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Shades of Minority Report: Pennsylvania to become the first state to use precrime assessments in sentencing

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 21:25 UTC
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Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant's past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the future.

Pennsylvania is on the verge of becoming one of the first states in the country to base criminal sentences not only on what crimes people have been convicted of, but also on whether they are deemed likely to commit additional crimes. As early as next year, judges there could receive statistically derived tools known as risk assessments to help them decide how much prison time — if any — to assign.

- From the Five Thirty Eight article: Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven't Been Committed Yet?
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Eggs Fried

Papers, please! Mandatory registration for backyard chickens in North Carolina

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 20:15 UTC
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There isn't much that feels more self-reliant than going out to your backyard hen house to get fresh eggs for breakfast. There's no need for USDA approval, you know what your hens have been eating, and you don't have to pay a premium price and hope that the farm who raised the chickens that laid those grocery store eggs actually treated the hens humanely. Bonus points if the bacon you fry up comes from a local farm, and bonus BONUS points if you raised that little piggie yourself. Raising backyard chickens is incredibly rewarding.

It's pure freedom, this control over your own food.

Of course, until you have to register your chickens. Then, as food freedom activist Joel Salatin says, "Everything I want to do is illegal."

With so many people moving towards self-reliance, you had to know it was only a matter of time before the government got involved.

And now they have. But don't worry, it's all for your own good.

Comment: The state will not rest until the minutia of everyday life is registered, tracked, monitored, recorded and ultimately, controlled.

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Hatchet-wielding shooter attacks moviegoers with pepper-spray at theater in Nashville, shooter reported dead


RT
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:32 UTC
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A man reportedly armed with a hatchet and a gun attacked a movie theater in a Nashville suburb during the showing of 'Mad Max: Fury Road', pepper-spraying the audience before being gunned down by the police.

Nashville police said that a SWAT team responded to an active shooter situation on Wednesday afternoon at the Carmike Hickory 8 theater in the 900 block of Bell Road in Antioch, Tennessee.

It is unclear whether the suspected shooter was killed by a police officer who helped evacuate the theater, or by the SWAT team that responded to the emergency. His dead body was found inside the theater after the SWAT secured the building.
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Red Flag

Church bombings rattle New Mexico town


RT
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:55 UTC
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Residents of the New Mexico town of Las Cruces are on the edge after blasts at two churches on Sunday. Although nobody was hurt, officials are looking into a possible link between the incident and last month's Charleston church shooting.

The first explosion occurred about 8:20am in a mailbox near the entrance to Calvary Baptist Church, on the south side of the city.

"It was in a mailbox that exploded completely," said Dennis Llewellyn, a former Marine who was handing out pamphlets at Calvary Baptist before the service. He compared the sound of the blast to a Claymore landmine.

"The mailbox was completely opened up and twisted and blown apart. It just obliterated everything. If anyone was in front of it, it would have killed them" Llewellyn said.

The second blast came twenty minutes later at the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, some 3.5 miles away. A trash bin outside the church exploded during the Communion service.

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Police state USA: Alabama cop plans to kill a man, gets caught on tape, and keeps his job


RT
Wed, 05 Aug 2015 15:22 UTC
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Police brutality is almost always rewarded in America
An Alabama officer gets to keep his job after being caught contemplating the murder of a black man and skewing the evidence to make it look like 'self-defense'. The case was settled out of court. But the audio recording made it out.

Officer Troy Middlebrooks was heard on tape suggesting the killing of Vincent Bias - a man recently released on bail for drug-related offenses - then advocating playing it off as self-defense.

The Guardian managed to obtain a copy of the audio recording. The potential victim and Middlebrooks had apparently been at odds over an earlier run-in by Bias with police. The officer can be made out trying to concoct a plan to frame the man, because "we know he did it... we just don't have the proof."

Comment: An interaction with a police officer, and the "justice system" in general, is a very dangerous thing in the US. Check out:

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Ferguson one year later: The Department of Justice Report and the terror war against blacks in the US

Abayomi Azikiwe
Global Research
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 00:00 UTC
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A Department of Justice (DOJ) study completed earlier this year and released to the press has been published in paperback book form. Entitled "The Ferguson Report", this 173-page study shows clearly the systematic denial of fundamental civil rights to African Americans in St. Louis County, Missouri.

Utilizing internal communications among law-enforcement personnel and the courts, the study makes a strong case for holding the authorities criminally liable for their premeditated plans to exploit and socially control African Americans through unwarranted stops, excessive fines and jail sentences.

According to Theodore M. Shaw—Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina—in the introduction to the report, surmised that the DOJ conducted the study to unravel the political and economic context under which the developments in the aftermath of the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Even though the white police officer Darren Wilson who killed Brown was not criminally indicted, in the overall context the City of Ferguson, Missouri, the municipality stands guilty for its illegal nationally oppressive and racial discriminatory policies conducted through its daily interactions with its African-American residents.

Comment: Whatever form an organized response takes to the growing incarceration, abuse, terrorizing and murder of blacks in the US, one would do well to remember that there are very powerful groups involved in working to steer such efforts, subvert it, and ultimately, cunningly, negate the work of good people with conscience. But this doesn't mean that they shouldn't try.

See also:

Color Revolution in Amerika? Ferguson activists were paid to protest with Soros money

US: Soros Is Attempting to Take Over "Occupy America" Movement

"Color Revolution" in the U.S.? Many questions about the handling of the Baltimore riots

George Soros: The hidden hand behind 'color revolutions'

The murder of Sandra Bland and America's 'color revolution'

and:

America's escalating race war: Who benefits from a mind-controlled Charleston shooter?

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Alarm Clock

Is something coming in September? Why are so many people storing food and supplies?

Michael Snyder
End of The American Dream
Sun, 02 Aug 2015 00:00 UTC
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Have you noticed that there is a tremendous amount of Internet buzz about the month of September 2015? Never before have I seen so much speculation about what would happen in one particular month. Some people believe that we will see an economic collapse next month, others believe that there will be some sort of historic natural disaster, and others are convinced that the judgment of God is coming. So right now, large numbers of Americans are stocking up on emergency food and supplies like crazy. Personally, I have never been more concerned about any period of time as I am about the last six months of 2015. Several weeks ago, I expressed my belief that chaos will begin once the summer ends. These are the last days of "normal life" in America, and just about everything that we currently take for granted is about to be shaken.

A lot of people that I know have been storing up food and supplies like never before, but I didn't realize how widespread this phenomenon was until I came across the following Natural News report...

Comment: Whether the start to more dramatic changes begins in September, or after, there are so many destabilizing events in the offing that it would be foolish to not try and prepare ourselves for their coming.
Matthew 25New King James Version (NKJV)The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

25 "Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish.3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

6 "And at midnight a cry was heard: 'Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!' 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' 9 But the wise answered, saying, 'No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.' 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.

11 "Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' 12 But he answered and said, 'Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.'

13 "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour" in which the Son of Man is coming.


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Arizona man decapitates wife to 'get the evil out of her' - kills dogs, mutilates himself

David Schwartz
Yahoo! News
Tue, 04 Aug 2015 04:44 UTC
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Kenneth Dale Wakefield
An Arizona man who admitted to decapitating his wife and her two dogs in a bloody incident last month in Phoenix told authorities he was attempting "to get the evil out" of her, according to court documents released on Monday.

Kenneth Dale Wakefield, 43, also told police that he had smoked marijuana and the designer drug Spice about an hour before the gruesome killings in a Phoenix apartment on the morning of July 25, the documents showed.

Wakefield, a transient with a history of mental illness who also maimed himself in the incident, was booked into a Maricopa County jail Aug. 1 on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of animal cruelty after being released from a local hospital. He is being held on $2 million bond.

In court papers, police said Wakefield told them during an interview that he stabbed his 49-year-old wife, Trina Heisch, multiple times before decapitating her, and killed the dogs by cutting their heads off.

"He said he was trying to get the evil out of Trina," police said in a probable cause statement filed in Maricopa County Superior Court.
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Denver activist charged with multiple felonies for informing jurors of their rights

Carey Wedler
The AntiMedia
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:46 UTC
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Last week, a Denver man was arrested and charged with multiple felonies, but not for stealing, committing fraud, or engaging in violent crime. He was targeted for attempting to educate jurors about their rights in the courtroom.

Mark Ianicelli, 56, set up a table outside of Lindsay-Flanigan Courthouse in Denver in order to educate jurors about jury nullification. Jury nullification is the process by which members of juries can nullify unjust laws by finding defendants charged with them not guilty.

Ianicelli is charged with tampering with a jury, a felony in Colorado that carries a minimum bond of $5,000. He was charged by the Denver District Attorney for seven counts of tampering, and has since bailed out of jail. Ianicelli was in the second day of a planned three-day outreach to educate jurors entering the courtroom about the power of jury nullification. He was handing out fliers when he was arrested. His goal was to inform potential jurors about a vital, centuries-old function of juries.

Comment: There is a precedent for this outrageous breach of justice: US: The Judicial Crackdown on Jury Rights Activists in Florida
The judge is claiming that FIJA activists are trying "to influence summoned jurors as they enter the courthouse" by handing them brochures. (Actually, the brochures are handed out to all who enter or leave the courthouse.) The brochures don't tell jurors how to vote on specific cases they merely inform them of one of their options. Sadly, the judge's view is that "Such occurrences severely impact the court's ability to conduct the efficient, prompt, and proper administration of justice"". Therefore, stopping the FIJA activists' exercise of free speech ""is necessary to serve the State's compelling interest in protecting the integrity of the jury system"". With this Orwellian statement judge Perry has given himself away. What could possibly be more conducive to ""protecting the integrity of the jury system"" than informing juries of one of their powers? Does the judge not want to see the jury system working as it should, as a check on tyrannical government? It would seem not, otherwise he would welcome the FIJA activists educational efforts at his court. Obviously, the judge likes his juries obedient and easily manipulated.
Welcome to the kangaroo court system where ignorance rules.

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The real election issues: Where candidates fear to tread

James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler.com
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00 UTC
faded American flag
That the snarkier circles of political commentary thrill to the elephantine bellowings of Donald J. Trump only shows the pathetic limitations of the snarkists. They enjoy Trump's filterless mouth, his harsh goadings of the other presidential wannabes, and his supposed telepathic empathy for the suffering public outside the magic kingdom of DC.

Trump has one legitimate issue, immigration, plus a brief against the general incompetence of professional politicians, and a pocketful of grandiose claims about his majestic skills in business and deal-making. As business goes in this huckster's paradise, being a real estate developer is perhaps one click above being a car-dealer, and the fact that some of Trump's artful deals end up in bankruptcy court might argue against his self-proclaimed mastery. Hence, his relegation to the clown category.

What Trump represents most vividly in this moment of history is the astounding lack of seriousness among people who pretend to be political heavyweights. No one so far, including the lovable Bernie Sanders, has nailed a proper bill of grievances to the White House gate. A broad roster of dire issues facing this society ought to be self-evident. But since they are absent so far in the public discussion, here is my list of matters that serious candidates should dare to talk about (all things that a sitting president could take action on):

Comment: Don't hold your breath waiting for a candidate to address the real issues facing the United States and the American people. The corruption, rot and insidious nature of the US government and subsequent budding police state have become all encompassing and are easy to spot and describe - given a person searches for and considers alternative news. Instead of someone working to change the system and the obvious to anyone paying attention, we get Donald Trump and the three ring circus followed through a worthless and compromised media. This is a tragedy and it will be a miracle if millions of Americans survive with their lives in the coming years.

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