Wednesday, July 10, 2013

13-07-11 News from the Gulag: Almost 30,000 California Prison Inmates On Hunger Strike

Almost 30,000 California Prison Inmates On Hunger Strike

By M. Alex Johnson,

The inmates comprise almost a quarter of the state's 120,000 prisoners, said that they are out of options to end indefinite solitary confinement for inmates with ties to prison gangs, which they call state-sanctioned torture.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35504.htm

13-07-11 NSA blackmailing Obama?

So who is in control? According to what Constitution??? It would not take an expert Kremlinologist to figure it out...
A reminder: According to the PRISM system, initial data is captured by FBI, only then routed to clients, such as FBI, CIA, NSA.
And the news comes courtesy of Russia Today... :)

The Omnipotent - FBI Director Robert Mueller III
Overstays the term limit set by Congress following the J Edgar Hoover period; investigated (and publicized the fact) President Elect Obama; deposed a CIA Director...

The Puppet - President ObamaServes at the discretion of the Omnipotent.

NSA Blackmailing Obama? | Interview with Whistleblower Russ Tice

Video By RT

Abby Martin talks to Russell Tice, former intelligence analyst and original NSA whistleblower, about how the recent NSA scandal is only scratches the surface of a massive surveillance apparatus, citing specific targets the he saw spying orders for including former senators Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Posted July 10, 2013

Video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d6m1XbWOfVk

13-07-11 Hello world!

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13-07-11 Second "Prisoner X" exposed in Israel

The Israeli Prisoner Xs should be considered a case of Castle-Basement Prisoners - a medieval practice.

Occupy Tel-Aviv Encampment, July 11 - a second prisoner, held in total isolation and anonymity was exposed. In both cases, the prisoners were involved in serious state security violations, which impliled larger, system-wide failures of the Israeli secret services. (see below)
The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the UN Human Rights Council showed thousands of detainees recrds missing, which imply large-scale violations of Human Rights. [1]. The submission was incorporated in the Periodic Review Reposrt on Human Rights in the State of Israel with the note, "Lack of intergrity in the electronic records of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel". [2]
Likewise, large-scale false imprisonment in Los Angeles County, California, was one of two focus areas of the the Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the UN Human Rights Council. The submission was incorporated in the Periodic Review Reposrt on Human Rights in the United States with the note, "Corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in Califonria". [3]
In researching the records of Los Angeles County prisoner's records, two such population of prisoners of abuse were distinguished: First - those that are falsely imprisoned, i.e., the Rampart FIPs (Falsely Imprisoned Persons), [4] and second - CBP (Castle-Basement Prisoners), i.e., those that are held in total lawlessness and isolation. [5]
The Israeli Prisoner Xs should be considered a case of Castle-Basement Prisoners - a medieval practice.
LINKS:
[1] 12-06-04 Human Right Alert, Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel - "Integrity, or lack thereof, of the electronic record systems of the courts of the State of Israel"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/92826212/
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8Aa2xQGbmk5QWtZcjVQLWVFZ0k
[2] 13-01-15 "Lack of integrity of the electronic record systems of the ... Courts in Israel," noted in the 2013 Human Rights Council Staff Report
http://he.scribd.com/doc/120461368/
[3] 10-10-01 United Nations Human Rights Council Records for 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States, where Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/108663259/

[4] 11-08-01 Zernik, J: Los Angeles Superior Court - widespread corruption and refusal of US government to take action, 16th World Criminology Congress presentation

http://he.scribd.com/doc/61351469/

[5] 10-03-14-Los-Angeles-County-Sheriff-apos-s-Department-Online-Inmate-Information-Center-Survey-of-Consecutive-Booking-Numbers-s

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28350775/

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Israel Prison Service sources: 'Second Prisoner X' held for years in total isolation

Testimonies provided to Haaretz describe conditions in which the anonymous inmate is being held; Lieberman: Case is 'extremely severe incident.'

By Shay Fogelman | Jul.10, 2013 | 8:17 PM |

Second Prisoner X

13-07-10 California: Cop Fatally Shot Unarmed Man, Forbade Family from Giving Him CPR, Family Claims

Courthouse News / By William Dotinga

26 COMMENTS

Cop Fatally Shot Unarmed Man, Forbade Family from Giving Him CPR, Family Claims

A family claims in court that a police officer responding to a complaint allegedly attacked their son, shot him in the ensuing altercation, and refused to give him CPR.

July 9, 2013 |

SACRAMENTO (CN) - Showing "total lack of awareness," a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy awoke a mentally ill man and then shot him to death in his own bedroom, the man's family claims in court.

http://www.alternet.org/cop-fatally-shot-unarmed-man-forbade-family-giving-him-cpr-family-claims?akid=10672.1117888.8DUXq9&rd=1&src=newsletter866451&t=6

13-07-10 Wisconsin: Mining Company Hires Gun-Toting, Masked Paramilitary Security Guards as Protests Flare Up

This story reads so much like mining and abuse stories from the Great Depression... Deja vu of Ludlow Massacre, Battle of Blair Mountain, etc

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Mining Company Hires Gun-Toting, Masked Paramilitary Security Guards as Protests Flare Up

The presence of guards who work for Bulletproof Securities is raising eyebrows among Wisconsin lawmakers.

July 9, 2013 |

A private security firm has been hired by a mining company in Wisconsin, and now a paramilitary-like force has begun to protect the mining site. The presence of guards who work for Bulletproof Securities is raising eyebrows among Wisconsin lawmakers.

SOURCE:

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/wisconsin-mining-company-hires-gun-toting-masked-security-guards?akid=10672.1117888.8DUXq9&rd=1&src=newsletter866451&t=3

13-07-09 US: FBI Director Nominee Comey - was deputy attorney general under Bush II - part of the war crimes gang!

Being appointed FBI Director does not automatically ensure the Omnipotent privileges grabbed by current FBI Director Mueller III, but under the current form of government in the US, it is a good start... jz

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Occupy America

Comey: I Urged Not to Waterboard

Posted: 09 Jul 2013 07:19 PM PDT

FBI director nominee James Comey testifies that waterboarding is torture at a Senate committee hearing.

In front of a Senate panel on Tuesday, Obama’s nominee for FBI director, James B. Comey, said that while he was deputy attorney general under Dubya—and while he said it was OK to waterboard—he believed the tactic was torture. Now Comey thinks waterboarding is illegal, too. At the time, he said, it was difficult to label the technique illegal because the law itself was vague. Still, he says he told the administration to stop waterboarding. While Comey is a pick that’s actually received some bipartisan support, some Democrats are concerned with his time serving in the Bush administration.

NYT:

"Mr. Comey’s nomination has received strong bipartisan support, but some Democrats and civil liberty groups have raised questions about his role in the Bush administration. Last week, two of the Democratic senators, Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, sent a letter to Mr. Comey, expressing their concern about how he approved the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” that included waterboarding.

On Tuesday, many of the senators appeared satisfied with Mr. Comey’s answers about waterboarding, and it does not appear that the Republicans will try to block his confirmation.

Mr. Comey distinguished himself from many members of the Bush administration — and significantly raised his national profile — when he testified before the same Senate committee five years ago. His testimony was perceived as repudiating government surveillance programs.

At the hearing, about the Justice Department’s firings of several United States attorneys, Mr. Comey riveted the senators by testifying about a 2004 episode in which he thwarted Bush administration officials from persuading his ailing boss, Attorney General John Ashcroft, to sign off on an illegal data-collection program.Although Mr. Comey’s objections halted the program, it was later resumed under a similar legal framework, and senior Bush administration officials have said he raised few objections to other programs.

Mr. Comey did not provide new details about the incident on Tuesday, but he addressed the issue of government surveillance, which has become a thorny issue given a series of disclosures of classified programs by Edward J. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor. Mr. Comey also defended the use of surveillance programs to identify terrorists."

“I do know as a general matter that the collection of metadata and analysis of metadata is a valuable tool in counterterrorism,” he said.

SOURCE:

http://crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/comey-i-urged-not-waterboard

13-07-10 Italy descending into full blown Depression

Sunday, July 7, 2013

11 Signs That Italy Is Descending Into A Full-Blown Economic Depression

#1 The unemployment rate in Italy has risen to 12.2 percent. That is the highest that it has been in more than 35 years.

#2 The youth unemployment rate in Italy is sitting at 38.5 percent, and in southern Italy it recently hit the 50 percent mark.

#3 An average of 134 retail outlets are shutting down in Italy every single day. Overall, approximately 224,000 retail establishments have closed since 2008.

#4 Italy's economy has now been contracting for seven quarters in a row.

#5 It is being projected that Italy's GDP will shrink by 1.8 percent this year.

#6 Industrial production in Italy has declined for 15 months in a row. It has now fallen to its lowest level in about 25 years.

#7 Overall, factory output in Italy has fallen by about one-fourth since 2008.

#8 In May, automobile sales in Italy were down 8 percent compared to one year earlier.

#9 The number of people that are considered to be "seriously deprived" in Italy has doubled over the past two years.

#10 Italy now has a debt to GDP ratio of 130 percent.

#11 It is being projected that Italy will need a major EU bailout within six months.

SOURCE:
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/11-signs-that-italy-is-descending-into.html

13-07-10 North Carolina National Guard Rapid Reaction Force Civil Unrest Training Photos

Training for a major civil unrest in the United States, and advertising it to intimidate the serfs. jz

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July 3, 2013 in Headline

The following photos depict soldiers from the 252nd Combined Arms Battalion training in June for their role as a “rapid reaction force” capable of responding anywhere in the state of North Carolina within “four to eight hours with additional forces arriving within 24 to 36 hours.” The same unit trained in March to respond “to an emergency ahead of federal assets by providing site security, establishing roadblocks or checkpoints, and assisting civilian authorities in controlling civil disturbances.”

The exercises depicted below were held from June 10-14 at an abandoned shopping mall and a water treatment facility in Charlotte. Soldiers trained to suppress protesters who perform a sit-in as part of a fictional group called “The Pink Panthers.” According to the North Carolina National Guard, the exercise at the water treatment facility tests soldiers’ “ability to use nonlethal force to disperse a crowd of aggressors.” Photos of the exercise show soldiers operating from Be On the Look Out (BOLO) notices with the identities of specific individuals in the crowd, listed as “AIN Members,” that are to be targeted for arrest.

Photos via North Carolina National Guard and Grant Baldwin Photography.

Charlotte, N.C. A UH-60 Blackhawk flies over the Franklin Water Treatment Plant during a Rapid Reaction Force exercise on June 13th, 2013. The RRF exercise is an opportunity for the North Carolina National Guard to highlight special skills to provide valuable support to our communities, throughout the state, during catastrophic homeland events. NCNG photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian E. Christiansen.

Charlotte, N.C. During a Rapid Reaction Force exercise at the Franklin Water Treatment Plant on June 13th, 2013, members of “The Pink Panthers” perform a sit-in to test soldiers skills during a demonstration. The RRF exercise is an opportunity for the North Carolina National Guard to highlight special skills to provide valuable support to our communities, throughout the state, during catastrophic homeland events. NCNG photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian E. Christiansen.

Charlotte, N.C. During a Rapid Reaction Force exercise at the Franklin Water Treatment Plant on June 13th, 2013, members of “The Pink Panthers” clash with Soldiers of 1-252 Armor during a demonstration. The RRF exercise is an opportunity for the North Carolina National Guard to highlight special skills to provide valuable support to our communities, throughout the state, during catastrophic homeland events. NCNG photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian E. Christiansen.

Charlotte, N.C. During a Rapid Reaction Force exercise at the Franklin Water Treatment Plant on June 13th, 2013, a member of “The Pink Panthers” uses a megaphone to communicate with soldiers. The RRF exercise is an opportunity for the North Carolina National Guard to highlight special skills to provide valuable support to our communities, throughout the state, during catastrophic homeland events. NCNG photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian E. Christiansen.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Soldiers of the North Carolina National Guard train for Rapid Reaction Force duty at the Catawba River Pump Station here today. The training scenario tests the Soldiers ability to use nonlethal force to disperse a crowd of aggressors from a water plant. This training prepares the Soldiers to support state and local first responders and county emergency management agencies. The RRF is a quick reaction team that, on order, is deployable anywhere in North Carolina within 24 to 36 hours of a critical event. In times of crisis, the RRF may be ordered by the President of the United States or the Governor of North Carolina in order to augment Federal or State Authorities in response to actions such as a known terrorist attack, civil unrest or a natural and/or man-made disaster. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1s Class Robert Jordan / released)

Charlotte, N.C. Sgt. Raul Gonzalez, of Bravo Company, 1-252 Armor, plays his role as a Rapid Reaction Force Soldier, providing security during an exercise by observing from atop the Franklin Water Treatment Plant main building. The The RRF exercise is an opportunity for the North Carolina National Guard to highlight special skills to provide valuable support to our communities, throughout the state, during catastrophic homeland events. NCNG photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian E. Christiansen.

Charlotte, N.C. Sgt. Naquian McDaniel, of Bravo Company, 1-252 Armor, plays his role as a Rapid Reaction Force Soldier, providing security during an exercise by observing from atop the Franklin Water Treatment Plant main building. The The RRF exercise is an opportunity for the North Carolina National Guard to highlight special skills to provide valuable support to our communities, throughout the state, during catastrophic homeland events. NCNG photo by Tech. Sgt. Brian E. Christiansen.

Charlotte, N.C. — Soldiers exit a UH-60 Blackhawk during a Rapid Reaction Force (RRF) exercise at the Eastland Mall in Charlotte on June 11th. The RRF exercise is an opportunity for the North Carolina National Guard to highlight special skills to provide valuable support to our communities, throughout the state, during catastrophic homeland events. Photo by Grant Baldwin Photography.

Charlotte, N.C. — National Guard vehicles parked during a Rapid Reaction Force training exercise at Eastland Mall. The exercise was put on hold briefly, due to heavy rains. Photo by Grant Baldwin Photography.

Tags: Civil Unrest, Domestic Militarization, National Guard, North Carolina, Riot Police 86 Comments »

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Source:
http://publicintelligence.net/north-carolina-national-guard-rrf-photos/