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Breitbart: Waco PD Story Re Biker Shootings Unravels
Posted: June 16, 2015 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedThe Forgotten Costs of War in the Middle East, by David Vine and Tom Englehardt
Posted: June 16, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
There is no end of the shitty things our government does in remote corners of the world, where the press doesn’t usually venture. From David Vine and Tom Englehardt, at TomDispatch, via antiwar.com:
I’m sure that you’ve heard about the three bare-bones “staging outposts” or, in the lingo of the trade, “cooperative security locations” that the U.S. Marines have established in Senegal, Ghana, and Gabon. We’re talking about personnel from Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, a unit at present garrisoned at Morón, Spain. It would, however, like to have some bases – though that’s not a word in use at U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), which oversees all such expansion – ready to receive them in a future in which anything might happen in an Africa exploding with new or expanding terror outfits.
Really? You haven’t noticed anything on the subject? Admittedly, the story wasn’t on the nightly…
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Privacy Apocalypse: 5 Devices You Can’t Hide From
Posted: June 16, 2015 by gamegetterII in Police state USSATags: 4th amendment, abuse of power, communists, fourth amendment, government overreach, Government spying, NSA, police misconduct, police state, police state USSA
h/t Kerodin
Privacy Apocalypse: 5 Devices You Can’t Hide From
I’m going to alert you to what many are considering to be on of the worst doomsday scenarios for free American patriots. One that apparently not many are prepping for, or even seem to care about.
By now everybody knows that the government ‘alphabet agencies’ including mainly the NSA have been methodically collecting data on us. Everything we do, say, buy and search on the internet will be on permanent data base file by next year. All phone calls now are computer monitored, automatically recorded and stored with certain flag/trigger words (in all languages).
As technology improves, every single phone call will be entirely recorded at meta-data bases in government computer cloud storage, when ‘They’ finish the huge NSA super spy center in Utah. Which means they will be available anytime authorities want to look them up and personally listen for any information reference to any future investigation. Super computer algorithms will pin point search extrapolations of ANY relationship to the target point.
You can rest uneasily, but assured, that in the very near future when a cop stops you and scans your driver license into his computer, he will know anything even remotely ’suspicious’ or ’questionable’ about ALL the recent activities and behavior in your life he chooses to focus upon!
This is the ‘privacy apocalypse’ coming upon us. And you need to know these five devices that you can run to protect your privacy, but you can’t hide from.
When Security Overlaps Freedom
The NSA does more spying on ‘We the People’ than it does on the enemies of the country! Even simple text messages over a certain number of characters will join the wealth of stolen private communications flagged by certain trigger words, in the happy hunting grounds of mega-data heaven.
The two biggest fallacy arguments are that ‘those with nothing to ‘hide’ have nothing to fear’, or ‘this is the price we pay for living in a fast paced convenient modern computerized world if we want to improve our security and safety’.
Why does all these lame excuses remind me of something the old sage Ben Franklin used to say to slap that kind of thinking? “Those who are willing to give up any freedoms for a little more security deserve neither.’
The factual true reality is that these egregious violations of our privacy rights are premised on the never ending lies of the government. Maybe ‘They’ still get away with it because for some reason people are so dumbed down or not paying attention, or simply don’t know or see the bigger picture.
So assuming that most of us really don’t want the government or police to know our most private business just because it’s so easy for them to do so even though we are not doing anything wrong, we’ll provide a little edification herein about the cold hard realities.
Read the whole thing @ http://www.survivopedia.com/devices-that-you-cant-hide-from/#
From Charles Hugh Smith, at oftwominds.com:
Those who believe that phantom recoveries and phantom metrics can be substituted for reality are in for a shock in the next downturn.
Stripped of artifice, there are only two kinds of media stories: those that support the status quo narrative, and those that are skeptical of that narrative.
What is the status quo narrative? Simply this: not only is this the best possible arrangement of labor, assets and money, it is the only possible arrangement of labor, assets and money.
It is impossible to challenge a system that is the only possible arrangement; the only option is to accept it.
In effect, the mainstream media is a vast Psychological Operation (PSYOPS) aimed at persuading the American public that the status quo Imperial system of predatory, debt-based crony-capitalism that benefits the few at the expense of the many is not just beneficial to all…
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There is Far More to Being a “Good Cop” than Choosing to Not Beat Up Innocent People
Posted: June 15, 2015 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedThe Money Quote…
“The solution to the divide being created in this country between police and the citizens is an easy one. Police need to stop agreeing to enforce cruel and unjust laws and become actual good cops.”
Excerpt…
“Police brutality has become so rampant in this country that many people now commend the officers who stand by and watch these violent attacks, simply for not participating in the crimes committed by their brothers in blue.
The lengths to which some people will go to praise police when they deserve no praise, even when they deserve total condemnation, is simply astonishing. No matter how egregious the misconduct, there are hoards who will desperately grasp for excuses to proclaim such actions to be “understandable,” if not outright heroic. And let’s not forget the fundraisers that have been set up for multiple cold-blooded killer cops.
Then there are the incidents in which one or more cops are caught on video brutally victimizing some unarmed person who isn’t fighting back, while other officers just watch, push witnesses away or simply block their view. Police apologists will often resort to the bizarre argument of, “It’s just a few bad apples, I mean just look at those wonderful officers remaining calm!” It’s absurd when these individuals spout the line about “just a few bad apples,” as if the other officers passively observing misconduct without doing anything to stop it somehow earns them respect.
Refraining from brutalizing innocents, in and of itself, is not a sign of being brave and noble. In how many other professions do individuals receive praise simply for not doing damage? To some,all you need to do to be a “good cop” is to watch injustice happen without perpetrating it yourself.”
The whole Good Cop / Bad Cop question can be disposed of much more decisively. We need not enumerate what proportion of cops appears to be good or listen to someone’s anecdote about his uncle Charlie, an allegedly good cop.”
We need only consider the following:
(1) A cop’s job is to enforce the laws, all of them;
(2) Many of the laws are manifestly unjust, and some are even cruel and wicked;
(3) Therefore every cop has to agree to act as an enforcer for laws that are manifestly unjust or even cruel and wicked.There are no good cops.
The solution to the divide being created in this country between police and the citizens is an easy one. Police need to stop agreeing to enforce cruel and unjust laws and become actual good cops.
From David Codrea at The War on Guns
Author, columnist and commentator Ann Coulter joined nationally-syndicated “Armed American Radio’s Daily Defense” host Mark Walters yesterday to talk about her most recent best seller, “Adios, America!: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole.”
In that interview, Coulter confirmed what very few of us who primarily emphasize gun rights have been consistently warning about — that government “immigration” policies and practices present an existential threat to RKBA, or at least to “legal” recognition of it. She also had some very enthusiastic things to say about Larry Pratt and Gun Owners of America, the only national “gun group” that has raised the alarm and mobilized its members on this.
More @ http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2015/06/coulter-warns-against-immigration.html
Prisons Without Walls: We’re All Inmates in the American Police State
Posted: June 15, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
Read.
Learn.
Train.
Do more PT!
Resist-any way you can-always.
“It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free—to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation wants him to think, feel and act. . . . To him the walls of his prison are invisible and he believes himself to be free.”—Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World Revisited
“Free worlders” is prison slang for those who are not incarcerated behind prison walls. Supposedly, those fortunate souls live in the “free world.” However, appearances can be deceiving.
“As I got closer to retiring from the Federal Bureau of Prisons,” writes former prison employee Marlon Brock, “it began to dawn on me that the security practices we used in the prison system were being implemented outside those…
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Honey-based mead may curb antibiotic resistance, say makers
Posted: June 15, 2015 by gamegetterII in UncategorizedScientists in Sweden are launching their own mead – an alcoholic beverage made from a fermented mix of honey and water – based on old recipes which they say could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance.
Together with a brewery, the scientists who have long studied bees and their honey, have launched their own mead drink – Honey Hunter’s Elixir.
Colt Defense files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Posted: June 15, 2015 by gamegetterII in firearmsTags: Colt bankrupt, firearms, shooting
Via USA Today
Colt Defense, the storied firearms maker, announced late Sunday that it has filed for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization..
Colt said that in making the filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, it hopes the process will allow it to quickly sell its business operations in the U.S and Canada. A firm, Sciens Capital Management, plans to buy virtually all of Colt’s assets.
“The plan we are announcing and have filed today will allow Colt to restructure its balance sheet while meeting all of its obligations to customers, vendors, suppliers and employees and providing for maximum continuity in the Company’s current and future business operations,” said Keith Maib, Chief Restructuring Officer of Colt Defense, in a statement.
Because of the filing, the sale should go through without all the debt that otherwise would have been associated with it.
The plan is to keep Colt healthy and vigorous, continuing to make guns in West Hartford, Conn.
Colt has produced a lot of famous weapons over the years. Pistols such as the Colt .45 became legendary.
WSJ has more info @ http://www.wsj.com/articles/colt-files-for-bankruptcy-seeks-august-auction-1434367176
First They Came For The Blacks: Police Brutality – Not Just for Blacks Anymore
Posted: June 15, 2015 by gamegetterII in Police state USSATags: abuse of power, militarized police, police misconduct, police shootings, police state, police state USSA, police use of force, violation of rights
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”– Martin Niemöller
It is natural, maybe even unavoidable, that one’s view of the world is based mostly on his own personal experiences. If you are white and living in an upscale suburban neighborhood, you may very well view police as friendly, professional and courteous. On the other hand, if you are black and live in a poor inner-city neighborhood, you are likely to view the police as just another dangerous street gang to fear and avoid.
The problem is not that either perception is “wrong.” The problem is that some people assume that their own experiences must match the experiences of everyone else. In middle-class white suburbia, it may usually be true that if you don’t cause trouble, the police won’t harass you (although that is becoming less and less true). So it is easy for such people to assume that if someone is being detained, arrested, or even physically assaulted by police, the person MUST have done something to deserve it. And predictably, this is the same viewpoint expressed by the well-paid, well-connected, and VERY well-controlled mainstream media.
But other people in other circumstances know and report a very different story, as many decades of rap illustrate (e.g., “Sound Of Da Police” by KRS-ONE).
However, recently there have been many stories of people who once believed in “law and order,” and who had faith in the “justice system” but have since learned the brutal reality of things. There have even been stories of black police officers being illegally harassed and detained when not in uniform.
The number of cases of police getting caught lying under oath, abusing suspects, planting evidence and falsifying reports may still surprise many, but they don’t surprise those for whom such injustice is a routine part of life. “They planted evidence!” “They got the wrong guy!” “The cop is lying!” or “I didn’t do anything!”
It’s easy for a spectator— especially one who has never been victimized by thugs in uniform—to assume that such claims are the desperate lies of criminals. But one day you may hear those words coming out of your own mouth knowing they are true, but also knowing that few people are going to believe your word over the word of those “brave men and women in blue.”
Despite the “protect and serve” rhetoric, the primary job of those who wear badges is to supply the politicians with money and power. Money by issuing citations for whatever technical infractions they can detect or fabricate, and power by punishing any who disobey the arbitrary commands of those in power.
Unfortunately, many of those who haven’t yet been victimized still imagine police to be the good guys. But how many “exceptions” make a rule? How many “bad apples” must be exposed before people recognize that the whole barrel is rotten? How many “isolated incidents” does it take for people to see the pattern?
When will people see that law enforcement is not just occasionally blemished by incidents of injustice, corruption and misconduct. Law enforcement IS injustice, corruption, and misconduct, sometimes legalized and sometimes not, but always excused and sanctioned by those who benefit from the racket. Those who have been on the receiving end of “the system” know this all too well, and the number of people in that category continues to grow.
On the bright side, this means that more and more people—even those well-off in upscale suburbia—are starting to learn the true, violent nature of government. It is not your friend. It is not your servant. It serves itself, and it does so at the expense of everyone else.
It may sound cliche, but the only way to have liberty and justice for anyone is to have liberty and justice for all. When whites stand up for blacks, blacks stand up for whites, rich stand up for poor and vice versa.
When decent people of all races, religions, cultures and backgrounds stand with each other against those who would oppress them—that is when violent oppression will end, and peace and justice will begin.
Denial is a powerful drug. It’s high time we get over the addiction.
Source- http://thefreethoughtproject.com/blacks-police-brutality-blacks-anymore/#kHe1hodrbWkpPQ8d.99
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