Society's ChildS


Info

US, Minnesota: Ventura, Miffed by Court, Says He's Off to Mexico

Brian Bakst
The Associated Press
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00 UTC
Image
© The Associated Press / The Star Tribune / Bruce BispingFormer Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura speaks to the media about the court dismissing his suit against the TSA for the pat downs at the airport, outside the St. Paul Federal Courthouse on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is so upset by the dismissal of his airport security lawsuit that he threatened Friday to apply for dual citizenship so he can spend more time in his beloved Mexico - or run for president of what he labeled "the Fascist States of America."

Ventura, also a former wrestling star, sued the U.S. government in January, alleging that airport scans and pat-downs amounted to unreasonable search and seizure. A district judge threw out his lawsuit Thursday, ruling it should have been filed in a Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ventura has said a titanium hip implanted in him in 2008 sets off metal detectors and that agents previously used hand-held wands to scan his body. He said he was subjected to a body pat-down after an airport metal detector went off last November. Ventura said he hasn't flown since and won't fly commercially again.

Outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul, with a crew from his Conspiracy Theory cable TV show filming, Ventura said he hadn't decided whether to continue pressing his lawsuit. He said he wanted to make his case before a jury, not a panel of judges.
Read More...
Arrow Down

Colombia: Top FARC Rebel Commander Killed in Military Raid

Vivian Sequera
The Associated Press
Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:00 UTC
Image
© The Associated Press / The Canadian Press / Scott Dalton In this Feb. 2, 2001 file photo, rebel Commanders Alfonso Cano, left, and Ivan Rios, right, spokesmen for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, give a news conference in San Vicente del Caguan, in the rebel controlled area in southern Colombia. According to Colombian military authorities, Cano, the top FARC commander, was killed in a military operation on Friday Nov. 4, 2011.
The top leader of Colombia's main rebel group, the bookish ideologue Alfonso Cano, was killed Friday in combat hours after his nearby camp was bombed, authorities said.

The death was a major victory for President Juan Manuel Santos and comes just over a year after the military killed the rebels' field marshal. It is anything but a fatal blow, however, to the nearly half-century-old peasant-based Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

Cano, 63, was killed in a remote area of the southwestern state of Cauca along with four other rebels an hour before dusk about 200 yards (meters) from the bunker he apparently fled after the 8:30 a.m. bombing raid, said Adm. Roberto Garcia, the navy chief.

He had shaven off his trademark beard and his thick glasses were not found with him, Garcia said. Officials said he was positively identified by fingerprint.

Officials did not say whether Cano was armed when he died or how many bullet wounds he had or where. Garcia said five rebels also were captured.

Santos called Cano's killing "the hardest blow to this organization in its entire history" and cheered "Viva Colombia!"
Read More...
Light Saber

US: Police Tell Banker To Move Out Of The Country If He Objects To Protesters' Right To Free Speech

Zaid Jilani
ThinkProgress.org
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:30 UTC
freedom of speech
© Unknown

This Saturday has been decreed "Bank Transfer Day" by 99 Percent activists. On that day, Americans are encouraged to move their money from the nation's large banking institutions to community banks and credit unions - a way to both strike at the political and economic power of the nation's megabanks and empower local economies.

Over at DailyKos, user marvinborg recounts how he was handing out flyers about moving money at a local Bank of America branch. Soon after he arrived there, the branch's manager came out and started to suggest marvinborg worked for a credit union or that he was unemployed and should "get a job." Before long, two police officers arrived, after being called by the Bank of America.
Read More...
Stormtrooper

US, Occupy Oakland: second Iraq war veteran injured after police clashes

Adam Gabbatt
Guardian
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:26 UTC
Occupy Oakland clashes
© Noah Berger/APPolice used teargas to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland.

Kayvan Sabehgi in intensive care with a lacerated spleen after protests in Oakland, a week after Scott Olsen was hurt. He says police beat him with batons

A second Iraq war veteran has suffered serious injuries after clashes between police and Occupy movement protesters in Oakland.

Kayvan Sabehgi, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a lacerated spleen. He says he was beaten by police close to the Occupy Oakland camp, but despite suffering agonising pain, did not reach hospital until 18 hours later.

Sabehgi, 32, is the second Iraq war veteran to be hospitalised following involvement in Oakland protests. Another protester, Scott Olsen, suffered a fractured skull on 25 October.

On Wednesday night, police used teargas and non-lethal projectiles to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland.

Sabehgi told the Guardian from hospital he was walking alone along 14th Street in central Oakland - away from the main area of clashes - when he was injured.

"There was a group of police in front of me," he told the Guardian from his hospital bed. "They told me to move, but I was like: 'Move to where?' There was nowhere to move.

"Then they lined up in front of me. I was talking to one of them, saying 'Why are you doing this?' when one moved forward and hit me in my arm and legs and back with his baton. Then three or four cops tackled me and arrested me."
Read More...
Sheriff

A Giant Awakening: US County Sheriffs Stand Tall for the Constitution

ReddingPatriots
YouTube
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:43 UTC
Here are eight county sheriffs from Northern CA and Southern OR speaking on at panel at the Defend Rural America event October 22, 2011 in Yreka. Despite the low media coverage there were about 700 people in attendance from all over California, Oregon and as far away as Wyoming. The sheriffs made it perfectly clear that they are the last line of defense for their citizens and given authority by the 10th Amendment. YOU will be a source of information beyond the lame stream media by forwarding this link!

Read More...
Heart - Black

Diana Inquest Verdict - 'Unlawful Killing', Britain deceived by security services


The Tap Blog
Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00 UTC
Image
© unknownThe Princess Diana Death Conspiracy Gets Re-Examined In Unlawful Killing
I was browsing a link sent in by the indefatigable Wasp, and came across the fact that the verdict of the Diana Inquest was not reported in the UK, and still hasn't been. The verdict was nothing less than 'unlawful killing'.

The website vigilantcitizen, talking about the film called Unlawful Killing released in June 2011, writes -

Strangest of all was the media coverage of the verdict. Inquest evidence showed conclusively that the crash was caused by an unidentified white Fiat Uno and several unidentified motorcycles, vehicles that were certainly not paparazzi, because uncontested police evidence confirmed that the paparazzi were nowhere near the tunnel at the time of the crash. The jury understood this, bringing in a verdict of "unlawful killing" by unidentified "following vehicles"; yet within seconds, the BBC was misreporting that the jury had blamed the paparazzi, and the rest of the media meekly followed suit. Which is why - three years on - barely anyone realises what the jury's troubling verdict really was.
Read More...
Black Cat

Remember, Remember: UK bomb plot mask becomes Occupy symbol

Tamara Lush & Verena Dobnik
Associated Press
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:36 UTC
Image
© Ted S. Warren/APA protester with the "Occupy Seattle" movement wears a Guy Fawkes mask and takes a photo with a mobile phone as he demonstrates, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, in downtown Seattle.
New York - Look at a photo or news clip from around the world of Occupy protesters and you'll likely spot a handful of people wearing masks of a cartoon-like man with a pointy beard, closed-mouth smile and mysterious eyes.

The mask is a stylized version of Guy Fawkes, an Englishman who tried to bomb the British Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605.

"They're very meaningful masks," said Alexandra Ricciardelli, who was rolling cigarettes on a table outside her tent in New York's Zuccotti Park two days before the anniversary of Fawkes' failed bombing attempt.

"It's not about bombing anything; it's about being anonymous - and peaceful."

To the 20-year-old from Keyport, N.J., the Fawkes mask "is about being against The Man - the power that keeps you down."

But history books didn't lead to the mask's popularity: A nearly 30-year-old graphic novel and a five-year-old movie did.

Comment: A few short scenes from the actual movie.



Read More...
Smoking

US: 'Taxed out' New York City smokers are rolling their own

Chris Francescani
MSNBC / Reuters
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:22 UTC
With prices of a pack hitting $15, many illegal solutions exist also

At Island Smokes on New York City's Lower East Side, customers sick of the highest tax on cigarettes in America are fighting back by rolling their own cigarettes out of pipe tobacco.

It's a way around New York City's sky-high cigarette taxes, which have led to a 35 percent drop in smoking rates since 2002, when city anti-smoking initiatives began. according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Among New York City public school students the drop is sharper, down 52 percent since 2001, the New York City Department of Health says.

But while city residents may be smoking less, the high taxes - which boost the cost of cigarettes to as high as $15 a pack - have fueled a black market in contraband cigarettes.

All over New York City, runners hawk untaxed, $5-a-pack smokes on city street corners. Newsstand owners pocket city and state taxes with each cheap pack. And Indian reservations flood the market with contraband cigarettes.
Read More...
Bug

US: Upper West Side Mosquito Mystery - Families terrorized by swarms of underground mosquitoes

Dave Carlin
CBS News
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:36 UTC
An insect invasion is terrorizing New York City homeowners, making life miserable, even dangerous, for many families. Parents have been forced to take extreme measures to protect their children and their homes.

CBS 2's Dave Carlin investigates the growing Upper West Side mosquito mystery.


These rare mosquitoes are extra blood-thirsty and active year-round. Carlin saw some of them in a lab after they were collected in the unlikeliest of places, Bernard Lagan's home on West 84th Street.

"They trapped 150 mosquitoes in the basement in a 24-hour period coming from underground and into the basement and up in to the house through the air vents and it's the same story as the other brownstones on this block," Lagan told Carlin.
Read More...
Wolf

Man pleads guilty to illegally trafficking kidneys from Israel where they were later transplanted into American patients at prestigious US hospitals

Jonathan Benson
Natural News
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:36 UTC
organ,trafficking

Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, an Israeli citizen living in Brooklyn, NY, has pleaded guilty to illegally purchasing kidneys from desperate Israelis, and trafficking them back to the US for transplant in patients at prestigious, but unnamed, American hospitals. Rosenbaum has also reportedly pleaded guilty to conspiracy for illegally brokering kidney sales.

According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), desperate kidney patients collectively paid Rosenbaum $410,000 to purchase kidneys harvested from Israelis who had sold them for a mere fraction of this amount. Rosenbaum's lawyers claim that all the donors agreed to give up their kidneys, but a 1984 federal law prohibits knowingly purchasing or selling organs for transplant.

Rosenbaum allegedly bought the kidneys for as little as $10,000 each, and resold them for a minimum of $120,000 each. He then used the money to purchase property, which he has since agreed to forfeit following his guilty pleas.
Read More...