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You do know this creepy clown op is to divert your attention
from being forced to having to make a choice between two REAL'EVIL' creepy clowns running for US President?


In real creepy clown news....





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Hillary Caught Using Child Actor At Pennsylvania Town Hall


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COMEDY
Lou Dobbs’ Rant About ‘Mormon Mafia’ Becomes Twitter’s Best New Hashtag
Don’t mess with Mormons.
10/27/2016 01:58 am ET | Updated 11 hours ago

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CRASH FIREBALL Tesla car explodes in horror smash after hitting tree causing several fires so intense firefighters couldn’t save trapped passengers
Fire chief said flames were so severe as a result of the lithium batteries in the motor, they were prevented them from rescuing ex-FBI agent and woman inside
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KING: It's insane that there's only 1 black juror for Scott trial

Thursday, November 3, 2016, 8:02 PM

Last year, more than 1,200 people were killed by police in America and not a single officer was convicted in any of those cases.

A tiny percentage of the p





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November 3, 2016, 6:33 PM
Former police chief sentenced in beating of handcuffed man, cover-up




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Trump's Mentor Roy Cohn
the Backstory



Roy generates. the more clients he attracts. Just recently he exploded on the front pages, bringing a stockholder suit against Henry Ford, charging that Ford accepted bribes and siphoned company funds for his personal living expenses. He made the evening news when he appeared, without fee, as the attorney for I. Wallace LaPrade, former head of the FBI's New York office, who was fighting Justice Department charges involving his role in illegal bugging and break-ins. Unlike mast lawyers, he

Four of Roy Cohn's closest childhood friends—Generoso Pope Jr., Si Newhouse Jr., Richard Berlin, and Bill Fugazy—are today, respectively, owner and publisher of the National Enquirer, chairman of the Conde' Nast publications and part owner of the Newhouse communications empire, president of the Hearst Corporation, and owner of one of the world's premier travel and limousine services. For twenty years, Roy exchanged Christmas gifts with FBI director J. Edgar








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The FBI is “Trumplandia,” according to an agent who spoke anonymously to The Guardian newspaper.

In a report published Thursday, multiple sources within the FBI say that deep antipathy toward Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and anger that FBI Director James Comey did not bring charges against her this summer have motivated leaks that could damage her presidential campaign.

One agent told The Guardian that many at the bureau view Clinton as the “antichrist” and are supportive of Trump.

“That’s the reason why they’re leaking is they’re pro-Trump,” the FBI agent told The Guardian.

But another FBI source disputed the level of support Trump has within the bureau, according to The Guardian.

“There are lots of people who don’t think Trump is qualified, but also believe Clinton is corrupt,” the source said. “What you hear a lot is that it’s a bad choice, between an corrupt and a corrupt politician.”

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FBI Agents
Former special agents who once served their country in the fight against mobsters, terrorists and fraudsters often have second careers in the security or investigation departments of big companies and law firms.

However, jumping into the private sector is not without its pitfalls for one-time G-men.  As much as they are prized assets by corporate America for their training, experience and contacts, the good reputation of these former agents also can be cynically exploited by employers with sharp practices or shady reputations as a cover to deflect any suspicion into wrongdoing.

For example, Assistant Director Louis Nichols -- J. Edgar's No. 2 man -- left the FBI in 1957, and took a plum job making $100,000 a year at Schenley Industries which mob lackey Roy Cohn allegedly secured for him, and Louis Rosensteil, the company's president, was suspected of ties to Genovese mobsters Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello.  And former special agent H. Paul Rico left the Boston field office in 1975 to become security head at World Jai Alai, and then was indicted for his alleged role in a 1981 murder as a tool of Winter Hill boss Whitey Bulger although Rico died in 2004 before the charge against him was resolved.

Indeed, in May 1962 while staying at the Volney Hotel in New York City, Meyer Lansky was recorded on a wire describing how the G-men could be co-opted in the private sector as "racketeers" and the "new mafia":
They're nothing but racketeers, every one of them.  After five years they get out, get on a big corporation's payroll.  Now what happens, you and I . . . let's say I work for IBM.  You came.  They say [redacted] is doing  the same business.  He has no FBI guys working for him.  Pop, they chop his legs off.  They find him with a sweetheart, they find him with this, they find him with that.  This thing's gonna get an investigation.  It's a new mafia.

The potential pitfalls for former agents joining the civilian life came to the forefront recently for U.S. Congressman Michael Grimm, a Republican from Staten Island, NY, who spent a decade as a special agent with the FBI until leaving the agency in 2006.  Grimm then opened a restaurant on the Upper East Side called Healthalicious with partner Bennett Orfaly, and federal prosecutors now allege that Orfaly has personal ties to reputed Gambino capo Anthony "Fat Tony" Morelli who "is serving a 20-year prison sentence for racketeering and extortion in an elaborate tax fraud" as reported by Alison Leigh Cowan for The New York Times:

"Mr. Orfaly maintains constant contact" with Mr. Morelli in prison, [Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony] Capozzolo told the court, noting that Mr. Orfaly "has visited him and engaged in telephone conversations."

One unidentified source claims that Morelli is "like an uncle" to Orfaly as reported by Mitchel Maddux and Dan Mangan for the New York Post.

Orfaly is not accused of any wrongdoing, and Grimm previously sold his interest in the restaurant and insists he was unware of Orfaly's supposed ties to Morelli.  In the absense of any evidence to the contrary, Grimm should be entitled to the benefit of the doubt on his claims of ignornance.  In any event, many citizens probably are not thrilled with the idea that a special agent who worked undercover assignments targeting the mob after leaving the FBI became involved with a business partner who allegedly has a personal relationship with a reputed mobster.  It's just not the prettiest picture.

Another former agent got employment at a law firm which subsequently was indicted.  Steve Bursey spent 27 years at the FBI, and among his assignments was serving as the contact agent for undercover agent Joe Pistone who infiltrated the Bonanno crime family as Donnie Brasco.  Immediately following his FBI retirement in 1997 Bursey joined the class action law firm Milberg Weiss to head its investigations department.  In 2006 the law firm was indicted by federal prosecutors for an alleged decades-long scheme in which serial plaintiffs were illegally paid kickbacks out of the attorneys' fees for filing their shareholder lawsuits.  Several heavy-weight partners were convicted for their roles and sent to prison, and the firm itself -- now known simply as Milberg LLP -- settled the criminal case by paying a $75 million fine and hiring a compliance monitor for two years according to a Department of Justice press release:  "the settlement with Milberg reflects the seriousness of what was probably the longest-running scheme ever conducted by a law firm," said United States Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien, and "the monetary payment will punish the firm for allowing this conduct to occur."

Among those convicted for their roles in the scheme was the firm's founding partner Mel Weiss, and Bursey wrote a May 1, 2008 letter to the sentencing judge pleading for leniency on behalf of the crooked lawyer which provides the following:

My name is Steve Bursey.  I am a 27 year veteran of the FBI and manage Milberg's investigative unit.

I have reported to Melvyn Weiss for most of my eleven year tenure with the firm.  It has been a privilege to work for him and he has allowed me to assemble a collection of fact-finding talent that is the envy of every law firm in this country.  Our methods and effectiveness are so well regarded that the plaintiffs' bar actually refer to it as the "Milberg model."

During my time here, I have conferred with Mr. Weiss on many occasions.  At no time have I ever been asked to do anything which could be even remotely considered improper or unethical.  He has, without exception, always put the interests of the investors and consumers ahead of everything else.  His dedication to the mission has led me to develop a respect, admiration and affection for him that has only been rivaled by one other man in my life, my father.

On a personal note, I know that Mr. Weiss has, on numerous occasions, provided financial and/or moral support to many employees of the firm, such as paying for medical procedures.  Unsolicited assistance was rendered quietly and without fanfare.  People here, especially the support staff, adore Mel and it was particularly moving to see their reaction when he expressed his remorse for what happened – a lot of tears followed by a standing ovation.

I hope that this unique man, with his love of this country and passion for helping people, can be placed in a situation in which he is able to continue to put his talents and generosity to use.

U.S. District Judge John Walter apparently was unmoved by Bursey's letter, and gave Weiss 2 1/2 years on his racketeering conviction as reported by Edvard Pettersson for Bloomberg:

The kickback scheme enabled Milberg to become an extremely successful and profitable securities law firm, Walter said before sentencing Weiss. The lawyer's continued participation in the scheme, after he knew the government was investigating, made it difficult to show leniency in spite of the many letters of support written on his behalf, Walter said.

Bursey and the others remaining at the firm were not involved in any wrongdoing but the optics of a former agent at a law firm which otherwise was thick with corruption may not have inspired a lot of confidence among all the good citizens who once paid his public salary.  The federal investigation into Milberg Weiss commenced in 1999 -- two years after Bursey gained employment there -- but unflattering press about "professional plaintiffs" had been written about the firm going back to 1992 as reported by Peter Elkind for Fortune magazine.  Indeed, Milberg Weiss was seen by many as the principal target of Congress in its passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 to address some of the perceived abuses in the lawsuit industry.  Given Bursey's FBI background one reasonably may ask whether he ever entertained any suspicions about the kickback scheme prior to the indictment against his employer and several of its partners.

Milberg Weiss has been the subject of controversy beyond its use of professional plaintiffs.  For example, in 1999 a federal jury found that Milberg Weiss "had abused the legal process to discredit" the reputation of consulting firm Lexecon Inc., and awarded the injured company $45 million in compensatory damages as reported by Melody Peterson for The New York Times: 

Before the jury could decide whether punitive damages should be added to that amount, the two sides talked through the night, reaching the $50 million settlement yesterday morning. The settlement takes the place of the $45 million jury verdict.  ''The biggest and most powerful class-action plaintiff's firm was found liable for abuse of process,'' said Alan N. Salpeter, a lawyer at Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, which represents Lexecon. ''This sends a message that lawyers should not abuse the law.''

Apparently "at the trial, several Milberg Weiss partners testified," and "after the verdict, one juror was quoted in the press as saying that the 'Milberg Weiss lawyers were not truthful'" according to a case summary ("Lexecon Wins $50 Million Settlement From Milberg Weiss") by Mayer, Brown & Platt.

FBI agents see a lot in their work but once they leave the protective cocoon of the Bureau for civilian life maybe that's when they fully appreciate just what a wild world it is.



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Vt. state legislature candidate faces revenge porn charges

Thursday, November 3, 2016, 9:05 PM


Patrick Liebrecht, a candidate for the Vermont State Legislature has been arrested and is now facing revenge porn charges, according to a police affidavit. (COLCHESTER VERMONT POLICE)
A Vermont man who is running for state legislature is facing revenge porn charges for posting sexually explicit photos of his ex-girlfriend on social media without her permission.

Patrick Liebrecht, 57, is facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly harassing his ex-girlfriend and posting sexually explicit photos of her on Facebook without her consent, according to WCAX.

Liebrecht is running for a Colchester seat in the Vermont House of Representatives. The Vermont Republican Party released a statement condemning



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BAY AREA NEWS GROUP WATCHDOG REPORT
944 LOST GUNS


Disarmed and dangerous: Officers across the Bay Area and state are losing firearms at an astonishing rate — and the consequences can be deadly
JUNE 26, 2016
Nine-hundred and forty-four guns.
From Glocks, Sig Sauers and Remingtons to sniper and assault rifles,
Related stories
June 28: San Francisco deputy's missing gun found during murder investigation
They used to belong to law enforcement officers across California, but a new Bay Area News Group investigation found hundreds of police-issued weapons have been either stolen, lost or can’t be accounted for since 2010, often disappearing onto the streets without a trace.

COURTESY OF NICOLE LUDWIG
A federal ranger's stolen gun was used in the high-profile killing of Kate Steinle as she walked with her father on a San Francisco pier. Despite the attention, a year later guns are still being stolen from law enforcement officers' vehicles.

AP
Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez is charged in Steinle's killing. He says he found the gun that was stolen from a Bureau of Land Management agent's vehicle.
A year after a bullet from a federal agent’s stolen gun killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier, this news organization surveyed more than 240 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and discovered an alarming disregard for the way many officers — from police chiefs to cadets to FBI agents — safeguard their weapons.
Their guns have been stolen from behind car seats and glove boxes, swiped from gym bags, dresser drawers and under beds. They have been left on tailgates, car roofs and even atop a toilet paper dispenser in a car dealership’s bathroom. One officer forgot a high-powered assault rifle in the trunk of a taxi.
The tally includes Colts, Rugers, Smith & Wessons, a Derringer, a .44-caliber Dirty Harry hand cannon and a small snub-nose






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FBI AGENT INDICTED ON OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE CHARGES
regarding Prostitute

Former FBI agent Timothy Joel is shown in this undated file photo.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
-- A Southern California FBI agent has been indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and making a false statement to a federal officer.

FBI Special Agent Timothy Joel worked out of the Los Angeles FBI Field Office before he was dismissed last year. The indictment relates to Joel's alleged relationship with a woman who was arrested at the Otay Mesa border in 2007. The woman, a Korean national, was being smuggled into the United States to work as a prostitute. Joel allegedly helped her stay in the U.S. by claiming she was an important witness in a human smuggling investigation.

According to the indictment, Joel provided the woman with regular cash payments from his personal bank account totaling nearly $20,000 and later moved in with her in an apartment in Los Angeles.

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CLINTON ARCHIVES

Arkansas Connections

A CHART THAT APPEARED IN THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, MAY 1992
The media tried to turn the Clinton story into Camelot II.
Just the truth would have made life easier for all of us.
And a much better tale as well.
Sam Smith


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Whistleblower Deaths Connected To 9/11 (You Cant Deny This One)
September 11, 2012 / 1 Comment

Here are the related deaths to 9/11.. There is so much information on this topic but most of it is disappearing from the web. I figured for 2012; I would compile a list of some very interesting information about the 9/11 truth movement. The sad part is that there is not many ‘real’ people out there anymore because most of them were assassinated or they will never talk again. Why? Because there is more to the story and everyone knows it! (My Internet Was Cut Off After Massive Researching of this info, a coincidence?) Below is some information that will scare you or might even wake you up but please remember this is only to get the truth; not to offend the families or the dead. Please do more research on the information below: (BTW: There are a lot of our articles below for researching more into 9/11)



Barry Jennings

Key Witness to WTC 7 Explosions Dead at 53

By Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
September 16, 2008

NYC Housing Authority spokesman Howard Marder has now officially confirmed that Barry Jennings indeed passed away approximately a month ago after several days in the hospital, matching confirmations from several other employees at the Housing Authority. Marder commented that Jennings was a great man, well liked by everyone at the Housing Authority, and that he would be missed. No other details were available.

Barry Jennings, a key 9/11 eyewitness who was an emergency coordinator for the New York Housing Authority, has passed away at age 53 from circumstances not yet disclosed.

A spokesperson for the Housing Authority has now confirmed his death, after weeks of rumors circulating online, but refused to give any further details. Several other individuals at the Housing Authority also confirmed that they knew Barry Jennings, and that indeed he had passed away about a month ago. No other details were available.

This office has not yet been able to contact anyone in the Jennings family and the official cause of death is not yet known, but online comments have reported the date of death as August 19, 2008.

It is very unusual that a prominent — and controversial– 9/11 witness would die only days before the release of NIST’s report on WTC7 and shortly after a firestorm erupted over his testimony that he heard explosions inside the building prior to collapse of either tower and that there were dead bodies in the building’s blown-out lobby.

The BBC aired The Third Tower in July in attempt to debunk Barry Jennings’ account– which is both contradictory and damaging to the official 9/11 story– by making issue over whether or not he said he “saw” dead bodies in the lobby.

Yet Jennings own statement in an exclusive interview with Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas– which has not been denied– was: “The fire fighter who took us down kept saying, ‘Don’t look down.’ And I said, ‘Why.’ And we were stepping over people– you know, you can feel when you’re stepping over people.”

Now the release of Jason Bermas’ Fabled Enemies is giving further exposure to Jennings’ controversial account. The film features a full interview with Barry Jennings, as well as the statements he and Michael Hess, who was also trapped with him inside WTC7, made to news media on the day of the attacks.

Barry Jennings reiterated in the exclusive interview his confusion over the explanation for WTC7′s collapse– given that he clearly heard explosions inside the building:

“I’m just confused about one thing, and one thing only– why World Trade Center 7 went down in the first place. I’m very confused about that. I know what I heard– I heard explosions. The explanation I got was it was the fuel-oil tank. I’m an old boiler guy– if it was a fuel-oil tank, it would have been one side of the building.”
That interview was not released until June 2008 at the request of Mr. Jennings, who had received numerous threats to his job and asked that it be left out of Loose Change: Final Cut because of those threats.

Jennings statements have lit fire to questions about what really caused the sudden collapse of WTC7 just as NIST had hoped the release of their report would quash widespread beliefs that the building was brought down by controlled demolition.

News of Jennings’ death comes on the heels of losing another 9/11 hero and eyewitness– Kenny Johannemann, who reportedly committed suicide 12 days before the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Johannemann is credited with saving at least one man’s life on 9/11 and was also a witness to explosions in the towers.

NIST’s report, as well as that of the 9/11 Commission (which did not even mention WTC7), completely ignored statements from the building leaseholder Larry Silverstein as well as numerous police, fire fighters and other eyewitnesses who have testified that they were warned about the building’s collapse and told to get back. One rescue worker even heard a countdown for the building’s implosion.

Unfortunately, Barry Jennings, whose testimony was ignored by the 9/11 Commission, can no longer raise questions personally

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N.C. KKK group to hold 'Victory Parade' for Donald Trump
BY CHRIS SOMMERFELDT CAMERON JOSEPH
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Friday, November 11, 2016, 7:47 PM

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James Comey Net Worth 2017: How Much Did Comey Make In Salary As FBI Director?
MAY 9, 2017
Uh oh. James Comey just got fired and will be out of a job. It looks like the FBI Director was fired over a number of issues, including how he handled the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails. But it looks like the clincher to his termination was his investigation into whether the Trump campaign actually worked with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

James Comey: FBI Director

Of course, the whole issue of exactly why Trump chose to fire Comey at this particular point in time is a fascinating topic, but what got us really thinking today was, what’s James Comey’s net worth and exactly how much money does he earn? We’ll give you the scoop
James Comey grew up in the New Jersey area and showed a predilection for politics early on, receiving his JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985. He went on to become a clerk for a United States District judge, then worked for some time as an associate at a law firm. From 1987 to 1993, Comey worked for the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. In the Bush years, James Comey moved up to become the Deputy Attorney General.

Although James Comey was essentially a public servant for nearly 20 years into his career, he soon moved directly into the private sector where he likely pulled in quite a bit of money. Comey became the General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Lockheed Martin. After this, he worked for Bridgewater Associates, a $150 billion investment management firm. He also went on to join the board of directors of HSBC holdings.

In 2013, Comey was appointed to being the director of the FBI, a commanding an annual salary of a little less than $200,000.

James Comey Net Worth

So just how much is James Comey worth?

What is the net worth of the Shark Tank cast in 2017? Find out here...
As a result of all of his roles in the private sector, in 2010, James Comey was able to purchase an estate in Westport for $3,050,000 in 2010. And even more interesting is that in 2013, when he became FBI Director, James Comey disclosed a net worth of more than $11 million.

So in 2017, we estimate James Comey net worth at approximately $15 million.

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Name the people President Trump is considering
to replace FBI Director James Comey.

Can you name the terrorist events they helped cover up ?

Former FBI agent Charles Keating was involved in the coverup
of the Oklahoma City bombing


former FBI agent Mike Rogers was involved in
the 911 cover up

Merrick Garland was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing cover up




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Trump's FBI Nominee Promoted Torture, Helped Cover Up 911 Black Op



Chris Wray, Trump's nominee to be FBI director
1. advocated torture during Bush administration
2. was involved in 911 coverup 911truth.org
3. is disqualified by his firm's handling of Trump litigation
4. Trump should not nominate anyone to head the FBI which is investigation several in his
campaign.
5 Was Chris Wray involved in any way in the
FBI work to pass the unconstitutional Animal
Enterprise Terrorism Act during Rubert Mueller's time as director?

The ACLU had this to day

"“Christopher Wray’s firm’s legal work for the Trump family, his history of partisan activity, as well as his history of defending Trump’s transition director during a criminal scandal makes us question his ability to lead the FBI with the independence, even-handed judgment, and commitment to the rule of law that the agency deserves. Given that Wray touts his deep involvement in the Bush administration's response to the 9/11 attacks, which includes his connections to some of the most unlawful legal memos on Bush-era torture programs, the Senate should press Wray to come clean about his role in the programs. In this important moment for our country, the American people deserve a commitment from any nominee for FBI director to the foundational principles of our Constitution, and that that commitment outweighs any loyalty to a political party or a single politician. We will be watching closely in the coming days to ensure Wray makes these commitments and earns the trust of the public.”

Complete statement of ACLU here:
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‘interesting to say the least’
July 26, 2017 Uncategorized 9/11, blackmail, Brabant killers, deep cover-up, Germany, Gladio, global criminal cabal, globalism, Madsen, money, NATO, Nazism, politics, power, ritual, synarchy, terror, Trump, usury, violence
‘interesting to say the least’

The book that some people are already calling nebulous because they doubt its veracity and validity is called “The Nebula”. Its three-page foreword is written by Wayne Madsen. The author is a former Belgian NATO AWACS command post officer and NATO Air Defense Officer. The book is published by Trine-Day.


The back cover says that the book provides “deep insights into the unseen but real forces” and “exposes a cabal which controls most of the money transfers worldwide as well as the highest political authorities.”

Donald Trump is featured in the last of four parts, particularly in chapter 19. There is an index and 22 appendices totalling fifty pages. There is a 3.5-page list of acronyms and abbreviations, a 3.5-page introduction, and a bibliography that lists 85 sources.

There is an index and 22 appendices totalling fifty pages. There is a 3.5-page list of acronyms and abbreviations, a 3.5-page introduction, and a bibliography that lists 85 sources.

On page 201, in the epilogue, Walter Baeyens says “In these days of unbridled egocentric materialism, , power and money have become the only means and measure of all thingd. How they are acquired does not matter.” In the pages preceding, he gives you a better sense of how they are acquired.

“In these days of unbridled egocentric materialism, power and money have become the only means and measure of all thing. How they are acquired does not matter.”

In the pages preceding, he gives you a better sense of how they are acquired.

The kingpin of the Nebula was identified in the ATLAS Report, which can be found in both French and English in the appendix, as well as at whose author is the first reviewer at Amazon and who appears to have his underwear in a knot because his work is neither credited nor makes an appearance in Baeyens’ book , The ATLAS Report can also be found herek

The ATLAS report was triggered by serial murders, enough of them that one needs a guide and additional references to get clear on their history. One involved Andre Cools, and then there were the Brabant murders, and a range of Gladio events, and they stretched all the way back to the murder of Julien Lahaut in 1950 whose sponsor (to use Drago’s template) Baeyens alleges (page 2) also attempted to derail investigations in the late 80’s into the the Brabant kills and the child abuse cases labeled “Dossier X”. If this is beginning to sound familiar, read the book.

The kingpin, we are told on page 10, is a Grandmaster of the Jewish Lodge B’Nai B’rith, putting to rest one of the main points by the first Amazon reviewer who claims Baeyens went on an anti-Semitic binge “two-thirds” into the book. But the Israeli maffiya are mentioned on the very first page (and after you finish reading this book you can join the global discussion about the criminalization of free speech).




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The Nebula
A Politcal Murder Traces back to NWO's Absolute Power
By WALTER J BAEYENS, Foreword by Wayne Madsen
Providing deep insights into the unseen but real forces that shape the course of history, this investigation exposes a cabal which controls most of the money transfers worldwide as well as the highest political authorities. The spider in the web, according to the investigators, was Felix Przedborski, a selfmade millionnaire of Polish-Jewish descent who held both Belgian and Costa Rican nationalities. By 1990, 'Don Felix' was Grand Master of the Lodge B'Nai B'Rith, called US presidents by their first names, and had excellent contacts with the Holy See, Mossad, CIA, and various heads of state. In order to understand this cabal one must to abandon the conventional logic of economics and politics.

Walter J. Baeyens was born in 1952 in Aalst, Belgium. He trained in the Belgian Air Force and served as a NATO E3A AWACS Command Post Officer and NATO Air Defense Ops Officer. His first Dutch language book titled Scum Deluxe was published in 2012, followed by the The Elites of Power in 2015. He is now a retired Belgian Air Force Pilot and former self-employed intellectual property consultant.
Wayne Madsen





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Implications of September 11 Flight Transponder Activity
May 23, 2017
Evidence and ResearchAir Defense Failures, Cover-Up
Originally published at The Journal of 9/11 Studies by Aidan Monaghan, May 2017

ABSTRACT: It has been the consensus of informed observers that the loss or alteration of Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) information for the four September 11 flights was caused by accused hijackers allegedly seizing control of the aircraft flight decks and manually turning off or adjusting each plane’s Mode S (Mode Select) transponder. This was presumably for the purpose of evading detection and interception by U.S. air defense systems. However, this view appears to be based only on circumstantial information – the simple loss or change of SSR flight data to Air Traffic Control (ATC) – and seems unsupported by conclusive facts. Following these transponder operation changes, ATC was still able to tag and track the primary radar returns of three flights and estimate their locations, directions, ground speeds, and even altitude changes.

Aidan Monaghan is an engineer and an open records researcher of the 9/11 attacks. He is the author of the book Declassifying 9/11: A Between the Lines and Behind the Scenes Look at the September 11 Attacks


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Email reveals de Blasio donor asked mayor for spot on committee dedicated to eliminating cop corruption

Friday, August 4, 2017, 6:56 PM


Even while allegedly trading lavish gifts for favors from the NYPD, Jona Rechnitz asked for an appointment from Mayor de Blasio — to a committee dedicated to eliminating cop corruption, the Daily News has learned.

In an email dated April 28, 2014, Rechnitz, a de Blasio donor, wrote to Hizzoner at his personal email account and sought a spot on the Commission to Combat Police Corruption, according to emails released as part of a Freedom of Information Law request.

“Dear Mr. Mayor, I am interested in serving on your committee [sic] for ‘combat police corruption’,” Rechnitz wrote. “In addition to being the Chaplain for Westchester County, I am a concerned citizen of NYC that wants to ensure the community's safety.”

He signed the note: “Hope all is well.”

De Blasio catered to Brooklyn donors accused of corruption
In an email dated April 28, 2014, Jona Rechnitz (pictured) wrote to the mayor at his personal email account and sought a spot on the Commission to Combat Police Corruption.
In an email dated April 28, 2014, Jona Rechnitz (pictured) wrote to the mayor at his personal email account and sought a spot on the Commission to Combat Police Corruption. (BARUCH EZAGUI/BARUCH EZAGUI)
Rechnitz was an unnamed cooperating witness in a massive NYPD corruption investigation, according to sources. Prosecutors alleged he and his pal Jeremy Reichberg showered officers with $100,000 in gifts — including a plane ride to Las Vegas featuring an on-board hooker — and in exchange got their own private police force.

Reichberg and Rechnitz even dressed up as elves on Christmas Day 2013 and drove to one top cop’s home to deliver gifts to his kids, according to court filings.

Court documents showing Rechnitz pleaded guilty to providing financial and personal benefits and campaign donations to public officials — including law enforcement — in exchange for official
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LAPD review of cadet scandal finds inadequate supervision, other deficiencies


At some police stations, a single officer supervised 60 teenage cadets.

Cadets occasionally used social media to bully one another or express “infatuations” with police officers. They sometimes logged into police computers using an officer’s serial number.

Officers who worked with cadets received no formal training in how to interact with young people.

These were among the deficiencies enumerated in an internal review of the Los Angeles Police Department’s cadet program, which is reeling from a scandal involving stolen police cruisers and alleged abusive sexual contact between a police officer and a 15-year-old cadet.



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Melting glaciers in Swiss Alps could reveal hundreds of mummified corpses
Frozen bodies of couple who vanished 75 years ago among those uncovered recently as global warming forces ice to retreat






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News Courts Saturday 5 August 2017
Martens-Corbett in line for €500,000 insurance payout after husband Jason's death



Murder accused Molly Martens-Corbett is the main beneficiary of a €500,000 life insurance policy payable on the death of her husband Jason Corbett.
A North Carolina murder trial heard that the money is currently being held in a trust fund as the second degree murder trial proceeds.
Ms Martens-Corbett's father, retired FBI agent Thomas Michael Martens (67), broke down and wept in evidence as he said he repeatedly struck his Irish son-in-law with a metal baseball bat over the head because he feared for his life and the life of his daughter.

Mr Martens fought back tears as he offered evidence for the first time in his three-week Davidson County Superior Court murder trial in the US.
Mr Martens and Ms Martens-Corbett (33) both deny the second degree murder of Mr Corbett (39) in North Carolina on August 2, 2015.

Mr Corbett, a father-of-two from Limerick, died from horrific head injuries in the bedroom of his luxury Panther Creek property outside Lexington.
His skull was effectively smashed by at least 12 blows.

Both his father-in-law and wife were found by police and paramedics to be totally uninjured after the incident.
"I hit him until I thought that he could not kill me," Mr Martens said. "He said he was going to kill Molly.

Read More: Thomas Michael Martens weeps as he recounts repeatedly striking Jason Corbett with metal bat
"I actually felt he was going to kill me."

Mr Martens said he was visiting his daughter and son-in-law with his wife Sharon and had gone to bed around 11pm on August 1. He said his son-in-law had consumed both beers and a cocktail.
Mr Martens said he was awoken by loud sounds from the master bedroom early on August 2. "I heard a scream and loud voices," he said.

He said he grabbed a baseball bat and went to the bedroom to investigate.
"In front of me, I would say seven to eight feet from me, Jason had his hands around Molly's neck," he said.

"I said: 'Let her go'. He said: 'I am going to kill her.' I told him again, several times, to let her go.
"He was really angry and I was really scared."

Mr Martens said he struck Mr Corbett with the baseball bat he had brought to the house as a gift for Mr Corbett's son, Jack. The accused said he repeatedly struck Mr Corbett with the baseball bat but, at one point, Mr Corbett shoved him away and managed to grab the bat.

Mr Martens said he jumped back up off the floor and rushed Mr Corbett.
Read More: Homesick Jason wanted to move back to Ireland, sister tells trial

Somehow, he said he managed to regain control of the bat from the younger, heavier man. Mr Martens claimed his son-in-law had his daughter in a choke hold and he was afraid when he saw her stop trying to wiggle.

"I don't know how many times I hit him in the head."
Mr Martens said he was convinced if he fled the bedroom his daughter would have been killed. "If I get out of the bedroom he is going to kill Molly. He is bigger, stronger and younger than me. I just did the best I could," he said in court.

Eventually, he said his son-in-law fell to the ground after repeated blows to the head. "He goes down - I started thinking a little more clearly. Molly is in bad shape. I told her to find a phone. I said we had to call 911."

Mr Martens admitted he did not like his son-in-law. "I did not like him. I am sure I said disparaging things about him," he said.
Mr Martens said "an issue of contention" arose because Mr Corbett did not allow his daughter to formally adopt his two children, born to his late first wife, Margaret 'Mags' Fitzpatrick.

However, he acknowledged Mr Corbett provided all the funds for their €350,000 Panther Creek home and the Irish businessman had also paid him €45,000 towards their 2011 wedding costs.

"We were superficially friendly - I am sure he knew I had some feelings about him," Mr Martens said.
He also declined to go on a joint family holiday to Washington because Mr Corbett was there. However, he said he could not recall telling work colleague Jonathan Underwood: "If I was going on vacation, why would I want to go on vacation with this @#$...e!



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Before Trump's crackdown on leaks, Obama went after 10 leakers, journalists



Here are 10 people that fell under leak investigations during Obama’s presidency:

Thomas Drake

Drake was a National Security Agency executive before he was indicted in April 2010 under the Espionage Act for allegedly leaking information about TrailBlazer, one of several surveillance programs used by the agency. Drake eventually pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and avoided prison.

Shamai Leibowitz

Leibowitz was an FBI linguist before pleading guilty in May 2010 to leaking national security information to a blogger. Leibowitz was sentenced to 20 months in prison.

Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning)

Manning was an Army intelligence analyst who was arrested and charged in June 2010 in connection with one of the largest leaks ever of U.S. State Department documents. In July 2013, Manning was convicted to a prison sentence of 35 years, a sentence Obama commuted before he left office.

Manning spent seven years in prison and was released in May.

Stephen Kim

Kim was a state department contractor before he was indicted in August 2010 for leaking information about North Korea to a Fox News reporter, James Rosen. Kim pleaded guilty and in 2014, he was sentenced to 13 months in prison.

James Rosen

Rosen, a Fox News journalist, reported in 2009 that U.S. officials feared North Korea would respond to United Nations sanctions with nuclear tests, The Washington Post wrote at the time. Stephen Kim was suspected to be his source, so the Justice Department obtained Rosen’s phone records and emails to make that connection.

Rosen was not charged with a crime.

Jeffrey Sterling

Sterling was a CIA officer before he was arrested and charged in 2011 with leaking information about U.S. efforts to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program to a reporter for The New York Times, James Risen. Four years later, Sterling was convicted on espionage charges and was sentenced to 42 months in prison.

James Risen

Risen was first ordered to testify in the Justice Department’s case against Sterling as early as 2008 at the end of the George W. Bush administration, The Times reported. Risen spent the next seven years, mostly during the Obama administration, fighting the Justice Department and vowing to go to prison before revealing his source.

The legal battle ended finally in 2015 when Attorney General Eric Holder said Risen would not be forced to testify in the case.

John Kiriakou

Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, was charged in 2012 with disclosing information to reporters about the capture and interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, a suspected Al Qaeda member. Kiriakou pleaded guilty later that year and was then sentenced to 30 months in prison.

Donald Sachtleben

Sachtleben was a former FBI agent who pleaded guilty in 2013 to leaking classified information about to journalists about a foiled bomb plot in Yemen, The New York Times reported. Sachtleben was sentenced to more than three years in prison.

Edward Snowden

Snowden is the notorious NSA contractor who leaked information to journalists about the agency’s massive surveillance programs in 2013. Snowden was charged with three felonies — one count for theft of government property and two for disclosing that information. Snowden fled the U.S. and to this day remains in asylum in Russia.







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In Blackwater Case, Court Rejects a Murder Conviction and Voids 3 Sentences



August. 4, 2017

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday threw out lengthy prison sentences for three former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors and ordered a new trial for a fourth involved in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad that became a symbol of unchecked, freewheeling American power in Iraq.

The shooting killed or injured at least 31 civilians when contractors unleashed a torrent of machine-gun fire and launched grenades into a crowded downtown Baghdad traffic circle from their heavily armored trucks. An F.B.I. agent once called it the “My Lai massacre of Iraq.”

The ruling is a setback to the effort — which now stretches across three presidential administrations — to demand stiff consequences for the shooting in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. Along with the massacre by Marines of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha and the abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, it was among the war’s darkest moments and stained the reputation of the United States.

Three of the contractors — Dustin L. Heard, Evan S. Liberty and Paul A. Slough — were convicted in 2014 of voluntary manslaughter and using a machine gun to carry out a violent crime. They were sentenced to 30 years in prison, a mandatory sentence on the machine-gun charge. A fourth, Nicholas A. Slatten, a sniper who the government said fired the first shots, was convicted of murder and received a life sentence.

Defense lawyers argued that the convoy was under fire from insurgents, a claim that prosecutors denied and Iraqi witnesses rejected.





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Kick Racist Cops Out Our Community! Tell MPD To Fire Officer Altiere!



We just started a petition titled "Kick Racist Cops Out Our Community! Tell MPD To Fire Officer Altiere!"

On June 2, 5, and 13, 2017, Officer Vincent Altiere, Badge #4440, of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department, was seen in the DC community and at the DC Superior Court (where he was present to testify in a criminal case), wearing an offensive, racist, and threatening shirt. The shirt displays symbols of police harassment, hate, and death while prominently displaying the symbols and emblems of the Metropolitan Police Department. We're asking that you join us, together we can voice our extreme concern about this offensive shirt and demand that Mayor Bowser's administration, Metropolitan Police Department and the Office of Police Complaints take immediate disciplinary action against Officer Altiere and any other Officers who have worn this or similar shirts. Our effort is already having an effect, the Metropolitan Police Department has already stated that they're taking Officer Altiere off the street for the time being. We are also demanding that officials take proactive measures to address a department culture that allowed this type of misconduct to go unchecked.

The Seventh District is a Black community being policed by an officer openly displaying white supremacist symbols!

The shirt displays a “sun cross,” replacing the letter “O” of “PowerShift” with a notorious white supremacist symbol adopted by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist hate groups. Immediately below is the image of the Grim Reaper, a personification of death in the form of a hooded skeleton, holding an assault rifle and a Metropolitan Police Department badge. Below, the shirt reads “Let me see that waistband jo,” referring to “jump outs” and the routine practice of demanding to see the waistbands of individuals, who are disproportionately young Black and Brown men, often for no legitimate reason.

Given the prominent placement of MPD logos and a badge number, the shirt does not appear to be attributed to Officer Altiere alone, but instead, appears to have been designed for a group of officers associated with the MPD Seventh District. Ninety-five percent of the residents in MPD’s Seventh District are black and too many Seventh District residents have experienced harassment and abuse at the hands of the police. It is time for the leadership of this city to acknowledge and address the systemic violation of rights, and threat of violence to Black people here in Washington D.C.

This shirt is offensive and indicates systemic bias in the policing of people of color. Join us to fight back.

White supremacy and insinuated threats of death should never be associated with or tolerated in police departments who are sworn to protect and serve. Such ideologies are dangerous and demonstrate a blatant disregard for Black and Brown life. They are at the root of rampant police abuse and result in the unconstitutional terrorizing of Black and Brown communities and the callous murder of Black and Brown men and women at the hands of the police, both in Washington, DC and across the country.

On behalf of a number of community organizations and community members, Law4BlackLives-DC has formally filed complaints with both the Internal Affairs Division of the Metropolitan Police Department and the Office of Police Complaints regarding this shirt and the message it propagates. The shirt stands alone as an affront to the community. It also embraces ongoing patterns of constitutional violations and constitutes a blatant disregard of MPD’s own general orders, including MPD General Orders 110.11, 201.26, 304.10, and 304.15. We are also asking concerned community members to let Mayor Bowser know that she must step in to check this culture for the people of Washington D.C.

Such Officers are a threat to public safety and erode public trust in the police. Inaction by the Metropolitan Police Department, Office of Police Complaints, and the Mayor's office would be an endorsement of this shirt’s hateful message and an acceptance of a policing culture infected by racism and violence. We're going to keep pushing until we win substantive change, we won't rest until he is fired and everyone who has taken part in this disgraceful conduct is gone.

Will you pledge to join the fight against racist policing?

Thank you,

Law4BlackLives-DC





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A look at the case against Lake County Sheriff John Buncich
Aug 4, 2017



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TRUMP SIGNALS CUTS TO UNPOPULAR “COUNTERING EXTREMISM” PROGRAMS, BUT WORSE COULD BE COMING
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Claim details more disturbing allegations of abuse at SLO County Jail
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
Since January 2012, 11 inmates have died while in jail custody.




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I-Team: FBI begins investigating claims that Exeter mayor is racial profiling
Officers met with agents today.

By: Chelsea Titlow
Posted: Aug 04, 2017 04:37 PM EDT
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Philanthropist: Burlington College could have survived


Aug 4 2017, 2:47 PM

A major donor to Burlington College said Friday the educational institution would have survived had its leaders followed through on plans to sell a portion of its new property.
Crea Lintilhac said she was “disappointed and sad” the college had to close last year because of the debt taken on by a land purchase and significant expansion proposed by college leaders.

Lintilhac told VTDigger she was interviewed by the FBI six months ago about her foundation’s $120,000 donation to help the small liberal arts college finance the land deal.

Federal authorities are investigating claims that former college president Jane Sanders, the wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., inflated the amount of pledges to bank officials while obtaining a $6.7 million loan from People’s United Bank. Jane Sanders said the college had $2.6 million in confirmed pledges. As of 2014, $676,000 was paid as part of that campaign.

Several donors have told VTDigger their pledge amount was overstated or misrepresented, including a donor who the college claimed would made a $1 million gift that she said instead was a bequest upon her death.

Lintilhac said the amount of her pledge was accurately presented, but that the college’s records were sloppy and incomplete.

Burlington College bought 33 acres of property in Burlington, some of it lakefront, from the Roman Catholic Diocese in 2010 for $10 million. Sanders was ousted in 2011.

Crea Lintilhac
Crea Lintilhac. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger
The Lintilhac Foundation has supported Burlington College since 2007. The foundation gives out $1 million a year from its $20 million asset base to organizations that promote water quality, alternative energy and education programs, as well as others.

(Disclosure: Lintilhac serves on the board of the Vermont Journalism Trust, which oversees VTDigger and is a financial contributor.)

Lintilhac recalled Friday she toured the new land with Jane Sanders around the time of the 2010 land purchase and supported the college’s ambitious expansion plan. The idea all along, as Lintilhac understood it, was to sell off a portion of the 33 acres to pay down the debt, similar to the model Shelburne Farms followed when it purchased 3,000 acres and sold off some it privately to pay for renovations, Lintilhac said.

“This is a perhaps a calamity, but it served the community and the students very well while it was an operating college,” Lintilhac said. “Perhaps some of the calamity could have been averted” had school leaders after Sanders pursued selling off part of the land or meeting with major donors.

After Sanders left in 2011, Lintilhac said she never heard from the succeeding presidents, Christine Plunkett or Carol Brown. Lintilhac said she was surprised the new leaders didn’t convene a meeting of donors, nor did they apparently seriously pursue efforts to sell off a part of the property as Sanders had sought to do.





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Police Videos Are Focus at St. Louis Officer’s Trial Who Killed a Black Man
By Associated Press - August 4, 20170203


Prosecutors say Stockley planted a gun in Smith’s car after shooting him. Stockley’s attorney, Neil Bruntrager, said in an opening statement that Smith had a gun in the car and Stockley shot him in self-defense.

In Thursday’s testimony, Deeken said he asked for DNA analysis of the .38-caliber revolver seized from Smith’s car after viewing photos of the gun and seeing what he thought might be blood. A crime lab scientist testified Wednesday that his tests showed the DNA apparently did not come from blood on the gun but he could not identify the source.

In earlier testimony Thursday, FBI forensic chemist Doug Halepaska testified that one of the five rounds that killed Smith was fired from within 6 inches, something that prosecutors had claimed in opening statements Tuesday.

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Friday, 25 August 2017
Dutch Banker Who Exposed Illuminati, Found Dead
Ronald Bernard, Dutch Banker Who Exposed Illuminati, Found Dead

Ronald Bernard, the elite Dutch banker who exposed the financial industry Illuminati in a series of TV interviews, has been found dead in Florida. He was 61.

Newspunch,
24 August, 2017

Bernard, who was 61-year-old, had been living in Sebring, Florida for the past year after marrying an American citizen. The Highland County Sheriff’s Office said that Ronald Bernard called 911 at 3:46 p.m. saying he got lost after leaving for a walk at 1 p.m. on the nature trail on the west end of Sun ‘n Lake in Sebring.

Ronald Bernard, the elite Dutch banker who exposed the Illuminati in a series of TV interviews, has been found dead in Florida.ronald-bernard-dutch-bankerMore than a dozen deputies along with K-9 units, air units from Highlands and Polk counties, four-wheelers from HCSO and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission searched for Ronald Bernard. “The terrain was very difficult, and searchers were at times in waist deep water as they tried to zero in on Fernandez’s location,” the sheriff’s office said.

Deputies pinged his cell phone but it kept showing different locations and Bernard called back several times — he said his life was in danger — but he kept moving despite being told to stay put, deputies said. The last contact dispatchers had with the former banker was at 6:13 p.m.

At 8:24 p.m., the Polk County helicopter spotted Bernard, who was face down in shallow water about 300 yards away from the last known location of his cell phone and 1.8 miles from the entrance to the trail at Sun ‘n Lake Boulevard and Balboa Boulevard.

The cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner.


[Banker: I Was Told To Sacrifice Children At Illuminati Party]
Ronald Bernard blew the whistle on occult practices and child sacrifice among banking industry elites, describing his experiences in a gut-wrenching TV interview that went viral earlier this year. Sharing explicit details about the way the Illuminati uses child sacrifice to test and blackmail its members, he said he was asked to sacrifice a child at a party.

“I was warned off when I got into this – don’t do this unless you can put your conscience 100% in the freezer. I heard myself laugh at it back then, but it wasn’t a joke at all.”

“I was training to become a psychopath and I failed.”

Describing the period his “freezer began to malfunction”, Ronald also told stories about crashing national economies and bankrupting companies. These actions led to suicides and destruction – successes worth celebrating, according to his banker colleagues.



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Managing Editor, Moyers & Company
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: Robert Jay Lifton and Bill Moyers on “A Duty to Warn”
09/15/2017 03:45 pm ET


There will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important, or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, the work of 27 psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health experts to assess President Trump’s mental health. They had come together last March at a conference at Yale University to wrestle with two questions. One was on countless minds across the country: “What’s wrong with him?” The second was directed to their own code of ethics: “Does Professional Responsibility Include a Duty to Warn” if they conclude the president to be dangerously unfit?

As mental health professionals, these men and women respect the long-standing “Goldwater rule” which inhibits them from diagnosing public figures whom they have not personally examined. At the same time, as explained by Dr. Bandy X Lee, who teaches law and psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, the rule does not have a countervailing rule that directs what to do when the risk of harm from remaining silent outweighs the damage that could result from speaking about a public figure — “which in this case, could even be the greatest possible harm.” It is an old and difficult moral issue that requires a great exertion of conscience. Their decision: “We respect the rule, we deem it subordinate to the single most important principle that guides our professional conduct: that we hold our responsibility to human life and well-being as paramount.”

Hence, this profound, illuminating and discomforting book undertaken as “a duty to warn.”

The foreword is by one of America’s leading psychohistorians, Robert Jay Lifton. He is renowned for his studies of people under stress — for books such as Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (1967), Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans — Neither Victims nor Executioners (1973), and The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide(1986). The Nazi Doctors was the first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in the Holocaust, from the early stages of the Hitler’s euthanasia project to extermination camps.

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump will be published Oct. 3 by St. Martin’s Press.

Here is my interview with Robert Jay Lifton — Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers: This book is a withering exploration of Donald Trump’s mental state. Aren’t you and the 26 other mental health experts who contribute to it in effect violating the Goldwater Rule? Section 7.3 of the American Psychiatrist Association’s code of ethics flatly says: “It is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion [on a public figure] unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization.” Are you putting your profession’s reputation at risk?

Robert Jay Lifton: I don’t think so. I think the Goldwater Rule is a little ambiguous. We adhere to that portion of the Goldwater Rule that says we don’t see ourselves as making a definitive diagnosis in a formal way and we don’t believe that should be done, except by hands-on interviewing and studying of a person. But we take issue with the idea that therefore we can say nothing about Trump or any other public figure. We have a perfect right to offer our opinion, and that’s where “duty to warn” comes in.

Moyers: Duty to warn?

Lifton: We have a duty to warn on an individual basis if we are treating someone who may be dangerous to herself or to others — a duty to warn people who are in danger from that person. We feel it’s our duty to warn the country about the danger of this president. If we think we have learned something about Donald Trump and his psychology that is dangerous to the country, yes, we have an obligation to say so. That’s why Judith Herman and I wrote our letter to The New York Times. We argue that Trump’s difficult relationship to reality and his inability to respond in an evenhanded way to a crisis renders him unfit to be president, and we asked our elected representative to take steps to remove him from the presidency.

Moyers: Yet some people argue that our political system sets no intellectual or cognitive standards for being president, and therefore, the ordinary norms of your practice as a psychiatrist should stop at the door to the Oval Office.

Lifton: Well, there are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But these are difficult issues because they can’t ever be entirely psychiatric. They’re inevitably political as well. I personally believe that ultimately ridding the country of a dangerous president or one who’s unfit is ultimately a political matter, but that psychological professionals can contribute in valuable ways to that decision.

Moyers: Do you recall that there was a comprehensive study of all 37 presidents up to 1974? Half of them reportedly had a diagnosable mental illness, including depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder. It’s not normal people who always make it to the White House.

Lifton: Yes, that’s amazing, and I’m sure it’s more or less true. So people with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness — and that may be true of Trump — may not be able to serve, may be quite unfit. So it isn’t always the question of a psychiatric diagnosis. It’s really a question of what psychological and other traits render one unfit or dangerous.

Moyers: You write in the foreword of the book: “Because Trump is president and operates within the broad contours and interactions of the presidency, there is a tendency to view what he does as simply part of our democratic process, that is, as politically and even ethically normal.”

Lifton: Yes. And that’s what I call malignant normality. What we put forward as self-evident and normal may be deeply dangerous and destructive. I came to that idea in my work on the psychology of Nazi doctors — and I’m not equating anybody with Nazi doctors, but it’s the principle that prevails — and also with American psychologists who became architects of CIA torture during the Iraq War era. These are forms of malignant normality. For example, Donald Trump lies repeatedly. We may come to see a president as liar as normal. He also makes bombastic statements about nuclear weapons, for instance, which can then be seen as somehow normal. In other words, his behavior as president, with all those who defend his behavior in the administration, becomes a norm. We have to contest it, because it is malignant normality. For the contributors to this book, this means striving to be witnessing professionals, confronting the malignancy and making it known.

Moyers: Witnessing professionals? Where did this notion come from?

Lifton: I first came to it in terms of psychiatrists assigned to Vietnam, way back then. If a soldier became anxious and enraged about the immorality of the Vietnam War, he might be sent to a psychiatrist who would be expected to help him be strong enough to return to committing atrocities. So there was something wrong in what professionals were doing, and some of us had to try to expose this as the wrong and manipulative use of our profession. We had to see ourselves as witnessing professionals. And then of course, with the Nazi doctors I studied for another book — doctors assigned, say, to Auschwitz — they were expected to do selections of Jews for the gas chamber. That was what was expected of them and what for the most part they did — sometimes with some apprehension, but they did it. So that’s another malignant normality. Professionals were reduced to being automatic servants of the existing regime as opposed to people with special knowledge balanced by a moral baseline as well as the scientific information to make judgments.

Moyers: And that should apply to journalists, lawyers, doctors —

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Lifton: Absolutely. One bears witness by taking in the situation — in this case, its malignant nature — and then telling one’s story about it, in this case with the help of professional knowledge, so that we add perspective on what’s wrong, rather than being servants of the powers responsible for the malignant normality. We must be people with a conscience in a very fundamental way.

Moyers: And this is what troubled you and many of your colleagues about the psychologists who helped implement the US policy of torture after 9/11.

Lifton: Absolutely. And I call that a scandal within a scandal, because yes, it was indeed professionals who became architects of torture, and their professional society, the American Psychological Association, which encouraged and protected them until finally protest from within that society by other members forced a change. So that was a dreadful moment in the history of psychology and in the history of professionals in this country.

Moyers: Some of the descriptions used to describe Trump — narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, paranoid personality disorder, delusional disorder, malignant narcissist — even some have suggested early forms of dementia — are difficult for lay people to grasp. Some experts say that it’s not one thing that’s wrong with him — there are a lot of things wrong with him and together they add up to what one of your colleagues calls “a scary witches brew, a toxic stew.”

Lifton: I think that’s very accurate. I agree that there’s an all-enveloping destructiveness in his character and in his psychological tendencies. But I’ve focused on what professionally I call solipsistic reality. Solipsistic reality means that the only reality he’s capable of embracing has to do with his own self and the perception by and protection of his own self. And for a president to be so bound in this isolated solipsistic reality could not be more dangerous for the country and for the world. In that sense, he does what psychotics do. Psychotics engage in, or frequently engage in a view of reality based only on the self. He’s not psychotic, but I think ultimately this solipsistic reality will be the source of his removal from the presidency.





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

"He [Hoover] was wearing a fluffy black dress, very fluffy, with flounces and lace stockings and high heels, and a black curly wig," Summers quoted Susan as saying. "He had makeup on and false eyelashes." Susan claimed Cohn introduced Hoover to her as "Mary." Hoover allegedly responded, "Good evening." She said she saw Hoover go into a bedroom and take off his skirt. There, "young blond boys" worked on him in bed. Later, as Hoover and Cohn watched, Lewis Rosenstiel had sex with the young boys.
A year later, Susan claimed, she again saw Hoover at the Plaza. This time, the director was wearing a red dress. Around his neck was a black feather boa. He was holding a Bible, and he asked one of the blond boys to read a passage as another boy played with him. It was episodes such as these, Summers declared, that the Mafia held over Hoover's head. "Mafia bosses obtained information about Hoover's sex life and used it for decades to keep the FBI at bay," the jacket of the book says. "Without this, the Mafia as we know it might never have gained its hold on America."


As far as anyone can determine, Hoover never had a romantic attachment with a woman, or even a date. Classical statues of nude men adorned his garden. He lived with his mother until she died. Then there was Clyde Tolson, a fellow FBI agent. In April, 1928, Clyde Tolson joined the Bureau. Tolson, a tall, handsome man, was five years younger than Hoover. Quickly after coming to the bureau, he became Hoover's closest personal friend and business associate. His promotion within the Bureau was unprecedented. Hoover and Tolson rode to work together, ate lunches together, traveled on official business together, went to social functions together and vacationed together. They are now buried side by side.
It wasn't until after his death that Americans learned J. Edgar Hoover was a secret transvestite, but long before that, it meant bad news for some FBI recruits. The alleged discovery of Hoover's long-lost diary has revealed how he may have misused his power as FBI director to satisfy his own twisted cravings, destroying the lives of many recruits in the law-enforcement agency. The diary purports that from at least the mid-1930s onward, Hoover would require selected agents to take on special undercover assignments, often lasting for years, as women or drag queens in high heels and skirts. Sources speculate that Hoover, unable to dress openly as a woman, forced some of his underlings to take up his freakish habit so he'd feel more normal. He reportedly enjoyed training these agents himself, selecting their outfits, applying makeup and fixing hairdos. Most men hated these assignments and many were threatened with firing or even jail time for their cooperation.

The diary recounts at least one case in the 1950s in which Hoover had the mother of an agent jailed on trumped-up charges to keep him on duty as a red-headed, high-heeled gun moll. Perhaps the weirdest case is that of 24-year-old Bert Horgson, a six-foot Swede who left his family and girlfriend in Minnesota in 1935 to fight Nazi spies with the FBI. Once Hoover caught sight of him, however, the slim, blue-eyed Horgson was instead given a different assignment -- and spent the remainder of his career in dresses and high-heeled pumps as Hoover's "special agent."


The diary recounts how Hoover kept Horgson from quitting by alternating promises of reassignment with intimidation of both Horgson and his family. Hoover even went so far as to have Horgson's legal identity changed from male to female -- making it illegal for him to dress as a man for most of the 30s, 40s and 50s -- and had agents make sure he complied. Even Hoover's death in 1972 brought Horgson no reprieve. In a final bizarre ploy from beyond the grave, Hoover left orders that the 60-year-old FBI man was to be confined to a special high-security nursing home as a national security risk.
Horgson found himself forced to remain "Bettina Horgson" until his death 29 years later. Horgson died in 2001 at the age of 89 in a government nursing home in Washington, D.C. One government source says, "this is one of the strangest, and most flagrant abuses of power I've ever heard of." J. Edgar Hoover was more familiar to Americans than most presidents.




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Narragansett Bay is Being Impacted by Climate Change; Scott Pruitt’s EPA Says Scientists Can’t Talk About it
Scott Pruitt, a climate change denier who was tapped to head the EPA by a similarly myopic Trump Administration now appears to be wielding the powers of that government agency to suppress the voices of climate scientists.

A report out of the New York Times yesterday found that three scientists scheduled to discuss the impacts of human-caused climate change on the sensitive environment of Narragansett Bay were barred from speaking in a panel discussion today. The scientists are employees of the EPA and contributors to a 400 page report on the health of Narragansett Bay. The study found numerous climate change related impacts to the Bay region — which is a vital economic resource and home to more than 2 million people.



The study found that:

“Climate change is affecting air and water temperatures, precipitation, sea level, and fish in the Narragansett Bay region.”

The EPA, presently headed by Scott Pruitt, gave no reason why the scientists were barred from sharing their climate change related findings at the panel. An agency charged with protecting the clean air and water of the United States, the EPA has likely never housed an administrator so at odds with its institutional mission. Pruitt has opposed numerous agency actions and has worked throughout his career to undermine both the Clean Air and Clean Water acts. Laws that aim to protect American citizens and wildlife from the harmful health impacts of polluted water and damaging particulates in the air.

Pruitt has also received criticism recently for spending $25,000 for a sound proof booth to mask his communications with who knows who, using considerable government funds to pay for round-the-clock personal security, and individually spending more than $58,000 for private charter jet flights.



(Scott Pruitt’s numerous ties to climate change denial and fossil fuel industries. Image source: Desmogblog.)

Pruitt was also one of a number of lawyers who directly challenged the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gasses in an effort to protect the U.S. from the harmful impacts of climate change during the Obama Administration. Pruitt has received significant campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry and is the direct beneficiary of strong political support from climate change denial promoting agencies like the Heartland Institute.

Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D) stated his opposition to this week’s nonsensical censoring of EPA funded scientists stating:

“Narragansett Bay is one of Rhode Island’s most important economic assets and the EPA won’t let its scientists talk with local leaders to plan for its future. Whatever you think about climate change, this kind of collaboration should be a no-brainer. Muzzling our leading scientists benefits no one.”

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Nearly five years after two unarmed black suspects died in a 137-shot barrage of Cleveland police gunfire, five officers fired for their roles are set to return to duty this week after an arbitrator reinstated their jobs.

Meanwhile, discipline and criminal charges against some officers involved in the case remain unsettled, lingering in what a union leader and a defense attorney describe as an unfair limbo.

Five supervisors accused of dereliction of duty are on restricted duty while waiting to see whether those charges are re-filed in a different court, and dozens of patrol officers disciplined for their roles in the chase await an arbitrator’s decision on whether to rescind that discipline.









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Branding Hoover's FBI
How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America

Matthew Cecil

Hunting down America’s public enemies was just one of the FBI’s jobs. Another—perhaps more vital and certainly more covert—was the job of promoting the importance and power of the FBI, a process that Matthew Cecil unfolds clearly for the first time in this eye-opening book. The story of the PR men who fashioned the Hoover era, Branding Hoover’s FBI reveals precisely how the Bureau became a monolithic organization of thousands of agents who lived and breathed a well-crafted public relations message, image, and worldview. Accordingly, the book shows how the public was persuaded—some would say conned—into buying and even bolstering that image.

Just fifteen years after a theater impresario coined the term “public relations,” the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover began practicing a sophisticated version of the activity. Cecil introduces those agency PR men in Washington who put their singular talents to work by enforcing and amplifying Hoover's message. Louis B. Nichols, overseer of the Crime Records Section for more than twenty years, was a master of bend-your-ear networking. Milton A. Jones brought meticulous analysis to bear on the mission; Fern Stukenbroeker, a gift for eloquence; and Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, a singular charm and ambition. Branding Hoover’s FBI examines key moments when this dedicated cadre, all working under the protective wing of Associate Director Clyde Tolson, manipulated public perceptions of the Bureau (was the Dillinger triumph really what it seemed?). In these critical moments, the book allows us to understand as never before how America came to see the FBI’s law enforcement successes and overlook the dubious accomplishments, such as domestic surveillance, that truly defined the Hoover era




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Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate
The Campaign to Control the Press and the Bureau's Image

Matthew Cecil

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Finalist, Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award

“In the present day, when Edward Snowden’s journalistic salvo has exposed the National Security Agency for peering over every digital shoulder, Hoover’s FBI offers key insights into the origins of the still contentious boundaries between the members of the Fourth Estate and the modern police state that Hoover began to build 90 years ago.”

—Annals of Iowa

“Ultimately, as a history book, Hoover’s FBI and the Fourth Estate should be required for all young and aspiring journalists. Just as Hoover and the FBI used journalists to burnish a public image that lasted for decades, so too are today’s reporters subject to similar forces, especially inside access to get the story. Let us hope history does not repeat itself here.”

—Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation was an agency devoted to American ideals, professionalism, and scientific methods, directed by a sage and selfless leader—and anyone who said otherwise was a no-good subversive, bent on discrediting the American way of life. That was the official story, and how J. Edgar Hoover made it stick—running roughshod over those same American ideals—is the story this book tells in full for the first time.

From Hoover's first tentative media contacts in the 1930s to the Bureau's eponymous television series in the 1960s and 1970s, FBI officials labored mightily to control the Bureau's image—efforts that put them not-so-squarely at the forefront of the emerging field of public relations. In the face of any journalistic challenges to the FBI's legitimacy and operations, Hoover was able to create a benign, even heroic counter narrative, thanks in part to his friends in newsrooms. Matthew Cecil's own prodigious investigation through hundreds of thousands of pages from FBI files reveals the lengths to which Hoover and his lackeys went to use the press to hoodwink the American people. Even more sobering is how much help he got from so many in the press.

Conservative journalists like broadcaster Fulton Lewis, Jr. and columnist George Sokolsky positioned themselves as "objective" defenders of Hoover's FBI and were rewarded with access, friendship, and other favors. Some of Hoover's friends even became adjunct-FBI agents, designated as Special Service Contacts who discreetly gathered information for the Bureau. "Enemies," on the other hand, were closely monitored and subjected to operations that disrupted their work or even undermined and ended their careers. Noted journalists like I. F. Stone, George Seldes, James A. Wechsler, and many others found themselves the subjects of FBI investigations and, occasionally, named on the Bureau's "custodial detention index," targeted for arrest in the case of a national emergency.

With experience as a political reporter, a press secretary, and a scholar and professor of journalism and public relations, Matthew Cecil is uniquely qualified to conduct us through the maze of political intrigue and influence peddling that mark—and often mask—the history of the FBI. His work serves as a cautionary tale about how manipulative government agents and compliant journalists can undermine the very institutions and ideals they are tasked with protecting.

About the Author

Matthew Cecil is Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, Minnesota State University, Mankato.




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The Branding of Hoover's FBI
How the Boss's PR Men Sold the Bureau to America

Matthew Cecil
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The story of the PR men who fashioned the Hoover Era, Branding Hoover's FBI reveals precisely how the Bureau became a monolithic organization of thousands of agents who lived and breathed a well-crafted public relations message, image, and worldview. Accordingly, the book shows how the public was persuaded—some would say conned—into buying and even bolstering that image.
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Title Page, Copyright
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction: Defining a “Hoover Era”
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Historians and politicians like to brand time periods with evocative labels. Eras are declared. Historical epochs are christened. Sometimes, the principal characters of an age attempt to declare an era themselves, with varying levels of success. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) offered a New Deal...

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1. From Corrupt to Indispensable
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On January 2, 1951, Caroline P. Chambers of St. Cloud, Florida, wrote to Director J. Edgar Hoover at FBI headquarters in Washington. “In case of any injury to me—look up [name redacted] in the vicinity of [city redacted], Florida. This is urgent.”1 When the letter arrived at headquarters, it was...

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2. The Networker
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CBS Radio listeners who tuned in at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 25, 1944, were treated to the dramatic retelling of a 1934 FBI success story, the St. Paul, Minnesota, killing by Bureau agents of Eddie “the Wise” Green, a member of John Dillinger’s outlaw gang. At FBI headquarters, Crime...

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3. Speaking with One Voice
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By late 1943, Joseph P. Kennedy’s efforts to land a new position with the FDR administration were going nowhere, halted by Kennedy’s unrepentant isolationism and behind-the-scenes scheming for political power. In a letter to their children, his wife, Rose, wrote of the family patriarch’s disappointment...

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4. The Editor and the Professor
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On January 18, 1968, Lady Bird Johnson hosted a luncheon in the Family Dining Room at the White House for fifty women leaders who were invited to discuss President Lyndon Johnson’s proposals to address “What Citizens Can Do to Help Insure [sic] Safe Streets.” The guest list included wives of...

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5. Taming the Octopus
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On July 31, 1957, William Randolph Hearst’s New York Daily Mirror attacked gadfly power broker, activist, and ACLU-affiliated attorney Morris Ernst in an editorial headlined, HOW EARNEST IS ERNST? The editorial captured precisely the FBI’s escalating frustration with Ernst, a longtime friend and key...

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6. The Heir Apparent
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On May 27, 1963, Assistant Director Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, head of the Crime Research Division that included the public relations–oriented Crime Research Section, wrote a memorandum to Assistant Director John Mohr, recounting another agent’s conversation with Bell-McClure syndicated...

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7. An Empire in Decline
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Readers picking up the April 9, 1971, issue of Life magazine were confronted with a cover image featuring a marble bust of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover over the headline EMPEROR OF THE FBI: THE 47-YEAR REIGN OF J. EDGAR HOOVER. The themes implied by the image—that Hoover was a man from...

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8. The Fall
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Throughout 1971 and into 1972, critics attacked Hoover and the FBI relentlessly. One Hoover nemesis, nationally syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, was particularly prolific, penning column after column attacking the director and the FBI. Anderson was also a particularly dangerous adversary. His...

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The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism

Trevor Aaronson. Ig (Consortium, dist.), $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-935439-61-5

Building off a story published in Mother Jones in 2011 (itself based on Aaronson’s tenure as an investigative reporting fellow at UC Berkeley), this sobering account presents convincing evidence of the FBI’s role in seeding terrorist plots in order to foil them and claim the honors. Aaronson, the associate director and cofounder of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, demonstrates how Hoover’s prodigal brainchild “built the largest network of spies” (many of them serial crooks and ex-cons) “ever to exist in the United States” in an effort to lure hapless outliers into trumped-up sting operations. The author cites a list provided by the U.S. Attorney General’s office enumerating hundreds of people prosecuted as terrorists since the 9/11 attacks; Aaronson alleges that many of these cases are the result of what amounts to wholesale entrapment of individuals recruited with government funds and expertise: “While we have captured a few terrorists since 9/11, we have manufactured many more.” He examines several hazy cases, such as that of Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a young Somali-American party boy arrested in 2010 for conspiracy to detonate a bomb at the lighting of a Christmas tree in Portland, Ore., and weighs the strengths and weaknesses of the charges. Compelling, shocking, and gritty with intrigue. (Jan.)




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Tesla Under Fire as Renewables Rise: China, Consumer Reports, and the Ailing ICE Industry
With major renewable energy and automotive media now obsessed with the success or failure of Tesla’s zero emissions Model 3, it’s helpful to understand the larger context in which a monumental conflict between an old, mostly dirty industry and new clean energy players is occurring. To this particular point, we should take the opportunity to step back for a moment from the day-to-day minutiae of business activities and related media campaigns to ask this single essential question:

In the present day’s ever-worsening and warming climate, what does a wise, forward-looking national energy policy look like?

Such a question may seem out of context until one considers the fact that the object of so much media and industry drama — Tesla — operates in what can best be described as a conflicted policy environment. In the U.S., Tesla enjoys a dwindling subsidy in the form of tax breaks going to purchasers of zero highway emissions electric vehicles (EVs). This subsidy was intended to incentivize zero emission vehicle adoption and thus enable the numerous health and environmental benefits that would result from taking more polluting automobiles off the road.


(One of Tesla’s main advantages has always been aspirational vision. Part of that vision involves a systemic approach to clean energy production. In one example, Tesla not only produces electrical vehicles, it owns a large and expanding global EV charging infrastructure. The future is electric and Tesla is vertically integrated.)

Such a subsidy also pushes for the replacement, ultimately en-masse, of dirtier vehicles upon which an old and thus more easy to profit from industry presently relies. And in Western democracies, this looming replacement has resulted in a number of political and media firestorms as the old industry tries to delay or deny the pathway for new energy leaders like Tesla. These old industry players — ranging from traditional automakers to fossil fuel behemoths — have managed to place barriers to electrical vehicle adoption in many regions. The upshot is a kind of energy policy (and related media) gridlock where the old industry attempts to hamstring the new, aspirational, more helpful industry at every possible turn.

In this very serious game with ultimately extraordinary consequences for everyone living on the planet, this increasingly polarized policy posture results in serious delays of an essential energy transition. It also leaves wide open the door for outside competitors to take advantage of what can well be described as western balking and intransigence at a critical moment in global history.

China’s Drive for Global Energy Leadership

For a China observing a West consumed by in-fighting and division over energy and climate futures, wise policy involves a rapid move to cut coal burning and shift to becoming a global renewable energy leader. To do this, China has funneled billions of dollars of aid and incentives to solar production, to battery production, and to electrical vehicle manufacturing. It has protected these markets, which it invests heavily in, by both tariffs and trade laws. Some of these laws encourage the transfer of technical knowledge to local companies by requiring foreign companies wishing to produce EVs on Chinese soil to partner with indigenous industry and share information.

For China, these policies are not simply altruistic. Though they will result in considerably less greenhouse gas emissions on net and help to drive the world to reduce harms from both air pollution and climate change, they are also aimed at global energy leadership and, perhaps, dominance. They grant China both moral authority and economic might that leverages the powerful economies of scale a massive manufacturing base provides. Such clear-focused policies aimed directly at both moral and strategic energy goals are largely lacking in the polarized West. And this consistent organization and follow-through produces a growing moral and economic advantage for China. For the prize of renewable energy leadership or dominance is huge — ranging in the trillions of dollars.


(China leaving the U.S. behind on green energy. This is largely and ironically due to increasingly backward climate policy promoted by the Trump Administration.)

In the global solar industry, such renewable energy focused polices have resulted in the majority of world solar manufacturing being housed in China. This development, in turn, has produced a considerable price advantage for solar panels manufactured by large Chinese facilities that can leverage expanding economies of scale.

In the U.S., this advantage has produced a flood of cheap solar panels coming from foreign shores. Such a flood helped to enable the building of a massive industry that now directly employs more than 370,000 people — which is about seven times the number of people employed by the coal industry and about double those employed in the oil, gas, and coal based electricity generation industry combined. But cheap Chinese imports have also put a big dent in direct solar manufacturing in the states. In reaction, we are now seeing a trade case that will have far-reaching impacts on the U.S. solar industry presented to the unwise and irrational Trump Administration. And it is, perhaps, the irony of all ironies that a Chinese solar manufacturer operating on American shores was one of the key plaintiffs in a case that could dramatically undercut solar adoption rates while also removing thousands of renewable energy related jobs if handled poorly.

Though China’s solar industry is well ahead, its related electrical vehicle industry is rapidly catching up. Last month (September of 2017), fully 59,000 electrical vehicles sold in China. This represents about half of all electrical vehicles sold across the world during that month. It is 80 percent more EVs than were sold in China during September of 2016. So far in 2017, 338,000 EVs have sold in China, which is a 48 percent growth year-on-year. Globally, due in part to these considerable advancements by China, it is likely that total EV sales will well exceed the 1 million mark for the first time with growth into 2018 easily likely to exceed 50 percent.

Tesla as Global Gadfly vs Ailing ICE Industry

And here we return, at last, to Tesla and its imminently controversial Model 3. For what China is doing on a massive national scale, Tesla is attempting to do through business and related capital investment alone. Tesla is a renewable energy only company — offering battery storage for clean power systems, electrical vehicles, and solar panels. And it is presently the only large western automobile and energy company to operate under an all-renewable products banner.

Tesla’s mission from jump was to attempt to spur widespread electrical vehicle production and a related renewable energy revolution. To disrupt the automobile market enough to spur the entry of serious competitors and to, through such competitive incentive, drive a global industry sea change. And the Model 3 was at the center of Tesla’s plans.

Tesla’s successful Model S and X were intended, in other words, to enable Tesla to mass produce a high-quality, lower cost, long-range electrical vehicle that, by itself, would be capable of selling 200,000 to 500,000 units or more per year. This vehicle, in turn, was meant to help Tesla produce an even lower cost, high quality EV that would be capable of selling even more.


Looking at numbers alone, it is difficult to conceptualize what such sales would mean for the global automobile industry. But digging a bit further, we find that the Model 3 represents a serious threat to a large lower-end luxury and sport vehicle market presently dominated by major ICE automakers such as GM, Audi, Porsche, Volvo, Mercedes, Jaguar, Toyota, and BMW. IF the Model 3 achieves its sales goals, well-selling vehicles like BMW’s 3 series or the Audi A3 or A4 could be decimated. Such automakers would be largely forced to react by producing high quality EVs to compete with the Model 3 and hopefully blunt some of its impact on traditional auto industry profits. Which is exactly what is now happening as we see Chevy’s Bolt, an up-ranged Nissan Leaf, and numerous other higher-quality, longer-range, lower-priced EVs on the way or already on the market.

ICE Industry Critics

So even without large Model 3 production, Tesla has already played a major role in forcing traditional fossil fuel based automakers to react. However, the success of the Model 3 is of key importance to the speed of market transition. A less successful Model 3, for example, would take the pressure off traditional automakers — perhaps allowing room for backsliding and ICE market retrenchment. A more successful Model 3 would force more rapid responses — goading automakers not just to produce compliance EVs, but high-quality EVs capable of competing with what is likely to be an amazing vehicle on all counts.

Considering these very high stakes, it is easy to understand the present media hyper-focus on the Model 3 production ramp. And it is also easier to comprehend the cause of an emerging public war of words between major traditional auto industry stake holders and Tesla. For in the past six months we have seen CEOs from GM, Volkswagen, and others decry, mis-characterize, or otherwise seek to blunt support for Tesla’s rise.

Conflicts with Workers

Tesla, like any other company, is staffed by human beings possessed of various human limitations. And in its Herculean push for rapid expansion, Tesla is also likely driving these employees rather hard. So we would be remiss not to illuminate the sacrifices, conflicts, and casualties that are often produced in the quest to achieve lofty goals.

Musk himself operates under a puritan work ethic in which his observed or reported work encompasses 60-100 hours per week. An example which he appears to expect his employees to emulate. Given his company’s aspirational aims and the stakes involved, this serious drive is understandable. However, such an extreme work ethic has clashed with the values of U.S. unions who attempt to protect employees from over-work and all the risks of injury such a higher stress work environment entails.

This is one reason for the growing friction between Tesla and some of its employees. It is also worth noting that the UAW, which is attempting to organize workers at Tesla plants, is a political organization with deep-seated ties to the traditional ICE manufacturing structure in the U.S. So it’s also possible that motivations for union opposition to Tesla may exceed those of a traditional workplace conflict with management. One would hope, in an ideal world, that UAW workers would share the aspirational goals aimed at speeding advancement of clean energy and transportation systems while differing with Tesla management workplace practices. However, institutional knowledge of workers is presently more largely tied to the fossil fuel based vehicle production chain. And such ties represent a higher likelihood of producing traditional industry biases that are difficult to overcome.

In the absence of government leadership and communication addressing both fair workplace practices and a larger recognition of the need to re-train workers steeped in a systemic ICE production tradition, such an interests-based-conflict is probably unavoidable. And it appears that we are seeing it emerge now with the hard-charging Tesla. Such a systemic conflict with traditional institutions within the U.S. may well be just one more reason why Tesla is now planning to build a large manufacturing facility in more institutionally EV-friendly Shanghai, despite facing high tariff barriers on vehicles built there for the Chinese market.

Consumer Reports

Assaulted by traditional automakers, a large and vocal subset of institutionally biased fossil fuel based investors, and embroiled in an escalating conflict with factory workers in the U.S. while attempting to achieve aspirational and ultimately helpful goals, it is understandable why Tesla executives might feel emotionally raw when reading daily news and market reports. To these executives and to company leader Elon Musk, it is, indeed, understandable that they would feel at least some of the cards have been stacked unfairly against Tesla’s needed success.

So when Consumer Reports last week issued an expected ‘average’ reliability rating for the otherwise fantastically reviewed Model 3, it is also understandable why Tesla executives reacted with criticism of the major consumer watch-dog agency.


Overall, Consumer Reports ratings of Tesla vehicles have been mixed. The Model S, for example, received glowing ratings. The Model X, troubled at times by the complexity of its falcon wing doors, has received somewhat more qualified ratings. It is worth noting that both vehicles maintain the advantages of a drive train that is basically an order of magnitude more reliable than a traditional ICE and first in class Tesla acceleration and top-notch handling. So Model X critiques are primarily due to body design elements as reported by Consumer Reports.

That said, some EV owners have criticized Consumer Reports for what they perceive as reviews of the Model X and other EVs that do not take into account inherent EV benefits. Consumer Reports, for example, had reportedly issued a somewhat negative review of the low-cost Mitsubishi MiEV. But it is worth noting that Consumer Reports has also provided a glowing review of the Chevy Bolt EV which the agency has given top reliability ratings. So it’s unreasonable to say that Consumer Reports trashes all EVs.

Returning to the Model 3, the Consumer watchdog agency, which has yet to actually get its hands on a Model 3 for an actual review, has noted that it issued its forecast in the understanding that first model year vehicles tend to be somewhat less reliable as production kinks are addressed. Such a forecast can be chalked up to informed speculation by an expert agency that, though authoritative, is not infallible. But given the massive barrage by traditional fossil fuel industry and ICE supporters against Tesla in the Model 3 production ramp up, it is understandable why Tesla execs might be miffed by a less than stellar, if speculative, Consumer Reports announcement.

The Model 3 Tsunami is Still Coming

Despite Tesla taking so much fire and sometimes apparently over-reacting, every indication points toward a tsunami of high quality Model 3s still coming — if, perhaps, a bit slower than many of us had hoped. Production has continued to ramp up through September, though on a slower ramp than initially targeted. Meanwhile, Tesla has presently filed for VIN numbers up to 2,136 as of last week.

As we learned a couple of weeks ago, VIN numbers are not a reliable indicator of present Tesla production. However, it is still an indicator of expected production. So it appears that Musk’s Tesla is continuing to navigate Model 3 production difficulties in a highly challenging environment for the new company. Speculative reports have indicated that Tesla may be having difficulty with both parts suppliers and high speed welds for its new production of a steel-based vehicle (past vehicles were made from carbon fiber or other materials).

That said, even on a slower ramp, Tesla appears likely to produce at least 3,000 Model 3s by year end and in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 or more of the highly-sought-after vehicle during 2018. This expected 2018 production is still 4-8 times the likely sales of Chevy’s Bolt which entered the market nearly a year ago and has slowly ramped up to selling in the range of 2,500 vehicles per month. It also rivals, for a single model vehicle, the entire EV sales of a very EV ambitious China during 2016.

Given both the need for a rapid energy transition and for strong renewable industry leadership to be held by a western auto-maker vs a rising wave of competition aimed at new energy dominance coming from China, this is still good news for those of us who support renewable energy as a necessary solution to the problem of human-forced climate change and for those promoting American innovation and leadership alike. But we should be very clear that the global energy game is rapidly changing and increasingly complex. So, as ever, watch this space…

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Spaniard on tour of Rio de Janeiro slum killed by police

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Spanish tourist who was on an organized tour of one of Brazil’s largest slums was fatally shot by military police Monday when the vehicle she was traveling in failed to stop at a police checkpoint, officials said.






Baseball is hot! World Series opens in LA with high temps


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LOS ANGELES

The fastballs aren’t the only things hitting triple digits at the World Series.

This Fall Classic is going to feel like summer.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros will meet on what’s expected to be a 100-degree Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, beginning possibly the warmest World Series ever.

An October heat wave slugged Southern California on Monday, with the temperature reaching 104 degrees shortly after lunchtime in Chavez Ravine. It was still blazing when the Dodgers and Astros showed up at Dodger Stadium for brief late-afternoon workouts that stretched into the early evening.


The heat isn’t likely to bother the players much: Both of these warm-weather teams are used to sweating it out all summer long.

“Love it,” said Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner, a Southern California native and the co-MVP of the NL Championship Series. “I’d rather be playing in the heat than in the snow, so it’s great.”

Still, the players didn’t take the field Monday until the sun was partly blocked by the left field grandstands, and they took batting practice after sunset — when it was still a toasty 94 degrees. Similar heat is expected Tuesday.

“This weather is always beautiful,” said Dallas Keuchel, the Astros’ Game 1 starter. “It’s that dry heat, so it’s going to be hotter than normal to play. At the same time, I like to sweat. I like to get that perspiration and make sure I have a firm grip on the ball. It’s the World Series, so if it’s a little bit hotter than usual, that’s fine with me. There’s no place I’d rather be.”

Game 1 has a chance to be the warmest World Series game on record. Back in 2001, the temperature was around 94 degrees in Phoenix for the Oct. 27 World Series opener between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the New York Yankees. The Chase Field roof was left open, and the temperature had dropped to 76 degrees by game time.

Some forecasts expect Los Angeles to be hotter than 94 degrees for the first pitch at 8 p.m. EDT on Tuesday — and there’s no roof on Dodger Stadium.

“Never would I have expected that at the end of October, going into November,” Dodgers center fielder Chris Taylor said. “That’s LA for you, though.”

The Dodgers are in the World Series for the first time since 1988, and the temperature feels just fine to the boys in blue.

“Everything is hot in LA!” Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen said with a grin. “The Dodgers are hot. Everybody is excited. It’s been a while since Kirk Gibson. Of course it’s hot today.”


The Astros are also used to a little bit of heat — and in East Texas, they’ve got humidity that can wear out most Californians.

“It’ll be hot, but I don’t think anybody is going to be thinking about the weather too much,” Houston right-hander Will Harris said. “I’m pretty sure our training staff will be on us with making sure we’re hydrated, and they may have some cold rags in the dugout.”

The 56,000 Dodgers fans will be more vulnerable to the elements when they crowd into their venerable stadium to witness the end of their team’s 29-year World Series drought. Dodgers outfielder Curtis Granderson offered advice to fans and teammates alike.

“Hydration is going to be key, and trying to cool off is going to be key,” Granderson said. “But I think if you would poll everybody, everybody would definitely like it to be a little bit warmer than they would be cold.”

The World Series hasn’t visited the three open-air ballparks in the southern half of California since 2002, when the then-Anaheim Angels won it all.

The sun is scheduled to set about one hour after the first pitch in each of the first two games, so the heat will drop after that. But the temperatures could even knock out the marine layer — the thick air mass caused by cooling temperatures near the Pacific Ocean and often blamed for fly balls falling short of the fence from San Diego to Oakland.

“I think it’s going to benefit the hitters,” Dodgers utilityman Kike Hernandez said. “The hotter it is here, the better the ball carries.”

The Astros are familiar with a whole different level of heat combined with humidity during their long, hot summers in Houston, but the roof is usually closed at Minute Maid Park, where the air-conditioned temperature is always around 73 balmy degrees. The weekend forecast in Houston calls for temperatures perhaps topping 80 degrees.








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Protests may affect St. Louis vote to give raise to police


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Voters in St. Louis will soon be asked to weigh in on a half-cent sales tax increase that would be used to give officers a raise.

The timing of the Nov. 7 special election could make the vote’s passage a challenge as St. Louis police face criticism and lawsuits over its handling of recent protests. The protests followed last month’s acquittal of Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis officer who fatally shot a man, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported .





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Judge: Pennsylvania State Police afraid of public scrutiny



EASTON, Pa


A judge was harshly critical of the Pennsylvania State Police on Friday over its attempt to shut down a grand jury looking into how it investigates shootings by on-duty troopers, saying the agency was afraid of public scrutiny.

Judge Stephen Baratta rejected a state police request that he disband the grand jury, ruling from the bench that it will be allowed to write a report and make recommendations on state police policy.

State police argued the grand jury has no authority to investigate whether the agency should use outside law enforcement to probe shootings by troopers. Experts say police shooting investigations should be independent to ensure objectivity and foster public confidence.


“You’re saying no one’s allowed to tell the state police what to do,” Baratta told a state police lawyer at a hearing Friday.

He said the agency was trying to “silence the citizens who are on that grand jury,” adding: “You’re afraid they’re going to make recommendations that you’re not going to like.”

District Attorney John Morganelli sought the grand jury after state police, citing longtime policy, refused to allow his detectives to take the lead on a probe of a fatal shooting involving troopers near Easton. Troopers shot and killed Anthony Ardo on May 20 after he ignored their commands and attempted to light the fuse of a firework mortar around his neck.




He accused Morganelli of misusing the grand jury.

“We do believe that politics are involved here,” he said.

Morganelli rejected the state police contention that he was using the grand jury for political purposes, approaching the bench and thundering into the microphone: “We have a state police agency that wants to obstruct justice and obstruct the administration of law. ... It’s outrageous, it’s arrogant and it’s an effort to intimidate the grand jury itself and the commonwealth’s attorney.”


Morganelli blamed “brass in Harrisburg” for the dispute and stressed he’s long had a productive working relationship with troopers in his jurisdiction. A day earlier, he held a press conference to announce that two troopers were justified in shooting a suspect who had opened fire on them first, critically wounding one of them.

Under state law, the grand jury will submit its report to the judge. He will review the report to make sure the grand jury followed procedure before allowing it to be filed publicly.

State police tried to prevent Friday’s hearing from being open to the public. Morganelli and a coalition of media organizations, including The Associated Press, opposed the move, and Baratta ruled the hearing would be held in open court.



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German court dismisses far-right police officer


BERLIN

A German federal court on Friday dismissed a Berlin police office accused of having far-right tattoos and repeatedly giving the Hitler salute, 10 years after he was first suspended.

The Federal Administrative Court ruled that people who reject the German constitutional order are unfit for public service, even if their behavior doesn’t constitute a criminal offense.

Berlin prosecutors in 2007 opened several investigations of the officer. They were closed because, among other things, investigators couldn’t prove he had given the stiff-armed Nazi salute inside Germany — where it’s a crime — or shown his tattoos in public.

The tattoos included runes and the notes of the Horst Wessel Song, a popular Nazi anthem, though the man denied being aware of its origin.

Lower courts largely rejected disciplinary measures against the officer. The local government appealed.

The federal court said a tattoo constitutes a “bold proclamation” of support of an organization or ideology. It said that the man’s “fundamental and lasting departure from the principles of constitutional order” was also proven by him giving the Hitler salute, posing in front of a swastika flag and by a collection of Nazi memorabilia at his apartment.

German law makes it very difficult to dismiss civil servants. A spokesman for the Berlin branch of the GdP police union, Benjamin Jendro, said it’s a good thing that officers enjoy protection from wrongful accusations — but “in this case, a Nazi benefited for years” from the system. He welcomed the federal court ruling.





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police chief pleads guilty to theft from social club


HARRISBURG, Pa.

A police chief has pleaded guilty to stealing gambling tickets from a Pennsylvania social club.

The district attorney’s office says 66-year-old Howard Dougherty, of Lemoyne, pleaded guilty Wednesday to theft by unlawful taking.

Police say Dougherty was the president of the Der Harrisburg Maennerchor social club when the tickets were stolen.

Prosecutors say club members installed an infrared camera in the closet where the tickets were stored on the suspicion that someone was stealing them. Police say the camera recorded Dougherty taking two handfuls of the tickets worth about $200 in May.

Dougherty has been sentenced to 18 months of probation.





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Lawsuit: Silver City hired violent cop who later killed ex


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The town of Silver City and its police department failed to stop a police captain from stalking his ex-girlfriend despite a number of complaints, and his violent behavior eventually led to her death, according to a lawsuit in federal court.

Authorities say Mark Contreras killed Nikki Bascom than shot and killed himself in 2016.

In the lawsuit, which was moved this week to U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, Bascom’s family alleges that the police department hired Contreras despite his history of violence. After Contreras joined the police force, court documents say the agency did little to stop his physical abuse toward Bascom, 31, and eventually promoted him to captain.


According to court documents, Contreras continued to harass Bascom after the couple broke up and accused her of having an affair with her boss. He also threatened her boss and tried to bait him “into a gunfight,” the lawsuit said.

“On multiple occasions, Contreras threatened to kill Nikki if she ever took their daughter, A.C., away from him, if she ever got a restraining order, or if she ever caused him to lose his job,” the lawsuit said.

After each episode, Bascom contacted Silver City police but Contreras remained on the job.

On the day of Bascom’s death, Contreras armed with his gun came to her home in uniform and in his police vehicle and blocked her from leaving her driveway, the lawsuit said. He then “reached into her car and ‘ripped’ her cell phone from her hand,” court documents said.

The lawsuit said Bascom informed Chief Ed Reynolds of the incident, but police did little to protect her. Bascom fled to a domestic violence center where Contreras allegedly banged on the door of the shelter, the lawsuit said.

Moments before Bascom was killed in April 2016, the lawsuit said, a Grant County sheriff’s sergeant spotted Contreras driving through Bascom’s boss neighborhood but didn’t pull him over.

Authorities say Contreras shot and killed himself moments after he killed Bascom in her friend’s driveway.

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NASA says New York will flood when the ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica melt
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Sergeant guilty of obstructing police beating investigation


WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.

A Florida police sergeant has been convicted of trying to cover for three officers accused of beating of a man caught after a high-speed car chase.





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November 15, 2017
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s missing missing person requests
After an unflattering depiction in “The Vanished” podcast, LVMPD has adopted an ever-changing set of rules for accessing public records
Written by Caitlin Russell
Edited by JPat Brown
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department isn’t very good at filling public records requests, but they’ve got a serious knack for infuriating reporters.
MuckRock user and host of “The Vanished” podcast Marissa Jones has been trying to obtain information about a missing person named Chris Turner from the LVMPD since July 26, 2017, and requested help from the MuckRock staff after weeks without hearing from the LVMPD.
Jones says that Turner’s case was closed three days after the first part of a two episode series on Turner aired.

According to Turner’s mom, who was interviewed extensively by Jones, the police never made contact with Turner before closing his case. In a message sent to a podcast listener by the LVMPD and then forwarded to Marissa on July 20th, the police insisted that they had made contact with Turner, but the way the message was written seemed to express uncertainty about whether or not Turner was alive:
“Our case for Mr. Turner is closed. He was sighted/located, so one could say he’s alive.”
The message doesn’t say that he was sighted by anyone affiliated with the police, or related to Turner. Also, the phrase “one could say he’s alive” is a rather odd way to word it if they are in fact certain that Turner is alive. The message went on:
“We cannot release information to someone not involved in a report, and beyond that adults can lead their own lives, even though there are people who are concerned about them, but they tend to be out of touch with people who would like to hear from them.”
However, according to a “Law Enforcement Support Technician” at the LVMPD who only gave her name as Diana, one can obtain this information with the right paperwork - assuming you were able to get notarized authorization from the missing person. Seeing as you would need to find a missing person in order to obtain their permission, it is by definition categorically impossible to get a signature from a missing person.
Diana’s statement was contradicted by a November 2nd email Marissa received from Officer Larry Hadfield, who told her that “due to the fact that you are not identified as media, you must go through police records as any citizen would,” giving the impression that, contrary to information provided by other LVMPD employees, the information is available so long as one goes through certain (apparently ever-changing) channels.
It should be noted that under Nevada’s public records law, citizens have the same rights as reporters, except in instances in which one is trying to obtain a person’s criminal history. Neither Jones nor Muckrock is trying to obtain Turner’s criminal history, however, we are trying to obtain the case file related to his disappearance.
According to Jone’s interview with Turner’s mother, his girlfriend reported Turner missing to the LVMPD on August 7th, 2016, but the family didn’t know until she told them on August 17th,. While it’s understandable that the police might withhold information about an ongoing investigation, it seems strange that they wouldn’t bother to contact any family members to make sure he wasn’t simply angry at his girlfriend and cooling off with a relative.




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Elon Musk lifts the veil on Tesla's electric truck of the future – and teases a new sports car



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Column In landmark ruling, court orders paint companies to pay to clean lead paint out of California homes


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November 16, 2017
Maine town tries to charge MuckRock $750 for opening an email
Brunswick violates state’s public records law with claim that receiving its #AmazonHQ2 entitles you to pay for “administrative and legal fees”
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This week, in absurd and illegal requests, Maine’s Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority said that MuckRock is required to pay $750 because we opened the email they sent with their 37-page bid for Amazon second headquarters.



MuckRock is requesting copies of the bids that towns and regions submitted to Amazon for the privilege of housing the tech giant’s second headquarters. Many places have rejected our requests, but the more than 20 bids we’ve already received came free of charge.

We won’t be paying the $750 because according to the Maine Freedom of Access Act, if the cost to fulfill the request exceeds $30, the requester must be notified in advance.

Read the $750 bid embedded below, or on the request page.



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NYPD probing allegations that cops rebuffed woman trying to report manspreading subway

The NYPD opened an investigation Friday into allegations that cops at two commands rebuffed a straphanger trying to report that a nut she criticized for “manspreading” punched her in the face on a Brooklyn train.

Investigators have reached out to brass at the 17th Precinct in Midtown and Transit District 34 in Brooklyn to find out why Sam Saia was discouraged from filing a report - in apparent violation of NYPD policy.



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Military members increased reporting of sexual assault cases in 2016
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The Latest on a wreck involving a Los Angeles County sheriff’s vehicle that killed two children


A witness says a Los Angeles County sheriff’s vehicle wasn’t using its sirens or lights before it crashed with another car, jumped a curb and killed two small boys.

Julie Valle tells the Los Angeles Times that the sheriff’s SUV didn’t switch on its siren or lights until an instant before it hit another car, jumped the sidewalk and hit a woman and her two boys.

Video from a nearby store shows the SUV, with its emergency lights on, driving on the sidewalk.

Luis Hernandez tells the Times that the boys were his brothers, 7-year-old Jose Luis and 9-year-old Marcos. Their mother was hospitalized in critical condition.

Los Angeles police say they’re investigating the crash that occurred Thursday night as the sheriff’s vehicle was answering an emergency call.



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North Dakota city cites 47 reasons for police chief firing


ROLLA, N.D.

Leaders in a northern North Dakota city are offering dozens of reasons for firing their police chief, including uncompleted paperwork, personal use of police vehicles and unapproved police purchases.




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Roy Moore says signature is a forgery, experts say more evidence is needed either way
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LAPD cadet scandal: Joyrides in cruisers went on for weeks before anyone caught on


If the group of young Los Angeles police cadets accused of stealing department vehicles had any fear of getting caught, they certainly didn’t show it.

For weeks, according to documents, the teens used police cars to drive to and from LAPD-related events and on joyrides that took the vehicles as far away as Corona and Santa Clarita. Some of the cadets used the vehicles to perform “doughnuts” behind an Inglewood store and one drove a stolen LAPD vehicle to his job at a Ross Dress for Less store in Hawthorne.

There were other blatant actions: A high-ranking cadet described as “the ringleader” of the group asked someone to film him driving a cruiser, and they often drove with flashing lights and sirens blaring — in one instance racing through South L.A. to Hawthorne to move one teen’s personal vehicle before it was towed.





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Cop shoots ex-girlfriend before committing suicide in shocking ambush captured on surveillance footage
Saturday, December 2, 2017, 4:10 AM




https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... esel-study
Electric cars already cheaper to own and run than petrol or diesel – study
Exclusive: Pure electric cars cost less over four years than petrol or diesel cars in the UK, US and Japan, researchers say, but China is set to lead the market

Friday 1 December 2017 12.00 ESTLast modified on Friday 1 December 2017 17.01 EST
Electric cars are already cheaper to own and run than petrol or diesel cars in the UK, US and Japan, new research shows.

The lower cost is a key factor driving the rapid rise in electric car sales now underway, say the researchers. At the moment the cost is partly because of government support, but electric cars are expected to become the cheapest option without subsidies in a few years.

The researchers analysed the total cost of ownership of cars over four years, including the purchase price and depreciation, fuel, insurance, taxation and maintenance. They were surprised to find that pure electric cars came out cheapest in all the markets they examined: UK, Japan, Texas and California.

Pure electric cars have much lower fuel costs – electricity is cheaper than petrol or diesel – and maintenance costs, as the engines are simpler and help brake the car, saving on brake pads. In the UK, the annual cost was about 10% lower than for petrol or diesel cars in 2015, the latest year analysed.

Hybrid cars which cannot be plugged in and attract lower subsidies, were usually a little more expensive than petrol or diesel cars. Plug-in hybrids were found to be significantly more expensive – buyers are effectively paying for two engines in one car, the researchers said. The exception in this case was Japan, where plug-in hybrids receive higher subsidies.





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Damian Green case: police criticised over pornography revelations
Sir Peter Fahy, former head of Greater Manchester police, says such incidents should not happen in democratic country
Police should stay out of politics, a former chief constable has said amid a growing backlash against officers who revealed that pornography was found on Damian Green’s Commons computer during an investigation nine years ago.

Sir Peter Fahy, the former chief constable of Greater Manchester police, said the raid on Green’s office and the revelation that pornographic images were found on his computer were incidents that should not happen in a democratic country.

He spoke out after the now-retired detective who examined Green’s computer contradicted the Conservative MP’s claims that he never used it to look at pornography. Asked whether the officer’s intervention was in the public interest, Fahy said: “I think it’s very dangerous territory for a police officer to be making judgments about whether a politician is lying or not.

Sir Peter Fahy in 2014.
Sir Peter Fahy in 2014. Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA
“That should only happen in a criminal investigation and then, ultimately, is for a court to decide. Police should be extremely careful about making judgments about other people’s morality when it’s not a matter of crime. It’s something really central to our democracy that police are not involved in politics; we are fairly unusual in the United Kingdom in that being the case.”

The claim that “extreme” pornography was found on Green’s work computer was first made by Bob Quick, former assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, in a statement prepared for the Leveson inquiry that was obtained and reported by the Times last month.









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Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, Texas' most-senior member of Congress, announced Thursday that he won't seek reelection after a naked photo of him circulated online and a conservative activist released past messages of a sexual nature from him.

The photo of the 68-year-old Barton was posted on an anonymous Twitter account just before Thanksgiving, and Barton apologized. But he also suggested he could be the victim of online exploitation by a woman he'd had a relationship with whose name has not been released.

About a week later, tea party organizer Kelly Canon revealed Facebook Messenger exchanges from 2012 in which Barton asked if she was wearing panties and made other sexual references. Now twice-divorced, Barton was still married to his second wife at the time of their online exchanges.

Canon said her relationship with Barton never advanced beyond the messages. She said Barton hadn't apologized for them and that she hadn't asked him to — but she also called on him to resign so that his private life couldn't be used against him and other Republicans during 2018 congressional elections.





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Senate approves GOP's $1.4 trillion tax bill after key changes sway holdout



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

Trump plans big cuts in two Utah national monument boundaries





In what would be an extraordinary test of a chief executive’s authority to revoke boundaries of the country’s national monuments, President Trump is expected to formally propose chopping Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments into five separate and much smaller national monuments.

A map of the proposed changes was made public by the Wilderness Society. Although the White House did not comment on the president’s monuments plan, the Interior Department said the leaked maps were accurate but not final.




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Two senior FBI officials on Clinton, Trump probes exchanged texts disparaging Trump
Sat., Dec. 2, 2017, 9:08 a.m.

WASHINGTON – The former top FBI official assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election was taken off that job this summer after his bosses discovered he and another member of Mueller’s team had exchanged politically charged texts disparaging President Donald Trump and supportive of Hillary Clinton, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

Peter Strzok, as deputy head of counterintelligence at the FBI, was a key player in the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server to do government work as Secretary of State, as well as the probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.

During the Clinton investigation, Strzok was involved in a romantic relationship with FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who worked for Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.







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Documentary Ties FBI Chief Hoover To Corruption, Mob Figures
`Frontline' Tells `Secrets' About Hoover
February 08, 1993|By JAMES ENDRST; Courant Television Columnist
Even in an age where there are no secrets and no heroes and, therefore, little left to shock us, "The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover" on this week's edition of the PBS documentary series "Frontline" is jaw-dropping stuff.

By far the best in-depth weekly news hour on television, "Frontline" (Tuesday at 9 p.m. on WEDH, Channel 24) outdoes even itself this week with a deeply disturbing and historically significant investigation of Hoover.


Director of the FBI for nearly 50 years under eight presidents before his death in 1972, Hoover, according to "Frontline," was "personally corrupt, sexually compromised and tainted by ties to organized crime." Much of the program and its related issues center on the much whispered about but, here, highly detailed homosexual relationship between Hoover and Clyde Tolson, Hoover's senior aide at the FBI.

That relationship, supposedly photographed, appears to have been used by the American Mafia to blackmail Hoover. As a result, Hoover, a man who is now known to have kept secret files on the private lives of politicians, presidents and anyone he needed to control, found the tables turned.

Anthony Summers, author of "Official and Confidential," an investigative biography of Hoover newly published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, says in the film, "For all the fuss about pursuing the John Dillingers and the small-time hoods of the Midwest, anyone at the top in law enforcement at that time knew the real threat to society came from elsewhere." Summers goes on to say that although Hoover went after the Mob in a very public way in the early '30s, on the eve of World War II he suddenly stopped, even going so far as to deny the existence of the crime syndicate long after its presence became obvious. The result was that the Mafia was allowed to grow virtually unchecked.

There are any number of instances and issues revealed or brought into sharp focus in "The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover" to ignite a citizen's fury. From his lavish and illegal lifestyle to

his heavy gambling, which, again, compromised Hoover by tying him to organized crime, he seemed to be breaking every major rule in his own FBI handbook.

"He used to place bets through [columnist Walter Winchell]," says Sy Pollack, an associate of underworld figure Meyer Lansky, "and those bets used to be placed with [gangster] Frank Costello, and they were no $2 bets. They ran into the hundreds and thousands."

The most newsworthy and astounding revelation, however, comes from Evelyn Lincoln, secretary to President Kennedy. Lincoln, for the first time, confirms that "one of the factors that made John F. Kennedy choose Lyndon Johnson for vice president were the malicious rumors fed to Lyndon B. Johnson by J. Edgar Hoover about [Kennedy's] womanizing." Hoover managed to keep his life -- and his power plays, which made him invulnerable even to presidents -- a secret.

John Dowd, chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force who was assigned to investigate Hoover four years after the FBI director's death, says on "Frontline" that he looked into "40 years of fraud and corruption by J. Edgar Hoover in which Hoover had taken, at taxpayers' expense, goods and services provided by employees of the FBI."



Had Hoover been alive when the probe took place, Dowd says, "I believe he'd have been indicted, prosecuted and convicted."

Instead, Hoover was buried as if he had been a president.

In the opening sequence of "The Secret File," Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger is heard proclaiming Hoover "a man who epitomized the American Dream of patriotism, dedication to duty and successful attainment."

But by the end of "The Secret File," most viewers will probably want to spit on Hoover's grave.

"The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover," an episode of the PBS series "Frontline," will be broadcast Tuesday night at 9, locally on WEDH, Channel 24





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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
The More the Merrier: Pharma's Christmas vaccines leave coal in the stockings of our children
On January 3, 2018 the Maine Legislature's joint committee on health discussed adding the Meningococcal ACWY vaccine to the list required to attend school. France just added 8 vaccines to its required list last week. Around the world, a push to get more and more vaccines into schoolchildren, using the threat to withhold schooling, has gained momentum.

Yet some vaccines have nothing to recommend them for schoolchildren. Such as the meningococcal (Menactra/Menveo) vaccines. I summarized the facts for our legislators below.

Be mindful of the following, please, as it is never taught in health class: meningococcal disease can be effectively treated with antibiotics, if caught early. When a child has fever, headache, and a rash or stiff neck they should see a doctor IMMEDIATELY for treatment.


January 2, 2018


Dear Legislators:

You finally have an easy decision to make. There is not a single good reason to add meningococcal vaccine to the schedule required for schoolchildren in Maine.

Only 3 factors need to be considered:
1. How much benefit?
2. How much harm?
3. How much does it cost?

1. The potential benefit eludes us. CDC says there were between zero and one cases of meningococcal meningitis in Maine last year.

https://www.cdc.gov/meningococcal/downl ... Report.pdf

Zero to one cases. In the entire US, only 185 people had a form of meningitis (C, W or Y) that could potentially be prevented by this vaccine last year.

You have been told that the purpose of vaccination is to protect adolescents and young adults, who are at higher risk of this disease.

Really? CDC tells us that in children and young adults aged 11 through 23, there were only 21 cases in 2016, in the entire US, that might have been prevented by vaccination.

https://www.cdc.gov/meningococcal/downl ... Report.pdf

You may think that vaccination is needed for herd immunity. But that isn't actually true. You may be surprised to learn that about 1/3 of people carry meningococcus in their nose at any one time, and the majority continue to carry it--even after they are vaccinated. So, herd immunity cannot be achieved for this disease using vaccines.

http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/ ... 0842-4.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27912986

2. What are the harms? The label says that in clinical trials, 1.0-1.3% of adults and adolescents had a serious adverse event. Regarding milder adverse events, over 25% of recipients reported headaches and fatigue. A rare but very serious side effect, Guillain-Barre syndrome, may occur. The Menactra vaccine package insert estimates that between zero and five people, per million vaccinated, may get Guillain Barre syndrome as a result.

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/Biologics ... 131170.pdf

So while less than one in a million Americans will get a meningococcal A, C, or W infection in a year, an additional 0 to 5 people per million vaccinated will develop Guillain Barre syndrome (within six weeks of their vaccination).

This is a remarkable statistic. The risk-benefit equation for this vaccine is so bad, it should never have been licensed in the first place.

But it was. And now you are being asked to expand its use.

3. What is the cost? CDC says the federal government pays $89 dollars per dose, and the private sector $113.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/v ... index.html

The cost to vaccinate 183,000 schoolchildren in Maine with 2 doses, at $100/dose, is $40 million dollars, which someone has to pay.

The vaccine proposal is an expensive boondoggle. The only beneficiaries of this bill are the pharmaceutical industry and its handmaidens. Please don't fall for this scam.


Meryl Nass, M.D.
MIT graduate
Currently practicing Internal Medicine in Ellsworth, Maine







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January 2, 2018

Arcing Toward Equality in 2017


Conservatives might celebrate 2017 as a year of triumph. I’m not sure, because I don’t understand the current American conservative mind. Having a man represent you as President who is a constant liar, an abuser of women, and an incompetent manager of people might outweigh the few conservative pieces of legislation he has signed, even if one is a big tax cut for rich people. But most conservatives rallied around an apparent pedophile in Alabama, so ideology seems to be more important than character on the right wing.

What I do know is that American liberals have been thrown into despair by the new nastiness of American politics, as Republicans have given up the principles they defended for so many years in order to force a few political gains over the objections of the majority of voters. The daily news about Trump’s latest tweet, about the real nature of the tax cut, about the desertion of science in the federal bureaucracy, about the attempts to blind the public to the necessity of an informed media, all make each day’s headlines another affront to liberal values. Even worse, truth seems to have been redefined as a liberal value.

But behind the headlines, our country has been evolving in directions that liberals could find encouraging.

Public disdain for homosexuality and discriminatory behavior against homosexuals have a long history. Opinion surveys show an unchanging and strong majority believing that homosexual sex was “always wrong” until about 1990. Over the past 20 years that disapproval, expressed as opposition to same-sex marriage, has been gradually declining, from about 68% in 1997 to 53% in 2007, until approval finally won out over disapproval in 2012. That trend continued in 2017, as support for gay marriage was expressed by nearly two-thirds of Americans.

There are significant differences among sub-groups, with white evangelical Protestants and older Americans showing the least support. But all groups show increasing acceptance of the right of gay people to fully enjoy their lives, and the jump in 2017 from 27% to 35% among white evangelicals and from 18% to 41% among conservatives (these groups overlap considerably) means that 2018 might continue this trend.

Similarly, public acceptance of transgender Americans is rising, although there have only been surveys over the past few years. Since 2015, the Human Rights Campaign’s surveys show positive feelings about transgender people rising from 44% to 47%. In 2017, the proportion of Americans who said that transgender people should be able to use the bathroom of their choice jumped by 10 percentage points. The Boy Scouts of America both reflected this growing acceptance and pushed it further by announcing in January that transgender boys would be allowed to join. Joe Maldonado, who had been rejected in 2016, became a Boy Scout in February 2017.

The most notable cultural shift of 2017 was the public outrage over male sexual abuse of women, symbolized in December by TIME Magazine making female “silence breakers” the Person of the Year. The public naming and shaming of many egregious abusers was the culmination of the gradual shift in public opinion opened by Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas in 1991, and accelerated by the prosecution of Bill Cosby beginning in 2015. 2017 may become known as the year in which sexual harassment became publicly unacceptable.

Discussion of the continuing racism in American society was heated in 2017, but it is harder to discern how much progress was made in the struggle for racial equality. On the positive side, the public glorification of the Confederate defense of slavery, which has been a fundamental feature of the way American history has been told since the late 19th century, may be coming to an end. Controversy over statues was the most conspicuous flashpoint of violence, but the reconsideration of the content of history textbooks and the naming of buildings at prominent universities point to a more lasting shift in the place of our painful racial history in American self-consciousness.

The public protests by black athletes at the beginning of the NFL season caused a significant backlash, as such protests did at the Olympics in 1968 and 1972, and in many less notable moments since then. In most cases, the athletes were severely disciplined, and Colin Kapernick’s 2016 protest was probably the reason for his continued unemployment as a professional football player. But in 2017, the protesters were not punished, perhaps a signal that public protests of racism, while not acceptable to many Americans, are now seen as within everybody’s democratic rights.

All of these long-term transformations in American culture and public opinion were condemned by conservatives, with Donald Trump in the lead. Backlash against the movement toward racial and sexual equality may have helped him win election, but even the power of the presidency has not been sufficient to stop it. 2017 was a difficult year for Americans committed to equality for all, but the long arc of the moral universe still bent toward justice.

May that continue in 2018.

Steve Hochstadt
Boston, MA
Published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, January 2, 2017





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BURNS OREGON STANDOFF
Experts hired to present 3D animation of shots allegedly fired by FBI agent at LaVoy Finicum's truck

Updated Jan 3, 8:47 PM; Posted Jan 3, 8:22 PM


Toby Terpstra, senior forensic animator at the Colorado-based company Kineticorp, is among nine government experts disclosed by prosecutors in their pending case against FBI Agent W. Joseph Astarita.

Astarita was indicted in June and has pleaded not guilty to three counts of making a false statement and two counts of obstruction of justice. He is accused of hiding from Oregon investigators that he fired his rifle and lying to the FBI about his shots.

The Jan. 26, 2016, shooting came as state police and FBI agents stopped key figures of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge after they left the bird sanctuary to travel to a community meeting in John Day.

Astarita's bullets didn't hit Finicum, 54, Oregon investigators said. They concluded that Astarita fired twice at the truck, hitting the roof and missing on the second shot. Seconds later, state troopers shot Finicum three times after he stepped away from his pickup and reached for his inner jacket pocket, where police later said he had a loaded 9mm handgun. Bullets struck him in the back and one pierced his heart, an autopsy found.







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Not my father’s FBI

Discipline at the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not what it used to be

By Warren L. Dean Jr. - - Wednesday, January 3, 2018




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Officer to be sentenced for lying to carry gun on flights

BOSTON


A Boston police detective is set to be sentenced Thursday for lying to federal officials so he could take his gun on planes during personal trips and allow a friend to avoid airport security.



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Police chief’s daughter faces felony heroin charges
BERLIN, N.H. The daughter of a New Hampshire police chief has been charged with possessing and selling heroin.

Berlin Police Chief Peter Morency says he is devastated by the news and never saw it coming. WMUR-TV reports 31-year-old Christina Morency was arrested just before Christmas on heroin charges.








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Supervisor of Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force set to plead guilty

prosecutors allege Jenkins led a unit that robbed drug dealers and innocent civilians, and in some cases directed that drugs and guns seized by the unit be re-sold on the streets. Sometimes, prosecutors said, Jenkins pretended to be a federal agent to conceal his identity. His unit falsified court documents to cover its tracks — or didn’t file paperwork at all — and also raked in tens of thousands of dollars in unearned overtime pay from the city, according to the indictment.

Judge vacates conviction of man who feds say had drugs planted by Gun Trace Task Force officer
Jenkins was later hit with additional charges alleging that in 2010 he was involved with planting drugs on a suspect who had fled from police and crashed. Federal prosecutors say Det. Sean Suiter was duped into recovering the drugs from the scene. Suiter was killed in November, one day before he was set to testify before a federal grand jury investigating the claims.

The case may be the biggest corruption scandal to hit the Baltimore police department: Seven officers from a single high-profile unit were indicted in February and charged with racketeering conspiracy, the result of a wiretap investigation by federal authorities that also included placing recording devices in police vehicles. An eighth officer from the unit was indicted in August.

A former city officer who was working for police in Philadelphia also has been charged with participating in the conspiracy.






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Southern California is seeing one of its driest starts to the water year in decades, the National Weather Service said Wednesday.
Since the start of the water year on Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, downtown Los Angeles has received just 0.12 of an inch of rain. That is tied with 1962-63 for the fourth-driest start to a water year since record keeping began in 1877, the weather service said.
"The start of the storm season has been exceptionally dry," said Ryan Kittell, forecaster with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. "It's one of the driest in history."
This year's rainfall total is 3.91 inches below the normal 4.03 inches for the period in downtown L.A., making it just 3% of the typical rainfall. Forecasters said the driest first three months of a water year occurred during the 1903-04 season and the 1929-30 season, when just traces of rain were recorded.





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LAWNEWS
Conservative Lawmaker Demands Answers to These 18 Questions About Russia, FBI


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FBI Thought Hillary Clinton Broke The Law Yet Still Drafted Acquittal
Eurasia Review-
The FBI believed Hillary Clinton and her aides broke the law by using an insecure server to email classified data, yet drafted an exonerating statement even before the probe was over, according to several Republican senators. The unnamed Republicans on key congressional committees looking into the Clinton probe have ...








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FOIA suit seeks information on DOJ release of FBI agents' texts
JURIST-
The request stems from DOJ's December 12 invitation to a group of reporters to view the FBI investigators' anti-Trump text messages at their offices prior to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's [official website] public hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on December 13. During his testimony [video], ...

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NEWS
FBI Accused—Again—of Cover-Up in DB Cooper Skyjacker Case

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An artist made these sketches of the skyjacker known as Dan Cooper from the recollections of the passengers and crew of a Northwest Airlines jet he hijacked between Portland and Seattle on Thanksgiving eve in 1971. Photo: AP)
Maybe you haven’t heard, but the FBI is taking a lot of $#!% today over a certain memo. (It’s been in the news a little.) But it turns out House Republicans aren’t the only ones who have a bone to pick with America’s top lawdogs.

At a press conference outside the FBI’s headquarters on Thursday, a team of independent researchers openly accused the bureau of covering up evidence in the D.B. Cooper case. The identity of the infamous criminal, who skyjacked a Boeing 727 in 1971, remains unknown, and the researchers claim the FBI actually prefers it that way.

The New York Daily News reports that Tom Colbert, a documentary filmmaker who leads the researcher, accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation of covering up for the skyjacker, who boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 on November 24, 1971, under the alias Dan Cooper.

Wearing a pair of dark shades and claiming he had a bomb, Cooper forced the 727 to land at Seattle-Tacoma Airport where he released three dozen hostages in exchange for $200,000 (around $1.2 million in 2018 dollars).

This is about current FBI agents stonewalling, covering up, and flat-out lying for mentors and G-men long gone, over decades.
After refueling, the plane took off again with four of the flight’s crew, but about 20 minutes later, Cooper forced everyone into the cockpit and activated the aft door. When the plane finally landed in Nevada two hours later, Cooper was gone.

Colbert and his team have fingered Robert W. Rackstraw, a retired Army paratrooper, as the culprit, and they aren’t the first. Rockstraw first came to the attention of authorities in 1978. He resembled composite sketches, had a criminal record, and due to his Army training was capable of making the jump.

Ultimately, however, no direct evidence was found linking Rackstraw to the crime, and the FBI moved on.

Over the past few years, Colbert’s team has acquired several letters supposedly sent by the master criminal to newspapers in 1971. They say they deciphered several codes in the letter, which allegedly point to Rackstraw’s initials, the Army’s Special Warfare School (where he studied), and another of his military units.

The letters apparently tease both the FBI and the CIA and urge authorities to try to catch him.


During a 2016 lawsuit to acquire the FBI investigation files, Colbert said his team had accumulated more than 100 pieces of evidence pointing to Rackstraw, who became that year the subject of a two-part History Channel series based on the work. (You can peruse what the FBI has released here.)

Colbert has long accused the FBI of ignoring any new evidence. Had the FBI actually captured Cooper 40 years ago, but mistakenly released him, it would certainly be yet another embarrassing chapter in the bureau’s history.

“It’s more than a bunch of old guys chasing another old guy over forgotten history. This is about current FBI agents stonewalling, covering up, and flat-out lying for mentors and G-men long gone, over decades—all because of an unholy deal to hide and protect a valuable CIA Black Ops pilot known as D.B. Cooper,” Colbert reportedly told the Daily News in an email.



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http://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-jus ... ade-record

New FBI messages reveal agents sought way to evade federal record requirements
BY SHARYL ATTKISSON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/01/18 02:10 PM EST


DOJ office says it has found missing text messages of FBI agents




There’s an important but little-noticed subtext in the revelations about alleged FBI misconduct in the investigations into Hillary Clinton’s email practices and Donald Trump’s Russia associations.

It’s the light they shine on what has come to be routine obstruction of public records laws by federal officials.

The records that federal agencies generate while in our employ aren’t owned by faceless bureaucrats or political officials who can choose to withhold or disclose at their discretion and convenience. The records are owned by us: the public.


That includes text messages.

In the past two decades as communications via email, smart phones and social media have grown routine, there’s evidence that federal officials have consciously devised ways to thwart public records laws and keep their communications — our records — secret. Federal officials have used private email accounts, private servers and aliases (not their own name) for public business. They have deleted or lost messages that are supposed to be saved.

And they have learned to use text messaging.

In a new exchange released by the Senate Homeland Security committee today, FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok seem to discuss this very issue in private texts.
Page: Have a meeting with turgal about getting iphone in a day or so

Strzok: Oh hot damn. . . We get around our security/monitoring issues?

Page: No, he’s proposing that we just stop following them. Apparently the requirement to capture texts came from [Office of Management and Budget], but we’re the only org (I’m told) who is following that rule. His point is, if no one else is doing it why should we. . . I’m told – thought I have seen – that there is an IG report that says everyone is failing. But one has changed anything, so why not just join in the failure.
It’s a shockingly cavalier attitude from an attorney and high level FBI official.

There are more text messages between Strzok and Page from a critical time period, as we now know, that the FBI claimed had been lost in a technical glitch. After that became











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Extremely Warm Cyclone Predicted to Drive 50-60 F Above Average Temperatures Across North Pole
Our lexicon of what’s considered to be normal weather does not include February days in which temperatures at a North Pole shrouded in 24-hour darkness cross into above freezing ranges. But that’s exactly what some of our more accurate weather models are predicting will happen over the next five days.

Another Unusually Warm and Powerful Storm

During this time, a powerful 950 to 960 mb low is expected to develop over Baffin Bay. Hurling hurricane force gusts running from the south and digging deep across the North Atlantic, Barents, and Arctic Ocean, the low is projected to drive a knife of 50-60 F above average temperatures toward the North Pole by February 5th.



(20-25 foot surf heading for the increasingly fragile sea ice in this February 4 wave model forecast. Note the 30-40 foot waves off Iceland and associated with the same storm system that is predicted to bring above freezing temperatures to the North Pole on February 5th. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)

These warm winds are predicted to bring above freezing temperatures to areas that typically see -20 to -30 F readings in February. They are expected to rage over a sea ice pack that is at record low levels. And if the storm emerges, it will hammer that same dwindling ice pack with 20 to 25 foot or higher surf.

Fragile Arctic Sea Ice Faces a Hammering

Presently, Arctic sea ice extent is trending about 200,000 square kilometers below record lows set just last year for the period of late February. And recent scientific research indicates that warm winter storms like the one that is now predicted to form can have a detrimental impact on sea ice.



(Arctic sea ice extent is presently at around 13 million square kilometers [bottom red line] — a new record low for this time of year. It should be around 15 million square kilometers and would be if the world hadn’t warmed considerably since the 1980s. Image source: JAXA.)

Not only do the storms bring warmer temperatures with them — a kind of heat wave that interrupts the typical period of winter freezing — they also drive heavy surf into a thinner and weaker ice pack. The surf, drawn up from the south churns warmer water up from the ocean depths. And the net effect can dissolve or weaken large sections of ice.

The presently developing event is expected to begin to take shape on February 4th, with warm gale and hurricane force winds driving above freezing temperatures near or over the North Pole on February 4th – 6th. To say that such an event, should it occur, would be practically unprecedented is the common understatement of our time. In other words, this is not typical winter weather for the North Pole. It is instead something we would expect to see from a global climate that is rapidly warming and undergoing serious systemic changes.



(February 5 GFS model run shows above freezing temperatures crossing the North Pole. Temperatures in this range are between 50 and 60 degrees [F] above average for this time of year. If the extremely warm cyclone event occurs as predicted, it will be a clear record-breaker. It will also further harm Arctic sea ice levels that are already in record low ranges. Image source: Climate Reanalyzer.)

Extreme Cyclone Beneath an Extreme Jet Stream

In the predicted forecast we see more of the extreme jet stream waves that Dr. Jennifer Francis predicted as an upshot of human-forced polar amplification (a condition where the poles warm faster than the rest of the globe under a larger warming regime). The particular wave in question for the present forecast involves a high amplitude ridge running very far to the north over Svalbard and knifing on into the high Arctic. The facing trough over Baffin Bay, Greenland, and North America is also quite pronounced and elongated. A feature that appears to want to become a cut off bubble of displaced polar air in a number of the model forecasts.

High amplitude Jet Stream waves during Northern Hemisphere winter as a signature of global warming are predicted by Francis and others to generate greater temperature and precipitation extremes in the middle latitudes. They are a feature of the kind of stuck and/or upside down weather we’ve been experiencing lately where temperatures in the Northeast have been periodically colder than typically frigid locations in Alaska. These flash freezes have, at times, faded back into odd balmy days in the 50s and 60s (F) before plunging back into cold. But the overall pattern appears to get stuck this way for extended periods of time.



(Very high amplitude ridge and trough pattern at the Jet Stream level of the circumpolar winds is thought by a number of scientists to be a feature of human caused global warming. One that is related to polar amplification in the Arctic. Image source: Earth Nullschool.)

Heat in the Arctic is driving sections of cold air south even as warm air invades through places like Alaska, Northeast Siberia, and the Barents Sea. But the main variables of this story are global heat, global warming, fixed extreme temperature and precipitation patterns, and warm air invasion. The winnowing streamers of cold air driven out over places like the U.S. Northeast are just a side effect of the overall warming trend. One that is starkly apparent in the very odd western warmth that has grown more and more entrenched with each passing year.

For Now, It’s Still Just a Forecast

As with any five day forecast, we can take this one with more than just a grain of salt at the present time. But such an extreme event is entirely possible during the present age of human-forced climate change. During late December of 2015, we identified a predicted major storm that ultimately drove North Pole temperatures to above freezing. At the time, that storm was considered unusual if not unprecedented. However, since February is typically a colder period for the North Pole region, a warm storm drawing above freezing air into that zone would be even more unusual. It would also be a feature of the larger trend of loss of typical seasonal winter weather that we’ve been experiencing for some time now.



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Vermont school flies Black Lives Matter flag
The student-led flag raising is part of a series of Black History Month events at Montpelier High




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Almost four environmental defenders a week killed in 2017
Exclusive: 197 people killed last year for defending land, wildlife or natural resources, new Global Witness data reveals. In recording every defender’s death, the Guardian hopes to raise awareness of the deadly struggle on the environmental frontline



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February 2, 2018
A Black History Month FBI file reader
From Civil Rights icon to entertainers, FBI surveillance has been a steady fixture in the lives of prominent African-Americans
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Beryl Lipton
One unexpected fringe benefit of a surveillance state is that it can make for a surprisingly comprehensive biographer. To kick off Black History Month at MuckRock, we put together a collection of all of our articles on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s forays into the lives of prominent African-Americans over the decades.



Muhammad Ali



James Baldwin



Thelma Glass



James Hood



Whitney Houston



Russell Jones



Rodney King



Martin Luther King, Jr.



Bayard Rustin



Tupac Shakur



Christopher Wallace



Eric Williams



Malcolm X

Browse a collection of our completed FBI requests on the project page, and if you feel like we’re missing somebody, let us know and we’ll file for it on your behalf.






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Wrongly convicted black man locked up for 29 years accuses NYPD cops of hiding evidence, coercing witness in suit
BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS LARRY MCSHANE
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, February 2, 2018, 11:59 AM






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'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth
An ex-YouTube insider reveals how its recommendation algorithm promotes divisive clips and conspiracy videos. Did they harm Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency?
The methodology behind this story

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Scribbling for environmental, social and economic justice
Arctic Sea Ice Extent at Record Lows as Winter Temperatures Soar
Five point five degrees Celsius above average.
That’s how much warmer than ‘normal’ the entire region of the Arctic above the 66 degree North Latitude Line was earlier today. Areas within this large warm pool saw temperatures spike to a range of 15 to 25 C warmer than the already warmer than normal 1981-2010 base period. And broad regions saw temperature between 10 and 20 C above that 30-year average.






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What’s the Real U.S. Weather Story for Fall and Winter of 2017-2018? Abnormally Warm,
https://robertscribbler.com/2018/02/07/ ... mally-dry/ Abnormally Dry.
It seems that every time a snow storm or burst of cold weather roars out of a less stable and warming Arctic, the news media is all a-buzz. Perhaps this is due to the fact that these events are abnormal in their own right. Perhaps because they are more and more the extreme punctuations and back-blasts of a larger warming climate. Perhaps it is due to the fact that cold events are steadily becoming more of a nostalgic novelty even if, when they do arrive, they can come on with a fierce intensity.










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Baltimore police corruption inspires state bills for stiffer punishment for officers, payouts for victims

officers, payouts for victims






As the trial of two former Gun Trace Task Force members unfolded in Baltimore last week, Ivan Potts was telling state lawmakers in Annapolis how the rogue unit ruined his life.
“I just spent two and a half years in prison for something I didn't do, at all,” Potts told the House Judiciary Committee. Lawmakers are now weighing reforms in the wake of the scandal — including whether and how to compensate the task force’s wrongly imprisoned victims.
Potts’ gun crime conviction relied on testimony from the now-disgraced unit, whose indictments and prosecution have captivated the city for months. A judge vacated Potts’ conviction after the indictments last year, but Potts said he has not been made whole.
“I was found guilty because they testified against me, and they just painted a picture that I couldn't fight,” he said. “I really lost everything.”






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Robert Mueller and the 'up or out' management policy that damaged the FBI



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A former top FBI cybersecurity official has been traveling the world over the past six months in an effort to confirm aspects of the controversial dossier on President Trump for BuzzFeed News, Foreign Policy reports. Anthony Ferrante now works for FTI Consulting, which was reportedly hired by BuzzFeed's lawyers after the ...



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In one of the texts messages released in a report of the FBI's handling of the Clinton emails by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., FBI lawyer Lisa Page told Peter Strzok, an FBI agent with whom she was romantically involved, that Obama wanted "to know everything we're doing," on Sept. 1, 2016. The unspecified subject Obama ...










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Attorney General Sessions faces accusations of racism after honoring ‘Anglo-American heritage’ of policing 
BY CHRIS SOMMERFELDT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Monday, February 12, 2018, 4:27 PM




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Trump proposes money for new FBI headquarters
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Washington (CNN) The White House is proposing to spend more than $2 billion in funding for a new FBI headquarters, infusing cash into a stalled effort to ... In a statement Monday, the FBI said it had submitted a report to the Senate on a "nationally focused consolidation strategy for FBI headquarters" that ...







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police chief doing time for murder charged with 1997 rape





Hardin pleaded guilty last fall to the February 2017 murder of a man in northern Benton County. He was accused of shooting and killing James Appleton on the side of Gann Ridge Road. It was during this process that Hardin’s DNA was taken.
The rape case involved a teacher who was raped at Frank Tillery Elementary School on Sunday, November 9, 1997.
The teacher went into her classroom that morning to clean up and complete lesson plans. That Sunday, there was a church service being held in the school cafeteria. About 250 people were in attendance.
The teacher told police she left her classroom to use the restroom when she was approached by a man disguised with a knit stocking and sunglasses and carrying a pistol. The man raped her and he quickly fled the scene.
The teacher was able to give a description of the suspect, and a police sketch was made. For the next 20 years, the case was unsolved. Rogers Police asked for the public’s help finding the suspect, and the TNT series Cold Justice: Sex Crimes featured a 2015 episode on the case.
Grant Hardin was an officer with the Eureka Springs Police Department in 1997. He was fired from the department that year, the current chief told 40/29. Hardin also served as chief for the Gateway Police Department before it was shut down in May 2016, according to the Democrat-Gazette. The Gateway Police Department existed for four months.
The police report for the arrest on the 1997 rape lists the following previous charges for Hardin:
* Charged with Indecent Exposure in Rogers on August 21, 1998.
* Charged with Fleeing in Eureka Springs on September 24, 2005. Found not guilty.
* Charged with Domestic Battery III in Bentonville on May 29, 2007. Case dismissed.








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Former dominatrix loses fight to keep job as LEO
A New Jersey sheriff's officer who appeared in bondage films as a dominatrix was fired after fighting to keep her job



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Police: 42 year old Man pointing gun at his own head killed by officers including one
who has shot and killed two other people
in the last 6 months



WILLISTON, Vt. — A distraught man who was pointing a pistol at his own head was shot by police as he walked toward two officers next to a busy interstate and refused repeated commands to drop the weapon, state police said Monday.
The man died at a hospital shortly after the Sunday shooting in the breakdown lane of Interstate 89 in Bolton, said state police Col. Matthew Birmingham.
Benjamin Gregware, 42, of Sheldon, did not point his weapon at police before he was shot three times, Birmingham said. State police Trooper Christopher Brown and an officer from the nearby Richmond Police Department fired 12 shots total at him.
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4 black men wrongfully convicted of murder sue city of Chicago


CHICAGO — Four black Chicago men wrongfully imprisoned for their alleged involvement in a 1995 double murder during a robbery have filed a federal lawsuit accusing police and Cook County prosecutors of coercion and withholding evidence.
The convictions of Charles Johnson, Larod Styles, LaShawn Ezell and Troshawn McCoy were overturned in 2017. That was seven years after new fingerprint evidence implicated a man known to have argued with the two victims shortly before their deaths.



The lawsuits name 13 former Chicago police detectives as defendants. Among those named are James Cassidy and Kenneth Boudreau. The two had obtained confessions in multiple cases where other evidence would eventually show the suspects were innocent.
The lawsuits allege the city’s failure to identify and track officers who committed misconduct, including obtaining coerced and false confessions, amounted to a de facto policy that led officers “to believe they could act with impunity.”







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Police: Florida officers fatally shoot 84-year-old man


HOMESTEAD,

Authorities say Florida police officers fatally shot an elderly man who had been threatening to kill himself.
A Miami-Dade Police Department news release says officers responded to a Homestead-area apartment complex Monday afternoon after a report of an 84-year-old who was armed and threatening to take his own life.
Police say four officers opened fire on the armed man and rescue workers determined he died at the scene.


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2 Baltimore detectives convicted of racketeering, robbery


BALTIMORE Two Baltimore police detectives were convicted of robbery, racketeering, and conspiracy Monday in a trial that’s part of an ongoing federal investigation into corruption among rogue members of the city’s beleaguered police force.
After the jury foreman read the verdict following two days of deliberations, Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor were shackled and led out of U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Some of Hersl’s relatives burst into tears, while one of his victims called out: “Justice.”


The two detectives were each convicted of racketeering conspiracy, racketeering and robbery under the federal Hobbs Act, which prohibits interference with interstate commerce. They face up to 20 years on each count, for a total of 60 years.
On Monday evening, acting U.S. Attorney Stephen Schenning said he was hopeful that the police corruption case “will begin a long difficult process of examining how” the Baltimore force polices its own.
“We hope that police officers live up to the honor and privilege of the badge,” Schenning said on the courthouse steps.
The trial was dominated by four ex-detectives who testified that the police department’s elite Gun Trace Task Force was actually made up of thugs with badges who stole cash, resold looted narcotics and lied under oath to cover their tracks. They detailed acts of astonishing police criminality, including armed home invasions, stretching back to 2008.
Acting Police Commissioner Darryl DeSousa said in a statement immediately after the verdict that the department will move to fire Hersl and Taylor, who have been suspended without pay since being indicted and arrested in March.
“We recognize that this indictment and subsequent trial uncovered some of the most egregious and despicable acts ever perpetrated in law enforcement,” DeSousa said.
William Purpura, Hersl’s lead attorney, said the family was disappointed in the verdict but noted that the jury “did acquit him of one of the more serious crimes.” He said a decision about a possible appeal would be made later.
Both men were cleared of possessing a firearm in pursuance of a violent crime.
Taylor’s defense team and his relatives did not immediately speak to reporters after the Monday evening verdict.
Much of the testimony during the trial focused on Gun Trace Task Force members who pleaded guilty, including the out-of-control unit’s onetime supervisor, Sgt. Wayne Jenkins. He was portrayed as a wildly corrupt officer leading his unit on a tireless quest to shake down civilians and find “monsters” — bigtime drug dealers with lots of loot to steal.

His subordinates testified that the onetime amateur mixed martial arts fighter told his officers to carry BB guns in case they ever needed to plant weapons and occasionally posed as a federal agent when shaking down targets.
Former colleagues said Jenkins’ sledgehammer approach to policing extended to having actual sledgehammers — along with crowbars, grappling hooks, black masks and even a machete — stored in his police-issued car to ramp up illegal activities.
It’s not clear when Jenkins and the other ex-detectives who pleaded guilty will be sentenced by a federal judge. Four disgraced ex-officers testified for the government in hopes of shaving years off their sentences.
The defense teams for Hersl and Taylor had asked jurors to distrust the motivations of the government’s witnesses, including a number of convicted drug dealers who received immunity for their testimony in the case.
Schenning said he was thankful the jurors saw through that.
“That was the business model for this organization: They thought if you rob drug dealers they have no place to go,” he said.
Purpura did not deny that his 48-year-old client took money but said the thefts didn’t rise to the more serious charges of robbery or extortion. The two defense teams also attacked the veracity of the four disgraced detectives, noting that they’ve admitted to lying for years to juries, judges, colleagues and their families.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise reminded jurors that the central question in the trial was the actions of the rogue police unit, and whether some of their robbery victims made money “selling drugs or Girl Scout cookies” was irrelevant.
Public defenders say there could be a few thousand tainted cases stretching back to 2008 involving the jailed members of the disbanded Gun Trace Task Force. So far, roughly 125 cases involving the eight indicted Baltimore law enforcers have been dropped.
“Beyond the sheer credibility issues that should have been raised at the time, given how embedded their crimes were in their police work, all cases involving these officers are tainted,” said Debbie Katz Levi, head of special litigation for Baltimore’s Office of the Public Defender.








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Committee blocks bill shielding law enforcement officers







A legislative committee on Sunday tabled a bill that could have extended greater legal immunity to law enforcement officers accused of wrongdoing, snubbing a proposal touted by Gov. Susana Martinez amid heightened scrutiny of police misconduct in Albuquerque and beyond.
Critics of House Bill 279 pointed to what the Department of Justice has called a pattern of excessive force by officers at the Albuquerque Police Department and the death just last year of a 6-year-old boy in a car crash involving an officer at the agency, contending there is plenty of reason to be wary of legislation that could make law enforcement less accountable.
In an interview with The Albuquerque Journal before the legislative session, the governor said lawsuit settlements were being awarded to what she characterized as “crooks and thieves who are hurt or injured by police officers who are doing their job.”

But that comment came against the backdrop of ongoing controversy surrounding misconduct at the Albuquerque Police Department, which is in the midst of an ongoing reform process overseen by the federal government.
Meanwhile, the city government there has paid millions of dollars over the last several years to settle lawsuits, including $5 million for the family of James Boyd, a homeless man killed by police during a standoff in 2014.
And more broadly, the state has in recent years had among the highest rates of people killed by police.
“This bill would move us in the wrong direction,” Steven Robert Allen, director of public policy for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, told the committee.
NM SAFE, a coalition of criminal justice reform organizations including the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops and the American Civil Liberties Union, gave the bill an F in its ratings of public safety legislation this session.
The group said House Bill 279 would have made it much more difficult to hold officers accountable for negligent behavior that injures other people. And trial lawyers contend the state’s caps on the money that can be won through suing the police already are draconian.
The House State Government, Indian and Veterans Affairs Committee tabled the bill, sponsored by Rep. Greg Nibert, R-Roswell, on a party line vote of 4-2.

But backers countered the measure would not have protected police who were negligent or ignored their own policies and training, instead arguing it would merely bring the state in line with federal law while avoiding the second-guessing of law enforcement that some argue has hindered officers.
“At its most basic level, this protects against unrealistic second-guessing of police judgments in the field,” Laura White-Davis, director of the General Services Department’s Risk Management Division, told lawmakers.
The bill mirrored some of the federal standards for bringing a





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Low police complaints mask discontent with Dallas department


DALLAS — At a time of high tensions between police and the public, the Dallas Police Department would seem to be a success story: While some other big-city departments draw thousands of citizen complaints every year, the nation’s eighth-largest gets only a fraction of that number.
In fact, the department received a mere 221 complaints in 2016 and 183 for the first 11 months of 2017 — stunningly low numbers for a metropolis of 1.3 million people patrolled by about 3,300 officers.
But a closer look suggests that the apparent success may stem from the complaint system itself, which makes it so hard for people to complain that many do not try or give up. Those who persist confront a host of built-in obstacles, including vague or nonexistent instructions, confusion about complaint forms, incorrect phone numbers and a mysterious investigation process where decisions often go unannounced and are difficult to appeal.
“The process doesn’t seem to be clear or open,” said Sam Walker, a professor emeritus in criminal justice at the University of Nebraska who has written several books on police accountability. He concluded that Dallas’ suspiciously low complaint rate is “unacceptable” but not surprising.
Providing “open and accessible” police complaint systems has been standard since the early 1980s, Walker said.
“To me, being able to file a complaint is a First Amendment right, to tell someone their perception of what happened,” he said.
Many of the complaints happened before Police Chief U. Renee Hall took over in September, but Hall’s chief of staff says she has developed a strategic plan that will be released in the next few weeks that will address some of the accountability concerns.
Frustration with the complaint system intensified in recent months, and the police chief met publicly with citizens who described being blocked from filing complaints and having their grievances dismissed without being notified. Some reported that they did not bother to file complaints because the system seemed so stacked against them.
In 2014, Maria De Jesus Garza tried to file a complaint against an officer who ticketed her for having trash cans that obstructed traffic. The officer came back weekly for three months, she said, and knocked her cans over with his car to make a point.
“I realized this wasn’t extreme,” she said. “But I decided that I needed to report it.”
Other officers attempted to dissuade her. One said the allegations were not enough to pursue a complaint. “He told me, ‘I don’t think you understand what you are doing.’”
Over the span of three hours, three officers tried to talk her out of the complaint before telling her the office was out of complaint forms, Garza said.
The Dallas department has no complaint forms. The department’s internal affairs division confirmed to The Associated Press in January that it instead asks people to write their account on a blank sheet of paper and sign it.
Neither the department’s website nor a pamphlet that is supposed to be available to the public offer instructions on the complaint process. Nowhere do they explain that signed complaints can be filed by mail, email or fax to the internal affairs department.
Changa Higgins filed a complaint several years ago but never learned the outcome. He was not surprised, given the lack of direction he had from police.
“There’s nothing to talk you through it or guide you through. It comes down to how well you can write, what you can remember. What if you leave out a piece of critical information because you didn’t know it would be important for an investigation?”
Walker said the process should be outlined on the department’s home page, with directions for filing a complaint and information on possible outcomes and the ability to appeal.
The AP obtained six years of complaint data from the department, which shows 60 percent or more of complaints are referred to division commanders after being deemed minor complaints, including a handful alleging excessive use of force. In 2017, 15 percent of complaints were labeled “no investigation” and closed.
Lorraine Birabil filed a use-of-force complaint against officers in 2013, after her father called police about a trespasser and was arrested during the investigation — an arrest that, she said, resulted in injuries.
Only after filing a lawsuit in the matter did she learn that the use-of-force complaint had been dismissed.
The Dallas department says its policy is to send written notifications if its internal affairs division conducts the investigations. For lesser violations referred to division commanders, commanders are required to notify people of the outcome.
The low complaint numbers could indicate a problem in the community’s relationship with officers, said Ron Davis, former director of community oriented policing services at the Justice Department. The federal government has reformed the complaint systems in the almost two dozen police departments it has supervised after various legal or community troubles.
“It could easily be apathy because it doesn’t look like the department responds to complaints,” Davis said.
The number of complaints against police has been dropping at most U.S. departments because of wider use of body cameras and the abandonment or reduction of practices such as New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy. But the complaint numbers in Dallas are still two to five times lower than at similar-sized police departments around the country.
Other Texas cities provide explicit instructions and online complaint forms, sometimes in multiple languages. Those communities have received more complaints than Dallas.
The Dallas department’s website does note that a decision can be appealed to the city’s Citizens Police Review Board, but a phone number on the website is incorrect, and a city worker who answered said it had been changed nearly two years ago. Neither the department nor the city website explains how to file an appeal.
Hall took the reins just about a year after the departure of her predecessor, David Brown, who led the department through perhaps its most painful chapter since the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who was slain in Dallas.
In July 2016, a peaceful demonstration against police brutality turned deadly when a sniper opened fire downtown on a large group of police, killing four Dallas officers and one transit officer and wounding nine others. It was the largest death toll among law enforcement from a single event since 9/11.
Since then, the department has struggled with low morale and a wave of retirements, including Brown, who had sought to change the culture among rank-and-file cops by firing 70 officers during his tenure.
When Brown started firing officers, “it was clear to people that the culture we had of doing whatever you want and not being held accountable was about to change,” said Senior Cpl. Frederick Frazier, vice president of the Dallas Police Association, the city’s largest police union. “And that accountability is what a lot of us wanted.”
In 2015, Brown touted the dramatic drop in use-of-force complaints as a result of intensified training and stepped-up community policing and accountability. Law enforcement experts and former union officials said the assertion was hard to prove, explaining that apathy or slow 911 response times could have played a larger role.
Hall plans to seek more reforms, including allowing complaints to be filed at the city’s seven substations instead of only at headquarters and putting a 90-day cap on the time an

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New Jersey homicide detective charged with murdering his 3-month-old daughter

By THERESA BRAINE

| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
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Oklahoma inmate jailed for nearly 30 years freed after judge rules he’s innocent in 1991 murder

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Nipsey Hussle: community outraged at 'disgusting' LAPD investigation into rapper's business
City quietly targets late entrepreneur with criminal case, and South LA residents say police are ‘attacking his legacy’


https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... rities-say

LAPD officer charged with rape after ‘cold’ DNA match, prosecutors say


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More details released in arrest of Sagadahoc County deputy
Matthew Shiers is accused of choking his live-in girlfriend at his home in West Bath.
Deliberately hurting animal.

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Widespread, oppressive and dangerous heat to roast much of the U.S. through the weekend


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JULY 17, 2019 | GABRIELLA NOVELLO
FAIR MAPS ADVOCATES SPEND BIG BUCKS TO END GERRYMANDERING


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CBP Investigating 62 Border Patrol Agents Who Used Demeaning Facebook Page



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Abrupt about-face on indictment of Louisiana coastal scientist shocks legal community



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A string of deaths of prominent Ferguson activists and their relatives, as well as others who were murdered in a similar fashion, has left lingering questions about the circumstances. Given the recent detainment (with no justification given) of Iranian state TV journalist Marzieh Hashemi, who was working on a documentary about the murders, it’s worth re-examining the existing cases. We couldn’t find a comprehensive list placing the cases side-by-side, so we put this together. Some of the victims were notable figures in the protest movement, while others are related tangentially or by the strange nature of their deaths.




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Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
Previously unreleased records related to James Walter McCord Jr. (died June 15, 2017). Mr. McCord served as an FBI special agent and was one of the Watergate burglars.

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From: Mackenzie Farkus
02/21/2019
Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: W.I.T.C.H.
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To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
All files on or related to the feminist group W.I.T.C.H., also known as the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell. They were originally active in the 1960s but numerous chapters have reformed in the 2000s.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
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Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
Records relating to or mentioning Project Chanology AKA Operation Chanology, protest movement against the practices of the Church of Scientology by members of Anonymous, a leaderless Internet-based group. The project was publicly launched in the form of a video posted to YouTube, "Message to Scientology", on January 21, 2008. The video states that Anonymous views Scientology's actions as Internet censorship, and asserts the group's intent to "expel the church from the Internet". This was followed by distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), and soon after, black faxes, prank calls, and other measures intended to disrupt the Church of Scientology's operations. In February 2008, the focus of the protest shifted to legal methods, including nonviolent protests and an attempt to get the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Church of Scientology's tax exempt status in the United States.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
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December 20, 2013
Requester’s Voice: Ryan Shapiro
The MIT researcher gives tips on how to “street fight with the FBI and win
Written by George LeVines
Edited by Shawn Musgrave
In this week’s Requester’s Voice, MuckRock benefits from the experience of Ryan Shapiro, whose track record qualifies him as a FOIA super hero. A PhD candidate at MIT, Shapiro has developed a set of surgical FOIA tactics that have the FBI scrambling to block his requests. Shapiro’s ongoing “street fight” with the FBI has him convinced more than ever that our democracy depends on the health of the Freedom of Information Act.
What was your first FOIA request? How did it go? Why did you want/need to use public records in the first place?
I filed my first FOIA request to the FBI in 2005 when I was working on my master’s degree in modern American history. The request was for any records on a now deceased scientist who had been a prominent researcher and Cold Warrior in the 1940s and 50s, although he had earlier been a committed leftist. This scientist was also a leading professional proponent of animal research who routinely accused opponents of animal experimentation of being threats to American security and possibly even agents of the Kremlin itself. I wanted to know what, if anything, the FBI made of this scientist’s shifting politics in general, and of his (totally unfounded) allegations of subversion against animal protectionists in particular.
Though I knew almost nothing about FOIA at the time, this request was partially successful. In about a year, the FBI released to me roughly 150 pages. And though this was certainly not all the records the FBI had on this scientist, the release was useful nonetheless. It turns out the FBI completely ignored this scientist’s red-baiting of anti-vivisectionists, and instead continued to view the scientist himself as a potential threat to national security on the basis of his 1930’s leftism.
I first experienced significant FOIA-related problems with the FBI several years later when I began submitting requests for records about more recent history. I think my earliest request along these lines was in 2008 when I requested my own file.
The FBI responded they couldn’t find anything. I still knew relatively little about the intricacies of FOIA work. However, given my own background with aggressive activism beginning in the mid-1990s, I knew the FBI’s claim to find nothing was implausible. But I didn’t know what to do about it. As I developed my FOIA skills in the course of my PhD research, I submitted additional requests for my files. When the FBI again failed to respond adequately, I sued them about this and roughly 70 of my other FOIA requests. I now have a portion my own FBI file. However, the FBI is currently arguing in court that to release the remaining pages about me now would damage national security. This matter remains in litigation as one element of my ongoing Open America fight (discussed below).
Where did you learn how to become a successful document requester?
Reading other people’s FOIA requests was an important step, particularly at first. Reading as much FOIA case law as possible has also been key. Reading the records of FOIA lawsuits has been essential. Along these lines, agency declarations submitted in FOIA lawsuits are especially illuminative sources of information about a given agency’s internal FOIA practices. And endless conversations with expert FOIA attorneys have also been invaluable to my development. I’m especially fortunate to have the counsel of my amazing FOIA lawyer, Jeffrey Light.
In addition to the above, what has been most useful has simply been to file lots and lots of FOIA requests. In general, I design each request not only to hopefully produce the requested records, but also to further illuminate the agency’s FOIA operations. In my experience, successful FOIA work is often the product of tacit knowledge. Though it of course should not need to be this way, developing as intimate a familiarity as possible with an agency’s internal filing systems, databases, and FOIA practices is frequently the key to success.
How many requests do you file? Daily? Monthly? Yearly? Whatever metric makes sense.
I currently have about 600 FOIA requests in motion with the FBI, as well as a smaller number in motion with other agencies. How many requests I submit at any given time largely depends on the type of research I’m doing at that moment. Sometimes months will pass in which I submit no requests, and sometimes I’ll submit 50+ in a week.
Do you have any advice for MuckRock users? Tips or tricks you’ve come across over the years.
The first thing to know about dealing with the FBI for FOIA work is that the Bureau is simply not operating in good faith. While FOIA with some agencies can be akin to a protracted business meeting or an attempt to get telephone customer support from a faceless corporation, FOIA with the FBI is a street fight.
The FBI does nearly everything within its power to avoid compliance with the Freedom of Information Act. This results in the outrageous state of affairs in which the leading federal law enforcement agency in the country is in routine and often flagrant violation of federal law.




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One of the chief means by which the FBI accomplishes this is to deliberately search for records in such a way that the search routinely fails by design. There are numerous techniques a requestor can use to combat this, but two of the most crucial are: 1) Request a search not only for main file records (this is the FBI’s default search) but also for “cross-reference” records, and 2) Request an “ELSUR” (Electronic Surveillance) search. Despite the FBI’s (flatly dishonest) insistence to the contrary, a huge percentage of records will only be found if the FBI conducts these two additional searches, and the FBI will not conduct these searches unless you explicitly request it does so.
That said, the FBI frequently won’t conduct these searches even if you do request them. At that point, you can appeal the FBI’s inadequate search to the Department of Justice Office of Information Policy (OIP). However, this is frequently a slow and ultimately disappointing experience, as OIP often operates as little more than a rubber stamp for the FBI.
Sadly, the most effective means to compel the FBI to conduct an adequate search is to sue. It’s really the only way to hold the FBI accountable to the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act. I currently have five FOIA lawsuits against the FBI covering roughly 200 of my 600 requests.
Where does FOIA shine as a tool and where does it fall short?
FOIA is terrific in theory and largely toothless in practice. As a result, it shines primarily when dealing with agencies that view it with neutrality, or at least not antagonism. Unfortunately, the FBI and other intelligence agencies have long been flatly allergic to the Freedom of Information Act.
As an historian of the policing of dissent and the political functioning of national security, this is definitely a problem. Part of the issue is that FOIA itself is to some extent a misnomer. We don’t really have a freedom of information act in the country as much as we have an open records act. One can’t request information (in the form of a question), one needs to request records. This requires some advance knowledge of what those records are or might be. Especially when dealing with intelligence agencies that conceal the existence of the overwhelming majority of their records, this is frequently a prohibitive hurdle. And this is the challenge I was facing early in my PhD research.
My doctoral work at MIT builds upon my master’s degree research. My dissertation in progress and broader project in part explore the use of the rhetoric and apparatus of national security to marginalize animal protectionists as threats to the state from the late nineteenth-century to the present. As is standard with historians, much of my research is archival. As is sadly far from standard, much of my work is also FOIA-based. I’m fortunate that my program, MIT’s Program in History, Anthropology, & Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), is very supportive of this approach.
One thread of my research that is heavily FOIA-dependent is my effort to map out the nature and evolution of the FBI’s understanding and handling of the animal rights movement. How did the animal rights movement first come to the attention of the FBI? How did the FBI’s understanding of the animal rights movement evolve over time? How does the FBI understand the animal rights movement as component parts and as a whole? How does the FBI develop infiltrators within the movement? What role did and does industry play in the evolution of the FBI’s understanding of the movement? And perhaps most importantly, beginning in 2004, how did the FBI come to designate the animal rights and environmental movements as the leading domestic terror threats in the U.S. without either movement physically injuring a single person in this country ever?
To answer these questions, I needed a lot of documents. Very few of these documents were publicly available in archives or elsewhere, so FOIA was the only real possibility for obtaining them.
However, I didn’t know what the overwhelming majority of these documents were. Worse, even when I had a fairly clear sense of what the broad subject of some these documents might be, the FBI consistently claimed it could find no records in response to my requests. So I began learning as much as I could about the FBI’s FOIA processes and experimenting with different kinds of requests.
One of the key elements of my eventual approach was to obtain signed consent forms from roughly 250 leading animal rights activists from the 1970s to the present allowing me to request their files. When successful, each one of these requests opened a tiny window into both the subject of my research and the deliberately byzantine filing systems of the FBI. I then combed through these releases for references to any additional specific documents or topics about which I could submit new requests, and then did the same again when I received records from those new requests. I would also compare the released records — and my requests that produced them — against my requests to which the FBI responded it couldn’t locate records.
In the process, I’ve come increasingly close to developing a set of methodologies that make FOIA function with the FBI in a way it has generally failed to do so to date: as a tool for broad-scale historical research. I’m especially honored to have been invited to lecture on these techniques at a host of interested institutions, including the annual convention of the National Lawyers Guild, the National Press Club, and a series of universities and law schools.
What is your favorite FOIA story?
Using the above approach, I’ve obtained roughly 40,000 pages so far from the FBI, and I have about 600 FOIA requests currently in motion with the Bureau. Most typically, however, the FBI has done with my requests what it so frequently does with FOIA requests. It simply sits on them. Though FOIA allows an agency only 20 working days to comply with a request, years would often pass with no apparent movement.
So I sued the FBI for failure to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. This lawsuit covers roughly 70 of my requests. In response, the FBI has invoked the “nuclear option” for a FOIA case. They’ve asked the judge for an Open America stay, which is basically a blanket exemption for an agency from having to comply with FOIA for a specified period of time. In my case, the FBI has asked the judge for an almost unheard of 7-year Open America stay.




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To this end, the FBI is relying upon a radical new interpretation of a Cold War era FOIA doctrine called “mosaic theory.” In so doing, the FBI is arguing that compliance with my dissertation FOIA research would “significantly and irreparably damage national security.” Keep in mind, the FBI isn’t arguing that giving me the documents I’ve requested would damage national security, although they clearly believe this to be the case. Rather, the FBI is asserting in court that simply deciding whether or not to give me the requested documents would irreparably damage national security.
More so, we can’t even read most of the FBI’s argument to support this contention, because the FBI submitted it in the form of an ex parte, in camera declaration. This is essentially a secret letter to the judge from the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. And — as journalist Will Potter recently wrote in an excellent article on my case for Mother Jones — the FBI asserts that allowing us to read this secret letter would “damage the very national security law enforcement interests it is seeking to protect.”
As I told Will, this is an especially circular and Kafkaesque line of argument. The FBI considers it a national security threat to make public its reasoning for considering it a national security threat to use federal law to request information about the FBI’s deeply problematic understanding of national security threats.
However, from the portions of its argument the FBI has submitted publicly, one thing is clear. The FBI’s efforts to exempt itself from the Freedom of Information Act in my case are so extreme and sweeping that, if the judge rules in the FBI’s favor, it could have a devastating impact on other FOIA requestors’ ability to obtain records from the FBI and government agencies in general. It’s for this reason that a host of civil liberties and open government organizations, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Lawyers Guild, National Security Counselors, and the National Security Archive (along with TruthOut and Mark Zaid) have filed an amicus brief opposing the FBI’s radical efforts to shut down my research.
And I think this actually gets close to the heart of the matter.
It appears the FBI’s core motivation here has relatively little to do with the purported security threat posed by possible release of information about the animal rights movement. Instead, I believe the FBI is responding in large part to the increasing efficacy of my FOIA methodologies. Since its earliest days, the FBI has viewed political dissent as a security threat. And since the passage of the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI has viewed efforts to force Bureau compliance with the law in the same light. Over the years, the FBI has established countless means by which to avoid compliance with FOIA. Over the past five years or so, I’ve found ways around many of them. I believe the FBI’s unprecedented efforts to shut down my research are primarily a last ditch effort to preserve the Bureau’s functional immunity from the Freedom of Information Act.
I should note, I’m not sure the above necessarily qualifies as my “favorite” FOIA story, even if it is among the most dramatic. I think my favorite FOIA request is actually one I just submitted.
I recently had the good fortune to be having lunch with Daniel Ellsberg, the former top-level military intelligence analyst who in 1971 leaked the classified DOD report known as the “Pentagon Papers.” The leak of the Pentagon Papers unequivocally established that the DOD and a succession of presidents from Truman to Johnson had for decades willfully deceived the American public about U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. Ellsberg was deemed “the most dangerous man in America” by Henry Kissinger and was prosecuted by the Nixon administration under the Espionage Act (the same act under which Chelsea Manning was recently convicted and under which Edward Snowden is currently facing prosecution). Daniel Ellsberg is an American hero in the truest sense, and a longtime personal hero of mine. To my tremendous pleasure, at the end of our lunch, Ellsberg generously granted me signed permission to request his FBI file. I can’t wait to see how that turns out.
How do you think your work at MIT and the attention you’re getting from the federal government is affecting the FOIA landscape?
I’m not really sure how to answer this. What I can answer is how I’d like my work to affect the FOIA landscape. I’ll be very pleased if my work brings greater attention to the necessity of a robust Freedom of Information Act in particular, and to the pernicious effects of our government’s longstanding obsession with secrecy in general. I’m definitely interested in highlighting the absolute necessity of governmental transparency, especially in the face of the ever-growing menace posed by state surveillance and policing of dissent. Outside of a relatively small band of historians, journalists, attorneys, and activists, these topics simply have for decades not been part of any serious national conversation until recently.
Thanks largely to the documents provided and disseminated by Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Hammond, WikiLeaks, and others, such a conversation is finally getting underway. I would like my work, and the FBI’s outrageous responses to it, to contribute to and amplify this conversation.
Does the pushback ever get tiresome or wear on your drive to continue?
Ha. Not really. If anything, just the opposite. On this front I find myself in agreement with Robert, one of the young “Wolverines” in Red Dawn (the 1984 classic, not the appalling 2012 remake). When chastised, “All that hate’s gonna burn you up, kid,” he responds only, “It keeps me warm.”




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Seriously though, it’s not the pushback that upsets me. It’s what I frequently uncover when I do obtain documents.
For example, one 2003 document I obtained via a FOIA request reveals FBI advocacy of bringing federal terrorism charges against undercover investigators of factory farms (You can read about that document on GreenIstheNewRed.com here and at the Los Angeles Times here).
We’re talking about people who videotaped animals intensively confined in cages so small they can’t stand up, can’t spread their limbs and can’t turn around. This horrific existence is standard for many of the nine billion animals raised and killed every year on factory farms in the United States alone. And the FBI’s response to exposure of what goes on behind the closed doors of factory farms is to consider prosecution of the whistleblowers, and to do so under federal terrorism charges.
This is the sort of thing that makes me mad, and reading my own name on that document didn’t help. That said, this is also the sort of thing that makes me all the more committed to my work.
What has to take place for meaningful policy level changes to FOIA laws? Will we ever see that day?
The first thing that needs to happen is for more people to use FOIA and become invested in it. It’s for this reason (and many others) that MuckRock is such an invaluable resource and addition to the open government landscape. We also need more historians and journalists in particular to regularly utilize FOIA and promote the fruits of FOIA work.
I’ve already mentioned Will Potter’s great work above, and I encourage everyone to check out his news site Green Is The New Red and his award-winning book of the same name. I’m also very fortunate to collaborate with the intrepid journalist and fellow FOIA-prosthelytizer, Jason Leopold, but he’s a rarity.
Democracy cannot meaningfully exist without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government. The Bush administration initiated a disastrous welter of anti-transparency initiatives, yet the Obama administration has been, if anything, even worse. Despite entering office promising unprecedented openness, the Obama administration has provided just the opposite, including bringing more Espionage Act prosecutions of leakers than all previous administrations combined. It’s not surprising those in power wish to keep their actions secret. What’s surprising is how readily we tolerate it.
The Freedom of Information Act is one of the most underappreciated elements of the entire American experiment. As broken as FOIA is, the notion that the records of government are the property of the people, and all we need to do to get them is to ask, is radically democratic. FOIA must not only be defended against the FBI and others who view transparency as a threat, but strengthened, and dramatically expanded. The viability of our democracy depends upon it.

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Journalist Chris Hedges has spent the past 15 years trying to ring the alarm about the dangers of the U.S. political system and the impact of a corporate and financial coup d’etat that happened long ago. He talks about the growing power of “Christian fascists,” predicts a major financial crash and offers ideas on how to fight back.
In 1923, a year after Mussolini took power in Italy, one radical and visionary woman saw his rise for what it was and warned of the grave dangers the world would face if fascism spread. Her name was Clara Zetkin. Acclaimed writer and actor Deborah Eisenberg performs a selection of Zetkin's writing, which was recently published as a book, “Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win.”




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DROWNING BY SUNRISE
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On March 8, Damain Martin drowned in a canal near Sunrise, Florida. Martin, who was 16 years old, was trying to escape the police officers who had spotted him and a group of friends in a car that was reported stolen. Although many of that afternoon’s events remain unclear, this much is known: A police officer deployed his Taser near the canal while trying to apprehend Damain.
Official reports say the electrified Taser probes never made contact with Damain and ruled his death an accidental drowning. That doesn’t sit well with his friends and family: Damain was an athlete, known to be a strong swimmer.
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Mexico top cop charged with protecting El Chapo's cartel
Genaro Garcia Luna was charged with accepting millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for providing protection to the Sinaloa cartel.







https://www.theroot.com/david-duke-in-u ... 1840347149

‘David Duke in Uniform’: NYPD Officers Say Top Cop Told Them to Target Black and Latinx Commuters on Subways






https://www.delawareonline.com/story/ne ... 630665001/

Attorney for former cop: Patrol-car sex with wanted woman was consensual

Xerxes Wilson, Delaware News Journal Published 5:16 p.m. ET Dec. 10, 2019 |







https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/12/sta ... omplained/



Starbucks fired a trans manager after a cop complained on Facebook about her employee
A police officer complained about being called a "pig" at Starbucks. Now the trans manager is out of health care.
By Daniel Villarreal Tuesday, December 10, 2019     12 Comments




https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/12/10/ ... ate-meier/

Aurora Cop Drives Drunk On Duty: Keeps Job, No Arrest






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


NYC Council pushes NYPD to to crack down on cop cars, other vehicles parked in crosswalks, sidewalks and other forbidden areas



https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/ ... -to-jan-13

Case of cop who released Bruce McArthur put over to Jan. 13



https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... Q6QJXeIZQ/

California Cop Confuses Umbrella for Gun and Opens Fire with AR15
Elkhart cop suspended for alcohol-related incident, involving gunshots, with Goshen officers



https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/l ... 9bc8a.html

Elkhart cop suspended for alcohol-related incident, involving gunshots, with Goshen officers




https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10524273/ ... se-victim/

Female cop quits after she had sex on duty with abuse victim she was supposed to be looking after
* Jacob Dirnhuber
* 10 Dec 2019, 19:04Updated: 11 Dec 2019, 1:01



https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... t-officers

‘Start caring about cops’: Texas police chief blames GOP lawmakers for gun violence against officers




https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/1 ... ges-081001

Lisa Page sues DOJ and FBI over release of her text messages
The former FBI attorney says the agencies violated her right to privacy.





https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/1 ... /23878246/

FBI warned about loophole Fla. shooter used to obtain a gun





https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/former- ... 5b687ce80d


Yahoo News
JANA WINTER AND HUNTER WALKER
Dec 10th 2019 4:51PM

Former FBI agent now a Senior Supt 






https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/09 ... -gun-teen/


Roseville FBI Agent Charged With Pulling Gun On Neighbor’s Teen Son



https://www.theamericanconservative.com ... e-fbi-now/

Can We Impeach The FBI Now?
Read the Horowitz Report. It proves the bureau unleashed an abusive, full-spectrum spying campaign to destroy Trump before and after his election.






https://www.nationalreview.com/white-house/

The Inspector General’s Report Is Hardly Exculpatory of the FBI
By

December 10, 2019 4:19



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J.F.K., R.F.K., Martin Luther King, and other political leaders, both foreign and domestic, are included in this section

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https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/s ... g/2230448/

FBI Agent Involved in SF Shooting



https://www.rt.com/news/480372-duterte- ... erminated/



‘End that son of a b*tch’: Duterte confirms US-Philippines military collaboration agreement is toast
7 Feb, 2020 23:29 / Updated 18 hours ago





https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... n-pictures

Abandoned pianos in derelict buildings – in pictures





https://theintercept.com/2020/02/08/stu ... ts-warren/



Yes, a Progressive President Could Cancel Student Debt on Day One — by Following the Grassroots
Natasha Lennard
February 8 2020, 7:00



https://theintercept.com/2020/02/06/mik ... arization/

BLOOMBERG PLAGIARIZED PARTS OF AT LEAST EIGHT OF HIS PLANS
Akela Lacy
February 6 2020, 5:53 p


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdj ... btq-parade

Queer Asians Refused to Be Left Out of Lunar New Year Celebrations
“Our first year we used a lot of euphemisms like ‘rainbow family.’ But now we want people to know exactly what we are: a queer Asian contingent.”


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akwk ... -christmas

Cops Catch Man Who'd Been Hiding in Supermarket Ceiling Since Christmas
The man was allegedly harboring $8,000 in stolen merch, including a 17-pound wheel of artisan cheese that still had its $395 price tag.



https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v747 ... -contracts


Patients Try to Fight Medical Bills by Striking This Clause in Contracts
The New York Times reports the move is a legal gray area, but experts say it may hold up in court.



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Anti-gravity and Hyperspace Propulsion: One Step Closer To Star Trek


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -boucheron


'Real power is fear': what Machiavelli tells us about Trump in 2020





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


Dozens of Brooklyn assistant DAs quit over new state law that adds to workloads

By NOAH GOLDBERG

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 08, 2020 | 10:22 PM




https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02/08/ ... ntentQuery


Parents of man killed in Brookline by cops after chase speak out: ‘He was a very sensitive boy with a gentle soul’




https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02/08/ ... e-scandal/

Not so fast moving on from State Police scandal
Taxpayers and motorists deserve a full reckoning with the fraud and abuses of the agency.
By The Editorial Board,Updated February 8, 2020, 4:00





https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... v19woYmLUg

Cops Called on 6-year-old Girl who Pretended to Shoot Teacher with Finger





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

Monster NYPD cop charged with killing his son kept custody AFTER judge suspected he was beating children

By GRAHAM RAYMAN and LARRY MCSHANE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 09, 2020 | 12:01 AM




https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation ... 30928.html

Officer who responded to emergency call was off-duty — and drunk, Indiana cops say
BY DAWSON WHITE
FEBRUARY 09, 2020 10:16 AM
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https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local ... 23a22.html


Harassment findings put UI cop's job in jeopardy

URBANA — A veteran University of Illinois police officer accused of sexual harassment by co-workers has been off the state payroll for seven weeks following his “suspension notice pending discharge.”
The Dec. 20 notice was served to Brian Tison via certified mail less than two months after an outside lawyer hired by the UI recommended that “significant employment action” be taken against the former field-training, crisis-intervention and SWAT officer who had earlier been put on notice that his physical interactions with co-workers were not




https://www.reviewonline.com/news/local ... for-theft/


cop gets year in prison for theft



https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10925383/ ... -violence/

Cop smashes teen football fan on head with baton as woman screams ‘What have you done to my son?’ amid violent clashes
* Thomas Burrows
* 9 Feb 2020, 10:30Updated: 9 Feb 2020, 10:4




https://people.com/crime/nypd-cop-and-f ... f-killing/



NYPD Cop and Fiancée Allegedly Texted Video Clips and Mocked Son, 8, They're Accused of Killing

Thomas and his brother were allegedly forced to wear diapers to school because they were not allowed to use the bathroom at home






https://www.timesunion.com/news/article ... 036558.php

Two decades after scandal, Schenectady cops turn the page
Leaders say force is on the right track due to reforms, higher standards

Paul Nelson
Feb. 8, 2020
Updated: Feb. 8, 2020



https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2020/02/ ... -says.html

‘It’s lunacy’: Pa. cops still busting plenty of people for pot despite de-criminalization, report says






https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/ ... 179c2.html



Editorial: SC needs to stop putting cops on the street before they’re trained





https://www.zdnet.com/article/cops-are- ... on-scheme/

Cops are getting full URLs under Australia's data retention scheme
There is content on the envelope. A Senate committee has been told that law enforcement agencies sometimes get full URLs from telcos, despite government reassurances.


https://www.wonkette.com/bill-barrs-new ... s-feelings

Bill Barr's New Civil Rights Focus: Sometimes People Hurt Cops' Feelings :(
Jamie Lynn Crofts February 07, 2020 01:25 PM





https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/our-hi ... ent-110819

Our History, Our Service
FBI Events Mark 100 Years Since First African-American Special Agent



https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/04/jim ... inmemphis/

The Martin Luther King Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis
By Jim Douglass

According to a Memphis jury’s verdict on December 8, 1999, in the wrongful death lawsuit of the King family versus Loyd Jowers "and other unknown co-conspirators," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a conspiracy that included agencies of his own government. Almost 32 years after King’s murder at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, a court extended the circle of responsibility for the assassination beyond the late scapegoat James Earl Ray to the United States government.
I can hardly believe the fact that, apart from the courtroom participants, only Memphis TV reporter Wendell Stacy and I attended from beginning to end this historic three-and-one-half week trial. Because of journalistic neglect scarcely anyone else in this land of ours even knows what went on in it. After critical testimony was given in the trial’s second week before an almost empty gallery, Barbara Reis, U.S. correspondent for the Lisbon daily Publico who was there several days, turned to me and said, "Everything in the U.S. is the trial of the century. O.J. Simpson’s trial was the trial of the century. Clinton’s trial was the trial of the century. But this is the trial of the century, and who’s here?"

What I experienced in that courtroom ranged from inspiration at the courage of the Kings, their lawyer-investigator William F. Pepper, and the witnesses, to amazement at the government’s carefully interwoven plot to kill Dr. King. The seriousness with which U.S. intelligence agencies planned the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. speaks eloquently of the threat Kingian nonviolence represented to the powers that be in the spring of 1968.
In the complaint filed by the King family, "King versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators," the only named defendant, Loyd Jowers, was never their primary concern. As soon became evident in court, the real defendants were the anonymous co-conspirators who stood in the shadows behind Jowers, the former owner of a Memphis bar and grill. The Kings and Pepper were in effect charging U.S. intelligence agencies – particularly the FBI and Army intelligence – with organizing, subcontracting, and covering up the assassination. Such a charge guarantees almost insuperable obstacles to its being argued in a court within the United States. Judicially it is an unwelcome

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Louisiana Supreme Court won’t review life sentence for Black man who tried to steal hedge clippers
By LAUREN THEISEN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 06, 2020 AT 7:19 PM


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

Trump bumbles another geographical name: ‘Thigh-land'
By BRIAN NIEMIETZ

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 06, 2020 AT 7:04 PM




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Modified erectile dysfunction drug ‘shows promise’ with COVID-19 patients, says doctor
By MURI ASSUNÇÃO

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 06, 2020 AT 5:26 PM



https://www.centralmaine.com/2020/08/06 ... -200000033

Large turnout for Augusta food giveaway highlights need in central Maine



Dear friends, for over thirty years, Steve Steurer has educated us on the primary importance of correctional education in jails and prisons. These crucial insights are in his report How to Unlock the Power of Prison Education published by the Center for Human Capital and Education at Educational Testing Service.  The report was published on Tuesday and can be accessed at this linku: https://www.ets.org/s/research/pdf/how- ... cation.pdf

This comes at a time when the House has passed the return of Pell Grants to people incarcerated.


https://bangordailynews.com/2020/08/06/ ... at-age-92/

Doris Buffett, Rockport philanthropist and sister to Warren Buffett, dies at age 92

Buffett’s Sunshine Lady Foundation paid for the educations of 13 University of Maine at Augusta graduates who earned bachelor’s and associate’s degrees while incarcerated at the Maine State Prison in Warren.




https://www.rt.com/russia/497360-russia ... 9-vaccine/

Russia has created world’s 1st Covid-19 vaccine, will be registered next week – Health Ministry



https://www.rt.com/usa/497308-rudy-giul ... errorists/

These are killers’: Giuliani blasts BLM as ‘terrorist group’ that ‘hate white people’
6 Aug, 2020 20:33 / Updated 13 hours ago




https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-wor ... loses-job/

Utah cop accused of mishandling explicit images loses job
Aug. 7, 2020 at 4:26 pm Updated Aug. 7, 2020 at 4:52 pm


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... ops-photo/

A CRIMINAL TWEET? —
New Jersey prosecutors drop charges over tweeting a cop’s photo [Updated]
"I never heard of retweeting a tweet being a crime," one defendant wrote.
TIMOTHY B. LEE - 8/7/2020, 3:35 PM



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/he ... y-n1236128

He reported being assaulted by cops to Minneapolis PD. Why did nobody investigate?
An NBC News review of Minneapolis police misconduct reports suggests the filing process is difficult and unclear and a large number are going uninvestigated.



https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-bla ... it-reports

De Blasio ‘grandstanding’ on police reform, so cop unions file lawsuit: reports
"Police officers can effectively be arrested for doing their lawful jobs. That’s wrong and crazy," a union spokesman says



https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cu ... d-1041003/


Why Won’t Cops Wear Masks?
In New York City, widespread use of masks is keeping COVID-19 numbers low — but the cops don’t seem be onboard


https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-gon ... lcgNj5qiTA

WATCH: Phoenix Cops Kill Man after Responding to Noise Complaint over Video Game




https://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/reti ... 0-20200807

Retired cop gets OK to pursue free speech suit





https://kutv.com/news/local/salt-lake-c ... leadership

Salt Lake City cop injured in protests resigns, citing 'no support from leadership'

by Kyle HarveyThursday, August 6th 2020





https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/cou ... 75847.html

E COUNTY
Few Kentucky police agencies, including Lexington’s, shared use of force data with FBI
BY BETH MUSGRAVE
AUGUST 07, 2020 11:56 AM , UPDATED 3 HOURS 52 MINUTES AGO
Read more here: https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/cou ... rylink=cpy




https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... ackground/

Project Veritas' James O'Keefe sues FBI for listing him as felon on background-check list
O'Keefe: 'I've never been convicted of a felony'



https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-sta ... -jr-97064/

To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
- All records and files, regardless of physical form, including cross-referenced documents and ELSUR records, concerning or mentioning Thomas E. Blanton Jr. (June 20, 1938 – June 26, 2020), a Ku Klux Klansman known for his participation in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, an obituary of whom was published in the New York Times on June 26, 2020 under the headline "Thomas Blanton, Who Bombed a Birmingham Church, Dies at 82" at the following link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/t ... -dead.html



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Police Training Manual




https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/st ... meback-bid

Joe Arpaio loses Republican primary in Phoenix sheriff’s race, his second failed comeback bid
Joe Arpaio has been defeated in his bid to win back the sheriff’s post in Phoenix that he held for 24 years

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https://www.tokyoreporter.com/crime/cop ... underwear/

Cop resigns over illicit filming: ‘I have an interest in women’s underwear’
BY TOKYO REPORTER STAFF ON NOVEMBER 12, 2020


https://www.nj.com/union/2020/11/intern ... -says.html

Internal affairs cleared cop accused of breaking man’s ribs without interviewing him, attorney says
Updated 11:00 AM; Today 8:15 AM



https://www.journalinquirer.com/crime_a ... 0234b.html

UConn cop accused of stalking; Affidavit said he followed co-workers
* By Alex Wood
* awood@journalinquirer.com Nov 11, 2020 Updated 14 hrs ago



https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in- ... WuoeIGeugQ


California Cop Charged for Killing Man by Slamming Head into Car Door



https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13175463/ ... ap-driver/

Cop threatens to ‘smash window’ and slap innocent driver with a ‘ticket for something’ in stop-and search video

* Joe Duggan
* 12 Nov 2020, 11:05Updated: 12 Nov 2020, 13:33


https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... jqPHI.html

Odisha rights commission asks cop to pay Rs 5 lakh for filing false case
The Commission chairperson Justice BP Das and member Asim Amitabh Dash in their order said continuance of the police official was detrimental to the interest of general public as well as threat to common citizens



https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/ch ... 081886.ece

Chennai woman police inspector beats top cop in shooting competition



https://patch.com/new-hampshire/bedford ... brown-200k


Manchester To Pay Fired Cop Aaron Brown Up To $200K
The City of Manchester will pay up to $200K to a former MPD officer awarded back pay by the arbitrator, despite misconduct
By Jeffrey Hastings, News Partner




https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/1 ... wsuit.html


Forest Grove BLM resident who called 911 on alleged intruder, an off-duty cop, files lawsuit
Updated Nov 11, 2020; Posted Nov 11, 2020



https://indiancountrytoday.com/the-pres ... ovZNRJTb1Q

Announcing the Intertribal Warrior Society for Children Accountability & Responsibility Project


https://www.timesleader.com/news/local- ... or-charges



Pittston cop pleads guilty to 5 misdemeanor charges for
slashing tires
By William O'Boyle - November 11, 2020




https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020 ... bb98118fdf

What Biden’s Win Means for the Future of Criminal Justice
Joe Biden ran on the most progressive criminal justice platform of any major party candidate in generations. So what can he actually do?




https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... bb98118fdf



Tariq Ali spied on by at least 14 undercover officers, inquiry hears

Ali criticised the extent of the surveillance, adding that he was “shocked” to hear that MI5 was alleged to have gone so far as to have burgled the offices of the campaign against the Vietnam war. The 76-year-old was the first witness to give live evidence at the judge-led inquiry, which is examining how undercover police officers monitored more than 1,000 political groups since 1968.





https://www.pressherald.com/2020/11/11/ ... -by-april/

The Latest: Bolsonaro says everyone will die one day; Brazilians must stop being ‘sissies’



Posted Yesterday at 6:48 PM Updated November 10 2020

Maine climate scientist to join Biden’s transition team
David Reidmiller, director of the Climate Center at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, is named to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy.


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/ ... bb98118fdf


Published on
Monday, November 09, 2020
byCommon Dreams

Lawyers Can't Reunite 666 Seized Migrant Children With Parents—121 More Than Previously Believed
The children were separated from their families under the Trump administration's widely condemned "zero tolerance" immigration policy. 
byBrett Wilkins, staff writer



https://www.pressherald.com/2020/11/10/ ... -portland/

Updated November 10,2020

Ambitious climate plan put into motion in Portland
The One Climate Future plan, created in partnership with South Portland, lays out strategies to confront climate change over the next 30 years.



https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... al-options

L.A. County supervisors vote to explore options to remove Sheriff Villanueva


https://rightsanddissent.org/news/war-i ... bb98118fdf


“War is a racket. It always has been,” Smedley Butler




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Malcolm Blunt’s encyclopedic knowledge of the inner workings of the CIA during the era of the Cold War is unrivaled. He is the Rosetta Stone for coded intelligence agency cables. Alan Dale’s discussions with Blunt offer an astonishing range of depth and details essential to anyone with an interest in understanding President Kennedy's murder and the hidden machinations of U.S. spy bureaucracies. 
 
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president, Waterkeeper Alliance; author of American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family
 
* * *
 
Malcolm Blunt's brilliant work in the deep caves of the National Archives has opened up new perspectives on the Kennedy case for other researchers. Alan Dale's deft questioning of him in this book will help others to emulate his achievements.
 
Peter Dale Scott, author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Dallas ’63, and The American Deep State
 
* * *
 
Malcolm Blunt, an English psychiatric support manager turned forensic analyst, taught me a crucial art: how to understand the flow of information inside the CIA. I thought I understood something of the subject, but Blunt took me to a new level of insight. Alan Dale's fascinating interviews evoke Blunt's ingenious methodology and his wry humor. For anyone who wants to gain a granular understanding of the CIA's paper flow in the 1950s and 1960s, Dale's aptly-named volume, The Devil is in the Details, is essential. 
 
Jefferson Morley, author of Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the Kennedy Years; Snowstorm in August, and The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
 
* * *
 
Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall listening-in on a conversation between two incredibly intelligent, informed and knowledgeable people as they discuss the CIA, the national security state during the Cold War, how the National Archives, maintains and hides records and documents, how the government hides and keeps its secrets, and the Kennedy assassination? Here’s your chance. Don't miss it.
 
Dan Hardway, Attorney; Former staff investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations
 Film
 
* * *
 
In a world full of paradoxes, it takes a Brit to really understand America’s historic archives – and our deep political history. And few have mastered those as well as Malcolm Blunt, a true scholar and gentleman. 
 
Russ Baker, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of WhoWhatWhy.org, author of the New York Times bestseller Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
 
* * *
 
America does not know that over 2 million pages of documents were declassified 22 years ago on the JFK assassination. Those pages redefined the scope and the nature of President Kennedy's murder. Malcolm Blunt is one of the few who has read and collected many of those documents. Not many people know who he is, but for those who do know, he is a hidden hero in the Kennedy case.
 
James DiEugenio, author, Destiny Betrayed, 
Editor at https://kennedysandking.com/
 
 
* * *
 
Allow me to paraphrase from the acknowledgements in The Road to Dallas (p. 494):
"Malcolm Blunt has tried to familiarize himself with every JFK document in the archives in College Park. I was fortunate to sit next to him during several of my trips there and found his tips to be invariably accurate and useful."
 
David Kaiser, author of The Road to Dallas
 
* * *
 
One of the best things that happened to me as a JFK researcher was meeting and befriending Malcolm Blunt. I got to know Malcolm in the early 1990s. Malcolm and I were there from the earliest days of the newly formed Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) which had the power to acquire and declassify JFK assassination records. No one had spent more time following the ARRB than I and no one has spent more time in Archives II acquiring and reading the documents than Malcolm. Almost everything I would want to do as a JFK researcher Malcolm has already done. 
 
Joe Backes, Independent researcher


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

Manhattan DA candidate Dan Quart releases ‘do-not-prosecute’ list
By SHANT SHAHRIGIAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 11, 2020 AT 5:31 PM


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

Florida governor wants to expand ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws to crack down on protests
By DAVID MATTHEWS

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 11, 2020 AT 4:40 PM


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

Florida corrections officer charged with second-degree murder after allegedly beating inmate to death
By KATE FELDMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 11, 2020 AT 9:50 AM



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

Michigan police officer on leave amid probe into aggressive arrest
By JESSICA SCHLADEBECK

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
NOV 12, 2020 AT 10:30 AM



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10/20/2020
Subject: California Public Records Act Request: 911 Domestic Violence Call Response Time 2019 vs. 2020 (University of California Santa Barbara Police Department)
Email
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request from University of California Santa Barbara Police Department any records, datasets, or materials that contain the following:
For July 2020:
- Average response time of department for all calls
- Average response time of department for domestic violence calls only
For all domestic violence/domestic disturbance calls to the 911 dispatch center in the month of July 2020, separated by individual call:
- Type of call
- Priority level
- Date and time of call received
- Date and time first officer arrived on scene
- Race and ethnicity of victim, if available
- Race and ethnicity of perpetrator(s), if available
- Outcome or resolution of call
For July 2019:
- Average response time of department for all calls
- Average response time of department for domestic violence calls only
For all domestic violence/domestic disturbance calls to the 911 dispatch center in the month of July 2019, separated by individual call:
- Type of call
- Priority level
- Date and time of call received
- Date and time first officer arrived on scene
- Race and ethnicity of victim, if available
- Race and ethnicity of perpetrator(s), if available
- Outcome or resolution of call
The requested documents will be made available to the general public. These records are being requested as part of a collaborative research effort and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter.
I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Colin Gerber



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LOCAL & STATE
March 12,2021

Federal lawsuit claims abuse, denial of treatment at Maine youth detention center
The lawsuit is the latest alleging mistreatment at what is now the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland.




Did I ever tell you the story of how Attorney General
Merrick Garland covered up the FBI role in the
Oklahoma City Bombing ?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/wil ... ue-murder/
Merrick Garland, Richard W. Roberts, and the Kenneth Trentadue Murder: The Deep State Takes Care of Its Own
By William Norman Grigg


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/03/11/ ... -preserve/


Horseshoe crabs, seals and other wildlife can be spotted from this Brooksville Maine preserve




https://theintercept.com/2021/03/12/uni ... k-montana/

HOW UNIONS DEFEATED A RIGHT-TO-WORK BILL IN DEEP-RED MONTANA
Montana is the first state where Republicans control the legislature and governorship that has failed to pass right-to-work laws.
Matthew Cunningham-Cook
March 12 2021, 6:00 a.m.


https://theintercept.com/2021/03/11/fac ... cism-eeoc/


FACEBOOK TOLD BLACK APPLICANT WITH PH.D. SHE NEEDED TO SHOW SHE WAS A “CULTURE FIT”
“You wouldn’t like this job,” she says she was told. Facebook is only 3.9 percent Black and is facing an EEOC investigation.
Sam Biddle
March 11 2021, 4:33 p.m.


https://www.motherjones.com/anti-racism-police-protest/

Breonna Taylor Was Slain One Year Ago Today. The Tragic Police Raids Continue.
Hastily executed warrants lead to countless broken homes and bodies—most Black and brown.



https://www.motherjones.com/environment ... nup-costs/

* ENVIRONMENT
Oil and Gas Firms Are Saddling States with Billions in Cleanup Costs
“It’s like a game of hot potato.”



https://www.rt.com/op-ed/517962-chris-h ... ng-corpse/

Chris Hedges: Bandaging the corpse
12 Mar, 2021 16:27


https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... -from-over


LAPD faces ‘post-Rodney King environment’ as scrutiny over protests builds
The LAPD will face yet another period of forced change brought on by more investigations and a still-mounting pile of lawsuits.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a ... ntial-arts

Newsletter: Essential Arts: Todd Gray turns colonialism and the art of photography on its head





https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-rep ... hq-1575964

Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly Calls J. Edgar Hoover 'Racist,' Proposes Renaming FBI HQ
BY NATALIE COLAROSSI ON 3/13/21 AT 4:54 PM EST


https://solitarywatch.org/2021/02/22/se ... ary-22221/

Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement


By JEAN CASELLA | February 17, 2021


https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/12/ ... -year-row/

RI CRIME
State-commissioned study finds racial disparities in R.I. traffic stops for 4th year in a row
The head of the Rhode Island Police Chiefs’ Association said he did not believe police purposefully targeted people of color, but said it’s possible departmental policies are unintentionally disproportionately affecting them


https://nypost.com/2021/03/14/whistlebl ... ppearance/


Whistleblower NYPD cop probed by Internal Affairs for podcast appearance


https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 502073.cms

How a cop, suspended for 16 years, got 2nd innings, and top  ..

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... aign=cppst


https://www.unionleader.com/nh/people/n ... 1b282.html

New leader of FBI office in Newport News, Va. has New Hampshire roots
* By Peter Dujardin The Daily Press Mar 14, 2021 Updated


https://www.standard.net/police-fire/da ... 002be.html

Davis County appeals ruling that said jail is liable for death of inmate who bled to death



https://www.enidnews.com/news/judge-chi ... d49af.html

Judge chides FBI in Oklahoma City bombing witness-tampering accusation





https://www.newsweek.com/my-life-white- ... ist-475032

My Life as a White Supremacist FBI Informant

BY R.M. SCHNEIDERMAN ON 11/21/11 AT 1:55 PM EST


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/03/yvo ... dowdye-jr/


In Memoriam: Dr. Edward Dowdye Jr.
By Yvonne Lorenzo
March 13, 2021



https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/03/jon ... amaquoddy/


JFK’s Dream of Breakthrough Energy Technology: It Was Real; It Was Passamaquoddy
By Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport’s blog
March 13, 2021


https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com


Sunday, March 14, 2021
If you don't collect the adverse event data, and you don't know the side effect rates, you can keep the data-free experimental vaccinations going. With no one the wiser

Here is a list of the eleven (count them!) different surveillance systems CDC said they would be using to get a quick and thorough idea of the adverse events from Covid vaccines.
In case you are wondering who is presenting this information, it is Nancy Messonier, MD, who is the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC.  Want to know more about her?  She was in charge of the failed PCR testing that CDC performed during January and February 2020, and lied to the public about the accuracy of the tests and about how many were being performed.

She is also Rod Rosenstein's sister.  Trump fired Acting Attorney General Rosenstein, after Rosenstein finagled Trump into firing Comey, then suggested to Cabinet members they wear a wire to collect evidence against President Trump for a 25th Amendment (President is unable to perform the functions of his office) coup.  While I am not a Trump cheerleader, I am even less fond of secret coups.
So, having failed at "standing up" an accurate PCR test for Covid and allowing the virus to circulate undetected in the US for 2 months, Messonier was then in charge of gathering information on the safety of Covid vaccines, where she was positioned for another spectacular fail.
Here are her current fails:  CDC claims they have no surveillance method to collect and analyze all post-vaccine deaths. Unless the deaths are voluntarily reported to VAERS by a relative or healthcare professional, which is a haphazard, voluntary reporting mechanism, CDC knows nothing about them.  
Well, 1500 deaths following Covid vaccines have been reported to VAERS.  What is CDC doing about them?  It says it is requesting medical records, but has assured us that none of the deaths have been absolutely shown to have been caused by the vaccines.
Even the White House requested an explanation after all the reported nursing home deaths.  I have not heard what the explanation is yet.  But since we have moved on to a new phase of vaccinating younger Americans, who appear to die less after vaccination, we probably will never learn to what the postvaccination deaths are being attributed.
That isn't the only CDC fail, despite CDC's supposed 11 different Covid vaccine surveillance systems. Those systems are generally based on access to medical records or insurance claims.  But since the Covid vaccines are free and administered at large clinics, most vaccinations are not being entered into the medical record, nor are bills being generated for them. Apparently CDC forgot about this when they "stood up" these 11 surveillance systems ('stood up' was Dr. Messonier's term when describing her system, and I just find it amusing).  So they cannot monitor the Covid experimental vaccine as they had promised.  
And so despite between 50 and 100 million doses already administered in the US, we still know next to nothing about the rates of adverse events, rates of serious reactions and rates of vaccine-associated deaths.  
And we continue to vaccinate, in a happily data-free environment. 

Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D.


https://www.rt.com/uk/518075-sas-afghan ... o-missing/


Video evidence of ‘massacre’ by UK special forces in Afghanistan mysteriously VANISHES – report
14 Mar, 2021 15:22


https://www.rt.com/uk/518087-london-pol ... y-protest/

Met Police chief REFUSES to resign as protesters amass outside Scotland Yard over crackdown on Sarah Everard mourners (VIDEOS)
14 Mar, 2021 20:45



https://www.projectcensored.org/luminar ... aron-good/

Luminaries Join Peace Studies Class for Tribute to Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg
March 2, 2021

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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a ... nly-review

Dick Gregory was one of America’s top comics. He gave it up to do what was right


https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/ ... 35963.html

North Myrtle Beach cop was peeping Tom before he got hired in 2011. He just was fired
BY GERARD ALBERT
JULY 02, 2021 03:13 PM,

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

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/03/ora ... veillance/

ORANGE COUNTY PROSECUTORS OPERATE “VAST, SECRETIVE” GENETIC SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
A DA’s office in California offers plea deals and dismissals for misdemeanor offenses — but only if people give up their DNA.
Jordan Smith
July 3 2021, 6:00 a.m


HINDU VIGILANTES WORK WITH POLICE TO ENFORCE “LOVE JIHAD” LAW IN NORTH INDIA
Hindu nationalist groups in Uttar Pradesh are using an anti-conversion law to violently break up interfaith couples and legitimate an anti-Muslim conspiracy theory.
Betwa Sharma, Ahmer Khan



https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gdzy/ ... n-patented

Can LSD Treat Food Allergies? We Don’t Know, But It’s Already Been Patented

Companies can own potentially valuable psychedelic IP without anyone even knowing if it works.

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/03/lov ... law-india/

https://mashable.com/article/police-pla ... -recording

Cops are playing music during filmed encounters to game YouTube's copyright striking
But will it work?
By 
Morgan Sung
 on July 1, 2021


https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xqea/ ... uis-police

Black Grandfather Shot by Cops in His Own Home During No-Knock Raid

Don Clark Sr. was 63 when he was killed by police.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing ... to-prevent

California police officer plays Taylor Swift to prevent protesters' video from being posted to YouTube
BY CAMERON JENKINS - 07/02/21 12:33 PM EDT


https://www.thedailybeast.com/boston-co ... ttee-finds

Boston Cop Filed Fake Police Report in Elaborate Plot to Avoid Firing: Officials
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
Lawrence Ukenye
Breaking News Intern
Published Jul. 01, 2021 12:42PM


https://nj1015.com/online-metoo-case-ag ... s-dropped/

Online #MeToo case against ‘perv’ NJ cop crumbles: All charges dropped

Dan Alexander
Published: July 2, 2021


Read More: Prosecutor drops charges against Phillipsburg, NJ cop | https://nj1015.com/online-metoo-case-ag ... m=referral


https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-ci ... bose-death

Cincinnati Cop to Escape Federal Charges in Samuel DuBose Death



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

Mount Prospect cop will continue as school resource officer after initially being reassigned over ‘thin blue line’ controversy
By ZACH HARRIS

CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
JUL 01, 2021 AT 7:34 PM



https://www.pressherald.com/2021/07/01/ ... r-alleges/

State police trooper accused of racial profiling has shown a ‘pattern’ of similar behavior, lawyer alleges
A prosecutor dismissed a criminal case last year after audio captured Trooper John Darcy referring to a Black suspect as "looking like a thug."


https://home.solari.com/the-global-land ... ed-part-1/

The Global Landscape on Vaccine ID Passports and Where It’s Headed: Part 1
June 28, 2021



https://home.solari.com/missing-money-2 ... -skidmore/

Missing Money 2021 Update with Mark Skidmore
July 1, 2021



https://www.ticklethewire.com/2021/07/0 ... gun-sales/

FBI Fails to Finish 316,000 Firearms Background Checks Last Year Amid Surge in Gun Sales

By Steve Neavling
The FBI has been unable to keep pace with the surge in firearms sales, failing to finish more than 316,000 background checks in the first nine months of 2020, according to data obtained by FiveThirtyEight.


https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... le-of.html

Friday, July 2, 2021
"A global propaganda spectacle of unprecedented scale and sophistication" 30 minutes/ Mark Crispin Miller

I suggest you spend 30 minutes listening to my good friend Mark Crispin Miller discuss propaganda use during the past 1.5 years.  Filmed by John Kirby. Wonder how long it will stay up on YouTube?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=deskt ... el=FoxNews

Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 11:52 AM

https://bangordailynews.com/2021/07/02/ ... -close-it/

Maine is trying to make its youth prison obsolete. Janet Mills doesn’t want to close it.




https://gangstersgambits.wordpress.com

Beating a Dead Horse: Why Let Gangsters Testify?
JUNE 30, 2021


https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/02/ ... t-filings/

Fired Boston Police commissioner Dennis White alleges gender and race discrimination in new court filings
By Danny McDonald Globe Staff,Updated July 2, 2021, 11:27 a.m



https://thenewamerican.com/facebook-ask ... extremist/

Facebook Asks Users: “Are You Concerned that Someone You Know Is Becoming an Extremist?”
by James Murphy July 2, 2021



https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/cri ... 7ba71.html

Region cop to admit he stole from fellow officers
* Bill Dolan Jul 1, 2021 Updated 3 hrs ago


https://reason.com/2021/07/01/salaythis ... fs-office/

He Died After He Was Shot in the Back by a Cop. Will Anyone Be Held Accountable?
Salaythis Melvin's family says they want justice.
BILLY BINION | 7.1.2021 5:16 PM

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

Nassau County jail guard urinated on inmate and his bed, says suit
By NOAH GOLDBERG

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 02, 2021 AT 4:09 PM

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

Upstate NY judge’s racist comments from the bench get burglar 10 years off his sentence
By GRAHAM RAYMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 02, 2021 AT 11:39 AM


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

N.Y. detective deemed healthy enough to face 1980s sex assault charges
By JAMI GANZ

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JUL 02, 2021 AT 1:36 PM



Friday, July 2, 2021
Travesties. Government breaking the law, pulling out all the stops to vaccinate our children. Disgusting. We have to stop this.

In the past day, I heard that 12 year olds in Massachusetts are being vaccinated without parental consent.  Last year, the City Council and Mayor of Washington, D.C. signed off on a law that would allow 11 year olds to be vaccinated without parental permission. Now I see that was a prelude to taking Covid vaccine permissions away from parents.
I became aware over the past several weeks that children down to age 12 were being vaccinated in Kings County, WA (Seattle), Philadelphia and San Francisco without parental permission.  Generally this was by order of the local public health official.
Surprisingly, this happened in states that had much higher ages of consent.  So it is illegal.  Since local public health doctors are not the most likely group to risk their careers going out on a limb--to give children experimental vaccines without informed parental consent--the order or guidance to do so must have come from on high.  On high would be the CDC.
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Another way the government is pushing to get kids vaccinated is through a chatbot:

Does the COVID-19 vaccine implant a microchip in my bloodstream? Will it alter my DNA? Can it make me infertile? 
To combat vaccine hesitancy in young Americans, IBM and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to answer such questions.he chatbot, named Vira—short for Vaccine Information Resource Assistant—was built using AI developed by IBM Research. It was trained on a dataset created by Johns Hopkins’ International Vaccine Access Center in collaboration with frontline healthcare workers in cities across the U.S...



All three of the aforementioned questions, for example, are met with a friendly but definitive “no” from Vira. When asked whether the vaccine can alter a person’s DNA, Vira replies, “None of the COVID-19 vaccines will change or interact with your DNA. Pinky swear!” Vira, which can be accessed at VaxChat.org, will be continually updated as more people use the tool. After each interaction, Vira prompts users to rate how well the bot answered their question with a thumbs up or down; a thumbs-down response prompts a list of other popular and potentially related questions.



A recent CDC study of people between the ages of 18 and 39 found that those 24 and younger were the least likely in the study group to have reported getting or planning to get the vaccine. Other groups expressing hesitancy included Black participants and those who were less educated, uninsured and had lower household incomes.


More than half of those who expressed some level of hesitancy (56.5%) cited a lack of trust in the vaccines, while almost as many also said they were concerned about possible side effects of the jab.


For the record, when Vira is asked about potential side effects, the chatbot quips, “While you may experience some short-term side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine, like fatigue & nausea, it is a small price to pay to protect your loved ones.”


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The Mystical Art of Confusion-2nd try




 


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"A global propaganda spectacle of unprecedented scale and sophistication" 30 minutes/ Mark Crispin Miller

I suggest you spend 30 minutes listening to my good friend Mark Crispin Miller discuss propaganda use during the past 1.5 years.  Filmed by John Kirby. Wonder how long it will stay up on YouTube?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=deskt ... el=FoxNews

Posted by Meryl Nass, M.D. at 11:52 AM 1 comments



Dr. Harvey Risch discusses the HCQ suppression, the censorship of critical thought, and the pandemic response--very strong, non-technical. 1 hr

 https://vimeo.com/568993443



https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2021 ... -otherwise

Yes, the law says you can curse a cop. Attorney fees of $15,000 awarded against trooper who thought otherwise
BY Max Brantley ON July 2, 202111:32 am


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/07/02/ ... -of-state/

AROOSTOOK
June was likely hottest on record in Aroostook Maine and other parts of state 


https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/a ... c174ddfc8a

A Rose By Any Other Name: Biden Ends TVTP By Renaming It CP3


https://vtdigger.org/2021/03/18/scott-c ... o-vermont/

Scott calls on U.S. State Department to send more refugees to Vermont

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-of ... estigation

FBI officials had sex with prostitutes while overseas, inspector general investigation finds
Five FBI officials were found to have solicited sex with a prostitute
December 14,2021


https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/8 ... se-jailed/

Cop who sent sleazy texts and naked selfies to ‘domestic abuse victims’ jailed for 14 months

21:30, 14 Dec 2021Updated: 21:35, 14 Dec 2021


https://patch.com/new-york/queens/queen ... cheme-feds

Queens Residents, Cop Indicted In Sex Trafficking Scheme:
The people reportedly lured young, immigrant girls to Queens, and then sex trafficked them across NY with protection from a police officer.

Kayla Levy,
Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 5:36 pm ET



https://www.fox5ny.com/news/ny-cop-accu ... cking-ring

NY cop accused of accepting sex to protect trafficking ring
By Luke Funk
Published December 14, 2021 4:47PM


Alex Marthews, National Chair
Restore The Fourth
https://www.restorethe4th.com


Yes, You Should Be Able To Sue Federal Government Officials Too


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/12/14/ ... d-vaccine/

Air Force discharges 27 for refusal to get COVID vaccine
December 14,2021


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

NYPD seriously punished just 1% of cops accused of misconduct, NYCLU study finds
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
DEC 14, 2021 AT 8:44 AM

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/j ... t/2706648/

Jelani Day's Mother Calls FBI Reward, Social Media Campaign ‘a Publicity Stunt'
"I need to find out what happened with my son," Jelani Day's mother, Carmen Bolden Day told NBC Chicago.
Published December 13, 2021



https://k2radio.com/former-wyoming-cop- ... ild-abuse/

Wyoming Cop Charged With Aggravated Child Abuse

Zach Spadt
Published: December 13, 2021


Read More: Former Wyoming Cop Charged With Aggravated Child Abuse | https://k2radio.com/former-wyoming-cop- ... m=referral


https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/filing ... poose-cop/

Filings shed light on drug charges against Scappoose cop
OREGON
Attorney for Troy Gainer also seeks records concerning former Scappoose police chief

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/health/p ... index.html

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

Pfizer says COVID pill cuts risk of hospitalization and death by 89%, also appears effective against omicron


https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... ty-20.html

Monday, December 13, 2021
The UNITY Project's Boston Tea Party 2.0: On the Tea Party's December 16 anniversary (and beyond), do not comply. Nullify.





https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/12/14/ ... tists-say/

Crucial Antarctic ice shelf could fail within five years, scientists say
Scientists have discovered a series of worrying weaknesses in the ice shelf holding back one of Antarctica's most dangerous glaciers, suggesting that this important buttress against sea level rise could shatter within the next three to five years.



https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2 ... shut-down/

Dallas police, sheriff haven’t participated in FBI use-of-force database facing possible shut-down
Dallas police and the county sheriff’s office are among enrolled North Texas law enforcement agencies



https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texa ... 701216.php

Disgraced Houston cop indicted over 'bogus' 2020 voter fraud assault
This is the second time Mark Aguirre, 64, has been indicted by a grand jury over botched investigations.

Dec. 14, 2021


https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/14/ ... y-charges/


Former California cop accused of throwing scalding water on mentally ill inmate faces felony charges




https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ki ... NewsSearch

Kim Potter trial: Daunte Wright not first shooting connected to ex-cop: ‘100%’ deserves murder charge



https://news.yahoo.com/roadside-assista ... soc_trk=tw

Roadside assistance caught the cop who killed my cousin. Justice shouldn't be so rare.

Anquan Boldin
Tue, December 14, 2021,



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

Suburban New York cop among half-dozen charged in sex-trafficking of underage girls from Mexico
Larry McShane, New York Daily News


https://therealnews.com/state-releases- ... killer-cop

STATE RELEASES LIST OF IN-CUSTODY DEATHS TIED TO CONTROVERSIAL MEDICAL EXAMINER WHO TESTIFIED ON BEHALF OF KILLER COP


https://www.propublica.org/article/year ... gainst-him

Years Before a Police Union Leader Was Raided by the FBI, Local Investigators Didn’t Pursue Allegations Against Him



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malcolm-x- ... ork-state/

Man exonerated in Malcolm X's murder sues New York state over wrongful conviction
BY CLARE HYMES
UPDATED ON: DECEMBER 14, 2021 / 7:40 PM


https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/14 ... nter_yahoo

“No Rules”: A Border Patrol Unit Worked with the FBI to Investigate Journalists. Is It Still Running?
STORYDECEMBER 14, 2021

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... /chicago-/


Chicago cop Jon Burge allegedly tortured black suspects. Why couldn’t the U.S. prosecute him?
Mark Berlin - Feb 18,2022



https://www.amazon.com/Blue-day-white-n ... B0006P0YIM

Blue by day, white by night: Organized white supremacist groups in law enforcement agencies

– January 1, 1993
by Michael Novick (Author)


https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-w ... story.html

Daunte Wright’s mother says she will ‘never forgive’ ex-Minneapolis cop Kim Potter
By AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER

FEB 18, 2022 AT 9:42 AM


https://www.thedailybeast.com/amir-lock ... ce-killing

Killer Cop’s Ugly Past Revealed as Amir Locke Funeral Begins in Minneapolis

NEW PRESSURE
Officer Mark Hanneman has not been charged with a crime, but a community in mourning was freshly enraged on Thursday.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-cop-wa ... pitol-riot

DC Cop Was Included on Jan. 6 Planning Emails From the Proud Boys, Records Show

WHAT’S THE STORY?
The officer, who is under investigation by the FBI, was copied on a series of emails and conference call invitations related to the planning of a pro-Trump rally on Jan. 6.

Published Feb. 17, 2022 3:59PM ET 


https://www.foxnews.com/us/hawaii-beat- ... ce-assault


February 17, 2022 9:54pm EST

Hawaii man beat woman to death steps from police station after release for alleged assault on cop, police say Michael K. Armstrong, 35, had 18 prior arrests, including for possession of a prohibited weapon and burglary





https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repos ... ects/50374

Harry T. Moore Case - FBI 4, 1951-1952
 File — Box: 6



https://spartacus-educational.com/USAstetson.htm

Stetson Kennedy

As an investigative journalist, Kennedy joined the Ku Klux Klan. Articles about his activities appeared in the New York Post. He also supplied information of its illegal activities to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) but both organizations showed little interest in what he found. Kennedy also wrote several books about racism such as Southern Exposure (1946), Forced Labor in the United States (1953), I Rode With the Klan (1954), Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A (1959) and The Klan Unmasked (1990).



https://woodyguthriecenter.org/archives ... dy-papers/

STETSON KENNEDY PAPERS


https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/02/17/ ... -colleges/

SECURITY
COMMENTARY
FBI’s Failure to Solve the Wave of Bomb Threats at Historically Black Colleges
Annelise Butler / @annelisebutler / February 17, 2022


https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/au ... ey/?page=1

Prison Legal News



https://coldcases.emory.edu/a-chief-a-c ... -b-cherry/




A Chief, a Coach, a Killer: Two Perspectives on Weyman B. Cherry
| By Lauren Browning |


https://www.nj.com/mercer/2022/02/cop-c ... dence.html

Cop charged with killing his newborn freed from jail after judge excludes evidence
Updated: Feb. 16, 2022, 12:44 p.m. | Published: Feb. 16, 2022,



https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... la-station

54 current, former CHP officers charged with overtime fraud at East L.A. station


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

Two New Jersey cops are investigated after they pinned black boy, 14, on ground and arrested him after he got into fight with white teen who was allowed to walk


https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/long-is ... t/3553465/

Long Island Man Claims Cops Ripped Off His Prosthetic Leg During Wrongful Arrest


https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/02/lee-c ... partments/

Lee Cataluna: Can Big City Cops Really Fix Hawaii's Police Departments?
New police chiefs from Las Vegas are raising eyebrows on Kauai and Maui.
By Lee Cataluna
February 16, 2022 · 5 min read


https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022 ... gh-arrest/

West Palm Beach cop arrested more than 2 years after alleged rough arrest



https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/pro ... kim-potter


Prosecutors reduce requested sentence for ex-cop Kim Potter
Nation Feb 16, 2022 8:46 PM EST



https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... 54043.html

Court overturns conviction of North Miami cop who shot at unarmed autistic man holding toy
BY DAVID OVALLE AND CHARLES RABIN
UPDATED FEBRUARY 16, 2022 5:23 PM


https://www.latimes.com/california/stor ... upervisors

Sheriff Villanueva demands L.A. County leaders stop using term ‘deputy gangs’


https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/loca ... p/2974973/

DC Cop Investigated for Possible Affiliation With White Supremacy Group: Sources
By Mark Segraves, News4 Reporter • Published February 16, 2022 • Updated 2 hours ago


https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/02/newar ... e-say.html

Newark cop charged with sexually touching Uber driver forgot his badge in car, police say
Updated: Feb. 14, 2022, 12:10 p.m. | Published: Feb. 14, 2022, 12:10 p.m.




https://www.ticklethewire.com/2022/02/1 ... dquarters/

FBI Director Wray Names 3 Agents to Help Lead Important Divisions at FBI Headquarters

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... nment-gigs

Stefan Halper, academic and FBI Crossfire Hurricane operative, remains eligible for government gigs
by Pamela K. Browne, Investigative reporter  | February 17, 2022 10:06 AM



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRywZ-7wQh8

FBI agent Tyrone Powers- FBI and the attack on the Black community


https://www.thedailybeast.com/amir-lock ... ce-killing

Killer Cop’s Ugly Past Revealed as Amir Locke Funeral Begins in Minneapolis

NEW PRESSURE
Officer Mark Hanneman has not been charged with a crime, but a community in mourning was freshly enraged on Thursday.



https://www.newsweek.com/white-cop-arre ... an-1680261

White Cop Arrested for Alleged Excessive Force Against Black Man
BY ERIN BRADY ON 2/17/22 AT 10:50 AM EST



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/11 ... ar-AAU0jFs

11 head punches, a knee on the head: South Florida cop charged with aggravated battery
David J. Neal, Miami Herald -


https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state ... 50038.html

An NC cop got probation after slamming a woman to ground. Now the courts get a do-over.
BY MICHAEL GORDON
UPDATED FEBRUARY 17, 2022 3:32 PM


http://www.ncianet.org/criminal-justice-services-blog/

Criminal Justice Services Blog




https://www.amazon.com/Last-One-Over-Wa ... 0814207588

Last One Over the Wall: The Massachusetts Experiment in Closing Reform Schools 2nd Edition 
by  Jerome G. Miller  (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars
      


https://www.abebooks.com/9780669015157/ ... 015156/plp

http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/disp_8100_a.html

The Life-Style Violent Juvenile: The Secure Treatment Approach Hardcover – June 1, 1979 
by  Andrew H. Vachss  (Author)



https://www.communities-for-people.org/

Communities for People






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


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