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Corruption in high places is rampant in France: French 'supercop' arrested on suspicion of colluding with drugs barons

Angelique Chrisafis
The Guardian
Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:44 UTC
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Corruption in high places: Michel Neyret of the Lyon Police force.
Lyon's deputy police chief suspected of compensating informants with batches of confiscated drugs and working with criminals

The French police force has been shaken by what could become its biggest corruption scandal in decades after Lyon's deputy police chief, nicknamed "Supercop" for his fight against drugs, was arrested on suspicion of colluding with international drugs barons.

Michel Neyret, 55, the bouffant-haired and charismatic Lyon detective, was arrested at home along with his wife and is being held in custody.

He is suspected of having compensated informants with batches of confiscated drugs; police claim that Nyret then worked with the criminals to resell the products. He is being questioned about corruption, international drugs trafficking and money-laundering.

Neyret, however, is regarded as a hero for his success in cutting drug crime and stopping jewellery heists in the Lyon area. He had appeared regularly in the media to talk about Lyon's success in busting crime; he was also a script adviser on a recent feature film about Lyon gang crime.

Comment: This is the kind of police force that is "investigating" SOTT/QFG?

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Vader

Absence of Evidence: The Progressive Policy of Imperial Murder

Christopher Floyd
Empire Burlesque
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:54 UTC
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Aftermath of unmanned US drone strike in Pakistan
The president of the United States murdered two American citizens this morning. He had some nameless functionary -- who was sitting comfortably and safely at a computer console somewhere on a well-guarded, probably secret military base -- push a button. A missile was then fired from a robot drone buzzing maleovently in the sky over Yemen. The missile then murdered two American citizens who -- let it be carefully noted -- had not even been charged with a crime, much less tried and convicted in a court of law of any offense.

The New York Times story on the murders relates a number of accusations against the chief target of the attack, Anwar al-Awlaki. Assertions are made, mostly by anonymous officials, that al-Awlaki was "operationally" involved in terrorist plots, although not a shred of evidence for this "operational" involvement has been offered. (Another American, Samir Khan, was also reported to have been killed in the drone hit. It goes without saying that Khan had also not been charged with any crime nor was there any evidence that he ever took part in a terrorist operation.)

It is true that the two American citizens murdered by the president did engage in a great deal of fiery rhetoric urging violent uprising against the American state. This might not be very nice -- but it does happen to be protected speech under the Constitution of the United States. Of course, that quaint document from the horse-and-buggy era has long since ceased to apply, even fitfully and imperfectly, to the operations of the United States government.
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Che Guevara

Martial Law and the Authoritarian Follower

Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:00 UTC
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On the 22nd of September, Ark and I were on the road to Marseille where he was scheduled on the 23rd to give a seminar at Luminy for a select group of French scientists. The expenses for our trip were covered by the French University system. Thus, it was particularly ironic to receive a phone call from my children telling me that convocations from the Police Judiciaire in Toulouse had just been delivered by the local police (most of whom know us and can't figure out what is up with those people in Toulouse - but they do their jobs). Needless to say, this was disturbing. But, our trip wasn't entirely spoiled because we had a good time meeting with Ark's colleagues and telling them about the witch-hunt over dinner.

Monday morning of this week, I received two books in the mail from a professor of psychology in Montenegro (educated in the U.S.) which had been rudely torn open, and stapled shut. The next day, a package from Germany, sent to me, but for my daughter, containing a set of coloring markers, had similarly been ripped open and barely re-closed. The following day, a letter from my insurance company arrived having been slit open, and then taped shut at the top. Today, a package sent from a friend containing sheep's butter had been opened...
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Bell

Can U.S. legally kill a citizen overseas without due process?

Pete Williams
MSNBC
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:51 UTC
Is it legal for the federal government to kill a U.S. citizen overseas, someone who has never been charged or convicted of a crime? Civil liberties groups are condemning the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, but many legal scholars say it is justified.

No U.S. court has ever weighed in on the question, because judges consider these sorts of issues exclusively matters for the president.

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Canada-U.S. border-patrolling aircraft hunt 'bad people doing bad things'


The Globe and Mail
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:52 UTC
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© Paul Koring/The Globe and Mail
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has used these unmanned aircraft to monitor the 49th parallel since 2009
Unmanned aircraft fly the skies south of the 49th parallel in an effort to bolster border security

The unmanned planes look north toward the long, lightly defended and admittedly porous Canada-U.S. border - the best route many Americans believe for jihadists seeking to attack the United States to sneak across.

Like their missile-carrying military cousins prowling Pakistan's skies targeting al-Qaeda suspects, the unarmed Predator aircraft that have patrolled the 49th parallel since 2009 are high-tech, sophisticated and little understood. And they are part of the same diffuse and determined effort the Unites States is making to secure its borders and defend itself.

"We're here to protect the nation from bad people doing bad things," says John Priddy, U.S. National Air Security Operations director for the Customs and Border Protection's Office of Air and Marine. He heads the Predator operation guarding American's northern airspace.

Comment: Since terrorism is the fabricated lie spread by the US war-mongers in order to advance their tactics of invading other countries and confiscating their natural resources (of which Canada has in abundance still) it is only natural to conclude that the Predators (interesting name, no?) are there to invade Canadian privacy, no matter what the "reassurances" are from the US side of the fence.

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Brick Wall

U.S. Mulls Canadian Border Fence


CBC News
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:54 UTC
US Canadian border
© Jennifer DeMonte/Daily Inter Lake/Associated Press
A 12-metre swath cut through the forest defines the border between Canada and the U.S. north of Polebridge, Mont.
The United States is looking at building fences along the border with Canada to help keep out terrorists and other criminals, according to a draft report by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency

The report proposes the use of "fencing and other barriers" on the 49th parallel to manage "trouble spots where passage of cross-border violators is difficult to control."

But a spokesperson for U.S Customs and Border Protection said the government is not considering the fence option "at this time" and instead is looking at the environmental effects of putting more manpower, technology and infrastructure along the border.

The border service is also pondering options including a beefed-up technological presence through increased use of radar, sensors, cameras, drones and vehicle scanners. In addition, it might continue to improve or expand customs facilities at ports of entry.
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War Whore

Radical American cleric al-Awlaki killed in Yemen, officials say


NBC News
Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:30 UTC
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Anwar al-Awlaki was implicated in a botched attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound plane at Christmastime in 2009.
Sanaa, Yemen - Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born radical cleric linked to al-Qaida who led an organization labeled as one of the most serious threats to U.S. security, was killed by an airstrike in Yemen Friday, according to the country's defense ministry and U.S. officials.

Two U.S. officials told Reuters that it was a CIA drone strike that killed al-Awlaki. A source in Yemen told NBC News' Richard Engel that three missed drone attacks targeted al-Awlaki in the past month.

"The terrorist ... has been killed along with some of his companions," the Yemen defense ministry said in a statement sent by text message to journalists earlier Friday, Reuters reported.

The Yemen Defense Ministry also announced Friday that another American in al-Qaida, Samir Khan, was killed with al-Awlaki.

A Yemeni security official told Reuters that al-Awlaki, who is of Yemeni descent, was hit in a Friday morning air raid in the northern al-Jawf province that borders oil giant Saudi Arabia.

He said four others killed with him were suspected al-Qaida members.

NBC News reported that U.S. officials had confirmed that an unmanned American drone had launched the airstrike. A U.S. drone aircraft targeted but missed him in May.

Comment: The U.S., as it has been, is able to be Judge, Jury and Executioner of people who are merely Suspects.

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Whistle

COINTELPRO: Pied piper Charlie Veitch pulls a 9/11 U-turn, says people who disbelieve official story are part of 'paranoid cult'

Federal Jack
federaljack.com
Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:21 UTC
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Another pied piper with a bullhorn reveals its true colours...
Back in 2008, while at Harvard Law School, Cass Sunstein co-wrote a paper titled "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures" proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and "independent" advocates to "cognitively infiltrate" online groups and websites, as well as other activist groups that have "anti-government conspiracy theories" and his primary target is the 9/11 Truth Movement. Cass Sunstein now works for the Obama Administration. This brings us back to today. The founder of the Love Police Charlie Veitch has released a new video where he says he no longer believes 9/11 was an inside job.

In this new video, made just 11 days after Charlie attended an event his girlfriend helped organize, that brought Richard Gage from AE911Truth to Cambridge University, we see and hear Charlie say after 5 years he has changed his mind and he doesn't think 9/11 was an inside job. He thinks the Government was caught with "their pants around their ankles" just like the official conspiracy theory. Along with the video Charlie included a brief description:
My anarchism and libertarian mindset has strengthened.

So I've spent 5 years listening to the conspiratorial view - then I got the opportunity to grill the historical/accidental view of 9/11 proponents.

Where I stand now is that America's defenses got caught with their pants around their ankles. I do not think there was high level evil complicity in the events of that day. Yes, I have changed my mind.

To change one's mind when presented with evidence that contradicts one's mind, is to be scientific, logical and rational. The CIA fucked up. No-one got fired. Condi Rice lied to the commission. Bush and Cheney would not testify under oath. No-one wants to take the blame for the incompetence that killed over 3,000 people.
So to be clear Charlie is filming his own TV show and he suddenly decides after 5 years that 9/11 was just as the government said it was all along. Does anyone else smell bullshit?! Another truth seeker and radio host MistrBrit has confirmed by calling Charlie directly, that this is not a joke or a test of some sort.


Comment: Perhaps we should not be so disappointed by this truthseeker's™ auto-suspension of his critical faculties and apparent conversion experience. Charlie Veitch's ardent beliefs in anarchism and his involvement with inciting protests in the UK and elsewhere (along with his home movie escapades where he has others film him goading police and other right-wing authoritarians into arresting him) meant that he would always wind up supporting the global Zionist agenda for World Revolution and totalitarian control by, for and of psychopaths.

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Cult

Warren Jeffs, President of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, told child brides God would 'reject them' before raping them by baptism pool

Paul Bentley & Rachel Quigley
Daily Mail
Tue, 09 Aug 2011 06:34 UTC
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Chained: Warren Jeffs arriving at court today, where a twisted tape of sexual instructions he gave his child brides was played to shocked jurors
Court hears he was involved in 550 bigamous marriages including 67 that involved under-age girls
  • Horrific tape of Jeffs instructing child brides how to please him sexually played
  • Tells them God will reject them if they refuse to have sex with them
  • Comes after Jeffs' nephew told jurors he was abused by his uncle aged five
  • Shocking pictures also showed Jeffs kissing two child brides
  • Jeffs walked out of court in protest demanding to be set free after sentencing
  • Psychologist tells court cult leader groomed children like a 'paedophile'
Jurors at the Warren Jeffs trial broke down in court today as they were played a chilling tape of the notorious polygamist instructing his child brides how to service him sexually and threatening that God would 'reject them' if they refused to have sex with him.

Softly telling five girls to 'set aside all your inhibitions', the convicted paedophile was heard giving the young girls detailed pointers during a graphic ten-minute tape played for the Texas jury.

The audiotape from 2004 was played before another, made within hours of the first, in which prosecutors say Jeffs can be heard having sex with all the girls at the same time.

In one tape, he is heard telling the girls they 'need to be excited'. Jurors also heard him tell the girls that if they refused him in what he has dubbed the 'heavenly sessions', they would be 'rejected by God'.
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Crusader

No sects please, we're French


France 24
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00 UTC
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In France, controversy has long surrounded the existence of religious sects. But are all movements as dangerous as the country's sect watchdog claims?

In Feb. 2008, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's chief of staff Emmanuelle Mignon declared in an interview that religious sects were "not a problem" in France. This statement by the presidential advisor sparked a major controversy in the country.

Days after Mignon's controversial declaration, the French government rallied around Prime Minister François Fillon to stress that "sectarian activities are inadmissible and unacceptable" in France, and should be "fought against". To put a lid on what remains a highly a sensitive issue in France, Sarkozy declared that he had never displayed "the slightest leniency" toward sects.

Following his declaration, the French press reminded readers of Scientologist Tom Cruise's meeting with then-Finance Minister Sarkozy in 2004. Their allusion was carefully chosen, as Scientology has been dominating French discussions of sects in recent months.


Comment: Eventually in September 2009, a month before the ruling in the Scientology trial was expected, France passed a law under which it would be no longer possible to punish a fraudulent organisation with dissolution.

See also here.
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