DOJ Distraction in Conjunction with Mainstream Media Launched Against Sheriff Arpaio

The Intel Hub
By Shepard Ambellas
April 8, 2012
ARIZONA — From the infamous “pink underwear” to the recent Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation which accuses the sheriff of illegally detaining Hispanics, DOJ officials, in conjunction with the corporate controlled media have pulled no punches when it comes to demonizing Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio amongst the public eye.

Yet the mainstream media still fails to cover the actual 2200 plus hour law enforcement criminal investigation launched against president Barrack Obama surrounding his fraudulent credentials.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy Austin Jr. wrote a statement outlined in a recent Washington Post article;
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: George Zimmerman’s Attorney Speaks with Keith Johnson

April 08, 2012   dave

By Keith Johnson

The media circus surrounding the Feb. 26 killing of a black teenager in Sanford, Fla. has sparked racial tensions and a rush to judgment against neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, who has been accused of shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in a gated community that had recently fallen victim to a rash of burglaries and violent crimes.

Zimmerman’s attorney, Craig Sonner, recently told AFP, “It’s my contention, and my belief, that when all the evidence has come out, it will show that he [Zimmerman] was acting in self-defense.”

Police did not charge Zimmerman, due in part to Florida’s “stand your ground” law. “In the statute, it says you are allowed to meet force with force,” says Sonner, “including deadly force, if he or she believes it’s necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm.”

Zimmerman has not spoken publicly, and the pending investigation by a special prosecutor has not revealed exactly what she thinks occurred that night. Sonner is also cautious not to reveal too many details of the case, but insists it was Martin who attacked Zimmerman. The ensuing struggle resulted in Martin being shot in the chest, and according to Sonner, Zimmerman “suffered an injury to his nose and a scrape on the back of his head.”

Read more http://americanfreepress.net/?p=3604 

A fog of drugs and war

More than 110,000 active-duty Army troops last year took antidepressants, sedatives and other prescription medications. Some see a link to aberrant behavior.

Patrick Burke with his wife, Elise, and their son, Jackson. In a drunk driving and auto theft case last year, the Air Force pilot was found not guilty "by reason of lack of mental responsibility" -- a result of the prescription drugs he'd taken. (Burke Family Photo, Burke Family Photo. / January 21, 2012)

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times

April 7, 2012, 3:24 p.m.

SEATTLE — U.S. Air Force pilot Patrick Burke's day started in the cockpit of a B-1 bomber near the Persian Gulf and proceeded across nine time zones as he ferried the aircraft home to South Dakota.

Every four hours during the 19-hour flight, Burke swallowed a tablet of Dexedrine, the prescribed amphetamine known as "go pills." After landing, he went out for dinner and drinks with a fellow crewman. They were driving back to Ellsworth Air Force Base when Burke began striking his friend in the head.  REad more http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-army-medication-20120408,0,1291311.story

Syrian Journalist Says CNN & Al-Jazeera & Are Falsifying Events In Syria

Cover-up Continues

THE COVER-UP CONTINUES

At last Tuesday’s Town Council meeting, Chair Fern LaRochelle responded to the question I had asked at the previous meeting about the status of litigation on the $32,500 dollars misappropriated and why this loan was not listed as an outstanding loan by the town in response to the court order. The answer was it is still in litigation and second it was not on the outstanding loan list because it did not follow the proper procedures for a loan and the town’s position is; it is not a loan.



This is double talk by Eldridge. The misappropriated $32,500 has been listed as an outstanding loan list since March 28, 2007 through June 30, 2011. I am in possession of the Purchase Order dated March 29, 2007; the Promissory Note signed on March 29, 2007 and a copy of the check issued to the Atlantic Commercial Cleaners dated March 28, 2007. Since Eldridge has repeatedly admitted there were not any actual procedures during the time frame of the loan, how can the town say this is not a valid loan? If this is not a loan then is must have been a gift from the tooth fairy.


Also, if you remember numerous months ago, Mrs. Dot Fitzgerald and I requested the town council order a forensic audit be performed on the Economic Community Development Department to ensure everything in that department is proper. At that time, Eldridge stated this was totally unnecessary because the town had instituted procedures to ensure there was no way a situation of this nature could reoccur. Eldridge also stated the current procedures had checks and balances to protect the integrity of the loans. Without a forensic audit there is no way of telling if there is more misappropriation or mismanagement of town funds. This audit could also assist in determining who took this money by investigating bank records and personal accounts.

Remember, Mrs. Jennifer Norris who was the Economic Director from July 2007 through January 2008 and discovered the mismanagement of these funds. After Mrs. Norris reported this mismanagement to Interim Town Manager Brooks; she was harassed and placed in an unsafe work environment by Brooks which resulted in her resigning after six months. The people will never know how much more misappropriations and mismanagement Mrs. Norris would have uncovered without a forensic audit.



Playing with words such as it was never a loan because it did not follow proper procedures when there were no procedures to follow; is just another form of covering-up the misappropriated and mismanagement of town funds. The town has done everything in its power to conceal what really took place. The citizens of Lisbon will never know who all was really involved in this theft; nor will they ever find out why Brooks, with all his experience and resources, could not conduct a thorough investigation which would result in a conviction; and finally expose who all is involved with the cover-up.

I know everyone in town is tired of the mention of the misappropriated and mismanagement of this $32,500; but until this cloud of deceit and theft can be resolved who can we trust with our money.

Remember there is no statute of limitation on fraud.

Larry Fillmore
Concerned Citizen

Referendum Question

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PEOPLE SPEAK

On last November’s ballot was an Advisory Referendum Question: 

“Do the voters of the town of Lisbon wish to vote on an amendment to the Town Charter that, if enacted, would require voter approval at a referendum election for each annual Municipal Budget?” 

Over 2,000 voters responded by voting “YES” and a little over 500 voted “NO”. It was very apparent the majority of the voters in Lisbon desire to vote on the Municipal Budget every year.

A little history on this subject; both Councilor Roger Cote and Councilor Roger Bickford had been asking the rest of the council to put this on last November's ballot. 

The rest of the council refused to incorporate this in the Charter Changes on last year’s ballot. Roger Cote spent his own money and hired a lawyer to write up the proposed change and the rest of the council refused to accept it. Roger Bickford had been gathering signatures on a petition, as directed by his fellow councilors, on this issue and presented the council with the overwhelming results in favor of voting on the Municipal Budget.

Had the council taken the appropriate action at that time, the people would be voting on this year’s municipal budget. Instead, the rest of the council forced the people to vote on the Advisory Referendum Question last November even after they had conclusive evidence in Roger Bickford’s petitions. This was the rest of the council’s method of delaying the process. 

Now, the people have spoken (last November) and the council is still delaying the people from getting to vote on this year’s municipal budget. According to the council, they have sent this to the town attorney to prepare the paperwork so the people of Lisbon can vote in November. I do not understand why the council has to send this to the town attorney when Roger Cote already spent his own money and presented the proper wording to the council over a year ago. Simply put another delaying tactic.

The people of Lisbon need to call their representative on the council and demand to vote on this year’s municipal budget. Force the council to take immediate action on the desires of the people. If you do not do this, this council will ignore and delay your right to vote on the municipal budget forever.

These council members are supposedly our representatives and need to respond to the people’s desires.

Larry Fillmore

Concerned Citizen

Poland Announces Complete Ban on Monsanto’s Genetically Modified Maize

Anthony Gucciardi
NaturalSociety
April 5, 2012
Following the anti-Monsanto activism launched by nations like France and Hungary, Poland has announced that it will launch a complete ban on growing  Monsanto’s  genetically modified strain MON810. The announcement, made by Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki, sets yet another international standard against Monsanto’s genetically modified creations. In addition to being linked to a plethora health ailments, Sawicki says that the pollen originating from this GM strain may actually be devastating the already dwindling bee population.

“The decree is in the works. It introduces a complete ban on the MON810 strain of maize in Poland,” Sawicki stated to the press.

Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/poland-ban-monsantos-genetically-modified-maize/#ixzz1rCUx3y2C

Ron Paul Breaks Record Attendance at UCLA

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Wednesday night in Los Angeles, presidential candidate Ron Paul broke his own attendance record, actually set the night before in Chico, California. The news media doesn't always pick up on the subtle, or even the obvious details that set Paul's feverish supporters apart from the typical pack. While the Chico attendance was recorded at six thousand four hundred, the media reported it as "hundreds" of participants.

At the UCLA event, participants had waited as long as nine hours, standing in line, wearing t-shirts, holding signs, chanting, and encouraging political discourse with each other. Of course, they had much to agree with each other, as Paul's supporter's are typically enthralled with his long-standing record of one-message, without changing points of view very often.

Even as this article goes to print, as Paul set a new attendance record (estimates have ranged form seven to ten thousand), the only mention of Paul on the Fox news site is "Paul Increasingly Absent From Campaign." This continuously frustrates his supporters, who turn out in significantly larger numbers than any other candidate in the race. Most complain that Paul is not given fair representation in the major news media, and this seems compellingly shown true tonight again.

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Kendrec McDade Wasn't the First: 6 More Controversial Police Shootings of Unarmed L.A. Black Men

Kendrec McDade, 19, was killed by Pasadena police on March 24.

As the investigation continues into 19-year-old Kendrec McDade's death by police gunfire on March 24, the scenario is looking worse and worse for the two Pasadena police officers who shot McDade. Last Saturday, at a tense community meeting near the crime scene, Pasadena Police Chief Philip Sanchez urged the public to "wait for the judicial process to find out what ultimately occurred."
But that will take months. Impatience was in the air..

... in New Revelation Baptist Church, as McDade's friends and neighbors grilled the chief with questions like, "Why didn't the officers have their sirens on?" and "Must the police shoot to kill?"
As usual, many details of the shooting are being kept under wraps until the official investigation comes to an end. But the undisputed facts are that McDade was not armed (though a 911 caller lied that he was) and did not threaten the officers with violence.

Read more http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/04/kendrec_mcdade_police_shootings_unarmed_black_men.php 

Home Remedies for Earache

Naomi Woods
NaturalSociety
April 5, 2012
The ear is one of the most sensitive parts of the body. Whether in adults or children, earaches are an extremely prevalent ailment experienced by countless people each day. More specifically, earache is a condition characterized by pain and discomfort caused by inflammation of the inner regions of the ear. Earaches can be caused by excessive noise, high altitude travel, as well as nose infections.

Earaches are more common in children than in adults (which in many cases means much worrying for parents with toddlers), but the good news is that they can be remedied naturally. Here are some of the most popular home remedies for earaches:

Stretch the ear muscles. You can do this by yawning or chewing something stretchy like gum. This will help expand the muscles. This a very common remedy for earaches contracted by travelling, especially to higher altitudes (air travel).

Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/home-remedies-for-earache/#ixzz1rB4SB4gM

Marine veteran tased to death by NYPD in his own home

NY Cops Break Into Marine Vets Home And Taser Him To Death

  Posted by Alexander Higgins - April 4, 2012 at 6:48 pm - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog

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Four months after the NYPD broke into the house of a marine veteran and tased him to death a grand jury is finally expected to deliberate criminal charges.

RT – A grand jury is expected to soon hear a case from last year in which an unarmed, 68-year-old retired black military veteran was killed by police officers in New York. Four months later, no one has been charged in the murder.

Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a former US Marine, was killed on November 19, 2011 after police officers broke down the door of his White Plains, New York apartment. Chamberlain, who suffered from a heart condition, had accidentally triggered a medical alert system on his person and then failed to respond to calls for help. Police were dispatched to his apartment, where Chamberlain greeted them by insisting he was okay and ensured them that no one was in any harm. The cops refused to take the vet’s word, however, and shot him with  both a Taser stun-gun and non-lethal projectiles, but only after breaking into his home and entering on their own accord.

2500 Marines in Australia --- New battlefront for U.S.

Hedges: "No Outcry Within Media" on NDAA

Why The West Created The Islamic Republic of Iran, And Why It Wants To Destroy It Now

Why The West Created The Islamic Republic of Iran, And Why It Wants To Destroy It Now


Ayatollah Khomeini was a secret Western puppet and Illuminati agent.

According to conventional wisdom, Washington and Tehran have hated each other since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Iranian-American hostage crisis that occurred shortly after. But when we look past the surface of events and official rhetoric we find very little evidence to support this claim.

The real history of the American-Iranian relationship is much more complex and complicated. The fundamentalist mullahs of Iran and the plutocratic rulers of America and Britain have secretly been in league with each other ever since they joined forces in 1953 to depose Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh. At that time, the CIA and MI6 gave the throne of Iran to the Shah. But they maintained close ties with key figures in Iran's fundamentalist community.


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Lisbon Maine's Council RECAP April 3rd

RECAP April 3rd

Last night’s meeting was a very historical event for the citizens of Lisbon.  The Chairman Fern LaRochelle and the council added an additional line item called “Audience Participation Responses”.  This line item is where the council responds to the questions asked at the previous meeting.  The people have always asked for answers and now we have it. I personally want to commend and thank this town council for adding this valuable means of communication to the agenda.

Who is the Chief Administrative Officer for the Town of Lisbon?  As the Town Manager, all requests for Freedom of Access Acts should be signed by the Chief Administrative Officer since he is the sole Custodian of Public Records for the Town of Lisbon.  If the Town of Lisbon is denying the information requested, it should be signed by this Council and not a Town Employee since this action could result in a lawsuit being filed which will cost the taxpayer tax dollars in legal fees?  Right now two individuals, who do not pay taxes in this town, are making decision which results in tax dollars being utilized to defend their actions.

The response was we hired these individuals to do a job and so we must allow them to do so.  My take on this is neither the town manager or town attorney has a vested interest in the taxpayer’s money nor how it is spent.  The people elected the council to be responsible for how our tax dollars are being spent and not these two individuals who do not pay taxes in this town.  When the charter was developed our town manager resided in Lisbon and paid taxes but this has changed.

Why doesn’t the town manager brief the people on the status of voting on the municipal budget at every meeting like he did on the Lisbon Connection?  The people are still waiting to hear when they will be allowed to vote on the municipal budget.

The response was the change to allow the people to vote one the municipal budget by department is currently with the town attorney and should be ready for the November 2012 ballot.

What is the status of the $32,500 tax dollars?  The last time the Town Manager briefed the people he stated the town was seeking to recover the funds in civil court.  Has this been filed in civil court?  The reason I asked is because the listing the town manager provide the court on all open loans the $32,500 is not on this list.  Why is that?

The response was the misappropriated $32,500 dollars is not a loan because the properly procedures were not followed.  My take on this is yet another attempt at making this disappear.  It also said it was filed in civil court.  I have a copy of the signed Purchase Order, Promissory note and the check issued to Atlantic Commercial Cleaners.  It has been stated in the past procedures were lacks during this timeframe but if the Finance Officer wrote out a check then it had to have followed some kind of procedures.  Clearly the town is hoping the public will forget about the $32,500 dollars and incomplete investigation.  I believe this is a play on words in yet another attempt to cover all this up.

Please advise everyone on which ordinances we are required to comply with and which ordinances we can ignore?

The response was "this is clearly a difficult question to answer and we are looking into it".

The town council vote 6-0-1 with Councilor Mason abstaining to approve the first reading of the proposed zone change on Gartley Street from General Residential to Diversified Development District.  Vice-Chair Don Fellows of the Planning Board spoke on this issue and explained the Planning Board position on this controversial issue.  Also former Councilor Cote spoke on how the Lisbon Comprehensive Plan was developed and why.  Mr. Cote also made it crystal clear there will be serious issues with the Route 9 trouble being presented by the Planning Board.

Mr. Fellows and the town manager both announced there was going to be a Public Hearing April 26, 2012 with no firm meeting  location on the Route 9 changes proposed by the Planning Board.  The changes involve “Conditional Usage” to allow for all the businesses currently located on Route 9.

The entire town council meeting will air on Channel 7 at 07:00 PM on Friday night April 6, 2012.

Larry Fillmore
Concerned Citizen

'Massive Wealth Destruction' Is About to Hit Investors: Faber

 

By: Jeff Cox
CNBC.com Senior Writer

Runaway government debts have triggered uncontrolled money printing that in turn will lead to inflation that will decimate portfolios, according to the latest forecast from "Dr. Doom" Marc Faber.

Axel Griesch | ASFM | Getty Dr. Marc Faber Read more http://www.cnbc.com/id/46923999

Investors, particularly those in the "well-to-do" category, could lose about half their total wealth in the next few years as the consequences pile up from global government debt problems, Faber, the author of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report, said on CNBC.

Efforts to stem the debt problems have seen the Federal Reserve expand its balance sheet to nearly $3 trillion and other central banks implement aggressive liquidity programs as well, which Faber sees producing devastating inflation as well as other consequences.

Ron Paul in second place in Delegates

U.S. Marines Arrive in Australia to secure offshore natural gas and oil fields

April 4, 2012

Print Version

Source: Phantom Report
This is not a military mission of peace and stability, but rather an indefinite military presence in the Asia-Pacific region to secure natural resources by force. Are natural resources becoming scarce? I have no data or energy sector connections to prove the scarcity of oil,  natural gas or rare earth minerals, however if you control the natural resources, you control the people.
-PR
FYI:

US eyes Asia from secret Australian base
U.S. to increase military presence in Australia
The US Is Placing More Troops In The Pacific Than At Any Time Since World War II
U.S. and Australia expand military ties into SE Asia
Source: BW

U.S. Marines began arriving in Australia after an agreement between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Julia Gillard to increase cooperation and allow a greater regional presence for American forces.

The first 200 of as many as 2,500 Marines arrived in the northern city of Darwin today, Gillard said in a statement. Obama first announced that the contingent would be based in Australia during a visit in November to mark the 60th anniversary of the alliance between the two nations.
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Massive Tornado Ripping Through Dallas Texas

  Posted by Alexander Higgins - April 3, 2012 at 2:43 pm - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog

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An immediate  shelter in place order is in effect as a multiple massive tornado with 130 plus mile an hour winds ripping through in the Dallas Texas area and causing widespread damage.
The tornado is tossing around tractor and tailors like they a child throws around toy trick and a massive ball of debris has been picked up on radar.

Updates:
Live video below.
3:23PM – Tornado warnings still in effect. There are many isolated cells across the area and as one storm passes another comes right behind it, reports CNN live on the air. KTBS just posted a photo of one of the twisters and quotes CNN as saying the the twisters are growing bigger.
Another tornado is reported to have touched down in the Arlington area following the earlier shelter in place warning.

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/04/03/breaking-massive-tornado-ripping-dallas-texas-112311/ 

Mystery Radioactive Black Substance Now Spreads Across All Of Kanto Japan

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The radioactive black substance that keeps appearing in places across Japan is now being found across all of the Kanto area.

The latest update on the mystery radioactive black substance in Japan comes from the Fukushima Diary who is reporting the substance is now being found all over the Kanto Area.

Black substance is covering all the Kanto area

Black substance (cyanobacteria) is spreading all over Kanto area.
The very similar substance was found in Kashiwa Chiba, where is known to be a hotspot.
↓ It looks like mixture of lichens and dried soil.

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The person who found this has been having health problem, burn on finger (for 3 months) and the bruise on thighs (for 9 months).

The black circle on the left bottom of the picture is the size of the bruise back in July. It’s growing.
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College Board bars AP Government from teaching US Constitution, US wars

I have been removed from the Advanced Placement (AP) Government listserve for documenting US Constitution promises compared with these recent US ‘laws’ and actions:

assassination of Americans upon the non-reviewable dictate of the president,
control-drown/waterboarding anyone dictated as a “terrorist” despite all US and international case law finding this to be torture,

NDAA 2012 and 2006 Military Commissions Act that state a president can dictate any person as a “terrorist suspect,” and then disappear them without challenge,

presidential executive order saying the US government can seize any resource, any person, at any time for “national defense.”

US wars and armed attacks that violate treaties after both world wars that make use of military unlawful unless a country’s government attacks first (Kellogg-Briand and UN Charter).


There are ~ 2,000 AP Government teachers worldwide; my communications via the listserve documented these important policies that was news to many who only look to corporate media (who also publish our texts). With these communications to teaching colleagues, I used my “academic voice” rather than the “civic voice” I use as a writer. The difference is my academic voice stays to the law and facts without my interpretation and policy position.

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 http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/college-board-bars-ap-government-from-teaching-us-constitution-us-wars

Organic Food Industry Bought Up by Corporations Like Coca-Cola

Anthony Gucciardi
NaturalSociety
April 3, 2012

corporatedeal 220x137 Organic Food Industry Bought Up by Corporations Like Coca ColaYou may be wondering why some supposedly ‘healthy’ and ‘environmentally conscious’ companies deceive unknowing consumers into purchasing products with hidden additives and fillers. Perhaps one of the main reasons is that a large number of these pseudo-organic brands are owned by their very unhealthy ‘competitors’, such as Coca-Cola and General Mills. In fact, some of your favorite “All Natural” and organic companies may be owned by a corporate giant.

Companies like Honest Tea and Odwalla may appeal to health conscious shoppers, but they are actually owned by Coca-Cola — the very same company that is currently fuming over the requirement to change their recipes in order to avoid a cancer warning label. Another popular ‘health’ brand is Kashi, owned by the Kellogg corporation. It should come as no surprise that Kashi cereals have been found to contain a copious amount of GMOs and pesticides, according to an explosive report from the Cornucopia Institute. Kashi’s ’Heart to Heart Blueberry cereal’ was found to contain grains coated in the residue of many pesticides such as phosmet, carbaryl, azinphos methyl, malathion, chlorpyrifos methyl, chlorpyrifos. What’s more, the company’s products were found to oftentimes contain 100% genetically modified ingredients.

Read more http://naturalsociety.com/organic-food-industry-bought-up-by-corporations-like-coca-cola/

Street Legal Flying Cars To Debut At The New York Auto Show

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Flying cars have stuck to the realm of science fiction for the past half century, but two companies are aiming to change that with the debut of a duo of be-winged vehicles at this week’s New York International Auto Show.

The first candidate – The Transition:

The Transition Flying Car Leaving The Garage

The Transition

The Transition In Flight

Every pilot faces uncertain weather, rising costs, and ground transportation hassles on each end of the flight. The Transition® combines the unique convenience of being able to fold its wings with the ability to drive on any surface road in a modern personal airplane platform. Stowing the wings for road use and deploying them for flight at the airport is activated from inside the cockpit. This unique functionality addresses head-on the issues faced by today’s Private and Sport Pilots.
Terrafugia’s award-winning MIT-trained engineers have been advancing the state-of-the-art in personal aircraft since 2006. Now you can streamline your flying experience with the revolutionary integration of personal land and air travel made possible by the Transition® Roadable Aircraft.
Performance

Max, Vh: Cruise, Vc: Stall, Vs: Range: Takeoff:	100 kts (115 mph, 185 km/h) 93 kts (105 mph, 172 km/h) 45 kts (51 mph, 83 km/h) 425 nmi (490 mi, 787 km) 1700′ (518 m) over 50′ obstacle
Gross Takeoff Weight: Empty Weight: Useful Load:	1430 lbs (650 kg) 970 lbs (440 kg) 460 lbs (210 kg)
Fuel burn at cruise: Useable Fuel: Mileage on road:	5 gph (18.9 L/h) 23 gal (87L) 35 mpg (14.9 km/L)
Light Sport Aircraft (LSA)

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Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Plasma Fusion

  Posted by Alexander Higgins - April 2, 2012 at 6:42 pm - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog

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Scientists say have made a major breakthrough in the field of fusion bring them close to an unlimited source of the cheapest, cleanest and safest energy ever.

A peer-reviewed scientific study published in the Plasma Journal of Physics confirms that a New Jersey laboratory has just made a major breakthrough in the field of nuclear fusion that could lead to commercial grade garage size fusion generators within the next 5 years.

The scientist have recorded the highest ever magnetic confinement of a fusion fuel burning furnace reaching a temperature of at 1.8 billion degrees in their plasma fusion furnace.

The temperature is high enough to power nuclear fusion of fuels like hydrogen and boron which are called “aneutronic” because the produce now neutrons and can be converted directly into electricity.

Read more http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/04/02/major-breakthrough-nuclear-plasma-fusion-111651/ 

US Troop Morale Sinks ‘Out Of Proportion’ Over Afghan Attacks

 ISAF spokesman

The US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan says attacks on its personnel coming from Afghan troops are having an out-of-proportion effect on the Western coalition forces’ morale.

Press TV – The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Monday that the deaths of coalition troops at the hand of Afghan soldiers had sapped spirits among its forces.

“Although the incidents are small in number, we are aware of the gravity they have as an effect on morale,” ISAF spokesman Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson said in Kabul.

“Every single incident has an out-of-proportion effect on morale and that goes for coalition forces as it goes for Afghan national security forces,” he added.

Since the beginning of 2012, 17 US-led troops, including seven US and five French trainers, have been killed by Afghan soldiers in 10 separate attacks.

Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan despite the presence of some 130,000 US-led forces in the war-torn country.

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Make sure you pay those traffic fines on time or you get a body-cavity search and jail.

Justices Approve Blanket Jailhouse Search Policies

By BARBARA LEONARD

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     (CN) - A divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld blanket strip-search policies that are enforced against all jail inmates, regardless of the charge they face.

     A successful challenge would rely on substantial evidence that the policies are an unnecessary or unjustified response to problems of jail security, but Albert Florence simply failed to make that case, according to the majority opinion.

     After Florence had been one week late paying an installment in the fine he owed for a previous charge, a New Jersey judge issued a warrant for his arrest.

     Florence made the payment in question a week later, but New Jersey updated his profile on a statewide database.

     Two years later, a state trooper pulled Florence over and arrested him for the outstanding civil contempt warrant.

     The Burlington County Detention Center subjected Florence to a strip search and visual body-cavity search, and Florence underwent another search when the jail transferred him to a facility in Essex County.

     One day after the second search, the charges against Florence were dismissed. He then filed a federal class action against both jails and several other defendants for constitutional violations.

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Immunity Shields Grand Jury Witnesses Who Lie

What kind of court system do we have if this can happen

By BARBARA LEONARD

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     (CN) - Prosecutors who presented perjured testimony to a grand jury are entitled to immunity, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
     The unanimous decision affirms the 11th Circuit's dismissalof civil rights claims against Georgia prosecutors by Charles Rehberg in 2010.

     After Rehberg had sent anonymous, critical faxes to management at the Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Dougherty County District Attorney Kenneth Hodges III and his chief investigator, James Paulk, looked into the faxes as a "favor" to the allegedly well-connected hospital. Bell South, Alltel and Sprint complied with the prosecutors' subpoenas and identified Rehberg as the fax sender.

     The prosecutors indicted Rehberg three times over the next six months, and the case attracted a lot of press attention as each indictment fell through for lack of evidence.
     Amid "unfavorable press coverage" about the DA's political relations
hip with the hospital, Hodges had recused himself from the case and Kelly Burke was appointed as special prosecutor.

     Rehberg sued the three officials under the First, Fourth and 14th Amendments, alleging malicious prosecution, retaliatory investigation and fabrication of evidence.

Read more http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/04/02/45237.htm 

Cop Flips Out, Demands IDs, Appears to Assault and Threaten to Tase Man for Filming

In my opinion this Cop should be fired without pension

Long-term hormone therapy raises breast cancer risk in women

Mon Apr 2, 2012 3:11PM GMT

For combination [hormone] therapy there is so much data about the dangers that we really tell people that if they must take it to treat symptoms, they should only do so for a year or two at most."
Study leader Dr. Wendy Chen of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston

A new US study suggests that using female hormones to relieve menopause symptoms increases women’s risk of developing breast cancer.

Prior findings had tied the most common form of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) which includes estrogen and progestin to a greater risk of breast cancer.

Researchers of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who studied about 60,000 women found that using any kind of female hormones even estrogen-only HRT for 10 years or more can slightly increase chances of developing breast cancer.

“There’s a continued increase in risk with longer durations of use and there does not appear to be a plateau,” said study leader Dr. Wendy Chen who presented her findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago. 

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Cop’s 'ear' in your pocket: Cell phone tracking routine with US police

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Published: 01 April, 2012, 23:43

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Keys, driver's license, cell phone…off we go! While an officer can only get your personal details by prompting you to take out the ID, your phone could give you away at the police’s first request – a request neither you nor a court may ever learn of.

Cell phone tracking, previously associated with federal agents, now seems to have become routine for many police departments. A recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shows that police have not only grown into the practice, but also drop the court warrant stage from the procedure.
Over 200 police departments nationwide responded to the ACLU’s pubic requests virtually

acknowledging that they track cell phones. But only very few of the interviewed departments says they obtain a court warrant to tune in on a phone. Read more http://rt.com/usa/news/usa-police-tracking-cell-phone-988/

Indiana Governor Signs Bill Allowing Citizens To Use Deadly Force Against Police Officers Into Law

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April 2, 2012 by POPEYE  
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(ADDICTING INFO)   Republican Governor Mitch Daniels has signed Senate Enrolled Act 1 into law in Indiana. The new law allows citizens to use deadly force against police officers they think are illegally entering their homes. Earlier this month, Addicting Info reported  that the bill had passed the Senate. Republicans say the bill is designed to keep police safe, but Democrats say the bill will lead to the wanton killing of police officers.

Rep. Craig Fry, a Democrat, says the bill “is going to cause people to die and it’s too late after somebody dies for a jury to sort it out. Somebody’s going to die, whether it’s a police officer or an individual who thinks a police officer is entering their home unlawfully. People are going to die.”
Fry’s colleague, Democratic Rep. Linda Lawson, a former police captain, says the bill would create an “open season on law enforcement,” and it is opposed by “1,250 state police officers and 14,000 men and women in blue, brown and green.”

The new law reverses a state Supreme Court ruling that homeowners do not have the right to use force against law enforcement officials who they believe are illegally entering their homes. According to the Evansville Courier Press, an Evansville resident fought a police officer who followed him into his house during a domestic dispute call. “The state Supreme Court found that officers sometimes enter homes without warrants for reasons protected by the law, such as pursuing suspects or preventing the destruction of evidence. In these situations, we find it unwise to allow a homeowner to adjudge the legality of police conduct in the heat of the moment,” the court said. “As we decline to recognize a right to resist unlawful police entry into a home, we decline to recognize a right to batter a police officer as a part of that resistance.”

Israeli academics call for massive attack on Gaza to ‘mow the lawn’ before November election ends the ‘opportunity’

April 2, 2012 by POPEYE  
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(Philip Weiss)   I missed this crazy argument out of Israel, but Paul Pillar has pointed it out in a great op-ed at the National Interest– a piece from two Israelis at the Bar-Ilan University calling for a largescale attack on Gaza to “mow the lawn” again before the end of the U.S.  presidential campaign forecloses the possibility.

The Efraim Inbar-Max Singer piece reminds us that Israel’s chief and favored response to political problems is: massive violence. The attack would be bigger than Cast Lead of ’08-09! Demonstrating the role of impunity– Goldstone was squelched, these guys think that Israel can just squelch the next Goldstone.

Pillar denounces the thinking eloquently:

Their piece is titled “The Opportunity in Gaza”—it’s interesting how a violent, destructive clash is viewed as a “opportunity.” They argue for a full-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip now—one even bigger and more damaging than Cast Lead, with the objective of destroying as much of Hamas as possible. They blatantly recommend exploiting the U.S. electoral calendar, arguing that “until November, the U.S. is likely to restrain rather than promote international action against Israel in response to an action in Gaza.” They say “deterrence created by Cast Lead” is “wearing thin,” and “military action now could restore deterrence.” Someone should point out to Inbar and Singer than when you repeatedly have to go to war that means deterrence is not working. But they don’t seem to care, fully accepting the prospect that in the future “Israel will probably have to ‘mow the grass’ again.” There is not a single word in their paper about the lives and livelihoods of the residents of the Gaza Strip, or the effect what they are recommending would have on those lives.

Read more http://www.federaljack.com/?p=174105 

Follow the Money: BPA Makers to Gross $8 Billion Thanks to FDA Rejecting Ban

Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post

Producers of toxic BPA are now boasting $8 billion in sales for 2012 thanks to the FDA rejecting a potential ban on the cancer-linked chemical on March 30th.

According to GlobalData, manufacturers will produce 4.7 million metric tons of BPA this year to be dispersed into the daily lives of millions worldwide. BPA now goes into everything: plastic bottles, canned foods, DVDs, plastic wrap, and much more.

Despite being linked to about as many serious health conditions as the amount of products it contaminates, the FDA has decided once again to side with mega corporations over protecting the health of the people.

Read more http://www.activistpost.com/2012/04/follow-money-bpa-makers-to-gross-8.html 

China says U.S. has no authority to impose unilateral sanctions on countries dealing with Iran

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Madison Ruppert, Contributor
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China has wholly rejected the new sanctions from the United States which take aim at all foreign banks and financial institutions which continue to deal with Iranian crude oil.

“The Chinese side always opposes one country unilaterally imposing sanctions against another according to [its] domestic law. Furthermore, it does not accept the unilateral imposition of those sanctions on a third country,” China’s Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement on Saturday, according to the Associated Press.

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Editorial by Mr. Peter Reuter

Lisbon Town Management And The Trail Of Conflict Of Interest Broadens

By: Peter Reuter
The Lisbon Reporter

As one who has attended just about all town meetings and workshops I can only say, that I am simply baffled with amazement and complete total disgust with the way Lisbon's leaders are running this nice community into the ground.   The leaders are not doing it alone.  We have all heard them say "it is with the advice of our lawyer" how many times now?

It is no secret that the town's attorney is involved with a questionable 'legal' scheme to "rape the taxpayer's" pockets of every last penny that he can possibly get.  Lisbon's attorney, Roger Therriault has to be the most unscrupulous heathen that has ever practiced law.  Not only did he promulgate, as personal witness, the complete an fallacious attack of local citizens by Lisbon Chief of Police David T. Brooks recently, he has also provided terrible legal guidance for Freedom of Access requests.  Prompting, so far, two lawsuits that the Town of Lisbon has lost because of his representation.


And the current Town Manager, Stephen G. Eldridge, is proposing to raise the town's legal defense fund by at least another $6000 dollars?   Why is it that we as taxpayer's in this once business oriented community have to continue supporting this? 

How about it Councilor Gina Mason. you and your Councilor Co-hort Cousin Dale Crafts must really be proud of the championship that you provided to former EDC Director Rosie Bradley provided on this one.

 What are you all afraid of?  The economy sucks, taxes are going to rise again and we have a 'money sucking pig' that is only looking out for his selfish legacy all the while providing misinformation about the true expenditures of his department's true operating costs.  Yeah you David T. Brooks, Lisbon's so called Chief of Police.  You are just at the top of the list.  It is Long don't ever forget that.


Isn't enough, enough already?  

Larry Fillmore, Roger Cote, Dorothy Fitzgerald, and many others that have stood tall in the past, for you residents, the taxpayers, the youth in this community deserve to be given a lot of credit for their tenacity. For with out them and this median that was created by the Lisbon Concerned Citizens you would be no different  than a mushroom growing in the wild.  Alone and in the dark.

Doesn't it make more sense to have a so called manager that knows how to do their job and not play party to what soon will break as the biggest corruption scandal in Lisbon's history?  I certainly think so. 

But let's take a look at Roger Therriault for the moment.  He as a licensed bar member has a history of sanctions against him by Justice Andrew Horton of Sagadahoc County Superior Court.


What?

Attorney Roger Therriault  of the same fame, as Lisbon's law firm, Therriault & Therriault, a father and son dynamic law-less duo, was representing Bath and West Bath at the same time at trial proceedings during the summer of 2010.  CONFLICT OF INTEREST come to mind anyone?


When:  August 2010
http://www.theforecaster.net/content/m-bathwingfarm-3


Be sure and click on the above link to get the full context of their Planning Board's actions.


Now does this sound like where Lisbon is heading with our Planning Board's recent recommendations?  I certainly think so.


It took Therriault several more months before he ended his involvement with the case.  We are now into November 2010.


On December 15, 2010  West Bath District Court Judge Andrew Horton ordered the case be sent back to the Planning Board.

Ol' Sleepy himself Roger Therriault
"Lisbon's Highly Paid Idiot, earning his money."

But more importantly he 'slapped' the wrist of Attorney Roger Therriault for Conflict of Interest between Bath and West Bath.  You would think the he, being a 'supposedly' noted scholar of Law, would have known that.  Any reasonable person with a sound mind and basic understanding of the Law could have seen that just as plain as someone having egg on their face.  But not ole sleepy Therriault and his quasi legal fees of some $170 plus per hour.  Nope, he only sees the meter running with the dollars of public funding.  Legal monetary rape of the taxpayers once again

After a hearing at West Bath District Court, Judge Andrew Horton ordered the case remanded to the Planning Board, which approved the third phase in April. He had called for similar action in July, prompted by a lawsuit filed in May by Robert and Wendy Johansen in Sagadahoc County Superior Court.

In his first order of remand, Horton also noted that attorney Roger Therriault represented both defendant Bath and applicant West Bath. The judge suggested he was concerned about Therriault's work with both sides.

On Tuesday, Therriault's continued involvement – which ended last month – prompted Horton to send the case back again to the Planning Board, with a new attorney representing Bath.

The new attorney, Patrick Scully of Bernstein Shur, said last week that the Johansens alleged that Therriault had a conflict of interest or that the Planning Board process was conflicted because Therriault is also town attorney for West Bath. The dispute, in part, concerns an access road in Bath that leads to the lots to be developed in West Bath.
"In looking at the merits of that argument, I don't believe that it has any legal significance," Scully said. "... I don't think there's a conflict, and nor do I think that it's an appealable issue, but I think the city concluded that in order to essentially take the issue off the table and to eliminate any further suggestion that there's something inappropriate about that, that they should go out and bring somebody else in to handle the appeal from here forward. So that's why they brought me in."

 http://www.theforecaster.net/node/76656


 http://www.theforecaster.net/node/77614




Another 'blind' attorney covering for his fellow union member?   Do your due diligence and you will see what I mean about that question. They are very similar to a religious cult with their protection for each other.


Bath's saga continued into February of 2011 with Therriault still proclaiming that he did not have a Conflict of Interest.  Yeah right Therriault we know you for the putt's that you really are.


 http://www.theforecaster.net/node/81414


So you see Lisbon Residents, taxpayer's and The Lisbon Reporter reader's you cannot always believe what comes out of the mouths of our leaders.  We are in fact throwing away our money for legal representation that is a complete and total waste of my money.  

How about yours?

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200 arrested in Germany anti-capitalism protest

Police and demonstrators clash during an anti-capitalism rally in Frankfurt, on March 31, 2012.

Sun Apr 1, 2012 12:4AM GMT

At least 200 people have been detained and many injured in clashes between riot police and anti-capitalism protesters in Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt.

“[There have been] at least 200 arrests" and "many wounded" during the protest which was part of a European day of "action against capitalism," an event organizer said on Saturday.

"Lots of people have suffered bruising, there's at least one confirmed fracture and many people suffered from the effects of teargas used by the police," he added.

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