by Transparent GMU, a student advocacy group at Virginia’s George Mason University, after being denied a request for donor-related documents from the university. The university in the past has received large, several-million dollar donations from the Koch Foundation, which are then processed through GMU’s private foundation.
Neither of those entities are subject to the state’s FOIA law, a massive blow to transparency in Virginia.
“Not only is the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling a barrier to transparency and accountability, but it serves to maintain strategies of the wealthy elite to further corrupt fundamental tenets of democracy,” said Jasmine Banks, Executive Director of UnKoch My Campus in a press release. “Thankfully our organizers are resilient and have other strategies they are dedicated to pursuing to ensure our democracy is protected.”
The Supreme Court characterized its decision on the basis that, had the state’s legislative body intended foundations associated with public higher education to be included in the FOIA law, it could have stated so.
In the wake of student organizing at GMU, a bill has been filed in the Virginia House of Representatives that would require universities to disclose the terms and conditions donations from private entities.
Read the full statement at UnKoch My Campus.





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NOVEMBER 13, 2019
After Evo, the Lithium Question Looms Large in Bolivia
by VIJAY PRASHAD

Photograph Source: Sámediggi Sametinget – CC BY 2.0
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before he left office, Morales had been involved in a long project to bring economic and social democracy to his long-exploited country. It is important to recall that Bolivia has suffered a series of coups, often conducted by the military and the oligarchy on behalf of transnational mining companies. Initially, these were tin firms, but tin is no longer the main target in Bolivia. The main target is its massive deposits of lithium, crucial for the electric car.
Over the past 13 years, Morales has tried to build a different relationship between his country and its resources. He has not wanted the resources to benefit the transnational mining firms, but rather to benefit his own population. Part of that promise was met as Bolivia’s poverty rate has declined, and as Bolivia’s population was able to improve its social indicators. Nationalization of resources combined with the use of its income to fund social development has played a role. The attitude of the Morales government toward the transnational firms produced a harsh response from t




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DECEMBER 19, 2019
Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon 
by N.D. JAYAPRAKASH

Photograph Source: Ministry of Defence, Government of India – GODL-India

PART ONE 
There are several indications that India’s ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) are obsessed with the perverse urge to wipe out Pakistan with nuclear weapons by unleashing a first or a second strike. Through similar means, their counterparts on the Pakistani side are determined to eliminate many more Indians than the ill-fated Pakistanis before meeting their own disastrous end. Whether through a first strike or a second strike, it is hundreds of millions of lives that are likely to be lost on both sides in a nuclear war and in the “nuclear winter” that would follow



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DECEMBER 19, 2019
Biosphere Collapse?
by ROBERT HUNZIKER

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair
Five years ago: Nations of the world met in Paris to draft a climate agreement that was subsequently accepted by nearly every country in the world, stating that global temperatures must not exceed +2C pre-industrial. Global emissions must be cut! Fossil fuel usage must be cut!
Today: Following Paris ’15, global banks have invested $1.9 trillion in fossil fuel projects.
Not only that, global governments plan to increase fossil fuels by 120% by 2030, including the US, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, Canada, and Australia.
Additionally, over that past 18 months China has added enough new coal-based power generation (43GW) to power 31 million new homes. China plans on adding another 148GW of coal-based power, which will equal the total current coal generating capacity of the EU.
India increased coal-fired power capacity by 74% over the past 7 years. The country expects to further increase coal-generated capacity by another 22% over the next 3 years.
China is financing 25% of all new worldwide coal plant construction outside of its borders, e.g., South Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Meantime, China, kissing goodbye to its commitment to cut emissions, cuts renewable power subsidies by 30%.
Likewise in the United States, Trump proposes slashi



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Italian Cops Tried to Take Revenge on U.S. Kids Who Killed One of Their Own

GOOD COP, BAD COP
Three Italian police officers face charges for blindfolding one of the American teens charged with murdering a police officer and lying about the slain officer’s missing weapon.







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Prosecutors: Missing video of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide found; why Tartaglione's lawyer wants it

Jonathan Bandler, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Published 7:27 a.m. ET Dec. 19, 2019 | Updat




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Cincinnati police sergeant asks chief to investigate ‘possible violations’ by internal affairs cop



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Moline cop to make January first appearance on misconduct/theft charges
* Anthony Watt Dec 19, 2019 Updated 31 sec




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Ex-cop and hockey coach Lamarre pleads not guilty on sex charges
François Lamarre arrived at the hearing in a wheelchair and without a lawyer and was given until Feb. 4 to find counsel.
JESSE FEITH, MONTREAL GAZETTE Updated: December 19, 2019



https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime ... story.html

Feds used him to go after a corrupt Baltimore cop. But a judge says there’s not enough evidence to clear him.

By JUSTIN FENTON

BALTIMORE SUN |
DEC 19, 2019 | 7:00 AM





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Parents Sue Over Cop's Fatal Shooting Of Disabled Son At Costco
An off-duty LAPD officer shot the man and his parents after the man struck and knocked him down at a food booth inside Corona Costco.
By City News Service, News Partner
Dec 19, 2019 9:19 am PT | Updated Dec 19, 2019 9:22 am PT


https://www.nj.com/essex/2019/12/cop-wh ... -vote.html

Cop who sued alleging police superiors used racist slurs is fired by council vote
Updated 12:53 PM;Today 12:09 PM

By Anthony G. Attrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
A police lieutenant in Essex County who has a pending lawsuit against Caldwell and its police chief was fired Wednesday after a hearing officer found he violated departmental policies, rules and regulations.
Michael Geary claims in court papers that he legally changed his name from Michael Fung when he learned superiors were calling him racist slurs behind his back, according to the Superior Court lawsuit


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Drunk Cop Behind Wheel Keeps Job, Leading to Independent Investigation

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DEC 19, 2019
The Aurora Police Department in Colorado is facing an independent investigation after one of its officers was found passed out drunk behind the wheel of an unmarked police car, ABC News reports.




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Former Alexandria cop to appeal in bid to avoid prison sentence

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Prince George's County police officer convicted of sexual assault
Lieutenant Richard Tallant was found guilty of second-degree sexual assault. The assault, in 2017, was interrupted by two other officers.

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Cop who asked woman for nude girl pic had more child porn, NJ says

Sergio Bichao
December 19, 2019


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Investigators said they found more images of child sexual abuse in the possession of a state trooper who was arrested earlier this year on a charge of having a woman send him a perverted photo of a little girl.
Jeffrey Reitz, 48, of the Williamstown section of Monroe, was arrested in April and suspended without pay from the State Police after investigators found that he had been having an email conversation with a woman in which they discussed sexually abusing a prepubescent girl.
Prosecutors say Reitz asked for and received a nude picture of the girl from the woman and he provided her with pictures of his genitals.


He was charged with a second count of third-degree possession of child pornography after investigators found more child pornography on


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Prosecutors to dismiss three convictions involving disgraced Antioch cop

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Hampton narcotics cop pleads guilty to drug conspiracy
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Washington state lawmaker engaged in 'domestic terrorism,' report says
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