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Why We Dream About a World Without Police
Monday, 18 July 2016 09:43
By William C. Anderson, Praxis Center |

Police line up during a Black Lives Matter protest in West Baltimore, Maryland, April 29, 2015. (Photo: Arash Azizzada / Flickr)

The last few years have been rough. President Obama's last term in the White House has given many of us some of the most polarizing times we have ever experienced. It goes without saying that many have felt hopeless after being promised a change. Political disillusionment has clouded the air in a country struggling to find its true identity. In the midst of all this, unrelenting police violence has been in the spotlight driven by organized resistance to police brutality and renewed media interest. Police violence hasn't necessarily gotten worse, but it's being talked about more. This national conversation is absolutely necessary and should not let up. It's important to utilize the tools we have -- like our words -- to rebel. Using words as resistance, Truthout recently published their first anthology, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? edited by Maya Schenwar, Joe Macare and Alana Yu-lan.
As the United States prepares to cast votes in the presidential election, people are reflecting. It's no surprise to hear representatives of the political establishment making promises about which of society's ailments they have a cure for. Each candidate appeals to the desires of their base. Politicians are expected to at least pretend that they care about bettering the lives of people in this nation. One of the issues that candidates have not been able to avoid is police violence. Trump has said he believes the police in this country are "amazing people" and Black Lives Matter is "trouble" while Clinton has attempted to ally herself with "Black Lives Matter" and sought to distance herself from an anti-Black past that included supporting her husband's 1994 Crime Bill. Both Trump's intentional ignorance and Clinton's performance of understanding illuminate the dire nature of people on the ground finding our own solutions.
The never-ending cycle of extra-judicial killing by police recently took the life of Alton Sterling, and immediately, we saw the standard reactions of grief, disgrace, and faith in an ineffective justice system. But voices speaking out against demands to "let the system work" and "let the police do their job" are increasing. Many of us want more from our society. The work to amplify and make these voices heard is exhausting, but necessary. Our lives depend on collecting our thoughts and ideas to build and strengthen movements for a more just and humane world without police violence.
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect questions the necessity of the police from several different angles. While some might talk about possibly reforming the police, many of the contributors to this anthology question the police down to their very existence. Contributors from different perspectives center the importance of a movement against state violence that appropriately challenges white supremacy. That message is central to much of the thinking in the book's essays, and it's something I often think about myself.
My piece, 'Killing Africa,' discusses the pressing need for an international Black movement. I went about this by describing the killing of Charly "Africa" Leundeu Keunang by the LAPD.
I was devastated by the online circulation of Africa's death, and I wanted to write something meaningful. Africa's killing embodies the need for a global Black movement. His nickname, Africa, immediately brought to mind the African diaspora. That he was a Cameroonian immigrant with a stolen identity duri

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I think asking if police are necessary is like asking if freedom is necessary. Throughout history most societies are ones that have been founded on a certain set of Laws or 'truths' that decided the conduct of their society. Weather it is a King and his council of Earls who decided, a Chief of a tribe, a democracy, or a group of representatives such as the Continental Congress, someone has to establish or recognize some sort of Law. Even God has a Law he requires us to follow. Its only natural that you would then have some branch of government, 'police', who would enforce these laws, given that we are not perfect and people will disobey.

If you would like to learn more about our government and a brief history of government in general, I suggest taking a look at this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdS6fyUIklI

As far as the targeting of african americans by police because, the police force is systemically racist, I don't think this is true. There are definitely racist cops and 'bad apples' in the mix, but this does not mean police are out to get you. If we really want to rid ourselves of these 'bad apples' I would suggest taking a look at Police Unions and the Arbitration process that lets even the most grossly negligent police officers get reinstated after being fired.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... et/383258/

If the government has no means to enforce the law (police, sheriffs, judges, etc...) It has no power, and might as well not exist. No government means anarchy, which never ends well.

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A Brief History of the "War on Cops": The False Allegation That Enables Police Violence
Thursday, 21 July 2016 00:00
By Dan Berger, Truthout | Op-

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Chamberlain,

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. One of my greatest heroes of all time!. However, I should caution you that there are those on this board, who are still fighting the civil war and think that he was on the wrong side!

Regards,

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Chamberlain wrote:I think asking if police are necessary is like asking if freedom is necessary. Throughout history most societies are ones that have been founded on a certain set of Laws or 'truths' that decided the conduct of their society. Weather it is a King and his council of Earls who decided, a Chief of a tribe, a democracy, or a group of representatives such as the Continental Congress, someone has to establish or recognize some sort of Law. Even God has a Law he requires us to follow. Its only natural that you would then have some branch of government, 'police', who would enforce these laws, given that we are not perfect and people will disobey.

If you would like to learn more about our government and a brief history of government in general, I suggest taking a look at this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdS6fyUIklI

As far as the targeting of african americans by police because, the police force is systemically racist, I don't think this is true. There are definitely racist cops and 'bad apples' in the mix, but this does not mean police are out to get you. If we really want to rid ourselves of these 'bad apples' I would suggest taking a look at Police Unions and the Arbitration process that lets even the most grossly negligent police officers get reinstated after being fired.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... et/383258/

If the government has no means to enforce the law (police, sheriffs, judges, etc...) It has no power, and might as well not exist. No government means anarchy, which never ends well.
The mentality of "us" and "them" really pushes the cops in a corner....and like military in combat...you may not like your buddy (but if its him or the enemy)...you'll keep him.

So all the blowups over a few "bad apples" and the result of hating on the apple tree....just makes it worse.

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Ten Lessons for Creating Safety Without Police
Thursday, 14 July 2016 00:00



Members of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood enjoy a Memorial Day cookout on May 24, 2009. Bed-Stuy is one of several Central Brooklyn neighborhoods that has benefited from the Safe OUTside the System collective. (Photo: Clementine Gallot)
How can we create safety collectively? How can we challenge hate and police violence by using community-based strategies rather than relying on the police?
For the past 10 years, the Safe OUTside the System (SOS) Collective -- an anti-violence program led by and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming (LGBTSTGNC) people of color (POC) in Central Brooklyn, New York, specifically Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and Bushwick neighborhoods -- has been working to answer these questions. After a decade of organizing, the three SOS Coordinators, founding coordinator Ejeris Dixon (2005–2010), the second coordinator Che J. Rene Long (2010–2014), and the current coordinator Tasha Amezcua (2014–present) co-wrote this piece to share the lessons we've learned over the years. We also asked SOS members from the past 10 years about their reflections on our successes, struggles and our hopes for the future. We write these lessons for all the people seeking to address violence and envision safer communities.
—Ejeris, Che and Tasha
1. Cultural work is a crucial organizing strategy. From its onset our members have included activists, organizers, artists and cultural workers (i.e. dancers, musicians, playwrights, actors, singers, poets, performers, artists, healers, etc.) and many people who see themselves at the intersections of these identities. However, it took us time to integrate people's passions, fully utilize each other's skills, and create a collective culture and value system that allowed us all to be seen and heard. We knew that cultural work was necessary to build community, create our vision of safety and make space for healing. Yet we struggled with the question of what our priorities were -- and where cultural work fit into those priorities. SOS members who identified as artists and cultural workers refused to let organizers deprioritize art and healing, and consistently reminded us that cultural work is not a footnote or an addition to make an event more interesting. Instead, these members showed us all that art and cultural work can allow us to vision, strategize, educate, heal and organize with our full selves. Organizing that integrates cultural work transforms people's perspectives in a way that is often deeper and longer lasting than organizing alone. After many meetings and challenging conversations we began to build cultural work into our organizing strategies, events and community-based curriculum. We created a step team to engage and excite new members as an outreach strategy. Our annual Bed-Stuy Pride includes visual artists, performers, healers and vendors to bring our full communities together. This conversation still continues today and not without tension, but we keep growing and learning new ways to communicate across our perspectives and passions.
2. Organizing for community safety must include an analysis of gentrification. The Safe Neighborhood Campaign began at a time when Bed-Stuy was still a mostly low-income Black community. Our campaign relied on small businesses agreeing to become safe spaces that would open their doors to people fleeing from violence, and uphold our principles of using transformative justice strategies to address and reduce violence. As the campaign progressed and built relationships with more community-based businesses, the neighborhood also changed in less subtle, more abrupt ways. Soon the question of gentrification took center stage in our campaign development as well as in our outreach and base building. Gentrification and increased policing of LGBTSTGNC POC disrupted our existing community safety networks, pushing out our safe spaces. We met this strong socio-economic force with study and research, developing a timeline for the average lifespan of a small business and finding new ways to engage locally owned small businesses. We began to invest in longstanding institutions such as schools and churches and explored ways to engage them in the campaign. This work continues today. As a mixed collective of people born and raised in Bed-Stuy and transplants, we have honest conversations internally about how to support the local community together with our money, energy and time.
3. Our work exists within a legacy and we are just a small part. Over time we've noticed thatsafety exists in relationships. And wellness exists in culture. In this moment of rapid displacement, we continue to identify LGBTSTGNC/POC cultural workers

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The truth is that there is no war on blacks by police.
The statistics show that is not the case.
The statistics also show that blacks are responsible for an usually high crime rate.
And there is a strong sentiment in the black community that committing crimes is perfectly all right if you are black. That there is a "right" to commit crimes. That's why you see the constant justification and excuse for anyone who resists the attempt of the police to do their job.
That doesn't mean that there are not cops who do the wrong thing.
It's just important to look first at the real problem, rather than trying to use the "politically correct" colored glasses to see the agenda.
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OCTOBER 30, 2016 | DONKEYHOTEY AND KLAUS MARRE
VOTER FRAUD: A SOLUTION IN SEARCH OF A PROBLEM MAY DISENFRANCHISE MILLIONS
Voter ID and Other Laws Try to Suppress the Vote


North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory pretends to believe in unicorns. Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / WhoWhatWhy (CC BY-SA 2.0) See complete attribution below.
On Thursday, Terri Rote made national news. She was arrested after trying to cast votes for Donald Trump at two separate polling stations in Iowa. Rote now faces up to five years in jail.

The reason her case has attracted so much attention is that it is the only instance of in-person voter fraud so far this year — out of nearly 20 million votes that have already been cast.

Even though that is a tiny percentage, we are still ahead of the average. The most cited study on the issue has identified 31 possible cases of in-person voter fraud out of almost 1,000,000,000 ballots cast.

Why is it such a rare crime? Because, no offense to Ms. Rote, only a moron would commit in-person voter fraud. The penalty for getting caught is off the charts compared to the benefit of casting one additional vote.

It’s the equivalent of finding a single termite in a house and burning it down as a remedy.

Some of these Voter ID laws were struck down — either fully or in part. The court rulings leave little doubt what the motivation was for passing them in the first place.

“Although the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision, they constitute inapt remedies for the problems assertedly justifying them and, in fact, impose cures for problems that did not exist,” said the decision in the North Carolina case.

The court noted that “the State has failed to identify even a single individual who has ever been charged with committing in-person voter fraud in North Carolina.”

While the concept of showing identification to vote might not be bad — and has broad public support — it only works if the government can assure that every single voter can easily obtain this ID at no cost. But that is never the goal when it comes to these laws.

Take Alabama, for example. After the 2014 Shelby County vs. Holder Supreme Court decision, which made it easier for states with a history of bad civil-rights records to disenfranchise minority voters, the state passed a more stringent Voter ID law — and then promptly tried to close DMV offices in the counties with the highest percentage of black voters.

That shows how ridiculous it is to pretend that these laws are about fighting the phantom crime of voter fraud. Indisputably, they are a cynical attempt by Republican-run states to hang on to power by any means necessary — even if that means disenfranchising millions of voters.

Voter ID laws are only one piece of the puzzle. Not allowing felons to vote, even those who have already repaid their debt to society, as well as attempts to reduce early voting opportunities are all part of these Machiavellian schemes.

The election is not being rigged by a handful of idiots like Ms. Rote but instead by hundreds of state lawmakers who would rather try to keep certain groups of people from casting their ballots than compete for their votes by instituting policies such voters favor.

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I recently wrote 3 articles about the US heroin epidemic and its source. The 2nd article has disappeared off my (google) blog. Here is an early version from a Canadian website that reposted it.

Media Disinformation and the US Heroin Epidemic
The New York Times Gets it All Wrong
By Dr. Meryl Nass
Global Research, January 29, 2016
Anthrax Vaccine 24 January 2016


On October 30, 2015 the NY Times published an in-depth article on the heroin epidemic, focused on New Hampshire, which saw the greatest increase in deaths from drug overdoses (74%) in the US between 2013 and 2014.  New Hampshire is a bucolic place, where villages of tidy white capes and saltboxes lie sprinkled among the mountains and pine forests. 
Manchester, New Hampshire’s largest city, has a population of 110,000.  In one 6 hour period on September 24, Manchester police responded to 6 separate heroin overdoses. Manchester saw over 500 overdoses and over 60 deaths between January 1 and September 24, 2015.
At presidential campaign stops throughout the state, candidates were forced to respond to the problem when New Hampshire citizens demanded answers.  Hillary has a $10 billion dollar plan for prevention and treatment of abuse.  Chris Christie prefers treatment to jail time for first offenders. Obama announced a $5 million initiative in August to combat heroin addiction and trafficking. NH has designated a drug czar. NH Senator Ayotte says “We’ve got to reduce the stigma.”  Narcan, an opiate antidote that has been made widely available, is admittedly a band-aid.  It saves lives from acute overdoses, but does absolutely nothing to stem the tide of abuse.
The solutions being touted by politicians and the media include “working together:” police, citizens, and health-care facilities–though to what end is unclear; educating; reducing the stigma of heroin use (now that users are predominantly white and middle class we can relabel addiction a disease, not a crime); adding treatment facilities; and adding more police.
I call this salutary–but almost entirely missing the mark.
Overdose deaths and heroin users are at an all time high in the United States. Between 2 and 9 of every thousand Americans (0.2-0.9% of the population) is currently using heroin. In Maine, 8% of babies are born “drug-affected”–a stratospheric rise from 178 babies in 2006 to 995 babies in fiscal 2015.
Despite what you have heard, the cause of our current heroin epidemic is not as simple as doctors overprescribing narcotics.
While nationally, heroin overdoses jumped from 1.0 per 100,000 in 2010 to 3.4 per 100,000 in 2014, the number of prescribed narcotics held steady over the same period. A 2015 UN document noted that“A recent [US government] household survey in the United States indicated that there was a significant decline in the misuse of prescription opioids from 2012 to 2013″ (page 46).
According to CDC itself, “CDC has programmatically characterized all opioid pain reliever deaths (natural and semisynthetic opioids, methadone, and other synthetic opioids) as ‘prescription’ opioid overdoses.” That means illegally produced drugs in these categories are being designated as prescription drugs, when they are not. A further confounder is that heroin metabolizes to morphine, which is a prescription drug. So if fully metabolized at the time of autopsy, a death due to heroin will be labeled as due to a prescription narcotic.
The true cause of the current heroin epidemic is massive amounts of heroin flooding into the US, exceeding what can be sold in our large cities, and now finding its way into even the tiniest hamlets.
Here’s the problem with the NY Times’ and the politicians’ solutions:  neither fifty individual states nor thousands of towns and villages can treat, educate, exhort, investigate or imprison their way out of the heroin maelstrom. There are nowhere near enough police, social workers, prisons, treatment facilities or sources of funding.  Narcan and clean needles don’t cut the mustard. There is only one possible solution, and that is stemming the supply. 
In my September 7 blog post, I showed that 96% of US heroin does not come from Mexico and Colombia, as claimed by US government sources. Mexican and Colombian production is inadequate to supply even half the US market.
At least Canada knows where its heroin comes from:
 “According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police National Intelligence Coordination Center, between 2009 and 2012 at least 90 per cent of the heroin seized in Canada originated in Afghanistan.” (page 46)
If one wants to get into the weeds on this issue, a 2014 RAND report titled What America’s Users Spend on Illegal Drugs: 2000-2010 is a good place to start.  The  report, performed under contract for DHHS and released by the White House, looks at multiple databases and identifies many problematic issues with estimates of heroin country-of-origin.
It shows that while Colombian opium was allegedly supplying 50% of a growing US heroin market between 2001 and 2010 (pages 82-83), Colombian production actually sank from 11 metric tons in 2001 to only 2 in 2009.
Furthermore, US government estimates for the 2000-2010 decade of Mexican production relied on a claimed 3 growing seasons per year, while in reality there were only two. RAND admits Mexican production estimates were inflated. Mexico historically produced lower quality, “black tar” heroin, used west of the Mississippi, while the influx of heroin to the US has been of higher quality white powder, and the greatest increases in use have been in the eastern US, far from the Mexican border.
Meanwhile, according to RAND:
“in recent years, there have been no [heroin] seizures or purchases from Southeast Asia [Myanmar, Laos, Thailand] by DEA’s Domestic Monitoring Program.”
Back in 1992, DEA estimated that 32% of US heroin came from Southwest Asia (mainly Afghanistan). Since then, Afghan opium production has tripled. But in the years 1994 through 2010 only 1-6% of US heroin had a southwest Asian origin, according to DEA’s Domestic Monitoring Program. Yet Afghan production accounts for 90% of the world heroin supply.
It would be great if we could point to improved US interdiction at the source, or to poppy field eradication to explain this anomaly.  But neither is the case. Seizures of heroin in Afghanistan dropped from 27 metric tons in 2010  to 8 metric tons in 2013, according to the UN, figure 41. Only 1.2% of poppy fields were eradicated in 2014, also according to the UN.

It is undeniable: there has been profound, systematic deception regarding the amount of heroin reaching the US from Mexico and Colombia by the US government, presumably to conceal and protect the actual source(s) of most US heroin.
We know where and how to look for heroin:  Afghanistan and Myanmar are the world’s #1 and #2 producers.   Historically, heroin bound for the US leaves these countries by air. There are a manageable number of flights departing Afghanistan and Myanmar.  We could put all the needed personnel in place, today, to fully inspect every flight and every airport.
The fact that we have looked the other way and pointed in the wrong direction is itself the smoking gun.
Meryl Nass, M.D.  is  a board-certified internist and a biological warfare epidemiologist and expert in anthrax. Nass publishes Anthrax Vaccine.
The original source of this article is Anthrax Vaccine
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The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher - By John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year, 1991
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Call me Mr. Gatto, please. Twenty-six years ago, having nothing better to do at the time, I tried my hand at schoolteaching. The license I hold certifies that I am an instructor of English language and English literature, but that isn't what I do at all. I don't teach English, I teach school -- and I win awards doing it.

Teaching means different things in different places, but seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills. They constitute a national curriculum you pay for in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what it is. You are at liberty, of course, to regard these lessons any way you like, but believe me when I say I intend no irony in this presentation. These are the things I teach, these are the things you pay me to teach. Make of them what you will.

1. CONFUSION

A lady named Kathy wrote this to me from Dubois, Indiana the other day:
"What big ideas are important to little kids? Well, the biggest idea I think they need is that what they are learning isn't idiosyncratic -- that there is some system to it all and it's not just raining down on them as they helplessly absorb. That's the task, to understand, to make coherent."
Kathy has it wrong. The first lesson I teach is confusion. Everything I teach is out of context. I teach the un-relating of everything. I teach disconnections. I teach too much: the orbiting of planets, the law of large numbers, slavery, adjectives, architectural drawing, dance, gymnasium, choral singing, assemblies, surprise guests, fire drills, computer languages, parents' nights, staff-development days, pull-out programs, guidance with strangers my students may never see again, standardized tests, age-segregation unlike anything seen in the outside world....What do any of these things have to do with each other?

Even in the best schools a close examination of curriculum and its sequences turns up a lack of coherence, full of internal contradictions. Fortunately the children have no words to define the panic and anger they feel at constant violations of natural order and sequence fobbed off on them as quality in education. The logic of the school-mind is that it is better to leave school with a tool kit of superficial jargon derived from economics, sociology, natural science and so on than to leave with one genuine enthusiasm. But quality in education entails learning about something in depth. Confusion is thrust upon kids by too many strange adults, each working alone with only the thinnest relationship with each other, pretending for the most part, to an expertise they do not possess.

Meaning, not disconnected facts, is what sane human beings seek, and education is a set of codes for processing raw facts into meaning. Behind the patchwork quilt of school sequences and the school obsession with facts and theories, the age-old human search lies well concealed. This is harder to see in elementary school where the hierarchy of school experience seems to make better sense because the good-natured simple relationship of "let's do this" and "let's do that" is just assumed to mean something and the clientele has not yet consciously discerned how little substance is behind the play and pretense.

Think of the great natural sequences like learning to walk and learning to talk; following the progression of light from sunrise to sunset; witnessing the ancient procedures of a farmer, a smithy, or a shoemaker; watching your mother prepare a Thanksgiving feast -- all of the parts are in perfect harmony with each other, each action justifies itself and illuminates the past and the future. School sequences aren't like that, not inside a single class and not among the total menu of daily classes. School sequences are crazy. There is no particular reason for any of them, nothing that bears close scrutiny. Few teachers would dare to teach the tools whereby dogmas of a school or a teacher could be criticized since everything must be accepted. School subjects are learned, if they can be learned, like children learn the catechism or memorize the Thirty-nine Articles of Anglicanism.

I teach the un-relating of everything, an infinite fragmentation the opposite of cohesion; what I do is more related to television programming than to making a scheme of order. In a world where home is only a ghost, because both parents work, or because too many moves or too many job changes or too much ambition, or because something else has left everybody too confused to maintain a family relation, I teach you how to accept confusion as your destiny. That's the first lesson I teach.

2. CLASS POSITION

The second lesson I teach is class position. I teach that students must stay in the class where they belong. I don't know who decides my kids belong there but that's not my business. The children are numbered so that if any get away they can be returned to the right class. Over the years the variety of ways children are numbered by schools has increased dramatically, until it is hard to see the human beings plainly under the weight of numbers they carry. Numbering children is a big and very profitable undertaking, though what the strategy is designed to accomplish is elusive. I don't even know why parents would, without a fight, allow it to be done to their kids.

In any case, again, that's not my business. My job is to make them like it, being locked in together with children who bear numbers like their own. Or at the least to endure it like good sports. If I do my job well, the kids can't even imagine themselves somewhere else, because I've shown them how to envy and fear the better classes and how to have contempt for the dumb classes. Under this efficient discipline the class mostly polices itself into good marching order. That's the real lesson of any rigged competition like school. You come to know your place.

In spite of the overall class blueprint, which assumes that ninety-nine percent of the kids are in their class to stay, I nevertheless make a public effort to exhort children to higher levels of test success, hinting at eventual transfer from the lower class as a reward. I frequently insinuate that the day will come when an employer will hire them on the basis of test scores and grades, even though my own experience is that employers are rightly indifferent to such things. I never lie outright, but I've come to see that truth and schoolteaching are, at bottom, incompatible just as Socrates said they were thousands of years ago. The lesson of numbered classes is that everyone has a proper place in the pyramid and that there is no way out of your class except by number magic. Failing that, you must stay where you are put.

3. INDIFFERENCE

The third lesson I teach kids is indifference. I teach children not to care about anything too much, even though they want to make it appear that they do. How I do this is very subtle. I do it by demanding that they become totally involved in my lessons, jumping up and down in their seats with anticipation, competing vigorously with each other for my favor. It's heartwarming when they do that; it impresses everyone, even me. When I'm at my best I plan lessons very carefully in order to produce this show of enthusiasm. But when the bell rings I insist that they stop whatever it is that we've been working on and proceed quickly to the next work station. They must turn on and off like a light switch. Nothing important is ever finished in my class, nor in any other class I know of. Students never have a complete experience except on the installment plan.

Indeed, the lesson of the bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will condition all but the strongest to a world that can no longer offer important work to do. Bells are the secret logic of schooltime; their logic is inexorable. Bells destroy the past and future, converting every interval into a sameness, as the abstraction of a map renders every living mountain and river the same, even though they are not. Bells inoculate each undertaking with indifference.

4. EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY

The fourth lesson I teach is emotional dependency. By stars and red checks, smiles and frowns, prizes, honors and disgraces I teach kids to surrender their will to the predestined chain of command. Rights may be granted or withheld by any authority without appeal, because rights do not exist inside a school -- not even the right of free speech, as the Supreme Court has ruled -- unless school authorities say they do. As a schoolteacher, I intervene in many personal decisions, issuing a pass for those I deem legitimate, or initiating a disciplinary confrontation for behavior that threatens my control. Individuality is constantly trying to assert itself among children and teenagers, so my judgments come thick and fast. Individuality is a contradiction of class theory, a curse to all systems of classification.

Here are some common ways it shows up: children sneak away for a private moment in the toilet on the pretext of moving their bowels, or they steal a private instant in the hallway on the grounds they need water. I know they don't, but I allow them to deceive me because this conditions them to depend on my favors. Sometimes free will appears right in front of me in children angry, depressed or happy about things outside my ken; rights in such matters cannot be recognized by schoolteachers, only privileges that can be withdrawn, hostages to good behavior.

5. INTELLECTUAL DEPENDENCY

The fifth lesson I teach is intellectual dependency. Good people wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. It is the most important lesson, that we must wait for other people, better trained than ourselves, to make the meanings of our lives. The expert makes all the important choices; only I, the teacher, can determine what you must study, or rather, only the people who pay me can make those decisions which I then enforce. If I'm told that evolution is a fact instead of a theory, I transmit that as ordered, punishing deviants who resist what I have been told to tell them to think. This power to control what children will think lets me separate successful students from failures very easily.

Successful children do the thinking I appoint them with a minimum of resistance and a decent show of enthusiasm. Of the millions of things of value to study, I decide what few we have time for, or actually it is decided by my faceless employers. The choices are theirs, why should I argue? Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

Bad kids fight this, of course, even though they lack the concepts to know what they are fighting, struggling to make decisions for themselves about what they will learn and when they will learn it. How can we allow that and survive as schoolteachers? Fortunately there are procedures to break the will of those who resist; it is more difficult, naturally, if the kid has respectable parents who come to his aid, but that happens less and less in spite of the bad reputation of schools. No middle-class parents I have ever met actually believe that their kid's school is one of the bad ones. Not one single parent in twenty-six years of teaching. That's amazing and probably the best testimony to what happens to families when mother and father have been well-schooled themselves, learning the seven lessons.

Good people wait for an expert to tell them what to do. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that our entire economy depends upon this lesson being learned. Think of what would fall apart if kids weren't trained to be dependent: the social-service businesses could hardly survive; they would vanish, I think, into the recent historical limbo out of which they arose. Counselors and therapists would look on in horror as the supply of psychic invalids vanished. Commercial entertainment of all sorts, including television, would wither as people learned again how to make their own fun. Restaurants, prepared-food and a whole host of other assorted food services would be drastically down-sized if people returned to making their own meals rather than depending on strangers to plant, pick, chop, and cook for them. Much of modern law, medicine, and engineering would go too, the clothing business and schoolteaching as well, unless a guaranteed supply of helpless people continued to pour out of our schools each year.

Don't be too quick to vote for radical school reform if you want to continue getting a paycheck. We've built a way of life that depends on people doing what they are told because they don't know how to tell themselves what to do. It's one of the biggest lessons I teach.

6. PROVISIONAL SELF-ESTEEM

The sixth lesson I teach is provisional self-esteem. If you've ever tried to wrestle a kid into line whose parents have convinced him to believe they'll love him in spite of anything, you know how impossible it is to make self-confident spirits conform. Our world wouldn't survive a flood of confident people very long, so I teach that your self-respect should depend on expert opinion. My kids are constantly evaluated and judged.

A monthly report, impressive in its provision, is sent into students' homes to signal approval or to mark exactly, down to a single percentage point, how dissatisfied with their children parents should be. The ecology of "good" schooling depends upon perpetuating dissatisfaction just as much as the commercial economy depends on the same fertilizer. Although some people might be surprised how little time or reflection goes into making up these mathematical records, the cumulative weight of the objective-seeming documents establishes a profile that compels children to arrive at certain decisions about themselves and their futures based on the casual judgment of strangers. Self-evaluation, the staple of every major philosophical system that ever appeared on the planet, is never considered a factor. The lesson of report cards, grades, and tests is that children should not trust themselves or their parents but should instead rely on the evaluation of certified officials. People need to be told what they are worth.

7. ONE CAN'T HIDE

The seventh lesson I teach is that one can't hide. I teach children they are always watched, that each is under constant surveillance by myself and my colleagues. There are no private spaces for children, there is no private time. Class change lasts three hundred seconds to keep promiscuous fraternization at low levels. Students are encouraged to tattle on each other or even to tattle on their own parents. Of course, I encourage parents to file their own child's waywardness too. A family trained to snitch on itself isn't likely to conceal any dangerous secrets.

I assign a type of extended schooling called "homework," so that the effect of surveillance, if not that surveillance itself, travels into private households, where students might otherwise use free time to learn something unauthorized from a father or mother, by exploration, or by apprenticing to some wise person in the neighborhood. Disloyalty to the idea of schooling is a Devil always ready to find work for idle hands.

The meaning of constant surveillance and denial of privacy is that no one can be trusted, that privacy is not legitimate. Surveillance is an ancient imperative, espoused by certain influential thinkers, a central prescription set down in The Republic, in The City of God, in the Institutes of the Christian Religion, in New Atlantis, in Leviathan, and in a host of other places. All these childless men who wrote these books discovered the same thing: children must be closely watched if you want to keep a society under tight central control. Children will follow a private drummer if you can't get them into a uniformed marching band.

II

It is the great triumph of compulsory government monopoly mass-schooling that among even the best of my fellow teachers, and among the best of my students' parents, only a small number can imagine a different way to do things. "The kids have to know how to read and write, don't they?" "They have to know how to add and subtract, don't they?" "They have to learn to follow orders if they ever expect to keep a job."

Only a few lifetimes ago things were very different in the United States. Originality and variety were common currency; our freedom from regimentation made us the miracle of the world; social-class boundaries were relatively easy to cross; our citizenry was marvelously confident, inventive, and able to do much for themselves independently, and to think for themselves. We were something special, we Americans, all by ourselves, without government sticking its nose into our lives, without institutions and social agencies telling us how to think and feel. We were something special, as individuals, as Americans.

But we've had a society essentially under central control in the United States since just before the Civil War, and such a society requires compulsory schooling, government monopoly schooling, to maintain itself. Before this development schooling wasn't very important anywhere. We had it, but not too much of it, and only as much as an individual wanted. People learned to read, write, and do arithmetic just fine anyway; there are some studies that suggest literacy at the time of the American Revolution, at least for non-slaves on the Eastern seaboard, was close to total. Thomas Paine's Common Sense sold 600,000 copies to a population of 3,000,000, twenty percent of whom were slaves, and fifty percent indentured servants.

Were the colonists geniuses? No, the truth is that reading, writing, and arithmetic only take about one hundred hours to transmit as long as the audience is eager and willing to learn. The trick is to wait until someone asks and then move fast while the mood is on. Millions of people teach themselves these things, it really isn't very hard. Pick up a fifth-grade math or rhetoric textbook from 1850 and you'll see that the texts were pitched then on what would today be considered college level. The continuing cry for "basic skills" practice is a smoke screen behind which schools preempt the time of children for twelve years and teach them the seven lessons I've just described to you.

The society that has become increasingly under central control since just before the Civil War shows itself in the lives we lead, the clothes we wear, the food we eat, and the green highway signs we drive by from coast to coast, all of which are the products of this control. So, too, I think, are the epidemics of drugs, suicide, divorce, violence, cruelty, and the hardening of class into caste in the United States products of the dehumanization of our lives, the lessening of individual, family, and community importance, a diminishment that proceeds from central control. The character of large compulsory institutions is inevitable; they want more and more until there isn't any more to give. School takes our children away from any possibility of an active role in community life -- in fact it destroys communities by relegating the training of children to the hands of certified experts -- and by doing so it ensures our children cannot grow up fully hum





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CATEGORIES: THREATS TO DEMOCRACY
OCTOBER 29, 2016 | WHOWHATWHY STAFF
Gerrymandering: A Source of What Is Wrong with US Politics
Manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency is a canker at the heart of the political system.


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Risks to Voting You Probably Never Thought of
The director of a cybersecurity center reveals surprising information about voting — like how early voting can actually increase the risk of foul play, and how distrust of the current system may be as damaging as actual hacking.


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OCTOBER 28, 2016 | KLAUS MARRE
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Usually, international election observers monitor new and struggling democracies, such as Ukraine. Turns out the “struggling democracy” that needs outside monitors is our own.


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OCTOBER 27, 2016 | MAYA LOWENSTEIN
Massive Voter Suppression in Ohio Stopped Just in Time
Ohio’s Republicans came within three weeks of preventing hundreds of thousands of voters from casting ballots. However, another one of their efforts to suppress the vote in the Buckeye state succeeded.

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''No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.''
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British critic. "The Journal of Cyril Connolly 1928-1937," p. 230, David Pryce-Jones, Journal and Memoir (1983).



Seth -Jane Roberts


The Nature of Reality
As words would give little hint of the reality of color or sound to someone who did not experience these, so words can only give insight into the nature of reality. I have been sent to help you, and others have been sent through the centuries of your time, for as you develop you form new dimensions, and you will help others.

There is never any justification for violence. There is no justification for hatred. There is no justification for murder. Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed, and the purity of their purpose adultered.

If you do not like the state of your world, it is you yourselves that must change, individually and en masse. This is the only way that change will be effected.

The responsibility for your life and your world is indeed yours. It has not been forced upon you by some outside agency. You form your own dreams and you form your own physical reality. The world is what you are. It is the physical materialization of the inner selves which you have formed.

It is wrong to curse a flower and wrong to curse a man. It is wrong not to hold any man in honor, and it is wrong to ridicule any man. Your must honor yourselves and see within yourselves the spirit of eternal validity. You must honor all other individuals, because within each is the spark of this validity. When you curse another, you curse yourselves, and the curse returns to you. When you are violent, the violence returns.

I speak to you because yours is the opportunity to better world conditions and yours is the time. Do not fall into the old ways that will lead you precisely into the world that you fear.

There is no man who hates but that hatred is reflected outward and made physical, and there is no man who loves but that love is reflected outward and made physical.

Beyond myself there is another self and still another, of which I am aware. And that self tells you that there is a reality beyond human reality and experience that cannot be made verbal or translated into human terms. And to that self, physical reality is like a warm breath forming in the winter air...




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On December 6th, the National Whistleblower Center filed an amicus brief in support of FBI whistleblower Darin Jones. Jones alleged he made whistleblower disclosures about an improper award of a $40 million contract and other improper procurement spending at the FBI. The FBI fired him from his position as a Supervisory Contract Specialist, which Jones alleges was done as an act of retaliation for his whistleblowing. The FBI argued that the current inadequate whistleblower protections at the FBI did not protect Jones because they require whistleblowers to report to the highest-ranking FBI official at their job site, rather than reporting to their immediate supervisor, which is consistent with FBI policy. Because Jones behaved in a manner consistent with standard practices at the FBI of reporting alleged wrongdoing through the managerial chain of command, he was written out of whistleblower protection for supposedly not reporting his allegations to the correct office and the retaliation against him has thus far been tolerated by the Department of Justice.


In an amicus brief filed in support of Jones this week, the National Whistleblower Center argues that the whistleblower protections do in fact apply to Darin Jones. The argument here is that if FBI officials have the authority to hire or fire personnel, they are necessarily acting in the shoes of the Attorney General of the United States. This means the Whistleblower Protection Act prohibits these officials from retaliating against a whistleblower if they are aware of the Whistleblower’s legal reporting activities because under current law FBI employees are protected if they disclose wrongdoing to the Attorney General. In Jones’s case the FBI officials who fired him were acting on behalf of the Attorney General and they were the very same officials to whom he reported his whistleblower disclosures. You can read the amicus brief here.



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'Drunk' cop stripped of his gun and badge
The NYPD cop suspended for being drunk on the job had a sobering morning on Friday — walking into his upstate house clutching a ­giant Dr Pepper cup.

Officer Richard Evans, 44, refused to comment outside the Newburgh home at about 9 a.m., hours after The Post reported that he was stripped of his gun and badge for being “unfit for duty” Thursday during his midnight-to-8-a.m. shift in The Bronx’s 52nd Precinct.

Evans had responded early Thursday to a report of a drunken dispute, and a civilian there accused the cop of being drunk as well.

Someone at the scene shot video of the allegedly drunken Evans and complained to 311, according to a law-enforcement source.

Adding insult to injury Thursday, a photo emerged of Evans passed out in a chair in the station-house locker room, his shirt pulled up to

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Georgia’s Secretary of State Accuses Homeland Security of Attempted Hack



Georgia’s secretary of state alleges Homeland Security tried to illegally hack the state’s computer network that contains the voter registration database.

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp claims in a letter to Homeland Security that his office discovered that a DHS Internet address tried to breach the computer system, the Hill reports.

The system also contains personal information of more than 6.5 million residents, 800,000 corporate entities and 500,000 licensed or registered professional.

“On November 15, 2016, an IP address associated with the Department of Homeland Security made an unsuccessful attempt to penetrate the Georgia Secretary of State’s firewall,” Kemp wrote. “I am writing you to ask whether DHS was aware of this attempt and, if so, why DHS was attempting to breach



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GOVERNMENT
FBI will increasingly rely on foreign help to stop hackers, Assistant AG says

FBI Director James Comey (Flickr / Brookings Institution)

Chris Bing Dec 8, 2016 | CyberScoop
The emergence of cybercrime as a global phenomenon is causing the FBI and Justice Department to increasingly rely on international law enforcement collaboration, legal treaties and informal agreements in addition to cooperation from the private sector, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Leslie Caldwell described, Thursday.

“We have greatly increased our international cooperation with international law enforcement partners all around the world, including in countries that just two years ago we had no relationship with,” Caldwell said. “As cybercrime proliferates so too does our relationships with countries around the world. We’ve got to continue to do build those international relationships and grow them and improve them because they are going to be more and more critical every single day.”

In an effort to fight these criminals, Caldwell said the Justice Department will be pursuing new legislative remedies next year in the same vein as recent changes made to Rule 41, which became effective as of Dec. 1.

These changes to Rule 41 — a mandate first designed in the scope of wiretap authorization procedures — enables investigators to secure warrants during the course of computer crime cases even while the suspect’s actual location is hidden. Critics believe the rule change will cause the FBI to expand its use of hacking techniques to access evidence on computers.

“There are other laws that we look to fix and to change and to update. As I have said, most of these proposed fixes are very technical and very narrow and they are designed just like the Rule 41 change to address very specific issues that we have encountered,” said Caldwell.

The Assistant Attorney General provided no further information regarding proposed, future changes to existing federal rules of criminal procedures and was unavailable for questions follow her public speaking event.

Caldwell’s comments — which were made during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a D.C.-based think tank — come just one week after european law enforcement authorities disclosed multiple arrested associated with the dismantling of an international cybercrime network known as Avalanche.

“We’ve really developed our capabilities to disrupt criminal networks both here and overseas … working hand in hand with international partners to address technical threat like botnets, bulletproof hosts, darknet markets and international hacking forums,” said Caldwell.

The downfall of Avalanche is being trumpeted as a sort case study, showing how domestic law enforcement can combat digital crime through multi-stakeholder cooperation.

The Avalanche takedown operation included help from prosecutors and investigators in 40 different countries. It is believed that the criminal network caused more than $100 million in damages to a wide array of both public and private sector organizations — largely through the deployment of ransomware and banking trojans.

Broadly speaking, the advent and proliferation of hacking tools and anonymizing software are allowing cybercriminal to cause greater damage with less effort while seeing more of a return on their investment, Caldwell explained.

“We’ve seen a growth in global, very sophisticated cyberthreats. And there are some very significant loopholes in terms of our legal authorities, many of which have not kept pace with changes in technology,” Caldwell said.

She added, “in recent years and frankly since I have been on this job, there has been a drastic increase in warrant-proof encryption … [also] our access to offshore data and cross border access to data is very inefficient and very haphazard,” Caldwell said of the Justice Department’s challenges in prosecuting cybercrime.

While Caldwell — who said she plans to leave public service before the President-elect’s inauguration on January 20 — spoke extensively about the Bureau’s challenges to prosecute computer crimes on Thursday, it is also true that U.S. law enforcement is undoubtedly getting better at tracking down these types of criminals.

Over just the last four months, the Justice Department has announced the arrest of multiple prominent hackers, including a series of individuals responsible for breaking into email accounts belonging to U.S. officials. Other recent prosecutions include the sentencing of 22-year-old Timothy French, an accomplished hacker who targeted multiple universities an





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New FBI Headquarters Gets Green Light from Congressional Commitee



The long-delayed effort to build a new FBI headquarters has gotten the green light from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to move forward.

But the GSA still needs to finalize the location of the new headquarters, Federal News Radio reports.

The committee approval was praised by chairman Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa.

“This will greatly improve the FBI’s security posture and its operations, and save money. But because of the size and complexity of the project, it will important to ensure there is strong congressional oversight to keep the project on time and on budget,” Shuster said.

The plan calls for the GSA and FBI to pay for the headquarters. President Obama’s 2017 budget proposal includes $1.4 billion for the project, which has already received $390 million under the fiscal 2016 omnibus spending bill.

Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., said many challenges are involved.

“What makes this project challenging is it is not a simple construction project of a single building. The project will be a secure campus with separate visitor screening, its own utility plant and specialized security requirements,” Barletta said




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Ken Paxton taps Ted Cruz adviser for key attorney general office job
METRO-STATE By Chuck Lindell - American-Statesman Staff
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Chip Roy, a key political strategist for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, will be Attorney General-elect Ken Paxton’s right-hand man at the Texas agency, Paxton announced Tuesday.
Roy, who will serve as Paxton’s first assistant attorney general, was Cruz’s chief of staff for almost two years before moving into an advisory role in September — a move some saw as positioning Cruz for a potential presidential run in 2016.

Roy also has close ties to Gov. Rick Perry, helping to write “Fed Up!” — a book that helped launch Perry’s unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2012 — and running the Texas Office of State-Federal Relations in Washington, D.C., after he was appointed by Perry in 2011.

At his confirmation hearing before the Texas Legislature, Roy promised to run the state-federal office in a way that would uphold “liberty and state sovereignty” while opposing federal regulations that are “destroying our nation and endangering the state.”

Roy has also served as a special assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Texas and as a senior staff member for U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

“Chip is a longtime friend, and someone whose counsel I trust,” Paxton said in a written statement. “I am pleased that he will bring his strong legal mind, devotion to liberty and servant’s heart to the office of attorney general as first assistant.”

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Ken Paxton taps Ted Cruz adviser for key attorney general office job
Paxton also announced his transition advisory team:

Roger Alford, law professor and associate dean at Notre Dame University

Ernest Angelo Jr., former chairman of the Texas Public Safety Commission and former mayor of Midland

Jordan Berry, campaign strategist with Berry Communications in Austin

Kevin Brannon, Paxton’s campaign manager


Susanna Dokupil, Senior fellow at the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation and former assistant solicitor general of Texas



Dee Kelly, founding partner of Kelly, Hart and Hallman in Fort Worth

Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society in Virginia


Oliver “Buck” Revell, former associate deputy director of the FBI.

Chip Roy, first assistant attorney general.

Kelly Shackelford, president and chief executive of Liberty Institute in Plano.



Andy Taylor, prominent Republican lawyer, former first assistant attorney general.

David Whitehurst, partner in the Whitehurst Cawley law firm in Addison.







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Lockerbie — A Parallel



"The covert operators that I ran with would blow up a 747 with 300 people to kill one person. They are total sociopaths with no conscience whatsoever."
— Former Pentagon CID Investigator Gene Wheaton

On December 21, 1988, in the tiny town of Lockerbie, Scotland, 270 lives came to a traumatic and fiery end when Pan Am flight 103 was blown out of the skies. Two hundred and fifty-nine people plunged to their deaths, and 11 more died on the ground.

Several minutes before flight 103 took off from London's Heathrow airport, FBI Assistant Director Oliver "Buck" Revell rushed out to the tarmac and pulled his son and daughter-in-law off the plane.[1001]

How did he know?

Perhaps Revell's intimate knowledge derived from his relationship with Lt. Colonel Oliver North. In March of 1986, North advised Attorney General Edwin Meese to head off the FBI's ensuing investigation into Iran-Contra. Meese informed Revell. Consequently, North managed to keep abreast of the FBI's investigation by conveniently receiving copies of all FBI files.[1002]

Widely known for his inestimable and illegal support of the Contras, North (along with General Richard Secord and Iranian Albert Hakim) was a business associate of Syrian arms and drug runner Monzer al-Kassar. For his role in shipping Polish arms to North's mercenary army, al-Kassar became the recipient of North's undying gratitude [and laundered drug proceeds].[1003]

Like so many criminals, drug-dealers, and mass-murderers the CIA had cozied up to over the years, al-Kassar enjoyed the highly valued status of CIA "asset."

Al-Kassar was also closely aligned with Rifat Assad, brother of Syrian dictator Hafez Assad. Assad's daughter Raja was Kassar's mistress, and had once been married to Abu Abbas, a colleague of the notorious terrorist Abu Nidal. Rifat himself was married to the sister of Ali Issa Dubah, chief of Syrian intelligence, who, along with the Syrian army, controlled most of the opium production in Lebanon's Bekka Valley. The drug profits financed various terrorist groups, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), run by former Syrian army officer Ahmed Jibril.[1004]


Al-Kassar also acted as middleman in the ransom paid by the French to effect the release of two hostages held in Beirut. Given his assistance in securing the release of those hostages, the CIA believed al-Kassar would prove invaluable in negotiating the release of the six American hostages then bein







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Did Harry Morel Jr., the former St. Charles Parish district attorney now imprisoned for obstructing justice, get a sweetheart deal because of friendly ties between his defense attorney and a top prosecutor? Did the FBI retaliate against one of its agents because he aggressively pursued Morel and complained about the prosecutor?



 
That's what the chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee wants to know. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, sent letters inquiring into both issues on Nov. 15 to U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey Jr. A spokeswoman for Grassley's office said Wednesday (Dec. 7) he had not received a response.

Morel, 73, was the top prosecutor in Louisiana's 29th Judicial District for 33 years. He pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in New Orleans to obstruction of justice and is serving a three-year prison term in federal prison. 


In Harry Morel case, FBI agent challenged prosecutor's ethics
Investigation into St. Charles Parish DA was called Operation Twisted Justice

In his letters, Grassley said FBI agent Michael Zummer reported to the Judiciary Committee that a "relationship between then-First Assistant United States Attorney Fred Harper and defense attorney Ralph Capitelli may have resulted in a lenient plea agreement" for Morel. Zummer filed an ethics complaint in 2013 with the Justice Department's inspector general about Harper, who shared ownership in a condominium with Capitelli.

Harper later sold his share to his girlfriend, Grassley writes. Capitelli has dismissed Zummer's assertion of favoritism, and has described him as an overzealous agent whose investigatory tactics are questionable.


Fred Harper
 
In August, Zummer wrote a 31-page letter to Morel's sentencing judge, outlining his concerns about the way the prosecution was handled. U.S. District Judge, Kurt Engelhardt did not put the letter into the public court record but described it as "troubling" because of the ethical breaches alleged b







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FBI outreach
The FBI hosted an employment workshop on Buffalo's East Side Thursday, as it looks to further diversify its workforce. 

Listen Listening...1:55 WBFO's Chris Caya reports.
To help spread the word about its job opportunities, the FBI invited about 70 community leaders to First Shiloh Baptist Church for a recruitment workshop. Pastor Emory Brown of Refreshing Springs Church says familiarizing more people with what the FBI does can help start to improve the relationship between the community and law enforcement.  



"Especially at a time like this, you know, when there's so many difficulties in the community and across the country, I think it's very important to be able to get facts and get insight and build relationships and bridges so that we can move forward as a country as a city," he says.

The goal of 24-year-old Stephanie Mejia is to become a special agent. Mejia, a social worker, says she thinks the FBI's effort to hire "more minorities is awesome."

"Because the more people you see that are similar to you in the community, the more people are willing to open up to you, if say you are in a situation where a crime has occurred and you can trust them," she says. "Like I think we definitely need more trust in the community between civilians and law enforcement and this is great that they're trying to reach out to minorities and others in the Buffalo community."  



But it is not all law enforcement. In fact more than half of the FBI jobs are non-agent positions. Adam Cohen, Special Agent in Charge in Buffalo, says there are a variety of opportunities, including auto mechanics, IT specialists, intelligence analysts, linguists, scientists, accountants and more.



"So we have an entire range of positions available and we are



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F.B.I. AGENT ADMITS HARASSING BLACK FBI AGENT

WASHINGTON, A Chicago-based agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has acknowledged that he and other white colleagues planned a campaign of ''retribution'' against a black agent, Donald Rochon, whose case has prompted a national debate over racism in the bureau.

Newly released F.B.I. documents also show that the white agent, Gary W. Miller, has conceded that in 1985 he forged Mr. Rochon's signature on an application for death and dismemberment insurance for the Rochon family.

Mr. Rochon has described the unsolicited insurance policy as a death threat. Mr. Miller, who was suspended without pay for two weeks as a result of that incident and others aimed at Mr. Rochon, has denied that he was trying to harass the black agent. Agents Admit Harassment

The disclosures, contained in court papers filed here Friday, amount to the first public acknowledgment by the bureau that white agents may have participated in harassment of Mr. Rochon in Chicago, where he was assigned from 1984 to 1986.

The newly released documents are bound to cause further embarrassment for the bureau, which has been criticized by Congress over the Rochon case and over other discrimination claims involving black and Hispanic employees. More than half of the F.B.I.'s Hispanic agents have joined in a separate lawsuit against the bureau, charging that they faced discrimination in hiring and promotion.

Mr. Rochon has said that while he and his family were living in Chicago, their safety was repeatedly threatened in anonymous telephone calls and obscene, racist letters from white F.B.I. agents.

The Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have found that Mr. Rochon was the victim of ''blatant racial harassment'' in the F.B.I.'s Omaha office in 1983 and 1984. In one incident, someone in the Omaha office taped a picture of an ape's head over a photograph of Mr. Rochon's son.

Mr. Rochon has long contended that the later incidents in Chicago, which are the subject of an inves




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Footprint Prank Gets FBI Agent Suspended

BOSTON — An FBI agent screening a prominent black lawyer for a federal judgeship forced the lawyer to submit a footprint and then posted the print and joked about the stunt, the Boston Herald reported Saturday. Both the agent and his supervisor were suspended for the prank, which happened about a month ago, the newspaper said, citing sources it didn't identify. The agent, whose name was not disclosed, told lawyer Walter Prince that collecting footprints was standard procedure. Then he hung the print on a wall at the Boston FBI office. ''There can be no question that this type



The FBI FRUHMENSCHEN program

"The FBI FRUHMENSCHEN program is one of the least known of the many illegal FBI black ops programs. FRUHMENSCHEN is a german word that means ape man. This program was created by FBI agents during the 1940's to target black elected officials in sting operations without cause because the FBI feels blacks are incapable of governing. The National Council of Churches of Christ issued a resolution condeming this program during the late 1980's. Dr Mary Sawyer , professor of Religious studies at Iowa State University wrote two books about this program including HARRASSMENT OF BLACK ELECTED OFFICIALS TEN YEARS LATER 1987. Former FBI agent Dr Tyronne Powers documents this program in his book EYES TO MY SOUL. Massachusetts filmaker Curtis Henderson of Jamaica Plain documented this program in his 1987 film ALABAMA SUMMER. FBI informant attorney Hirsch Freidman blew the whistle on this program. One offshoot of this program was the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King by FBI agents as documented in two books by King family attorney William Pepper. The books are ACT OF STATE and his earlier book called ORDERS TO KILL. Anyone analyzing the Ford trial must first look at the history of the FBI FRUHMENSCHEN program funded with American tax dollars Eyes to My Soul: The Rise or Decline of A Black FBI Agent by Tyrone Powers " One of the most readable and important of [recent African American autobiographies]....Powers is a compelling writer." William Jelani Cobb - Washington City Paper " The significance of this literary masterpiece has compelled me to violate my most sacred rule: never expose your battle plan to the enemy...with this work of art by Mr. Powers, my collection is now complete." James Wm. Morrison, Esq., Civil Rights Attorney About Eyes to My Soul Former FBI Special Agent Tyrone Powers, a veteran of the Maryland State Police, spent nine years as an FBI agent, with posting in Cincinnati and Detroit. He resigned in August 1994. The picture of the country's top law enforcement agency that emerges from Powers' eloquent prose reveals an organization beset by the same problems of racism that plague the rest of American society. Powers describes sheet -clad students at the FBI Academy impersonating Ku Klux Klansmen. He reports on FBI agents in Detroit raising funds for white Detroit policemen charged with (and later convicted of ) second degree murder in the death of Black motorist Malice Green. White agents according to Powers' narrative, urinated on photographs of President Bill Clinton and Vice-President Al Gore. Powers provides eyewitness evidence of the agency's extra- legal harassment of African American Mayors Coleman Young (Detroit), Marion Berry ( Washington, DC) and Harold Washington



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Racial Mapping
Shhhh – What The FBI Doesn’t Want You to Know About its Racial Profiling Program
By Nusrat Choudhury, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project at 12:40pm

The FBI is using a racial and ethnic mapping program to collect intelligence on American communities – and it doesn’t want you to know which ones it’s spying on, or how it’s using census data to do so. The ACLU and the ACLU of Michigan filed a brief in federal court on Friday to challenge the FBI’s secrecy over its profiling practices.

FBI documents we already secured show that the Bureau is profiling some communities for intelligence collection based on false stereotypes that ascribe certain types of crimes to entire minority communities. Targeted groups include Muslims and Arab-Americans in Michigan, African-Americans in Georgia, Chinese and Russian-Americans in California, and broad swaths of Latino-American communities in multiple states.

We obtained these FBI documents through the ACLU's “Mapping the FBI” campaign. As part of the campaign, 34 ACLU affiliates filed public records requests in 2010 to uncover how the FBI is collecting and “mapping” information about racial and ethnic groups around the country. Here’s just one troubling example: a 2009 Detroit FBI field office memorandum shows that the Bureau sought to collect information about Middle Eastern and Muslim communities in Michigan – without any evidence of actual wrongdoing and based on a generalized and entirely unsubstantiated threat assertion.

The public needs – and deserves – to know more about the FBI’s racial and mapping program. For that reason, the ACLU and the ACLU of Michigan brought a federal lawsuit in July 2011 to enforce our request for records about how the program is being used in Michigan. But the Bureau refused to disclose hundreds of documents – and most problematically, it fought to keep secret its use of information from public sources.

On Friday, we filed a brief in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge the FBI’s sweeping secrecy claims. Our brief makes a simple but important argument: the Freedom of Information Act doesn’t permit the FBI to hide its use of information about Michigan communities that is already publicly available, like U.S. Census and other demographic data.

This just makes sense. Congress passed the Freedom of Information Act to help uncover information about government programs – not to let the government claim secrecy over census statistics that are already public.

Our brief also raises another critical issue: whether the FBI (or any other government agency) can secure an entirely secret, one-sided judicial process to resolve a challenge to its potential use of the FOIA’s exclusion provision, 5 U.S.C. § 552(c). That provision allows a government agency to avoid confirming or denying the very existence of records in its possession in certain circumstances. The possibility of abuse is obvious, and that makes it all the more important that there be a meaningful process for FOIA requesters to challenge – and the public to know – whether a government agency is properly relying on the provision.

The details of this issue may sound technical, but in essence, it’s simple. The FBI proposed a one-sided, secret judicial process to decide whether its reliance on the provision was proper. We proposed to the court a fair and transparent alternative to secret process. We argue that the FBI’s proposal goes against a fundamental tenet of our judicial system: public access to courts and judicial opinions. It also undermines a critical purpose of the FOIA: to promote government transparency and accountability.

We hope the Sixth Circuit will adopt our process to resolve our claim and those of future FOIA requesters who fight back against government secrecy. And, ultimately, we hope to get the information we all need to know about the true impact of FBI racial and ethnic mapping on our civil rights and civil liberties.

Learn more about racial mapping and other civil liberty issues






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Michael German, a former FBI agent and fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, said he appreciated the decision to release the training guidance, but he ...



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Secret Love Child Instead!
Thursday, 08 December 2016

Fidel Castro fathered a secret love child with a CIA operative dispatched to assassinate him — but instead of killing the Cuban strongman, she became the “spy who really loved him!”

Just days after the dictator’s death, double agent Marita Lorenz has revealed intimate details of their forbidden affair, and her shocking betrayal of her American handlers to RadarOnline.com in a blockbuster exclusive interview.

In yet another bombshell, 77-year-old Marita has claimed their child — who she thought she’d lost during her pregnancy — is alive and well, and living in Cuba!

“I had a forbidden love child with Fidel Castro!” Marita told Radar.

“The CIA and FBI wanted me to believe that Fidel killed our son, Andre, but that was a lie.”

She claimed Castro — who died at the age of 90 on Nov. 25 — reunited her with



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AP sources: Mattis received anonymous email in Petraeus case
By TED BRIDIS Associated Press Updated 33 min ago







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Attorney entitled to fees in
ex-Panther case



Friday, December 9, 2016





OMAHA, Neb. — A lawyer who handled the final appeal of a man convicted in the 1970 bombing death of an Omaha police officer is entitled to attorney's fees, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday.
The state's high court found that Douglas County District Judge James Gleason abused his discretion when he refused to order payment to Timothy Ashford, an Omaha lawyer who claimed about $7,400 in fees for work he did on a post-conviction appeal for David Rice. Gleason had appointed Ashford to represent Rice, but later determined the appeal was frivolous and refused to order payment to Ashford.
But the high court said reasonable fees must be paid to a lawyer once he or she is appointed to a case. The high court ordered the case be sent back to Douglas County — but to a different judge — to determine the amount Ashford should receive.
Rice, who went by the name Mondo we Langa, was convicted along with fellow Black Panther Edward Poindexter in the death of officer Larry Minard. Authorities say they lured police to a house with a 911 call, then detonated a homemade bomb that killed Minard.
The pair maintained their innocence and argued they were targeted by an FBI program






Man Wrongfully Convicted by Perjured FBI Testimony Freed After 28 Years in Prison; Donald Eugene Gates Released on Basis of New DNA Evidence
Aug 5th, 2014 @ 10:37 am › Mary Jane Wilmoth

The following is from guest contributor Jon C. Hopwood.
This article was originally published in 2009 on Yahoo Voice and is reprinted here by permission of the author.

Summary: Donald Eugene Gates, who was convicted of the 1982 rape-murder of a Caucasian college coed, was released on the basis of new DNA evidence.

Donald Eugene Gates, a 58 year-old African American wrongfully convicted in 1982 of the rape-murder of Caucasian college coed Catherine Schilling, was freed by the D.C. Superior Court after a DNA test revealed that he could not be the culprit.

The prosecution of Gates was heavily dependent on the testimony of F.B.I. Crime Lab analyst Michael P. Malone, who testified that two hairs found on Schilling’s body came from an African American male. Schilling, who was a student at Georgetown University, was murdered in Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. in 1981.

Gates, who has always maintained that he was innocent of the crime, had been imprisoned for nearly 30 years until ordered release by Senior Judge Fred B. Ugast. Ugast had overseen his trial back in 1982.

In 1988, Ugast had ordered a DNA test of the evidence used to convict Gates, but DNA testing a generation ago was primitive. The more sophisticated DNA testing of the 21st Century proved that Gates was right: He was innocent.

Crime Lab Corruption

Since the Gates trial, former F.B.I. agent Michael Malone has become notorious as an unreliable and unethical expert witness who likely committed perjury in hundreds of trials. Dr. Frederic Whitehurst of the National Whistleblower Center’s Forensic Justice Project first revealed the widespread corruption at the F.B.I. Crime Lab back in 1993, when he, too, was an F.B.I. employee.  

Whitehurst charged that Malone and other F.B.I. Crime Lab employees were not only manufacturing evidence to support prosecutors and law enforcement agencies, but were engaged in providing perjured testimony at trials using their evidence. Malone had a profitable sideline in providing expert testimony favorable to the prosecution.

A 1997 report from the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General validated Whitehurst’s charges, and cited Malone as one of 14 F.B.I. Crime Lab that conducted inaccurate tests and made false reports. Whitehurst had revealed that Malone had perjured himself and falsified evidence when testifying during the impeachment proceedings against federal judge Alcee Hastings (now a U.S. Representative from Florida’s 23rd Congressional District).

Facing Bureau discipline for his conduct in the Hastings case, Malone was allowed to retire. The Bureau apparently did not take any adverse action against him.

In contrast to the Bureau’s treatment of Malone, Whitehurst — the man who blew the whistle on Crime Lab corruption and illegal activities by Lab employees — was harassed by the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice. Whitehurst’s wife, who also worked for the Bureau, also was a victim of the F.B.I.’s smear campaign against her husband.

In a classic case of the king killing the messenger bearing unwanted news, Dr. Whitehurst was driven from the F.B.I. After years of litigation, the government settled lawsuits targeting its unlawful conduct against Whitehurst for $1.46 million.

Outrageous

Speaking from the bench, Judge Ugast termed the prosecution’s conduct in the Gates trial as “outrageous.” He demanded to know why it took the Office of the U.S. Attorney so long to investigate the use of phony evidence in the Gates case, in light of the knowledge that former Crime Lab analyst Malone has been revealed to be a serial perjurer who fabricated evidence.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joan Draper defended the government by claiming that the Office of the U.S. Attorney had begun looking into the situation “as soon as it was brought to our attention.”

Ugast ordered that all convictions in the District of Columbia that were obtained with testimony from Malone be reviewed.

Righting a Wrong

“We are trying to right a wrong,” Ugast explained when he ordered that Gates be freed. Ugast’s order gives Gates his freedom, but does not exonerate him. The U.S. Attorney may decide to try him again, though in the light of the new DNA evidence, that seems unlikely.

Defending their conduct in the Gates case, federal prosecutors claimed that their case was based on more than Malone’s hair testimony. The government’s case included the use of a jailhouse informant, who was paid for his testimony that Gates has confessed that he had raped and murdered Schilling.

Jail-house confessions are among the most notorious, underhanded methods by which prosecutors seek to gain a conviction. Dr. Sam Sheppard, whose case provided the basis for the TV series and movie The Fugitive, was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife in the Cleveland suburb of Bay Village, Ohio in 1954. The perpetrator of the murder was left-handed while the 30 year-old Sheppard, a highly respected osteopathic physician, was right-handed.

Sheppard claimed that his wife had been murdered by an intruder, whom he had tried to subdue but who had beaten him. The doctor had suffered injuries on the night of his wife’s murder which his defense attorney claimed, during his trial, could not be self-inflicted.

Sheppard was convicted of murder and sentenced to life-in-prison. The case became notorious, and by the late 1950s, it was widely suspected that Cuyahoga County court had convicted an innocent man, who was imprisoned for life.

In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal district court decision on a writ of habeas corpus that had ordered that the State of Ohio to either release Sheppard or grant him a new trial. It is important to understand that Sheppard’s conviction was not overturned on the basis that he was innocent, which was irrelevant, but on the fact that there had been a great deal of negative, pre-trial publicity attacking Sheppard in the press that likely had led to his prosecution.

The High Court noted that the media campaign before and during Sheppard’s arraignment and trail created a “carnival” atmosphere that influenced the trial. It also cited the fact that the judge had failed to sequester the jury or insulate it from this ongoing media campaign against Sheppard. Furthermore, it cited the fact that the judge, on the first day of the trial, had said, “Well, he’s guilty as hell. There’s no question about it.”

The media-created “circus” atmosphere had poisoned his chances for a fair trial. The trial judge’s behavior and his failure to counter the effects of the anti-Sheppard media campaign violated his due process rights. The Supreme Court ruling effectively vacated his sentence, and granted a writ of habeas corpus that gave Sheppard his his taste of freedom in a dozen years. The state of Ohio improbably re-tried Sheppard for murder.

Sam Sheppard’s attorney, F. Lee Bailey, told the press during the second trial that he was going to have Sheppard take the stand in his own behalf. (Sheppard had testified at his first trial.) Bailey had learned that the Ohio prosecutors planned to use a jail-house informant as a rebuttal witness, after Sheppard took the stand. The informant would claim that the imprisoned Sheppard had confessed to him that he had murdered his wife.

Bailey did not let Sheppard testify, with the consequence that the Ohio prosecutors could not put the jail-house informant on the stand. While some saw this as a brilliant move on Bailey’s part, the fact was, Bailey revealed after Sheppard’s premature death in 1970, the wrongfully convicted doctor was in no shape, psychologically, to testify in court. Twelve years behind bars for a crime he did not commit had devastated him.

Within four years after being declared innocent at his second trial, Sam Sheppard was dead of liver failure due to acute alcoholism. He was 46 years old. Appearing on the Tonight Show With Johnny Carson soon after winning his freedom at his second trial, Sheppard had confessed to Carson during a commercial break that if he had been convicted again, he would have committed suicide.

Freedom?

Donald Eugene Gates was released from the federal prison in Arizona where he was serving his sentence. He was given a ticket to Ohio, where he has family, a set of winter clothes, and $75. Whether he will remain a free man, or will – like Sam Sheppard – be retired, remains to be seen.

A hearing to determine whether Gates should be exonerated is scheduled for December 23rd. At the hearing, prosecutors will examine the DNA testing of the evidence. If Gates is not exonerated, he will have to register as a sex offender – for a crime he did not commit.

Malone’s Legacy

Dr. Frederic Whitehurst first revealed Michael Malone’s malfeasance at the F.B.I. Crime Lab back in the 1990s. Now executive director of the Forensic Justice Project, he provided relevant information about Malone’s conduct at the Lab obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit to Gates’ attorney, Sandra Levick.

In the wake of the Office of the Inspector General report on F.B.I. Crime Lab corruption, the Department of Justice set up the Brady Task force to investigate all of the cases Malone and the other 13 lab examiners criticized in the OIG report. The testimony of Malone and the others resulted in hundreds of convictions, all of them suspect and many surely wrongful, like that of Eugene Gates.

The Brady Task force was terminated in 2002. No report was ever issued, and Congress was never informed of its findings of the Brady Task force. Apparently, in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, the F.B.I. was given a “pass” by the George W. Bush Administration and a Republican-controlled Congress, despite the fact that the incompetence and criminality revealed by whistleblowers like Whitehurst and former F.B.I. translator Sibel Edmonds show that such behavior actually undermines national security.

Ironically, after he retired under threat of disciplinary action that never came, Malone continued his relationship with the Bureau. As an F.B.I. contractor, Malone conducts security clearance background checks. Clearly, the Bureau intended to reward him for his falsification of evidence and perjury.

The message the F.B.I.’s continued employment of Malone sends to other wrong-doers in the Bureau and the national security establishment is unmistakable. It also sends a warning to those whistleblowers, like Sibel Edmonds, to think before they reveal corruption. The safety of the United States suffers as a result.

The Future

Though has been known for over a decade that hundreds of convictions obtained by prosecutors depending on the evidence of Michael Malone and the other 13 suspect F.B.I. Crime Lab employees have been tainted, those convictions have been allowed to stand. The federal government has not reviewed them, a situation highlighted by Judge Ugast’s remarks from the bench when freeing Eugene Gates.

The National Whistleblower Center has filed a FOIA seat to obtain the Brady Task force records, which come dribbling in on a monthly basis. Dr. Whitehurst has long contended that Malone manufactured evidence and that all of the cases in which he was involved in must be considered suspect. However, until the Gates case, nothing was done to uncover the truth in those cases.

Judge Ugast’s order that all cases in the District of Columbia involving Malone should be reexamined may be the first step towards obtaining justice for innocent individuals wrongfully convicted by manufactured evidence and perjured testimony provided by F.B.I. Crime Lab employ

Sources:

Associated Press: “DNA testing clears man who served 28 years”

Washington Examiner: “Man freed after 28 years in prison by DNA testing”

Washington Post: “DNA sets free D.C. man imprisoned in 1981 student slaying”

 

Categories: News
Tags: Crime lab, Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, fbi, FBI Whistleblowers, forensic fraud, Forensic Justice, Malone

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Bonus Read

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


LOCAL CALIFORNIA
L.A. sheriff gains support in legal fight over secret list of 300 problem deputies


The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and three other advocacy groups have gone to court to back Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell’s attempt to send prosecutors the names of deputies found to have committed serious misconduct on the job.

The move is the latest turn in the fight over a secret list of 300 problematic deputies whose history of misconduct could damage their credibility if they are ever called to testify in criminal



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Five times law enforcers could have arrested Donald Trump but didn't
Baltimore City Paper (blog)-
After President Donald Trump melted down on Twitter Saturday, it's safe to say that virtually no one in America doesn't know that he is under FBI investigation





FBI decides it will use Tor to replenish it's own supply
of child porn while maintaining it's ability to blackmail
tens of thousands of users of chuld pornography
Think of it : JUDGES,POLITICIANS,DOCTORS and other
highly valued FBI informant assets....sitting ducks



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NEWS
FBI chooses to protect Tor vulnerability and dismiss child porn case

06 Mar 2017

The Department of Justice dropped a child pornography case in order to avoid disclosing a Tor vulnerability; dozens more cases potentially affected.


Forced to decide between disclosing a Tor vulnerability used to gather evidence or dismiss the child porn case it had built; the U.S. Department of Justice chose to protect the exploit.


The undisclosed Tor vulnerability was used by the FBI to deanonymize user traffic to the Playpen child porn website hosted as a Tor hidden service. However, the evidence was deemed inadmissible by the court unless the FBI disclosed the method used to gather it. In a filing on the case federal prosecutor Annette Hayes wrote that the suppression order filed by the FBI "has deprived the government of the evidence needed to establish defendant Jay Michaud's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt at trial."

Hayes said "the government has no choice but to seek dismissal of the indictment" because the FBI was unwilling to disclose the Tor vulnerability "network investigative



Link du jour
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http://www.thesullenbell.com/2017/02/26/whats-at-stake/

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SUNDAY, MARCH 05, 2017

Thick with conspiracies

“Requiem for a Martyr: The “Blind Sheik”, Omar Abdel Rahman, Innocent Victim of Seditious Conspiracy Trial”:

“Defense lawyers claimed that Emad Salem entrapped their clients by hiring them for his plots, then taped them making incriminating statements. Salem’s tapes, on which most of this trial would be based, would also include two FBI admissions of overseeing the provision of the WTC explosives. Ron Kuby requested that all of Salem’s tapes collected as evidence (which also showed the FBI’s unsavory ways of doing business) be released in their entirety to the public to expose the case as a conspiracy to frame the defendants. Judge Michael B. Mukasey, (who would be named Attorney General in 2007), refused to allow the tapes to be made public.”

and:

“The defense counsel immediately called for a mistrial because they believed that the problems with the trial were so egregious. It was clear that the FBI made use of Egypt’s intelligence agent as an agent provocateur to carry out its own agenda. Some defendants claimed that exculpatory conversations were missing from the tapes; the FBI admitted that they had “briefly” returned the tapes to Salem after they had been entered as evidence.

Judge Mukasey told the defense lawyers that he would consider their request to hold a post-trial hearing on the issue of whether he should overturn the convictions. But on January 10, 1996, he rejected the defense motion to throw out the convictions of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and nine others, claiming that there was no proof that the evidence that Salem had destroyed would have helped exonerate the defendants. Mukasey ignored Salem’s obvious motive for destroying evidence and the FBI’s interest in wanting him to do it.”

“Of course Donald Trump’s phones were tapped!”. Comment by noreen cerino on the speed of the protests with “professionally printed signs”. It is curious that the Clintonistas were completely certain of victory, yet there was a concerted organized Obama-Soros conspiracy to undermine President Trump in place from the summer of 2016, all turning on ties to Russia. [emphasis added]


Blink Tank


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3FAGndonIys





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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/r ... -1.2985601



he retired Florida police captain accused of killing a man in a movie theater during an argument over texting said "it was either his life or mine," he testified Tuesday.

Curtis Reeves, now 74, said during a Stand Your Ground hearing that he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot 43-year-old Chad Oulson in January 2014.

"It looked to me like he





http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ne ... 08611.html

Two high-ranking NYPD officers were placed on modified duty and two others were transferred amid a federal investigation into potential violations of conflict of interest rules and federal criminal laws, Commissioner Bill Bratton announced Thursday.
Deputy Inspector James Grant, head the Upper East Side's 19th Precinct, was stripped of his badge and gun Thursday, according to the NYPD. The decision came after the New York Post reported that the FBI was investigating claims that Grant had accepted diamonds and cash from a Brooklyn businessman.

Deputy Chief Michael Harrington was also placed on modified duty, while Deputy Chief David Colon and Deputy Chief Eric Rodriguez were transferred because of the investigation, Bratton said.
'“This is not a particularly good day for the department,” Bratton said.


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Moody,Former police officer shoots neighbor in Brooklyn
Monday, March 6, 2017, 4:55 PM



The man accused of gunning down his Brooklyn landlord is seen in custody on Monday. (TODD MAISEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
A dispute between neighbors turned violent Monday afternoon when an ex-cop shot a 45-year-old man in the head in Brooklyn, police sources said.

The attack happened around 2:30 p.m. in front of a building on Greenpoint Ave., near McGuinness Blvd., in Greenpoint.

The victim, Joe Stepinski, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was on life support Monday night, according to officials.


A neighbor said Stepinski’s girlfriend is the landlord of the building where he and the suspect, retired NYPD officer Gene Barrett, 51, live. The ex-cop retired on a disability pension in 2002.



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Could be truth to Trump's wiretapping allegation
24 Hours Vancouver
If the leak did not come directly from NSA, said Binney, it came from either the CIA for the FBI, both which have unfettered access to NSA's database. As Binney ...

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Link du jour

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http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/03/de ... ce-museum/

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-mal ... story.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... manuscript


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http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/04/dy ... rant-ohio/

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-m ... story.html


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... eg-pickers


They say after Brexit there’ll be food rotting in the fields. It’s already started



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... s-pass-40c

Extreme heat warnings issued in Europe as temperatures pass 40C
Authorities in 11 countries warn residents and tourists to take precautions amid region’s most intense heatwave – nicknamed Lucifer – since 2003




https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... xt-century

Extreme weather deaths in Europe 'could increase 50-fold by next century'
If no action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or protect citizens, weather disasters could kill 152,000 a year between 2071 and 2100, says study



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Ex-jailer settles Pulaski County inmate's sex suit

A federal lawsuit accusing a former Pulaski County jail supervisor of repeatedly sexually assaulting a female inmate in 2014 and 2015 has been settled, canceling a jury trial that was to begin Sept. 12 before U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson.


On June 2, Hazel pleaded guilty in a related criminal case, admitting he made a false statement to FBI agents who were conducting a civil-rights investigation into allegations of sexual encounters between Hazel and the woman.

In return for his guilty plea, and at the request of prosecutors, Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Miller dropped the original charge Hazel had faced, sexual abuse of a ward, for which Hazel was facing a June 12 jury trial. Hazel is now awaiting sentencing on the false-statement charge.

In the civil lawsuit, the woman accused Hazel of battery, sexual assault and wrongful imprisonment. The suit also accused Pulaski County and Sheriff Charles "Doc" Holladay of creating an atmosphere in which illegal behavior was tolerated, thereby violating their constitutional duty to protect an inmate.

However, attorneys for the woman filed a motion July 25 asking that her claims against Holladay, the county and Hazel in his official capacity be dropped.

That left only claims against Hazel in his individual capacity -- which attorneys for the woman also asked to dismiss last week, citing a settlement but offering no details. Wilson granted the motions July 26 and dismissed the case.

Attorneys Kathryn Hudson and Justin Huett of Little Rock, who represent the woman who was a federal inmate at the time, filed their motions to dismiss the defendants in lieu of filing a response to the county's July 13 statement of undisputed facts.




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With NAACP warning, is Missouri the new Mississippi?
Columbia Daily Tribune-
We disagree and note that Missouri reported 100 hate crimes in 2015, the most recent year statistics were available from the FBI's hate crime reporting program.




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Retired FBI agent Martens Admits He Didn't Like His Son-In-Law
TodayFM-
Retired FBI agent Thomas Michael Martens wept in the stand as he said he repeatedly struck his Irish son-in-law with a metal baseball bat over the head.






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Union stands with Troopers


LINCOLN, Neb. As investigations into misconduct in the Nebraska State Patrol begin the union that represents State Troopers is standing behind the troopers.


The one case in particular involves trooper Tim Flick and his role in a pursuit last October that turned deadly.

His cruiser and the suspect's collided. The crash killed one person in the suspect's car.

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts Thursday released a report that outlined policy and procedure changes for the Nebraska State Patrol following an internal affairs investigation.

Chief Human Resources Officer Jason Jackson mentioned several cases of misconduct within the department but wouldn't give specific details in any of the incidents. Jackson said possible harassment, theft of ammunition allegedly by a state trooper and cases of use of force were among the issues discussed in the report.

Names were redacted in the report. Ricketts said they hoped to be as transparent as possible but didn't want to interfere with any due process. Read the full NSP report here.


Ricketts ordered the review after state patrol troopers were accused of changing their story about a high-speed chase that killed a South Dakota driver.

Ricketts announced in June that he had fired Col. Brad Rice and sent the investigation's initial findings to the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office. During Thursday's briefing, Ricketts said some of the issues with internal affairs were directly related to command interference.

Ricketts said, "In particular, I gave you the case for example with the Colonel seemingly to lead where the investigation wanted to go with his remarks."

Jackson added there were cases of misconduct that were deliberately not turned over to the crime commission. He said motives were varied, but in some cases troopers accused of misconduct resigned which relieved the patrol of the requirement to continue the investigation.

An officer involved in the rifle-butt incident in western Nebraska resigned voluntarily in advance of his final disciplinary hearing with Col. Rice. NSP has a practice of administratively closing misconduct investigations if the officer resigns before the investigation is complete. Jackson said failure to complete these investigations and report the findings to the crime commission means an officer may find employment in other jurisdictions. It's a policy the Nebraska State Patrol will change.



http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/C ... 736270.php


California speaker recall effort reflects Democratic tension
Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press Updated 8:41 am, Saturday, August 5, 2017



https://www.wheelsmag.com.au/news/1707/ ... -batteries

TOYOTA is reportedly working on a new generation of electric cars that will use solid-state capacitors to power themselves that can recharge much faster than conventional batteries.
Japanese news service Chunichi reported this week that Toyota planned to have the cars on sale in Japan by 2022, promising electric vehicles that can travel much further than the current generation of battery-fuelled versions, and cut top-up times to about the same as it takes to refuel a normal car.
Solid-state capacitors do not rely on liquids to store their energy. They tend to be much lighter and smaller than conventional “wet” lithium-ion batteries, and have a much higher energy density – the amount of electrical charge they can hold compared to a standard battery – and are better at storing the charge.
However, they tend to have a low power density, meaning that while they can hold a lot of charge (energy), they can’t produce much power quickly.
The carmaker is currently rolling out the Toyota New Generation Architecture – a hybrid, electric and fuel cell-ready platform – across its product range that is expected to also be compatible with solid-state batteries.
So far, only the Toyota Prius petrol-electric hybrid and the Toyota C-HR small SUV are using the new architecture, with the Corolla small car soon to roll out a new version also based on it.
Toyota also has the Mirai fuel-cell car that is built off the TNGA platform – the world’s first mass production hydrogen-fuelled car that converts the fuel to water and electricity to drive an electric motor – but the lack of refuelling infrastructure here has seen plans to launch it locally shelved.
Mazda is the only manufacturer to use a solid-state capacitor. The Mazda 6 sedan and wagon use the capacitor to store energy that’s normally wasted while braking, converting it into electricity that’s used for short periods while the car’s idle-stop system shuts down the engine to save fuel.



This is a BIG game changer folks!

Watch the video here

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3K8JIC-ov_Y


Man's invention will replace electric car batteries allows cars to run on capacitors
WOW!

http://www.kilowattlabs.com/about-us.html

Waseem Ashraf Qureshi | Inventor, CTO and Co-founder

Waseem is the inventor of all of Kilowatt Labs' technologies.

Waseem is the youngest ever recipient of the National Science Award in Pakistan, awarded at the age of 15. He has subsequently received several other such national accolades.

Waseem leads the Company's invention and technology improvement programs, which are developing disruptive technologies for other industries and continually improving the technologies already invented. His brilliance lies in using existing parts and materials (usually 'off-the-shelf') and bringing efficiencies through innovative and creative software design. Operating in a resource constrained environment while growing up, Waseem has always believed that there is a better and cheaper way of doing things.

Waseem has invented and designed prolifically in various capacities starting with the invention of the first uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system in Pakistan in 1984 at the age of 14, which he successfully commercialized the following year at the age of 15.

He also invented, designed, and launched the first car tracking system in Pakistan, as well as several telecom applications. He is a prolific researcher, designer and developer of new technologies and now is focused on energy products, including development of wireless charging technology, the first fast charging battery and the first low -energy, compressor -free air-conditioning system. He has also designed a solar system to withstand extreme temperatures for the Pakistan army.

He is married with 3 children, lives in Dubai and is a graduate in electronics from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.



http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.co ... y/59467140


Solid State Lithium-Ion & Graphene Batteries

Batteries are a big pain point in modern electronics: they take up too much space, have a finite life, lose charge over time, can be heavy , are slow to charge and can be dangerous if improperly handled. What if all these disadvantages just go away?

Toyota has been working on batteries using sulfide superionic conductors.Essentially , these batteries, if perfected will work like super capacitors, able to store huge amounts of energy in a short while. Spanish company Graphenano has been developing graphene polymer batteries that have an energy density of 1,000 Whkg (lithium batteries are about 200 Whkg). It's also purported to charge 33 times faster without retaining a memory effect. We need better batteries and these could be here by 2020.


http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/mons ... 733885.php

Why does the Bay Area feel like Hawaii right now?
By Amy Graff, SFGATE Updated 4:50 pm, Friday, August 4, 2017



http://www.centralmaine.com/2017/08/04/ ... t-charges/


Sessions directive encourages Maine law enforcement to seize property without charges
A recent asset forfeiture in Portland involving possible illegal gambling brings the controversial practice to light, as the attorney general loosens rules regarding its use.


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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/br ... r-failures

Olympic Organizations And The FBI Knew Larry Nassar Was Abusing Young Gymnasts But Didn’t Do Anything For Over A Year
A congressional report found that the agencies had opportunities to stop the doctor but failed to do so and “knowingly concealed” his abuse.


https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house ... henanigans

Chris Wray's FBI continues to cover for Team Comey's Russia shenanigans
BY JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 07/30/19 09:30 AM EDT
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https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html



Cop claims NYPD ignored her sexual harassment complaints against fellow officers, lawsuit says

By ESHA RAY  and LEONARD GREENE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 30, 2019 | 5:47 PM

https://wwjnewsradio.radio.com/articles ... -all-wrong

https://sharylattkisson.com/2019/07/upd ... ment-60073



https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... use-report

Mark Meadows bypasses FBI to appeal for release of info linked to FISA abuse report
by Daniel Chaitin
 & Jerry Dunleavy
 | July 30, 2019 04:59 PM



https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/citizen- ... wnIugFckA/

WATCH: Cop Won't give Man Reason for Stop, Holds him at Gunpoint, Arrests him



https://oklahoman.com/article/5637461/o ... ed-of-rape

Oklahoma court to rule on appeal of ex-cop convicted of rape
Published: Tue, July 30, 2019 12:54 PM Updated: Tue, July 30, 2019 12:55 PM




https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/ ... 857097001/

State board says Paterson police officer in sex case should not get full pension

Joe Malinconico, Paterson Press Published 8:18 a.m. ET July 30, 2019 | Updated 11:50

PATERSON — In the latest development in a case that has cost city taxpayers more than $2 million, a state board ruled against giving a full pension to a retired cop who spent nine years being paid for not working after he was accused of sexual misconduct.
The retirement board decided on July 8 that the former cop, Ma






https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/cri ... 12ecc.html

BREAKING TOP STORY URGENT
Cop commander on the hook for missing cash from drug fund, state auditors say
* Lauren Cross lauren.cross@nwi.com, 219-933-3206 Jul 30, 2019 Updated
*


https://www.nj.com/mercer/2019/07/nj-co ... trial.html

N.J. cop charged with killing newborn daughter will remain jailed, mom charged with endangering set free
Updated Jul 30, 5:55 PM; Posted Jul 30, 3:23 PM




https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us ... 74011.aspx

California cop guilty of insurance fraud



https://kywnewsradio.radio.com/media/au ... ship-minor


Downingtown cop charged with inappropriate relationship with minor

KYW NEWSRADIO AUDIO ON-DEMAND
TUESDAY, JULY 30TH
A 44-year-old former Downingtown police officer is charged with


https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-gon ... UJaMZFf-A/

Cop Convicted of Body Slamming 66-Year-Old Nurse at Hospital gets 45 Days Jail




https://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/ ... de855.html

Lebanon cop accused of assaulting boyfriend expected to make plea
* By John Koziol Union Leader Correspondent Jul 30, 2019 Updated 1 hr ago
*


https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/alle ... -1.2514409

abusive cop barred from contacting wife

WILKES-BARRE — The Wilkes-Barre police officer accused of threatening to slit his estranged wife’s throat and kill himself reached an agreement Tuesda

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https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019 ... 64882ef191

10.31.2019
FEATURE
Why Some Police Departments Are Leaving Federal Task Forces
Cities say the feds won’t follow their rules about using force, body cams



 https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191 ... ully.shtml

Cops: People In Their Own Homes Are In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time Whenever A Cop Enters Unlawfully


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


Bronx jury awards $11 million to man shot by cops and partially paralyzed in 2006





https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/cri ... story.html


Ex-Chicago cop on trial for off-duty killing declines to take witness stand as testimony ends

By MEGAN CREPEAU

CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
OCT 30, 2019 | 6:04 PM



https://theintercept.com/2019/10/30/afg ... s-taliban/

A CIA-BACKED MILITIA TARGETED CLINICS IN AFGHANISTAN, KILLING MEDICAL WORKERS AND CIVILIANS
Andrew Quilty
October 30 2019, 9



https://www.11alive.com/article/news/in ... 1ec1d69fdf

THE-REVEAL

Hero cop kicked off the force after questionable psych evaluation
He shot a kidnapper, then saved the suspect's life. The city then stripped him of his badge saying he's unfit for duty. Our investigation found he's not the only one



https://theintercept.com/2019/10/30/nor ... stricting/

TO FIX RACIAL GERRYMANDER, NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS CONSIDERED A MAP THAT COULD HAVE ELECTED AN ALL-WHITE SLATE
David Daley
October 30 2019, 3:09 p.m.

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/cri ... 10153.html

CRIME & COURTS
SC crooked cops, snared by FBI in fake Mexican cartel drug sting, plead guilty

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




https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/f ... 07f08.html


FBI opens applications for Denver citizens’ academy
* Michael Karlik, Colorado Politics Oct 30, 2019 Updated 12 hrs a




https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavl ... r-n2555614

Has the FBI Opened an Investigation Into
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar?

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Posted: Oct 30, 2019 1:40 P



https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/ ... 1ac52a603/

Today, Mitchell filed an affidavit by a former FBI informant in Atlanta, claiming there was an "unofficial policy" of the FBI in the late 1970s and early 1980s to investigate "prominent elected and appointed black officials in major metropolitan areas throughout the United States."
The affidavit, signed by Hirsch Friedman, 45, now a lawyer and businessman in Atlanta, said the policy was referred to in the Atlanta FBI field office as the "fruhmenschen policy." Fruhmenschen is a German word meaning "early man" or "Stone Age man," according to the affidavit.
The term was used, Friedman said, because the FBI assumed that "black officials were intellectually and socially incapable of governing major governmental organizations and institutions."


Fruhmenschen" operation resurfaces in




https://apnews.com/1bc1acbd5cbe3fff8d072fc424bc74cb

Mundy said out of the presence of the jury that FBI Agent Ronald Stern, whose sting operation videotaped Barry smoking crack cocaine, ″in effect moves around the country as the head of an ... assault force of FBI agents.″

Assistant U.S. Attorney Judith Retchin responded: ″There is absolutely no truth to the allegation.″

Said Jones: ″There is not a group that crisscrosses the country targeting black officials.″

The FBI has no numbers to show its investigations have been balanced racially, because it doesn’t keep such statistics, he said.

″There is no way the FBI could differentiate by race the number of individuals we’ve investigated,″ Jones said. ″I think it would be ludicrous to. I don’t think the public would stand for it.″

A congressional source said he has seen details from black officials on the allegations, but he has never seen Stern’s name connected with any of them.

In addition, he said, there had never been mention of any roving task force and he added that such a force ″is not a concept that I know of in the FBI.″

One of the most prominent cases has been that of Birmingham, Ala., Mayor Richard Arrington, a former college professor who says he has been the subject of FBI scrutiny since the early 1970s and was the target of several sting operations from 1987 through 1989.

Arrington’s attorney Donald V. Watkins, compiled a report detailing operations against other black officials, and submitted that report to the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

___


The report includes details from affidavits submitted by Atlanta attorney and former FBI undercover operative Hirsch Friedman. He testified in 1987 that the FBI had a policy called Fruhmenschen - a German term for ″primitive man″ - that selectively targeted African-American elected and appointed officials for investigation, according to the report.

The Friedman affidavits said the policy was based on ″the assumption by the FBI that black officials were intellectually and socially incapable of governing major governmental operations and institutions.″

Justice Department spokesman Doug Tillett said the




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The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in
43 Congressman Mervyn Dymally has also stated his belief that Black elected officials have been targeted by the FBI under the “Fruhmenschen” program.



https://btlonline.org/new-report-docume ... -groups-2/

New Report Documents Unchecked FBI Surveillance of U.S. Progressive Groups
Interview with Chip Gibbons, policy and legislative counsel with Defending Rights and Dissent, conducted by Scott Harris


http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/2 ... 64882ef191

MONDAY, OCT 28, 2019, 3:34 PM
Over the Last Week, At Least 85,000 Workers Were Out on 13 Different Strikes




https://truthout.org/articles/convicted ... 64882ef191 b


Convicted Anti-Nuclear Activists Speak Out: “Pentagon Has Brainwashed People”




http://ccresourcecenter.org/2019/10/28/ ... s-partner/


COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES RESOURCE CENTER
Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction and Restoration of Rights: News, Commentary, and Tools

Association of Prosecuting Attorneys joins Restoration of Rights Project as partner
October 28, 2019CCRC Staff
The Collateral Consequences Resource Center is pleased to announce that the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) has joined as a partner in our Restoration of Rights Project (RRP).  The APA is a membership organization of elected and appointed prosecutors whose mission is to provide training and technical assistance to prosecutors in the United States,  and to facilitate collaboration with criminal justice partners on emerging issues related to the administration of justice.  APA President and CEO David LaBahn participated in the roundtable on non-conviction records held in August at the University of Michigan Law School, a project that relies heavily on the state law research in the RRP.  The RRP’s other partner organizations are the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Legal Aid & Defender Association, and National HIRE Network.
The RRP describes current U.S. law and practice concerning restoration of rights and record relief following arrest or conviction in the 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and federal system, in three formats: summaries of every jurisdiction, detailed profiles of each jurisdiction, and 50-state comparison charts.  Topics include sealing and expungement, employment and licensing, pardons, voting, jury service, public office, and firearms rights.   People visit the RRP more than 1,000 times every day looking for information about ways to alleviate the burdens of a criminal record.
We are very excited to have this respected national prosecutor organization as a partner in the RRP enterprise, to help bring the RRP’s resources to the prosecutor community, along with a greater awareness of the need for and availability of mechanisms to mitigate the collateral consequences of arrest and conviction.  We look forward to the new perspectives the APA can bring to bear as we work to expand the RRP and make it more useful to all those interested in restoration of rights and record relief.


https://gothamist.com/news/ccrb-tells-n ... ng-happens


The CCRB Tells The NYPD Which Cops Have Lied. Usually, Nothing Happens
BY GEORGE JOSEPH
OCT. 31, 2019 10:14 A.M. • 18 COMME

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https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... -brutality

POLICING
90.jpg
L.A. cuts $150 million from LAPD budget
Deluged by demands for cuts in police spending, the L.A. City Council votes to take the LAPD down to 9,757 officers, its lowest level in 12 years.
More Coverage
L.A. Unified police chief resigns after district




http://ticklethewire.com/2020/07/02/wit ... n-el-paso/


Witness Offer Differing Account of Border Patrol Chase That Ended with 10 Dead in El Paso



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


Off-duty NYPD sergeant busted for crash with bicyclist, shoving witness and fleeing: cops

By THOMAS TRACY

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 02, 2020 AT 10:16 AM





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


Ghislaine Maxwell, accused Jeffrey Epstein madam, arrested in New Hampshire: source
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By STEPHEN REX BROWN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 02, 2020 AT 9:38 AM




https://www.rt.com/news/493567-light-fl ... akthrough/


WATCH: Scientists make light ‘flow’ like a river in incredible breakthrough experiment
2 Jul, 2020 12:42



https://www.rt.com/news/493621-mac-malw ... et-piracy/



Tech experts warn of new Mac ransomware spreading via internet piracy & taking files hostage
2 Jul, 2020 17:11



https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus ... story.html



Dr. Fauci says coronavirus may be mutating to spread quicker
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By JOSEPH WILKINSON

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 02, 2020 AT 4:48 PM




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


Germany disbands elite commando unit infested with white supremacists
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By BRIAN NIEMIETZ

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 02, 2020 AT 7:10 PM





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


Colorado police officer who took inappropriate photos at Elijah McClain memorial resigns

By DAVID MATTHEWS

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 02, 2020 AT 4:54 PM




https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusett ... agram-post


Massachusetts rookie cop fired over Instagram photo of niece at Black Lives Matter rally: reports
Her niece was holding a sign that read: "Shoot the f--- back"






https://www.tmz.com/2020/07/02/miami-co ... eved-duty/


COP VIOLENTLY STRIKES WOMAN IN FACE ...
Relieved of Duty

7/2/2020 6:58 AM PT




https://www.policeone.com/officer-misco ... dOUDWXTjd/



2 Oklahoma cops facing second degree murder charges
A 28-year-old Wilson man died in July of 2019 two days after allegedly being tased more than 50 times by officers



https://nypost.com/2020/07/02/albany-la ... -benefits/


New York Democrats want to strip cops with ‘serious’ offense of pension benefits
By Bernadette Hogan
July 2, 2020 |





https://nypost.com/2020/07/02/uk-cop-un ... on-arrest/


NEWS

UK cop under investigation for kicking black man during arrest in London
By Lia Eustachewich
July 2, 2020 |




https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2 ... 0602214749


To Help NYC Protesters, 500 Attorneys Volunteer With Legal Aid's New 'Cop Accountability Clinic'
The lawyers involved come from 20 different firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Debevoise & Plimpton; Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe; Schulte Roth & Zabel; and Sidley Austin, according to a Legal Aid spokesman.
By Jane Wester | July 02, 2020 at 03:25 PM





https://www.yc.news/2020/07/02/philly-c ... missioner/


PHILLY COP HIT WITH NEARLY TEN CRIMINAL CHARGES, INCLUDING ROBBERY AND CONSPIRACY: COMMISSIONER






https://www.investigativepost.org/2020/ ... alf-of-it/


Vulgar insult by cop only the half of it
It's becoming more evident that Buffalo police mishandled several aspects of a situation Sunday that resulted in a lieutenant getting suspended for a misogynist slur





https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/chic ... present-me


Chicago Cop Resigns From Police Union 'That Doesn't Represent Me'
African-American officer Julius Givens resigned from the Chicago police union. The FOP's rhetoric "doesn't speak for me," he said.
By Mark Konkol, Patch Staff

Jul 1, 2020 8:43 pm CT
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Updated Jul 2, 2020 6:20 am CT




https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/b ... story.html


‘It scares the hell out of me’: White Baltimore cop, Black attorney build a family across divide of race, justice
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By CHILDS WALKER

BALTIMORE SUN |
JUL 02, 2020 AT 7:00 AM

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/retired-law- ... police-pac


Retired cops launch PAC to help elect pro-police candidates
Philadelphia-based POP PAC launched Wednesday




https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-poli ... lent-calls


Florida police department will not send cops to non-violent calls
'Change is coming to St. Pete Police Department,' the chief said




https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rates.html



Colorado police department under fire for Elijah McClain's death faces more criticism after white cop was caught on video pointing a gun at an Indian-American doctor at the refugee center he runs
* Dr. P.J. Parmar, an Indian American, was trying to enter the refugee center he operates on March 1 when he found a cop car blocking the entrance
* He honked at the patrol car to move but the white Aurora cop pulled out his gun
* Officer J. Henderson shouts and swears at Parmar and questions whether he owns the building
* The doctor repeatedly asks the cop to leave his property but he instead calls for back-up



https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/ ... 418523002/


Essex County cop charged after allegedly tracking car without a warrant
Nicholas Katzban
NorthJersey.com




https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news ... 414525002/

DA's office seeks to appeal in case of ex-cop who shot handcuffed man in leg
Liz Evans Scolforo
York Dispatch



https://www.necn.com/news/local/ex-alab ... y/2296637/


Alabama Cop Charged With Human Trafficking Arrested in NH, Marshals Say
The former officer was arrested in an apartment building in Hampton



https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/ ... ivil-suit/



Ex-Santa Cruz cop settles civil suit

By JESSICA A. YORK | jyork@santacruzsentinel.com | Santa Cruz Sentinel
PUBLISHED: July 10, 2020 at 2:38 p.m. | UPDATED: July 10, 2020 at 5:42 p.m.



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


5 cops suspended after mother, son die during police pursuit




https://www.thenation.com/article/polit ... l-justice/


Joe Kennedy III Hired a Cop to Advise Him on Race and Justice
As Black Lives Matter protests spread across the country, Kennedy appointed a sheriff to counsel him on criminal justice reform.



https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/ ... 83bdf3d53f



RNC
Former FBI executive helping Downtown Jacksonville businesses prepare for any threats surrounding the RNC



https://www.theepochtimes.com/despite-s ... 20903.html


Despite Stream of Exculpatory Evidence, FBI Kept Pushing Flynn Investigation, Documents Indicate
BY PETR SVAB July 11, 2020 Updated: July 11, 2020 Print





https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2020/20-081.pdf


INVESTIGATIVE SUMMARY
Findings of Misconduct by a then Federal Bureau of Investigation Unit Chief for Engaging in an Improper, Intimate Relationship with a Subordinate and Related Misconduct





https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2020/20-080.pdf

INVESTIGATIVE SUMMARY
Findings of Reasonable Grounds to Believe that an FBI Analyst Suffered Reprisal as a Result of Protected Disclosures in Violation of FBI Whistleblower Regulations
The OIG investigated allegations from a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) analyst that the analyst was retaliated against for making protected disclosures under the FBI Whistleblower Regulations about non‐compliance with various FBI policies.
We found that the analyst made at least one protected disclosure and that several personnel actions were taken against the analyst after the analyst made the protected disclosure, including two non‐selections. We found that, with respect to one non‐selection, the analyst’s current and former supervisors undercut the competitiveness of the analyst’s application by failing to provide the analyst recommendations, which resulted in the analyst being excluded from consideration. We also found that, with respect to another non‐selection, the analyst’s supervisors undermined the analyst’s eligibility to compete for a position the analyst intended to apply for by deferring its posting until after having selected the analyst for a different position, thereby making the analyst ineligible for the original position once it was available for competition.
The OIG did not find clear and convincing evidence that these two non‐selections would have been made in the absence of the analyst’s protected disclosure. Accordingly, we found reasonable grounds to believe that the analyst suffered reprisals as a result of the analyst’s protected disclosure.
Under the FBI Whistleblower Regulations, the OIG’s finding is not a final determination. The responsibility for making a final adjudication of the reprisal claim lies with the Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management (OARM), which may order corrective action as a remedy for the whistleblower. OARM may refer findings that particular officials engaged in retaliation to the FBI for consideration of whether discipline is warranted. The OIG provided its report of investigation to OARM.




https://oig.justice.gov/press/2020/2020-07-09.pdf


BUREAU OF PRISONS CORRECTIONAL OFFICER INDICTED FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING AN INMATE
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – A federal grand jury in Tallahassee returned an indictment on July 7, 2020, charging Phillip Golightly, 38, of Quincy, Florida, with two counts of Sexual Abuse of a Ward. Golightly, a U.S. Bureau of Prisons Correctional Officer at Federal Correctional Institution Marianna, is charged with sexually assaulting an inmate while on temporary duty at Federal Correctional Institution Tallahassee. The indictment was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
The indictment alleges that in November 2019, while on-duty as a Correctional Of




https://thegrio.com/2020/07/11/influenc ... id-lawyer/


Nigerian Instagram influencer, Hushpuppi, was ‘kidnapped’ by the FBI, said his lawyer
Fellow Nigerian Instagram influencer, Mr. Woodberry was also arrested by the FBI.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... and-deaths


Coronavirus world map: which countries have the most Covid-19 cases and deaths?




https://theintercept.com/2020/07/11/mai ... le-crafts/

MAINE GOP PRIMARY IS BECOMING A PROXY FIGHT OVER WAR, SAUDI ARABIA
Matthew Cunningham-Cook
July 11 2020, 7:00 a.m.


https://theintercept.com/2020/07/10/tex ... on-runoff/


PROTESTS AGAINST POLICING COULD HELP MAKE FORMERLY HOMELESS CANDACE VALENZUELA THE FIRST AFRO-LATINA IN CONGRESS
Rachel M. Cohen
July 10 2020, 12:40 p.m.



https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/flo ... ty-letter/


FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES ORGANIZE TO PROTEST FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Aída Chávez
July 9 2020, 9:41 p.m.




https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/07/10/trump ... president/


INTEGRITY, PODCAST, US POLITICS
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
Best explanation of why the Covid PCR tests result in large numbers of false positives

No lab test is 100% accurate.  Hopefully most have about 90-99% sensitivity and specificity.  Doctors know that some results will be wrong, so we are always weighing all our evidence, and not relying entirely on a lab result to make a diagnosis.  
We test sick patients.  Health insurance does not pay for screening tests in healthy patients, with certain notable exceptions.  The combination of symptoms and lab results allows us to be mostly right.
When you start to screen healthy patients, who don't have symptoms, and you are trying to make a diagnosis based exclusively on a lab test, there are numerous possible pitfalls.  Below is an excellent discussion of how baked-in test limitations can lead you wildly astray.
Taken verbatim from Sebastian Rushworth, MD's blog:
"As mentioned, the sensitivity of the PCR test seems to be around 88% . A good value for the specificity is harder to determine, but it’s somewhere between 88% and 100%, so if we assume a specificity of 94% (halfway between the two values) we’re probably not far off.
Let’s say the disease is spreading rampantly through the population, and one in ten people are infected at the same time. If we test 1,000 people at random, that will mean 100 of those people actually have covid, while 900 don’t. Of the 100 who have covid, the test will successfully pick up 88. Of the 900 who don’t have covid, the test will correctly tell 846 that they don’t have it, but it will also tell 54 healthy people that they do have covid. So, in total 142 people out of 1,000 are told that they have covid. Of those 142 people, 62% actually have the disease, and 38% don’t.
That’s not great. Four in ten people getting a positive test result don’t actually have covid, even in a situation where the disease is so common that 10% of people being tested really do have the disease.
Unfortunately, it gets worse. let’s assume the disease is starting to wane, and now only one in a hundred people being tested actually has covid. If we test 1,000 people, that will mean ten will really have covid, while 990 won’t. Of the ten who have covid, nine will be correctly told that they have it. Of the 990 who don’t have it, 931 will be correctly told that they don’t have it, while 59 will be incorrectly told that they do have the disease. So, in total, 68 people will be told that they have covid. But only 9 out of 68 will actually have the disease. To put it another way, in a situation where only 1% of the population being tested has the disease, 87% of positive results will be false positives.
There is another thing about this that I think is worth paying attention to. When one in ten people being tested has the disease, you get 142 positive results per 1000 people tested. But when one in a hundred has the disease, you get 68 positive results. So, even though the actual prevalence of the disease has decreased by a factor of ten, the prevalence of PCR positive results has only decreased by half. So if you’re only looking at PCR results, and consider that to be an accurate reflection of how prevalent the disease is in the population, then you will be fooled, because the disease will seem to be much more prevalent than it is.
Let’s do one final thought experiment to illustrate this. Say the disease is now very rare, and only one in a thousand tested people actually has covid. If you test 1,000 people, you will get back 61 positive results. Of those, one will be a true positive, and 60 will be false positives. So, even though the prevalence of true disease has again decreased by a factor of ten, the number of positive results has only decreased slightly, from 68 to 61 (of which 60 are false positives!). So by looking just at positive PCR tests, you can easily be convinced that the disease is continuing to be roughly as prevalent in the population, even as it goes from being present in one in a hundred people to only being present in one in a thousand. The rarer the disease becomes in reality, the less likely you are to notice any difference in the number of tests returning positive results.
I want to restate this again, in a slightly different way, to make sure the message sinks in. As the disease drops enormously, by a factor of 100, from affecting one in ten to one in a thousand tested people, there is little more than a halving in PCR positive results, from 142 to 61. So a huge reduction in real infections only causes a small reduction in PCR confirmed “cases”. In fact, the disease could vanish from the face of the Earth, and you would still be getting 60 positive results for every 1,000 tests carried out!
The same trend is seen even if the PCR test were to have a much better specificity than we are estimating here, of say 99% . Here’s a quick illustration, since I don’t want to tire you with too many more numbers. If one in ten has the disease and you test 1,000 people, you will get back 97 positive results, of which 88 will be true positives and 9 will be false positives. If one in 100 has the disease, you will get back 19 positive results, of which 9 will be true positives and ten will be false positives. If one in 1,000 has the disease, you will get back 12 positive results, of which 11 will be false positives.
So, even if the test has a very high specificity of 99%, when the virus stops being present at pandemic levels in the population and starts to decrease to more endemic levels, you quickly get to a point where most positive results are false positives, and where the disease seems to be much more prevalent than it really is.
As you can see, the less prevalent the disease is in reality, the more likely the test is to generate a false positive result, and the less useful the test is as a method for figuring out who actually has covid. And the less prevalent the disease is, the more prevalent it will seem to be in relation to reality. If decisions about covid continue to be made largely based on what PCR tests show, we might never be able to call off the pandemic!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why PCR positive cases are a very poor indicator of how prevalent covid is in the population, and why we should instead be basing decisions on the rates of hospitalization, ICU admission, and death. If we just look at the PCR tests, we will continue to believe that the disease is widespread in the population indefinitely, even as it becomes less and less common in reality." 
Now, I (Meryl Nass) must add that currently, real cases ARE going up in the US, based on hospitalizations, ICU admissions, deaths.  I don't for a second deny that.  
But high total case counts are partly due to the problems inherent in the test process.  The US is testing 1.5 million people a day, and about 160,000 people a day are testing positive.  How many thousands are false positives?

Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 12:28 AM 0 comments



Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Covidicide/ Brett Wilcox

Brett Wilcox is a fabulous writer, and is spot-on about the real (but deliberately unmeasured) effects of our deliberately misguided approach to Covid-19:  
NOVEMBER 3, 2020 BY BRETT WILCOX


COVIDICIDE

Covidicide [ koh-vid-uh-sahyd]: killing, death and destruction caused by or subsequent to COVID related measures, policies, rules, pronouncements, interventions and treatments including but not limited to the following:
• the planned, purposeful, and coordinated killing of nursing home residents by government officials in several countries via compulsory co-mingling of COVID patients with COVID negative residents.
• the killing of nursing home residents as a consequence of loneliness, isolation, depression, and sickness due to the long-term forced separation from healthy family and friends.
• the planned and purposeful killing of elderly and disabled patients via administration of respiratory-inhibiting drugs including morphine.
• the killing of both COVID and non-COVID patients by refusing to provide care to real and present patients purportedly to free up resources for theoretical, future patients.
• the killing of COVID patients who are instructed to stay home until their condition has deteriorated rather than seek out and receive early intervention and treatment.
• the killing of non-COVID patients by withholding standard medical care over extended periods of time including diagnostic tests, treatments, and interventions.
• the killing of inpatient COVID patients via profit-driven but contraindicated intubation and ventilation.
• the killing of patients via unwanted Do Not Resuscitate orders.
• the planned and purposeful injuring and killing of people in the HCQ related UK Recovery and WHO Solidarity trials where late-stage COVID patients were given four times the recommended HCQ dosage normally given to early ambulatory patients with zinc and/or azithromycin.
• the planned and purposeful injuring and killing of people who were prevented from receiving HCQ as a result of the fraudulent Surgisphere study which was published by the Lancet [and later retracted] and promoted as evidence against the safety and efficacy of HCQ.
• the planned, purposeful and coordinated killing of people by so-called experts with their claim that there are no known COVID treatments, the censorship of information regarding COVID treatments, and by limiting and/or removing access to such treatments including but not limited to HCQ.
• the planned, purposeful and coordinated killing of people who would have received effective treatments were it not for the silencing, firing, censoring and punishment of medical providers who successfully treat COVID patients.
• the killing of people caused by doctors who fail to honor their Hippocratic Oath by withholding information from COVID patients regarding known and recognized COVID treatments and/or by refusing to prescribe such treatments.
• the killing of people caused by the failure of so-called experts and medical professionals to inform the public of known and recognized natural and inexpensive strategies to strengthen the human immune system.
• the killing of COVID and non-COVID patients who fail to seek medical care due to unreasonable fear caused by fear mongering from so-called experts and the 24/7 panic news cycle.
• the killing of COVID and non-COVID patients who are prevented from having an advocate by their side to ensure proper medical care and to guard against unnecessary and dangerous medical care.
• the killing of individuals due to heart failure, strokes and other causes via 24/7 COVID-related fear mongering.
• the accidental and/or purposeful loss of life due to excess use of pharmaceuticals, alcohol, and other drugs used as COVID-related coping strategies.
• suicide resulting from psychological and emotional trauma and/or financial distress due to COVID measures including lockdown, chronic social isolation, bullying, and shaming.
• the killing of community members resulting from COVID-related fights and assaults.
• the killing of individuals due to complications from mask use including hypoxia, hypercapnia, loss of consciousness, falls, and infections.
• the killing of individuals who submit to ineffective and dangerous flu shots due to COVID-related fear mongering.
• the killing of individuals via unethical testing and the release of experimental vaccines brought to market at “warp speed.”
• the destruction of healthy child development and healthy parent/child relationships caused by chronically frightened and traumatized parents, the masking of parents and/or children, fear of parent/child physical contact, and obsessive focus on hygiene.
• the destruction of the family caused by COVID-related separation and isolation via forced detainment/quarantine camps and other facilities.
• the destruction of the global food system resulting in increased malnutrition, compromised health, loss of IQ, disease, and/or starvation.
• the killing of individuals by police officers and/or soldiers due to COVID-related measures or consequences including riots, curfews, travel restrictions, etc.
• the killing of truth via fabricated and/or inaccurate COVID-related statistics including exaggerated disease projections, the fraudulent reclassification of COVID deaths, and PCR-test chicanery resulting in exaggerated and meaningless case counts.
• the killing of common sense and critical thinking skills as manifested by unquestioning submission to endless inane, dangerous, and/or contradictory pronouncements from so-called experts.
• the destruction of education caused by scientifically and morally indefensible school-related COVID measures including mask use and other barriers, online learning, and over exposure to toxic substances, all of which negatively impacts student and teacher well-being, learning and participation, resulting in increased behavioral and mental health issues, withdrawals, “dropouts”, risky behaviors and suicide.
• the killing of the arts and the personal, interpersonal, and societal benefits derived from the creation, expression, and experiencing of the arts.
• the planned and purposeful destruction of the global economy, economic systems and the forced closure of millions of businesses deemed non-essential resulting in unemployment, loss of income and savings, despair, illness, premature death and suicide.
• the killing of kindness, love, good will and civility.
• the killing of bodily autonomy and individual sovereignty.
• the killing of parental rights regarding the care and education of their children.
• the killing of God-given, Constitutionally recognized rights including but not limited to freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom of religion, and freedom of privacy.
• the potential bastardization and/or annihilation of the human race caused by the unpredictable and unknown effects of vaccines designed to permanently alter human DNA.


Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 9:59 AM



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Thursday, February 4, 2021
Google/YouTube censor Senate hearing on ivermectin and early treatment of Covid-19/Wall Street journal

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It censors testimony from physicians on early treatments for Covid-19 patients.
By Ron Johnson



Feb. 2, 2021 12:47 pm ET         
Google’s YouTube has ratcheted up censorship to a new level by removing two videos from a U.S. Senate committee. They were from a Dec. 8 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on early treatment of Covid-19.  One was a 30-minute summary; the other was the opening statement of critical-care specialist Pierre Kory.
Dr. Kory is part of a world-renowned group of physicians who developed a groundbreaking use of corticosteroids to treat hospitalized Covid patients.  His testimony at a May Senate hearing helped doctors rethink treatment protocols and saved lives. 

At the December hearing, he presented evidence regarding the use of ivermectin, a cheap and widely available drug that treats tropical diseases caused by parasites, for prevention and early treatment of Covid-19.  He described a just-published study from Argentina in which about 800 health-care workers received ivermectin and 400 didn’t.  Not one of the 800 contracted Covid-19; 58% of the 400 did.

Dr. Kory asked the National Institutes of Health to review his group’s manuscript outlining dozens of successful trials and to consider updating its Aug. 27 guidance in which it recommended “against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19, except in a clinical trial.”  On Dec. 10, Sen. Rand Paul and I sent a letter to the NIH requesting that it review Dr. Kory’s evidence.

On Jan. 14, NIH changed its guidance to neutral by acknowledging the successful trials but determined “that currently there are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19.”  On Jan. 22 I sent an oversight letter asking what actions the NIH had taken to explore the use of repurposed drugs for treating Covid-19.

Before being removed from YouTube and other websites, Dr. Kory’s opening statement had been viewed by more than eight million people.  Unfortunately, government health agencies don’t share that interest in early treatment. A year into the pandemic, NIH treatment guidelines for Covid patients are to go home, isolate yourself and do nothing other than monitor your illness.
Fortunately, some doctors have the courage to ignore these compassionless guidelines and are using their expertise to develop protocols utilizing a variety of cheap, available and safe FDA-approved drugs to treat patients early and avoid hospitalization. Instead of being rewarded, they are being censored, ostracized, vilified in the press, even fired.  This closed-minded approach represents a dark chapter in the history of medicine and journalism.
The censors at YouTube have decided for all of us that the American public shouldn’t be able to hear what senators heard. Apparently they are smarter than medical doctors who have devoted their lives to science and use their skills to save lives. They have decided there is only one medical viewpoint allowed, and it is the viewpoint dictated by government agencies. Government-sanctioned censorship of ideas and speech should frighten us all.
Mr. Johnson, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Wisconsin.

Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.


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Cop kills Cop


https://www.berkeleyside.com/2021/02/04 ... ck-leaders


‘Discredit, disrupt and destroy’: UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders
FBI records show how the federal agency tried to undermine the Black Panthers, Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr.



https://www.wibw.com/2021/02/04/fbi-kan ... nt-feb-25/

FBI Kansas City Division holding virtual Diversity Agent recruiting event Feb. 25, 2021



https://www.fedscoop.com/fbi-risk-assessment-clouds/


FBI awards $13.5M risk assessment contract in move to CIA clouds




https://theintercept.com/2021/02/04/bor ... ity-iachr/

“ANATOMY OF IMPUNITY”: FORMER DHS SUPERVISORS SAY BORDER KILLING COVER-UP WAS PART OF A PATTERN
Evidence of a “shadow investigation” emerges in the case before an international tribunal on Anastasio Hernandez Rojas’s killing by federal agents.
Ryan Devereaux
February 4 2021, 5:14 p.m



https://theintercept.com/2021/02/04/wal ... abolition/

Repealing the “Walking While Trans” Ban Is Part of the Struggle to Decriminalize Sex Work
Andrew Cuomo may not realize it, but the repeal recognizes that police interactions with marginalized people are sources of harm.
Natasha Lennard
February 4 2021, 6:30 a.m




https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vkny/ ... -dimension

Scientists Have Proposed a New Particle That Is a Portal to a 5th Dimension

The path to dark matter and other fundamental enigmas may be through a warped extra dimension, according to a new study that proposes a new theory of the universe.

By Becky Ferreira
February 4, 2021, 9:00am


https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adpv9/ ... of-reality

U.S. Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will ‘Engineer the Fabric of Reality’

The U.S. Navy's “UFO patents” sound like they've been ripped from a science fiction novel.

By Matthew Gault
February 3, 2021, 12:46pm


https://www.ticklethewire.com/2021/02/0 ... ea-agents/


Texas Man Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison for Pointing Shotgun at DEA Agents



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

Two NYPD cops involved in 2012 shooting of Mohamed Bah sue to stop civilian watchdog agency probe
By JOHN ANNESE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 05, 2021 AT 8:36 AM

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https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/ ... 894320002/

Director of South Bend 's new police misconduct office was suspended 7 times as Indy cop
Jeff Parrott
South Bend Tribune
July 8,2021

https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/suit-deta ... d-sex-toy/

What happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas — when it allegedly takes place in a Sin City FBI office.
An FBI agent claims in a new lawsuit that she was subjected to repeated sexual harassment at the Bureau’s Las Vegas office, including by a supervisor who once allegedly texted her a photo of a rainbow-colored sex toy.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/marqu ... ar-AALUTRb

Professor Athan Theoharis used Hoover's secret files to document the FBI's illegal actions
Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
July 8,2021



https://www.marijuanamoment.net/fbi-loo ... be-agents/

POLITICS
FBI Loosens Marijuana Employment Policy For Would-Be Agents

Published 20 hours ago on July 7, 2021
By Kyle Jaeger


https://www.krqe.com/job-resources/albu ... ent-event/

Albuquerque FBI to hold virtual recruitment event


https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/cri ... 46003.html

Kentucky constable to plead guilty to attempted murder of FBI agent


https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/wes ... istration/

MEET THE CONSULTING FIRM THAT’S STAFFING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
WestExec represented major corporations throughout the Trump years. Now it’s in the White House.
Jonathan Guyer, Ryan Grim

July 6 2021,


https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/e2-80 ... ar-AALVlnC

‘FBI: International’: Luke Kleintank, Heida Reed & Vinessa Vidotto To Star In Spinoff Series On CBS


https://www.amazon.com/Branding-Hoovers ... 0700623051

Branding Hoover's FBI: How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America Hardcover – September 16, 2016
by Matthew Cecil (Author)



https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/alabama-c ... ting-site/


Alabama cop allegedly drugged, raped woman he met on dating site



https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/loc ... 885858002/

KPD opens new internal investigation after cop says commanders lied about racist incident
Tyler Whetstone
Knoxville News Sentinel
July 8,2021



https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021 ... dzianowski

Judge denies sentencing break to corrupt ex-Chicago cop Joseph Miedzianowski
The judge wrote that Miedzianowski “led a double-life and managed to deceive even those closest to him. He damaged numerous lives; not just his own.” 
By Jon Seidel Jul 7, 2021, 1:50pm CDT



https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/cri ... story.html

Baltimore police officer’s stepson found dead in hole in bedroom wall in Curtis Bay home, charging documents say
By COLIN CAMPBELL, LILLY PRICE and BROOKS DUBOSE

BALTIMORE SUN |
JUL 08, 2021 AT 12:14 PM


https://www.capitalgazette.com/news/ac- ... story.html

Baltimore cop charged with assaulting police officer after death of 15-year-old stepson in Curtis Bay
By COLIN CAMPBELL and LILLY PRICE

CAPITAL GAZETTE |
JUL 07, 2021 AT 3:15 PM

https://vtdigger.org/2021/07/07/ex-cop- ... x-charges/

Cop accused of faking doctor’s note, lying about hospice care to avoid sex charges
By Alan J. Keays
Jul 7 2021, 8:16 PM



https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-poli ... rest-teens

Florida cop convicted of forcing teens to strip, run naked to avoid arrest begins 10-year sentence
Michael Martinez was found guilty of extortion, unlawful compensation in 2019

https://www.newsweek.com/off-duty-cop-u ... ks-1607739

Cop Under Investigation After Being Knocked Out for Alleged Racist Remarks
BY CAMMY PEDROJA ON 7/7/21 AT 8:09 PM EDT


https://www.tmz.com/2021/07/07/philadel ... rest-sued/

PHILLY COP
HIT WITH LAWSUIT
For Allegedly Scrubbing Arrest Video
7/7/2021 9:53 AM PT


https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2021/07 ... forcement/

Bedford Virginia Cop Camp allows kids to have fun while building a bond with law enforcement
Bedford Police was forced to cancel the 2020 event due to COVID-19


https://www.capecod.com/cape-wide-news/ ... p-program/

Yarmouth Mass Police announce summer Cop Camp program
July 8, 2021

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

Punishment too light in case of NYPD cop who made improper Brooklyn car stop, CCRB says
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 07, 2021 AT 11:38 AM


https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/b ... 86546.html

Vyapam scam accused cop robs businessmen of ₹60L, says did it to fight case
Satendra Gurjar and two other constables posted at cyber cell, Gwalior, Abhishek Tiwari and Vivek Pathak, were arrested by
Gwalior police a few days ago, said Amit Sanghi, superintendent of police, Gwalior



https://kdvr.com/news/local/denver-cops ... verturned/

Denver cop won’t be suspended after department Jeep stolen with AR-15 in it

https://kotaku.com/nypd-game-truck-want ... 1847237629

NYPD Game Truck Wants Kids To Forget Cops Are Bastards


https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2 ... d-battery/

Leominster cop on paid leave after arrest for domestic assault and battery


https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7eyn8/ ... dy-reports

Five Million People Die Every Year Now Due to Abnormal Temperatures, Study Reports

Heat-related deaths are on the rise and on track to outpace deaths from cold temperatures, finds a first-of-its-kind study.

By Becky Ferreira
July 7, 2021, 6:30pm


https://newrepublic.com/article/162923/ ... ate-denial


Fox News Adds Climate Denial Coverage to Its Portfolio of Destruction


https://www.masslive.com/news/2021/07/s ... esses.html

Springfield off-duty cop brawl case hobbled by COVID, absent witnesses
The long-running investigation of four civilian witnesses who accused off-duty Springfield police of beating them has been continually delayed ...



https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... ccine.html

Wednesday, July 7, 2021
US military published on Covid vaccine-associated myocarditis cases, online June 29, 2021 in JAMA

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaca ... le/2781601
Brief Report
June 29, 2021
Myocarditis Following Immunization With mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Members of the US Military
Jay Montgomery, MD1,2; Margaret Ryan, MD, MPH1,3; Renata Engler, MD4; et al
A tale of 3 studies
This is a very interesting addition to my last blog post.  What this paper says is that 23 male US soldiers were found to develop myocarditis within 4 days of their second Covid shot.  And while 436,000 second doses of Covid vaccines were administered to males in the military, for a fairly low rate of myocarditis of 1 in 19,000 second



https://www.rt.com/op-ed/528631-germany ... sex-abuse/

Germany faces ‘EPIDEMIC’ of child sex abuse; WHO estimates of a million victims are ‘too low’ – it has to be stopped!



https://www.rt.com/news/528633-mcafee-w ... -cover-up/

John McAfee’s wife suggests Spanish authorities trying to ‘cover up’ husband’s death in prison
7 Jul, 2021 19:58
Get short URL



NEW YORK REGULATIONS ALLOW COPS STRIPPED OF TRAINING CREDENTIALS TO BE REHIRED
Police officers who were decertified by state regulators went on to find work at other departments and public safety agencies, records show.
Arno Pedram, Luca Powell
July 8,2021

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/06/mil ... l-assault/

THE AFRICOM FILES
Pentagon Undercounts and Ignores Military Sexual Assault in Africa


https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzyaa/ ... ever-dream

Tech Companies Are Already Building Tucker Carlson’s School Surveillance Fever Dream

Republicans want to stop discussions about racism by filling classrooms with cameras. We're already halfway there

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epn5wn/ ... enel-moise

Who Murdered Haiti’s President?

Police say four suspected foreign mercenaries are dead and two are in custody following the brazen assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. But Haitians want to know which of the late president’s many enemies hired them.
LP
By Lillian Perlmutter




https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/202 ... involving/

Hearing in Fayetteville rape case involving discredited FBI testimony moved to fall



https://www.insider.com/body-camera-foo ... fbi-2021-7

Body camera footage of Ronald Greene's arrest prompted the FBI to take a rare step and review his autopsy again



https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn- ... 33758.html

‘We need to have outside eyes’: Former KCK cop and mayoral candidate seeks DOJ probe into police

Read more here: https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn- ... rylink=cpy


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ai ... ar-AALST1L

Air Force Failed to Notify FBI 6 Times of Felony Convictions for 2017 Texas Church Shooter
Rebecca Klapper

The U.S. Air Force is being held responsible for failing to report felony convictions of Devin Kelley, who shot and killed over two dozen people at a Texas church in 2017 to the FBI six times


https://www.inquirer.com/news/fishtown- ... 10707.html

Philly cop’s brother charged with assaulting Black Lives Matter protester in Fishtown
Richie Goodwin, 45, turned himself in to East Detectives division where he was charged with assault and recklessly endangering another person.

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/202 ... ributions/


Arkansan wins FBI Leadership award for educating public about biological threats

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette|
The FBI could not fulfill their mission without community ambassadors like Rajesh Nayak, Connor Hagan, the spokesperson for the Little Rock FBI office, said.

https://www.propublica.org/article/new- ... ce-e-ivins

New Evidence Adds Doubt to FBI’s Case Against Anthrax Suspect
The FBI still insists it had the right man in Bruce Ivins, an Army biologist who committed suicide in 2008 before being charged with the mailings that killed five people. But an in-depth look by ProPublica, PBS and McClatchy found new evidence challenging the government’s claims.


https://www.amazon.com/2001-Anthrax-Dec ... 0986073121

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy Paperback – August 25, 2014
by Graeme MacQueen (Author)


https://fas.org/irp/threat/cbw/carus.pdf

Bioterrorism and Biocrimes
The Illicit Use of Biological Agents Since 1900
W. Seth Carus


https://medicalveritas.org/anthrax-mailings-cover-up/

Anthrax Mailings Cover-up by Robert Mueller’s FBI and Justice Department



https://gizmodo.com/how-the-fbi-is-tryi ... 1847054471

How the FBI Is Trying to Break Encryption Without Actually Breaking Encryption
An encrypted platform created by the FBI led to over 800 arrests in dozens of countries, but at what cost?

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FRANCIS BOYLE: SMALL POX SIMULANT MONKEY POX BEEN GAIN OF FUNCTIONED?

In this interview with bioweapons convention author Francis Boyle, he says the biowarfare industry uses monkeypox as a simulant for small pox. Has that simulant been gain of functioned? Also in this interview, Boyle talks about his book, RESISTING MEDICAL TYRANNY in which he explains how citizens with relatives who died from covid vaccines can seek justice in local and state courts: :https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/fran ... -may-2022/

In the copy describing my interview with Francis Boyle, I wrote: "In this interview with bioweapons convention author Francis Boyle...." That should be corrected to read, "In this interview with author of the US enabling legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, Francis Boyle."

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

Off-duty NYPD officer charged with attempted murder for shooting outside Brooklyn


https://atlantablackstar.com/2022/05/24 ... he-threat/

‘Not Actually Investigating the Crimes’: Ex-FBI Agent Who Infiltrated White Supremacist Groups Says Bureau Is Not Doing Nearly Enough to Address the Threat
Posted by
By Nyamekye Daniel | May 24, 2022


https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... doctor-who


‘I’m in awe’: trans actor Yasmin Finney on joining Doctor Who


The Supreme Court just condemned a man to die despite strong evidence he’s innocent
Ian Millhiser, Vox
The Liberal Obsession With ‘Disinformation’ Is Not Helping
Sam Adler-Bell, New York Magazine
Facebook Anti-Terror Policy Lands Head of Afghan Red Crescent Society on Censorship List
Sam Biddle The Intercept
An ex-priest, a flier and the arrest that legalized protests at Md. homes
Erix Cox, Washington Post
A Loyal CIA Operative’s Mind Is Not a Pretty Place
Tim Gill, Jacobin
Monday May 23
It’s Always the Right Time to Call George W. Bush a War Criminal
Chip Gibbons, Jacobin
Pressure Mounts on Patel Over Assange Decision
Joe Lauria, Consortium News
Progressives Need to Resist the Domestic “War on Terror”
Branko Marcetic, Jacobin
Don’t believe those who say ending Roe v Wade will leave society largely intact
Lawrence H. Tribe, The Guardian
Invade Haiti, Wall Street Urged. The U.S. Obliged.
Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo, Catherine Porter and Constant Méheut, New York Time

'Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.'
~ Henry David Thoreau



https://open.spotify.com/episode/0jk81h ... dium=email


How can we afford another war - and with a nuclear power?

Thanks goes to Catholic Worker activist Kathy Boylan in Washington DC for suggesting that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interview Bruce Gagnon about Ukraine.
 
The recent interview carried on a detailed and interesting discussion covering many of the key aspects of the current tragic war.
 
Around the same time as the interview was done, the US House of Representatives voted to send another $40 billion to Ukraine (Biden had only requested $33 billion). This comes at a time when the Congress has repeatedly told the American people that there is no money for Medicare4All, no money for Student Loan Debt forgiveness, money has been taken out of the climate change budget to send to the war zone, and infrastructure across the US continues to deteriorate at alarming rates.
 
Gagnon reviewed the many diplomatic attempts by Russia since at least 2007 to get the US-Europe to stop NATO expansion and regular war games up to its borders.
 
At the time of the collapse of the former Soviet Union, then US Secretary of State James Baker promised Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand 'one inch' eastward toward Russia. This was in return for Gorbachev agreeing to the reunification of the divided Germany. Since that time NATO expansion has been on full-steam ahead.
 
In addition, Gagnon reminded that the US has built missile launch facilities in Romania and Poland that can fire first-strike nuclear-capable Tomahawk cruise missiles that could reach Russia in a very short time. A Cuban missile crisis in reverse. What if China or Russia were building similar missile launch bases in Canada or Mexico? The US would go ballistic!
 
NATO (in order to justify its existance and to funnel more taxpayer funds into the military industrial complex) is now going global as it recruits 'partners' like Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and others to help encircle China. NATO is an offensive war machine and a grave danger to world peace


FBI ,the Organization that assassinated Martin Luther King promotes African American
as Deputy Director of the FBI

https://www.ticklethewire.com/2022/05/2 ... or-of-fbi/

Brian Turner Named Associate Director of FBI

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/fbi ... ssination/

as the FBI responsible for Martin Luther King's assassination?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › films › fbi-responsible-m...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › films › fbi-responsible-m...

Jan 15, 2021 — Sam Pollard's new documentary takes a smart, un-conspiratorial look at the dark rumours surrounding MLK's life and death.




https://oig.justice.gov/reports/notific ... s-when-fbi

Notification of Concerns Regarding Potential Conflicts of Interest and Appearance Issues When FBI Assigns or Delegates Internal Affairs Investigations to FBI Employees Who Have Professional Relationships or Friendships with Subject or Witnesses



https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/politics ... index.html

Congress allows FBI to investigate itself again.
FBI doing an internal review of possible misconduct in Trump-Russia probe

By Marshall Cohen

Updated 11:30 AM ET, Tue May 24, 2022



https://www.reuters.com/world/us/top-re ... 022-05-24/

Top Republicans query FBI on warrantless wiretapping of Americans

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-specia ... major_pos9


FBI’s Problem Runs Deeper Than Lawyers Replacing Agents
No special agents were present for the meeting with Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann.


https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bop-corr ... os-angeles

Tuesday, May 24, 2022
BOP Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to Sexual Assault of Woman in Federal Custody in Los Angeles


https://www.lawfareblog.com/new-statist ... uthorities

New Statistics Confirm the Continuing Decline in the Use of National Surveillance Authorities

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top ... testifies/

Top FBI Officials Hid Sussmann’s Identity from Agents Working Trump-Russia Case, Agent Testifies

https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cai ... -director/

CAIR Expresses Deep Concern After FBI Appoints ‘Alumna’ of Anti-Muslim Hate Group to Serve as New Intelligence Director

https://nypost.com/2022/05/24/biden-to- ... -registry/

Biden to curb police supplies and create bad cop registry as violent crime spikes
By Steven Nelson and Tina Moore
May 24, 2022 5:22pm


https://www.thedailybeast.com/jalen-ran ... o-released

‘Oh Shi’: Video Shows Houston Cop Kill Black Man Exiting Car

LIGHT OF DAY
Release of the footage of the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Jalen Randle came one day before the anniversary of the murder of native son George Floyd in Minneapolis.

https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/ ... uries-hurt

Cop facing hit-and-run charges after hitting 6-year-old girl, police say

by KMEG StaffTuesday, May 24th 2022

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sa ... ops-tasers

Charges Were Dropped Against Six Atlanta Cops Who Used Tasers To Detain Two College Students During A Protest
A prosecutor said video footage of the incident "was not an accurate portrayal of the entire encounter" between the students and police.


https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-police ... im-runaway

TEXAS Published May 24, 2022 3:00pm EDT
Texas cop faces second child sexual assault charge after allegedly preying on trafficking victim, teen runaway
Dallas police Officer Tyrone Williams Jr. faced the first child sexual assault charge nearly a year ago

https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/lo ... ashing-car

NYPD cop arrested for drunk driving, crashing car in front of Brooklyn precinct building


https://www.nj.com/union/2022/05/nj-cop ... s-say.html

N.J. cop tried to warn gang member about raid, arrest, authorities say
Updated: May. 24, 2022, 2:02 p.m. | Published: May. 24, 2022, 10:48 a.m.

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/sout ... 310591.htm

Hearing on Damages Owed by Ex-Cop who Killed Mother of 4
May 23, 2022

https://www.thedailybeast.com/auburn-wa ... ent-poster

Police Department Uses Cop Accused of Murder as Poster Child in Recruitment Efforts

https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2022/ ... -850k.html

N.J. woman who sued cop for not stopping man who shot her settles for $850K
Published: May. 24, 2022, 6:18 p.m.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/off-duty- ... side-club/

Off-duty NYPD cop accused of shooting man outside club indicted on attempted murder
By Priscilla DeGregory
May 23, 2022 4:23pm


https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/s ... s/2899179/

San Jose Cop Arrested for Indecent Exposure Faces New Allegations
By Robert Handa • Published May 23, 2022 • Updated on May 23, 2022 at 6:18 pm

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