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We shall overcome these tough times. We can only hope that one day we can all look back on all this and it will seem funny. Wolf Douglas and BACKLINE are back with a look at the OCCUPY WALL STREET movement in New York and the recent Police crackdown. If cleanliness is next to godliness, then the Occupy Movement is a bit cleaner after Mayor Moneybags evicted the protesters from the park they have occupied for the last two months. WHACKO-TV has cleaned up its act, too.We shall overcome these tough times. We can only hope that one day we can all look... more
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It was an unusual start to a meeting, a behind the scenes, inside look at the operation behind Occupy Atlanta and their "media coordination." I was waiting to meet with Tim Franzen, the face of Atlanta's Chapter. The hallways were small, and there were written poster board signs indicating various committee rooms (Logistics Committee, Media, etc) and the floor they Occupied looked like it was in the midst of renovations.
Before we could start, the Almighty Movement of God Church wanted to address the Media group and ask Occupy to join them in a March next Tuesday. This march was to help people claim back their homes and businesses - for which had been foreclosed in the economic crisis. They would have Civil Rights leaders, Media outlets and the attention of the city, they said, They wanted Occupy Protesters to join them at the court house and stand against the banks and government, in hopes of repossessing the properties.
But what came of the meeting was more than just an announcement for another Protest. The discussion unfolded into the occurrences of Tuesday night when 52 protesters from Occupy Atlanta were arrested. Since then, Mayor Reid has insisted one of the main reasons for the arrest was a man who entered the park that day with an assault rifle slung on his back. I remember seeing him and how nervous the Tactical Peace team was with the man's presence. Others at the camp bantered the man's rights to carry it and their concern for safety.
According to Franzen and others in the room, Occupiers repeatedly attempted to inform the police that surrounded the park, outside of the metal barricades, asking them remove the man or investigate him. But Franzen said, Officers never responded to the complaints. Another young man in the room said he had talked to the gentleman and had ever learned how the gun was obtained.
The Clergy present at the meeting felt that it needed to be brought to media and the public's attention that possibly, the Mayor allowed the man to remain in the park or knew of his presence, which would show his lack of interest in protecting the people of Occupy and Civil Rights icon, Andrew Young who spoke at the park that day. The Clergy expressed concern over allowing the man with the rifle to be within yards of Young.
Ironically enough, no one ever learned the name of the man who showed up, and it is not evident whether he was ever detained or questioned.
Since Tuesday, Occupy Atlanta has regrouped and is planning further demonstrations throughout the city. Some are camping in the park again, while others are camping near the King Memorial and headquarters is being moved down the street. Their drive to move forward is impeccable, and they stand by the statement that they were wrongfully taken into custody during a peaceful protest. Most video that has popped up on the web shows protesters being dragged away silently during the raid and whether or not the public will hear their message about the man with assault rifle is yet to be determined.
(tbc)It was an unusual start to a meeting, a behind the scenes, inside look at the... more
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"Xcel was on the scene, trying to cut power to the tent city. ... Of the Occupy Denver protesters, 23 were arrested.""Xcel was on the scene, trying to cut power to the tent city. ... Of the Occupy... more
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The issue is simple: We want the president to block construction of Keystone XL, a pipeline that would carry oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta down to the Gulf of Mexico. We have, not surprisingly, concerns about potential spills and environmental degradation from construction of the pipeline. But those tar sands are also the second-largest pool of carbon in the atmosphere, behind only the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. If we tap into them in a big way, NASA climatologist James Hansen explained in a paper issued this summer, the emissions would mean it’s “essentially game over” for the climate. That’s why the executive directors of many environmental groups and 20 of the country’s leading climate scientists wrote letters asking people to head to Washington for the demonstrations. In scientific terms, it’s as close to a no-brainer as you can get.
http://tinyurl.com/4yhgpbjThe issue is simple: We want the president to block construction of Keystone XL, a... more
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"Social inequality in the UK is rampant.
There is a big difference between the higher
and the lower income earners and the gap
keeps widening. Looting is a manifestation
of greed, criminality but also a way of taking
it on the community. They feel that they should
own part of this. They have broken through the
fear of taking from their community – because
this is not their community – because there is no community.""Social inequality in the UK is rampant.
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3rd Night Rioting (Live Amature Video) Manchester Beat Down
Riots that started in London spread to several
English cities last night with widespread looting
and arson leading to scores of arrests.
As a massive police presence in the capital
appeared to quell unrest there, youths in major
cities including Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool,
Bristol, Leicester, and Wolverhampton took to the
streets robbing main-street stores and attacking officers.
A senior Manchester police official, Assistant Chief
Constable Garry Shewan, said 110 people were arrested
overnight in the city and in neighboring Salford and
that officers were already sifting through CCTV
amera images today to identify looters.3rd Night Rioting (Live Amature Video) Manchester Beat Down
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At 10 AM ET today, the hacker group Anonymous shut down the website for Orlando Florida Guide as a show of support for the homeless activist group Food Not Bombs, as members have recently been arrested for violating an Orlando ordinance that requires a permit to share food in public places. In fact, FNB’s global president Keith McHenry was arrested in Orlando as he was protesting the city’s law and the recent arrests. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/42981-anonymous-were-going-to-disney-worldAt 10 AM ET today, the hacker group Anonymous shut down the website for Orlando... more
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Over 150 people showed up in support of the rally to Ground the Drones & End the Wars. The rally was organized by the Upstate NY Coalition of various peace groups at the gate of the Hancock Air National Guard Base in DeWitt, NY, where drone program is based out of.
37 people were arrested by the Sheriff's department after they had lain themselves on the road covered with white sheets splattered with red paint on charges of trespassing and obstruction of justice.Over 150 people showed up in support of the rally to Ground the Drones & End the... more
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More than 30 people have been arrested outside a US marine base during a protest against the treatment of a detained army private accused of giving classified information to Wikileaks.
Bradley Manning is being held in solitary confinement at the Quantico base in Virginia awaiting trial on nearly two dozen charges, including aiding the enemy.
The 23-year-old former intelligence analyst is accused of handing over confidential US military and government documents to the whistleblowing website.
He is suspected of leaking a military video showing an attack on unarmed men in Iraq, war logs from Iraq and Afghanistan and more than 250,000 state department cables.
Hundreds of people joined a rally outside Quantico, chanting "Free Bradley Manning" and holding banners that read "Caution: Whistleblower Torture Zone".
Scuffles broke out when riot police tried to move demonstrators away from an intersection at the base entrance.
One of the 35 people arrested was Daniel Ellsberg, a Manning supporter who leaked the so-called Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in 1971.
The 79-year-old gave a speech at the rally and was quoted as saying: "I want Bradley Manning's courage to be contagious."
A report on the Bradley Manning Support Network website said protesters had tried to march to the Iwo Jima memorial to lay a wreath, but military officers stopped them.
In response the group began a spontaneous sit-in and refused to move, prompting local and military police to make arrests.
Colonel Thomas V Johnson, a spokesman for the Marine Corps at Quantico, said access to the memorial was denied because protest activity is not permitted on base grounds.
Earlier this month, chief state department spokesman PJ Crowley quit after he criticised the detention of Manning as "counterproductive and stupid".
When President Barack Obama was asked about the matter, he said he had been assured by the Pentagon the conditions in which the private was being held were "appropriate".]
More than 30 people have been arrested outside a US marine base during a protest... more
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As if building a strategy to arrest dangerous gangsters wasn't enough, Dade County's Special Response Team (SRT) must also plan around another common Miami enemy -- tropical storms. SRT fight to execute a search warrant before the storm can overwhelm their efforts.
Ten miles inland from the beautiful beaches of Miami are some of America's meanest streets, where drug trafficking and gang violence threaten the entire community. "SWAT: Miami-Dade" follows the men and women of Miami-Dade's Special Response Team (SRT), one of the best-trained elite police units in the world, as they use tactical precision and state-of-the-art weaponry to take down potentially deadly suspects, one mission at a time.
Watch "SWAT: Miami-Dade" on Wednesdays at 10/9c on Current TV.As if building a strategy to arrest dangerous gangsters wasn't enough, Dade... more
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Police in Denmark and Sweden said they thwarted a terrorist attack possibly hours before it was to begin Wednesday, arresting five men they say planned to shoot as many people as possible in a Copenhagen building housing the newsroom of a paper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Four suspects were arrested in the suburbs of Copenhagen, including a Tunisian, a man from Lebanon and an Iraqi asylum-seeker. A fifth suspect, a Swedish citizen of Tunisian origin, was arrested in Sweden. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service said it seized a submachine gun, a silencer and ammunition.
"An imminent terror attack has been foiled," said Jakob Scharf, head of the service. He said three of the men were arrested as they left a suburban Copenhagen apartment, "either heading out to carry out the terror attack or to do some kind of reconnaissance."
Scharf described some of the suspects as "militant Islamists with relations to international terror networks." He said more arrests were possible.
Danish intelligence said the group had been planning to enter the building where the Jyllands-Posten daily has its Copenhagen newsdesk and "to kill as many of the people present as possible."
Scharf said the assault was to have been carried out sometime before this weekend, and could have been similar to the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, that left 166 people dead.
"It is our assessment that the plan was to try to get access" to the newspaper office and "carry out a Mumbai-style attack," Scharf told reporters.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101229/ap_on_re_eu/eu_denmark_terror_arrests#mwpphu-containerCOPENHAGEN, Denmark – Police in Denmark and Sweden said they thwarted a... more
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Newly-promoted Sergeant Mark Steinkampf focuses his attention on clearing out drug dealers in the Carnegie Community Center. With constables stationed outside the property to catch drug dealers, downtown's beat force sends a message to the city: watch out. The community center is being reclaimed for safe public use.
In this gritty ten-part reality series, cameras follow the Beat Enforcement Team--a special police squad assigned to patrol an urban area suffering skyrocketing crime rates and rampant drug use. Attempting to juggle their dangerous jobs with their home lives, the officers commit to doing everything they can to clean up the dangerous streets and improve the lives of those in the community.
"The Beat" airs Mondays at 8/7c on Current TV.Newly-promoted Sergeant Mark Steinkampf focuses his attention on clearing out drug... more
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In this scene from "Marijuana Wars, Part 1," Vanguard executive producer and correspondent Adam Yamaguchi embeds with MAVMIT, an elite task force that hikes into the California wilderness in search of marijuana grow sites operated by Mexican drug trafficking organizations.
California has become one of the leading producers of marijuana in the world--most of it produced by Mexican drug trafficking organizations. And the proceeds from marijuana have become a cash cow for traffickers, generating greater profits than cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin combined.
"Marijuana Wars Part 1" premieres Monday, November 22 at 9/8c on Current TV.
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Mondays at 9/8c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In this scene from "Marijuana Wars, Part 1," Vanguard executive producer and... more
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Concerns raised on antiterror net; 34 immigrants allegedly illegal
Federal officials have arrested dozens of alleged illegal immigrants connected to a flight school in Stow, including the school’s owner and students who received US government clearance to train as pilots despite strict security controls put into place after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The arrests of 34 Brazilian nationals that began in July and concluded quietly last month raise troubling new questions about possible holes in the government’s antiterrorism security net, which bans illegal immigrants from taking flight lessons and requires background checks on any foreigner training to fly in the United States.
No link to terrorism has been found in connection with the Stow flight school, TJ Aviation Flight Academy at Minute Man Air Field, 30 miles northwest of Boston, US immigration officials said.
All the arrested immigrants, who were learning to fly small single-engine planes, are free pending deportation hearings in federal immigration court, immigration officials said.
But the episode may have exposed problems in the Transportation Security Administration’s ability to make sure the only foreign students allowed to attend flight school are, as its website states, “properly checked, legal aliens.’’
That mandate stems from a 2004 order that TSA check all foreign flight students against terrorism, criminal and immigration databases after authorities discovered that several of the men who hijacked the airplanes used in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had received flight training in the United States.
TSA has faced questions before about its effectiveness in carrying out the order. In 2008 ABC News reported that thousands of foreign nationals were obtaining pilot’s licenses without the proper paperwork.
Officials at TSA and the Federal Aviation Administration, which issues pilot’s licenses, could not explain this week why alleged illegal immigrants were allowed to take classes and obtain pilot’s licenses in Stow.
TSA officials said they are conducting a review of the circumstances by which the immigrants obtained pilot’s licenses. Officials would not say how many students received clearance to fly and how many ultimately obtained pilot’s licenses.
However, TSA officials said they check the backgrounds of all foreign flight students and routinely check pilot’s licenses against terrorism watch lists.
“TSA performs a thorough background check on each applicant at the time of application to include terrorism and other watch list matching, criminal history, and checking for available disqualifying immigration information,’’ spokeswoman Ann Davis said in a statement. “There is currently a review ongoing into the circumstances by which these individuals were issued pilots’ licenses.’’
Among those arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are the school’s owner, Thiago DeJesus, a 26-year-old Brazilian immigrant who holds a license to fly single-engine airplanes and who was charged in July with being in the United States illegally, federal officials said. DeJesus continued to give flying lessons this week.
FAA spokeswoman Laura J. Brown confirmed that DeJesus is a licensed pilot and flight instructor but would not comment on the fact that his school is still open because the agency is investigating what she called safety issues in connection with the school. She declined to elaborate.
“We have an ongoing investigation,’’ she said.
Thousands of foreign pilots train in the United States every year because of the high quality and relatively low cost.
Foreigners who wish to take flight lessons must first register online with TSA and provide biographical information that the agency uses to determine if they are on terrorism watch lists, have criminal histories, or any disqualifying immigration information. Students are also fingerprinted and pay a fee.
Most applicants come from outside the country, said TSA spokesman Greg Soule.
Soule said TSA checks immigration information when prospective students apply. The agency does not follow up in every case to ensure that those who take classes obtain the necessary immigration documents.
Students must also show their passports and visas to their flight instructor, who must keep copies on file. TSA inspectors conduct unannounced audits to ensure that the records are in order.
By contrast, the FAA does not have any responsibility for checking the immigration status of flight students or pilots, Brown said. The agency’s role is to ensure that pilots have completed proper training before they receive a pilot’s license, she said.
This week, TJ Aviation Flight Academy remained open for business, teaching students on Cessna and other single-engine airplanes at the air field off a quiet country road in this small town of about 6,000 people.
DeJesus, owner of TJ Aviation, denied in an interview that he is in the country illegally. He said he came to the country at age 16 from southern Brazil and is a legal resident. He declined to provide proof of residency.
Kathryn Mattingly, a federal immigration court spokeswoman, said DeJesus was accused in July of being in the United States illegally. He is scheduled for a deportation hearing in Boston in February.
FAA records show that DeJesus has a valid pilot’s license to fly single-engine airplanes and to teach flying. He registered TJ Aviation Inc. with the Massachusetts secretary of state in 2008 and said he has been teaching flying for two years.
DeJesus said that all of his foreign students obtained TSA approval before he allowed them to take classes, as the law requires, and that he did not know that they were in the country illegally. The students paid $165 an hour for the lessons, he said.
“It’s something that [TSA] approved in the first place,’’ said DeJesus. “Every student that we had went to the TSA, and TSA approved them.’’
Last month, he said, the TSA sent him an e-mail revoking approval for many of the students. Around the same time, he said, federal immigration agents arrested many of those same students for deportation.
He said he had followed the rules and pointed out that federal officials have allowed his flight school to remain open.
“You think if we did something wrong, we’d still be open as a flight school?’’ he asked.
He said many students hope to earn their pilot’s licenses to get better jobs in their native Brazil.
“In Brazil, being a pilot is almost like being a doctor,’’ said DeJesus, who speaks fluent English. “These are honest people. . . . They just want a better future.’’
William Joyce, a Boston-based immigration lawyer who is representing a few of TJ Aviation’s former students, said many of his clients felt betrayed by DeJesus. He said they wanted to take flying lessons but did not realize that they would be exposed to immigration checks. The assumption is perhaps naive, he said, since illegal immigrants are not even eligible for driver’s licenses in Massachusetts.
“All I know is this: these people are in big trouble,’’ Joyce said.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/11/05/flight_school_arrests_raise_terrorism_fears/Concerns raised on antiterror net; 34 immigrants allegedly illegal
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Police in the Russian capital Moscow have broken up a small protest by campaigners against Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's stance on gay rights.
At least eight protesters were arrested when police moved in to disperse the rally outside the mayor's office.
Among them was Russia's best-known gay rights campaigner, Nikolai Alexeyev, who accused security agents of abducting him last week.
There was no official comment on his allegations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11385596Police in the Russian capital Moscow have broken up a small protest by campaigners... more
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An American nuclear scientist and his wife were arrested yesterday, accused of conspiring to sell atomic secrets to Venezuela after allegedly being caught in an FBI sting by an agent posing as a representative of the Venezuelan government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/18/fbi-sting-venezuelaAn American nuclear scientist and his wife were arrested yesterday, accused of... more
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BBC is reporting the breaking news on five men who were arrested by counter terrorism units after the officers received intelligence to a threat to the Pope.
"The five men are 26, 27, 36, 40 and 50 years old. They were arrested in an armed operation at business premises where searches are continuing.
Residential premises in north and east London are also being searched. Officers have not found any hazardous items. "-BBC
Searches continue while the five men have been moved to a London police station.BBC is reporting the breaking news on five men who were arrested by counter terrorism... more
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