Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Hilary, lifelong liar, leftist.


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Star trek movie

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Deaf Man with Frozen Deer He Rescued from Lake [feedly]

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Deaf Man with Frozen Deer He Rescued from Lake
// Neatorama

Vimeo user cj uploaded a video from a deaf family friend who encountered a young deer that had fallen into a frozen lake. After pulling the deer out, he pulled out a camera to tell the story -while the deer stood by!

(vimeo link)

Redditor ceejface (cj) provided a translation of the sign language.

I was driving along when I see this deer struggling to survive. I felt obligated to help her, so I pulled over, trekked through the woods, and crawled out onto the ice. I used a rope to pull her out. I am so glad she is safe. Now we need to find her mom.

[pets deer] I will call her Miss Ice River. She must be so cold. I am so happy that she survived. Farewell.


That was followed by a discussion on the difference between one-handed and two-handed sign language, as the guy had to use one hand to hold the camera. -via Uproxx

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Text - H.R.4269 - 114th Congress (2015-2016): Assault Weapons Ban of 2015 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

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Friday, December 25, 2015

Astronaut dials the wrong number from space, surprises Earthling [feedly]

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Astronaut dials the wrong number from space, surprises Earthling
// The Verge

Picture this: it's Christmas Eve, and for some reason you weren't able to reunite with your family. Maybe you had to work, maybe your flight was canceled. You've been waiting for them to call you so you can talk to them all on speaker phone, so when the phone rings you rush to answer it. Giddy with anticipation, you expect to hear a Christmas cacophony — but instead you hear the voice of a lone man. He asks, "Hello, is this planet Earth?"

Great, a prank call. Who even makes those anymore? What's next, a question about Prince Albert?

Hi, can I please speak to I.P. Freely?

But when your disappointment wears off, it's replaced with surprise — the man calling you is Tim Peake, one of the astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and he just made a simple mistake on a cosmic scale.

Last night, this actually happened — Peake calling the wrong number, that is. While random citizens contacting the station via radio isn't necessarily new, a misplaced call coming from the other side is a bit more rare.

And yet, this wasn't even Peake's first phone mishap on the station, even though he's only been there less than a month. Earlier this week he attempted to call his parents in the UK, but they had left the house during his downtime. Peake had to leave a voicemail:

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Tesla

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Fwd: Fw: A Little Christmas Present from Your US Air Force








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Please take the time to watch.  If you have already viewed, set down and watching again.

  A Little Christmas Present from Your US Air Force

Starting with a single cellist on the floor of the
National Air and Space Museum's "Milestones of Flight" gallery, and
swelling to 120 musicians, The U.S. Air Force Band exhilarated museum
visitors with its first-ever flash mob. The four-minute performance
featured an original arrangement of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring/Joy to
the World," led by the band's commander and conductor, Col. Larry H.
Lang.
 
Unsuspecting museum visitors including tourists and
school groups were astonished as instrumentalists streamed into the
gallery from behind airplanes and space capsules, and vocalists burst
into song from the Museum's second floor balcony.
Merry Christmas!
(sound on) 



Everything coming and going on Netflix for January 2016 - CNET

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Video: What is a United Nations Multinational Force Observer doing on U.S. soil? | The Daily Sheeple

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/video-what-is-a-united-nations-multinational-force-observer-doing-on-u-s-soil_122015

Watch "A winter evening with Nickel Plate Road no. 765" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/H2XFjFvGCTg

12 Machines That Show Modern Farming Isn't the Bucolic Life You Imagine

Chromecast gets new games for the holidays, including Angry Birds and Monopoly | Android and Me

Boston Dynamics' Robo-Dogs Pulling a Sleigh Is a Terrifying Glimpse of Christmas Future

Parent touch, play and support in childhood vital to well-being as an adult -- ScienceDaily

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Watchdog names Clinton most corrupt politician of 2015 [feedly]

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Watchdog names Clinton most corrupt politician of 2015
// Personal Liberty Digest™

As corrupt public officials go, Hillary Clinton is in a league of her own. That's according to a Washington ethics watchdog that just named the Democratic presidential front-runner as the top ethics violator of 2015.

The nonpartisan Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) placed Clinton at the top of its worst ethics violators of 2015 list after finding "overwhelming evidence" she abused her official position as secretary of state.

FACT is calling for various federal investigations into Clinton's unethical behavior, much of which has been uncovered by the ongoing scandal surrounding her State Department emails.

"Those emails remained hidden from the public until earlier this year when it was discovered that Secretary Clinton conducted government business on her private email server and a judge ultimately ordered that she turn over and the State Department release the emails," FACT noted in a statement.

FACT believes that some of those recently released communications raise questions about whether Clinton gave special State Department access to a private mining company with ties to her son-in-law,

The watchdog says Clinton has displayed similarly corrupt behavior on the campaign trail.

The group has asked the IRS to investigate whether Clinton violated State Department rules when her family foundation made payments of nearly $350,000 to her failed 2008 campaign to rent Clinton's email list after she failed to secure the Democratic nomination. At the time of the transactions, Clinton's State Department position prohibited her from doing certain types of fundraising on behalf of the campaign.

FACT is also requesting the Federal Elections Commission investigate the current Clinton campaign after it received an email list of 4 million potential supporters from a pro-Hillary super PAC. The list, according to FACT, constitutes an in-kind donation, which federal election laws prohibit candidates from accepting directly from PACs.

Clinton's political corruption could also ensnare top Senate Democrats if FACT is successful in getting the Senate Select Committee to launch an additional investigation into whether Clinton campaign aides conducted political business in official Senate offices where campaign activities are prohibited.

"Elected officials are sent to Washington to follow and uphold the law and so they need to be held to the highest standard of ethics. Even the appearance of impropriety can quickly erode public trust, and Mrs. Clinton is in a league of her own," said Matthew Whitaker, FACT's executive director, in a statement.

While Clinton is by far FACT's most corrupt official of 2015, seven other politicians also made the list for activities that violated the public trust in the past year. They include: Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.); Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.); Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.); failed Senate candidate Joe Sestak, a Pennsylvania Democrat; Rep. Frank Guinta (R-N.H.); Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.); and Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.).

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First amateur radio in geosynchronous orbit will aid disaster communications

Watch SpaceX launch and land a rocket for the first time at Cape Canaveral -

Sunday, December 20, 2015

This holiday train brings joy to children and food to the needy | The Verge

ducttape, fixes, everything - What the bear did was plane wrong he...

Solar panel park under construction in Alabama | Virginia |

gravity, cats - iFunny :)

Alfonso Ribeiro Reads 'Twas the Night Before Christmas - YouTube

USDA to approve Simplot's genetically engineered potato

While You Were Offline: Goats Sing Christmas Carols | WIRED

How to Watch Free Movies on YouTube « Digiwonk

Thursday, December 17, 2015

DHS official: Obama’s terror watch list gun ban makes no sense [feedly]

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DHS official: Obama's terror watch list gun ban makes no sense
// Personal Liberty Digest™

Testifying during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin told lawmakers that government probably shouldn't use the terror watch list for anything beyond its intended purpose.

President Barack Obama has been calling for using inclusion on the terror watch list to deny gun rights and is likely to enact an executive order doing so in coming weeks.

"People can't get on planes, but those same people who we don't allow to fly could go into a store right now in the United States and buy a firearm and there's nothing that we can do to stop them," Obama said in an interview this month. "That's a law that needs to be changed."

But many congressional Republicans, along with civil liberties advocates have expressed concerns over the plan, noting that people can be placed on the list without due process or even knowing why.

"My concern is there has been a lot of talk recently about using the watch list for purposes other than what they were intended, for instance determining whether or not Americans are able to exercise their rights under the Second Amendment," Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) told Bersin during the recent hearing.

"I believe it would be apples and oranges," Bersin said, to use the terror watch list for anything beyond keeping people with suspected terror ties from traveling by air.

He also noted that "less than 0.1 percent" of people on the list are Americans.

And many Americans who have been placed on the list over the years were placed on it by mistake.

The DHS official's remarks suggest that the Obama administration's push to use the terror watch list to clamp down on gun ownership is part of a multi-step process that ends with the addition of millions of American liberty advocates to the list.

As Bob Livingston recently noted:

Now the Obama (no)Justice Department has created a new domestic terrorism czar and whole department to battle the newest greatest threat — behind nonexistent global warming — to America: the white Christian male gun-owning liberty lover. The new department is the evolution of a Department of a Homeland Security program begun in 2009 targeting liberty-loving Americans. That program morphed into a training program in 2013 that instructed local law enforcement to devote extra scrutiny to Christians who believe the Bible is God's word, Christian "fundamentalists" (whatever those are), Americans who believe the country was founded on godly principles and those who believe the Constitution stands as the law of the land. In training materials, DHS has lumped Christians and Constitutionalists in with a group it calls the sovereign citizen movement, the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi skinheads, and identified them as requiring special surveillance by law enforcement.


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Disney theme parks ban toy guns and install metal detectors [feedly]

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Disney theme parks ban toy guns and install metal detectors
// The Verge

Disney is quietly banning toy guns, such as "toy blasters," from its theme parks, as it also installs metal detectors to improve security.

According to reports from The Wrap and Variety, Disney updated its park rules on Thursday to ban any "objects that appear to be weapons" from its California and Florida parks, and will discontinue the sales of such objects. The rules were also updated to forbid costumes on any guests 14 years old or older, and to generally ban masks from the parks. Disney has also reportedly installed metal detectors at security checks in its parks, as have Universal Studios and SeaWorld parks.

Threats of gun violence in the United States have increasingly led to similar policies for public events. Many theaters have banned costumes for customers seeing the latest Star Wars installment, which premieres widely today.

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Helpful Video Explains The Japanese Method Of Wrapping Gifts In A Flash - Neatorama

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Here's some bad news for Obama - Personal Liberty(R)

Congress snuck a surveillance bill into the federal budget last night [feedly]

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Congress snuck a surveillance bill into the federal budget last night
// The Verge

After more than a year of stalemate, Congress has used an unconventional procedural measure to bring a controversial cybersurveillance bill to the floor. Late last night, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced a 2,000-page omnibus budget bill, a last-minute compromise necessary to prevent a government shutdown. But while the bulk of the bill concerns taxes and spending, it contains a surprise 1,729 pages in: the full text of the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, which passed the Senate in October.

CISA has been widely criticized since it was first introduced to congress in 2014, with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) calling it "a surveillance bill by another name." The bill would make it easier for private sector companies to share user information with the government and other companies, removing privacy and liability protections in the name of better cybersecurity. But critics like Wyden say removing those protections would turn internet backbone companies into de facto surveillance organs, with no incentive to protect users' privacy.

"A disingenuous attempt to quietly expand the US government's surveillance programs."

In many ways, the bill currently facing the House is even more invasive than previous versions, stripping out crucial provisions that prevented direct information-sharing with the NSA and mandated that data be anonymized before being widely distributed. "It's clear now that this bill was never intended to prevent cyber attacks," said Evan Greer, campaign director of Fight for the Future, which has campaigned vigorously against the bill. "It's a disingenuous attempt to quietly expand the US government's surveillance programs." At the same time, a number of industry groups have applauded the bill, including the Financial Services Roundtable and Retail Industry Leaders Association.

Last night's proposal means CISA is more likely than ever to become law. While the bill is controversial in technology circles, it's far less controversial among legislators than the larger spending issues hammered out in the new budget proposal. The chance of another government shutdown has only increased the sense of urgency, and many observers expect the bill to pass some time this week, with little to no attention paid to the cybersecurity provisions.

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Incredible High Speed Footage Of The Army's New Round In Gel - The Firearm Blog

Monday, December 14, 2015

Fwd: "FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule" - FAASafety.gov

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FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule
Notice Number: NOTC6328

Press Release – For Immediate Release

December 14, 2015
Contact: Les Dorr or Alison Duquette
Phone: (202) 267-3883

Registration will be free for the first 30 days!

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a streamlined and user-friendly web-based aircraft registration process for owners of small unmanned aircraft (UAS) weighing more than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) and less than 55 pounds (approx. 25 kilograms) including payloads such as on-board cameras.

The Registration Task Force delivered recommendations to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on November 21. The rule incorporates many of the task force recommendations.

"Make no mistake: unmanned aircraft enthusiast are aviators, and with that title comes a great deal of responsibility," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. "Registration gives us an opportunity to work with these users to operate their unmanned aircraft safely. I'm excited to welcome these new aviators into the culture of safety and responsibility that defines American innovation."

Registration is a statutory requirement that applies to all aircraft.  Under this rule, any owner of a small UAS who has previously operated an unmanned aircraft exclusively as a model aircraft prior to December 21, 2015, must register no later than February 19, 2016. Owners of any other UAS purchased for use as a model aircraft after December 21, 2015 must register before the first flight outdoors. Owners may use either the paper-based process or the new streamlined, web-based system.  Owners using the new streamlined web-based system must be at least 13 years old to register.

Owners may register through a web-based system at:  www.faa.gov/uas/registration

Registrants will need to provide their name, home address and e-mail address. Upon completion of the registration process, the web application will generate a Certificate of Aircraft Registration/Proof of Ownership that will include a unique identification number for the UAS owner, which must be marked on the aircraft.

Owners using the model aircraft for hobby or recreation will only have to register once and may use the same identification number for all of their model UAS. The registration is valid for three years.

The normal registration fee is $5, but in an effort to encourage as many people as possible to register quickly, the FAA is waiving this fee for the first 30 days (from Dec. 21, 2015 to Jan 20, 2016).

"We expect hundreds of thousands of model unmanned aircraft will be purchased this holiday season," said FAA Administrator Huerta. "Registration gives us the opportunity to educate these new airspace users before they fly so they know the airspace rules and understand they are accountable to the public for flying responsibly."

The online registration system does not yet support registration of small UAS used for any purpose other than hobby or recreation – for example, using an unmanned aircraft in connection with a business. The FAA is developing enhancements that will allow such online registrations by spring of 2016.

The full rule can be viewed here: www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/20151213_IFR.pdf

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Obama’s administration is leading the jihadi invasion [feedly]

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Obama's administration is leading the jihadi invasion
// Personal Liberty Digest™

If you agree with GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump that the Obama administration's refugee resettlement policies are leaving the U.S. vulnerable to a terror attack, these recent developments are bad news.

Top Obama officials say they plan to resettle more than 100,000 refugees from Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East to the United States over the course of the next year. And the administration is forging ahead with the plan despite repeated admissions that there's no way for government officials to thoroughly vet or keep track of all the new guests to the country from terror strongholds.

If you didn't think the plan could get any worse, think again.

A top Department of Homeland Security official just admitted to members of Congress that the agency has already let refugees from terror hotbeds into the United States — and it doesn't know many.

"How many Syrian refugees have entered the U.S. in the last year" Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Kelli Ann Burriesci, a deputy assistant secretary in DHS's office of policy, during a recent hearing.

"Sorry, I didn't bring any of the refugee numbers with me," she responded.

Lawmakers had requested that the DHS's top official, Jeh Johnson, brief lawmakers on the issue. But the DHS opted to send Burriesci instead, saying she was the expert on issues pertaining to the refugee resettlements.

She was also asked, "How many visa waiver program overstays are there currently in the U.S.?"

Burriesci told lawmakers that she didn't have that information either.

"We're talking about the refugee issue and the Visa Waiver Program issue and you can't give us numbers on either program?" a frustrated Jordan asked.

She couldn't.

That gives you an idea of how little the Obama administration is concerned with keeping Americans safe as it continues to refuse to budge on its refugee resettlement policies.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) underscored how serious the problem is, noting that the last time Congress received accurate information about the number of people in the U.S. on expired visas was more than two decades ago.

"If we're looking at visa overstays, and sitting here debating a visa waiver program, and yet, the very instance of visa overstays and the potential terrorist threat that accompanies that, you're tracking that, yet the last information Congress got was 1994," Meadows said. "Do you not see a problem with that?"

Not only does DHS not know how many refugees are in the country to date, the agency refuses to take even the simplest steps to make sure that ISIS sympathizers aren't being relocated to U.S. cities.

Last year, Johnson refused to allow DHS officials and immigration agents to review visa applicants' social media accounts for signs of terror ties because he feared the move would be bad for "public relations."

John Cohen, a former under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis, recently explained on ABC: "Immigration, security, law enforcement officials recognized at the time that it was important to more extensively review public social media postings because they offered potential insights into whether somebody was an extremist or potentially connected to a terrorist organization or a supporter of the movement."

But Johnson and other Obama officials refused to budge on the issue.

If they had bothered to look, recent news out of Europe hints at what U.S. security officials may have found.

In Norway, security officials overburdened by the number of refugees their nation has agreed to take on are conducting the very kind of investigations U.S. officials have refused to take on by searching asylum seekers' phones and social media accounts.

The Norwegian Nettavisen newspaper reports that the investigations have uncovered "photos and videos of executions and brutal punishments, such as images of people holding up severed heads or hands" and "found flags, symbols and characters that can be linked to … ISIS, as well as other terrorist groups."

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DRM claims a victim in the Internet of Things as Phillips Hue blocks competing smart light bulbs [feedly]

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DRM claims a victim in the Internet of Things as Phillips Hue blocks competing smart light bulbs
// pocketnow.com

Connected devices are everywhere in our lives these days, as your smartphone talks to your speakers, your car, your watch, your thermostat, and probably half a dozen other gadgets you use on a regular basis. When everything works together, that's great, but not all companies are so good at playing nicely with each other, and just as has been the case with far too many consumer electronics, DRM-related tech is showing ...

Continue reading »

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Star trek

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/the-first-star-trek-beyond-trailer-boldly-goes-big/

Buy a $30 Chromecast, Get $20 in Google Play Credit [feedly]

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Buy a $30 Chromecast, Get $20 in Google Play Credit
// Lifehacker

If you still haven't gotten yourself a Chromecast (or six), Google is currently giving away $20 in Google Play credit to new owners, and you can get in on the action for as little as $30 today, courtesy of Best Buy and Walmart.

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Drone registration

http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/14/us-drone-operators-must-register-with-the-faa-by-february/

Sunday, December 13, 2015

We Always Knew They'd Come Back: Here's The Trailer For Independence Day Resurgence

New York attorney general solicits help from the public in broadband probe [feedly]

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New York attorney general solicits help from the public in broadband probe
// Reuters: Technology News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman invited the public on Sunday to test the speed of their Internet and submit the results online as part of an ongoing probe into whether large providers may be short-changing customers with slower-than-advertised speeds.

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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Woman Posts Uplifting Story About Walmart Experience, Walmart Proves She's Lying - Neatorama

Highlights of the proposed UN climate accord that has been adopted.

Well I guess that's it people. We start off at $100,000,000,000 and go up from there. We pay other countries part too. Some of the porch setters will have to get a job for the first time.

Team of appraisers across six states find home buyers will pay premium for solar homes -- ScienceDaily

Congress' Chief Climate Denier Lamar Smith and NOAA Are at War | WIRED

This Is Why Hoverboards Keep Exploding

Fee-Based UAV Registration Could Burden Consumers, Discourage Compliance | Aero-News Network

Air traffic controller who misdirected Michelle Obama’s plane is charged - We need to ban guns so that thing won't happen again.

Racial discrimination skews Airbnb rentals, study claims

Monday, December 7, 2015

You Can Now Add Reminders to Google Calendar

Obama regime set to strip away another right [feedly]

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Obama regime set to strip away another right
// Personal Liberty Digest™

Another salvo has been fired by the Obama regime against the Bill of Rights.

Not content to constrain its assault to the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments, the regime took dead aim at the 1st. Last Friday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch vowed to take "aggressive action" against anyone who used "anti-Muslim" rhetoric that "edges toward violence."

Curious how no "aggressive action" is being considered against anyone using anti-white or anti-conservative rhetoric edging toward violence. It's been available in spades for some time, but even more abundantly in the wake of the Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting and in the immediate aftermath of the San Bernardino massacre (at least before we learned of the Islam connection and while the progressives were still hoping it was "white conservative Christians" who shot up a Christmas party).

It's also curious how Lynch didn't promise "aggressive action" against Muslim bomb-makers. It would seem that, in the wake of a premeditated terror attack by a Muslim couple with ties to terrorists and a bomb factory in their home that Lynch would focus her efforts on finding whom Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were conspiring with to attack more Americans.

Lynch is delving into dangerous territory. What constitutes "aggressive action" and edging "toward violence" is highly subjective. It's the type of speech the 1st Amendment is supposed to protect.

It's also based on a false premise. There is no evidence of increased aggressiveness toward Muslims in the wake of the terror attack.

There is, however, a renewed effort by the regime to confiscate guns.

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Google navigation

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Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Hezekiah

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151202132519.htm

A Chicago coverup [feedly]

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A Chicago coverup
// Personal Liberty Digest™

After more than a year of coverup, dissembling, foot-dragging, hemming and hawing, evidence-tampering by the Chicago political establishment and a big payoff, Cook County prosecutor Anita Alvarez finally charged Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke with murder for gunning down 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014.

McDonald was high on PCP and carrying a knife while walking down a Chicago street when he was confronted by police. But he wasn't acting violently, and he made no threatening gestures toward Van Dyke or any other officer when Van Dyke unloaded on him.

The shooting — which occurred as a grand jury was hearing testimony on the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; as video of Eric Garner being choked to death by a New York police officer was going viral; and, more importantly, as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was heading into a contested re-election campaign — created a lot of problems that needed to be swept under the rug. So Chicago officials pulled out the big brooms.

First, police dash cam video of the shooting was squirreled away under the cover of "ongoing police investigation." In the face of media Freedom of Information Act requests, Emanuel turned to the courts to block its release. And then there's the case of the missing 86 minutes of surveillance video from a nearby Burger King — video that was confiscated by police and apparently erased.

In April, the city, recognizing Emanuel's tenuous position, as well as that of the police superintendent, considering the highly charged atmosphere surrounding police brutality cases (some of them amped up by President Barack Obama and then-Attorney Criminal Eric Holder), agreed to pay off McDonald's family to the tune of $5 million with the stipulation that the dash cam video remain concealed.

Once a judge ordered the dash cam video released and Emanuel and company ran out of options, Van Dyke was finally charged with murder. But for more than a year, a man who fired as many as 16 rounds — and was reloading fire more when another officer stopped him — into a teenager who was walking away from him was allowed to continue "policing" Chicago streets.

The New York Times notes that at the time, "Mayor Emanuel was fighting for re-election in a tight race. Superintendent McCarthy wanted to keep his job. Ms. Alvarez needed the good will of the police union for her coming re-election campaign and probably wished to shield the police officers who bring her cases and testify in court."

All of this highlights the corrupt nature of the police state and the American system in which prosecutors and police officers work hand in hand to select whom to prosecute and whom not to, and Chicago is probably the worst.

Of course, McCarthy is out of his mind and should have long ago retired to abuse seniors in some Florida gated community. He once claimed that a federal appeals court ruling striking down Illinois' ban on concealed carry would lead to Chicago police officers gunning down legal gun owners in the streets, so he apparently already suspected his officers were out of control. But McCarthy is little more than a thug himself. And the Chicago "justice" system is a farce.

Under Emanuel and McCarthy, Chicago police ran a CIA-style "black site" — an "off-the-books interrogation compound" — in which suspects (including children as young as 15) were "disappeared," tortured and denied access to attorneys for hours.

The Times laughably called for those responsible for the McDonald death cover-up to resign. But they won't. Emanuel fired McCarthy Tuesday in an attempt to save his own hide, so there is little likelihood anyone else will face any repercussions.

As for Van Dyke, police are only rarely convicted in abuse cases, and the political establishment will use payoffs and intimidation to overcome any potential fallout from the case.

And neither Obama nor his Department of Justice will have any interest in "pursuing justice," as they did in the Brown case. As Obama's former chief of staff and longtime player in Chicago criminal politics, Emanuel knows where Obama's skeletons are buried.

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Ex-Lovers Saw Each Other For The First Time After 30 Years And Their Interaction Is Powerful - Trendzified

500 Acrobats Create A Human Christmas Tree, But Their Next Move Took My Breath Away... - Trendzified