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Alabama police look to drones to monitor college campus


RT
Sat, 11 May 2013 14:21 UTC
University of Alabama at Hunstville
University of Alabama at Hunstville
Officials at an Alabama university have divulged a new plan to use unmanned aerial devices to help police monitor, and supposedly protect, students on campus.

Law enforcement officials unveiled the plan Wednesday at a press conference at the University of Alabama Huntsville, telling the Huntsville Times the aircraft would provide an "eye in the sky" that could help stop a mass shooting on campus.

Gary Maddux, the lead research director of Systems Management and Productions Center, said that because the remote-controlled surveillance devices fly at a lower altitude than drones, they are totally unlike the controversial military aircraft.

"We just want to be able to make a difference and we want to make a difference quickly and come up with something to help law enforcement," he said. "That's what it's all about - improving our response times so maybe we could mitigate the next tragedy that could occur."

Maddux did not specify how the surveillance technology will prevent criminal activity or improve campus police response time. He did add, however, that the drones will "be incredibly useful and offer a wide range of possible applications."
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Stormtrooper

Cops beat woman for filming another beating "You want to film something b**ch? Film this!"


AlterNet
Fri, 10 May 2013 13:54 UTC
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Baltimore - Makia Smith sued the Baltimore Police Department, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and police Officers Nathan Church, William Pilkerton, Jr., Nathan Ulmer and Kenneth Campbell in Federal Court.

Smith claims she was stuck in stand-still rush hour traffic in northern Baltimore when she saw the defendant officers beating up and arresting a young man.

She says pulled out her camera, stood on her car's door sill and filmed the beating.

"Officer Church saw plaintiff filming the beating and ran at her," the complaint states. "He scared her and she sat back in her vehicle. As he ran at her, he yelled, 'You want to film something bitch? Film this!'
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Bad Guys

Stealing Syria's oil: The EU/Al-Qaeda oil consortium


Dissident Voice
Sat, 04 May 2013 12:01 UTC
Syria Oil
© ALICE Martins/AFP/Getty ImagesA picture taken on April 15, 2013 shows a Syrian man in the Al Raqqa countryside, who until three months ago was a farmer, pouring crude oil brought from Deir Ezzor province into a pit where it will be distilled as part of the refining process to produce fuel.
The decision of the European Union to lift the embargo on Syrian government's energy exports by importing oil from the 'armed opposition' is another flagrant violation of international law. It violates the UN General Assembly declaration of 1962 on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and is yet another violation of the 1981 UN declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention and Interference in the Internal Affairs of States. But it is much more than a technical violation of the law. It marks the decent of civilization into barbarism.

London and Paris, have more than Washington, been at the forefront of aggression against Syria. In spite of the fact that it has now been confirmed by most media sources that the Syrian 'opposition' is Al-Qaeda, London and Paris persist in their insane drive to arm the terrorists, using the spurious argument that if they don't arm the 'moderates' the 'extremists' will take over the country. However, in the words of the New York Times, 'nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of'. The fact that the Syrian 'rebels' are, in fact, Al-Qaeda has even been admitted by the war-mongering French daily Le Monde. So, Paris and London are pushing for further arming of Al-Qaeda and the legalization of oil trading with the jihadi terrorists. In plain language this means that the loose, terrorist network known to the world as Al-Qaeda will soon become one of the EU's partners in the oil business. A new absurd chapter in the Era of Terror is about to be enacted.
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Chess

Russian airbase in Belarus no threat to Europe - Lavrov


RIA Novosti
Fri, 10 May 2013 05:24 UTC
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© RIA Novosti / Eduard PesovSergei Lavrov, Radoslaw Sikorski and Guido Westerwelle in Warsaw
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday the possible establishment of a Russian airbase in Belarus should not be seen as a response to US missile defense plans in Europe.

"I see no reasons to worry about this issue," Lavrov said at a press conference with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski in Warsaw.

The foreign minister said Russia and Belarus are a "unified military space," adding: "No matter if there are Belarusian or Russian planes there, nothing will change... We are protecting our border [the border of the Union State of Russia and Belarus]."
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"Welcome to America: All phone calls are now being recorded"


Moxnews.com / Youtube
Wed, 08 May 2013 05:19 UTC
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Chess

Russia, UK have common interest in stabilizing Syria - Putin


RIA Novosti
Fri, 10 May 2013 15:57 UTC
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© RIA Novosti / Sergei GuneevBritish Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian President Vladimir Putin
Russia and the United Kingdom have common interest in preserving Syria's territorial integrity and sovereignty, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron.

The UK premier arrived in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi on Friday to discuss a wide range of issues, although it is expected that Syria, which has been one particular area of policy divergence between the two countries, is likely to top the agenda.

Putin said at talks, which were initiated by Cameron, the sides discussed the options for a positive development of a situation in Syria and also "a number of joint steps" to settle the ongoing crisis.

The Russian leader said Moscow and London have "common interest in a speedy end to the violence, the launch of a peace process and the preservation of Syria's territorial integrity and sovereignty."
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Video: Mass surveillance on rise in US after Boston attack


Russia Today
Fri, 10 May 2013 04:14 UTC
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Stormtrooper

California deputies seize phones after beating man to death

Carlos Miller
Photography is Not a crime
Fri, 10 May 2013 15:00 UTC
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Law enforcement authorities in California beat a man to death with their batons before seizing at least two cell phones from witnesses who captured the incident on video.

One of the phones was seized without a warrant. The second phone was seized with a warrant but only because a family lawyer had arrived on the scene.

It doesn't appear as if the lawyer had any sense to download the video before the phone was seized.

Or more likely, Kern County sheriff deputies would not allow it.
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Question

Roger Stone: LBJ had Kennedy killed

Patrick Howley
The Daily Caller
Fri, 10 May 2013 03:39 UTC
JFK & Jackie
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Legendary Republican operative Roger Stone claims in his new book that Lyndon Johnson arranged John F. Kennedy's assassination, and that Richard Nixon and Johnson had a documented relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald's killer, Jack Ruby, years before Ruby shot Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters in 1963.

Stone, who worked for Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972 and later served in the Nixon administration, claims in his forthcoming book that Johnson, then a congressman, instructed Richard Nixon, then a congressman, to hire Ruby on the House of Representatives payroll in 1947.

Stone also claimed that Johnson "micro-managed" Kennedy's Dallas motorcade, demanding that it pass through Dealy Plaza on November 22, 1963, when Oswald, from his perch in an overlooking book depository building, shot Kennedy.
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Bad Guys

Unstoppable greed: Shell presses ahead with world's deepest offshore oil well

Simon Goodley
The Guardian
Wed, 08 May 2013 16:01 UTC
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© Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images'We will continue our leadership in safe, innovative deepwater operations,' said executive vice-president John Hollowell.
Company will drill almost two miles underwater in Gulf of Mexico as part of next generation of deep-water developments

Royal Dutch Shell is pressing ahead with the world's deepest offshore oil and gas production facility by drilling almost two miles underwater in the politically sensitive Gulf of Mexico.

The move is being viewed in the oil industry as a demonstration of Shell's confidence that its technology can deliver returns on expensive and risky offshore projects, despite a recent downturn in oil prices.

It comes a day after ExxonMobil said it would start work on a $4bn (£2.6bn) project to develop the Julia oilfield, also in the North American ocean basin, and weeks after BP delayed development of its biggest Gulf of Mexico project - Mad Dog Phase 2 - citing rising costs.

John Hollowell, a Shell executive vice-president, said: "This important investment demonstrates our ongoing commitment to usher in the next generation of deepwater developments, which will deliver more production growth in the Americas. We will continue our leadership in safe, innovative deepwater operations to help meet the growing demand for energy in the US."

The move comes despite ongoing controversy over offshore exploration - especially in the Gulf of Mexico, where in April 2010 a fire and explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 workers and started a leak that took three months to cap. Last month BP said it had paid $25bn (£16bn) of the $42bn it has set aside to cover the damage caused by the spill.
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