quote:Originally posted by glassman: this should make you completely forget any notions that am the least bit paranoid pagan;
Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA surveillance to be turned over to AI machines
Thursday, June 20, 2013 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: Skynet, quantum computing, D-Wave Systems
(NaturalNews) Most people don't know about the existence of quantum computers. Almost no one understands how they work, but theories include bizarre-sounding explanations like, "they reach into alternate universes to derive the correct answers to highly complex computational problems."
Quantum computers are not made of simple transistors and logic gates like the CPU on your PC. They don't even function in ways that seem rational to a typical computing engineer. Almost magically, quantum computers take logarithmic problems and transform them into "flat" computations whose answers seem to appear from an alternate dimension.
For example, a mathematical problem that might have 2 to the power of n possible solutions -- where n is a large number like 1024 -- might take a traditional computer longer than the age of the universe to solve. A quantum computer, on the other hand, might solve the same problem in mere minutes because it quite literally operates across multiple dimensions simultaneously.
The ultimate code breakers If you know anything about encryption, you probably also realize that quantum computers are the secret KEY to unlocking all encrypted files. As I wrote about last year here on Natural News, once quantum computers go into widespread use by the NSA, the CIA, Google, etc., there will be no more secrets kept from the government. All your files -- even encrypted files -- will be easily opened and read.
Until now, most people believed this day was far away. Quantum computing is an "impractical pipe dream," we've been told by scowling scientists and "flat Earth" computer engineers. "It's not possible to build a 512-qubit quantum computer that actually works," they insisted.
Don't tell that to Eric Ladizinsky, co-founder and chief scientist of a company called D-Wave. Because Ladizinsky's team has already built a 512-qubit quantum computer. And they're already selling them to wealthy corporations, too.
DARPS, Northrup Grumman and Goldman Sachs In case you're wondering where Ladizinsky came from, he's a former employee of Northrup Grumman Space Technology (yes, a weapons manufacturer) where he ran a multi-million-dollar quantum computing research project for none other than DARPA -- the same group working on AI-driven armed assault vehicles and battlefield robots to replace human soldiers. DARPA is the group behind the creepy "Legged Squad Support System" you can see in the following video:
on the other end of this? the human brain is ALSO a Quantum computer. all molecuals and atoms exhcange light (quanta of light actually) within themselves at all times... you never see it because they don't tranmsi tht elight until you add anothe quanta of light to them, whihc they then emit to your eye... ignore the bizzare mutli-dimensioanl stuff. it's simply light quanta echange (commonly misrepresented as photons) photons DO NOT EXIST
Oh I see what you did gasman. Posting an article about something you no zip about as usual. Glassblowers are so crazy sometimes. How about you read some other articles. There are numerous approaches to quantum computers. But...you grasp the first article you see as usual. Maybe you should the PHD of a wife yours do your Web searches. Because you are failiing miserably with your attempts.
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i don't understand that photons are not matter? nor do they ever assume the property of matter? OK, you are qulaified to make that claim, i'm sure...
i don't get his from internet articles. i get this from reading peer reviewed papers...
Einstein actually wrote a paper on this if you look? you can find it too... he even won his Nobel prize for this work and NOT realitivty... but since you don't beleive anthing you read anywhere (or is it just anything that i read anywhere) i won't bother posting it or link for you...
photons are not distinguishable from space itself... they MUST have mass tho because E=MC2. energy is defined by mass and and quanta of light have energy.... the problem Einstien had was from Neihls Bhor... they screwed up his whole scheme with theirs. But Eisnstein was right, he just didn't have the missing piece yet... Hubbel found that later, but it has been mistaken for the big bang... space itself gives the mass needed to make photons APPEAR to have mess, but the photon is not the mass (this is known fact), therefore it does not exist. it is only a peice of space with a completely differnt energy level than space that is not propogating light.. Eisntein was saying this whn he said that gravity bends space(-time)- hubbel is th eone who made the discovery but he minsterpreted it.. now they are looking for why the universe is expanding when it really is not even porven to be expanding... physicist have ot plug in this fudge factor they call the gravitational cosntant to make the numebrs work, and too many of them do not stop and ask why they have to "fudge" on a good theroy.. that's cuz its really a bad theory can't 'splain it any more simply than that... if you don't get it? don't embarrass yourself again by saying i don;t get it. that's large portion of why the world we live int day is so screwed up..
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in afew years? there will be proof that gravity (gravitational waves) are faster than the speed of light... also that dark matter anddark energy are space itefl
then you will know that i was not BS'ing you here today. until then? you'll just have to guess..
i will offer one specualtion of my very own here to you.. gravity will be shown to be "instantaneous" for all intents and purposes... it proll yisn't really instnataneous, but that will only matter when the whole of scince goes well beyond everything we do know now...
Quantum Coupling is an effect in quantum mechanics in which two or more quantum systems are bound such that a change in one of the quantum states in one of the systems will cause an instantaneous change in all of the bound systems. It is a state similar to quantum entanglement but whereas quantum entanglement can take place over long distances quantum coupling is restricted to quantum scales.
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anybody besides me know there's no anonymity in this? no matter what they try to tell you? CNN) -- The roadblocks went up on a Friday at several points in two Alabama towns, about 40 miles on either side of Birmingham.
For the next two days, off-duty sheriff's deputies in St. Clair County, to the east, and Bibb County, to the southwest, flagged down motorists and steered them toward federal highway safety researchers. The researchers asked them a few questions about drinking and drug use and asked them for breath, saliva and blood samples -- offering them $10 for saliva and $50 to give blood.
It's not just in Alabama. The roadblocks are part of a national study led by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is trying to determine how many drivers are on the road with drugs or alcohol in their systems. Similar roadblocks will be erected in dozens of communities across the nation this year, according to the agency.
It's been going on for decades. Previous surveys date to the 1970s. The last one was run in 2007, and it included the collection of blood and saliva samples without apparent controversy, sheriff's spokesmen in both Alabama counties said.
But this time, it's happening as the Obama administration struggles to explain revelations that U.S. spy organizations have been tracking phone and Internet traffic. Against that backdrop, the NHTSA-backed roadblocks have led to complaints in Alabama about an intrusive federal government.
i'm curious pagan? is this just more BS? it's not fox or some offthewall intenrt "journalist" ...
BTW? they won't need to stop anybody in prolly about 5 years... they'll collect the data from you as you DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD without even stopping or asking..
how do i know this you ask? quantum mechanics, that's how. a rapidly alternating laser beam tuned to the specific frequencies of drug metabolites on YOUR SKIN will be able to read it off in a nanosecond even if you are going 75 MPH...
freaky huh?are you ready for morrymorryland?
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comeon pagan... you were supposed to yell at me and tell it's about the computer- not the quantumness... it's BS... right? it can't even outperform your cellphone
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i guess the Washington Times is wearing tin foil too huh Pagan?
Big Brother alert: Cameras in the cable box to monitor TV viewers It hardly gets more Orwellian than this. New technology would allow cable companies to peer directly into television watchers’ homes and monitor viewing habits and reactions to product advertisements.
The technology would come via the cable box, and at least one lawmaker on Capitol Hill is standing in opposition.
Mass. Democratic Rep. Michael Capuano has introduced a bill, the We Are Watching You Act, to prohibit the technology on boxes and collection of information absent consumer permission. The bill would also require companies that do use the data to show “we are watching you” messages on the screen and to explain just what kinds of information is being captured and for what reasons, AdWeek reported.
The technology includes cameras and microphones that are installed on DVRs or cable boxes and analyzes viewers’ responses, behaviors and statements to various ads — and then provides advertisements that are targeted to the particular household.
Specifically, the technology can monitor sleeping, eating, exercising, reading and more, AdWeek reported.
“This may sound preposterous, but it’s neither a joke nor an exaggeration,” said Mr. Capuano in a statement, AdWeek reported. “These DVRs would essentially observe consumers as they watch television as a way to super-target ads. It is an incredible invasion of privacy.”
if you put some tape over your PC and laptop cameras you can rest easy that htey aren't being remotely used to watch you while you watch your internet.. or not if you are an exhibitionist
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Wouldn't many different extraterrestrials having different positive and negative intentions/agendas/needs (all of which may serve us to rise to a higher level of awareness in a limited or more complete way) for us and for planet Earth have to obey advanced common rules not to interfere with each other while having each of their "rights" respected and their "vital needs" a chance to be satisfied? If they share a technology that can modify space-time what could their common rules of engagement be not to spoil each other's plans and agendas? How can we begin to modify our primitive sense of "good" and "evil"?
None would be allowed to simply "invade" (that would be too close to our physicalist standards) but would have to work as a group in some activities and to supervise each other. We need to understand that "they" aren't simply physical like us or mental-spiritual but that they combine these always correlated aspects in a way that generates effects similar to what Jung and Pauli referred to when considering the "IMAGINAL" realm. It's a TRANSDIMENSIONAL interaction between elements that interact more for them and less for us.
I think that -upon coming in contact with our particular physical reality- extraterrestrials equally acquire internal limitations in relation to each other and to us and must therefore follow a careful kind of engagement with Humanity and this would impinge upon what we would consider their ethics.ť Many of us have asked are extraterrestrials benevolentť or malevolent? Are some benevolent and some malevolentťor are we only imposing our human standards onto them?
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tin foil hat back off: Solar cell, heal thyself New self-assembling photovoltaic technology can keep repairing itself to avoid any loss in performance. David L. Chandler, MIT News Office Strano and his team, supported by grants from the MIT Energy Initiative and the Eni Solar Frontiers Center at MIT, produced synthetic molecules called phospholipids that form disks; these disks provide structural support for other molecules that actually respond to light, in structures called reaction centers, which release electrons when struck by particles of light. The disks, carrying the reaction centers, are in a solution where they attach themselves spontaneously to carbon nanotubes — wire-like hollow tubes of carbon atoms that are a few billionths of a meter thick yet stronger than steel and capable of conducting electricity a thousand times better than copper. The nanotubes hold the phospholipid disks in a uniform alignment so that the reaction centers can all be exposed to sunlight at once, and they also act as wires to collect and channel the flow of electrons knocked loose by the reactive molecules.
The system Strano’s team produced is made up of seven different compounds, including the carbon nanotubes, the phospholipids, and the proteins that make up the reaction centers, which under the right conditions spontaneously assemble themselves into a light-harvesting structure that produces an electric current.
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Isn't this the very definition of a police state?
As the number of stop-and-frisk encounters initiated by the NYPD grew from about 100,000 in Michael Bloomberg’s first year as mayor to almost 700,000 in 2011, the share of stops yielding guns fell from 0.38 percent to 0.033 percent. Bloomberg says that trend demonstrates that program is working, because “the whole idea…is not to catch people with guns; it’s to prevent people from carrying guns.”
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OK, despite pagans obvious displeasure or whatever it is he expresses towards me about my wife? i do a couple hundred hours a year literature searches work for her work. I am usually looking at biological control agents for insects (yeah- pagan that's the type of patents that have been stolen and you add can three more to teh list now) the only way we can keep them is not to put them into the online computer any way
last night i was looking at poison dart frog poisons- it's interesting because poison dart frog MAY(i repeat) MAY not even produce their own toxins... they MAY sequester them from the insects they eat, hich makes sense since the insects develop toxins for hteir own self defense...
i got sleepy ans left the page open that i was on when i went to bed and when i came back this morning, the page had self-refreshed somehow to a cookie 'splanation page... there's only me and the dog hare last night so unless my 135 pound lion hound changed the page? it changed itself and the page was explaining to me how there's about 50 doffernt cookies associated with my serch in this website that will prepare and sell me Epibatidine; Biological Activity Very potent nicotinic agonist (Ki values are 0.02 and 233 nM for α4β2 and α7 nicotinic receptors respectively). Analgesic. nicotine is very effective plant based insecticide... so you can see why i might be searching for analogs (this one is not an analog tho) and the ways that other biological entities manipulate them. since my wife takes one gen form one biological entity and puts into another (GMO)ther emay be a way to have yeast produce this poison dart frog's secretions by the gallon to use as an insecticide... follow my logic chain?
the dozens of cookies that i was notified about are one way our and lots of other peoples work gets stolen- they have to actually ID you as a worth collecting data on first, and that's easy when you publish papers adn presnet at internatioanl conferences..
the "police state' is actaully light years behind the "corporate state' ever notice how facebook shows you ads form stuff you looked at when you were not even on facebook? it never bothered me.. but the dummmies show me stuff AFTER i have already oredered it soemewhere else all the time, even on ebay.. you know what would really bother me? if they showed it me before i put it into google
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"stupid white man; plants only house for bugs"
Sean Connery, Movie, Medicine Man:
the medicine scolding male chauvinist sean connery for looking at plants for "the cure" the medicin man had shown him- when the ants were what carried "the cure"
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Ray would be a spy for the brits back then, or back them.
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Police Are Using License Plate Readers To Track Your Car’s Movements
By Nicole Flatow on Jun 27, 2013 at 3:00 pm
Credit: Associated Press Around the country, police are adopting the widespread use of automatic license plate readers, and storing photos with time and location records in databases that are not subject to judicial oversight. In California, the Center for Investigative Reporting reveals that this data collection is widespread, with multiple counties creating coordinated databases that enable more thorough police location tracking of everyone, regardless of whether they are suspected of a crime.
A computer security consultant who spoke with CIR requested records of his own police scans several years ago, and found that his county police had logged this information once a week on average. One photo shows him and his daughters in their driveway.
Expansion and funding of this collection has been led by anti-terrorist agencies. Last year in California, for example, a law enforcement intelligence-sharing center set up after 9/11 signed a $340,000 agreement with Palantir, a CIA-funded start-up that has denied alleged links to the recently uncovered NSA surveillance. And a New Jersey county recently purchased the license plate readers under a grant from the Department of Homeland Security. But information collected has been used to solve domestic crime and enforce small-time violations, including parking restrictions or motorists who run red lights. In New York City, police have used the readers to catch car thieves and identify motorists with open warrants.
Like other forms of location tracking, license plate readers pose obvious privacy concerns, which is why several states and jurisdictions have limited their use, with New Hampshire banning them entirely. And a recent report from the International Association of Chiefs of Police has said tracking driver locations could raise First Amendment questions, as it collects data about individuals’ activities, religious practices, and even political protests. But in places where legislative limits have not been set, police are expanding their use of the tactic. An investigation in Los Angeles found the city had already recorded 160 million “data points.” Attempts to pass a California law limiting retention of these records to 60 days failed, after law enforcement and businesses that profit from the technology resisted.
Courts have grappled recently with other surveillance tools, but license plate readers have not come under scrutiny. A major U.S. Supreme Court decision last term significantly limited police use of GPS devices, in holding that attaching one to a suspect’s car without a warrant and monitoring his activity for 28 days constituted a “search.” Police have since turned to other tactics, including cell tower data, as an alternative means of location-tracking, and lower court rulings have set varying limits on the practice. Just this term, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the collection and retention of DNA on every person arrested — not convicted — of a serious violent crime, as the four dissenting justices who expressed passionate disapproval reiterated, “the Fourth Amendment forbids searching a person for evidence of a crime when there is no basis for believing the person is guilty of the crime or is in possession of incriminating evidence.” This alternative type of location surveillance, which may nor not be deemed a Fourth Amendment search, burdens not just arrestees, but everybody who drives a car.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU have filed lawsuits to gain access to the data.
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police in some states are FORCIBLY taking blood samples form drivers who refuse to blow intot eh straw..
once again? this is not a beach of mine since i have drunken about a twleve pack of beer int ehlast year... and i never drink when i amout and about, not even wine wiht dinner even tho i love love a good cabernet with rare beef...
when i first got otu of HS i drew blood at huge coutny hoispital right outside of DC... i had to draw blood for the cops all the time in MD. here's the "thing" tho, every time i drew blood it was perfectly acceptable to teh person i took it from- they signed the forms in order to keep their drivers license. They were always repeat offenders who knew the system and were (on specific advice from their lawyers)hoping that their blood alcohol levels would drop to legal levels before i perfromed this act on them... aparently the cops and hte judges now beleive they have the right to take your blood no matter what... this is the very definition of police state... in the past? you gave up your license for refusing but now? you get assaulted...
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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i have know this for years, and am still trying to figure out what it was that Snowdne suppesedly revealed last month and what the big deal is about him... he is a nobody. as far as i can tell? he doesn't even have adegree and only swaps boards in serveres... i grew up with the the "beltway bandits" -contractors who worked on all these progrmas constantly shared info they should not have. i actaully tried NOT to pay attention to their mutterings and complainings becuase ifully understand how need to works and why it works (or in many cases doens't work) when i was in highs school th ejoke was that our folks could tell waht brand of cigarettes we smoked via keyhole, the htingis? you knew not to actaully use the term keyhole in more than whisper cuz that would bring MIB's... why is all this suddenly spalttered all over th enews adn what on easrth has the NSA so riled up about snowden? we'll neve rknow for sure due to "need to know"
NSA spy scandal: It's even worse than Snowden says
Saturday, June 29th, 2013 | Posted by Kevin Barrett NSA spy scandal: It’s even worse than Snowden says Russ Tice is a former NSA intelligence analyst who has also worked for the US Air Force, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. He was a real US intelligence insider, many pay grades above rookie contractor Edward Snowden.
In 2005, Tice blew the whistle on the NSA’s illegal spying on Americans. Tice and other NSA sources revealed that the NSA’s computerized spy program ECHELON was reading and filtering over 100,000 emails and phone calls per second. That is an even worse abuse of Americans’ Constitutional rights than the programs that Snowden has revealed, which store copies of emails and phone calls but (allegedly) do not read them except when legally authorized to do so.
Worse yet, Tice’s revelations raise even more troubling issues. Tice and his NSA whistleblower colleagues revealed that the NSA’s massive, illegal spy-on-Americans program began in February, 2001 – seven months BEFORE the 9/11 attacks! As Andrew Harris reported for Bloomberg in July, 2006:
“The US National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court… ‘The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11,’ plaintiff’s lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone interview. ‘This undermines that assertion.”’
The illegal NSA spy-on-Americans program apparently “became necessary” several months before 9/11, not after 9/11. Why?
In an interview entitled “NSA Whistleblower Russ Tice Alleges NSA Wiretapped Barack Obama as Senate Candidate” Russ Tice recently explained to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds the real purpose of the NSA’s illegal spying on Americans: To collect blackmail material and other information that can be used to control influential citizens.
In short: The whole purpose of the NSA spy program was to enable 9/11, protect the perpetrators, and maintain the 9/11-triggered covert dictatorship.
Before 9/11, the neoconservatives of the Bush-Cheney Administration needed to ensure that no influential Americans would dare to stand up against the coming coup d’état. So they directed the NSA to begin wiretapping the American people.
From the billions of intercepted communications, the 9/11 plotters focused on those of extremely influential Americans: Politicians, wealthy people, military and intelligence officers, media figures, and other well-connected individuals. All of these people were profiled: Were they likely to resist the coming 9/11 operation? If so, how could they be stopped?
In some cases, blackmail material was collected. In others, more intensive surveillance was instituted.
Two “actionable threats” to the 9/11 coup were Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. After 9/11, they received US government anthrax in the mail. Frightened, Daschle and Leahy quickly stopped questioning 9/11 and opposing the Constitution-shredding USA Patriot Act.
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duh! this is stoopid right? i mean we all knew this all along right?
i'm still trying to figger out what it is that snowden revealed that we didn't already know?
yah Pagan, my internet searches did in fact instigate specific questions by other researchers in my wife's field- but when i told you that this happened you said i'm nuts? LOL... who's nuts? not me-
i'll share another detail now that should make you squirm even more, the one specific case that proved the situation to me beyond doubt and really triggered my outrage involved foreign natioanl researchers working for our government. i never cared that our own people were doing it, i've known that for years but when house Chin comes knocking? that means we got more problems than i realised. esp. since we had compartmentalised the way we did the literature searches very carefully so that any "echoes" that came back were proven to be off my PC!
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German minister warns net users to avoid Google and Facebook which use US servers Google uses US servers Google uses US servers As the row over US data snooping continues to develop, a German Minister has issued a warning to internet users to avoid using sites which use US servers, if they wish to avoid NSA surveillance. Google, the world’s largest search engine and global brand, and Facebook, with 1.1 billion active users monthly, are hosted on US servers. http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/07/03/german-minister-warns-net-users-avoid-goo gle-and-facebook-which-use-us-servers#A0Ze5tA8ilz6eQ2j.99
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my tin foil hat really is gold plated huh Pagan?
| 7/02/2013 @ 2:42PM | National Intelligence Director Clapper Apologizes For 'Clearly Erroneous' Congressional Testimony On NSA Surveillance
Whistleblower Edward Snowden isn’t the only one looking for a safe haven since he began leaking a series of top secret documents on the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices. So has Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, whose statements to Congress earlier this year on NSA methods were exposed by Snowden’s leaks as being highly misleading. And as many call for Clapper’s resignation, he’s finally issued a public apology.
In a letter sent to the Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Diane Feinstein and published on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s website, Clapper admitted that his response in a March hearing to a question from Senator Ron Wyden on NSA data collection was “clearly erroneous.”
Wyden had asked Clapper to clarify a statement by NSA Director Keith Alexander, who had denied in a talk at the Defcon hacker conference that the NSA collected “dossiers” on every American. “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” Wyden asked. Take A Break From The Snowden Drama For A Reminder Of What He's Revealed So Far Andy Greenberg Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff Watch Top U.S. Intelligence Officials Repeatedly Deny NSA Spying On Americans Over The Last Year (Videos) Andy Greenberg Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff After NSA Leaks, Senators Re-Introduce Bill To Reduce Patriot Act Secrecy Andy Greenberg Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff
“No sir,” responded Clapper at the time. “Not wittingly.”
In fact, a document leaked to the Guardian by 29-year-old Booz Allen Hamilton contractor Edward Snowden showed that the NSA collected millions of Verizon customers’ cell phone records, specifically requesting that the company hand over Americans’ records and disregard the records of foreigners, and it was soon revealed that Sprint’s and AT&T’s data had been demanded under the same program. Those reports led Wyden to issue a statement calling for “straight answers” from intelligence officials like Clapper, and prompted others including Senator Rand Paul, Representative Justin Amash, former ambassador John Bolton, and former CIA agent Valerie Plame to call for his resignation.
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i belive this is rape, and if i'm not mistaken it is life in jail in teyaxas:
by Tiffany Craig / KHOU 11 News
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BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas -- Two women subjected to body cavity searches on the side of Highway 288 are suing the officers involved.
The entire stop was recorded on dash camera by the state trooper who initially pulled over Brandy Hamilton and Alexandria Randle for speeding.
The women were driving home from a trip to Surfside beach.
You can hear Hamilton ask the trooper if she can put on some clothes because she is wearing only a bikini.
"Can I put my dress on," she asked the officer. "Don't worry about it," he told her. "Come out here."
The trooper asks if there is anything illegal in the car after claiming to smell marijuana.
Hamilton answers no.
He also pulled Randle from the car and gets on the radio to call for a female trooper.
"One of them has got her zipper open on her pants of her daisy dukes shorts -- whatever they are," he said.
The male trooper reportedly found a small amount of marijuana in the vehicle.
The attorney for the women, Allie Booker, doesn't understand why the cavity search was done.
"If you claim they were in the car doing something they had no business, and you claim you had the butt end of what they were doing, why do you need to do a cavity search," Booker said.
Hamilton was searched first and in the video, you can hear her reaction.
"Are you serious," Hamilton asked the trooper.
"If you hid something in there, we're going to find it," said the trooper.
"You're going to go up my private parts," Hamilton said.
"Yes ma'am," she said.
Nothing was found on either woman and they claim gloves weren't changed between searches.
KHOU 11 News legal analyst Gerald Treece watched the video with us.
"I think it's the violation of the 4th amendment to do these type of body cavity searches," said Treece. "The thing that's offensive about this is the fact that it's the most intrusive type of search which is a body cavity search and the question is for what."
One of the women is still dealing with a marijuana charge. Both have filed a federal lawsuit against the officers involved.
Police Using 'Seatbelt Checkpoints' to Search Cars Without Warrants, Make Drug Arrests
By Michael Allen, Fri, July 05, 2013
The Beckley, West Virginia Police Department set up a "seatbelt checkpoint," which resulted in several drug arrests on July 2.
The Beckley police claimed they did the checkpoint to inform residents and raise awareness of a new seatbelt law that goes into effect on July 9.
However, police brought K-9 drug-sniffing dogs to the checkpoints, which were not needed for seatbelt education.
According to The Register-Herald, police searched cars during the seatbelt checks and made five drug arrests. Officers seized 96 grams of marijuana, crack cocaine and $1,500. Police also issued 25 traffic citations
might as well move to China, cuz House Chin makes no pretenses about what they are doing and why... it's more honest
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note the source of this article carefully. even the Police are becoming alarmed about their Brother's and Sister's behaviors;
Body-cavity searches and common sense: No misdemeanor is worth losing your job It’s pretty unlikely that there’s even one jurisdiction in America in which a roadside body-cavity search falls within agency policy.
Trooper Bui has already been fired, and Trooper Turner has been suspended pending an internal investigation. The tea leaves I’m reading aren’t completely clear on his future with Texas DPS, but it’s a very safe prediction that there will be a significant payout to these women.
Officers are covered by applicable U.S. Supreme Court case law — even if there’s not probable cause for an arrest, all you need is reasonable suspicion for a Terry pat down.
For a Terry pat down — not a body-cavity search.
To my knowledge — and I encourage correction in the comments below if I’m wrong — there isn’t a jurisdiction in America in which a roadside body-cavity search falls within agency policy, including Texas DPS.
DPS Director Steven McCraw said in a written statement that the department “does not and will not tolerate any conduct that violates the U.S. and Texas constitutions or DPS training or policy.” Another Member added the following tip: “You conducted the stop, got the PC, searched and found a small amount of marijuana in the vehicle. Now make your arrest, transport to jail, let the jailers discover the weed there, then file on her for POM in a correctional facility (felony). And if the second amount is not found, so what, you already got your ‘arrest, traffic, impound, and citation stat’ for the day... MOVE ON to the next stop and don't get sued!”
Look, stowing stuff in body cavities is not new. Both male and female criminals use body-cavity concealment for all manner of contraband — hell, this woman concealed a loaded, five-shot, .22 caliber revolver in her vagina. But agency policy almost assuredly dictates that a body-cavity search be done under very specific guidelines.
There’s no substitute for common sense, so if you have to ask yourself, “Is this a good idea?” you may also want to seek a second opinion.
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Five Egregious Ways Police Are Seizing Property From Those Never Accused Of A Crime
By Nicole Flatow on August 5, 2013 at 2:19 pm
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As law enforcement officers continue to ramp up use of a controversial practice known as civil forfeiture, police are seizing cash, cars, houses, and other assets in the name of drug enforcement without ever having arrested or charged their owners with a crime. Funds collected from these seizures frequently go directly back into law enforcement, creating a dangerous profit incentive for police and other law enforcers. Both the New Yorker and ProPublica have new investigations of this practice, in which officers seize property they believe is connected to drug or other illicit activity, with a much lower burden of proof than when charges are filed against a person. Below are five of the most egregious incidents to emerge from these reports. •Police in Philadelphia are seeking to seize the home of an elderly couple with health troubles because their 31-year-old son allegedly sold small quantities of marijuana for $20 each to an informant. The Adamses were able to defend the forfeiture action only because of a University of Pennsylvania law school clinic that provided free legal services and had experience with similar cases. “Even lawyers don’t know about these defenses unless they’ve worked on forfeiture specifically,” said Louis Rulli, who runs the clinic. Such seizures of homes for alleged drug offenses committed by children or grandchildren are widespread in Philadelphia, where nearly 2,000 forfeiture actions were filed against houses between 2008 and 2012. ProPublica’s review of these cases found that only 30 ended in judges rejecting seizure. •Virginia state troopers seized funds collected from church donations when church secretary Victor Ramos Guzman was pulled over on the highway. Because the Guzman is an immigrant from El Salvador who was living in the United States under temporary protected status, the police department stood to gain 80 percent of the proceeds by reporting the money to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Guzman, who said he was on his way to buy a property for the church with the funds, spoke limited English, and was unable to combat the seizure until he gained pro bono representation from a lawyer who served as Deputy Chief Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture Office during the Reagan administration. •Police in Tehana, Texas, seized for several hours the infant of a Washington, D.C. couple traveling through the town, who said they were using their cash to buy restaurant equipment. Dale Agostini, a Guyanese man who runs an award-winning Caribbean restaurant, and his then-fiancee, a nursing student, were put in jail for the night. In police surveillance footage, an officer recounted that when Agostini asked if he could kiss his son goodbye, the officer responded, “No, kiss me.” The couple was one of the original plantiffs in a class action against the town for its rampant seizures of cash from those driving through on the highway, without other evidence of contraband or illegal activity. •In Johnson County, Texas, an officer seized cash from an out-of-state driver possessing no contraband, in exchange for a receipt that contained no information about who seized the money or how he could get it back. These sorts of actions are fueled by a Texas system in which officers directly profit from these seizures. In Hunt County, officers earned bonuses of up to $26,000 a year that came straight from forfeiture funds. •In Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Police Department has “seized cars by the hundreds,” including when a child driving a vehicle is suspected of criminal activity. Owners must post a bond of $2,500 simply to challenge the seizure, which can take months or years to resolve. The D.C. Council is now considering a bill to change the law, after the city’s Public Defender’s Service filed a constitutional challenge to the practice last year. Here’s one story from the New Yorker about how these seizures work:
Nelly Moreira, a stout, curly-haired custodian who lives in Northwest D.C. Moreira relied on her 2005 Honda Accord to drive from her early-morning job, cleaning Trinity Washington University, to her evening job, cleaning the U.S. Treasury Department. In March, 2012, her son was driving her car when he was pulled over for a minor traffic violation, and, after a pat down, was found to have a handgun. He was arrested, and her car was seized. Moreira, who grew up in El Salvador, explained in Spanish that she received a letter in the mail two months later asking her to pay a bond of one thousand and twenty dollars—which she took to be the fee to get her car back. Desperate, she borrowed cash from friends and family to cover the bond, which is known in D.C. law as a “penal sum.” If she hadn’t, the car would have been auctioned off, or put to use by the police. But all that the money bought her was the right to a complex and slow-moving civil-forfeiture court case.
She was left struggling to make her car payments each month as her Honda sat in a city lot, unused and unsheltered from the elements. The bond, the loans, and the public-transportation costs added up. “There were days I didn’t have a good meal,” she told me in February, sitting beneath her daughter’s quinceańera portrait in her narrow fuchsia-painted row house.
Federal forfeitures have been reined in relative to some local and state practices with the passage of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000. But DOJ proceeds have nonetheless skyrocketed over the years, from $27 million in 1985, to $500 million in 2000, to $4.2 billion last year, a record. At both the local and federal levels, report after report has borne out the concern that police overreach and misbehave when they gain a direct financial reward for seizing more assets. Even where officers are following the letter of the law, civil forfeitures by their very nature impose a minimal burden on officers, requiring them to prove only that the property is suspect — not the individual who owns it. The burden is on the defendant, by contrast, to prove their money was improperly taken from them. This is a significantly lower burden than in the lesser-used practice of criminal forfeiture, which only allows seizure once someone has been convicted. Advocates such as the ACLU’s Vanita Gupta question why law enforcement officers should ever be permitted to use civil forfeiture instead.
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shutterstock_130231589Palo Alto, one of the wealthiest cities in the United States, voted Monday night to make it illegal to dwell in a car, the latest measure adopted by the city to criminalize homelessness.
The debate leading up to Monday’s vote was contentious. Proponents complained that homeless people were decreasing their quality of life in Palo Alto, while opponents pleaded that making it illegal to be homeless was unfair and mean-spirited.
“These are Palo Altans,” testified homeless advocate James Han. “These are people who have jobs in the community; people who would love to stay here if possible but can’t; people who are staying in their cars because they live in Tracy, they have jobs out here and they can’t afford a daily commute back to Tracy. These are people who are contributing to your community who deserve something more humane.”
The vote itself, however was lopsided, with seven council members voting in favor and just two opposed. Shouts of “shame!” echoed throughout the chamber from opponents of the measure, according to Palo Alto Online’s Gennady Sheyner.
There are more than 400 homeless men and women who live in Palo Alto, according to a 2010 estimate, and as many as 50 of them currently find refuge in their cars. If they don’t find other accommodations or leave town in the next six months when the law goes fully into effect, they could face six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Palo Alto first considered banning people from dwelling in vehicles in 2011, but opted instead to try to mimic a program used in other cities where homeless residents can park and sleep at local churches. That plan failed to take hold in Palo Alto, Sheyner notes, “after staff failed to find participants in the local faith-based community.”
Even before Monday’s vote, Palo Alto had developed a reputation for cruel treatment of its homeless residents. In 1997, the city passed a “sit-lie” law, which prohibits people from sitting or lying down on downtown sidewalks. The ordinance effectively outlaws homeless people from asking for donations or even spending time downtown; as a result, homeless residents are pushed even further to the margin of society.
Many cities in the Bay Area have already outlawed sleeping in one’s car. And though there’s no exact count of how many municipalities ban it, a recent Time article about homeless people living in their vehicles estimated that it’s illegal in much of the country.
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When i lived in California? I saw more homelessness in one month in Riverside than i had ever sen in my whole life.
I now live in one of the most poverty stricken areas in the *developed world* (not just the US) i have lived here for many years longer than i planned to becaiuse of this stupid recession/depression.
what i have learned here is that we don't have homelessness in poveryt stricken areas. It is a "disaease" of the wealthy.
i know that sounds counterintuitive but here's why; this guys house (and land) is worht less than most cars.:
so, you want to belive this is an extreme example? OK, your are corrct. this place is way cleaner than 90% of the rest of this dump...
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But at least they have a place to stay. I think that is better than the streets, not saying that is good, but i would rather live in that then be on the streets.
quote:Originally posted by raybond: “Even lawyers don’t know about these defenses unless they’ve worked on forfeiture specifically,” said Louis Rulli, who runs the clinic.
this is interesting to me because i have had to learn alot about whislteblowing laws in the last two years, and the same hing is true in both areas of the law. WHOLE law firms are often required to defend against whistleblowing retaliation. The worst part is that most whistleblowers do not even know they are whislteblowers unti lit is too late, (they were "just doing their job") just like this couple whose son was prolly entrapped, and the criminal case would be thrown out, but the property confiscation will not be thrown out (as easily).
the truly sad part of this is that it all began with good intentions. the cops needed more moeny to combat serious drug cartels and drug gangs (like the Pagans motorcycle gang).. remember "just say no" ?
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quote:Originally posted by IWISHIHAD: But at least they have a place to stay. I think that is better than the streets, not saying that is good, but i would rather live in that then be on the streets.
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i agree. however, if you saw all the money being poured itno programs that is supposed to be ending that poverty and is not, it is just going to wothless grants written and excuted by the wealthy, you'd freak out... (that's why i have had to learn so much about whislteblowing retaliation laws )
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Published on Wednesday, August 7, 2013 by Common Dreams 'Eminent Domain for the People' Leaves Wall Street Furious Housing justice advocates hopeful about innovative Richmond plan to use public seizure laws to save underwater homes from foreclosure - Sarah Lazare, staff writer Using the authority of state government to actually help people has Wall Street bankers in a panic, spurring threats of aggressive legal retaliation against the town of Richmond, California simply for trying to help some of its struggling homeowners.
'Eminent domain' has long been a dirty term for housing justice advocates who have seen municipalities invoke public seizure laws to displace residents and communities to make way for highways, shopping malls, and other big dollar projects.
But in Richmond, city officials are using eminent domain to force big banks to stop foreclosing on people's homes in an innovative new strategy known as 'Principle Reduction' aimed at addressing California's burgeoning housing crisis. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/07-4#.UgKKG1WFe6g.facebook
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i agree. however, if you saw all the money being poured itno programs that is supposed to be ending that poverty and is not, it is just going to wothless grants written and excuted by the wealthy, you'd freak out... (that's why i have had to learn so much about whislteblowing retaliation laws ) -------------------------------------------------
That's the problem with so many of these programs, most of the money never gets to the ones that need it.
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quote:Originally posted by IWISHIHAD: Originally Posted By Glassman:
i agree. however, if you saw all the money being poured itno programs that is supposed to be ending that poverty and is not, it is just going to wothless grants written and excuted by the wealthy, you'd freak out... (that's why i have had to learn so much about whislteblowing retaliation laws ) -------------------------------------------------
That's the problem with so many of these programs, most of the money never gets to the ones that need it.
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yes! and the ones who are getting it are wives of lawyers adn doctors (for instance).
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