Dash cam video appears to show officer planting evidence (video)
By David Edwards
The Raw Story
January 3, 2012
An officer in Utica, New York is being accused of planting evidence — and he was busted by the dash cam in his own police cruiser.
The Utica Phoenix recently obtained dash cam video of a February 11, 2011 traffic stop, where officers Palladino and Padulla search an African-American couple.
At about one minute into the video, one of the officers is seen taking a plastic bag out of his back pocket and seems to place it inside the vehicle. Several moments later, he emerges from the vehicle with a larger plastic bag, presumably evidence.
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Grey Alien depicted on Canadian $20 Silver Commemorative Canoe Coin (video)
Red Ice Creations
January 6, 2012
From: youtube.com
The story, as told by the artist Jason Bouwman
The canoe has become as much a part of the Canadian visual lexicon as the Canada goose, the beaver and the maple leaf. This design shows a young person enjoying a recreational outing. The boy breaks from paddling to dip his hand in the water… and touches the past – the reflection reveals an early native paddler (or voyageur) in a traditional birch-bark canoe as it also appears on the early silver dollar of 1935.
Link here: mint.ca
5-Year-Old Shaken Down by Police For Overdue Library Books
By Heather Callaghan
Activist Post
January 3, 2012
Shannon Benoit of Charlton, MA, is still upset that her local library sent police to retrieve overdue library books borrowed by her five year old, Hailey. “I thought it was way overboard,” she said, and likened it to “pounding a ten penny nail with a sledgehammer.”
Police Sergeant Dan Dowd, was not in any way mean or aggressive when he informed them about the two books, which were a few months overdue. But, he was a uniformed officer sent because of Hailey, which made her burst into tears when the door was shut. She asked her mom if she would be arrested. “I was scared,” she said.
Why are libraries reporting and petitioning police to help collect fees for overdue books — is this really the best way to protect and serve the public?
News articles are quick to point out that it is a misdemeanor to keep library books, their way of justifying the action. The local police thought a “friendly” reminder would be better than a court summons.
A court summons.
For overdue library books.
Sergeant Dowd admits that the officers did not want to get involved in this case. The assignment, however, was delegated by the Chief after the library phone call. Dowd says he must have been one of “low men on the totem pole.”
The unnamed director of Charlton library is receiving flak, which she expected, but claimed her phone call to law enforcement was a last resort aimed at the worst offenders. She says they only do this after sending many ignored notices, emails, and phone call warnings.
The family insists there has been no contact about the missing books. They have recently found and returned them, but are still upset with the extreme measure.
“There’s got to be a better way to do it,” says Hailey’s father. Shannon added, “It is ridiculous.”
Meanwhile, a laundry list of corporate and government crimes are being overlooked, and police have been enlisted as their protectors.
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Homegrown Jihad Documentary Claims 35 Terror Camps are Openly Operating Inside United States (video)
The Intel Hub
January 5, 2011
A trailer released for a new documentary on American homegrown Jihad pushes the idea that Muslims are working with the United States to eventually carry out terror attacks while ignoring what many people believe are the true enemies of America including the big banks, factions with the CIA and Mossad, and a whole laundry list of true criminal operations.
The documentary, “Homegrown Jihad” details what they claim to be 35 actual terror camps openly operating within the United States.
That’s right, apparently al Qaeda ninjas are not only able to carry out one of the largest terror attacks in American history, they have also managed to set up dozens of terror camps right here in America!
You can watch the trailer below and leave your opinion on this documentary in the comments section:
Lauren DiGioia Talks About Arrest and 26 Hours of Detention and Torture for NDAA Protest (video)
January 10, 2012
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NDAA Protests End In Ironic Swarm Of Arrests (video)
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by Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.com
January 10, 2012
The absurdity of America today never ceases to amaze. In fact, it has become so elaborate that one might even suggest it has reached a kind of poetic symmetry.
When a protest group is willing to stick their necks out to expose the horror of the National Defense Authorization Act and its open door strategy for unconstitutional arrest and indefinite detainment of American citizens, I have to stand up and applaud.
This is the kind of protest we need to see all over the country. Of course, any establishment system which is willing to dissolve the inherent liberties of its citizens certainly isn’t going to stand by quietly while they blatantly point out the injustice.
The Grand Central Terminal action featured in the video below is a perfect example of the swift and immediate stifling of peaceful dissent by an increasingly totalitarian government:
Responses to the event vary. Most people who have actually been exposed to the facts on the NDAA have expressed utter disgust and fury. Rightly so.
Some, however, have taken the old elitist mantra, perpetuated effectively by the Neo-Cons in their heyday, that if you are not for the system, then you are a danger to society. Not surprisingly, there are still plenty of useful idiots out there buzzing about like parasites in search of blood.
For those who would applaud these arrests, and suggest that they are well deserved, I would have to ask very pointedly; why?
Is it right to crush free speech as long as the message is offensive to you personally? Do peaceful protestors really present a legitimate threat to our national stability? Are they truly more dangerous than a corrupt government hellbent on assassinating the legal protections of our natural rights which have existed for centuries?
Would any supporter of the jackboot methodology like to explain to me in a coherent manner why they believe their skewed world view should be shielded from sincere questions? Please, I can’t wait to witness the kind of ridiculous mental gymnastics required to make such arguments palatable. If this kind of ignorance wasn’t so destructive, it might actually be entertaining.
The bottom line is, it doesn’t matter if these activists were in Grand Central Terminal, on the streets, or busting through the doors of the Oval Office. While New York authorities will attempt to argue property loopholes in free speech protections for Grand Central, or national security because of the vulnerability of the terminal, really, this has nothing to do with either.
This is about the removal of American voices from a room, and nothing more. If the message is going to be suppressed by the mainstream media, and shrugged off by representatives, then protesters must go to where the people are, and make the truth heard by whatever means necessary.
Ultimately, activism is about disturbing people’s normal mundane routines and shocking them out of their pop-culture stupor, even if for a moment. If we aren’t allowed to do that without constant police intervention, then the First Amendment is not being served, and then, my friends, we have a problem, a problem which should be forced down the throat of government with even more public action.
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(hat tip: The Intel Hub)
Pension troubles in store for retired workers as plans across Canada face deficits
By Kenyon Wallace
Toronto Star
January 9, 2012
When Ellen Sargent took a job as a purchaser with the City of Saint John in New Brunswick 26 years ago, she didn’t expect that living below the poverty line when she retired would become a possibility.
Like most municipal employees across Canada, Sargent was promised an indexed pension by the city as part of the terms of her contract — a pension that both she and the city would contribute to over the course of her employment.
But now the 55-year-old widowed retiree is facing the prospect of having to subsist on her $25,000 annual pension without it increasing to meet the rising cost of living.
That’s because the City of Saint John is struggling with a $165 million funding shortfall in its pension plan, and is attempting to make a number of contentious changes, including suspending pension indexing, to close the gap.
