Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. ~ Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902) in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887.

Being a “Constable on Patrol” is not an easy job. But it does provide the officer with an exceptional amount of power over his fellow man. Most of the time, that power is unchecked.

Combine a typical self-centered human with a treasonous or malignant Chain of Command and you have an environment that harkens back to Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany where government officials enact staggering abuses with impunity.

DON’T TAZE ME, BRO

The earmarks of many cases of police malfeasance are cowardice and lack of training. If a flawed officer feels in any way threatened, triggers are pulled instantly. Most times on a tazer but sometimes on a firearm.

And tazers are far from harmless.

In November of last year, I gave two examples of such abuse, starting with a young autistic girl in Ashland, Oregon:

According to her father, she loves cars. She slipped out of her specially-secured room and out of her clothes and began running happily along the highway.

A cab driver saw her and called the police but when a female officer showed up, the care-free little girl got two warnings and then a tazer shot into her back.

Although police and media described her as a “young woman”, she is only 11 years old.

In an interview with David Knight of InfoWars, her father Aram Hampson said the testimony he received from cab driver Adam Bednar was much more damning. Badnar stated the female officer had no reason to tazer the little girl.

Although tazers are the instrument of choice for purposely under-educated officers, they carry severe consequences.

As the eye witness stated, the little autistic girl froze in her induced convulsions and smacked brutally into the pavement.

In Florida, a 267 lb. police officer chose to tazer 20 year old Danielle Maudsley, who was already handcuffed when she tried to run, rather than break a sweat and chase her. She screamed, went into convulsions and hit the pavement.

Now she’s brain dead.

Again, the officer was cleared of misconduct.

http://youtu.be/ZGRH-SLpWas

In Texas, when a police officer responded to a fight between two teenage girls in a high school (the disgusting state of public education aside), 17 year old Neo de Rivera got in the way. He was immediately tazed without any regard for his surroundings, cracked his skull and is now unresponsive and comatose.

In another example rife with culture refuse, single mother Charlene Bratton took her 12 year old daughter into “Victoria’s Secret” in a St. Louis mall. An officer was dispatched when it was discovered that Bratton had an outstanding warrant. As the officer confronted Bratton, her daughter (identified as Dejamon Baker) ended up being tazed. Was it necessary? Perhaps. In light of other incidents, perhaps not.

San Francisco “Bay Area Rapid Transit” police—which I believe receive the same crack training as park rangers—were seen viciously tazering another citizen who didn’t scream “How high!” when the “officers” said “JUMP!”

At Honeymoon Island State Park, Florida, Pinellas County Sheriff’s Deputy Kenneth Kubler got into a struggle with 37 year old James Barnes. The Deputy shot Barnes three times with his tazer, now Barnes is dead. Was this caused by Kubler being undertrained in how to deescalate a confrontation?

In Tacoma, Washington, a deaf woman—Lashonn White—used a special video-equipped phone to call for help when a guest attacked her in her home but when police arrived, she was tazed for being “unresponsive”. Local KIRO TV7 reported:

After months of digging, investigative reporter Chris Halsne found significant discrepancies in the official police version of events leading up to Lashonn White’s arrest.

I’m always inclined to give an officer the benefit of the doubt but, as KIRO’s Halsne noted:

Instead of an apology, she ended up bloody and in jail for nearly three days without an interpreter before a prosecutor declined to press charges.

Deaf Los Angeles resident Jonathan Meister was removing his belongings in boxes when a neighbor claimed he was acting suspiciously because he failed to acknowledge their questions. Responding police immediately grabbed Meister by his wrists (which kept him from communicating with them) and then brutalized him. A suit is being brought by the Greater Los Angeles Agency on Deafness which, according to Steve Watson of InfoWars depicts a harrowing experience:

“Because he is deaf, Mr. Meister depends on using his hands while facing a person to communicate,” the complaint states. “The officers’ sudden aggression, which both caused pain and interfered with his ability to communicate, caused Mr. Meister reflexively to pull his hands away, hop back over the fence and step toward the gate … to create some space so that he could communicate.”

The suit then notes that Meister began to panic and resist being handcuffed. That was when one of the officers shot him twice with a taser. Another officer then deployed a second taser, delivering a “drive stun” to his abdomen.

The report notes that officers “struck Meister with fists and feet, and forcibly took him to the ground.” The cops then kicked and punched him in the back and stomach, while another choked him around the neck. The suit also alleges that the cops delivered “punishing shocks” with the tasers, intentionally “burning his flesh.”

Perhaps most disturbing are the cases of Police brutality that can only be explained by demonic frenzy and lust to cause harm on a vulnerable victim.

Such may have been the case for Kelly Thomas, a mentally-ill homeless man from Fullerton, California. After 6 Fullerton police officers finished with him, he had been tazed and beaten into a vegetative state. He was described as “gentle” and bystanders said he offered no resistance. The before and after pictures of Thomas as shown by the UK Daily Mail are absolutely gruesome. Although Fullerton PD claimed Thomas was being investigated as a possible car thief who resisted when questioned, Thomas’ father (a former law enforcement officer) is outraged at what the 6 on 1 incident did to his son and claims it was clearly excessive force. Kelly eventually died from his wounds.

http://youtu.be/2AOv64VYAx4

As you think over the “Left/Right paradigm” you’d imagine the overwhelmingly Leftist media would hammer Police abuse but that is actually not the case.

The corporate media represents “the Machine” and “the Machine” represents control. Alexander Higgins wrote for the Examiner that most representations of what happened to Kelly Thomas glossed over the glaring brutality.

During the manhunt for renegade police officer Christopher Dorner, cops sprayed a truck with two women in it with over 100 rounds of bullets. Nothing in the description of large black male Dorner matched the two hispanic females save that they were in a pickup truck.

As is true in all cases of police malfeseance, the taxpayer footed the bill to the two women who managed to survive (thanks to amazingly poor marksmanship by the Keystone Cops) and hit the jackpot for an astounding $4.2 million.

Poor thin white male David Perdue must not have had expensive LA lawyers. He only received $20,000 after he was shot being confused for the stocky, bald black Dorner. Certainly, Dorner meant business and you should “spray & pray” first, then let the taxpayers clean up the mess, later.

What happened to the trigger-happy hooligans in badges? At least one blogger is concluding that nothing has resulted from the investigation but the entirety of corporate media are headlining that the “officers violated policy.” For that, they face extreme measures perhaps as serious as retraining.

Officers Who Shot 2 Women During Dorner Manhunt Violated Policy — CNN

Cops Violated Policy in Dorner Mistaken-ID Shooting — LA Times

Panel Finds Officers Broke LAPD Policy During Dorner Manhunt — CBS, Los Angeles

LAPD Officers Violated Policy in Shooting on Delivery Women During Dorner Manhunt — NBC, Los Angeles

This is all without even going down the rabbit hole of what really happened during the Dorner incident. While police and media were reporting that Dorner’s last hideout was accidentally torched, later evidence showed it was a premeditated and calculated killing with cops playing Judge Dredd: judge, jury and executioners.

I would be remiss if I chose to use “don’t taze me, bro” as a subtitle and didn’t address the incident because it shows how law enforcement has become the thug enforcement arm of the New World Order.

As I noted in my column Democracy in America: THE BIG LIE, the “choice” for Americans in who was running for President in 2004 was no choice at all.

The fact that, in 2004, the American people were given the choice for president of sitting Bonesman George W. Bush, son of former CIA Director, former president and Bonesman George H.W. Bush, and United States Senator and Bonesman John Forbes Kerry, married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, widow of United States Senator H. John Heinz III, son of Bonesman H.J. Heinz II, finally elicited a minor stirring from the corporate media.

It was in questioning Kerry’s secretive associations that University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was immediately “sedated” by law enforcement.

GETTING SWAT’d

On Jan. 4 of last year, a local narcotics strike force conducted a raid on the Ogden, Utah, home of Matthew David Stewart at 8:40 p.m. The 12 officers were acting on a tip from Mr. Stewart’s former girlfriend, who said that he was growing marijuana in his basement. Mr. Stewart awoke, naked, to the sound of a battering ram taking down his door. Thinking that he was being invaded by criminals, as he later claimed, he grabbed his 9-millimeter Beretta pistol.

The police say that they knocked and identified themselves, though Mr. Stewart and his neighbors said they heard no such announcement. Mr. Stewart fired 31 rounds, the police more than 250. Six of the officers were wounded, and Officer Jared Francom was killed. Mr. Stewart himself was shot twice before he was arrested. He was charged with several crimes, including the murder of Officer Francom.

The police found 16 small marijuana plants in Mr. Stewart’s basement. There was no evidence that Mr. Stewart, a U.S. military veteran with no prior criminal record, was selling marijuana. Mr. Stewart’s father said that his son suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may have smoked the marijuana to self-medicate.

Early this year, the Ogden city council heard complaints from dozens of citizens about the way drug warrants are served in the city. As for Mr. Stewart, his trial was scheduled for next April, and prosecutors were seeking the death penalty. But after losing a hearing last May on the legality of the search warrant, Mr. Stewart hanged himself in his jail cell.

The police tactics at issue in the Stewart case are no anomaly. Since the 1960s, in response to a range of perceived threats, law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier. Driven by martial rhetoric and the availability of military-style equipment—from bayonets and M-16 rifles to armored personnel carriers—American police forces have often adopted a mind-set previously reserved for the battlefield. The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop—armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.* ~ Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko, Wall Street Journal

With unaccountable cops already capable of committing crime in the name of the law, the militarization of police becomes that much more disconcerting.

As I’ve already noted, it takes very little cause to have cops “tac up” and go full SWAT team to present a warrant or seek information from citizens.

And, as the Daily Caller noted, accessing supposedly private firearms licenses is all part of the process. Serving a warrant for credit card fraud but a family member has a concealed carry permit? Time to go full SWAT.

The problem for homeowners is that the SOP (“Standard Operating Procedure”) seems to be:

• Kick in door.
• Kill family dog.
• Maybe announce yourself.

It happened to a 75 year old grandmother in Macedon, NY.

“The dog hadn’t even barked, yet I heard one of them say, he’s aggressive, shoot him! I’ll never forget the sound of that gunshot and the blood flying everywhere. They did all this while forcing me to lay on the bathroom floor, screaming at me to stay down, and holding me at gunpoint. I couldn’t get up if I wanted to. I’m 75 years old, had three strokes and knee replacement, and can hardly walk. There was nothing I could do to help my pet.”

Unfortunately, Duke died a slow death. ~ 75 Year Old Grandmother Held Down At Gunpoint As Police Shoot & Kill Her Dog, Information Liberation

Simply barking at a police officer is enough to get a dog riddled with bullets, as was the sad case for this Idaho family.

It’s tough to make the case for “the officer felt endangered” when a prize miniature bull terrier puppy is near but that was enough of a stretch for one Chicago cop. Miniature bull terrier puppies may be small but they have been known to do as much damage as a medieval rabbit.

This tactic is even more upsetting when hapless cops pull it on the innocent families instead of drug dealers, as was the case in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Francos got the pleasure of having their kids sit at gunpoint and stare at the bloody corpse of their family pet while tough men dressed in military battle armor figured out they were in the wrong house.

It’s become such an epidemic, an appeal has been made to Barack Obama, himself to require police take a nanosecond or two to ascertain if discharging a firearm is really necessary.

The Most Merciful Messiah is well known for his compassion so I’m sure we’ll have action on this in no time.

SMILE, YOU’RE ON CANDID CAMERA

One solution that is easily available with “off the shelf” technology is to take squad car cameras and put them on police officers, along with passive microphones. Not only would such coverage give investigators the whole story but it may even give civilians an understanding of the real dangers officers face. Juries and boards should take all circumstances into consideration and more information is better.

As it stands, however, cops go into Stasi mode when they realize that citizens are recording their actions.

This is in spite of court rulings which state public officials have no expectation of privacy when conducting government business.

* In Austin, Texas, Antonio Buehler began filming Austin police when he saw they were man-handling a woman at a local gas station. He was subsequently arrested for resisting and “felony harassment of a public servant”—which is a great tool to keep in the bag of “I’ll take you in and we’ll just find something to charge you with.”
* In Torrance, California, Daniel Saulmon was arrested and jailed for 4 days because he filmed police during a routine traffic stop then refused to produce identification. Again, charges of resisting were preferred but not substantiated.

http://youtu.be/oOtv2WIguiQ

* In Dallas, Texas, a police officer attempted to confiscate a motorcyclist’s helmet camera to track down bikers. When the rider refused, he was arrested.
* Subsequent to an investigation he was conducting in a New Hampshire police brutality case for his popular web site CopBlock.org, Adam Mueller now faces an astounding 21 years in prison for having recorded interviews with officers even though they were aware they were being recorded. This charge is called “wiretapping”.
* In Illinois, Michael Allison faces life in prison for “wire tapping” local law enforcement there. Police in Illionis do not need a citizen’s consent to record them and use the evidence against them.

http://youtu.be/fsiwDCyJQEE

One example that is truly amazing is that of Nancy Genovese, arrested in Southampton, New York when an off-duty police officer noticed her taking pictures of a National Guard facility. During the arrest, it was noted that she had firearms in her vehicle which damned her even more.

The media portrayed her as an hysterical nut-case, though it appears the NY Post was more hysterical in describing one of her “scary firearms” as an “XM-15”. Having never heard of such a thing I’m guessing it was perhaps a laser weapon stolen from a research facility.

The Personal Liberty Digest painted a different picture of Genovese taking pictures for her web site then being terrorized in jail as a “tea bagger” (a perverse homosexual term used to slander the Tea Party).

Genovese’s car was searched without her consent. Officers found an unloaded rifle in a locked case in her trunk (she had been target shooting that morning, and it is perfectly legal to keep an unloaded rifle in the trunk of a car). For the next five or six hours, Genovese was interrogated, taunted, harangued, threatened, belittled, abused, humiliated and harassed by members of the Sheriff’s Office. During this time, officers noticed she was limping from an ankle injury she had received earlier in the day. Officers made her show them the injury, which was bleeding, then threatened to charge her for not reporting a knife wound. Deputy Robert Carlock repeatedly called her a “right winger” and a “teabagger,” and he threatened to charge her with terrorism to make an example of her for other “right wingers” and “teabaggers.”

Sometime around midnight, airport officials and Federal agents determined Genovese posed no terrorist or security threat and left. But Carlock ordered Genovese handcuffed. When Genovese’s children tried to get her purse, which contained a large amount of cash, deputies threatened them with arrest.

Genovese was then taken to a holding cell at the Sheriff’s Office. On the way there, Carlock continued to taunt Genovese, telling her she would pay and admitting they had nothing to charge her with, but that he would “find something in order to teach all right wingers and teabaggers a lesson.”

The author, Bob Livingston, closed with this:

Her camera memory card was not returned to her. More than $5,000 in cash was missing from her purse. The contents of her car’s glove box were removed.

Genovese has filed a $70 million lawsuit against the Town of Southampton, Suffolk County, Iberger, Caracappa, Carlock and other members of the Sheriff’s Office. The lawsuit is ongoing.

On May 1, [Southampton Town Police Lt. Robert Iberger] Iberger retired from the Sheriff’s Office. He got a $215,483 payout, a full pension and lifetime medical benefits. It pays to be a government terrorist.

This case began more than a year ago. I’ll bet you haven’t heard about this on ABC News, CNN or Fox, et al., or read about it in The New York Times or any other newspaper of record. It doesn’t jibe with their agenda.

I, however, have a very entertaining update.

Apparently, the Southampton Town Council Supervisor—a hyphenated career woman, “Anna Throne-Holst”—never bothered to bring the town’s case to court and missed the filing saying that she had a death in the family and it was “frivolous” anyway. They are now on the hook for nearly their entire year’s budget to Genovese.

BAD COP, GOOD COP

Like the many soldiers who are taking courageous stands in defense of America, her Constitution and the citizenry, there are courageous and conscientious peace officers doing the same.

In South Florida, Officer Ericson Harrell was arrested while off duty because he was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask in public protest. Harrell refused to seek preferential treatment as a police officer and, although charges were dropped, he continues to be persecuted on the force with graveyard shifts and “retraining”.

In Colorado, Sheriffs sued to void draconian gun laws they found to be both unconstitutional and unenforceable. Other Sheriffs in the state flat-out refused to try.

Linn County, Oregon, Sheriff Tim Mueller said he would also refuse to enforce unconstitutional gun laws.

In Elkhart County, Indiana, a local Sheriff protected raw dairy farmer Richard Hochstetler from harassment by FDA officials.

In Florida, Liberty County Sheriff Nick Finch released a citizen he felt a deputy had wrongly arrested on firearm charges. Finch was then, himself, charged with misconduct and stripped of his credentials—an order that came all the way from Republican governor Rick Scott. A jury acquitted Finch of wrongdoing and he was reinstated after great hardship and stress.

There is a common thread to these inspiring stories: each good cop has been beat down or harassed by his own government. If you know one in your area, they need your support, badly.

One effort that trumps all others, is when people rise en masse to stop injustice. They become an irresistible and unstoppable force.

http://youtu.be/-8p1TGz_bBk

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* I have two thoughts on this story: first, an ex-girlfriend is always a good source of narcotics intelligence and, second, I find Matthew Stewart’s suicide while in a government facility deeply suspicious in light of the execution of another supposed “cop-killer”, Christopher Dorner.

The immortal words of President Dwight D. Eisenhower during his Farewell Address have become the rallying cry for awakened Americans sick of being drained by war.

After over a decade, citizens of the United States have nothing to show from their participation in the “War on Terror” except lighter wallets, horrifying humiliation at the airport terminal…and sons without arms, legs and faces. Many are left with no son at all.

But an increasingly-oppressive corporatized government has been reaping massive rewards in the science of population control.

“Drones” (known in the military as “Unmanned Arial Vehicles” or “UAVs”) are easily dealt with by determined nation-states. Russian-equipped Iranians downing a top secret U.S. Stealth drone towards the end of 2011, bears this out. It was a drone overloaded with the best in American military technology and Barack Obama gifted it to them.

Even modestly-knowledgeable and little-funded operations like those of the University of Texas can hijack a flying robot.

But for the common citizen, a drone can be a terrifying eavesdropper (and remote killer) and their use in the continental United States is now an Orwellian fact.

Some of the personalities engineering this new age of death from above are right out of a science fiction movie.

Fast forward to 1 minute in of this promotional video where iRobot managing director Joe Dyer calls the drones and systems he sends into the field his “children” —then corrects himself.

http://youtu.be/45yWLgI40wM

Feeding the government war machine is so lucrative and so vast that contractors have their own contractor to help them land that big contract.

One such “source for competitive solutions” (always need the term “solutions” in your business catch-phrase) is the firm “Washington Technology”. They put out an interesting article explaining the latest push in citizen identification: “biometrics”.

As the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) drives an ever-increasing demand for effective identification technology, biometric systems are being used to deliver these capabilities to the battlefield.

Biometric data includes measurable physical or behavioral characteristics used to uniquely identify an individual, such as handwritten signatures, iris scans, fingerprints, facial recognition, voice recognition, thermal signatures and DNA samples. The value of biometric systems lies in their ability to reliably and consistently identify an individual – thereby denying a terrorist or enemy the power of anonymity. To date, more than 16,000 individuals have been placed on the Department of Defense (DoD) Biometrics Watchlist (a list of identities of interest to the Department), including more than 1,800 high value targets; more than 1,600 insurgents have been placed on “security hold” – significant milestones in force protection.

The military has now amassed extensive knowledge in the use of biometrics as well as built a staggering database of “terrorists”. Ellen Messmer of Network World noted:

When it comes to biometrics, the U.S. Department of Defense has gained vast experience during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the military has captured millions of fingerprints, facial images and iris scans in order to identify and collect details about terrorists and dangerous insurgents.

…Suspects are tracked down based on fingerprints found on exploded bomb fragments, for instance, that are matched against a database in the United States in less than three minutes using satellite communications.

…The Department of Defense is … eager to expand its biometrics efforts into new areas that include DNA, as well as what’s called “multi-modal biometrics” that fuse various types, like fingerprint or iris, in order to obtain a more perfect match on subjects.

The science of biometrics “strips away the ambiguity of a person’s identity,” said Dr. Myra Gray, director of the Biometrics Task Force. In “high-target tracking,” biometrics is a tool that will “deny anonymity to adversaries” and is now being used in Iraq and Afghanistan on detainees and suspected terrorists, Gray told attendees at the Biometric Consortium Conference going on in Tampa this week.

“We have 3.5 million records stored” on 2.3 million total identities, Gray said.

All of this sounds really patriotic and inspiring…until you start redefining just who a “terrorist” is.

In 2009, then Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano put out a report which stated you, Patriotic Americans, were the next “terror threat”; Pro Lifers, Christians, Libertarians, Tea Partiers and veterans returning from war. It is your face they wish to scan and record, and they’re doing it now.

The UK has been the premier test bed for the Surveillance State and now, even grocery chains are getting in on the action with facial recognition scanners mapping customers who just need their milk and bread.

COMING TO AMERICA

In San Diego County, California, police are now cataloging anyone they arrest via biometrics and a new “Tactical Identification System”. Your permission is neither wanted nor asked.

The local Bay Area NBC affiliate reported the story with this headline:

Facial Recognition, Once a Battlefield Tool, Lands in San Diego County

The quick and quiet roll-out of battlefield technology in the hands of local law enforcement has more than a few rattled;

The use of this technology was rolled out without any public hearings or notice. The secrecy of the program has alarmed privacy experts and raised questions about whether San Diego is the leading edge of an alarming future – one in which few people escape cataloging in a government database.

Perhaps, you’re thinking, “Don’t get arrested” and everything will be OK.

In Texas, random citizens are corralled and intimidated into participating in a Federal “DNA screening” where they are asked to give saliva or blood.

The local Dallas/Ft. Worth news channel seemed to have some trouble getting details from either the contractor or the government:

NBC DFW confirmed that the survey was done by a government contractor, the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, which is based in Calverton, Md.

A company spokeswoman referred questions to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

An agency spokeswoman sent an email confirming the government is conducting the surveys in 30 cities across the country in an effort to reduce impaired-driving accidents.

She did not respond to another email from NBC DFW asking specific questions about the program.

DNA is a powerful, personal signature. It is all too easy to contrive a story about testing for impaired drivers as a ruse to have access to a citizen’s blood or saliva.

In Tennessee, drivers stopped at “check points” don’t get asked.

It’s bad enough to see militarized police at such a “check point” but when you add a soldier into the mix, you get that twisting sensation in the pit of your stomach.

Federal, state and local governments try to put you at ease (or acclimate you?) by using National Guard soldiers instead of Active Duty. This gives the appearance of adhering to the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act which restricts the use of full-time military for domestic operations.

However, those same Guardsmen have been slowly assimilated into a Federal force structure via some disturbing precedents.

Many of us have seen the toll long deployments have taken on the National Guard serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. You have to stretch “citizen safety” pretty far to defend sending part-time Guardsmen to participate in the “War on Terror”.

But you may not know that the “state militias” have extended their reach far beyond the Middle East.

* The New Jersey National Guard has deployed to Botswana.

* The South Carolina National Guard recently deployed in support of Bill Clinton’s war in Kosovo (yes, there are still rotations to Kosovo, Bosnia and Serbia, all invisible to the mainstream media).

* The Tennessee National Guard is “partnering” with Uganda.

* Two years after Lithuania declared her independence, she partnered with American military: the Pennsylvania National Guard.

* A Missouri National Guardsman was killed in Guatemala.

The Guard is stretched so thin bouncing all over the world that, when they’re needed at home, they aren’t there.

The culmination of this migration has been centralizing the National Guard and giving the Guard’s highest-ranking officer a seat on the Active Duty Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is a move that left James Joyner of Outside the Beltway baffled:

In a move that makes no sense whatsoever, Air National Guard General Craig McKinley has become a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. …

The National Guard Bureau’s top officer is now a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A provision in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law Dec. 31 by President Obama, adds the Guard leader to the nation’s highest military advisory group.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff advises the president on national security matters.

Its members voiced firm opposition during a hearing on Capitol Hill in November as lawmakers pushed to create a seat for the Guard.

During the Nov. 10 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the six four-star generals voiced opposition to the proposal, saying it would create needless confusion and reduce their authority.

“There is no compelling military need for this change,” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said at the time. …

So, the entire Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of Defense opposed this move and yet it was made anyway? Why?

—Baffled, unless you have plans for those National Guard soldiers to carry out an important Presidential mission.

Control Dangerous AI Before It Controls Us, One Expert Says

MSNBC: Keeping the artificial intelligence genie trapped in the proverbial bottle could turn an apocalyptic threat into a powerful oracle that solves humanity’s problems, said Roman Yampolskiy, a computer scientist at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. But successful containment requires careful planning so that a clever breed of artificial intelligence cannot simply threaten, bribe, seduce or hack its way to freedom.

“It can discover new attack pathways, launch sophisticated social-engineering attacks and re-use existing hardware components in unforeseen ways,” Yampolskiy said. “Such software is not limited to infecting computers and networks — it can also attack human psyches, bribe, blackmail and brainwash those who come in contact with it.”

In deference to the good doctor, the late Michael Crichton got rich on the idea that “Chaos Theory” means there is no such thing as a “bottle” for that “genie”.

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“MR. OBAMA, PLEASE RAISE MY TAXES!”

Yet Another Warren Buffett-Owned Company Sued for Tax Evasion

The Blaze: Bloomberg News reports that Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, owns an airplane company that has been sued by the Federal Government for no less than $366 million in back taxes.

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GREEN SMOKE SCREEN

Gov’t-Subsidized Wind Farms Told NOT to Produce Energy

The Blaze: “Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest – built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced – are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region’s electricity grid says there’s an oversupply of renewable power at certain times of the year,” Q13 Fox reports.

Keep in mind, as mentioned in the above, these companies were built with government subsidies and have been maintained with tax credits. To put it plainly: the government is offering to compensate companies that it subsidized and then ordered to stop doing what they were subsidized to do in the first place.

Failed “Green Tech” Company Abandons $450M Plant

The Wall Street Journal: Evergreen Solar Inc. said it has failed to find a buyer for its Devens, Mass., plant and plans to walk away from the facility, which was launched with some $50 million in state aid.

The company asked a bankruptcy judge for permission to abandon the property before a $543,000 property tax bill comes due.

Evergreen has a deal with its landlord, Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, to get out of the ground lease for the facility, according to papers filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del.

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WORST OF BOTH WORLDS: TINKER WITH HUMAN DNA TO CURB THE LIE OF HUMAN-CAUSED “GLOBAL WARMING”

NYU Bioethicist Makes Case for “Human Engineering” to Curb Manmade Global Warming

The Blaze: … a New York University philosophy and bioethics professor, who believes humans are the cause of global warming, wants to take it right to the source: the genetics of humanity itself. Matthew Liaoof NYU and two Oxford co-authors (Anders Sandberg and Rebecca Roache) are making the case for several ideas that they believe are less risky solutions to global warming compared to other ideas, such as geothermal engineering.

Their argument was presented in the academic journal Ethics, Policy and the Environment in February. The authors explicitly describe the idea as “human engineering,“ or the ”biomedical modification of humans so that they can mitigate and/or adapt to climate change.” It should be noted, that the authors are not stating that this sort of engineering should be adopted, but they merely want to make the case for it “alongside other solutions in the debate about how to solve the problem of climate change.” If human engineering were ever to be truly considered as an option, the authors state it should be voluntary with the potential for tax breaks as an incentive.

Absolutely Mr. Liaoof! And let’s give the job of how we get engineered over to the experts at DARPA and the NSA.

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CORRUPT CORPORATE CRONYISM CONTINUES

NYT Pays Former CEO $24 Million To Go Away; The Paper Made $3 Million Total Over The Last 4 Years

Tech Dirt: Unlike some, I’m not that up in arms over high CEO pay… if they deserve it. In an open market, if an executive can command top dollar, based on strong performance, I’m all for it. However, if the pay is so totally divorced from performance as to be completely laughable, you have to wonder what’s up. Case in point: former NY Times CEO Janet Robinson received an “exit package” of $23.7 million.

That BASTION of truth-telling, the New York Times. Seems like “PROPAGANDA IS BUSINESS but BUSINESS IS ONLY GOOD FOR THE ELITES”!

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ELECTORAL IRRELEVANCE

HOLDER IN-JUSTICE DEPARTMENT STOPS TX VOTER ID REQUIREMENT

The Examiner: On Monday, Eric Holder’s Department of Justice barred the proposed Texas voter ID law from taking effect. Writing for the DOJ, Assistant Attorney General Robert Perez claimed that the law requiring all Texas voters to present a state issued photo ID at the polls would “adversely affect Hispanic voters” because they are “more than twice as likely not to have valid photo identification than non-Hispanic registered voters.”

Fascinating. Outrageous bold-faced institutional racism aside, one what authority does this bureaucracy negate the laws of the state of Texas and, even more importantly, why are Texans putting up with it?

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HIGH-PROFILE HYPOCRITE

(SEP 2010) Bono’s ONE Foundation Under Fire For Giving Little Over 1% Of Funds To Charity

U.K. Daily Mail: Bono’s anti-poverty foundation ONE is under pressure to explain its finances after it was revealed that only a small percentage of money it raises reaches the needy.

The non-profit organisation set up by the U2 frontman received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only £118,000 to good causes (1.2 per cent).

The figures published by the New York Post also show that £5.1million went towards paying salaries.

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POSSE COMIN’ AT-US

(JAN 2012) LAPD And Special Forces Conduct Military Maneuvers In The Skies Above Downtown LA

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The Los Angeles Police Department teamed with military special operation forces Wednesday evening to conduct multi-agency tactical exercises in the skies above downtown LA.

Many questioned what was going on Wednesday night as a Black Hawk helicopter and four OH-6 choppers – or “Little Birds” – flew over the city, at one point hovering just above the US Bank building downtown and later flying low over the Staples Center as the Lakers played inside.

Pretty soon, as military helicopters and armored cars come to your neighborhood to arrest those pesky Tea Partiers you won’t even bat an eye at what used to be a treasonous sight.

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WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS?

DEPT. OF IN-JUSTICE WANTS NEW COZY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NSA AND GOOGLE KEPT SECRET

Prison Planet: The Department of Justice will ask a federal court to uphold the secrecy that surrounds the working relationship between Google and the National Security Agency in a hearing that is scheduled for next week.

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SKYNET IS UP…AND HITLER IS RUNNING IT

NSA Quietly Building MASSIVE Spy Center in Utah

Wired: Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy.

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“PAPERS, PLEASE?”

TSA Harasses and Gropes Quadruple Amputee While He Travels to Inspire Americans Speaking on Coping With Terrible Hardship

Infowars: Jeff Lewis is a nationally known motivational speaker and a quadruple amputee. Even though he is well known by the TSA and other airport staff, he is routinely subjected to demeaning enhanced pat downs by TSA staff.

Related:

TSA Terrorize Child in a Wheelchair

TSA NOW PULLING DRIVERS FROM THEIR CARS IN TENNESSEE; SO-CALLED “VIPR PROGRAM” RECRUITS TRUCKERS TO SNITCH ON FELLOW AMERICANS

NOT-SO-FUNNY JAPANESE SPOOF ON THE TSA (not funny because it’s based on the truth of TSA PERVERT profiling)

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POETIC JUSTICE?

TEXAS “POLICE DRONE” CRASHES INTO “POLICE ARMORED CAR” DURING PUBLICITY PHOTO OP

WARNING TO THE LUCIFERIANS DRIVING THE SO-CALLED “NEW WORLD ORDER”: Just as Moses drowned the entire army of Pharoah the way a Pharaoh had intended to drown him (Exodus 14:26-29), just as Haman was hung on the gallows he prepared for Mordechai (Esther 7:9-10), just as king Saul was forced to kill himself with the sword he intended to kill David (I Samuel 31:4), so will the best-laid plans of the enemies of Almighty G-d (abbreviated out of respect) be turned back upon them!