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Jerome Miller, revolutionized juvenile justice, dies


Aug 15, 2015 - When Jerome G. Miller arrived in Massachusetts in 1969 to lead an overhaul of the state's ... “I would rate Jerry Miller the most influential juvenile justice and criminal justice reformer of the past ...
When Jerome G. Miller arrived in Massachusetts in 1969 to lead an overhaul of the state’s reformatories for juvenile delinquents, young people incarcerated in the facilities, also known as training schools, were routinely gagged and bound.

In other cases, they were stripped of their clothing and placed in cells. There were reports that the youths drank from toilets and that corrections officers ordered them to kneel on pencils or strapped them to beds and beat the soles of their feet. One young man hanged himself.

“Training schools are so bad that the average kid would be better on the street,” Dr. Miller told Time magazine in 1972.







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Naked, filthy and strapped to a chair for 46 hours: a mentally ill inmate's last days
Paige St. John
Andrew Holland’s death has provoked outrage in San Luis Obispo County, a record $5-million legal settlement, and questions about the way California jails handle a sharp increase in the number of mentally ill inmates.




https://www.amazon.com/Last-One-Over-Wa ... 0814207588

Last One Over the Wall: The Massachusetts Experiment in Closing Reform Schools [Jerome G. Miller]





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Boston Review — Lance Tapley: The Worst of the Worst: Supermax Torture in America

The Worst of the Worst: Supermax Torture in America. Lance Tapley. Mike James, photographed by Lance Tapley. “They beat the $#!% out of you,” Mike James said, hunched near the smeared plexiglass separating us.




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EDITORIALS
Our Opinion: Maine should lead on closing youth prisons
Incarceration only makes matters worse, and community-based programs are proven to be a more effective solution.

When it comes to dealing with kids who have violated the law, Maine does better than most. At any given time, there are only somewhere around 100 juveniles incarcerated at the state’s one detention facilty for minors, Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, and Long Creek has been held up as a national model for youth prisons.

But that bar is low — the state of juvenile incarceration in this country remains troubling despite advancements over the last decade, and it has become clear that almost no minor should be kept behind lock and key, where they are pushed further to the margins of society.

Instead, troubled youth should be treated in community-based settings that stress accountability and a sense of belonging. Maine, with its relatively small number of youth prisoners and strong sense of community, can and should be a leader in this effort.

RIGHT DIRECTION

Nationally, the number of incarcerated youth peaked in athe mid-1990s, then fell steadily, hitting a 35-year low of around 71,000 in 2010. Since then, the number has continued to fall, and there are now approximately 51,000 kids in some form of out-of-home placement.

In Maine, the number of incarecerated youth declined 35 percent between 1997 and 2013, from 318 to 186. In 2015, Mountain View Youth Development Center in Charleston was closed and its nine remaining inmates sent south, joining just 84 at Long Creek.



That was the end result of years of work to keep juveniles out of the justice system. Both the number of youth arrested and the number of youth who appeared before a judge fell precipitiously as troubled juveniles were given the opportunity to work in the communities they harmed and attend alternative education programs rather than serve time.

It is hard, individualized work, but it pays off — juveniles who complete these programs rarely re-offend.

That trend is found throughout the country. A John Jay Research and Evaluation brief covering 3,500 juveinles in trouble found taht 86 percent remained arrest-free while in community-based programs. Another study found that six to 12 months after the completion of a community program, 87 percent of juveniles were still in the same community and 95 percent remained out of a secure facility.

In other words, the vast majority had become trouble-free members of the community that nurtured, rather than imprisoned, them.

BETTER APPROACH

On the other hand, incarcerated youth are often re-arrested, and incarceration itself may be to blame.



Incarceration marginalizes children who already feel disconnected from society. It tells them they are separate from the rest of us, and does little to give them the tools they need to navigate the outside world. It makes them feel unsafe and unworthy.

That’s why a national coalition of youth advocacy groups is calling for all youth prisons to be closed, and to be replaced with more effecitve — and less costly — community-based programs that provide treatment and support to juveniles and their families.

That would include mentorship programs and expanded alternative education, as well as employment and vocational training. It would include wraparound services that attempt to understand the child’s behavior and its causes, such as trauma or substance abuse, and to help parents develop the skills they need too.

It would stress restorative justice, which allows offenders to actively repair the harm they’ve done, connecting them with victims and showing them that they can be part of a community even after they have messed up, as long as they are accountable for their actions.

That is the proven way to make sure that more kids who are in trouble with the law don’t make it a lifelong habit.

There are some difficult questions with this approach, such as what to do when a child is a danger to himself or others, or when a child’s home is itself dangerous.

But those questions concern only a small portion of the youth-prison population, and they can be answered with the right effort; they should not derail the effort to take what are clearly the best steps for Maine youth, out of prison and into their community.

That is the direction the state and the country have been moving for years; we simply need the courage to take the final steps.




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http://ticklethewire.com/2017/08/24/con ... -camarena/

Convicted Drug Lord Re-Sentenced in Murder of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena



Convicted drug lord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo was re-sentenced by a Mexican court to 37 years in prison and a reparation payment equivalent to $1.2 million.

Felix Gallardo, who was considered the godfather of Mexican drug smuggling and the co-founder of the Guadalajara cartel, had previously been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena.



http://www.michaellevinebooks.com/art/ollie-north.html

I Volunteer to Kidnap Oliver North
by
Michael Levine

Undercover DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured to death slowly by professionals. Every known maximum-pain technique, from electric shocks to his testicles to white hot rods inserted in his rectum, was applied. A doctor stood by to keep him alive. The heart of the thirty-seven year old father of two boys refused to quit for more than twenty-four hours. His cries, along with the soft-spoken, calm voices of the men who were slowly and meticulously savaging his body, were tape-recorded.
Kiki, one of only three hundred of us in the world (DEA agents on foreign assignment), had been kidnapped in broad daylight from in front of the U.S. Consular office in Guadalajara, Mexico by Mexican cops working for drug traffickers and, apparently, high level Mexican government people whose identities we would never know. They would be protected by people in our own government to whom Kiki's life meant less than nothing.

When teams of DEA agents were sent to Mexico, first, to find the missing Kiki, then to hunt for his murderers, they were met by a the stone wall of a corrupt Mexican government that refused to cooperate. To the horror and disgust of many of us, our government backed down from the Mexicans; other interests, like NAFTA, banking agreements and the covert support of Ollie North's Contras, were more important than the life of an American undercover agent. DEA agents were ordered by the Justice Department, to keep our mouths shut about Mexico; an order that was backed up by threats from the office of Attorney General Edwin Meese himself. Instead of tightening restrictions on the Mexican debt, our Treasury Department moved to loosen them as if to reward them for their filthy deed. As an added insult Mexico was granted cooperating nation in the drug war status, giving them access to additional millions in American drug war funds and loans.

Somehow a CIA—unaware that their own chief of Soviet counter intelligence, Aldrich Ames, was selling all America's biggest secrets to the KGB for fourteen years with all the finesse of a Jersey City garage sale—was able to obtain the tape-recordings of Kiki's torture death. No one in media or government had the courage to publicly ask them explain how they were able to obtain the tapes, yet know nothing of the murder as it was happening; no one had the courage to ask them to explain the testimony of a reliable government informant, (during a California trial related to Camarena's murder), that Kiki's murderers believed they were protected by the CIA. Nor did our elected leaders have the courage to investigate numerous other reports linking the CIA directly to the murderers.

Our government's sellout of Kiki Camarena, of all DEA agents, of the war on drugs, was such that United States Congressman, Larry Smith, stated, on the floor of Congress:

"I personally am convinced that the Justice Department is against the best interests of the United States in terms of stopping drugs... What has a DEA agent who puts his life on the line got to look forward to? The U.S. Government is not going to back him up. I find that intolerable."

What does Oliver North have to do with this?

A lot of us, Kiki's fellow agents, believe that the Mexican government never would have dared take the action they did, had they not believed the US government to be as hypocritical and corrupt as they were and still are. And if there was ever a figure in our history that was the paradigm of that corruption it is the man President Reagan called "an American hero"; the same man Nancy Reagan later called a liar: Oliver North.

No one person in our government's history more embodied what Senator John Kerry referred to when he called the US protection of the drug smuggling Contras a "betrayal of the American people."

Few Americans, thanks to what one time CIA chief William Colby referred to as the news media's "misplaced sense of patriotism," are aware that the Nobel prize winning President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias—as a result of an in-depth investigation by the Costa Rican Congressional Commission on Narcotics that found "virtually all [Ollie North supported] Contra factions were involved in drug trafficking"—banned Oliver North, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs, National Security Advisor Admiral John Poindexter, Presidential Advisor Richard Secord and C.I.A. station chief José Fernandez, by Executive order, from ever entering Costa Rica— for their roles in utilizing Costa Rican territory for cocaine trafficking.

In fact, when Costa Rica began its investigation into the drug trafficking allegations against North and naively thought that the U.S. would gladly lend a hand in efforts to fight drugs, they received a rude awakening about the realities of America's war on drugs as opposed to its "this-scourge-will-end" rhetoric.

After five witnesses testified before the U.S. Senate, confirming that John Hull—a C.I.A. operative and the lynch-pin of North's contra re supply operation—had been actively running drugs from Costa Rica to the U.S. "under the direction of the C.I.A.," Costa Rican authorities arrested him. Hull then quickly jumped bail and fled to the U.S.—according to my sources—with the help of DEA, putting the drug fighting agency in the schizoid business of both kidnapping accused drug dealers and helping them escape; although the Supreme Court has not legalized the latter . . . yet.

The then-President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias was stunned when he received letters from nineteen U.S. Congressman—including Lee Hamilton of Indiana, the Democrat who headed the Iran-contra committee—warning him "to avoid situations . . . that could adversely affect our relations." Arias, who won the Nobel prize for ending the contra war, stated that he was shocked that "relations between [the United States] and my country could deteriorate because [the Costa Rican] legal system is fighting against drug trafficking."

In my twenty-five years experience with DEA which includes running some of their highest level international drug trafficking investigations, I have never seen an instance of comparable allegations where DEA did not set up a multi-agency task force size operation to conduct an in-depth conspiracy investigation. Yet in the case of Colonel North and the other American officials, no investigation whatsoever has been initiated by DEA or any other investigative agency.

The total "public" investigation into the drug allegations by the Senate was falsely summed up in the statement of a staffer, on the House select committee, Robert A. Bermingham who notified Chairman Hamilton on July 23, 1987, that after interviewing "hundreds" of people his investigation had not developed any corroboration of "media-exploited allegations that the U.S. government condoned drug trafficking by contra leaders . . . or that Contra leaders or organizations did in fact take part in such activity." Every government official accused of aiding and covering up for the contra drug connection, Colonel Ollie included, then hung his hat on this statement, claiming they had been "cleared."

The only trouble was that investigative journalists, Leslie and Andrew Cockburn—after interviewing many of the chief witnesses whose testimony implicated North and the contras in drug trafficking, including several whose testimony was later found credible enough to be used to convict Manuel Noriega—could find not one who had been interviewed by Bermingham or his staff. In fact, the two journalists seem to have caught Bermingham red-handed in what can only be described, at best, as a gross misrepresentation of fact, when he (Bermingham) quoted the chief counsel of a House Judiciary subcommittee, Hayden Gregory as dismissing the drug evidence and calling it "street talk." Gregory told the Cockburns that the "street talk" comment was taken out of context; that he had not even met Bermingham until July 22 (two days before Bermingham wrote the report) and that he had in fact told Bermingham that there were "serious allegations against almost every contra leader."

When President Bush said, "All those who look the other way are as guilty as the drug dealers," he was not only talking about a moral guilt, but a legal one as well. Thus, if any U.S. official knew of North and the contra's drug activities and did not take proper action, or covered up for it, he is "guilty" of a whole series of crimes that you to go to jail for; crimes that carry a minimum jail term; crimes like Aiding and Abetting, Conspiracy, Misprision of a Felony, Perjury, and about a dozen other violations of law related to misuse and malfeasance of public office. I'm not talking about some sort of shadow conspiracy here. As a veteran, criminal investigator I don't deal in speculation. I document facts and evidence and then work like hell to corroborate my claims so that I can send people to jail.

What I am talking about is "Probable Cause"—a legal principle that every junior agent and cop is taught before he hits the street. It mandates that an arrest and/or criminal indictment must occur when there exists evidence that would give any "reasonable person" grounds to believe, that anyone— U.S. government officials included—had violated or conspired to violate federal narcotic laws. Any U.S. government law enforcement officer or elected official who fails to take appropriate action when such Probable Cause exists, is in violation of his oath as well as federal law; and under that law it takes surprisingly little evidence for a Conspiracy conviction.

As an example, early in my career I arrested a man named John Clements, a twenty-two year old, baby-faced guitar player, who happened to be present at the transfer of three kilos of heroin—an amount that doesn't measure up to a tiny percentage of the many tons of cocaine, (as much as one half the U.S. cocaine consumption), that North and his Contras have been accused of pouring onto our streets. Clements was a silent observer in a trailer parked in the middle of a Gainesville, Florida swamp, while a smuggler—whom I had arrested hours earlier in New York City and "flipped" (convinced to work as an informer for me)— turned the heroin over to the financier of the operation. Poor John Clements, a friend of both men, a "gofer" as he would later be described, was just unlucky enough to be there.

The twenty-two year old guitar player couldn't claim "national security," when asked to explain his presence, nor could he implicate a President of the United States in his criminal activities as Colonel North did. John Clements wrote no self-incriminating computer notes that indicated his deep involvement in drug trafficking, as North did; he didn't have hundreds of pages of diary notes in his own handwriting also reflecting narcotics trafficking. John Clements did not shred incriminating documents and lie to congress as North did; nor was he responsible for millions in unaccounted for U.S. government funds as North was. Clements did not have enough cash hidden in a closet slush fund to pay $14,000 cash for a car, as North did while earning the salary of a Lieutenant Colonel. John Clements only had about $3 and change in his pocket.

Nor did John Clements campaign for the release from jail of a drug smuggling, murderer whose case was described by the Justice Department as the worst case of narco terrorism in our history, as North did. Poor young John wouldn't have dreamed of making deals with drug dealer Manny Noriega to aid in the support of the drug smuggling Contras, as North did. No, John Clements was certainly not in Ollie North's league, he couldn't have done a millionth of the damage North and his protectors have been accused of doing to the American people, even if he wanted to.

But John Clements did do something Ollie North never did and probably never will do—he went to jail. A jury of his peers in Gainseville Florida found more than enough evidence to convict him of Conspiracy to violate the federal drug laws. The judge sentenced him to thirty years in a Federal prison. Ollie North on the other hand was only charged with lying to a Congress so mistrusted and disrespected by the American people that he was virtually applauded for the crime.

Criminality in drug trafficking cases is lot easier than proving whether or not someone lied to Congress and is certainly a lot less "heroic." Statements like "I don't remember," "I didn't know," and "No one told me," or "I sought approval from my superiors for every one of my actions," are only accepted as valid defenses by Congressmen and Senators with difficulties balancing check books—not American jurors trying drug cases. And when you're found guilty you got to jail—you don't run for a seat on the Senate.

And why would I volunteer to kidnap Ollie? For three reasons: first, kidnapping is now legal; second, I have experience kidnapping; and third, it is the only way those tens of millions of Americans who have suffered the betrayal of their own government will ever see even a glimmer of justice.

Several years after Kiki's last tape-recorded cries were shoved well under a government rug, a maverick group of DEA agents decided to take the law into their own hands. Working without the knowledge or approval of most of the top DEA bosses, whom they mistrusted, the agents arranged to have Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain, a Mexican citizen alleged to have participated in Kiki's murder, abducted at gun point in Guadalajara Mexico and brought to Los Angeles to stand trial.

On June 16, 1992, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Machain Decision that the actions of those agents was "legal." The ruling said in no uncertain terms that U.S. law enforcement authorities could literally and figuratively kidnap violators of American drug law in whatever country they found them and drag them physically and against their will to the U.S. to stand trial. Immediately thereafter the Ayatollahs declared that they too could rove the world and kidnap violators of Islamic law and drag them back to Iran to stand trial. Kidnapping, therefore, has now become an accepted tool of law enforcement throughout the world.

Resorting to all sorts of wild extremes to bring drug traffickers to justice is nothing new for the U.S. government. At various times during my career as a DEA agent I was assigned to some pretty unorthodox operations—nothing quite as radical as invading Panama and killing a thousand innocents to capture long-time CIA asset Manny Noriega—but I was once, (long before the Machain Decision), assigned to a group of undercover agents on a kidnapping mission. Posing as a soccer team, we landed in Argentina in a chartered jet during the wee hours of the morning, where the Argentine Federal Police had three international drug dealers—two of whom had never in their lives set foot in the United States—waiting for us trussed up in straight-jackets with horse feed-bags over their heads, each beaten to a pulpy, toothless mess. In those years we used to call it a "controlled expulsion." I think I like the honesty of kidnapping a little better.

By now you're probably saying, "Get real Levine you live in a nation whose politicians ripped their own people off for half a trillion dollars in a savings and loan scam, a nation whose Attorney General ordered the FBI to attack a house full of innocent babies, and this is the decade of Ruby Ridge, Waco and Whitewater-gate; your own people sent Kiki Camarena to Mexico to be murdered and then gave aid and comfort to those who murdered him—how can you expect justice?"

If you aren't saying these things you should be. And you'd be right. Under the current two-party, rip-off system of American politics with their complete control of main stream media, I expect Ollie North to have a bright future in politics, while hundreds of thousands of Americans like John rot in jail. Ollie North, after all, is the perfect candidate. But there is one faint glimmer of hope remaining, and it isn't in America.

Since the democratic and staunchly anti-drug Costa Rica is, thus far, the only nation with the courage to have publicly accused Oliver North, a US Ambassador and a CIA station chief of running drugs from their sovereignty to the United States, I find myself, duty-bound to make them, or any other nation that would have the courage to make similar charges, the following offer:

I, Michael Levine, twenty-five year veteran undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration, given the mandate of the Supreme Court's Machain Decision and in fulfillment of my oath to the U.S. government and its taxpayers to arrest and seize all those individuals who would smuggle or cause illegal drugs to be smuggled into the United States or who would aid and abet drug smugglers, do hereby volunteer my services to any sovereign, democratic nation who files legal Drug Trafficking charges against Colonel Oliver North and any of his cohorts; to do everything in my power including kidnapping him, seizing his paper shredder, reading him his constitutional rights and dragging his butt to wherever that sovereignty might be, (with or without horse feed-bag); to once-and-for-all stand trial for the horrific damages caused to my country, my fellow law enforcement officers, and to my family!



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The Grad Student Who Wants to Bring Down Trump
Ryan Shapiro takes his crusade against government secrecy to the steps of the White House
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Ryan Shapiro, 41, an animal-rights activist turned Ph.D. candidate in the department of science, technology, and society at MIT, is a self-taught expert on the Freedom of Information Act.
It’s the sort of scene that one imagines fuels President Trump’s sleepless, Twitter-trolling nights.

Some 75 politically active New Yorkers are gathered for a mid-April fund raiser in a tony, two-story apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood owned by a venture capitalist named Nihal Mehta and his wife, Reshma Saujani, a lawyer and former Democratic congressional candidate.

The guest of honor is Ryan Shapiro, a 41-year-old radical animal-rights activist turned Ph.D. candidate in the department of science, technology, and society at MIT. He is also a celebrated expert on the Freedom of Information Act, which since 1967 has given citizens the right to obtain information from any federal agency. Over the past six years he’s requested hundreds of thousands of documents and sued the CIA, the National Security Administration, and the departments of Justice, Agriculture, and Defense for noncompliance. The FBI, his most frequent target, has labeled his research methods a security risk. Progressive journalists refer to him as a "FOIA superhero."

"We’re all here tonight because we share fears about what the conflicts of interest and rampant corruption and muzzling of our government agencies mean for the future," Shapiro tells the IT entrepreneurs, lawyers, and assorted corporate creatives who fill the living room and spill up the stairs. "We’re all here tonight because the democratic process cannot meaningfully exist without an informed citizenry. And such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about what our government is up to."

The presentation feeds the room’s palpable angst. A majority of those assembled went to bed on November 8 panic-stricken that Donald Trump’s next reality show was going to air from the White House. On November 9, Shapiro awoke determined not to watch it sitting down.

So Shapiro and his partner in FOIA litigation, the D.C.-based lawyer Jeffrey Light, who had planned to hound President Hillary Clinton on their own dime just as they had Barack Obama and George W. Bush, decided to drop everything and concentrate on the new administration’s unapologetic opacity. "This country has gone from bad to worse to ‘Oh my God,’ " Shapiro says later. "We can’t just go after intelligence agencies now. We need to go after the Trump administration on the whole. And this requires us to really scale up."

Before Inauguration Day, Light, Shapiro, and three other partners christened Operation 45, which will use the FOIA to hold the 45th president accountable for his dealings in office and beyond. "We would like to be part of the avalanche that eventually delegitimizes this administration," says Sarahjane Blum, a longtime animal-rights activist who calls herself the "Swiss Army knife" of the project.

When Lyel Resner, a former MIT student familiar with Ryan’s efforts and shooting-star status among young progressives, heard of the launch, he and Mehta worked to help Shapiro and Co. create an umbrella nonprofit group with the decidedly nonpartisan name Property of the People.

On this night, the team hopes to match the nearly $50,000 that Operation 45 has already raised via GoFundMe. The money will allow Shapiro and Light to pay their way and begin recruiting outside legal help. By end of year, they hope to have a $300,000 operating budget to sustain various endeavors. "I really do hate bragging," Shapiro says as his audience begins to consider whether or not to log in to their PayPal accounts. "But we are hands down the best at this [FOIA] game. In fact, we’ve essentially invented the game. There is no one else even playing the game at the level we are."

“If Ryan was just a tattooed guy doing FOIA without academic credentials, maybe we'd be fighting an uphill battle.” Shapiro’s résumé is catnip for the crowd. His journey from research-obsessed academic to celebrated FOIA advocate has earned him coverage in prominent publications like Mother Jones, Huffington Post, and The Nation, which opined in early February that Operation 45 was among the "most interesting or promising" grassroots groups poised to resist the president. He’s also a research affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, at Harvard University, a credential that evokes cerebral weight and digital savvy.
With professorial authority, Shapiro delivers his 20-minute presentation at hyperspeed, as is his wont, so there’s time left to explore the logistical and legal vagaries of FOIA, "one of the most underappreciated elements of the entire American experiment." Used to talking with reporters and firing up crowds at events such as the Animal Rights National Conference and DEF CON, a venerable convention of hackers in Las Vegas, Shapiro has also learned to pepper his talks with one-liners that are equal parts biographical, informational, and memorable:

One of his favorites: "Everyone hates being lied to, but I really, really hate being lied to."

Another: "We all have traits that are maladaptive or adaptive. My contempt for agencies, and OCD, and need for conflict have not always been the best traits. When it comes to FOIA, though, it’s a ‘I love the smell of napalm in the morning kind of work.’ "

It’s an infectious communication style that appears guileless, which by all accounts is both an accurate reflection of Shapiro’s character and a trait he has learned to shape into a formidable brand.

Nazis.

"Very little in the world more powerfully impacted my thinking as a kid," Shapiro says. "I learned about the Holocaust at 5 or 6, and became an atheist. But I grew up in a Reform Jewish house in Washington, D.C. And as Peter Novick wrote in his phenomenal The Holocaust in American Life, there is only one thing uniting American Jewry: It’s not a position on Israel. It’s not a belief in God. It’s the notion that, but for an accident in time and space, you could have been smoke coming out of a stack in Poland."

Shapiro read everything he could get his hands on about Hitler’s murderous regime. Before long, what came to animate his adolescent imagination wasn’t the gas chambers but the German public’s everyday acquiescence.

"Concentration camps were adjacent to towns and small cities," he says. "You have a situation where there was an actual wall. On one side of the wall, you had human beings subjected to among the worst horrors in human history. On the other side of that wall, you had people literally shopping. What terrified me was that radical abandonment. That haunted me. It does to this day."

Sensitive, inquisitive, and ferociously autonomous, the teenage Shapiro — whose first middle-school research paper focused on the executed anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti — became politically engaged and found expression in the punk-rock movement of the late ’80s. "It gave me a vocabulary for all the anger, rage, and disappointment in the world," he says. "It saved my life." (In 2013, the Mother Jones profile of Shapiro was at first headlined "Meet the Former Punk Rocker Who Can Liberate Your FBI File." He took the editors to task. "I ain’t no former punk rocker," Shapiro says. "I made it a fact-checking issue. My work is directly animated by punk rock." The word was removed from the online version.)

After high school, Shapiro was driving to a mall to buy a Mother’s Day gift when, for the first time, he considered the factory farms rushing past his windshield. "In that moment, I thought, ‘Wow, there’s tens of thousands of sentient lives on the other side of those walls being enslaved and tortured. And I’m driving past them to go shopping.’ I almost vomited. And at that moment, I knew I needed to actively work against these environmental crimes."

As an undergraduate film student at New York University, Shapiro became immersed in the radical animal-rights movement, co-ordinating aggressive civil disobedience on campus and in the city. In 1997 he met Blum, then a sophomore at Vassar College. The two of them began a romantic relationship, fueled by their common cause, that would last for six years. "When I met Ryan, he was, in the most important ways, exactly the same as he is today," she says. "There was nothing that daunted him in terms of being a big idea. His attitude was, ‘We’re going to think as big as possible until somebody tells us we can’t.’ That’s really infectious."

Andy Stepanian, another partner in Property of the People and creative director of The Sparrow Project, which organized a seminal protest in support of Edward Snowden in 2013, met Shapiro and Blum in the NYU days. He fondly remembers the time they chained themselves to a Macy’s store using rebar and cement. "In those years, Ryan and Sarah commanded a tenor of leadership, even though the groups we were involved with operated nonhierarchically," he says.

“I became increasingly enthusiastic about the academy as a site in which to produce dangerous knowledge.” Stepanian was indicted in 2004 and was sentenced to three years in prison for violating the Animal Enterprise Protection Act, passed in 1992 but enforced more vigorously after September 11, 2001. In 2006 the law was amended to become the Animal Terrorism Act, which increased penalties further and drew the ire of civil-liberties advocates. Shapiro and Blum became co-plaintiffs, along with three others, in a lawsuit challenging the ATA. The case was dismissed.
A few years earlier, Shapiro and Blum had narrowly avoided jail time themselves. In 2003 they finished a 16-minute documentary, Delicacy of Despair, an exposé on foie gras in New York, in which they filmed and then released emaciated ducks and geese. The work became an underground sensation that bubbled up to the mainstream. Animal Planet did a feature on the fresh-faced filmmakers and the animals they had taken and transported to a holistic veterinary clinic for physical therapy. The cable-TV channel also aired some of the film’s deeply disturbing footage, which includes geese being force-fed, stuffed into steel cages, and rendered so helpless that they couldn’t fend off the bites of stray rats. The film sparked a movement in California, where, in September 2004, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill banning the production and sale of foie gras.

It also led to Blum’s and Shapiro’s arrests on charges of felony burglary. Both of them expected to go to prison. Thanks to a good defense, however, and a district attorney whom Blum guesses was averse to bad publicity, the charges were conditionally dropped in 2004. "I didn’t know what to do next," Shapiro says. "The entire model of activism that I and other people had pursued for the previous decade with impunity was made untenable, because the movement was suddenly considered the nation’s number-one domestic-terror threat."

Blum, who was enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate in Georgetown University’s history program, went home to New York to take care of her ailing mother and "keep her nose clean." Shapiro completed a graduate degree in modern American history at American University and decided to enroll at MIT and keep his head down.

Trained as an archival historian, Shapiro doesn’t trust people’s memories. He wants to see the paper. When he began writing his doctoral thesis on the history of the animal-rights movement, which dates to the late 1800s, he was able to find reams of early material in archives and libraries around the country. When he began looking for documentation about radicals in the more modern movement, though, he discovered that much of what he was seeking was housed by national-security agencies, particularly the FBI.

Knowing that he needed to learn how to submit FOIA requests for the information, he decided to test the process by asking for his own FBI file. The agency responded that there wasn’t one. "I was a little hurt," Shapiro jokes. But he knew there would be a file on a friend who had spent time in federal custody. Again, the agency claimed there was no record. "Oh, I get it. I get it," he says in a singsong voice. "This is my fault. I was being naïve. I’m being lied to."

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From that moment on, Shapiro’s distaste for the FBI, his fear of government secrecy, and his talent for unearthing and cataloging massive data sets led to a fixation on FOIA. "I started submitting thousands of experimental requests to try and map out the nature and architecture of FBI noncompliance with the FOIA," he says, "because secrecy is a cancer on the body of democracy." He also expanded the scope of his thesis to explore "the apparatus of national security to marginalize animal-rights activists as threats to the state."
According to news reports, the Department of Justice labeled Shapiro the nation’s "most prolific" FOIA requester and a security threat based on the so-called mosaic theory of intelligence. The essence of the theory, which took root during the Cold War, is that hostile parties like Shapiro, who don’t have any direct evidence, will cast a wide net and piece together indirect evidence to create a larger picture, revealing information that could be harmful to the state.

To his partner-in-litigation Jeffrey Light’s way of thinking, the accusation is nonsense, since all information is interconnected, and the mosaic theory "has no limiting principle." Shapiro, asked if the claim might have some merit since he does, in fact, engage in data dives to see what he can unearth, gets irked. The Freedom of Information Act is crippled, he says, because security agencies can deny requests without consequence — even though the law took effect in 1967 and, after being amended to become more rigorous, survived a presidential veto in 1974. "Look, just like any researcher researching anything, I’m trying to map out what’s going on," he says. "That’s what the law is there for."

Regardless, the FBI and other agencies denied the requests, which led Shapiro to consider litigation. He was put in touch with Light, a FOIA attorney who was looking for clients. "You can only go so far without lawsuits," Light says. "So he can sue now, and I have a client who is able to come up with really terrific ideas, manage large projects, and review large amounts of data."

In the meantime, Shapiro’s dissertation was kept waiting. He insists he’s writing furiously and is going to finish it this fall. He jokes that his adviser at MIT, Harriet Ritvo, might "kill him" if he doesn’t.

Given how fondly Ritvo speaks of her student, he’s likely to escape unscathed whether or not he hits his self-imposed deadline. Still, she is concerned that Shapiro avoid 80-page chapters. "His strengths and weaknesses are actually the same," she says. "He’s an extremely strenuous arguer. And he is an indefatigable researcher. So you can see those are both enormous strengths and things that have to be controlled."

Proud of his academic pursuits, Shapiro is clearly anxious to jump the wall, doctorate in hand, and continue work on Property of the People. "Early in grad school, while I loved the opportunities to think about interesting things with brilliant people, I realized I didn’t think I was being productive enough in terms of social justice and social change, and the whole thing began to feel somewhat masturbatory," he says. "As my dissertation and FOIA work progressed, though, I became increasingly enthusiastic about the academy as a site in which to produce dangerous knowledge."
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We've Got to Break This Mindset That Policing Is the Only Tool
Saturday, November 04, 2017


Janine Jackson: The litany of instances of police violence and misconduct is both infuriating and almost numbing. Our guest's new book suggests we reconsider our understanding of policing, see it less as a tool that has on some occasions been used for abuse, and more as a tool for abuse, a system that does considerable harm even when functioning as designed. That reflects more closely the history of the institution in this country, and it's really only seeing things that radically -- going to the root -- that lets us see a way out, not a way back to some imagined time in which there was harmony between police and community everywhere, but forward to a time in which policies of punishment don't distort so many societal functions, and consign huge numbers of especially black and brown people to the margins.

The book is called The End of Policing; author Alex Vitale is professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. He joins us now by phone. Welcome back to CounterSpin, Alex Vitale.

Alex Vitale: Thank you.

People are offended, I think morally, when you suggest that the inequity of the impact of policing is not a bug but a feature. I think we tend to think of it as an institution made in a lab, you know: We need protection from criminals, so let's create "law enforcement." I wonder if you would tell us a little bit of the actual history of US policing that shapes the role that we see it playing today.

Sure. There's kind of a standard liberal narrative, academic narrative, historical narrative, about the police, that begins with the London Metropolitan Police formed in 1829. And the idea behind it, that's propagated behind it, is that it was an improvement over the kind of semi-professional watch, that was made up of volunteers and others pressed into service that would walk around at night, on the one hand, and the use of the militia to put down riots and disorder on the other hand. And the feeling was that this would be a civilian force under the control of local authorities, and would engage in a kind of neutral enforcement of the law.

But the reality is, is that the model for the London Metropolitan Police actually is directly tied to the British occupation of Ireland. And the person who creates the London police, Robert Peel -- Robert, Bob, the Bobbies -- had been in charge of the British occupation of Ireland, and it was there that he begins to develop the idea of a civilian force that could be used to put down rural uprisings more efficiently than relying on the British army, which had been tied up in the Napoleonic Wars, was overstretched and highly indebted. So he creates the Irish Peace Preservation Force, which is located in local communities, which allows for better surveillance and preemptive action to put down social unrest.

London, during this period, is awash in this newly industrializing working class, that's come from rural areas, and the job of the police was to micromanage the lives of this new industrial urban workforce, in a way that tried to mold them into a reliable workforce. So there were all kinds of little minor nuisance laws that were enforced, as well as proscriptions on, you know, drunk and disorderly behavior, etc., that had the purpose of getting people to go home to their families, get up in the morning and go to work and be productive, and to try to stamp out lifestyles that weren't tied to a standard industrial work life. At the same time, they put down riots, they put down labor movements, they attacked strikers, etc.

And we can see this in the US context as well, with the creation of forces to drive Native American populations out, to drive out Mexicans from what was becoming Texas at the time, to stamp out workers movements, to shoot miners in Pennsylvania, etc. And so the book basically argues that the origins of policing should be understood as intimately tied to three major forms of accumulation during the 19th century, and these are slavery, colonialism and the new industrial workforce.

So it's always been a kind of social engineering, if you will. The definition of crime itself has been very much shaped by the social control impetus of the enterprise of policing.

It was a new way of constructing state power that was more fine-tuned than relying on the army and the militia. It was able to produce legitimacy for the state in a way that the army was not; it relied on brute power. And so this was much more efficient for the state, and the state immediately began on this kind of mythmaking, of saying that, well, of course we understand the state is legitimate, because these are liberal democracies of some form, and therefore any expression of state power is legitimate. But all of that discourse completely hides slavery, completely hides the suppression of workers movements, and so the actual tasks of this seemingly legitimate state are in fact designed to reproduce race and class inequalities, and the police are just a softer touch in carrying out that mission.

You can certainly see a worldview at work that is fomented, I think, by media, in which you want police to have all of the weapons, and you want them to have freedom to do anything at all, because there are good and bad people in the world, and cops protect the good from the bad. When major percentages of people are going to prison for nonviolent drug offenses, for example, this idea that there are different sorts of people, bad criminals who do harm and good noncriminals, you have to challenge that.

This is the problem with all this "thin blue line" and "war on cops" discourse that's out there, is that it assumes that the world is divided up between good people and bad people, and that the only way to produce safety, to protect the good from the bad, is through coercive state power: the threat of arrest, the use of violence.

And of course, when we look at middle-class, leafy suburban communities, they don't need police to manage their social problems. They have mechanisms and resources to regulate those things themselves, and, of course, they're beneficiaries, in large part, from the basic political and economic arrangements. And so no one feels like, oh, of course they need heavy-handed policing in those communities. It's poor people who are perceived to be only responsive to this kind of coercive power.

The book -- and I do want to get onto it, because the book talks about alternatives, it talks about a way that we could do things differently, so I wanted to get you started talking about that. When we're talking about this kind of -- you know, you say at one point, "Whole segments of our society have been deemed always-already guilty," and it's there that the most help is needed, of course. So what are some of the alternatives to policing that the book is getting at?

Well, what I do is I take eight areas of policing, and look at the origins of that kind of policing, what the problem is it claims to be trying to solve, and then look at the literature that shows just how many problems that kind of policing actually produces rather than resolves, and then try to lay out a series of alternatives to relying on police.

So we don't need nicer school police, we don't need better-trained school police. The whole idea of school policing is deeply flawed. All the research shows that it doesn't make young people any safer, it contributes to an environment of insecurity for young people, it's also often demeaning, degrading, abusive and at times even deadly to these young people. There are alternatives to relying on police to deal with discipline issues in schools. And there are schools that are using these methods, like restorative justice programs, where the whole school is oriented not towards driving people out of school and into the criminal justice system, but in trying to actually resolve problems. And they use various forms of peer mediation, peer adjudication.

We could look at a community schools model that's being tried out in some areas, where the school is seen as a resource center for the whole community, so that after hours, on the weekends, there are classes and services available to the families of students. So that if there is a mental health issue, if there is an English-as-a-second-language problem that maybe is contributing to financial insecurity, if there are nutrition issues, health issues, the school could be seen as a resource for that, rather than just another place where young people are criminalized.

And I would say the book also talks about, you know, police dealing with people with mental illness, it talks about the war on drugs and border policing and political policing -- as you say, a number of different aspects in which the police seem to be taking on roles that would be better played by other social forces and other social mechanisms. Of course, what people will hear and should hear is that this requires resources, this requires a redirection of resources. And I think, I imagine, that would be some of the pushback, is simply this myth of scarcity that we hear, that we just can't invest in community somehow.

So a lot of the money we're spending now on the criminal justice system is not making people safer, it's often making communities less safe, because of the disruptive effects of cycling people through prisons and jails, and we could redirect a lot of those resources. The Youth Justice Coalition out in Los Angeles wrote a report a couple years ago where they said, look at the spending in LA County on police, jails, courts, and if we redirected just 10 percent of that money, we'd have a billion dollars a year to spend on new youth programs. And they worked with young people to lay out a program of what kinds of services would actually help young people. And they had summer jobs and after-school programs and more counselors in the schools, and these kinds of things, rather than more school police, more gang-suppression policing, more gang injunctions, the kinds of things that the county spends a lot of money on that don't work.

You do cite a lot of existing work that this is building on. So there is a history of consideration of this idea, and then, as you're saying, places where it's actually being tried, or some aspects of it are being tried.

Every chapter is filled with examples of alternatives that lay out a program that says, there are noncoercive solutions to our problems, and the thing that's preventing us from doing them is not an absence of money, it's an excess of neoliberal, neoconservative, austerity politics, that has labeled the poor as incapable of benefiting from any kind of positive proactive interactions, and defines them as basically only capable of responding to threats and punishment. And in a way, this is, I think, a profoundly racist ideology. Even though it is embraced by many black and Latino politicians, it really treats their constituencies as less than fully human, and then subjects them to dehumanizing treatment by the police, jails, prisons, etc.

And so we can't just tinker with the police response, to make it a little bit nicer or to make the police department a little more diverse, because none of that gets at this core problem. We have to really, directly address the politics of the country, that's largely bipartisan, that says that the only way we can solve problems is to criminalize them. Whether it's homelessness, severe mental illness, discipline problems in schools, youth violence, etc., we've got to break this mindset that policing is the only tool that people can have.

I've heard you say at some point, I think of abolition as a process rather than an outcome. What are you getting at with that, and is the book -- I assume the book is an attempt to sort of spark that process?

Yeah, I never start from the position of, like, imagine a world without police, something like that. I don't think that's very helpful, I think it's alienating to most people, it's confusing, and it doesn't seem, you know, realistic. However, underneath that is the root idea that policing as an institution should be understood as deeply problematic, historically, functionally and contemporarily. And that it should always be approached as the tool of last resort, so that if a community has a problem -- and many of our communities do have serious problems -- wouldn't it better to start from the position of saying, let's put all the resources of the community, of government at different levels, on the table, nonprofits, and say, how can we best solve this problem?

And we could have some principles in the process, that what we do should be cost-effective, there should actually be evidence to show that it can work, and it should try to treat people with as much dignity as possible. And when we have a process like that, such as when Ithaca looked at their opioid problem, and developed a plan for opioids that didn't involve criminalization, it involved drug treatment on demand and safe-injection facilities and needle exchange, etc., when we do that, we can come up with noncoercive solutions for so many problems that we've asked the police today to deal with.

And so that's the process that should guide community-based problem-solving, which is the exact opposite of what most communities experience today, which is, government tells them that they have to express the problem in terms that can be solved by the use of more police, more police power, more police resources. And, unfortunately, things like community policing are part of that problematic dynamic, where all community problems have to be articulated in terms of what the police can do to solve them, rather than holding the rest of government accountable for not doing something about these problems.

I just attended the Drug Policy Reform Conference in Atlanta, and one of the things that was said was that, in a way, criminal justice reform is trending now, but we have to be very wary about what it means, because at this point, anything that you do that decreases the prison population can be seen as reform, but people can still be ensnared in the criminal justice system. And one of the things that I think Deborah Small from Break the Chains said was, you don't have to lock people up to lock them out.

So there is reason to be cautious about what is going to be put forward right now. There seems to be a bipartisan understanding that, oh yes, mass incarceration is bad, we should get those numbers down. That doesn't necessarily mean they are going to the root of the question in the way that you're talking about.

Certainly, if you don't deal with the front end of this process, it's going to be very hard to really get at the root of this. Because mass incarceration should not be understood as just an expression of how many people are in prison. It's maybe more accurate to look at what Marie Gottschalk says about the development of a carceral state, in which the whole state is organized around punitive social control mechanisms, targeting the poor and the nonwhite and the immigrant. And so this suffuses, not just in the prisons and courts and policing, but into the delivery of social services, youth programs, treatment programs. It's all suffused with this coercive and punitive ideology.

This is the problem with relying on things like drug courts. We're finding, increasingly, that the services that people are sent to by these drug courts are driven by the same punitive outlook that treats people as incapable of making real decisions for themselves, belittles them, looks at their problems as ones of individual moral failing, and then fails to provide the kinds of services that people really need, like access to stable housing, stable employment, adequate healthcare, etc. So I hope that this book will put policing on the map in terms of our discussions about mass incarceration, but also the broader punitive ideology that's driving all of this.

Many would say it's time for a bold vision. I'm reminded, though, of an op-ed I just saw a few days ago, saying that calling for universal healthcare is going to re-elect Donald Trump. It seems like people who want things really to change are seen as antagonists, not just of conservatives or the right wing, but of many people who define themselves as centrists. You get this feeling of, oh, we also want this social change that you're calling for, but if you really push for it, well, then you're to blame for anything that happens. It's hard not to hear a kind of "go slow, go slow," which I just wonder, that seems something we have to fight against as well. Bold ideas require courage, and not least the courage to hold one another up when we're being attacked as being somehow the real reason that we can't see any change.

Well, I have two thoughts on that. One is that if we embrace supposed reforms to policing that just re-empower the police, and relegitimize the police, without really addressing the negative consequences of what they're doing, then we haven't really accomplished anything, and we've actually maybe made things worse.

The other is that policing is overwhelmingly a local concern, and the vast majority of policing happens in major urban areas, the majority of which are run by Democrats. And so we should not be paralyzed about broader national political trends in trying to do something about this. Wherever you're listening to this, there are local politicians who are empowering the police to be a coercive force, in a way that lets them off the hook from engaging in real problem-solving that will produce real justice for people, and we can do something about that, wherever we are.

I'll just ask you, finally: When we last spoke, the book was forthcoming; now it's out. Has the response been what you expected?

Well, it's been out for a week or two, and I've had some very positive reviews and feedback. I'm waiting to hear more from the mainstream police scholarship community, more from police, many of whom I know are reading the book, and also from elected officials, who I know are reading the book. So I'm still waiting to get more feedback, if you will, and to see what the reaction is like.

All right then. We've been speaking with Alex Vitale. The book is The End of Policing. It's out now from Verso. Alex Vitale, thank you very much for joining us this week on CounterSpin.

You're most welcome.





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The Legacy of Dennis Banks
November 4, 2017

Native American activist Dennis Banks, who died Oct. 29 at 80, leaves behind a legacy that includes a reenergized movement that reminded America of its original sins of genocide and deceit, as Dennis J Bernstein deports


By Dennis J Bernstein

Noted civil rights activist Dennis J. Banks, who co-founded the American Indian Movement and championed indigenous rights in the face of continuing oppression of Native Americans, died on Oct. 29 in his native Minnesota. He was 80 years old.


Native American activist Dennis Banks being honored at a ceremony in 2013. (Wikipedia)
Banks was born dirt poor on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation of the Ojibwa Tribe in northern Minnesota. He grew up impoverished in a home with no electricity, running water or indoor plumbing, not uncommon for American Indians. Like many native children, at the age of five, Banks was forced to go to a boarding school run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which was meant to “civilize” the children. Banks later compared the schools to “concentration camps” for the cruel and inhumane way they treated the native children.

Banks moved to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in 1966, after he was discharged from the U.S. military. There he was sent to prison for stealing groceries and other necessities to feed his family, he said.

While in prison, Banks founded the American Indian Movement, or AIM, with other jailed Native Americans. AIM, as it came to be known, became one of the most important and influential activist groups at the height of the civil rights movement.

AIM garnered national attention during the 1973 armed standoff between Native American activists and federal authorities at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

The 72-day militant protest against tribal leaders accused them and the entire U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs of widespread corruption. Wounded Knee had been the site of an 1890 massacre of more than 300 Oglala Lakota men, women and children by U.S. Cavalry troops.

The Feds charged Banks and another AIM leader, Russell Means, with conspiracy and other offenses related to the siege. The charges were ultimately dismissed.

I spoke with Russell’s brother and AIM co-founder Bill Means, following Banks’ passing.

Dennis Bernstein: We are so sorry to hear about the passing of Dennis J. Banks. Maybe you could help us understand Dennis’ place in the world of resistance and standing our ground.

Bill Means: I was thinking back to when I first met Dennis. It was as a soldier coming back from Vietnam. My brother and my mother were at a conference in San Francisco and invited me to come. I was amazed that people in the Indian community were getting together to organize behind various issues such as treaty rights, fighting the extractive industries, and exposing health conditions on the reservations.

We took a day trip to Alcatraz, which was being occupied at the time, and that is where I met Dennis Banks. Alcatraz was one of the sparks that lit the fire of Indian resistance and indigenous movements throughout the world. The Alcatraz event was started by Bay Area institutions, including students at San Francisco State and Lehman Brightman’s organization, United Native Americans. The Bay Area is well known for very creative movements aimed at self-determination.

At the time, I couldn’t wait to get out of this uniform and become a part of this movement. From the time of my discharge six months later, the only thing on my mind was how I could get with the AIM people, finish my college education, and help organize what was going on with various actions in the Dakotas and Minnesota.

Dennis Bernstein: Talk about Wounded Knee and how you brought history up to date in the 1970’s.

Bill Means: AIM had been leading the fight against racism in South Dakota, including the death of a young man named Raymond Yellow Thunder in the city of Gordon, Nebraska. There has always been a very tense relationship between Indians and these border towns that surround reservations. The mistreatment of Indians was not unlike what was happening in the South with African Americans.


Activists carry the American Indian Movement flag at a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Seattle, WA on Sep. 16, 2016. (Flickr John Duffy)
As the Civil Rights Movement grew, so did the Indian Rights Movement. We were fighting for our civil rights from the perspective of treaty rights. Unlike any other minority in the country, we had a political and legal relationship with the United States government which was on the level of nation-to-nation rather than state rights. The states had always trampled on our rights. That is how they formed, by taking Indian land.

We had always been fighting against extractive industries, whether it was gold, uranium, coal or oil. However, when Raymond Yellow Thunder was killed, it had to do directly with racism and the treatment of Indians. He was dragged into an American Legion club on a Saturday night and became entertainment for the White ranchers and farmers that lived in that area. Three days later he was found beaten to death in the trunk of a car.

For at least a week, no one was charged with his death. His family came to the American Indian Movement in Omaha and told us that they had been to the BIA, the FBI, the US Marshals, and nobody would help them. We took a caravan from Omaha to the Pine Ridge Reservation. Two days later we marched on Gordon and held the town for about two days. They finally brought to trial two brothers, who got two years apiece. In the end, they served a little over a year, for conspiring to kill an Indian person. AIM was in the forefront in fighting racism and bringing to national attention this type of incident where Indian deaths go unpunished.

In 1972 we went to the BIA headquarters. We had developed what we called a twenty-point solution paper and went to Washington D.C., where we were supposed to meet with various state delegations to the national congress. When we got there, the government cancelled all of these meetings. We then took over the BIA for about seven days, and nobody missed it! We showed that the BIA was one of the most inefficient bureaucracies in the United States, where 80% of their budget went for administrative costs.

About a year later, we went to Wounded Knee. A delegation of Oglalas came to AIM and asked us to help them in their fight against the corrupt leadership of the tribal government. The district Indians, which included mostly full-blooded Indians, were being discriminated against by the half-breeds in control of the government. This was similar to the puppet governments in Latin America that provided resources and labor for the US. A system of colonialism existed on the reservations.




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DOJ Official Aided Ponzi Schemer in FBI's Probe, Lawyer Says
By Erik Larson
November 3, 2017, 3:10 PM EDT Updated on November 4, 2017, 2:15 PM EDT


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Republicans Threaten FBI's McCabe With a Subpoena
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November 5, 2017
Why Is the Mueller Investigation like the Schleswig-Holstein Question?
By Clarice Feldman
I’ve been muddling through the week’s events respecting the special counsel’s activities, trying to provide a clearer road map. And even harder -- trying to do it in a way that doesn’t make it seem more complicated than need be. A friend reminded me of Lord Palmerston’s observation: “The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it.”

Actually, it may be simpler than that, though not much more.


A good place to start is with Conrad Black. If you recall, he, too, was, was the victim of overzealous prosecution which destroyed his publishing empire and resulted in his serving jail time before much of the case was tossed on appeal.

After detailing the media’s uneasiness in the blowback disaster of the “Russian collusion with Trump” nonsense, he observes:

There is not a shred of evidence to support this, despite fervent efforts by the Obama administration and the special counsel to unearth some. Nor is there any evidence of actual Russian influence on the election result or of any policy change by the present administration toward Russia that the Kremlin would welcome. Nor, though The New York Times clings to the story, has any evidence surfaced that Fusion GPS was initially retained on this file by anti-Trump Republicans. [snip]

As this hydrogen balloon was blowing up like the Hindenburg at the mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1937, the Uranium One affair was boiling over as a new congressional investigation was launched into the whole issue of about $131 million to $145 million being pledged or paid to the Clinton Foundation as Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for an ordinary speech in Moscow. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder agreed to sell 20 percent of American uranium resources to Russia, through Russian intermediaries then under intensive investigation by the FBI director, Robert Mueller, and by then U.S. attorney in Maryland Rod Rosenstein. [snip]

The trifecta was completed with the revelation that the investigation of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was not based on his brief relations with Donald Trump, but on his lengthy connection with the Democratic Podesta brothers, and the extent to which he helped them funnel wealthy and influential Russians into high governmental circles in Washington.

There need not be anything wrong with this either, but it has nothing to do with Trump and the entire fraudulent defamation that Trump did anything improper with the Russians, much less engage in anything compromising the validity of the 2016 presidential election. That claim is an outrage whose time for asphyxiation has come. Still to be unearthed are the full stories of the Wasserman Schultz skullduggery, and the real story of improper and probably illegal surveillance at Trump Tower. As that will get all the way to President Obama, it may be expected to ooze out slowly and reluctantly, sluggish and foul.[snip] The Russian collusion scam was just a convenient intersection between the denial syndrome of the post-defeat Clintonians and the fear and anger of the garrison of the Washington sleaze factory as the improbable avenger approached.

How far afield from the original appointment of Mueller as special counsel have we gone? Very.

This morning’s Minneapolis Star Tribune reported, in a story that doesn’t seem to have gotten a lot of national attention, that William Mueller’s ever-widening investigation has ensnared Vin Weber, a former Minnesota Congressman and long-time Washington lobbyist: [snip]

Mueller’s operation is leaking on a more or less daily basis. Isn’t that illegal? Aren’t grand jury proceedings supposed to be secret? Maybe the Attorney General should appoint a special counsel to look into possible crimes associated with leaks by Mueller’s staff.

With the emphasis on the Ukrainian lobbying efforts, Mueller’s criminal probe is moving beyond investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia and is aggressively pursuing people who worked as foreign agents without registering with the Justice Department.

But wait! Mueller’s investigation isn’t supposed to “move beyond investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.” The Order appointing Mueller empowers him to investigate “any links an or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and… any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.” It seems that the current focus of Mueller’s efforts is lobbying that was carried out on behalf of one of Ukraine’s political factions, or, more broadly, failure to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department by anyone, at any time. This is not what Mueller was appointed to do. [snip]

The special counsel statute is a very poor idea, and Mueller’s implementation of it illustrates why. The job of a special counsel (or special prosecutor, as he was formerly called) is to hang scalps on the wall. Whose scalps, or why they were taken, is incidental at best. President Trump would be fully justified in firing Bill Mueller, but a better idea, in my opinion would be to appoint several more special counsel to look into various Democratic misdeeds. That would bring this whole farce to a screeching halt.

Conrad Black, writing that the Russian collusion story was blowing up, suggested that Wasserman-Schultz had engaged in skullduggery before former DNC head Donna Brazile threw this week’s latest bombshell at the DNC and in particular Hillary Clinton, whom the party appears eager to yank off the stage. Brazile charged that the DNC was nearly bankrupted by Obama and was saved only by cash infusions from Hillary Clinton, but in return for the lifeline, Clinton took control of the party and used that power to cheat Bernie Sanders out of the nomination. More, Brazile argued that the victory fund which was to be used to fund party races down ticket was instead grabbed by Hillary for her own campaign, with very little dribbled out to other candidates.

John Hinderaker, over at Powerline Blog, notes Brazile’s charges amount to a claim that Hillary and the DNC engaged in a “criminal conspiracy”

So Hillary’s campaign paid off the debt and “placed the [Democratic] party on an allowance.” Brazile said she had no knowledge of these arrangements -- or even of the party’s perilous financial condition -- even though she was an officer of the DNC. It was all Debbie’s fault.

Brazile endorses Politico’s assertion, made in May of last year, that Clinton’s arrangement with the DNC was “essentially… money laundering.” Which seems like a rather dangerous concession for a former DNC chair to make.

The campaign had the DNC on life support, giving it money every month to meet its basic expenses, while the campaign was using the party as a fund-raising clearinghouse. Under FEC law, an individual can contribute a maximum of $2,700 directly to a presidential campaign. But the limits are much higher for contributions to state parties and a party’s national committee.

Individuals who had maxed out their $2,700 contribution limit to the campaign could write an additional check for $353,400 to the Hillary Victory Fund -- that figure represented $10,000 to each of the 32 states’ parties who were part of the Victory Fund agreement -- $320,000 -- and $33,400 to the DNC. The money would be deposited in the states first, and transferred to the DNC shortly after that. Money in the battleground states usually stayed in that state, but all the other states funneled that money directly to the DNC, which quickly transferred the money to Brooklyn [Ed: the Hillary campaign].

[snip]

So Brazile sadly told Bernie Sanders that what had been leaked was true: the DNC had rigged the nomination process to ensure Hillary’s victory. [snip]

I think this is grist for a third special counsel: the second, as I have said before, should look into Uranium One, the FBI’s apparent complicity in the cover-up of Uranium One, and collusion between the Clinton campaign and Russians. The third special counsel should investigate whether the Clinton campaign and the DNC violated campaign finance laws or other statutes through their “money laundering” agreement.

Hillary’s refusal to accept the results of the election might prove to be a disaster to the DNC and its officials, but it might be boon to DC’s white-collar criminal defense bar. That is, if we don’t all grow sick and tired of special counsels and do away with them bipartisanly before we reach that point.

But there’s even more: a new report states that FBI Deputy director McCabe is himself in the hot seat.

Documents recently released by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch show that while current FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe recused himself from the investigation of Hillary Clinton, he didn’t do so until days before November’s election. The information was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI that sought records related to McCabe’s involvement with the state Senate campaign of his wife, Dr. Jill McCabe.

McCabe was the Assistant Director in Charge of the Washington Field Office when the probe was going on, and therefore controlled resources for the investigation. While the investigation was still underway, in February 2016, McCabe became Deputy Director of the Bureau, thus overseeing the whole operation.

The Clinton investigation officially began in July 2015, but Clinton’s private email server became public knowledge that March. Days after that news got out, Jill McCabe was approached by Clinton associate Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe about running for office and Dr. McCabe announced her candidacy less than a week later. McAuliffe raised nearly $700,000 for the campaign. [snip]

An internal memo, “Overview of Deputy Director McCabe’s Recusal Related To Dr. McCabe’s Campaign for Political Office,” also addressed McCabe’s potential conflicts, including the Clinton investigation. The same document showed that FBI officials had a set answer to questions about McCabe and his wife’s campaign, and that was to say that he did not play any role, attend events, or help support the campaign at all. Despite this, a photograph surfaced of McCabe at a campaign event, and days before the election, a social media page of Dr. McCabe’s showed an image of Andrew with a sign saying, “I am voting for Jill because she is the best wife ever.”

“The FBI is compromised. Mr. McCabe should have been nowhere near the Hillary Clinton investigations,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “That he saw fit to recuse himself only days before the election further demonstrates the FBI’s Clinton email investigation was a sham. No wonder it took a year and a federal lawsuit to get these records. It is well past time for the Justice Department to reopen the Clinton email investigation.”

About the same time Mrs. McCabe was receiving almost ¾ of a million dollars from Clinton friends, a special FBI agent apparently began a criminal investigation of the agencies involved in the Uranium One deal approval with requests that they preserve the records:

Taken in their totality those FBI special agent notifications now encompassed every member of the CFIUS group who “signed off” on approval of the Uranium One deal.

It would be intellectually dishonest not to see the very likely attachment of the special agent’s action. That is to say an FBI probe originating as an outcome of information retrieved in parallel to the timing of the “criminal probe” of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email use.

The sequence of events highlights a criminal probe starting [early August 2015], followed by notifications to the “Uranium One” CFIUS participants [late August 2015].

If you consider the larger Clinton timeline; along with the FBI special agent requests from identified participants; and overlay the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as the leading entity surrounding the probe elements; and the fact that the CFIUS participants were the recipients of the retention requests; well, it’s just too coincidental to think this is unrelated to the Uranium One deal and the more alarming implications.

Further, if you consider this factual researched information against the backdrop of new and current information about the roles of each of the outlined participants; and the knowledge of the mystery FBI informant who was threatened to keep his mouth shut; well, it’s not a leap to connect the dots and see that the top-tier of the FBI (Robert Mueller, James Comey) and DOJ (Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Rod Rosenstein, et al), along with their subordinates, would potentially be in legal jeopardy….

And don’t think that in 2017 these people are not acutely aware of that risk, and signaling their audience [snip] Congress can get, and see, those FBI preservation notification documents without redaction. Congress could then interview the FBI special agent who was obviously in charge of key elements within the 2015 probe. Put the FBI special agent together with the unnamed FBI informant, question them, and discover what they know about the entire Uranium One deal -- and there’s the road-map to tear this thing wide open.

Pressure is building to demand that Trump fire McCabe and Mueller and replace Sessions and Rosenstein. I understand the frustrations of those who are calling for such actions. Someday in the future, some or all of those actions might have to be taken. Someday, but not just yet. If the President removed them now, every media flake would be screaming Saturday Night Massacre and cover up. As the facts leak out, discrediting Mueller and his Clintonite crew, steam is building against them. For the moment, why not concentrate on reducing regulations, increasing employment, getting more nominations confirmed, moving a moribund economy back on track, and closing the borders (the importance of which was underlined this week by the horrible massacre in New York City). In the meantime, it appears that Monafort and Gates’ lawyers seem well equipped to pitch battle and I expect Vin Weber’s and Skadden Arps’ are, too. When the extent of the perfidy becomes clear and the first objectives met -- and the midterms are over -- it may be the right time to act. More simply put, I don't feel equipped to second-guess a man who is such an artful strategist.

Especially when the people who pitched the grenade in his direction are watching it bounce back.

I’ve been muddling through the week’s events respecting the special counsel’s activities, trying to provide a clearer road map. And even harder -- trying to do it in a way that doesn’t make it seem more complicated than need be. A friend reminded me of Lord Palmerston’s observation: “The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it.”

Actually, it may be simpler than that, though not much more.

A good place to start is with Conrad Black. If you recall, he, too, was, was the victim of overzealous prosecution which destroyed his publishing empire and resulted in his serving jail time before much of the case was tossed on appeal.

After detailing the media’s uneasiness in the blowback disaster of the “Russian collusion with Trump” nonsense, he observes:



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Julianna Margulies reportedly 'squirmed' out of hotel room encounters with Steven Seagal, Harvey Weinstein
BY JESSICA CHIA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, November 3, 2017, 9:55 PM




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Some Puerto Ricans living at the very ends of the electric grid may wait until spring or summer before they get their power back, warns Semonite. "The last mile is going to take a long, long time… probably 62,000 power poles that have to be brought in from the United States, that have to be shipped here over water… and then you're going to run 6,100 miles of cable," he tells Kroft. "The science and the engineering and the logistics to be able to make that happen is just going to take some time," says the general.

"We're going to push like heck," says Semonite, "I think the majority of people will hope to have their power up in January, maybe February. I would predict there's some people on that last mile that are going to be close to spring or summer before they get those very, very last houses," he says.

60 Minutes spent over a week reporting in Puerto Rico. Kroft also spoke to Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello, Mike Byrne of FEMA and to retired FBI Agent Hector Pesquera, a Puerto Rican native who is directing emergency services and public safety on the island.



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The latest brutal terrorist attack on innocent civilians – this one taking place in New York, my adopted city, two blocks from where I was last Tuesday – was another senseless dot on a bloody timeline. And yet, these seemingly random dots may somehow be connected.

Conspiracy theories are a kind of mental illness, and the granddaddy of them all, the JFK assassination 54 years ago, has just got a shot in the arm with the release of a batch of previously classified material. Three generations of madmen will now be pouring over the new trove, each seeking corroboration of his or her pet theory as to which secret service killed the Kennedys and why.

Then there is the subculture claiming that the 9/11 terror attacks were perpetrated by US security services, the Israeli Mossad or both.

Such things hit close to home. One of my cousins is a 9/11 truther while another rejects that conspiracy but believes that the Tsarnaev brothers had nothing to do with the bombing of the Boston Marathon in 2013. The strange killing of their friend Ibragim Todashev by an FBI agent fits seamlessly into his narrative.

Everyone knows at least some conspiracy theorists. They may be certifiably mad or merely mildly paranoid and their claims are relatively easy to dismiss. Except for the fact that our societies are crawling with spooks, spies and secret agents of every kind, as well as their snitches.

The Soviet Union built an extensive foreign intelligence network in the 1920s and 1930s, which paid huge dividends in the form ofatomic secrets and Kim Philby at the top of British counterintelligence operations. At the same time, the internal wing of the secret police mounted a nationwide domestic surveillance operation, recruiting an army of paid and pro bono spies.

The Allies had to create spying agencies during World War II l, which then expanded during the Cold War. By the 1980s, the spooks started to rise to political power. Ronald Reagan, The New York Times reported in 2012, was an FBI informant in his Hollywood days, something that seemed to have greatly helped his political career. George Bush, Sr. ran the CIA.

Since 9/11, domestic and international spying – electronic as well as physical – grew into a major US industry, endowed with unlimited human and financial resources.

In Soviet Union, the Communist Party feared Stalin’s ubiquitous secret police that arrested and killed people at every level without warning, and after his death party bosses placed the KGB under strict party control. This didn’t prevent Yuri Andropov using his chairmanship of the spy-cum-political-police agency to rise to political power. Mikhail Gorbachev, while not officially a KGB man, was nevertheless Andropov’s protege. This gave rise to a conspiracy theory that the whole of perestroika policy was a clever ploy by the KGB.

Now Russia is ruled by a former lieutenant colonel in the KGB who at one time ran its successor, the FSB. Opposition leader Vladimir Milov recently pointed out that Russia’s Security Council, a group of 30 members of Putin’s inner circle who are the true power that be in Russia, has 17 siloviki – current and former high-ranking officers of various security agencies.

Seventeen also happens to be the number of security agencies of the United States government.

With so many spooks of all kinds running around, it’s no wonder people start thinking about conspiracies. In fact, one is currently dominating headlines in American media: the Russian conspiracy to influence last year’s presidential elections and the likely collusion with the Trump campaign. As a corollary to it, there is a competing narrative being peddled by Trump and his supporters, of Hillary Clinton also colluding with the Russians.

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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
wtc7 pentagon
Draft Agenda for 11/29/17 Teleconference



8pm (ET)/5pm (PT) Teleconference # (641) 715-0632 Access code: 551571#
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Greetings all,

To start us off this month, Craig McKee will give his assessment of how the 9/11 Truth Movement can address the contentious question of what happened, and what didn’t happen, at the Pentagon on 9/11 as well as how friction within the movement over this subject might be overcome. To this end, Craig will explain a new initiative he has taken to find common ground on a point that, he asserts, shows the official story false – that a 757 did NOT hit the Pentagon.

This month of we commemorate the assassination of president John F Kennedy. Was this this the work of an isolated cabal or the maiden voyage of the US Deep State? To mark the occasion and help us connect these dots, we're fortunate to be joined by recognized researcher and director of the Justice Integrity Project Andrew Kreig. Fifty years have now passed since this tragic event unfolded! Don't miss this opportunity to hear the latest word on the JFK assassination/Deep State connection from this renowned advocate of truth!

We'll close with any announcements you have to share with the Truth community.

See you Wednesday night for these latest currents in the Truth movement!


Peace,
Ken Freeland
Cheryl Curtiss
Craig McKee


DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday 29 November Teleconference

I Roll Call, minutes approval (see below), agenda approval (5 min)

II "The Pentagon: Where we've been and where we need to go" [Craig McKee] (commentary and discussion-25 min)

III "The JFK Assassination and the Deep State" [Andrew Kreig] (30 min) {Cheryl}

IV Announcements

V Any available updates on issues of identified ongoing concern (if any remaining time)\
New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes
9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce
Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community; MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth
Google censorship
The 9/11 Consensus Panel
9/11 Truth political candidates
VI Adjournment (by 9:30 p Eastern)

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


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Craig McKee, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference Call
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Draft minutes for the Wed., October 25, 2017 regular conference call

Present were:

Ken Freeland, Teleconference co-facilitator, Houston 9/11Truth
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference secretary, Truth and Shadows
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Wayne Coste, TAP
David Cole, Nine Eleven Accountability Team
Peter Michael Ketcham, formerly of NIST
Barbara Honegger, Behind the Smoke Curtain
Frank Tolopko, Berkshire 9/11 Truth
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
Charles Ewing Smith
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception
Dwain Deets, TAP
Greg Longo, 9/11 activist
Bill Wilt, Mass. congressional candidate
Cat McGuire, 9/11 Truth Outreach
David Rolde, Boston 9/11 Truth
Pat O’Connell, TAP
Karl Golovin, 9/11 activist
Wayne Madsen, The Madsen Report
Michael Cook, AE911Truth
Bill Wilt, Congressional candidate

The minutes of the September 27, 2017 conference call were APPROVED pending the inclusion of a link to the final video shot in New York City on Sept. 11.

The draft agenda was APPROVED.

Pressure on Hulsey students
Wayne Madsen discussed his article on the pressure brought against students of Prof. Leroy Hulsey of the University of Alaska who is doing an engineering study of the destruction of Building 7.

Discussion on 9/11 Rogue Agenda
Charles Ewing Smith lead a discussion of his film 9/11 Rogue Agenda. Anyone who would like to watch the film can do so here. Charles invites everyone to offer feedback by emailing him at chucksmith1@mac.com.

Discussion on 9/11 Rogue Agenda
Wayne Coste gave another presentation on the Pentagon that addressed some questions that had been raised on a past teleconference. You can view his PowerPoint presentation here: http://www.hopeoutloud.org/pentagon/Pen ... Impact.pdf

Announcements
Wayne Coste mentioned a conference that is going on in November in New York City that is to feature William Binney, who will discuss NSA systems that were turned off for 9/11 and then back on after the event.
Barbara Honegger noted that the day after the call, the remaining Kennedy documents were scheduled to be released from the National Archive. She added that there are two historic JFK conferences going on in November.
Craig McKee announced that he will be making a statement on the next call about where he thinks the Truth Movement needs to go with respect to the Pentagon. He hopes that as many people as possible will participate in the discussion.
Wayne announced that he will follow up on a presentation Craig did about the increasing Google suppression of alternative websites, adding that an article on the subject is being posted on the 911tap.org site.

Call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 9:40 p.m. EST/5 p.m. to 6:40 p.m. PST

Audio of the Oct. 25 call can be heard here: http://www.houston911truth.net/audio/102517.mp3. The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Please email agenda items for next call to facilitator Ken Freeland (diogenesquest@gmail.com) by Nov. 25. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require.

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Announcing the winners of the Media Lab Disobedience Award
MIT Media Lab



One year ago, Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, encouraged us to explore the idea of a Disobedience Award, providing $250,000 to fund a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience.
We called for nominations in March, not knowing what to expect, but hopeful for a few hundred candidates. Within six weeks, we had passed the 7,800+ mark, with candidates from six continents. The sheer volume wasn’t the only challenge. We needed to define responsible and ethical disobedience, and to select a winner for whom the award would be both an appropriate recognition of their work and fuel for increasing impact.
As the submissions came in, we recruited a team of 10 judges to join the two of us—Farai Chideya, George Church, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Jesse Dylan, Jerome Friedman, Marshall Ganz, Andrew “bunnie” Huang, Alaa Murabit, Jamila Raqib, and Maria Zuber—with expertise in the fields where we expected the most nominees: activism, journalism, science, and the arts. Our fellow committee members are distinguished, smart, and very busy people, unlikely to have time to read 7,800 submissions, so we whittled down the duplicates and identified the strongest candidates. At our first meeting, we had 220 finalists to evaluate.
Ultimately, the two winners we selected for this year’s Disobedience Award are people whose work reflects the hopes that led to the prize in the first place: Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Professor Marc Edwards. Both are scientists who became activists, using rigorous research to investigate the concerns of citizens in Flint, Michigan to unravel a mystery that many in positions of power would have preferred to keep under wraps. Both faced harassment and ridicule for their work and risked academic sanctions for defying conventions of peer review as they sought to bring attention to Flint's water crisis before more people were affected. Their work shows that science and scholarship are as powerful tools for social change as art and protest, and it challenges those of us in academia to use our powers for good.



At the start of the selection process, we didn’t intend to offer honorable mentions, but the strength of our candidates compelled us to distinguish several. Reid generously offered to fund an additional $10,000 for each of the following: Professor James Hansen, the Water Protectors of Standing Rock, and the founders of Freedom University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jim Hansen is widely recognized as a pioneer of climate change research. At NASA, he faced substantial pushback as he made bold, data-backed predictions in climate science. His work from within a powerful institution defended what is right in defiance of pressure. For this, the committee decided it was important to honor his many contributions.
The Water Protectors of Standing Rock brought together the largest gathering of Native Tribes in more than a century to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Members of the movement like LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, Phyllis Young, Jasilyn Charger, and Joseph White Eyes held a prayer vigil in defiance, drawing an historic gathering of tribes, allies, and people from all walks of life standing in solidarity.
Freedom University Georgia, which offers free classes on Sundays, was founded by Professors Betina Kaplan, Lorgia García Peña, Pamela Voekel, and Bethany Moreton at the University of Georgia. They were outraged that undocumented students had to pay out-of-state tuition to attend state schools. Students in the program have gone on to universities in other states where laws are more flexible and just.
Many of the nominations were expected, and came in by the dozens or even hundreds. Other nominees we strongly considered were put forth by just one or two people. All received due deliberation. These include Rafael Marques de Morais, the Angolan journalist who risks his life to shed light on closed societies around the globe; Omar Barghouti of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) nonviolent movement to end Israeli occupation of Palestine; and Alexandra Elbakyan, the Kazakhstani graduate student who has deeply challenged the scholarly publishing industry by using academic credentials to "unlock" millions of copyrighted research papers.
And finally, a note about Aaron Swartz, about whom we received many questions. We both knew Aaron, and hosted a memorial at the Media Lab for him shortly after his death. While an award in Aaron's memory would have been a fitting recognition of Aaron's principled and disobedient activism, we felt it was important that the award go to a recipient who could leverage both the award and its visibility to advance the issues they work on. While we chose not to award him posthumously, we can report that Aaron was very much on our minds as we chose honorees.
With this first Disobedience Award, the selection committee realizes that we must refine our process, but we are proud of the results. Our deliberations sparked deep conversations and—at times—disagreement on how best to organize and award such a public prize. But seldom are we given the opportunity at this scale to witness and congratulate such selflessness and dedication. It was a hopeful experience. We look forward to next year.

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9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference
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Draft minutes for July 31, 2019



August 20, 2019
Ann Hendricks, Secretary 9/11 Monthly Teleconference call
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Draft minutes for the July 31, 2019 regular conference call

Present were:
Cheryl Curtiss, Teleconference co-facilitator, Connecticut 9/11 Truth
Craig McKee, Teleconference co-facilitator, Truth and Shadows
Ann Hendricks, Teleconference secretary
Marti Hopper, Colorado 9/11 Truth
David Rolde, Anti-imperialist activist
Peter Michael Ketcham, formerly of NIST
Nita Renfrew, New York 9/11 Truth
John O’Malley, DC911Truth
Cheri Aspen, San Diego 9/11 Truth
James Hufferd, 9/11 Grassroots
Cat McGuire, 9/11 Truth Outreach
Barton Bruce, Boston 9/11 Truth
Bill Wilt, congressional candidate
Gordon Bastian
Christopher Bollyn, Solving 9-11
Karl Golovin
Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception
Mike Cook
Alison Maynard, provided legal assistance to Sandy Hook activists
Bonnie Faulkner, Guns and Butter
Richard Gage, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Ted Walter, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

The minutes of the June 26, 2019 conference call were APPROVED.

Cover-up worse than the crime
Christopher Bollyn stated “The cover-up of 9/11 is worse than the crime itself, because it indicates that the same people who carried out 9/11 crimes are still in power. The political candidates are told, ‘You will not talk about 9/11 Truth’….and this order has gone through. Although it’s terrible, it gives us an opportunity to learn who the culprits are. You cannot apply the cover-up without exposing yourself. There must be some people in congress who know in their hearts that 9/11 is a lie, but somebody has told them, ‘You won’t talk about that if you want to remain in power, or if you want to stay alive.’”

Christopher has completed his fourth book on 9/11, a compilation of his articles published since 2012, and he will release this on September 11th. It can be purchased on his website www.bollyn.com

Heartening news from Nassau County, New York
Ted Walter, director of strategy for Architects & Engineers For 9/11 Truth, reported on the resolution passed by the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District demanding a new investigation into 9/11 and stating that the three World Trade Center towers were definitely brought down by explosives.

“The Commissioners recognize that a significant percentage of the community already knows there are problems with the official story, and is supportive of an investigation. Perhaps the environment is really ripe or prime, maybe many districts will have similar resolutions if they get a critical mass of people supporting the cause.”

Some of the first responders might be joining with AE staff in meetings with members of Congress on Sept. 11. Ted’s article is online:
https://www.ae911truth.org/news/540-new ... estigation

Iron curtain over America
Karl Golovin presented on John Beaty’s book The Iron Curtain Over America—about the influence of Talmudic Zionism on world affairs—and on a 1961 speech by Benjamin Freedman (transcript attached below). The following link is a review of Beaty’s book:
http://www.unz.com/book/john_beaty__the ... r-america/

Karl also told about his attendance on July 27 at a SNAP Conference (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests) during which he questioned some conservative Jewish attendees about the Talmudic law, and this encounter resulted in Karl being escorted out of the conference. He wrote a letter to the organizers of the event about his removal, and his letter is attached below.
http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... script.pdf
http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... endees.pdf

Announcements
David Rolde announced his candidacy for the Green Party’s nomination for U.S. President. He will be speaking about his decision on this teleconference soon.
Barbara Honegger provided an update on 9/11 anniversary event plans:
9/7/19 New York City (6 to 10 p.m.) The Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry will have an event at the Community Church of New York, located at 40 E. 35th Street, between Park Avenue and Madison Avenue. David Meiswinkle, Richard Gage, and Bill Binney will be the speakers.
9/11/19 Washington D.C. Architects & Engineers For 9/11 Truth will hold a press conference.
9/11/19 Oakland, CA Mick Harrison will be speaking at the 9/11 Film Festival in the Grand Lake Theater.
9/11/19 Zurich, Switzerland: All day truth event. http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 2-KB-1.jpg
9/15/19 The Hague, Netherlands: Europe 9/11 truth event.

The call began at 8 p.m. EST and adjourned at 10:07 p.m., EST/5 p.m. to 7:07 p.m. PST. Audio of the July call can be heard here: http://truthandshadows.com/wp-content/u ... 073119.mp3. The next monthly teleconference will take place on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 8 p.m. EST, 5 p.m. PST. Agenda items should be emailed to facilitator Cheryl Curtiss (chercurt@aol.com) no later than one week before the call. Please use subject line “Agenda item for 911 Truth Teleconference.” Please include a brief description of your item and any relevant links you’d like participants to be aware of, together with your estimate of the number of minutes your agenda item will require. If you would like to join the teleconference list serve, contact Craig McKee (craigmckee911@gmail.com), and anyone who would like information such as links included in the minutes should email Ann Hendricks (hendricks_ann@yahoo.com).

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METRO

NYPD cop says ‘there’s one less a–hole to sue us’ while watching video of suspect dying
By Tina Moore and Natalie Musumeci
September 3, 2019 | 10:00am | U




https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190 ... rime.shtml

Indiana Appeals Court Decides Badmouthing A Cop On Facebook Is A Crime
Free Speech
from the more-authoritarianism-please dept
Tue, Sep 3rd 2019 3:47am — Tim Cushing
The Indiana Court of Appeals has handed down an opinion that says criticizing a police officer -- at least in this case -- is a criminal offense.
Constance McGuire's son died in police custody after his arrest, apparently of a meth overdose. (That lawsuit can be read here.) Shortly after


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Top cop: UK risks 'Orwellian, omniscient police state'
Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service Cressida Dick was speaking in Australia about policing in the digital age.
Fill 2 Copy 11 Created with Sketch. Tuesday 3 September 2019 08:07, UK


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Another delay in Vic cop leaking case
Caroline Schelle

AAP

Tuesday, 3 September 2019 3:25 am





https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/edit ... 55537.html

Perps who are also cops: Disciplined Kansas officers committed violence against women
BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR EDITORIAL BOARD
SEPTEMBER 03, 2019 05:00 AM, UPDATED 3 HOURS 12 MINUTES AGO
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https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny ... story.html


NYPD sergeant suspended after shoplifting bust at Macy’s in Yonkers

By THOMAS TRACY

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 04, 2019 | 12:17 PM


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SEE IT: Another video surfaces of a cop having too good a time with dancer at West Indian Day Parade

By THOMAS TRACY

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 03, 2019 | 5:42 PM


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

University of Illinois student charged with hate crime after noose left in campus elevator

By KATE FELDMAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 04, 2019 | 9:50 AM



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Still-sealed records linked to Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scheme include over 1,000 names

By STEPHEN REX BROWN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
SEP 04, 2019 | 10:28 AM





https://www.theroot.com/ben-jerry-s-tak ... ssion=true

Ben & Jerry’s Takes on Criminal Justice Reform with New Flavor, Justice Remix’d
Jay ConnorToday 3:30pm

Photo: Courtesy of Ben & Jerry’s
In a world in which the trappings of allyship have devolved into Instagram likes or tawdry photo ops, premium ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s has quietly ignored fanfare in favor of doing the actual work.
It’s not uncommon to find posts admonishing the criminal justice system or systemic racism on their website, and since May 2018 they’ve spent over a million dollars on Facebook ads denouncing mass incarceration, advocating for mental health funding and demanding criminal justice reform. And according to the revered ice cream manufacturer, they’re just getting started.
On Tuesday, they partnered with Color of Change and the Advancement Project to unveil their latest flavor, Justice Remix’d, as part of their three-year initiative “to address the destructive cycle of mass incarceration in our country,” according to a statement from Ben & Jerry’s.
Prior to this unveiling, The Root spoke with Jabari Paul, the company’s assistant U.S. activism manager, who explained B&J’s mission further.
“Justice Remix’d is our fan-facing advocacy campaign that focuses on front-end criminal justice reform,” Paul told The Root. “Front-end meaning how do you divert and deflect people from going into the incarceration system in the first place? Many of which have no legitimate reason for being there.”
Paul added, “On a national level, we’ve really focused on three issues: ending money bail, stopping unnecessary prosecutions and disrupting the school to prison pipeline.”
In doing so, Ben & Jerry’s became partners in Color of Change’s Winning Justice campaign, which seeks to transform the criminal justice system by championing reform-minded prosecutors for election. But the company has a local strategy as well, which includes the involvement of the Advancement Project to work towards shutting down jails like Workhouse in St. Louis.
“90 percent of the people there are on pre-trial detention,” Paul said. “They’re just too poor to bond themselves out. You can be rich and guilty and not go to jail pre-trial or you can be poor and innocent and you have to sit in jail.”
Criminal justice reform is long overdue, and with the arrival of Justice Remix’d, Ben & Jerry’s seeks to be a part of the solution instead of resting on their laurels.
“The reason that we believe in social impact is because social impact goes beyond this idea of corporate giving. It’s about really influencing fan behavior,” Paul said. “Our goal is to drive them to increase awareness around the issues that we care about, like criminal justice reform, drive engagement, engage them around those issues and then ultimately inspire them to take action.”
Justice Remix’d is available for pre-order on their website and arrives in stores this week.

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https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... tnam-zinn/

July 11, 2017
During the Vietnam War, FBI used the press as a cover to “avoid embarrassment” while surveilling protests
Files on Howard Zinn show the Bureau hiring a freelance photographer to capture Selective Service protest on Boston Common
Written by JPat Brown
Edited by Beryl Lipton
A memo from Howard Zinn’s FBI file shows how the Bureau relied on third-party contractors and press coverage to avoid scrutiny of its surveillance of Vietnam protestors.
Near the end of the first section of Zinn’s file, released after a FOIA request by Chris Caesar, is an April 1968 memo from the FBI’s Boston office regarding a coordinated nationwide protest against the draft.


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

FBI file documents Chef Paul Prudhomme’s history of accidentally bringing loaded guns to airports
“Believe me, the only ‘heat’ I wanted to bring to Baltimore was my seasoning line.”



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THE SLEEPER ISSUE THAT COULD SWING THE 2020





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JANUARY 24, 2020
Biden’s Shameful Foreign Policy Record Extends Well Beyond Iraq
by JEREMY KUZMAROV
Presidential contender Joe Biden has come under fire for his support for the 2003 Iraq War, but continues





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Your Chance Of Developing Symptoms Or Dying From The Menacing Coronavirus That Now Threatens Global Human Populations Is 0.0000017482% Symptoms/ 0.0000001137% Death
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January 25, 2020




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To Protect and Serve Means Only to Maim, Murder, and Control: The Empire’s Lie That is National Security
By Gary D. Barnett
January 25, 2020



https://nypost.com/2020/01/26/ghislaine ... ral-times/

Ghislaine Maxwell had special access to Buckingham Palace, former cop claims
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January 26, 2020 | 12


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Benicia cop faces legal proceedings in DUI-related arrest





‪9/11 and Other Deep State Crimes Teleconference‬

‪Draft agenda for January 29, 2020‬

‪8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT) teleconference dial-in # ‬
‪(605) 313-4118    Access code: 464958#‬
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‪[Note: Some telephone service providers block access to this teleconference service, or require additional charges. If you encounter any of these difficulties, please try calling this alternative number: (425) 535-9195. You will then be required to key in the original phone number above before entering the access code. Please inform of us of any technical difficulties you encounter in accessing the teleconference.]‬
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‪*Welcome to the first teleconference of 2020! After our break at Christmas, we’re back on a regular schedule of calls on the last Wednesday of every month.‬
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‪Greetings all,‬

‪After some wonderful teleconferences over the past few months, we’re very excited to start again in 2020! And our first call, this Wednesday at 8 p.m. EST, will feature more fascinating guests.‬
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‪Our first speaker will be Philip Farruggio, who will talk to us about the military industrial empire and obscene military spending. Philip is a contributing editor to The Greanville Post and has contributed to Global Research, Nation of Change, World News Trust and Off Guardian sites. He is also the host of the radio show It’s the Empire…Stupid.‬
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‪We’re also very excited to have Dylan Avery, one of the creators of the Loose Change series, to tell us about the new documentary film he is making about Building 7 and the Hulsey Report for Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. The film is still in production with shooting having taken place in Alaska and San Francisco so far. Since his Loose Change days, Dylan has continued to hone his filmmaking skills, producing quality documentaries on important topics, including his most recent film, Black and Blue, about police brutality. This film won best documentary at the Catalina Film Festival‬
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‪Following the talks by these two guests, we’ll have our regular time for announcements and suggestions for future speakers.‬
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‪We think this will be a terrific all, and we hope you can all join us!‬

‪Cheryl Curtiss‬
‪Craig McKee‬
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‪DRAFT AGENDA for Wednesday January 29, 2020 teleconference‬

‪I Roll call/minutes approval (copied below)/agenda approval (5 min)‬

‪II The military industrial empire [Philip Farruggio] (20 min. + 15 min. Q&A,)‬

‪III New doc on Hulsey Report [Dylan Avery] (20 min. + 15 min. Q&A)‬
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‪IV Announcements‬
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‪VI Updates on 9/11 topics (as needed)‬
• ‪New articles, books, films, or recent news about 9/11 or other Deep State crimes‬
• ‪9/11 and the Deep State on the legal front, including current adjudicatory efforts by Lawyers for 9/11 Inquiry, JASTA, 28 pages, William Pepper’s efforts with AE911Truth against NIST and the Dept. of Commerce‬
• ‪Censorship and cognitive infiltration: new examples of censorship or harassment of members of the Truth community;  MSM treatment of 9/11 Truth‬
• ‪Google (et al.) censorship‬
• ‪9/11 Truth political candidates‬
‪  VII ‬



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Emergency surgery required to remove sex toy from Arizona woman’s bladder

By BRIAN NIEMIETZ

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 27, 2020 | 1:37 PM






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Michigan priest gets 60 days in jail for bubble-wrapping teenage boy

By DAVID MATTHEWS

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
JAN 27, 2020 | 1:03 PM





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Lounging at Sundance, in an Indigenous way



https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020 ... c79bac352d

Published on
Sunday, January 26, 2020
by Zinn Education Project
Ten Years After Howard Zinn’s Death — Lessons from the People’s Historian
Now is an especially good time to remember some of Howard Zinn’s wisdom.



https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/24/ ... c79bac352d



Law Professor: Trump Could Also Have Been Impeached for War Crimes, Assassinations & Corruption
STORYJANUARY 24, 2020

Watch Full Show





https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... astContent


Edward Snowden: Trump has created a global playbook to attack those revealing uncomfortable truths




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JANUARY 27, 2020

Adani and the Purpose of Education


by PETER HARRISON


Recently, Survival International, the organization





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HomeUK News

UFOpen for business: Britain’s Royal Air Force to declassify X-Files kept in secret for years
27 Jan, 2020 09:52





Subject: USA TODAY: Survivors want alternatives to prison for violent crimes



This is an outstanding piece making a positive case for continuing justice reform!

Check out this story from USA TODAY: Survivors want alternatives to prison for violent crimes

More than half of those incarcerated in the USA are convicted of violent crimes. System should not be about punishment but about making victims whole.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... 466214002/ 



https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/ronald-r ... aba689528f

Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” Plot Was Real After All
BY
BRANKO MARCETIC



https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/01/h ... d-dog.html

Highspire cop, wife sentenced to prison for ‘extreme abuse’ of their malnourished dog




https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/tri ... t/2182341/


Trial Begins for Ex Miami-Dade Cop Accused of Striking Cuffed Suspect



https://missionlocal.org/2020/01/for-th ... -personal/



For this ex-cop, the drive to get homeless, addicts, and mentally ill out of the criminal justice system is personal
By Joe Eskenazi | Jan 27, 2020 | Featured, Front Page, Instagram, Mobile, Newsletter, Today'


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Virginia Cops Arrest Man for Refusing to Show ID after Photographing Cop Cars





https://www.wflx.com/2020/01/27/state-f ... -sentence/

State fights attempt to reconsider ex-cop's 25-year sentence



https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200 ... oyed.shtml

Supreme Court Asked To Tell Cops That Consenting To A Search Is Not Consenting To Having Your Home Destroyed


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Colorado Cops Defend License Plate Readers as Tech Spreads





https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local ... 5334f.html

Federal prosecutors drop two cases involving same now-transferred FBI agent Lucas
for giving false testimony




https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/01/27/ ... must-pass/


Baker’s Mass State Police reforms must pass
His proposed legislation could help change the culture of the scandal-plagued agency.
By The Editorial Board,Updated January 27, 2020, 4:00 a





https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/01/27/ ... e-working/

State Police commander was allegedly cruising in Bermuda when he claimed to be working

By Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff,Updated January 27, 2020, 10:56 a.m.



https://www.recorder.com/Jury-finds-Rod ... l-32280370

Former Greenfield police sergeant found guilty of vehicular homicide




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Retired State Police Lieutenant Pleads Not Guilty

Associated Press
January 26, 2020

Read More: Retired State Police Lieutenant Pleads Not Guilty | https://wbsm.com/retired-state-police-l ... m=referral






https://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bullet ... sep19/fil/

FBI withholds internal data of crimes prosecuted from arrests made by FBI agents

Figure 1. Monthly Trends in Prosecutions
The increase from the levels five years ago in prosecutions for these matters is shown more clearly in Figure 1. The vertical bars in Figure 1 represent the number of prosecutions of this type recorded on a month-to-month basis. Where a prosecution was initially filed in U.S. Magistrate Court and then transferred to the U.S. District Court, the magistrate filing date was used since this provides an earlier indicator of actual trends. The superimposed line on the bars plots the six-month moving average so that natural fluctuations are smoothed out. The one and five-year rates of change in Table 1 and in the sections that follow are all based upon this six-month moving average. To view trends year-by-year rather than month-by-month, see TRAC's annual report series for a broader picture.
Cases were classified by prosecutors into more specific types.
The largest number of prosecutions of these matters in September 2019 was for "Withheld by Govt from TRAC (FOIA challen", accounting for 25.2 percent of prosecutions. Prosecutions were also filed for "Drugs-Drug Trafficking" (12.6%), "Weapons-Operation Triggerlock Major" (10.8%), "Drugs-Organized Crime Task Force" (9.8%), "Project Safe Childhood" (7.2%), "Violence-Other" (5.3%), "Fraud-Health Care" (4.3%), "Bank Robbery" (3.2%), "Violence-Indian Country" (3.1%), "Other Criminal Prosecutions" (2.8%), "Fraud-Computer" (2.2%), "Fraud-Other" (2%). See Figure 2.








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Donald Cabana, Warden Who Loathed Death Penalty, Dies at 67


https://www.amazon.com/Death-At-Midnigh ... 1555533566

Death At Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner

While an increasingly outspoken American public is quick to endorse the death penalty, the voices of those who experience the chilling reality of executing another human being are seldom heard. Donald A. Cabana chronicles a personal journey through the nation's prison system that culminated in giving the order to execute two death row inmates. Cabana's compelling account brings the reader inside the "secretive, mysterious world of the execution chamber" to witness the process of an execution and to experience the emotions of the executioner and the man strapped in the chair known as "black death."

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We finally have a strong surveillance reform bill we can get behind!

Tell your members of Congress to support the Safeguarding Americans’ Private Records Act (SAPRA).

We are urging Congress to pass the Safeguarding Americans’ Private Records Act of 2020 (SAPRA), bipartisan legislation that includes significant reforms to the government’s foreign intelligence surveillance authorities, including Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which was at the heart of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA bulk collection of phone records.

SAPRA would put much needed limits on the government’s expansive foreign intelligence surveillance powers, making it an important step in reining in the broad, unconstitutional spying powers granted claimed by the government..

Congress must take this opportunity to enact the substantial reforms this bill calls for, including:

Prohibiting the NSA’s Call Details Record program and ending bulk collection of metadata (revealed by Snowden);
Prohibiting warrantless collection of our internet browsing, search history, and geo-location data;
Imposing a sunset, for the first time, on National Security Letters authorities, which allow the FBI to obtain sensitive records without a court order.
But the bill goes much further, including essential reporting requirements, reforming the FISA court, imposing warrant requirements on all section 215 searches if they would be required in the criminal context, and strengthening the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

Undoubtedly, the surveillance hawks will soon introduce a much weaker bill, or will attempt to re-authorize Section 215 without any reforms at all.
We need you to take action now to make sure we get these essential reforms to our out-of-control surveillance state!


Background:

The Safeguarding Americans’ Private Records Act was introduced on January 23 by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Steve Daines (R-MT) as S. 3242 and in the House by Representatives Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), among others, as H.R. 5675.

45 civil society organizations - including Defending Rights & Dissent - are on record supporting this bill. Read our letter here.​

Here's some background on how we got here:

The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 provided intelligence agencies with overly broad powers to engage in surveillance. In addition, these agencies have been repeatedly caught unlawfully surveilling innocent people in the United States at a staggering scale. In 2015, Congress enacted the USA FREEDOM Act in an effort to rein in the government’s surveillance practices. This included replacing the bulk phone records program that the National Security Agency (NSA) had operated illegally for many years.

Specifically, the USA FREEDOM Act added new subsections to Section 215 — which has for many years allowed the government to collect business records (such as financial records) — to create a new authority permitting the collection of Call Detail Records (CDRs). This Section 215 CDR program is narrower than the former bulk program, but still permits overly broad and privacy-invasive collection of phone records. Among other concerns, the replacement program still permits surveillance to span “two hops” from the intended target, implicating millions of people who were never even suspected of wrongdoing. In 2018, under this current Section 215 CDR program, the government still collected over 434 million records relating to over 19 million phone identifiers, despite having only 11 targets.

The government recently shuttered the CDR program due to admittedly unlawful over-collection of records, however its statutory authority remains in place. Like its predecessors, the Section 215 CDR program was never shown to offer meaningful intelligence value and was repeatedly misused. SAPRA would eliminate this dangerous authority for good.


We are urging Congress to pass the Safeguarding Americans’ Private Records Act of 2020 (SAPRA), bipartisan legislation that includes significant reforms to the government’s foreign intelligence surveillance authorities, including Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which was at the heart of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA bulk collection of phone records.

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SAPRA would put much needed limits on the government’s expansive foreign intelligence surveillance powers, making it an important step in reining in the broad, unconstitutional spying powers granted claimed by the government..

Congress must take this opportunity to enact the substantial reforms this bill calls for, including:

Prohibiting the NSA’s Call Details Record program and ending bulk collection of metadata (revealed by Snowden);
Prohibiting warrantless collection of our internet browsing, search history, and geo-location data;
Imposing a sunset, for the first time, on National Security Letters authorities, which allow the FBI to obtain sensitive records without a court order.
But the bill goes much further, including essential reporting requirements, reforming the FISA court, imposing warrant requirements on all section 215 searches if they would be required in the criminal context, and strengthening the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

Undoubtedly, the surveillance hawks will soon introduce a much weaker bill, or will attempt to re-authorize Section 215 without any reforms at all.

We need you to take action now to make sure we get these essential reforms to our out-of-control surveillance state!

It is time for Congress to act; pass the Safeguarding Americans’ Private Records Act of 2020 now!

Please send an email to your Representatives in Congress and tell them to pass the Safeguarding Americans’ Private Records Act of 2020 now!

Stay Loud, Stay Strong,

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Dear Friends, any comments NOW by email would be most appreciated. I will be bringing the below to Congress tomorrow. Charlie

Whistleblowing in federal prisons has been in existence since 1989. It should be a conditional requirement for a state and a local entity to receive a Byrne Grant.

Below are excerpts from emails by three retired wardens that show this is strongly needed.

(1) FROM ELAINE LORD IN NEW YORK WHO WAS WARDEN AT A WOMEN'S PRISON

Charlie,
It truly is a closed system. I had a terrible experience with a young officer who worked for me - and I was the Superintendent! She reported inappropriate actions by a Sergeant toward a female inmate.

We contacted the Inspector General's Office that was in charge of investigations immediately. When this became known, she was ostracized, and then intimidated. This was a young Officer who had a bright future in corrections - or at least I thought so. The Sergeant was suspended and the investigation continued.

The reaction by that "blue line" was embarrassing and terrible. Her car was vandalized, staff made clear to her that they did not want to work with her. This goes way back to early in my career, but I really never found a good way to solve this problem.

In the end, she transferred to another facility at the other end of the State, but that did not help much. She was injured in the male facility where she was working and ended up disabled. I agree with her assessment that her fellow officers did not come to her aid expeditiously.

I worked very hard during my whole career to address these issues. The Sergeant was given a slap on the wrist by an arbitrator and he was sent back to work at my place. I was livid and one of my Deputies did pull him aside and said that if he wanted any career that he should immediately ask for a transfer. The Sergeant never came back another day.

I think it was better at the end of my career and I am very proud of so many of my staff but I do think that the closed nature of our prisons allows this mentality to proliferate.

I am not sure how a whistleblower reaction would be created but I sure want to remain in the talks. This line of thought that outsiders don't belong is at the root of much of this behavior.
Elaine

(2) FROM JACK COWLEY WHO WAS WARDEN AT A PRISON IN OKLAHOMA

There was a time when I was warden and trying to change a prison that I had just arrived at, the word got out that no Correctional Officer had better be seen initiating a conversation with me. We had to meet off site.

It took years to get them to understand that working “with” the inmates was ultimately in their best interest. I would be happy to speak to the issue and support it. You are accustomed to long battles and this as you know will be no different. Let me know if there is something specific that I could do to help.
Blessings, Jack



FROM BOB HOOD WHO WAS WARDEN AT A CONTROL UNIT IN COLORADO







Hi Charlie,
As former Chief of Internal Affairs and Warden for the BOP, I have the following thoughts:
I strongly support the use and protection of whistleblowers in corrections and all workplaces
BOP staff are covered under the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989.
Office of Special Counsel investigates all federal whistleblower complaints
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is the only court empowered to hear appeals of whistleblower cases decided by Merit Boards
Correctional staff need to use appropriate channels provided to whistleblowers (going outside of the authorized procedures may violate policy and sustain charges of misconduct)
Union officials would support your interest in including a whistle-blowing provision in the Byrne Grants
Federal BOP staff (36,000) would support protection for whistleblowers at local, state, and federal levels

Bob

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Thursday, March 12, 2020
As pressure for coronavirus vaccine mounts, scientists debate risks of accelerated testing/ Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-heal ... SKBN20Y1GZ?         
    
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drugmakers are working as quickly as possible to develop a vaccine to combat the rapidly spreading coronavirus that has infected more than 100,000 people worldwide.  Behind the scenes, scientists and medical experts are concerned that rushing a vaccine could end up worsening the infection in some patients rather than preventing it.

Studies have suggested that coronavirus vaccines carry the risk of what is known as vaccine enhancement, where instead of protecting against infection, the vaccine can actually make the disease worse when a vaccinated person is infected with the virus. The mechanism that causes that risk is not fully understood and is one of the stumbling blocks that has prevented the successful development of a coronavirus vaccine.
Normally, researchers would take months to test for the possibility of vaccine enhancement in animals. Given the urgency to stem the spread of the new coronavirus, some drugmakers are moving straight into small-scale human tests, without waiting for the completion of such animal tests.
“I understand the importance of accelerating timelines for vaccines in general, but from everything I know, this is not the vaccine to be doing it with,” Dr Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told Reuters.
Hotez worked on development of a vaccine for SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), the coronavirus behind a major 2003 outbreak, and found that some vaccinated animals developed more severe disease compared with unvaccinated animals when they were exposed to the virus.
“There is a risk of immune enhancement,” said Hotez. “The way you reduce that risk is first you show it does not occur in laboratory animals.”
Hotez testified last week before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology about the need for sustained funding for vaccine research. There remains no vaccine for any of the new coronaviruses that have caused outbreaks in the past 20 years.
At least for now, the world’s experts have concluded that accelerated testing is a risk worth taking.
At a specially convened World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in mid-February, designed to co-ordinate a global response to the new coronavirus, scientists representing government-funded research organizations and drugmakers around the world agreed that the threat was so great that vaccine developers should move quickly into human trials, before animal testing is completed, four people who attended the meeting told Reuters.
“You want to have a vaccine as quickly as possible,” Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, former assistant director-general at the WHO, who co-chaired the meeting, told Reuters. “You have to balance this with the risk that you impose on a very small number of people, and do all you can do to mitigate this risk as much as possible.”
The conclusion of that meeting, which was not open to media, has not been officially publicized by the WHO. It does not reflect any official position adopted by the WHO, a United Nations body whose job it is to help shape global health policy.
Regulatory oversight of drugmakers and medical research is in the hands of national regulators. The most powerful of those, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has signaled that it is in agreement with the consensus and will not stand in the way of accelerated testing schedules.
“When responding to an urgent public health situation such as novel coronavirus, we intend to exercise regulatory flexibility and consider all data relevant to a certain vaccine platform,” FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Caccomo said in a statement. The agency had no comment specifically on animal testing for vaccine enhancement.
Coronavirus vaccine developers are still required to conduct routine animal testing to make sure the vaccine itself is not toxic and is likely to help the immune system respond to the virus.
SEATTLE RISK
Some 20 coronavirus vaccine candidates are being developed by research institutes and drugmakers including America’s Johnson & Johnson and France’s Sanofi SA. The U.S. government has earmarked more than $3 billion for coronavirus treatments and vaccines.
Biotechnology company Moderna Inc, which is working with the U.S.-funded National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the closest to human testing, announcing plans to start a trial with 45 people in Seattle this month.
Testing for the specific risk of vaccine enhancement in animals will proceed simultaneously with human trials, the NIH told Reuters, which it said should establish whether it is safe to expose larger numbers of people to the vaccine. Moderna did not respond to requests for comment.
The plan is consistent with the WHO consensus and FDA requirements, said Dr Emily Erbelding, director of the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH. The trial is expected to take 14 months, a spokeswoman for the NIH said.
Dr Gregory Poland, a virologist and vaccine researcher with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, expressed doubts about that approach. “This is important, but it has to be done in a way that reassures scientists and the public that these (vaccines) are not only efficacious, but safe,” he told Reuters.
Hotez said he was surprised human trials were going ahead. “If there is immune enhancement in laboratory animals vaccinated with the Moderna vaccine, that’s a showstopper,” he said.
U.S. immunotherapy company Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc, which is developing a coronavirus vaccine in collaboration with a Chinese company, also expects to start human clinical trials in 30 U.S. volunteers in April rather than wait for animal studies on vaccine enhancement.
“The community as a whole weighed that and said we don’t want to delay the clinical process. We’ve been encouraged to go as rapidly as possible into Phase 1 studies,” Inovio Chief Executive Joseph Kim told Reuters.
The company plans to start human safety trials shortly thereafter in China and South Korea - two countries that have been hit hard by the virus. Kim said he expects to have an answer to the question of vaccine enhancement at some point this year.
The Moderna/NIH trial is enrolling patients at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. The choice of location, made several weeks ago, could prove to be problematic.
To reduce the risk to volunteers, scientists at the WHO meeting recommended that drugmakers restrict early clinical trials to small groups of healthy people and conduct them in places where the virus is not spreading, according to Kieny, who now works at French research institute Inserm. That lowers the chances that people who get the vaccine could encounter the virus and trigger a more severe reaction.
Since the location was chosen, the Seattle metro area has emerged as the epicenter of infections in the United States. Washington state has reported 162 coronavirus infections and 22 deaths, out of a total of 755 infections and 26 deaths in the country as of Tuesday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Nevertheless, Moderna and the NIH plan to go ahead.
“We think there is no reason to have to change the site. If you change it, there might be community transmission in another site over the next couple of weeks,” Erbelding said. “Any risk of that to participants is very small. It would be manageable as the trial progresses. People are being observed very, very carefully.”
EARLY WARNING SIGNS
Tragic lessons from other vaccines and prior work on coronaviruses have raised some warning flags for developers.
The best-known example occurred in a U.S. trial in the 1960s of a vaccine created by the NIH and licensed to Pfizer Inc to fight respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which causes pneumonia in infants. The vast majority of babies who received the vaccine developed more severe disease, and two toddlers died. A more recent example occurred in the Philippines, where some 800,000 children were vaccinated with Sanofi’s dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia. Only afterward did the company learn that it could increase the risk of more severe disease in a small percentage of individuals.
Research, including that conducted by Hotez, has shown that coronaviruses in particular have the potential to produce this kind of response. But testing for the risk of vaccine enhancement is time-consuming because it requires scientists to breed mice that are genetically altered to respond to the virus like humans. Work on these and other animal models is just getting under way in several laboratories around the world.
Moderna, Inovio and several other vaccine developers are not waiting for that process to be completed and are planning to launch human trials in record time for a virus that was only discovered in December.
Both Moderna and Inovio say their vaccines are likely to have a lower risk of vaccine enhancement because they are made using newer technology that focuses on specific genes on the outer ‘spike’ portion of the virus. Coronavirus vaccines that caused vaccine enhancement were typically made using an inactivated version of the entire virus. Neither company has produced a licensed vaccine to date.
J&J said it is developing animal models to test for vaccine enhancement and hopes to have a vaccine candidate ready for human trials in October. A Sanofi spokeswoman said the company will examine this risk before testing the vaccine in clinical trials.
“People know how traumatic the RSV experience was,” said Dr Johan Van Hoof, global head of Janssen Vaccines, J&J’s vaccine unit. “When you see signals in animals like this, we should not ignore them.”



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Is The FBI Judge, Jury, & Executioner?
March 12th, 2020

As reported by Houston NBC Affiliate KPRC, the FBI is being sued for a botched rescue attempt of Ulises Valladares. According to the story In January 2018 Valladares was kidnapped in front of his 12 year old son and held at ransom in his own home, only to be fatally shot by an FBI agent. Straight out of the Failed Bad Intervention playbook, the FBI then tried to cover their tracks claiming that Valladares tried to grab the gun of an agent and the agent shot him in self-defense. According to the lawsuit however that would have been impossible because Valladares was tied up at the time and forensic evidence gathered during the autopsy shows that Valladares was not shot at close


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MARCH 12, 2020
Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?
by JOHN W. WHITEHEAD
“If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge documents, build improved electronic gadgets in your garage that’ll outwit the gadgets used by the authorities.”
—Philip K. Dick
Emboldened by the citizenry’s inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized




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MARCH 12, 2020
The Killing and Raping Game in Kenya and the Despots Who Run It
by KENNETH GOOD

Politics in Kenya is dominated by rapacious elites consumed with the looting of state resources, using violence to avoid any possible accountability. Elections serve as key points of entry and consolidation in this system for both ruling and competing elites, and are manifestations of corruption, fraud, and repressio




March 11 2020

Senate Republican chairman abruptly shifts course on subpoena targeting Bidens
Some have warned that Republicans' plans to probe the role of Joe Biden's son on the board of a Ukrainian company could play into Russian efforts to spread disinformation before the presidential election in November.


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'I Did the Math': Katie Porter Gets Trump CDC Head to Commit to Making Coronavirus Testing Free
"We live in a world where 33% of Americans put off medical treatment last year, and we have $1,133 expense just for testing for the coronavirus."




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March 11, 2020
by Common Dreams
Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
How can the world’s leaders pretend that it is acceptable to meet in a country that imprisons and tortures peaceful women activists and bombs civilians in Yemen?
byMedea Benjamin, Ariel Gold



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Jeremy Scahill Makes the Definitive Case Against Joe Biden



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MAR 11, 2020

Trump's 2020 Budget Reveals His Real Priorities


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From: J Ader
03/04/2020
Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request: FOIA - FBI - Murray Bookchin
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To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
All documents mentioning Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) - political philosopher, author, and ecologist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin).
Please find evidence of his death attached and reported by The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/a ... uaries.usa
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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From: William Dobbs <duchamp@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 5:47 PM
Subject: The Dobbs Wire: Please participate in SORS!
To: William Dobbs <duchamp@mindspring.com>


Please participate in SORS (Sex Offense Registry Study)!
 
If you are in contact with other registrants, please send them this email and encourage them to participate. The link may be shared widely on listservs, websites, newsletters, social media, etc. Your participation will help to advance knowledge about this topic. Thank you!
 
 

 
We are looking for research participants who can help us learn about important issues related to sex offense registries. We are collecting anonymous information from people required to register.
 
WHO?  You are eligible to participate in this study If you are 18 or older, and are required to register on a sex offender registry in the United States. 
 
Please complete the survey using this link:  http://bit.ly/sors2020
 
HOW?  The survey is conducted online and will take 20-30 minutes to complete. Survey information is completely anonymous and confidential. You will never be asked to provide your name or contact information, and there is no way of connecting your personal information to your responses.
 
Please complete the survey using this link:  http://bit.ly/sors2020
 
ABOUT: The goals of this study are to (a) describe demographics including racial and ethnic groups, gender, socioeconomic status, and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people on registries, (b) describe the pathways leading people to registration and issues involving the criminal justice system, and (c) describe the consequences of registration to the health and well-being of people required to register. We aim to inform policymakers about pathways leading to registration, and the impact of registries on the people required to register.
 
For more information about SORS: www.sorstudy.org
 

 

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See two stories










http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020 ... scape.html


Friday, March 20, 2020
Doctors are being censored/ Medscape

A Medscape commentary by John Medrola, M.D. on March 20
"I have to remind the American doctor that life is changing.… It's not a normal life. It's a #COVID19 life. It's a pandemic life."
With these words, spoken March 18, during a joint webinar of the Chinese Cardiac Society and the American College of Cardiology, Professor Bin Cao, MD, from China, jolted healthcare workers across the world. And while China reported good news this week, with its first day of no new local infections in Wuhan province, the United States and other countries face the beginning of the surge.
I've heard and sensed that many nurses and docs are ready for the challenge. But the new fear is the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE).

The analogy of a coming storm is apt. It's as if we can now feel the winds and see the dark clouds. But even as we begin to see patients with COVID-19, and some hospitals in hot spots feel the surge, we won't be fully protected against the contagious virus.
Numerous colleagues have direct messaged (DM) me on Twitter that their hospital is rationing PPE and supplies are running short. C. Michael Gibson, MD, tweeted that he has received 10 DMs about shortages of masks. In a Twitter poll with more than 300 votes, a third of respondents said their hospital had no masks, and nearly half said they were allowed only one mask.
Another chilling message received through the privacy of direct messaging: many doctors have been expressly told by their administration not to speak publicly about conditions. And few will go against their employer out of fear of being fired. That means the stories about PPE shortages likely underestimate the problem.
Adding to the shortages of PPE and the muzzling of frontline clinicians is the lack of testing. We simply don't know who is infected. And if you don't know that, you don't know who to isolate.
If we were to follow Cao's advice—that it's a pandemic life—we would use masks and PPE routinely, and we would test patients immediately so that those infected can be put on isolation wards. These seemingly simple actions would protect caregivers. But we can't do that because we don't have access to rapid testing or PPE.Perhaps the most dire message came when Gibson tweeted a screenshot from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with recommendations for use of homemade masks if a facility runs out of masks: "HCP [health care provider] might use homemade masks, such as a bandana or scarf, for the care of patients with COVID19. However homemade masks are not considered PPE."
Bandanas? Are they serious? In the richest country in the world?
To be clear, hospital administrators did not cause PPE shortages. Leadership at my hospital has not told me to shut up. I see them working hard to help us. While administrators are less likely to be exposed, they have a huge role to play in getting us PPE, changing policies on the move, and keeping the hospital financially solvent. Indeed, we want administrators to succeed.

On an e-group with colleagues, most of whom are young and healthy, a friend wrote, "Every time I read about a person with no comorbidities on a ventilator, my heart sinks."

I remember these sensations from the 1990s, when we placed lines in patients with HIV. But at least then we could identify infected patients; we can't do that with COVID-19. And this week, the New England Journal of Medicine reports the virus can be passed through the air.

It's weird: the feeling that your job could take your life.

A month ago, we were providers tapping on our electronic health records and marching to the whims of administrators. Now, nurses and doctors report to work knowing that we will likely become infected.

While we don't know the exact virulence of this disease, the evidence is clear that some of us will become ill and die. It's a numbers game.

Be safe and be lucky, colleagues. Respect to you all.



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https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/ ... I_IJAA.pdf

The French hydroxychloroquine study

Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open label non-randomized clinical trial

20 patients were treated, 16 patients (unmatched, nonrandomized) were controls, 6 treated patients lost to followup, in some cases due to worsening


Percentage of patients with PCR-positive nasopharyngeal samples from inclusion to day6 post-inclusion in COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine only, in COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithomycin combination, and in COVID-19 control patients.

Please cite this work as Gautret et al. (2020) Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID ‐ 19: results of an open ‐ label non ‐ randomized clinical trial. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents - In Press 17 March 2020 - DOI: 10.1016 / j.ijantimicag.2020.105949

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Pittston cop identified as tire-slashing suspect






Does Crime
And Punishment Change After Death Especially If We
Choose to Move On To Other Dimensions of Reality ?”
See
http://reincarnationforum.com/threads/a ... ions.2326/
A question of dimensions
Also see
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~andy/seth.html
Physics professor Ron Bryan was a student of Jane Roberts/Seth.
He had researched and discovered portals to other dimensions
discussed in Jane Roberts/Seth books
http://people.physics.tamu.edu/bryan/
Also see
http://www.bishopvillesc.org/RonaldBryanArticle.pdf



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWMEWubrk0

Ian Stevenson MD




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George Clooney PSA






 “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change…..I am changing the things I can no longer accept.”Y.Davis

Just sharing what we have been doing, hope you enjoy, our Motto in VOTE is, "No Surrender No Retreat" Remember, Voting is our Power!!!

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Hope you and yours are doing well!

I finally have a completed video to share with you. We will be adding this video to our criminal justice series and releasing online at a later date but you are more than welcome to share far and wide now. This is a private link so the best thing to do to make sure everyone in your network can see it is to download the video from this link and reupload to a platform of your choice. To do so, click the Download button beneath the video player and select the Original file to download so you get the highest quality version. I hope it's helpful in getting the very important vote out this fall and spreading the word about all of the good work ya'll do. 



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inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats
it's highest citizens, but its lowest ones. - NELSON MANDELA
SUPPORT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM



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

Two off-duty NYPD cops busted for drunk driving in Manhattan and Brooklyn
By THOMAS TRACY

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 29, 2020 AT 2:45 PM



https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/29/officer- ... k-suspect/

POLICE BRUTALITY
Officers Patient With White Suspect ...
BLACK SUSPECT BRUTALIZED

* 8/29/2020 7:07 AM PT


https://www.motherjones.com/anti-racism ... cob-blake/

Here’s How Kenosha Cops Will Try to Get Away With Nearly Murdering Jacob Blake
The police union released its version of events. In a more humane world, it’d be a confession.



https://www.tauntongazette.com/news/202 ... nother-dog


Dighton cop’s pit bull ordered euthanized for killing another dog



https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/0 ... ng-mo-dbn/


The FBI’s decades-long fight against industrial espionage hasn’t really worked
In the global economy, companies that steal trade secrets rarely face the consequences




https://www.rt.com/news/499441-macdonal ... ed-canada/

History toppling spreads to Canada as protesters in Montreal tear down statue of John Macdonald, country's 1st prime minister
30 Aug, 2020 03:16 / Updated 6 hours ago




https://www.rt.com/news/499445-india-da ... nfections/

India breaks US record for biggest daily Covid-19 infections as global tally leaps 25 mn mark
30 Aug, 2020 07:11




https://www.rt.com/usa/499444-portland- ... es-killed/




1 person shot dead in Portland, Oregon near site of showdown between pro-Trump & BLM activists
30 Aug, 2020 05:00 /


https://www.madcowprod.com/2020/08/28/b ... ato-bust1/

Bannon-Badolato Bust Exposes The Abyss
By Daniel Hopsicker -
August 28, 2020

Steve Bannon was the chief strategist for the President of the United States. Why has it taken until now—more than four years later—for his proximity to power to begin to give people pause?
Even so, it’s uncanny. Stephen K. Bannon was accused last week of exactly the same federal offenses he was warning might befall Trump partisans in Mueller’s Russia investigation: money laundering using phony shell corporations.


https://theintercept.com/2020/08/29/wil ... epartment/

HOW WILLIAM BARR IS WEAPONIZING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO HELP TRUMP WIN
Former DOJ officials spoke about the attorney general’s efforts to undermine voting and his potential to unleash an “October surprise.”
Peter Stone
August 29 2020, 6:00 a.m.


https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wm ... othing-new

The Whitney Museum Pillaging Black Art Is Nothing New

Where can Black creatives share their work and uplift their community without feeling the grasp of predatory white institutions?



https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct- ... story.html

FBI AGENT REMEMBERS HARASSMENT, PAIN


https://www.ohio.edu/news/archive/stori ... inutes.cfm

90 Minutes Series Conversation featuring former FBI agent Tyrone Powers is Wednesday





https://www.dotnews.com/2009/turner-leans-larouche-fans


Dorchester Reporter

Turner leans on LaRouche fans



https://www.amazon.com/Mason-Williams-F ... 0871400227

The Mason Williams F.C.C. Rapport


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

NYC pols call for investigation of possible NYPD work slowdown
By SHANT SHAHRIGIAN

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 30, 2020 AT 5:33 PM


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

Teacher leaves home after receiving death threats for wearing ‘I can’t breathe’ T-shirt
By DAVID MATTHEWS

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 30, 2020 AT 7:33 PM




https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/eye-on-g ... nIv0iDTa8g

WATCH: South Carolina Cop Suspended After Using N Word on Duty at Bar




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

NYPD creates new ‘discipline matrix’, required by city law, to make penalties for officer misconduct less arbitrary
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA and JOHN ANNESE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
AUG 31, 2020 AT 4:00 AM

After reviewing 162 official NYPD disciplinary dispositions between December 2017 and March 2019, the News revealed most cops found guilty in departmental proceedings of false arrest, assault or discourtesy toward people they meet on the street had to give up fewer than 15 vacation days.
Thirty-one of the cases reviewed involved the public, but stricter penalties of 16 vacation days or more were imposed in only a third of them and only two cops were put on dismissal probation, the last stop before being fired.



https://www.ticklethewire.com/2020/08/3 ... -campaign/

DOJ Quietly Limited Special Counsel Probe of Russia, Making It Difficult to Explore Ties to Trump’s Campaign


https://www.ticklethewire.com/2020/08/3 ... president/


Trump Offered Top FBI Job to John Kelly If He pledged Loyalty to the President, New Book Says




https://www.rt.com/usa/499478-trump-por ... dentified/

‘Rest in Peace Jay!’ Trump pays tribute to slain supporter shot dead amid Portland clashes, police still to release his identity
30 Aug, 2020 22:14 / Updated 10 hours ago




https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/31/white-co ... ord-twice/


WHITE COP
SUSPENDED FOR REPEATING N-WORD
... Rant Caught on Video
* 8/31/2020 6:58 AM PT



Scratching my head as to why BLM has not expanded
their narrative to include new evidence that identifies
members of law enforcement behind assassination of
Martin Luther King, President John Kennedy and Robert
Kennedy.

See

https://www.boston.com/news/history/201 ... nd-shooter

Bobby Kennedy’s son thinks he was killed by a second shooter. Is there anything to it?
Or has RFK Jr. "launched a whole new generation of conspiracy nuts" 50 years later.



Also see

https://medium.com/citizen-truth/exclus ... 532ca2616e


Exclusive Video: Who Really Killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Memphis cop Earl Clark




https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... lk-jowers/


FBI never investigated man court found culpable for Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
Despite confessing to, and being found liable in court for, the MLK assassination, the Bureau didn’t investigate Loyd Jowers




https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-kille ... ry/5502343


Did Memphis police officer Lieutenant Earl Clark kill Martin Luther King



See

Deep Throat Mark Felt

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKfeltM.htm


Also

https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbremer.htm

Arthur Bremer

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https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/92414648 ... -the-model

Removing Cops From Behavioral Crisis Calls: 'We Need To Change the Model’

October 19, 20205:00 AM ET



https://www.app.com/story/news/local/co ... 982804002/

Lying ex-Middletown cop can avoid criminal record
Kathleen Hopkins
Asbury Park Press



https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... t-to-bloc/

Buffalo judge denies police union attempt to block police disciplinary records
The local police union has been challenging their release despite new law meant to promote transparency


https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/ ... -tipsheet/

The MuckRock/MisinfoCon Police Misinformation Tipsheet
Interested in doing better reporting on policing in your area? Hear advice from experts on where to focus
Written by Samantha Sunne



https://science.sciencemag.org/content/ ... 4/eabb2494

Behavioral state coding by molecularly defined paraventricular hypothalamic cell type ensembles



https://www.cjr.org/analysis/as-electio ... n-size.php


As election looms, a network of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local news outlets nearly triples in size



https://www.pressherald.com/2020/10/20/ ... ve-agenda/


Maine ‘news’ websites part of network that pushes conservative agenda
The network of 1,300 sites generally ignores Democrats, promotes conservative agendas and publishes favorable stories about Republicans, including Sen. Susan Collins.



https://theintercept.com/2020/10/20/tru ... ety-covid/

HOW TRUMP GUTTED OSHA AND WORKPLACE SAFETY RULES
Trump’s attack on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has left workers vulnerable to Covid-19.
Sharon Lerner
October 20 2020, 8:55 a.m.




https://theintercept.com/2020/10/20/int ... mp-judges/

PART FIVE: COURTING CORPORATE THEOCRACY
With Trump in power, the GOP is transforming the federal judiciary into a right-wing cult that will wield influence over the lives of millions.
Intercepted
October 20 2020, 6:01 a.m.



https://theintercept.com/2020/10/19/bla ... ette-cult/

Trump Campaign Embraces “Blacks for Trump” Founder Who Belonged to Violent Cult
A former cult member who promotes anti-Semitic and racist conspiracy theories shares the spotlight with Trump.
Robert Mackey
October 19 2020, 11:54 a.m.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... -election/

“It’s Going to Be Hell”: How Pennsylvania Is on Track for Election Chaos
The swing state’s little-tested mail ballot system could help Trump wreak havoc


https://www.motherjones.com/environment ... -it-worse/

Deadly Bacteria in Coastal Waters Causes a Flesh-Eating Disease. Climate Change Is Making it Worse.
“Vibrio remains a relatively small disease, but it is increasing rapidly.”


https://www.motherjones.com/anti-racism ... -the-cops/

Why Won’t Democratic Mayors Crack Down on the Cops?
Your mayor is listening. Just not to you.




https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/20 ... t-thawing/

OCTOBER 20, 2020


Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER




https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/20 ... iginalism/

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amy Coney Barrett, Constitutional Precedent, and the Problem of Originalism
BY DAVID SCHULTZ




https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/20 ... ine-corps/

OCTOBER 20, 2020
Fighting Racism in the US Marine Corps
BY KIM SCIPES



https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/20 ... e-a-crime/

OCTOBER 20, 2020
When Does Incompetence Become a Crime?
BY PATRICK COCKBURN



https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7aqkq/ ... nspiracies

Trump's Top Intelligence Official Is Fueling Wild Election Conspiracies

The Director of National Intelligence is pouring fuel on the fire of the Hunter Biden conspiracy theory being pushed by right-wing media.




Latest state-by-state Covid-19 data


https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-in ... e-by-state




https://dailynorthwestern.com/2020/10/2 ... -protests/



NU Community Not Cops calls on President Schapiro to resign following his condemnation of abolitionist protests

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https://thenextweb.com/news/manual-popu ... 80537197de


This manual for a popular facial recognition tool shows just how much the software tracks people
One school using the software saw that a student’s face was captured more than 1,000 times during the week


https://www.davisvanguard.org/2021/07/d ... istracted/

Despite Recall Campaign, District Attorney Chesa Boudin Refuses to Be Distracted
Posted by S Priana Aquino
Date: July 12, 2021
in:


https://www.davisvanguard.org/2021/07/l ... r-torture/

Chicago Cop John Burge Was Sentenced to 4 1/2 Years for Torture
Posted by Vanguard Administrator
Date: July 11, 2021

https://theintercept.com/2021/07/10/rea ... me-family/

HOME, BUT NOT FREE: NSA WHISTLEBLOWER REALITY WINNER ADJUSTS TO HER RELEASE FROM PRISON
Winner’s home confinement is part of the longest sentence ever for leaking material to the press — and her family is seeking clemency.
Taylor Barnes
July 10 2021, 7:00 a.m.


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/07/11/ ... his-story/

Mathew DeHart collapsed in a Bangor Maine courtroom and claimed he was a political prisoner. A new documentary probes his story that the FBI and CIA was behind 911.

https://www.mattdehart.com

“When you know you have rights and then you're told they don't exist because of national security, that kind of changes things.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-3BeZ6DnGQ


https://archive.org/details/ctc

Crack the CIA

https://truthout.org/articles/in-win-fo ... 1d75fe93a1

In Win for Overdose Prevention, Rhode Island Approves Harm Reduction Centers


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... osure-2015

Sarah Everard killer was accused of indecent exposure in 2015
Allegation about Cop Wayne Couzens was reported to Kent police, which faces investigation into its handling


https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5p3q/ ... ive-a-damn

Cop Allegedly Kneeled on Asthmatic Teen’s Neck: ‘I Don’t Give a Damn’

About six weeks after George Floyd's death, Baton Rouge police allegedly used the same tactic on a 16-year-old. His mom is suing.

https://thewhistleblowernewsroom.podbea ... -tom-renz/

July 9th, 2021

The Whistleblower Newsroom - TOM RENZ
OHIO LAWYER TOM RENZ: GOING AFTER COVID CULPRITS AND SOUNDING THE ALARM ON POTENTIALLY DEADLY ANTIBODY DEPENDENT ENHANCEMENT: 
Renz talks about the complaint he has filed on behalf of America’s Frontline Doctors against various government agencies and their heads--including Dr. Fauci—that lays out what happened, who did what, the damage done, and dangers to come. He sounds the alarm on antibody dependent enhancement, that doctors have told him make those already vaccinated vulnerable to more severe, possibly lethal symptoms when exposed to new or "wild" variants of SARS Cov 2. 


https://www.yahoo.com/news/cop-held-bla ... 38173.html


Cop Who Held Black Mom and Kids at Gunpoint Runs for Sheriff


https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b487/ ... ig-trouble

Smiling Cops Caught on Video at the Capitol Riot Are in Big Trouble




https://www.newsweek.com/gay-teacher-su ... ia-1608502

Gay Teacher Sues California City, Alleging Cop Threatened Him After Reporting Homophobia
BY AILA SLISCO ON 7/9/21 AT 9:53 PM EDT



https://www.liberationnews.org/activist ... n-chicago/

Activists keep fighting for justice after killer cop relieved of police powers in Chicago
Catherine HenchekJuly 9, 2021 78 2 minutes read
Download PDF flyer




https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/c ... 15594.html

Ludhiana cop, his councillor father, 10 others booked for abetment of suicide
The 35-year-old victim had named the 12 accused in her suicide note before attempting to end her life on July 2


https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/202 ... -give.html

Saturday, July 10, 2021
Sneak attack: Congress likely to give Covid vaccine mfrs a liability waiver that will cover them after the EUAs are gone

Let me just say one thing.  If Congress wanted to make vaccines safe, there is a very easy way to do so.  Simply lift the liability waiver and the manufacturers will stop selling those vaccines that are unsafe.
From the press release, and I do not have a URL:

The Vaccine Injury Compensation Modernization Act, legislation introduced by Rep. Doggett and Rep. Upton, is among several vaccine-related measures which will be heard before the House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee at 10:30 am, next Tuesday, June 15.
“This legislation updates an important consumer protection tool to assure it is capable of fairly addressing the one-in-a-million injuries that may be associated with COVID-19 vaccines,” said Congressman Doggett. “Though misinformation spreads and anti-vaxxers continue to fearmonger, vaccine-related injuries are extremely rare, usually caused by an error in administration rather than the vaccine itself. Providing complete information and assuring a prompt and fair response to any lasting injury represents an effective way of addressing vaccine hesitancy.”
“The number of new vaccines we’ve seen over the past year highlights t



https://bangordailynews.com/2021/07/11/ ... is-summer/

11 easy mountain hikes in Maine to try this summer



https://www.rt.com/usa/528936-fbi-famil ... ism-stasi/

FBI goes ‘American Stasi’ with tweet encouraging family members to rat each other out for ‘extremism’
11 Jul, 2021 15:56


https://www.stabroeknews.com/2021/07/10 ... -of-child/

Cop to stand trial for alleged rape of child
By Stabroek News July 10, 2021



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

Blistering heat wave sets record temperatures across California

July 11,2021

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2021/ ... aturestack

Boston officer hospitalized following suspected drunk driving incident
The hurt officer was taken to a nearby hospital by Boston EMS and was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. 


https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/c ... 03783.html

FBI Supervisor Gets Six Years in Prison for kidnapping and torture.He was allowed to retire from the FBI and collect his full pension.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

In a courtroom crowded with his friends from law enforcement, a former FBI official was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for torturing his girlfriend at knifepoint and gunpoint during a six-hour ordeal in her Crystal City high-rise apartment.
Carl L. Spicocchi, 55, a 19-year FBI veteran who had run the Toledo office and was on temporary assignment in Washington, pleaded guilty in Arlington County Circuit Court last year to two felony counts of abduction and using a firearm in the Aug. 23 attack.

https://www.taxpayer.net/about/

Corporate welfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_welfare
Corporate welfare is a term that analogizes corporate subsidies to welfare .... about half of the amount corporations receive each year through assorted tax breaks. ... discourse and educational reform: When did “Reform” become synonymous ...
Eliminate Corporate Welfare | Taxpayers for Common Sense
http://www.taxpayer.net/common-sense/el ... te-welfare‬" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Corporate welfare can be defined as federal subsidies to profitable, ... companies, still receive billions of dollars worth of subsidies from taxpayers every year.



https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/25/us/louis ... pitalized/

FBI chief Freeh still hospitalized after car accident

https://lostcoastoutpost.com/2014/oct/31/ranger/

State Parks Ranger Detained for DUI Received Unusual Treatment


https://bangordailynews.com/2021/07/12/ ... ice-cases/

Lawsuit challenges Maine’s secret court decisions in medical malpractice cases
A medical malpractice law firm is suing Maine courts in a bid to end secret judicial rulings in cases against doctors and medical professionals accused of harming patients.

https://www.eff.org/homepage-feature/ce ... protestors

Cell Phone Guide for U.S. Protestors


https://www.eff.org/issues/state-sponsored-malware

State-Sponsored Malware


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


Arnett Hartsfield
Former Los Angeles firefighter Arnett Hartsfield Jr. is photographed in 2010 at the African American Firefighters Museum, which he helped establish in a formerly all-black firehouse.

Retired firefighter Arnett Hartsfield Jr., who helped lead the fight against discrimination in the LAFD, dies
Retired firefighter and attorney Arnett Hartsfield Jr., who helped lead the fight against racial discrimination in the Los Angeles Fire Department, died Friday in L.A. He was 96.


https://dyingtoknowmovie.com

Dying to Know

https://www.davisvanguard.org/2021/07/g ... lty-pleas/

Coerced Out of Justice – How Prosecutors Abuse Their Power to Secure Guilty Pleas
Posted by Vanguard Administrator
Date: July 11, 2021
in: Breaking News, Civi

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https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-police-un ... ar-1637788

Ohio Police Under Investigation Over Video of Cop Dragging Clifford Owensby From Car
BY ANDRE J. ELLINGTON ON 10/11/21 AT 5:43 PM EDT


https://www.police1.com/national-police ... ilg94RKWG/

Cop Today
In honor of National Police Week, a veteran officer writes about the challenges facing LEOs today

https://thecrimereport.org/2020/03/12/p ... isconduct/

Predators Behind the Badge: Confronting Police Sexual Misconduct
By Isidoro Rodriguez | March 12, 2020



https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-says-taliban ... 00411.html

FBI says Taliban takeover in Afghanistan inspiring Americans virtually
Mike Brest
Tue, October 12, 2021, 12:30 PM·2 min read

The FBI believes the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is pushing Americans toward acts of violence.


https://www.brandeis.edu/investigate/go ... rists.html

IS THE FBI CATCHING OR CREATING TERRORISTS?



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ated-story

Why white people get wealthier after disasters but others suffer – an illustrated story



https://www.ticklethewire.com/2021/10/1 ... endezvous/

Questions Raised about Discipline for High-Ranking U.S. Marshals Allegedly Caught in At-Work Rendezvous

https://bangordailynews.com/2021/10/13/ ... tisemites/

Israeli envoy accuses Ben & Jerry’s founders of ‘helping the antisemites’



READING LIST
annotated bibliography


Aaronson, Trevor. The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
Ig Publishing Brooklyn New York 2013
Exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror.

Bari, Judi. TIMBER WARS. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994.


The F.B.I. attempted to stop the political activity of Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney by exploding a
bomb under their car. Daryl Cherney and Judi Bari filed a Civil lawsuit
against the FBI and Oakland police. A jury awarded them $4.4 million
dollars in 2003. see ‪http://www.judibari.org‬

Bowen Roger. INNOCENCE IS NOT ENOUGH: The Life and Death of Herbert Norman
New York USA M.E. Sharpe Inc 1988
Looks at FBI assassination of Herbert Norman, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt.

Buitrago, Ann Mari. F.B.I. FILES. Grove Press, 1981.


Covers the procedures for obtaining and interpreting your F.B.I. file.

Burnham, David. ABOVE THE LAW. Scribner, 1996.
Looks at secret deals and fixing of cases by the Justice Department for corporations.
Burnham was the New York Times reporter who broke the story about New York City cop Serpico and Police corruption.


He was the reporter on route to meet Karen Silkwood when she was found murdered. Read his other book A LAW UNTO ITSELF.
It details how FBI agents collaborate with the IRS to target political activists.
see his important website about the FBI
here ‪http://trac.syr.edu/‬
Burnham, David A LAW UNTO ITSELF Vintage January 30, 1991 ISBN-10: ‪0679732837‬
Exposes FBI agents using the IRS to cripple political activists.


Buttino, Frank. A SPECIAL AGENT. William Morrow, 1993.
Investigates F.B.I. attacks on gay FBI agents .
This book is written by a FBI agent who is gay. It details how other FBI
agents tormented him .

Carson, Clayborne. MALCOLM X: THE F.B.I. FILE. Carroll & Graf, 1991.
Looks at the evidence for the F.B.I. assassination of Malcolm X.



Cashill,Jack, Sanders,James. FIRST STRIKE Thomas Nelson Press, 2003
Overwhelming evidence presented by Dr. Cashill on the downing of TWA
Flight 800 by a missle over Long Island and the ensuing cover-up by FBI
agents.One of my favorite books. see their documentary about the same
subject called SILENCED below in video links

Charns, Alexander. CLOAK AND GAVEL. University of Illinois Press. 1992.
After reviewing thousands of pages of FBI documents the attorney author
exposes the FBI illegal phone tapping of the Supreme Court and how the
FBI fix court cases and work behind the scenes to get "their man"
appointed to the Supreme Court. Written by a lawyer active in Human
Rights.

Churchill, Ward. AGENTS OF REPRESSION. South End Press, 1988.
Professor Churchill gives first hand accounts of F.B.I. death squad


activities. This book is a classic and is a must read along with THE
COINTELPRO PAPERS

Churchill, Ward. THE COINTELPRO PAPERS. South End Press, 1990.
Explores how the F.B.I. disrupts legitimate political activities and engage in Death Squad activities.

Criley, Richard. THE F.B.I. VS. THE FIRST AMENDMENT. First Amendment Foundation, 1990.
Looks at the destruction of the First Amendment by the F.B.I.

Davis, John. MAFIA KINGFISH: CARLOS MARCELLO AND THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F.
KENNEDY. McGraw-Hill, 1989.
A must read book in understanding how the FBI has used the Mafia to carry out the assassination of President Kennedy.

De Camp, John. THE FRANKLIN COVERUP. AWT Publishers, 1992.
A former Republican state senator from Nebraska writes about a
pedophile ring involved in the kidnaping, sexual torture and murder of
children that went all the way to the Bush White House.


Attorney DeCamp discusses the FBI role in the coverup of this case and
the murder of a special prosecutor appointed to investigate the
pedophile ring.This book will keep you awake at night and is an active
barometer for evil indexing how the FBI crime family operates.

Dempsey, James X. and David Cole. TERRORISM AND THE CONSTITUTION: SACRIFICING CIVIL
LIBERTIES IN THE NAME OF NATIONAL SECURITY. Los Angeles, CA: First Amendment
Foundation, 1999. Examines FBI campaign of terror to undermine civil
liberties. Attorney Dempsey worked for Congressman Don Edwards who was
a former FBI agent.

Diamond, Sigmund. COMPROMISED CAMPUS. Oxford University Press, 1992.
Professor Diamond attempts to get F.B.I. files showing collaboration


between F.B.I. agents and professors at universities from 1945-1955.
The FBI created the Patriot Act , in part, because of this book.

Donner, Frank. PROTECTORS OF PRIVILEGE. University of California Press, 1990.
Looks at the death squad collaboration between local police and F.B.I. agents to stifle the Bill of Rights.

Dwyer, James. TWO SECONDS UNDER THE WORLD. Diane publishers 1997.
The most important book you will read on understanding FBI agents Floyd
and Anticev creating the 1993 terrorist act at the World Trade Center.
This book lays out in detail how the FBI engineered
the 1993 World Trade Center explosion.

Edmonds, Sibel D Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir
2012 Sibel D Edmonds publisher
In this startling new memoir, former FBI agent/analyst Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblowers movement she spearheaded.


Emerson, Steven and Brian Duffy. THE FALL OF PAN AM 103. G.B. Putnam's Sons, 1990.
Oliver Revell was the number 2 man at the F.B.I. until he was demoted
by F.B.I. Director William Sessions to the Dallas Field Office. His son
Chris Revell had tickets for Pan Am 103, but he changed his flight two days before the plane
exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland. See Ross Gelbspan's book, BREAK-INS,
DEATH THREATS AND THE FBI to get a fuller picture of Oliver Revell.

Flannery, Greg . REACH OUT AND TAP SOMEONE . In These Times Magazine
March 1989 issue
This article appeared in the March issue of the national publication IN THESE TIMES.
It details the massive illegal FBI wiretap program
placed on US Presidents, members of Congress, Judges, people of color, local politicians during the 1970's thru the 1980's. This was before the Patriot Act.
More important it details how FBI agents working with local police were committing voter fraud and arson.
see
http://www.unz.org/Pub/InTheseTimes-1989mar22-00012‬



Foerstel, Herbert. SURVEILLANCE IN THE STACKS. Greenwood Press, 1991.
Looks at attempts by the F.B.I. to get librarians to spy on the American public .The FBI created the Library Clauses in the Patriot Act because of this book.

Gallagher, Dorothy. ALL THE RIGHT ENEMIES. Penguin Books, 1988.
The F.B.I. utilized the Mafia to carry out its executions against Presidents and political activists from 1930 through 2000.
Carlos Tresca was one of their victims.

Gelbspan, Ross. BREAK- INS, DEATH THREATS, AND THE F.B.I. South End Press, 1991.
This Pulitzer Prize winning reporter formerly with the Boston Globe,
details the F.B.I. death squad collaboration with the death squads in
El Salvador and their attacks upon American groups opposed to those
death squads.

Glick, Brian. WAR AT HOME. South End Press, 1989.
Attorney Glick details the F.B.I.’s covert war against political activists.

Goulet, Donald Chesuncook Author House 2008
Autobiography of a FBI agent plagued by mental illness.

Hoffman, David. THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR. Feral
House, 1998.
Contains detailed evidence about the FBI alliance with the terrorist
underworld, and how FBI agent provocateurs are behind many of the
current bombings that have plagued the United States since the fall of
the Berlin Wall. Some current thinking has FBI agents creating these
acts to fill the void caused by the downfall of communism and replacing
communism with the new boogeyman Islam.

Holland, Max . Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat
Deep Throat FBI Supervisor Mark Felt, the number two guy in the FBI during Watergate, was leaking, not out of concern for public good but rather because he was angry he was not getting the top spot in the bureau
University Press Kansas 2012


Hougan, Jim. SPOOKS. William Morrow, 1978.
Important book detailing the life of former F.B.I. agent Robert Maheux
and his relationship with the Mafia. Groundbreaking book in
understanding FBI collaboration with the Mafia, using it to carry out
assassinations on President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and others.
Maheux was the liason between the Mafia and the FBI when the FBI assassinated President Kennedy and Martin Luther King.



Kaiser, Marty . Odyssey of an Eavesdropper( My Life in electronic
countermeasures and my battle against the FBI) W Carroll & Graf 2005
Author exposes wiretapping crimes committed by FBI agents as well as
Business Fraud. He built the wiretapping devices for FBI agents that
were later used in crimes committed against people like Martin Luther
King and public officials.After exposing FBI agents kickback schemes to
Congress the author became a target of retaliation by tax payer funded
FBI agents. see ‪http://www.martykaiser.com/odyssey2.htm‬

Keith, Jim. OK BOMB. Illuminate, 1996.
Explores FBI coverup in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.

Kelly, John F. TAINTING EVIDENCE. The Free Press 1998. The book is
based on testimony of FBI lab Whistleblower Dr. Frederick Whitehurst ,
an employee of the FBI for 17 years. Shows how bad the FBI Lab is run.
Dr. Whitehurst was the chemist who analyzed Timothy McVeigh's clothes
for traces of ammonium nitrate and was removed from the case when he
did not find any bomb residue.
see
http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php ... Itemid=108‬


Lehr, Dick & O'Neill, Gerard. BLACK MASS. Public Affairs, 2000.
Looks at the FBI's collaboration in Boston with the Mafia and Irish Mob
between 1960 and 2001 in which they collaborated in the murder of 21
women,children and men. Important book showing how the FBI uses the
Mafia to commit political and other assassinations .see



Lindauer, Susan Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq 2010 Susan Lindauer publisher
More evidence showing the FBI, CIA and other government agencies created 911.
What if the government decided to invent a great lie to justify a disastrous war and a questionable anti-terrorism policy? What would happen to the people who know the truth? EXTREME PREJUDICE delivers an explosive, high tension expose of the real facts surrounding the CIA's advance warnings of 9/11 and an insider's look at Pre-War Intelligence, told by one of the very few U.S. Assets covering Iraq before the War.


McGhee , Millie WHAT'S DONE IN THE DARK Allen Morris 2005
The author is a afro american relative of FBI Director J Edgar Hoover
who is successful in presenting evidence that FBI Director Hoover is part African-American
and related to her.
The book details the research conducted by Ms McGhee and how FBI agents tried to stop her from writing the book. Photographs show reunion of white and black relatives united by the research in this book. FBI Director J Edgar Hoover was the descendant of Mississippi slaves.

Melanson, Phillip. THE MURKIN CONSPIRACY. Praeger, 1989.
Professor Melanson looks at the F.B.I.’s role in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Melanson, Phillip. THE ROBERT KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. Shapolsky, 1991.
Professor Melanson was in charge of the Robert Kennedy archives at the University of Massachusetts.
He detailed the F.B.I.’s role as one of the principal architects in the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

Messerschmidt, Jim. THE TRIAL OF LEONARD PELTIER. South End Press, 1983.
Looks at the miscarriage of justice in the F.B.I.’s handling of the Leonard Peltier case.

Morrow, Robert First Hand Knowledge: How I Participated in the CIA-Mafia Murder of President Kennedy (New York: S.P.I. Books, 1992)

Oklahoma City Bombing Investigative Committee. THE FINAL REPORT.2001.
The book providing evidence of FBI involvement in the Oklahoma City
Bombing .

Navasky, Victor. INVESTIGATING THE F.B.I. Doubleday, 1973.
Contains material presented at a major conference at Princeton University in 1971 investigating
crimes committed by the FBI.


Neff, James. MOBBED UP. Dell Publishers 1988.
Important book in understanding FBI collaboration with the Mafia
especially how the Bureau uses the Mafia to carry out its political
assassinations.

Nelson, Jack. THE F.B.I. AND THE BERRIGANS. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972.
Looks at F.B.I. death squad directed against Nobel Peace Prize nominee Phil Berrigan and his
brother, Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan.

Olsen, Jack. LAST MAN STANDING: THE TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH OF GERONIMO PRATT.
Doubleday, 2000.
Provides supporting evidence for the idea of the F.B.I. as a death
squad. Examines the F.B.I. acts of genocide against Afro-Americans .
Looks at how FBI agents framed Geronimo Pratt, a Afro American Viet-nam
vet who spent over 25 years in prison before a judge released him
saying he was innocent and framed by FBI agents.
Vermont filmaker has issued a 4 DVD collection of her films
about the Black Panthers. She interviews retired FBI agent
Wesley Swearingen who was part of the FBI Racial Squad in San Fransisco that put Pratt in prison see ‪http://www.newsreel.us/‬


O’Reilly, Kenneth. RACIAL MATTERS. Free Press, 1989.
Professor O’Reilly looks at a file called Racial Matters that the F.B.I. is keeping on Black America.


Parenti, Michael. DIRTY TRUTHS. City Lights Books, 1996.
Dr. Parenti looks at the evidence for F.B.I. involvement in the
assassination of labor leader Walter Reuther while he was organizing
protests against the Vietnam War. It includes the essay “Why the Left
is Afraid to look at the Assassination of JFK” .



Pepper , William The Plot to Kill Martin Luther King Skyhorse Publishing 2016
MLK Survived Shooting, Was Murdered in Hospital

Martin Luther King was murdered in a conspiracy that was instigated by then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Review of William Pepper's Book see
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-plot- ... er/5544005‬


Pepper, William. ORDERS TO KILL. Carroll and Graf, 1995.
Attorney Pepper represented James Earl Ray in his bid for a new trial
and won a landmark case in civil court in December 1999 for the Martin
Luther King Jr. family. The jury in the case concluded hat the F.B.I.
was involved in the assassination of King. His book details our
government’s involvement and provides photographic evidence of the
F.B.I.’s role in this assassination.



Pepper,William. ACT OF STATE: THE EXECUTION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING Verso Press, 2003
The evidence from the 1999 Civil Trial in Memphis brought by the King
family in which the jury concluded FBI agents were principal architects
in the assassination of Martin Luther King. Written by the trial
attorney William Pepper.

Powers, Richard Gid. SECRECY AND POWER. Free Press, 1987.
A biography of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his quest for power.

Powers, Tyrone. EYES TO MY SOUL. Majority Press, 1996.
Professor Powers an afro-american, talks about his 9 years working as
an F.B.I. agent, and the racism in the FBI . Powers discusses the FBI
FRUHMENSCHEN program set up in the 1920's thru 2010 to target black
politicians in sting operations without cause because the FBI feels
blacks are incpable of governing. White agents tried to kill him when
he was writing this book by blowing up his FBI issued car with him in
it..

Ranalli, Ralph. DEADLY ALLIANCE. Harper Torch, 2001
Boston Globe reporter Ralph Rannali exposes FBI collaboration with the
Boston Mafia from 1930-2009 where they ran a Murder Inc. President Bush
asserted Executive Privilege in 2002 preventing
Congress from seeing the Federal Prosecutor’s Investigative files on this case.

Robbins, Natalie. ALIEN INK. William Morrow, 1992.
Ms. Robbins acquired the F.B.I. files on the major writers and artists of the 20th century, and examines F.B.I. agents neutralizing them and their freedom of expression.

Rosenfeld, Seth, The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Hardcover August 21, 2012

Schultz, Bud and Ruth. IT DID HAPPEN HERE. University of California Press, 1989.
Contains interviews with human rights activists who survived F.B.I. assassination attempts.


Schultz, Bud and Ruth. THE PRICE OF DISSENT. University of California Press , 2001
The sequel to IT DID HAPPEN HERE with more interviews with civil rights activists , union organizers and anti-war protestors who survived FBI assassination attempts and with family members of people who were murdered.

Seymour, Sheri. COMMITTEE OF THE STATES. Self-published, 1989.
The F.B.I. infiltrated the California Militia 10 years before the Oklahoma City bombing. The book illustrates how easy it was for the F.B.I. to infiltrate the group and get it to make bombs.
Shows how easy it was for FBI agent provocteur to get Timothy McVeigh to make bomb and drive the truck. The exact same scenario
occured in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. google floyd
anticev salem

Sharkey, Joe. ABOVE SUSPICION. Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Looks at the F.B.I. coverup involving one of its own agents Mark Putnam, who murdered his informant after he got her pregnant.
FBI agent Putnam was eventually sentenced to prison for their murder thanks to the dogged work of the Kentucky State Police.
click link and scroll down to obituary of his wife. ‪http://betrayedbylovemovie.blogspot.com/‬

Sherill, Robert First Amendment Felon Nation Books, 10/2005
The Story of Frank Wilkinson, His 132,000 Page FBI File and His Epic Fight for Civil Rights and Liberties


Suarez, Manuel. REQUIEM ON CERRO MARAVILLA. Waterfront Press, 1987.
Looks at F.B.I. collaboration with local police in the arrest, handcuffing, and death squad execution of two teenagers in Puerto Rico.

Summers, Anthony. OFFICIAL AND CONFIDENTIAL. G.B. Putnam and Sons, 1993.
This is the book on which the PBS Frontline documentary on J. Edgar Hoover and his friendship with the Mafia is based. In my eyes, this PBS program was the turning point in the good fortune the FBI has enjoyed for over 80 years.

Swearingen, Wesley. F.B.I. Secrets: An Agents Expose South End Press 1994
Swearingen is a retired FBI agent currently living in the San Diego area who was a member
of the FBI San Fransisco Office racial Squad.
The FBI has Racial Squads in every major American City. The function of the FBI Racial Squad is to assassinate or neutralize
black politicians and black activists who do not reflect the philosophy of American Corporations. Vermont filmaker Roz Payne has
interviewed Swearingen and he is on her recently released 4 DVD about the Black Panthers see ‪http://www.newsreel.us/‬


Swearingen,Wesley, To Kill a President: Finally – an Ex-FBI Agent Rips Aside the Veil of Secrecy that Killed JFK 2006
According to Swearingen, Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in assassinating Kennedy as was claimed by the FBI, the Warren Commission and other investigating bodies. Instead, he argues that rogue CIA agents acting in concert with the mafia and certain Cuban exiles plotted to kill Kennedy. Swearingen contends that the conspiracy was covered up by the FBI, an effort that continues to this day through the agency's unwillingness to disclose key details about the events surrounding Kennedy's death. see ‪https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 22281.html‬



Theoharis, Athan. THE F.B.I. Garland Publishers, 1994.
Professor Theoharis has compiled a comprehensive listing of books and articles about the F.B.I. up to 1994.

Thomas, Kenn. THE OCTOPUS. Feral House, 1996.
Investigates the F.B.I.’s role in the killing of investigative reporter Danny Casolero while he was investigating the October Surprise.

Turner, William. THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT KENNEDY. Thunder Mouth Press, 1993.
Written by a former F.B.I. agent, it looks at the F.B.I.’s involvement in the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

Turner, William. REARVIEW MIRROR foreword by Oliver Stone. Penmarin Books CA 2001.
More updated information on FBI involvement in President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Assassination written by a former FBI agent.

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. WHO IS GUARDING THE GUARDIANS? A Report on Police
Death Squad activities. 1981.


Williams, Dennis O. Fidelity Bravery Integrity No Way! Dorrance Publishing Company 2009

In 1979 FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dennis O. Williams moved across the country when he was promoted from the FBI’s Los Angeles Division to a supervisory position at FBI Headquarters. Soon after his arrival, Williams discovered that the mover had defrauded the FBI by billing for a higher weight of his household goods than actually existed. As Williams pursued the matter, he discovered a cover-up at FBI HQ; his attempts to expose this conspiracy resulted in his receiving threats and becoming the subject of retaliation. Though an investigation by the FBI Washington Field Office demonstrated that Williams was correct in his suspicions, the cover-ups continued for decades, eventually leading to a conspiracy to deceive the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding an inquiry into the involvement of Thomas J. Pickard.

Pickard was the acting director of the FBI when 9/11 occurred, despite Williams’ repeated warnings to the White House that Pickard did not have the integrity for such a position. The 9/11 Commission report reflects that the Phoenix Division of the FBI produced a memorandum dated July 10, 2001, advising FBI HQ that an inordinate number of supporters of Osama Bin Laden had attended civil aviation universities and colleges and would be in a position to conduct terror activity against civil aviation targets. Williams believes that Pickard’s testimony that no managers at FBI headquarters saw the Phoenix memo before September 11 constitutes a red flag indicating a conspiracy to defraud the 9/11 Commission.



Williams , Kristian
Our Enemies in Blue Police and Power in America (Revised Edition)
South End Press 2007

Wiener, Jon. GIMME SOME TRUTH. University of California Press, 1999.
Professor Wiener looks at the 14 year battle with the F.B.I. to get them to release their files on John Lennon.How many rock stars has the FBI assassinated?

Wise, David TIGER TRAP America’s Secret Spy War With China
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.2011
Looks at how FBI agents were manipulated by Chinese spies after FBI agents started having sex with their Chinese informants

SUGGESTED WEB SITES AND VIDEOS
http://www.madcowprod.com/‬
http://www.moldea.com/‬
http://www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com/‬
http://www.ae911truth.org/‬
‪http://www.heatisonline.org‬
‪http://www.whistleblowers.org‬
http://www.zpub.com/notes/fbi-shame.html‬
https://www.google.com/search?q=fbi%20c ... en&tbm=vid‬

VIDEOS:

CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: The Franklin Cover Up
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-franklin-cover-up/‬

Conspiracy of Silence: The Franklin Cover UpConspiracy of Silence, a documentary listed for viewing in TV Guide Magazine was to be aired on the Discovery Channel, on May 3 1994. This documentary exposed a network of religious leaders and Washington politicians who flew children to Washington D.C. for sex orgies. Many children suffered the indignity of wearing nothing but their underwear and a number displayed on a piece of cardboard hanging from their necks when being auctioned off to foreigners in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Toronto, Canada.

MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS
Incontrovertible evidence showing FBI coverup of LOCKERBIE TWA Flight 800
explosion coverup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B5hv6scbBo‬


Waco A New Revelation

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9pQ1pIbiU‬


WACO:RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
One of the best documentaries ever made, period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ08dd6XKqc

A NOBLE LIE 2012 Convicts the FBI of creating the
Oklahoma City bombing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96tBbpOHIw


http://anoblelie.com/‬



SILENCED Jack Cashill
Convicts the FBI of the coverup of TWA downing over Long Island by a missile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF68-HQ74tI


THE GREAT DECEPTION Barry Zwicker
Convicts the US Government of creating 911
In 6 parts see all six
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q20jaExlHdw‬

TRUTH&LIES 911 Mike Ruppert
best evidence linking US Government to creating 911

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E_uXRGIcQQ



AFTERMATH:UNANSWEREDQUESTIONS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EfDnN8NImM‬

then watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PjhfoV_Lgk

FBI LIED in their JFK Assassination Reports
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODXoISgU-0M‬


WHAT WE WANT WHAT WE BELIEVE a 4 DVD set about the Black Panthers
with an interview with FBI agent
Wesley Swearingen discussing the FBI Racial Squad and
their policy to assassinate black leaders
http://www.newsreel.us/DVD/information.htm‬

911 PRESS FOR TRUTH details the evidence for the FBI creating 911
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgUFkVG_78g‬

also see 2012 film INFORMANT
Documentary about FBI informant Brandon Darby

http://bestvipcinemas.link/play.php?mov ... 9&mth=d221


FBI agents committing Voter Fraud
Bev Harris

http://blackboxvoting.org/black-box-voting-book/‬


FBI agents coverup of 911

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UyynjxAyw‬

FBI agents and their coverup of the Oklahoma City bombing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4Iyo9mhy0‬


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Sunday, December 19, 2021
NEW EMAILS Show Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins Scheming Against Top Doctor’s Group that Challenged Their Failed and Deadly Policies/Gateway Pundit




Yet another damning email leak.  This one is from Francis Collins, NIH Director, to Tony Fauci and Fauci deputies Clifford Lane and Lawrence Tabak.

Three of them have MD after their names.  One is a dentist by training.
They are discussing the Great Barrington Declaration and its 3 authors from Oxford, Harvard and Stanford, full professors, whom Collins refers to as "fringe epidemiologists."  
Soon thereafter there was in fact a published retort, in the Lancet, which was signed by the usual suspects (Marc Lipsitch, Devi Sridhar, Trisha Greenhalgh, Florian Krammer, Lynne Goldman, etc., the paid-off, reliable story tellers), called the John Snow declaration, an attempted takedown that did not get any traction. 
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Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now

Nisreen A Alwan
Rochelle Ann Burgess
Simon Ashworth
Rupert Beale
Nahid Bhadelia
Debby Bogaert
Jennifer Dowd
Isabella Eckerle
Lynn R Goldman
Trisha Greenhalgh
Deepti Gurdasani

Adam Hamdy
William P Hanage
Emma B Hodcroft
Zoë Hyde
Paul Kellam
Michelle Kelly-Irving
Florian Krammer
Marc Lipsitch
Alan McNally
Martin McKee
Ali Nouri
Dominic Pimenta
Viola Priesemann
Harry Rutter
Joshua Silver
Devi Sridhar
Charles Swanton
Rochelle P Walensky
Gavin Yamey
Hisham Ziauddeen
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Published:October 15, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32153-X
Collins, in case there were any doubts, is now revealed to be just as deep into the chicanery as Fauci--whose intent was to destroy those who challenged the illogical, ineffective, iniquitous and illegal COVID policies.
Collins has resigned.  His replacement starts tomorrow.  Just in case you were optimistic that this signalled changes at NIH, put your hopes aside.
He is being replaced by his co-conspirator, Lawrence Tabak, the dentist, as the head of NIH.  A dentist running the National Institutes of Health...  A dentist who is part of the Fauci-Collins conspiracy.  The hydra has many heads.  Identify them.  Call them out.  Defund the NIH, not the police, and its pandemic shop of horrors.
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Principal Deputy Director

Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S, Ph.D.
Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., has been named the Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), effective December 20, 2021.

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Rep. Tom Massie for President

 
Thomas Massie


@RepThomasMassie
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15h


Acknowledge natural immunity
Allow conventional vaccines in USA
Encourage effective treatments
Stop EUA vs “approved” shell game
Focus on helping those “at risk”
Quit acting as if cloth masks work
End mandates & passports
Return lawmaking to legislatures
Resume normal today

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Robert Malone on childhood vaccines: short and very pointed. Everyone should read this and share.

 The full interview with Dr. Malone is well worth watching:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/uGjXMiBHKe55/
My name is Robert Malone, and I am speaking to you as a parent, grandparent, physician and scientist. I don’t usually read from a prepared speech, but this is so important that I wanted to make sure that I get every single word and scientific fact correct.
I stand by this statement with a career dedicated to vaccine research and development. I’m vaccinated for COVID and I'm generally pro-vaccination. I have devoted my entire career to developing safe and effective ways to prevent and treat infectious diseases.
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Photo Requests From Solitary
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Nat'l Zoom Call: How to respond to war threats on Russia

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space

How to Respond to

War Threats on Russia?


* Understanding U.S. Objectives

* The Role of NATO, a U.S. Commanded
Military Alliance

* What we can do about it




Evacuation of the Donbass as US-NATO backed Ukrainian forces shell Donetsk and Lugansk


Zoom call with speakers

TUES. Feb 22 at 8:30 pm ET / 7:30 pm CT / 6:30 pm MT / 5:30 pm PT

Please click here to register for the meeting.


Join us for this important meeting and discussion with leaders from the antiwar movement including (in alphabetical order):

Leela Anand – ANSWER coalition
Bahman Azad – US Peace Council
Ajamu Baraka – Black Alliance for Peace
Madea Benjamin – CodePink
Sara Flounders – International Action Center
Margaret Flowers – Popular Resistance
Bruce Gagnon – Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
Margaret Kimberley – Black Agenda Report
Jeff Mackler – United National Antiwar Coalition
Nancy Price - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Susan Schnall – Veterans For Peace
David Swanson – World Beyond War
Joe Lombardo will chair. Ajamu Baraka will give an opening statement


Only a few short months after the chaotic US defeat in Afghanistan, the US is pushing a war with Russia, a major nuclear power. US officials insist that the Russians will invade Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly denied this.

In recent days the US and some of their allies have closed their embassies and asked their nationals to leave Ukraine. [The US and allies moved their embassies to Lvov in western Ukraine where Nazis predominate.]

The Ukrainian military has a force of 150,000 troops, that are U.S. trained and armed with modern US weapons, near the Russian border and the independent regions in Donbass. These independent regions have taken a stand in opposition to the right-wing, coup government in Kiev, since 2014. The Ukrainian military has started heavy shelling of the independent areas of Donbass, which have returned the fire.

Every U.S. war in our lifetime has been based on false information, repeated relentlessly by the corporate media. There is deep apprehension that the US and the Ukrainian government are preparing a “false flag” incident that could lead to a major conflict.

The US has tens of thousands of troops in Europe, it is putting troops on high alert and sending more. They are not only arming the Ukrainian military, but they are expanding NATO bases and sending additional arms and missiles to other NATO countries in the region.

It is important that the US antiwar movement come together to oppose these dangerous war moves. Please join us on Tuesday.





U.S.-NATO war games near Russian borders

Since NATO expansion began during the Clinton administration, the US-NATO have been holding regular war games near or on Russia's borders.

Mowcow has been asking Washington and Brussels for years to honor the promise made to Russia at the end of the Cold War that NATO would not expand 'one inch' toward Russia.

NATO is now expanding into a global military vehicle - signing up members and partners in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific.



U.S. missile bases in Romania & Poland

Washington has built two missile launch facilities in Romania and Poland. They can fire so-called 'missile defense' systems as well as nuclear-capable first-strike attack Tomahawk cruise missiles which can reach Russia in a very short time.

This is a Cuban missile crisis in reverse.

Imagine if China or Russia were deploying nuclear missiles in Canada or Mexico. The U.S. would go ballistic!



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



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https://documentaryphotographs.com/best09.htm


Texan Photographer Alan Pogue

Man With Key
Palestine, the Middle East.   2001
As a reminder to themselves and everyone they meet, Palestinians whose homes were confiscated in the 1948 settlement of Isreal by European Jews, keep the old fashioned keys to the front door on a chain around their necks.
Ibrahim Shaheen al Mansi has been in a Palestinian refugee camp since 1948.



Link to the latest Whistleblower Newsroom show: https://www.bitchute.com/video/MqP31Lg2YB43/

Author, investigative journalist, attorney and oil/gas "Pipeline Tracker" Charlotte Dennett lays out the history of oil and gas pipelines, the conflicts surrounding them and the ruling elite agendas behind them, bringing out details that explain why former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger once said, “Control oil and you control nations. Control food and you control people.”

This is an important listen.
Kindest regards, 
Kristina

https://theintercept.com/2022/03/05/mel ... h-penalty/

RUSH TO JUDGMENT
Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened?

Melissa Lucio speaks on the phone from death row in Gatesville, Texas, in 2018, in a still from the documentary “The State of Texas vs. Melissa.” Still: Courtesy of FilmRise

Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith

March 5 2022, 9:05 a.m

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

2 NYPD officers found guilty of stealing cash from ‘drunk driver’ in police ‘integrity’ sting
Officer Joseph Stokes, 42, stole $4,800, and his partner, Jose Aracena, 37, separately grabbed $220 in a 2019 drunken driving bust on the Lower East Side, prosecutors s

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypkjx/ ... ar-ukraine

US Police Have So Much Extra Gear They’re Sending It to Ukraine

Police departments around the U.S. are donating tactical gear to Ukraine, whose annual defense budget is smaller than the NYPD’s.  

https://www.king5.com/article/news/educ ... 355507b310

FBI working to reduce 'shockingly low' number of agents with diverse backgrounds
At Seattle University, a two-day FBI Practicum aims to expose more students from diverse backgrounds to the career opportunities that the



https://www.ticklethewire.com/2022/03/0 ... n-charges/

U.S. Marshals Museum Searches for New Leader After President And CEO Resigns Amid Gun Charges



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/de ... ar-AAUQMmM

Defense: FBI knew Whitmer kidnap suspects were 'stoned' crazy talkers
Tresa Baldas and Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press




https://www.thedailybeast.com/gretchen- ... a-on-trial

EXTREMISM

Will a ‘Double Agent’ Informant and FBI Mayhem Torpedo the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Case?

KEEP IT TOGETHER
The feds arrested alleged right-wing terrorists they said plotted to kidnap a Democrat over her COVID lockdown. Then things got messy.

Updated Mar. 09, 2022 4:06PM ET 
Published Mar. 09, 2022 1:22PM ET 



https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/03 ... 646865395/

U.S. NEWS MARCH 9, 2022 / 7:46 PM
Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot: Defense says suspects were high, entrapped by FBI
By Daniel Uria

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ope ... l-83334086

Lawyers: FBI lured men for Michigan Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot
Attorneys for four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are telling jurors they were swayed by informants and federal agents who targeted them for their anti-government views
By MICHAEL TARM, ED WHITE and SARA BURNETT Associated Press
March 9, 2022, 4:11 PM


https://nypost.com/2022/03/10/off-duty- ... irlfriend/

NYPD cop busted for allegedly beating girlfriend in Brooklyn
By Amanda Woods
March 10, 2022 10:29am Updated




https://wgme.com/news/local/former-main ... estigation

Maine prosecutor pleads guilty to tipping off cop about federal investigation

by WGMETuesday, March 8th 2022






http://www.protocolsfordemocracy.org/CraigDonsanto.htm



Why won't the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate electronic vote fraud? Is it because the DOJ and FBI have long been involved in it, themselves?  
“If you did it right, no one would ever know,” said Craig C. Donsanto, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Election Crimes Branch, Public Integrity Section (from 1970-2010) in a July 4,1989 Los Angeles Times article about electronic voting machines and vote fraud. B


https://www.unz.com/print/InTheseTimes-1989mar22-00012/
In the World
Reach Out and TAP Someone
by Gregory Flannery
In These Times, March 22, 1989, pp. 12-13




http://www.thelandesreport.com/Gates-Condit.PDF

FROM THE votefraud.org ARCHIVES
Election Wire-tap Al3-eged Cincinnati BelI Denies Charges
The following paragraphs are excerpts from an article in the Cincinnati Post right before the November, 1987 Cincinnati Council Election. - Jim Condit Jr.
by Randy Ludlow Post staff reporter
Cincinnati Bell security supervisors ordered wire taps installed on county computers before elections in the late 1970sand early L980s that could have allowed vote totals to be altered. a former Bell employee says in a sworn court documents
Leonard Gates, a Z}-year Cincinnati Bell employee until he was fired in 1986,claims in a deposition frled Thursday in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to have installed the wire taps.
Cincinnati Bell officials denied Gates' allegations tha are part of a six- year-old civil suit that contends the elections computer is subject to manipulation and fraud.
Gates claims a security supervisor for the telephone company told him in 1979that the firm had obtained a computer program through the FBI that gave it accessto the county computer used to count votes.
The deposition does not say if vote totals ever were changed. Gates claimed to have installed wire taps on county computers befoore the elections in L977through 1981and believes, but wasn't certain, in 1982 and 1983.
Gates' allegations also have taken on political overtones. He appeared in a television commercial that aired twice Thursday on WKRC- Channel 12 for Jim Condit Jr., a Cincinnatus Party candidate for Cincinnati City Council.
The commercial also features former Bell employee Robert Draise, who was convicted of tapping a Hamilton, Ohio woman's home and fired for it and who claims he wire-tapped the homes of multi- millionaire and anti-pornography crusader Charles Keating and 



https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/10/ ... -class-90/

Boston Fire’s newest recruits include just one woman in a class of 90
The Boston Fire Department, criticized in recent years for being overwhelmingly white and male, continues to struggle with diversity, as its current recruiting class of 90 includes only one woman.


https://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/in ... huntsville

Mar 10 2022
Shelby Secures $570 Million for FBI in Huntsville
FY22 Appropriations Build on Significant Growth of FBI Presence in North Alabama


https://patch.com/connecticut/branford/ ... s-new-book

Thin Blue Lie: Former Branford Cop, FBI Whistleblower's New Book
"The Thin Blue Lie: An Honest Cop vs. The FBI" is Greg Dillon's account of what happened after he disclosed FBI misconduct.

Ellyn Santiago,
Patch Staff
Posted Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:36 pm ET


https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/10/wh ... stigation/


Whistleblower: FBI Is Just Now Asking Basic Questions About Jan. 6 Pipe Bombs — A Year Into Its Investigation
BY: KYLEE ZEMPEL
MARCH 10, 2022

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https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3 ... r-the-fbi/

Friends with benefits: Sussmann trial is a black eye for the FBI
BY JONATHAN TURLEY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 05/28/22 11:00 AM ET


https://www.axios.com/2022/05/30/uvalde ... aining-fbi

May 30, 2022 - Politics & Policy
Uvalde officers likely "unprepared for conflict," says retired FBI agent who created active shooter program


https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA- ... 230062.htm

Federal prosecutors charged a former high-ranking FBI official Tuesday with obstructing justice in the Ruby Ridge case by destroying an internal critique of ...


https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-right ... uby-ridge/

Fed’s misconduct in Cliven Bundy case stems from Ruby Ridge
BY JAMES BOVARD, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 01/14/18 3:20 PM ET
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL


Tuesday May 31
Supreme Court Guts Its Own Precedent to Allow Arizona to Kill Barry Jones
Liliana Segura,The Intercept
Pressure builds on Biden to investigate Israel over Abu Akleh killing
Mitchell Plitnik, Mondoweiss
Assange family renewed hope after change of government in Australia
Staff, Morning Star
Starbucks Workers United Wins in US’s Most Anti-Union City
John Logan, Truthout

Joe Biden Is Ramping Up the US’s Forever War in Somalia
Samar Al-Bulushi, Jacobi

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... blic-view/

FBI keeps rulebook for agents hidden from public view


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/opin ... oting.html

The New York Times
Opinion | After Uvalde, We Must Ask: Is Active Shooter Training Working?After watching the tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, unfold after so many other shootings in recent weeks, I'm wondering...
.


https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbis-hand ... 00394.html

The Epoch Times
FBI's Handling of Trump-Alfa Bank Allegation 'Unusual': Former AgentThe way the FBI investigated allegations of a secret backchannel between the Trump Organization and Russia-based Alfa Bank ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/uvalde- ... nse-2022-5

Business Insider
Uvalde: FBI shooter-policy author questions hesitant police response"Why did the police leadership make that call?" special agent Katherine Schweit wrote of the 78 minutes it took police to confront the...


https://innocenceproject.org/fbi-agents ... sis-cases/

FBI Agents Gave Erroneous Testimony in at least 90% of Microscopic Hair Analysis Cases

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... conviction

Thirty years in jail for a single hair: the FBI's 'mass disaster' of false conviction


https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/innoc ... iscredited

INNOCENCE: Criminal Convictions in Question after FBI Bullet Evidence Discredited


https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780684846460

Tainting Evidence : Behind the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/n ... 050999.htm


FBI Sought to Suppress Report on TWA Cras



https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ob ... -1.2186329

Apr 15, 2015 — And I believe the FBI covered it up. There are many reasons to disbelieve the official explanation of what happened to TWA 800 almost 19 ...

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/electio ... rt-1-of-2/

Exclusive: Oklahoma City Bombing Breakthrough, Part 1 of 2

https://thenewamerican.com/key-report-on-okc-bombing/

Key Report on OKC Bombing


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

Was the FBI responsible for Martin Luther King's assassination?

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



https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/inves ... -300255574

Ex-Senator: FBI covered up 9/11 investigation

Sarasota, Florida -- On the eve of the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we are now learning of allegations of a major FBI cover-up that ...



https://theintercept.com/2021/08/14/911 ... ity-seven/

High-Profile Al Qaeda Plot Foiled After 9/11 Was FBI Scam
https


High-Profile Al Qaeda Plot Foiled After 9/11 Was FBI Scam

Aug 14, 2021 — A new Frontline documentary details the case of the “Liberty City Seven,” a group of men the FBI coached into pledging allegiance to Al ...



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


City Council swearing-in of Uvalde school police chief delayed for more funerals



https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/31/ ... nanswered/

JEFFREY D. SACHS AND NEIL L. HARRISON
Questions surrounding the origins of COVID-19 remain unanswered


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

Did Joe Manchin block climate action to benefit his financial interests?


https://www.distractify.com/p/ex-cop-twitter-thread

Former Cop Says He Quit "Heartless” Police Force After Just 10 Days in Viral Thread

BY MUSTAFA GATOLLARI
JUN. 1 2022, PUBLISHED 9:46 A.M. ET

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https://www.fbicover-up.com/vincent-foster-report.html

By order of the U.S. Court of Appeals,
Ken Starr's Report includes evidence
that Vincent Foster was murdered

Quotes from Starr's Report

"t is manifest that the Report [Starr's Office of  
Independent Counsel] omits the information...  
which refutes the FBI's repeated official  
conclusion of suicide in the park."

"The [Office of Independent Counsel's] use of  
the FBI in this matter undermines both purposes
of the [Ethics in Government Act]."

"[T]he FBI concealed the true facts surrounding  
Mr. Foster's death...  [T]he FBI obstructed justice
in this matter."

"[T]hroughout the 16 day U.S. park Police
invesigation into the case, FBI participation was
significant."

"The FBI concealed that Mr. Foster's car was not
in the Fort Marcy lot by the time he was dead...
Mr. Foster could not have driven to the park in
his Honda."

"[Witness tampering was] to intimidate and warn  
Patrick in connection with his grand jury
testimony..."

The FBI knew that Mrs. Foster could identify  
only a silver gun, so FBI agents showed her a
silver gun, told her it was found in Mr. Foster's
hand, and falsely reported that she identified the
(black) gun found in Foster's hand..."

"The FBI concealed the gunshot wound in Mr.  
Foster's neck by...concealing the contents of the
Medical Examiner's Report...falsely reporting
that the 35 mm photographs were unclear...  
concealing Polaroid photographs vanished...  
concealing x-rays vanished..."  

"[Paramedic] Arthur believed he saw a bullet
wound in the right side of Foster's neck..."



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LysEuI92t7M

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is delighted to announce “Forbidden Truth: 9/11 Science at 21 Years,” an online symposium about the state of scientific inquiry into the destruction of the three World Trade Center Towers 21 years after the world-changing events of September 11, 2001.
The symposium will be held on Friday, September 9, from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM Eastern. It will be open to all free of charge on YouTube and Facebook and will be emceed by Andy Steele, the host of 9/11 Free Fall


https://amgreatness.com/2020/04/24/repo ... lynn-case/



Report: FBI Director Wray Behind Suppression of ‘Stunning’ Exculpatory Evidence in Flynn Case
By Debra Heine


https://theintercept.com/2022/09/10/ukr ... oversight/

U.S. MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE GROWS TO HISTORIC PROPORTIONS — ALONG WITH RISKS
Alice Speri


https://www.vice.com/en/article/93aqj3/ ... xtinctions

Scientists Find Surprising Cause of Devastating Mass Extinctions

Slow-moving continents spurred volcanic apocalypses that may have sparked the worst mass extinction in history—and could teach us about our own fate.

By Becky Ferreira
September 9, 2022, 2:00pm


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBl8VpXvKso

9/11: Press For Truth



https://www.madcowprod.com/2021/09/07/l ... -day-year/

Like Groundhog Day Once a Year
By Daniel Hopsicker -
September 7, 2021
Every year as September 11 approaches, I think, “This is the year it doesn’t matter so much anymore.”  Sad to say, I’m not there yet.



https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvm7ad/ ... a-pakistan

Former Colonies of Elizabeth II Want Their $400 Million Diamond Back From the Crown Jewels

The longest-reigning British monarch died on September 8. But many from her former colonies aren’t mourning.
By Pallavi Pundir
JAKARTA, ID
September 9, 2022, 10:43am



https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axn8p/ ... l-security

Navy Says All UFO Videos Classified, Releasing Them ‘Will Harm National Security’
The Navy says it has more UFO videos. It doesn’t want to share them.

By Jason Koebler
September 9, 2022, 9:55am


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/ ... egislation

72 House Democrats Tell Pelosi to Keep Manchin's Dirty Deal Out of Must-Pass Legislation
"Today's letter from House members further confirms what we've been seeing on the streets and in town hall meetings across the country: large and growing public disgust for this egregious fossil fuel permitting deal," said one campaigner.
JAKE JOHNSON
September 9, 2022


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/ ... ase-irobot

Coalition Tells FTC to Curb Amazon 'Surveillance Empire' by Blocking Purchase of iRobot
"There is no more private space than the home. Yet with this acquisition, Amazon stands to gain access to extremely intimate acts in our most private spaces that are not available through other means, or to other competitors."
JESSICA CORBETT
September 9, 2022



https://www.lennonfbifiles.com

The John Lennon FBI files
a source of information about John Lennon's FBI files, letters to the INS from people opposing his deportation, the documentary "The U.S. vs. John Lennon", and the book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files by Jon Wiene


https://freebeacon.com/democrats/george ... rosecutor/

George Gascón’s Journey From Good Cop to Bad Prosecutor
The progressive darling began his career cracking down on crime in L.A.


https://freebeacon.com/biden-administra ... of-carbon/

As Biden’s Climate Czar, John Kerry Has Flown More Than 180,000 Miles, Emitting 9.5 Million Pounds of Carbon
Other prominent climate activists have given up flying to combat climate change, which Kerry has called an 'existential crisis'


https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08 ... -everyone/

DuckDuckGo now offers anti-tracking email service to everyone
They're totally cool with you giving their emails out to spammy companies.
KEVIN PURDY - 8/25/2022, 11:50 AM

https://whistleblowersblog.org/corporat ... ion-award/

IRS Whistleblowers Receive $8.8 Million Award


https://whistleblowersblog.org/the-new- ... -handbook/

The New Whistleblowers Handbook

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