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To avoid being filmed, Florida cop frames activist for public masturbation


RT
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:42 UTC
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© Still from YouTube video/Cop Block Central Florida
As part an effort to avoid having his activities captured on film, a Lakeland, Florida, police officer allegedly reported a citizen for masturbating in public.

According to the weblog Photography is Not a Crime - established by photojournalist Carlos Miller to help educate the public about the First Amendment as well as photographer rights - a resident named Michael Burns was recording the actions of Lakeland officer Javier Perez back in January when the incident occurred.

Burns operates a website called Cop Block Central Florida and routinely films police activity in the area. This time though he ended up in an awkward situation when a separate officer arrived at the scene. In a video posted on YouTube, the responding officer can be seen telling Burns that a call was made indicating that he was "maybe doing something" that he "should have been doing in private."

Though the responding officer did not voice objections to Burns' right to record law enforcement officials, Burns filed two public record requests with police that reportedly allowed him to trace the phone number back to Perez. On the phone, a man who does not identify himself as a police officer calls the department's non-emergency line and reports a "suspicious person" he believes to be masturbating inside a car.

Comment: 30 examples that you have plenty to fear even if you are doing nothing wrong

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Sickening: Billionaire heir to the SC Johnson company's fortune - who confessed to repeatedly sexually assaulting his teenage stepdaughter - receives four-month jail term

David Ferguson
Rawstory.com
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 15:46 UTC
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The billionaire heir to the SC Johnson company's fortune - who confessed to repeatedly sexually assaulting his teenage stepdaughter - received a four-month jail sentence on Friday from a Racine, WI judge who cited the Johnson family's importance in the community.

Milwaukee's Channel 4 News reported that Circuit Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz told 59-year-old defendant Samuel Curtis Johnson III that "you could not grow up in this community and not know some of the people involved in this case."
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Arrow Down

'Dress in a manner that is deemed acceptable by the government' or face penalties?


Police State USA
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 15:10 UTC
Wildwood Boardwalk
© Greater Wildwoods Tourism Authority
Wildwood Boardwalk.
Wildwood - People who do not dress in a manner that is deemed acceptable by the government are subject to penalties in this New Jersey shore resort town.

According to the government, people must cover their feet, must must wear shirts after 8:00 p.m., and must never allow their pants to sag 3 inches below their waistline, while walking on the popular Wildwood Boardwalk.

Fashion cops are prepared to stop pedestrians and issue them tickets for inappropriate or incorrectly worn clothing. Penalties include fines ranging from $25 to $200. Violators may also be sentenced to up to 40 hours of community service.

Mayor Ernest Troiano, Jr., defended the dress code, saying that it adds "a little bit of decency to our town."
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Gold Bar

Is there a shortage of physical gold? One-ton gold shipment revealed worthless metal

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 10:29 UTC
is it real gold bar/
© www.prisonplanet.com
Two years ago, stories of fake tungsten-filled gold coins and bars began to spread; it appears, between the shortage of physical gold (after Asian central bank buying) and the increase in smuggling (courtesy of India's controls among others) that gold fraud is back on the rise.

As SCMP reports, a mainland China businessman, Zhao Jingjun, discovered that HK$270 million of 998kg of gold bars he bought in Ghana had been swapped for non-precious metal bars. What is perhaps even more worrisome, given the probe into commodity-financing deals and the rehypothecation evaporation; these gold bars
were shipped to a Chinese warehouse before Zhao was able to confirm the fraud.

Comment: Seems to be a new "Gold Standard" on the rise...

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Bizarro Earth

Fracking rural America to death: First solid case of aquifer contamination recorded in Texas


RT
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 08:46 UTC
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© AFP
Testing of methane concentration in water of Parker County, Texas indicates a link between the dangerously high levels of natural gas in local water supply and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations in the gas-rich Barnett Shale, scientists say. Parker County resident Steve Lipsky has known for years his water has been contaminated with high levels of methane gas. Last year, he filed a complaint with state oil and gas regulators at the Texas Railroad Commission. More recently, news broadcaster WFAA even went so far as to "ignite" local well water to highlight the issue.

After measuring gas content in his water well, state regulators said that while methane concentration in Lipsky's water was up, the chemical makeup of the methane was inconclusive. Thus, the source of the gas remains a mystery, according to the state.

The Railroad Commission's tests found Lipsky's water contained 8.6 milligrams per liter of methane, not quite the federal limit of 10. Yet separate tests by a researcher at the University of Texas-Arlington found 83 milligrams per liter in the water, an incredibly high count.

"What we can say right now is that those are dangerous -- that's a dangerous level," Zac Hildebrand told WFAA.

Comment: The Railroad Commission, like the rest of the US government is bought-and-paid-for in this suicidal rush to frack bedrock for gas.

See also:

You have to see it to believe it: What it's like to have fracking in your backyard

What fracking can do to your health

Tilting at Pipelines: Geopolitical Madness at the end of Empire

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Alarm Clock

95-kg kid case in UK: Parents arrested over 11-yo overweight, charged with cruelty


RT
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 13:30 UTC
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© Alban Donohoe, Albanpix LTD

British parents were arrested on suspicion of child cruelty and neglect after their 11-year-old boy tipped the scales at 210 pounds (95 kilograms).

Police in King's Lynn, Norfolk, decided to step in after doctors sounded the alarm about the boy's welfare following two visits to the doctor earlier this year. They said intervention at this level was "very rare," and was only initiated when other efforts to protect the child's welfare had proved unsuccessful.

The Sun reported that the boy, who stands at 5ft 1in, has a body mass index (BMI) of 41.8. That is higher than what is classified as obese for an average adult male and is "very overweight" for a boy his age, according to Britain's National Health Service.
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CIA joins Twitter and is immediately trolled


RT
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 08:44 UTC
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Though the US Central Intelligence Agency may use Facebook, Twitter, and the like to keep tabs on targets of interest, the spy agency has only now officially joined social media--a move hastened by an imposter who was using the agency's name online.

The agency's first tweet, which earned the CIA nearly 200,000 Twitter followers in just a few hours, was the appropriately sarcastic, "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet." There were already 40,000 followers after just a single hour online, with the agency's debut on Facebook sparking a similar conversation on that platform.


"By expanding to these platforms, CIA will be able to more directly engage with the public and provide information on the CIA's mission, history, and other developments," CIA Director John Brennan said in a press release Friday. "We have important insights to share, and we want to make sure that unclassified information about the agency is more accessible to the American public that we serve, consistent with our national security mission."

The CIA admitted as far back as 2011 that its agents and employees regularly scan social media to spy on intelligence targets. It already had multiple accounts on Flickr and YouTube, but only debuted on Twitter Friday because it had spent months lobbying Twitter to stop someone else who was already using the @CIA handle.
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Alarm Clock

Report from the frontlines in S.E. Ukraine June 5th and 6th by Juan

Juan
The vineyard of the Saker
Sat, 07 Jun 2014 02:18 UTC
Lugansk admin building attack
© RT
The OSCE has confirmed the attack on the Admin building in Lugansk was carried out from the air. 8 civilians were killed and 28 wounded after an army air strike on the local administration.
June 5th combat SITREP update by "Juan"
  • Красный Лиман Krasni Liman was taken by Ukraine Army and national guard 04 June 2014.
  • Replacement Mi24 attack helicopters have arrived in Ukraine as replacements for the Ukraine Army losses in Donbas. Confirmed.
  • Strong bombardments Slavyansk City and outlying towns and villages commenced 05:00 local time 05.06.2014. Civilian casualties unknown.
  • National guard/right sector entered Railroad Hospital Krasni Liman and shot dead 37 wounded Donbas Army soldiers and civilians and at least 1 hospital worker. Confirmed.
  • Air and artillery bombardments Krasni Liman cause strong civilian casualties 04.06.2014.
  • List of dead air attack on Lugansk Administration Building:
  • Kostjukov Vladimir Andreyevich , 1971 (regional administration)
  • Corn Inna (regional administration)
  • Giza Alexander (regional administration)
  • Unidentified woman
  • Dolzenko Nina 1955 (regional administration)
  • Polezhaev Sergey 1964 (regional administration)
  • Natalia Arkhipova (regional administration)
  • Cerkez Galina 1967 (regional administration)
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Dollars

Psychopathic greed: Texas cops steal millions through 'policing for profit'

Nick Sibilla
Forbes
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:59 UTC
policing for profit
© unknown
Texas law enforcement are continuing to enrich themselves using a little-known legal doctrine known as civil forfeiture, according to a new series of investigative reports. Under civil forfeiture, property can be forfeited even if its owner has never been charged with a crime. In these proceedings, accused criminals have more rights than innocent owners and the government sues the property, not its owner. These cases can be so baffling, one Texas Supreme Court Justice recently compared civil forfeiture to Alice in Wonderland and the works of Franz Kafka. But civil forfeiture isn't just a quirky curiosity - it's a powerful incentive for law enforcement to take millions.

Last month, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that the District Attorney's Office in Tarrant County, Texas seized $3.5 million, plus almost 250 cars and 440 computers in fiscal year 2013, roughly equal to about 10 percent of its budget. Of the property seized, almost $845,000 was spent on salaries for 16 employees at the office. By comparison, only $53,000 went to "six nonprofits that benefit victims or prosecution efforts." The county's narcotics unit spent an even greater proportion of forfeiture funds on salaries. Last year, the unit seized $666,427 in cash and used $426,058 to pay salaries.
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Whistle

Soccer fan detained at game for waving a Palestinian flag as a 'racial slur'

Annie Robbins
Modoweiss
Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:41 UTC
Buthayna Hammad

Buthayna Hammad
Last Sunday, Palestinian-American Buthayna Hammad attended a soccer match at BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston's downtown 22,000-seat soccer-specific stadium, home to the Houston Dynamo. About 15 minutes after the game started Hammad was approached by the head of Compass Stadium's security Nathan Buchanan. Soon she encountered a total of eight security officials, four from stadium security and the other four, Houston police officers.

Why? because she was waving a Palestinian flag. Stadium security informed her that her Palestinian flag implied a "racial slur" and therefore was in violation of BBVA Compass Stadium rules.

Hammad, a native of Houston, is an avid soccer fan. She attended the match with her "alt family from Honduras" including her Honduran boyfriend. The match was between Israel and Honduras.
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