19 nuclear reactors dumped in the Arctic by Russia?
http://prn.fm/2013/07/21/lifeboat-hour-072113/Also see
http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/201 ... he-arctic/Any voter and taxpayer wanting to evolve as a smart criminal justice consumer
should acknowledge ownership of the criminal justice system.
One of the first questions I found myself asking when I became involved
in becoming a smart criminal justice consumer is does the criminal justice system,
really the people working in the system, create more disorder than the
criminal justice system gives.
I soon had to resolve the question : Did taxpayer funded FBI agents assassinate President Kennedy?
http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2013/0 ... ssination/see link for full story
Up to 400 Expected For November Conference at The Adolphus Hotel on JFK Assassination
July 17th, 2013
Debra Conway calls herself a happy housemaker, with lots of children and grandchildren. But she’s also a proficient organizer—and a dogged critic of the status quo. So, since 1995, Conway has run JFK Lancer Productions & Publications, a “historical research company specializing in the administration and assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” For nearly 20 years, Southlake-based JFK Lancer (Lancer was the late president’s Secret Service code name) has also put on a Dallas historical research conference focusing on the assassination.
This year’s gathering, on the 50th anniversary of JFK’s murder, is scheduled for Nov. 21-24 at The Adolphus hotel. The organizers are expecting 350 to 400 people to attend, and it doesn’t appear to be a conclave of whack-jobs, either. Attendees will include academics, medical doctors, and JFK-assassination eyewitnesses, and Jefferson Morley—a veteran Washington journalist who’s written for Slate, the New Republic and the Washington Post—will be the keynote speaker. “We’re not, ‘the UFOs did it.’ We are a very conservative group,” Conway says. The November event at the Adolphus will be “a way for people to better understand the documentation of the case, and where we are today compared to investigations in the 1960s.”
Gunther Weil received his PhD from Harvard in 1965.
His mentors at Harvard were Timothy Leary and Ram Dass( Richard Alpert)
He has done some good work in providing maps for the
evolution of human consciousness.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/qigongmast ... nther-weilsee link for full story
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/FBI-ag ... 41761.htmlDo you know who the FBI SAC is in your city?
Do you know where FBI agents got the explosives to blow up
the basement of the World Trade Center in 1993?
Do you know the names of FBI agents who blew up the World Trade Center in 1993?
Do you know where FBI agents got Nano Thermetic explosives to blow
up the World Trade Center towers on 911?
Do you know the names of the FBI agents who blew up the World Trade Center towers?
A good criminal justice consumer would want to know how his taxes are being used, eh?
FBI agent gave Whitey Bulger explosives to send to IRA
Bulger IRA links laid bare in Boston trial and recent book
Sunday, July 21, 2013
An FBI agent gave Whitey Bulger 40 pounds of plastic explosives most of which was sent to the IRA a key witness in the Whitey Bulger trial has stated.
Steve Flemmi is the prosecution key witness already serving life without parole who says he accompanies Bulger on most of his murder sprees, including the strangling of Flemini’s own girlfriend, Debra Davies, because she knew the two men were FBI informers.
On Friday Flemmi testifies that in the 1980s, FBI agent John Newton gave him and Bulger a case of C-4 explosives to send to the IRA.
“It was a surprise when we got it,” Flemmi old the court adding that he believed that Newton, who was a former Green Beret, got the plastic explosives while in military training.
Newton had the explosives in his South Boston home and arranged for the two gangsters to come and pick it up. Newton has denied the accusation.
Links to the IRA have surfaced in the trial. Bulger was very close to senior IRA figure Joe Cahill, meeting him frequently in Boston after he smuggled him across the border from Canada on a supporters bus when the Boston Bruins hockey team were playing a Canadian side.
Bulger idolized Cahill according to Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy two Boston Globe writers who have written a definitive book on Bulger called “Whitey Bulger”
Bulger had an Irish passport obtained legally through his grandparents nationality in 1987.
Following the explosives hand over, the IRA worked with the Bulger gang on getting more weapons which ended when the Valhalla trawler left Gloucester, Mass in 1984 chock full of guns and explosives for the IRA. The 7 and half tons of weapons was estimated to have cost $1 million dollars
LINK DE JOUR
http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/8633 Laurel Sweet should be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her keen eye and investigative reporting. Why do I always hear the sound of one hand clapping after reading her articles about the FBI and Whitey Bulger Crime Families? Let me give Laurel a assist and correct her contextual errors. Context assist #1. For all the millions of words written about the Bulger and FBI crime families nothing will ever get fixed. C'mon do yo really expect Markey, Kennedy, Brown, Obama and the other local, state and national Ka Ka Pols to do anything when they are up against a 20,000 strong taxpayer funded death squad called the FBI? Did I mention an additional 10,000 shock troops in reserve called the Association of Retired FBI Agents? When interviewed for the Frontline documentary THE SECRET FILE OF J EDGAR HOOVER Vice President Mondale and former FBI agent Liddy discuss the great success FBI agents have blackmailing politicians see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFBxvpmzkfQ When blackmailing does not work taxpayer funded FBI agents resort to committing voter fraud like the did in Cincinnati when they got caught. see
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http ... r22/12-14/ Want some more context Laurel? How about FBI agents collaborating with the Mafia and organized crime that is systemic throughout every FBI office in every state? Taxpayer funded FBI agents always used the Mafia as 3rd party vendors to kill people like union organizers and political activists including President Kennedy and Martin Luther King. This is called Plausible Denial so FBI agents can distance themselves from the crime and it won't be traced back to them. More recently FBI agents have fully embraced the US Military who has provided the same services to the FBI as the Mafia with the added bonus of providing high tech explosives like nano thermetic explosives and anthrax biological weapons that were used in 911 and the Satchel Charges used in the Oklahoma City bombing."
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Flemmi: Zip crowed, ‘I’m one of the gang’
Saturday, July 20, 2013
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Laurel J. Sweet
James “Whitey” Bulger and his murderous right hand Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi were able to evolve into monsters right in front of the FBI “because we were central to their mandate to get rid of the Mafia,” Flemmi testified yesterday.
And they had no better puppet to help them bend law enforcement to their will than Special Agent John “Zip” Connolly, who went from selling out his federal badge for gifts of cash and diamond rings from the generous Winter Hill Gang to being forced to beg Bulger and Flemmi for an allowance.
In an interesting twist, Flemmi said when Bulger first started pestering him in the mid-1970s to meet Connolly, “I suspected I was being set up.”
Flemmi eventually folded because he realized “an FBI source would be a big thing.”
Bulger, charged with the gangland slayings of 19 men and women, insists he was not a top-echelon rat for the FBI and that Connolly, now incarcerated in Florida for second-degree murder, fabricated his 700-page informant file.
Flemmi , however, testified he and Bulger were “sometimes” in touch with Connolly on a weekly basis.
“I’m one of the gang!” Flemmi, on his second day on the witness stand at U.S. District Court, claimed Connolly once exclaimed after the Irish mob kingpins gave him $50,000. They soon realized, however, they were turning Connolly into a spoiled child.
“When he was going to work in his office he was dressing better than any other agent,” Flemmi, 79, said. “He had a nice car. Eventually he bought a boat.”
- See more at:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/lo ... 1rVXe.dpufFlemmi: Zip crowed, ‘I’m one of the gang’
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Laurel J. Sweet
James “Whitey” Bulger and his murderous right hand Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi were able to evolve into monsters right in front of the FBI “because we were central to their mandate to get rid of the Mafia,” Flemmi testified yesterday.
And they had no better puppet to help them bend law enforcement to their will than Special Agent John “Zip” Connolly, who went from selling out his federal badge for gifts of cash and diamond rings from the generous Winter Hill Gang to being forced to beg Bulger and Flemmi for an allowance.
In an interesting twist, Flemmi said when Bulger first started pestering him in the mid-1970s to meet Connolly, “I suspected I was being set up.”
Flemmi eventually folded because he realized “an FBI source would be a big thing.”
Bulger, charged with the gangland slayings of 19 men and women, insists he was not a top-echelon rat for the FBI and that Connolly, now incarcerated in Florida for second-degree murder, fabricated his 700-page informant file.
Flemmi , however, testified he and Bulger were “sometimes” in touch with Connolly on a weekly basis.
“I’m one of the gang!” Flemmi, on his second day on the witness stand at U.S. District Court, claimed Connolly once exclaimed after the Irish mob kingpins gave him $50,000. They soon realized, however, they were turning Connolly into a spoiled child.
“When he was going to work in his office he was dressing better than any other agent,” Flemmi, 79, said. “He had a nice car. Eventually he bought a boat.”
- See more at:
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/lo ... 1rVXe.dpufsee link for full story
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 05658.html July 19, 2013
Gangster Says Whitey Bulger Killed to Protect FBI Link
Stephen Flemmi Says His Girlfriend Was Strangled After She Learned of Connection
Admitted former gangster Stephen Flemmi said Friday that his alleged longtime criminal partner, James "Whitey" Bulger, was so concerned about protecting his secret relationship with a federal agent that he strangled Mr. Flemmi's girlfriend after she learned of the connection.
"He said he wanted to kill her," Mr. Flemmi said of Debra Davis, who was killed in 1981 at age 26. Mr. Flemmi was testifying for the second day in the long-anticipated trial of Mr. Bulger, alleged to be one of the city's most notorious gangland figures.
Earlier
Potential Witness Against Bulger Found Dead
"I couldn't do it," Mr. Flemmi said twice. "He said, 'I'll take care of it.' He grabbed her around the throat and strangled her."
After Ms. Davis was killed in an empty South Boston house and her lifeless body was taken to the basement, Mr. Bulger went upstairs to lie down, Mr. Flemmi said. "I just cleaned up and did what I had to do," he said.
Prosecutors say the men were once inseparable, but they hadn't seen each other in nearly two decades before Mr. Flemmi first took the stand Thursday. Mr. Bulger has pleaded not guilty to a 32-count racketeering indictment that claims he played a role in 19 murders and led a criminal organization that controlled extortion, drug dealing and loan sharking throughout Boston from the 1970s through the mid-1990s.
The government alleges Mr. Bulger was an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was aided by his corrupt handler. Mr. Bulger has vehemently denied cooperating with the FBI.
Mr. Flemmi, nicknamed "the Rifleman," pleaded guilty in 2003 to participating in 10 murders, including Ms. Davis and his own stepdaughter. His deal spared him the death penalty, and he is serving a life sentence in an undisclosed location.
Mr. Flemmi said the gangsters maintained a fund with $50,000 to $250,000 to buy equipment and bribe law enforcement. He has said that both he and Mr. Bulger were FBI informants, mostly passing along tips about the Italian Mafia. Mr. Bulger also gave his handler a diamond ring and an Alcatraz belt buckle, Mr. Flemmi said.
But, Mr. Flemmi said, the relationship went both ways: He alleged five agents and one supervisor accepted cash, and some passed along information about investigations and other inside tips.
The supervisor has admitted to taking payoffs. Four of the agents, now retired, have denied accepting bribes from Mr. Bulger. His FBI handler, John Connolly, was convicted of racketeering but has long maintained his innocence. The FBI declined to comment Friday on the allegations.
Mr. Flemmi said his alleged partner decided to kill Ms. Davis after Mr. Flemmi accidentally told her about their relationship with Mr. Connolly, whom he said accepted more than $230,000 during the association. Mr. Flemmi said Mr. Bulger was concerned about her lack of discretion and worried she would jeopardize the relationship with Mr. Connolly.
In 1988 after contacting more than a half dozen professors at various colleges in New England I called
Professor Howard Zinn at Boston University and asked him if he would help me organize the 1st
National Conference Investigating Crimes Committed by FBI agents. I had never heard of Howard Zinn
and if I did had forgotten his name ,when someone suggested I call him.
He took my phone call and set up an appointment when I could drive the 165 miles to Boston from Maine
and meet with him. I showed up for the meeting on the appointed day. He asked me what I needed from him.
After I spoke he picked up the phone and within a half hour 3 Boston University students joined our meeting and together we organized out 1st conference . The next 11 conferences were held at Bates College.
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/19Published on Friday, July 19, 2013 by Zinn Education Project
Indiana’s Anti-Howard Zinn Witch-hunt
by Bill Bigelow
Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, one of the country’s most widely read history books, died on January 27, 2010. Shortly after, then-Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels got on his computer and fired off an email to the state’s top education officials: “This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away.”
But Gov. Daniels, now president of Purdue University, was not content merely to celebrate Howard Zinn’s passing. He demanded that Zinn’s work be hunted down in Indiana schools and suppressed: “The obits and commentaries mentioned his book ‘A People’s History of the United States’ is the ‘textbook of choice in high schools and colleges around the country.’ It is a truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation that misstates American history on every page. Can someone assure me that is not in use anywhere in Indiana? If it is, how do we get rid of it before more young people are force-fed a totally false version of our history?”
We know about Gov. Daniels’ email tantrum thanks to the Associated Press, which obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Scott Jenkins, Daniels’ education advisor, wrote back quickly to tell the governor that A People’s History of the United States was used in a class for prospective teachers on social movements at Indiana University.
Daniels fired back: “This crap should not be accepted for any credit by the state. No student will be better taught because someone sat through this session. Which board has jurisdiction over what counts and what doesn’t?”
After more back and forth, Daniels approved a statewide “cleanup” of what earns credit for professional development: “Go for it. Disqualify propaganda and highlight (if there is any) the more useful offerings.”
Daniels recently defended his attack on Zinn’s work, telling the Associated Press, “We must not falsely teach American history in our schools.” In a letter posted on his Purdue University webpage, Daniels claimed that, “the question I asked on one day in 2010 had nothing to do with higher education at all.” Daniels should go back and read his own emails.
There are so many disturbing aspects to this story, it’s hard to know where to begin.
The first, of course, is Daniels’ gleeful, mean-spirited reporting of Zinn’s death. Anyone with even a passing familiarity with Howard Zinn’s career knows that his great passions were racial equality and peace. Finding cause for joy in the death of someone whose life was animated by confidence in people’s fundamental decency is shameful.
As someone who spent almost 30 years as a high school history teacher, I’m amused by the impoverished pedagogical vision embedded in Daniels’ emails and subsequent defense. Daniels wants Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States banned from the curriculum, so that the book is not “force-fed” to students. Governor Daniels evidently assumes that the only way one can teach history is to cram it down students’ throats. To see some alternative ways to engage students, Daniels might have a look at our lessons at the Zinn Education Project, which use Zinn’s People’s History of the United States in role plays, in critical reading activities, to generate imaginative writing, and to search for the “silences” in students’ own textbooks.
Take for example the last textbook I was assigned as a teacher at a public high school in Portland, Oregon, American Odyssey, published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. In the book’s one thousand pages, it includes exactly two paragraphs on the U.S. war with Mexico—the war that led to Mexico “ceding,” in the polite language of school curricula, about half its country to the United States. American Odyssey does not quote a single Mexican, a single soldier, a single abolitionist, a single opponent of the war. Well, in fact, the textbook doesn’t quote anyone. As one of my students pointed out when we read the book’s dull passages in class, “It doesn’t even view it as a war. It’s a situation.”
As the Zinn Education Project reveals regularly in its If We Knew Our History column, the version of U.S. history taught in the textbooks produced by giant corporations is anything but “true.” This scant treatment of such an important event in U.S. and Mexican history is one reason why teachers search out alternatives like A People’s History of the United States, which includes a full chapter on the conflict, focusing especially on President Polk’s hollow justifications for war, the anti-war resistance, and the human impact of the war. Unlike the gray prose of textbooks like American Odyssey, Zinn’s chapter on the U.S. war with Mexico—“We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God”—is filled with quotes from soldiers and poets, surgeons and abolitionists, generals and journalists, clergymen and presidents. Every passage reminds young people that war is much more than a “situation.”
“We must not falsely teach American history in our schools,” said Daniels to the Associated Press, implying that the true history is to be found in the officially adopted textbooks. As the Zinn Education Project reveals regularly in its If We Knew Our History column, the version of U.S. history taught in the textbooks produced by giant corporations is anything but “true.” The corporate textbooks hide the breadth of U.S. military and economic interventions throughout the world; they ignore the roots of today’s environmental crises; they refuse to explore the origins of the vast wealth inequality in the United States; and the textbooks neglect the role of social movements throughout U.S. history, instead focusing on famous individuals; thus, they fail to nurture an activist sensibility—a recognition that if we want the world to be better, then it’s up to us to make it better.
This is a point Howard Zinn emphasized when he spoke to teachers at the 2008 National Council for the Social Studies conference in Houston—some of them from Indiana!—not much more than a year before he died. Zinn said: “We’ve never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior high school about how we have three branches of government, and we have checks and balances, and what a lovely system. No. The changes, important changes that we’ve had in history, have not come from those three branches of government. They have reacted to social movements.”
Governor Daniels’ advisers evidently found no evidence that Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States was in use in K-12 schools in Indiana. I guess they didn’t look hard enough. There are more than 300 Indiana teachers registered at the Zinn Education Project to access people’s history curriculum materials to “teach outside the textbook.” And these are only the teachers who have formally registered at the site; many more share people’s history-inspired lessons.
And at the Zinn Education Project we’ve heard all week long from Indiana teachers, professors, and parents who have committed themselves to work against censorship in K-12 schools. Their defiance is reminiscent of Indiana’s Green Feather Movement that challenged the McCarthy-era attempt to ban Robin Hood from the elementary school curriculum in 1954. What began as the anonymous posting of green feathers on bulletin boards by a few students at Indiana University spread to campuses across the country. As Howard Zinn wrote at the end of his autobiography, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, “If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.”
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http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-new ... tleblowersReport: Oakland PD fails to shield whistle-blowers
07/20/2013
OAKLAND, Calif.—A court-appointed monitor said the Oakland Police Department is failing to protect officers who report internal wrongdoing, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The San Francisco Chronicle (
http://tinyurl.com/l8xtw3j) reported that the monitor's 97-page quarterly report submitted to a federal judge last week says the department is not meeting the standards of whistle-blower protection that it agreed to as part of a legal settlement.
Oakland Police Sgt. Charles O'Connor is on medical leave after he said he experienced retaliation for reporting that his partner had beaten a drunken and handcuffed prisoner. O'Connor said someone hung a towel with tobacco spit on it outside his locker door and left crumpled papers about department regulations about retaliation around his desk.
Monitor Robert Washaw called the incident "the most serious" episode in recent years of internal retaliation within the department. Police experts say failing to protect whistle-blowers fosters a code of silence that leads to the toleration of misconduct.
The Oakland Police Department agreed to dramatic reforms after settling a lawsuit alleging widespread police abuse and misconduct for $10.5 million a decade ago.
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http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resourc ... -americansSaturday, 20 July 2013 16:16
A Single NSA Wiretap Could Lead To Snooping On '2.5 Million Americans'
“At a recentjudiciary hearing on the wide-ranging surveillance practices of the NSA revealed a staggering practice called "three-hop analysis."
Three-hop analysis means that when the NSA requests justification for tapping a "suspected terrorist," they can also tap that suspect's contacts, then their contacts, and the contacts of their contacts.
Pete Yost of the Boston Globeexplained the scope of these taps:
If the average person calls 40 unique people, three-hop analysis could allow the government to mine the records of 2.5 million Americans when investigating one suspected terrorist.
Theoretically, at that rate it would take tapping only about 150 suspected terrorists could cover the entire population of the United States.
When NSA Deputy Director John C. Inglis tried to justify the practice of gathering all communications of people three-degrees separated from the suspect at the hearing, Representative Randy Forbes, a Republican from Virginia, interrupted him.
‘‘I said I wasn’t going to yell at you and I’m going to try not to. [The bulk collection] is exactly what the American people are worried about. That’s what’s infuriating the American people. They’re understanding that if you collect that amount of data, people can get access to it in ways that can harm them.’’
See also:
NSA allowed to extend Verizon trawl
“The National Security Agency has been allowed to extend its dragnet of the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon through a court order issued by the secret court that oversees surveillance.
In an unprecedented move prompted by the Guardian's disclosure in June of the NSA's indiscriminate collection of Verizon metadata, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has publicly revealed that the scheme has been extended yet again.
The statement does not mention Verizon by name, nor make clear how long the extension lasts for, but it is likely to span a further three months in line with previous routine orders from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa).
The announcement flowed, the statement said, from the decision to declassify aspects of the metadata grab "in order to provide the public with a more thorough and balanced understanding of the program".
According to Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein, the Verizon phone surveillance has been in place – updated every three months – for at least six years, and it is understood to have been applied to other telecoms giants as well.”
