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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Cop on Video: “I Hurt People and Then I Make Their F#%*ing Cocaine Appear”
A Canadian police officer was caught on video verbally abusing an innocent person, shouting a variety of obscene threats including a threat to plant drugs.
By JG VibesIntellihub.com
May 21, 2013
It seems as if every day now there is a new story of someone catching extreme police brutality on camera. The sad truth of the matter is that this happens a lot more than everyday, it probobly happens many times each hour all throughout the country. Many times it takes months, possibly even years for the evidence to finally see the light of day. In this case in Canada, it took about 2 years.
The Star reported that:
A Durham Region police officer threatened to beat up a man and plant cocaine on him during a one-sided, expletive-filled confrontation, a graphic video shows. “I hurt people . . . and then I make their cocaine f—ing appear,” the armed constable barks into the face of the burly, young man. “You see how I work. . . . See what I do.”
The 8½-minute video, which appeared recently on YouTube, also features the constable appearing to provoke the bald man into hitting him during the sometimes tense grilling beside a house in Oshawa in late 2011. The Star is not aware of the context of the incident outside what is seen in the video.
Readf more http://intellihub.com/2013/05/21/cop-on-video-i-hurt-people-and-then-i-make-their-fing-cocaine-appear/
First Human-Engineered ‘Meat Burger’ To Be Consumed In London
In just a few short weeks, human-engineered meat, will make it’s way into the mouths of eager taste testers in a Soylent Green-like fashion.
A scientist holds cultures containing a pink fluid to grow new Human-Engineered Meat for Human Consumption.
Intellihub.com
May 21, 2013
MAASTRICHT — Starting with a very particular cell extracted from dead cows necks at a local slaughterhouse, a select team of scientists are now close to serving up the world’s first human-engineered, cultured meat burger. That’s right. A whopping 5 ounce burger will be freshly made from lab grown bits of cultured meat and muscle tissue. The burger, the first of its kind, will be served to curious diner’s somewhere in London in the coming weeks.
The whole concept of the program takes us right into a science fiction nightmare made for TV, as billions of fetal cells are needed to make this burger.
In fact, scientists now claim they have proven through studies that if the human population of earth consumes “cultured meat”, the world will then save a considerable amount of water and resources, essentially reducing environmental impact from humans. The study titled, Environmental Impacts of Cultured Meat Production, basically outlines how humans are bad, and that we will need to eat all synthetic meat soon as we have become an overpopulated species.
This will likely be one of the next major focus points for globalists such as the Bilderberger’s and others who seek to more easily manage the populace of indentured servants.
However, yet even more amazing is the outstanding accuracy and portrayal of future events deriving from Hollywood as we now live in the middle of real-time predictive programming production. In fact, the 1973 film Soylent Green, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charlton Heston, takes place in 2022, as the timeline approaches in reality.
Readf more First Human-Engineered ‘Meat Burger’ To Be Consumed In London
California outlaws all new semi-automatic handguns
Charles Carroll Society Good old second amendment Tuesdays. The union backed liberal Democratic (Nanny State Party) state Attorney General for California, Kamala Harris release new guidelines on Friday afternoon, right before the weekend. In case others were not aware, California has 100% liberal union backed democrats in charge of every state-wide office. They also have a super majority in both the state House and state Senate. Obviously they have a liberal union backed governor. Next time the Republicans talk to you about “taking back the white house” ask them “how are you going to take back California?” They don’t have a clue. This is one of the bluest states in the union. And it is the largest state in the Union by population.
The law California AB 1471, was signed into law by then Republican (Police State Party) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger requires that all handguns sold must have micro-stamping. However he made a little “out” that it could not be enforced until the government certified that micro-stamping was available to handgun manufactures. The government did that on Friday, 17MAY2013. Now they are not “coming for your guns” because they are smarter than that. They will just strangle supply until they make all gun owners criminals. This new law will “take effect immediately.” How many handgun manufactures make firearms with micro stamping?
Read more http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/california-outlaws-all-new-semi-automatic-handguns/44878
U.S. IDs several men possibly responsible for Benghazi attack
The
FBI released the above three images on May 1, 2013, in their
investigation into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. / FBI
The Associated Press reported there were five men identified. An official told CBS News that number was "in the ballpark." Investigators are also still looking at other potential participants.
The AP also reported that the U.S. has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, citing officials. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.
The investigation has been slowed by the reduced U.S. intelligence presence in the region since the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks, and by the limited ability to assist by Libya's post-revolutionary law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which are still in their infancy since the overthrow of dictator Col. Muammar Qaddafi.
Why the Benghazi controversy is "absolutely not" over
Read more http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57585574/u.s-ids-several-men-possibly-responsible-for-benghazi-attack/
rand paul: there’s going to have to be an independent investigation of “un-american” irs scandal
Daniel Jackson
During his speech he called the IRS targeting the Obama Administrations political enemies totally un-American.
“Any person who would use the power or abuse the power of government to go after their political opponents, I don’t care if you are a Republican or a Democrat or an independent, to take that brute force, that bullying force of government and to use it against your opponents, there is something distinctly and profoundly un-American about that,” Paul stated.
Not wanting to let the scandal simply be forgotten by the corporate media and American people alike, Paul made it clear that someone has to go to prison. He also joked about the three different scandals currently rocking the White House.
ABC News reported:
The Republican senator joked that the trio of scandals hitting the Obama administration — the IRS’s admitted targeting of tea party groups, increased criticism and outrage at the administration’s response to last year’s attack in Benghazi, Libya, and news of the Department of Justice’s seizure of phone records of the Associated Press, as well as spying on a Fox News reporter as part of a leak investigation — all reminded him of the children’s song “Old MacDonald.”“Old MacDonald’s Farm of Scandals: here’s a scandal, there’ s a scandal, everywhere a scandal,” Paul said. “So it’s hard to know which scandal we want to talk about, but I think they all sort of stem from one problem and that’s the government has accumulated too much power, the president has accumulated too much power. Not just this president, but maybe the last 10 presidents, because we allowed that power to go from Congress to the presidency. We’ve allowed the presidency to become too strong.”
Paul said the revelations from the IRS scandal will create “such a level of distrust” that there is “going to have to be some kind of independent commission” to investigate.
“I don’t see any way the president can gain back trust, and for goodness sake, somebody’s got to get fired or go to prison,” Paul said to cheers.
Read more http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.fr/2013/05/rand-paul-theres-going-to-have-to-be.html
America’s Bubble Economy Is Going To Become An Economic Black Hole
By Michael
What is going to happen when the greatest economic bubble in the history of the world pops? Themainstream media never talks about that. They are much too busy covering the latest dogfights in Washington and what Justin Bieber has been up to. And most Americans seem to think that if the Dow keeps setting new all-time highs that everything must be okay. Sadly, that is not the case at all. Right now, the U.S. economy is exhibiting all of the classic symptoms of a bubble economy. You can see this when you step back and take a longer-term view of things. Over the past decade, we have added more than 10 trillion dollars to the national debt
.
But most Americans have shown very little concern as the balance on our
national credit card has soared from 6 trillion dollars to nearly 17
trillion dollars. Meanwhile, Wall Street has been transformed into the
biggest casino on the planet, and much of the new money that the Federal
Reserve has been recklessly printing up has gone into stocks. But the
Dow does not keep setting new records because the underlying economic
fundamentals are good. Rather, the reckless euphoria that we are seeing
in the financial markets right now reminds me very much of 1929.
Margin debt is absolutely soaring, and every time that happens a crash rapidly follows.
But this time when a crash happens it could very well be unlike
anything that we have ever seen before. The top 25 U.S. banks have more than 212 trillion dollars of
exposure to derivatives combined, and when that house of cards comes
crashing down there is no way that anyone will be able to prop it back
up. After all, U.S. GDP for an entire year is only a bit more than 15
trillion dollars.But most Americans are only focused on the short-term because the mainstream media is only focused on the short-term. Things are good this week and things were good last week, so there is nothing to worry about, right?
Unfortunately, economic reality is not going to change even if all of us try to ignore it. Those that are willing to take an honest look at what is coming down the road are very troubled. For example, Bill Gross of PIMCO says that his firm sees “bubbles everywhere”…
We see bubbles everywhere, and that is not to be dramatic and not to suggest they will pop immediately. I just suggested in the bond market with a bubble in treasuries and bubble in narrow credit spreads and high-yield prices
Read more http://investmentwatchblog.com/americas-bubble-economy-is-going-to-become-an-economic-black-hole/
Defense of Liberty PAC
100% of DOLPAC's endorsed legislators voted yesterday to Nullify Obamacare in the State of Maine.
We would like to thank the following DOLPAC-endorsed legislators for keeping their promise to Maine voters:
- Rep. Aaron Libby of Waterboro
- Rep. Ellie Espling of New Gloucester
- Rep. Deb Sanderson of Chelsea
- Rep. Heather Sirocki of Scarborough
- Rep. David Johnson of Eddington
Unfortunately, the bill failed by a vote of 114 to 24. It just means we will have to work to get more DOLPAC-endorsed legislators elected in 2014.
We would like to thank the following DOLPAC-endorsed legislators for keeping their promise to Maine voters:
- Rep. Aaron Libby of Waterboro
- Rep. Ellie Espling of New Gloucester
- Rep. Deb Sanderson of Chelsea
- Rep. Heather Sirocki of Scarborough
- Rep. David Johnson of Eddington
Unfortunately, the bill failed by a vote of 114 to 24. It just means we will have to work to get more DOLPAC-endorsed legislators elected in 2014.
Lisbon GOP Meeting
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CNN Poll: Tea party gets boost from IRS controversy
Washington (CNN) - As a major
tea party group plans protests Tuesday at Internal Revenue Service
offices across the country, a new national poll indicates that the IRS
controversy has given the four-year-old movement a shot in the arm.
And according to a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday, it's also boosted the favorable rating for the tea party movement. Thirty-seven percent of people questioned said they see the tea party in a favorable light, up nine percentage points from CNN's March poll. But a plurality still view the movement unfavorably.
"Politically, the group that may have benefitted the most from last week's news is the tea party movement, which may be getting something akin to a 'sympathy vote' for being targeted by the highly unpopular IRS," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
Read more http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/20/cnn-poll-tea-party-gets-boost-from-irs-controversy/
Notice of Public Meeting for Lisbon-Durham ----Bridge improvements
Notice of FORMAL
PUBLIC MEETING FOR
DURHAM-LISBON
_____________________________________________________________________
TO DISCUSS
THE IMPROVEMENTS TO
DURHAM BRIDGE AND ROUTE 9
SOLPE STABILATION AND ROADWAY RELOCATION
TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2013
AT 6:00PM
AT THE FIRE STATION
ON 615 HALLOWELL ROAD
DURHAM
Please join Maine DOT at a formal public meeting to discuss the future
improvements to the Durham Bridge (#3334), over the Androscoggin River,
located between Durham and Lisbon. Also,
Representatives of the Maine Department of Transportation will be present on
Tuesday evening, June 4, 2013, at 6:00p.m. to listen to concerns, receive
comments, and answer questions from anyone with an interest in the project.
The Department is particularly interested in learning local views relative to
project consistency with local comprehensive plans, discovering local
resources, and identifying local concerns and issues. Anyone with an interest
is invited to attend and participate in the meeting.
Accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. Auxiliary aids will
be provided upon advance request.
Any inquiries regarding this project may be directed to the attention of Leanne
Timberlake, Project Manager, Maine Department of Transportation, Bridge
Program, 16 State House Station, Augusta, Maine 04333-0016. Telephone:
(207) 624-3422. Email: leanne.timberlake@maine.gov.
Work Identification Numbers 018239.00 & 018382.00
Federal Aid Project Numbers BH-1823(900) & STP-1838(200)
TTY Users Call Maine Relay 711
Monday, May 20, 2013
Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?
- President met with anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party.
spectator.org
May 20, 2013
“For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White HouseIs President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal?
Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun?
The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts.
March 31, 2010.
According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon time of March 31st.
The White House lists the IRS union leader’s visit this way:
Kelley, Colleen Potus 03/31/2010 12:30In White House language, “POTUS” stands for “President of the United States.”
The very next day after her White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s Report, IRS employees — the same employees who belong to the NTEU — set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America. The IG report wrote it up this way:
Read more http://www.infowars.com/obama-and-the-irs-the-smoking-gun/
Think your Skype messages get end-to-end encryption? Think again
Ars catches Microsoft accessing links we sent in our test messages.
With the help of independent privacy and security researcher Ashkan Soltani, Ars used Skype to send four Web links that were created solely for purposes of this article. Two of them were never clicked on, but the other two—one beginning in HTTP link and the other HTTPS—were accessed by a machine at 65.52.100.214, an IP address belonging to Microsoft. For those interested in the technical details, the log line looked like this:
0 -'The results—which were similar but not identical to those reported last week by The H Security—prove conclusively that Microsoft not only has ability to peer at the plaintext sent from one Skype user to another, but that the company regularly flexes that monitoring muscle.
In one sense, this shouldn't come as news. Skype's privacy policy clearly states that it may (emphasis added) use automated scanning within Instant Messages and SMS to identify spam and links to sites engaged in phishing and other forms of fraud. And as Ars reported last year, since Skype was acquired by Microsoft, the network running the service has been drastically overhauled from its design of the preceding decade. Gone are the peer-to-peer "supernodes" made up of users with sufficient amounts of bandwidth and processing power; in their place are some 10,000 Linux machines hosted by Microsoft. In short, the decentralization that had been one of Skype's hallmarks was replaced with a much more centralized network. It stands to reason that messages traveling over centralized networks may be easier to monitor.
Read more http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-messages-get-end-to-end-encryption-think-again/
7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They Do Not Want You To Know
by Michael
Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media? In America today, we are more “connected” than ever. The average American watches 153 hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the Internet. If someone could control the production of all of that media, that would make them immensely powerful. They would literally be in a position to tell people what to think. Well, what if I told you that there are just six enormous media conglomerates that combine to produce about 90 percent of all the media that Americans consume. Would that alarm you? It should alarm you. The truth is that our attitudes, opinions and beliefs are greatly shaped by what we allow into our minds. After all, they don’t call it “programming” for no reason. Even those of us that realize that we are connected to “the matrix” probably greatly underestimate the tremendous influence that the media has over us. We live at a time when it is absolutely imperative to think for ourselves, but most Americans are being absolutely overwhelmed with information and seem more than content to let others do their thinking for them. Sadly, this is greatly contributing to the downfall of our society.
And of course the mainstream media desperately does not want you to look at “the man behind the curtain”. They just want you to stay plugged into the “programming” that they are feeding you without asking any questions.
Fortunately, a growing minority of Americans are waking up and are starting to reject the mainstream media. An increasing number of people are beginning to recognize that the mainstream media is the mouthpiece of the establishment and that it is promoting the agenda of the establishment.
Read more http://investmentwatchblog.com/7-things-about-the-mainstream-media-that-they-do-not-want-you-to-know/
Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why
Sunday, 19 May 2013 11:36 PM
Warren Buffett, who has been a cheerleader for U.S. stocks for quite some time, is dumping shares at an alarming rate. He recently complained of “disappointing performance” in dyed-in-the-wool American companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Kraft Foods.
In the latest filing for Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett has been drastically reducing his exposure to stocks that depend on consumer purchasing habits. Berkshire sold roughly 19 million shares of Johnson & Johnson, and reduced his overall stake in “consumer product stocks” by 21%. Berkshire Hathaway also sold its entire stake in California-based computer parts supplier Intel.
With 70% of the U.S. economy dependent on consumer spending, Buffett’s apparent lack of faith in these companies’ future prospects is worrisome.
Unfortunately Buffett isn’t alone.
Fellow billionaire John Paulson, who made a fortune betting on the subprime mortgage meltdown, is clearing out of U.S. stocks too. During the second quarter of the year, Paulson’s hedge fund, Paulson & Co., dumped 14 million shares of JPMorgan Chase. The fund also dumped its entire position in discount retailer Family Dollar and consumer-goods maker Sara Lee.
Finally, billionaire George Soros recently sold nearly all of his bank stocks, including shares of JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs. Between the three banks, Soros sold more than a million shares.
Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNews/billionaires-dump-economist-stock/2012/08/29/id/450265?PROMO_CODE=110D8-1&utm_source=taboola#ixzz2TtXbBAmM
“It’s Not a Conspiracy Theory… It Is Happening Right Now”
Mac Slavo
May 20th, 2013
SHTFplan.com
The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was originally established to protect American citizens from the federal use of military troops to enforce and execute the laws of the land unless expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. Since then, for over a century, this task has fallen upon local and federal law enforcement. But with the War on Terror taking center stage in the United States for the last decade, elements within the government have been working tirelessly to expand the mission of the US military on the domestic front.
First, they passed the Patriot Act, which gave the government sweeping new powers to categorize any individual as a terrorist, whether they are operating on foreign lands or here at home. In 2011, as America brought in the New Year, they signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, which made it possible for American citizens who were categorized as domestic terrorists under the Patriot Act to be detained and imprisoned indefinitely without charge or trial.
Finally, last week we learned that, as President Obama came under fire for the many scandals rocking his administration, the government was quietly moving to give the Department of Defense unprecedented authority on U.S. soil, effectively nullifying Posse Comitatus.
Eric Blair of Activist Post writes:
Read more http://investmentwatchblog.com/its-not-a-conspiracy-theory-it-is-happening-right-now/
Why men do evil (while wearing a badge)
“Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.”Sometimes in this crazy world we get lost in the noise and bustle of everyday life. We hear stories that cause us fear and concern. We know a friend-of-a-friend that has a second cousin that…
― Mercedes Lackey, Exile’s Honor
But stories are just a part of a person’s life. Each of us have a story. A snippet of our life that we hold onto and pass along. Many stories are cute and endearing, and then there are those at the other end of the spectrum.
These stories are of fear and pain.
These are stories of abuse by police.
These stories are becoming more frequent. Entire website networks have sprung up to alert readers and web searches of the abuse caused by police officers.
Photographing the crimes by police, although protected by Supreme Courts in many states, still results in harassment by law enforcement. When the general public states their concern about surveillance cameras all over their town, the police may respond with “If you’re not doing anything wrong, what’s wrong with being recorded”. The hypocrisy sits in their mouths like venom when they are recorded abusing a pedestrian or a driver because, “They gave me attitude”.
Read more http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/why-men-do-evil-while-wearing-a-badge/44803
Israel tells Russia that sending missiles to Syria will start a war
Russia supplies Syria with sophisticated Yakhonts missile-system, making naval blockade largely impossible… Israel tells Russia that sending missiles to Syria will start a war
Russia has sent advanced antiship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, American officials said Thursday.
Russia has previously provided a version of
the missiles, called Yakhonts, to Syria. But those delivered recently
are outfitted with an advanced radar that makes them more effective,
according to American officials who are familiar with classified intelligence reports and would only discuss the shipment on the basis of anonymity.
reports and would only discuss the shipment on the basis of anonymity.
Unlike Scud and other longer-range
surface-to-surface missiles that the Assad government has used against
opposition forces, the Yakhont antiship missile system provides the
Syrian military a formidable weapon to counter any effort by
international forces to reinforce Syrian opposition fighters by imposing
a naval embargo, establishing a no-fly zone or carrying out limited
airstrikes.
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