0 CDC Warns Public to Prepare for a 'Zombie Apocalypse'

Are you prepared for the impending zombie invasion?

That's the question posed by the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention in a Monday blog posting gruesomely titled, "Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse." And while it's no joke, CDC officials say it's all about emergency preparation.

"There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for," the posting reads. "Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That's right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you'll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you'll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency."

The post, written by Assistant Surgeon General Ali Khan, instructs readers how to prepare for "flesh-eating zombies" much like how they appeared in Hollywood hits like "Night of the Living Dead" and video games like Resident Evil. Perhaps surprisingly, the same steps you'd take in preparation for an onslaught of ravenous monsters are similar to those suggested in advance of a hurricane or pandemic.

"First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house," the posting continues. "This includes things like water, food, and other supplies to get you through the first couple of days before you can locate a zombie-free refugee camp (or in the event of a natural disaster, it will buy you some time until you are able to make your way to an evacuation shelter or utility lines are restored)."

Other items to be stashed in such a kit include medications, duct tape, a battery-powered radio, clothes, copies of important documents and first aid supplies.

"Once you've made your emergency kit, you should sit down with your family and come up with an emergency plan," the posting continues. "This includes where you would go and who you would call if zombies started appearing outside your doorstep. You can also implement this plan if there is a flood, earthquake or other emergency."

The idea behind the campaign stemmed from concerns of radiation fears following the earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan in March. CDC spokesman Dave Daigle told FoxNews.com that someone had asked CDC officials if zombies would be a concern due to radiation fears in Japan and traffic spiked following that mention.

"It's kind of a tongue-in-cheek campaign," Daigle said Wednesday. "We were talking about hurricane preparedness and someone bemoaned that we kept putting out the same messages."

While metrics for the post are not yet available, Daigle said it has become the most popular CDC blog entry in just two days.

"People are so tuned into zombies," he said. "People are really dialed in on zombies. The idea is we're reaching an audience or a segment we'd never reach with typical messages."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/#ixzz1MmVORJJV

0 The Queens visit Dublin- Irish flag banned under Public order offence

The powers that be have made the carrying of the Irish flag a Public order offence under section 21.I had earlier not consented to a search and was threatened with arrest under this act also.
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1994/en/act/pub/0002/print.html#sec21

There is nothing under this section in the "act" that supports the banning of the flag??.....perhaps she got confused, 
she may well have meant "section 7"
which states : 
 "Distribution or display in public place of material which is threatening, abusive, insulting or obscene."

section 7.—(1) It shall be an offence for any person in a public place to distribute or display any writing, sign or visible representation which is threatening, abusive, insulting or obscene with intent to provoke a breach of the peace or being reckless as to whether a breach of the peace may be occasioned. 

Welcome to your 1984 themed reality!...

0 NATO airstrikes hit government buildings in Tripoli...destroying Police & Watchdogs investigations

Firefighters worked to douse flames as passersby gathered to gawk at the site of a pair of heavily damaged government buildings that Libyan officials said were hit early Tuesday by NATO warplanes.

One building housed a police investigations office whereas the other, just across the street, was known as the Ministry of Popular Inspection and Oversight, a watchdog agency that reviewed complaints of government and private-sector corruption, said Musa Ibrahim, a Kadafi government spokesman.

Flames engulfed both structures, in a residential neighborhood of the capita, as journalists arrived on the scene. Government officials have been busing journalists to sites they say have been hit by NATO warplanes.

On Monday evening, several loud explosions had been heard across Tripoli.

There was no word on casualties at the two sites. NATO had no immediate comment.

Among the watchdog agency’s many files, the Libyan spokesman said, were documents detailing the corruption of ex-regime  officials who have switched sides and joined the rebels fighting to overthrow Moammar Kadafi. The rebel leadership in the eastern city of Benghazi probably convinced NATO to target the ministry in a bid to destroy the evidence, Ibrahim alleged.

“In Benghazi you  are dealing with people you should not trust,” the government spokesman declared in a message directed to NATO.

The files, he said, had survived and would be made available to Western governments if they were interested.

http://www.google.com

0 IMF head Strauss-Kahn pulled off plane, arrested in alleged sodomy of hotel maid

The French political bigshot who heads the International Monetary Fund was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid today — hauled off an Air France flight just moments before takeoff from Kennedy Airport, police sources said.

Three Port Authority detectives pulled Dominique Strauss-Kahn from the plane’s first-class cabin just two minutes before it was due to depart for Paris, according to police sources.

For some reason the NY Post Could not find this more Recent Photo.

Strauss-Kahn, 62 — who was expected to challenge Nicholas Sarkozy in the 2012 French presidential election — was turned over to NYPD officers and brought to the Special Victims Unit’s uptown squadroom.

The trouble began around noon, when a 32-year-old housekeeper entered Strauss-Kahn’s room at the Sofitel on West 44th Street — apparently unaware he was still inside.

The married Strauss-Kahn was in his bathroom, said sources. He emerged naked, grabbed her and "he jumps her," a source said.

Then, Strauss-Kahn allegedly threw the housekeeper on the room’s bed and forced her to perform oral sex on him, said the sources.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/imf_boss_strauss_kahn_arrested_in_Kbd7uAi594vbej3oORXfcJ

0 Secret 800 man Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital.

 

Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove roughly 20 miles to a windswept military complex in the desert sand.

The Colombians had entered the United Arab Emirates posing as construction workers. In fact, they were soldiers for a secret American-led mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, with $529 million from the oil-soaked sheikdom.

Mr. Prince, who resettled here last year after his security business faced mounting legal problems in the United States, was hired by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the U.A.E., according to former employees on the project, American officials and corporate documents obtained by The New York Times. 

Read More:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/world/middleeast/15prince.html?_r=1&hp

 

0 New High Tech Taser's being used in US

Bartow, Florida - There's a new taser in town that looks like something out of a James Bond movie. It packs a powerful punch and can stop the bad guys in their tracks longer than a stun gun can.

 

Polk County Sheriff's Office SWAT team members say the taser has already saved lives.

They point to a terrifying scene from inside an Auburndale home last Christmas when a convicted sex offender, 27-year-old Jason Robinson, was accused of brutally attacking his brother and threatening to kill the entire family.

In victim's statements to police Jason's brother Adam Lee Robinson explained to detectives after the alleged incident, "He starts stomping on my ribs and he actually jumps up and stomps on my testicle."

Jason is accused of barricading himself inside the house and that's when the Polk County SWAT team members moved in. Paul Butler is a member of the SWAT team and says, "So we pushed the front door of the house open with that to try to get his attention. I  utilized a shotgun that we have with the TASER XREP round."

Polk County Sheriff's Office is one of only about two dozen law enforcement agencies in Florida using the powerful new TASER Extended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP).

 

It's fired from a 12 gauge shotgun from up to a 100 feet away. It's 14 grams, has wing like fins that spread open as it takes flight.  It has painful probes and pins that stick into your body. It packs all the powerful punch and stopping power of a stun gun and is enclosed in a 12 gauge shotgun shell and when it hits you it locks up your muscles.

John Angleton is the taser coordinator for the sheriff's office and says, "It's the most excruciating pain imaginable. It locks everything up. For one you cannot move. You can breathe because you're screaming at the top of your lungs."

The TASER XREP keeps a suspect down for 20 seconds instead of 5 seconds which is how long the traditional taser keeps a suspect down. The traditional taser also has to be fired from a closer range within 21 feet.

While TASER XREP rounds cost a hundred dollars each SWAT team members say they're worth the price because they save lives. 

They say the rounds saved Jason Robinson's life.  Deputy Butler says, "When he fell - he fell within inches of a butcher knife that was on the floor but thankfully he fell on top the XREP round. That round immobilized him and allowed us to get in and secure him."

Butler adds, "So that 20 seconds gives us plenty of time to get into the home or get into wherever we're at or close the distance between us and the suspect and take them into custody before they're able to do something to harm themselves
or harm us."

The TASER XREP is only available to law enforcement agencies and not the general public. While the cartridges are expensive Polk County Sheriff's Office only allows their SWAT team to use them.

 http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/article/190334/250/New-High-Tech-Taser-being-used-in-Polk-County

0 Al-Qaeda's in the Arabian Peninsula

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida.

And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ." -- Pierre-Henri Bunel

"Ana raicha Al Qaeda" is colloquial for "I'm going to the toilet". A very common and widespread use of the word "Al-Qaeda" in different Arab countries in the public language is for the toilet bowl. This name comes from the Arabic verb "Qa'ada" which mean "to sit", pertinently, on the "Toilet Bowl". In most Arabs homes there are two kinds of toilets: "Al-Qaeda" also called the "Hamam Franji" or foreign toilet, and "Hamam Arabi" or "Arab toilet" which is a hole in the ground. Lest we forget it, the potty used by small children is called "Ma Qa'adia" or "Little Qaeda".

So, if you were forming a terrorist group, would you call yourself, "The Toilet"? 

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fakealqaeda.php

0 The real reason Osama Bin Laden's body was buried at sea.

0 Fox News: President Obama is dead??

0 Charlie Veitch at Defend the Right to Protest Meeting 2011

Incredible solidarity with lots of other political dissidents rounded up by machine.

FIlmed 5th may 2011 at Defend the Right to Protest Meeting

0 Inside Osama's squalid hideaway: New pictures emerge as White House gets set to release Bin Laden home videos

The daily mail is really hitting the FLIP FLOP switch in it's reporting of the circumstances surrounding "Bin Laden's Death"

One minute they seem to be supporting the idea....then the next they seem to be saying "it's all poppycock!"

Daily mail:

• Shaky footage shows litter-strewn compound in barely habitable state
• U.S. may also release home videos found during raid
• House worth no more than $250,000 say experts

Extraordinary footage of Osama Bin Laden's secret compound in Abbottabad show the terror leader had been living in virtual squalor. 

Strewn with rubbish and with paint peeling off the walls, the dirt-infested compound appears barely habitable and is a far cry from initial claims the compound was a sophisticated £1m hideaway.

The ramshackle structure resembles like a building site and the pictures of the outside show steel rods protruding from the roof, suggesting it may have been incomplete.

Of course, some damage would have been caused during the American Navy Seal mission to capture the 9/11 mastermind, but the footage is still very revealing.

It was released today on the Al Jazeera English website and gives a shaky tour of what appears to be the inside of the main house, a few outbuildings and a small fruitless orchard.

The video emerged as it was revealed that home videos and propaganda tapes that were found in the compound may be released which show Bin Laden strolling around his secret lair.

U.S. officials aid they may even be put out later today.

 

The stash is part of a wealth of information collected during the U.S. raid that killed Bin Laden and four others last week.

The information suggests Bin Laden played a strong role in planning and directing attacks by Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, two senior officials said.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384573/Inside-Osamas-squalid-hideaway-First-pictures-terror-leaders-secret-lair-barely-habitable.html#ixzz1Lg7tVQxq

The Al Jazeera video above is the most unconvincing thing I've seen throughout this whole thing.....it's basically just a loop that could really have been filmed anywhere.....but that's the point!!...this whole story has backfired badly!..now it's the paid media's job of covering it up, by throwing any and every bit of confusion at this thing now, so people can't put the pieces together...and will argue about the where's & how's instead of WHO PROFITS?

ARE WE MEANT TO BELIEVE THEY FOUND LAPTOP'S & COMPUTERS IN THERE??....WERE DID THEY PLUG THEM IN??....DO YOU SEE ANY SIGNS OF ELECTRICITY?????

0 Another Faked Bin Laden Propaganda Photo shows up

Startling insight into the life of Bin Laden's young wife who gave up everything for terror chief.

 From

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

excerpt of article:

Taking a bullet for your husband and agreeing to live in a cave for him are surely the biggest gestures of love a woman can make.

But these are just days in the life of the wife of Osama bin Laden who - until Monday - was America's most wanted terrorist.

Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah - thought to be Bin Laden's fifth and final wife - was shot in the calf when she charged at the Navy SEALs who stormed the room she had been living in with her husband for the last five years.

As Pakistani authorities took hold of the woman and her young daughter Safiyah, they hoped that questioning her could provide intricate details into the life of America's most hated enemy.

The article carries the following Badly Photoshopped photograph....which I've highlighted:

 I thought I could do a better job myself.....the following took me around 15 minutes..and I'm a long long way from being any kind of "expert" at this...it ain't brilliant but it's better.

It's a wonder they didn't go the whole hog and have it dug up among the smoldering burning rubble...
on top of a burning Koran!!, as they did with one of the 9/11 hijackers passports.....

Are we really meant to just believe all these inconsistency's and out right lies surrounding this story of Osama's death?...

or is the real goal to confuse and mislead so much so...that people start to forget the main point is that he was very likely already dead and had been for some time?, at least ten years by most estimates.

During the late 90's he was diagnosed with a rare form of Kidney disease from that point on he required the daily constant help of a dialysis machine, these of which are surprisingly scarce in the middle of the desert.

Show me a VERY GOOD photo or video of a dialysis machine being removed from the so called " Compound" and I'd at least have a little respect for people propagating this story,

I still wouldn't believe it....but least we would know they were trying a little harder, and didn't take the public as complete idiots.

0 Amazing Solar Size Comparisons

0 New research reveals conspiring conspiracy theorists

Conspiracy theories - such as those surrounding the death of Princess Diana - are more likely to be believed by people who are willing themselves to conspire, new research at the University has shown.

In a paper to be published in the British Journal of Social Psychology, Dr Karen Douglas and Dr Robbie Sutton, two researchers from the School of Psychology ^[1], found that - in keeping with the psychological process called projection - an individual’s perception that "I would do it" informs his or her perception that "they did it".

The research, titled Does it take one to know one? Endorsement of conspiracy theories is influenced by personal willingness to conspire ^[2], considered the responses of around 250 UK undergraduates to 17 major alleged conspiracies, such as the 'assassinations' of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy, the 'faking’ of the moon landings and the 'orchestration' of the 9/11 attacks by the US government.

In the first study, participants were asked whether they would personally play a role in such conspiracies, if they had been in a position to do so. An example of this was 'If you were in the position of the government, would you have ordered the attack on the Twin Towers?' The more that participants indicated a willingness to conspire, the more they found the same conspiracy theories to be plausible, interesting, and worth considering.

Further, the researchers found that participants who were highly Machiavellian - defined as willing to exploit others for personal gain - were more likely to indicate willingness to conspire, and as a result, were more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.

In the second study, half of the participants were asked to remember a time that they had helped someone. The research team reasoned that this would temporarily enhance participants' sense that they are moral people. As expected, these participants, when compared to a control group, were less willing to conspire, and as a result, were less likely to take conspiracy theories seriously.

'We wanted to test a new explanation of why conspiracy theories are endorsed in an internet age when people have access to a matrix of often conflicting information from a variety of sources,' said Dr Douglas.

'We found that in their search for explanations under such uncertain and confusing conditions, people rely partly on projection - the assumption that others would behave much as they would.

'We're not saying however that all conspiracy theorists are immoral or that they have arrived at their beliefs through projection. It's important to note that other factors may lead people to believe in conspiracy theories. Also, our research says nothing about the truth or objective plausibility of such theories. However what we have shown is that one reason some people endorse conspiracy theories is because is they project their own moral tendencies onto the supposed conspirators', she said.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/homepagestories/new-research-reveals-conspiring-conspiracy-theorists/2011

0 The Real Whitehouse Situation Room Photo... During Bin Laden's "Death".

Click picture for Larger size

0 Could mainstream news media use this kind technology for Protest/Crowd control coverage?

Could mainstream news media use this kind technology for "false flag" or "Protest/Crowd control" coverage?...adding or removing the crowd...or even "buildings" as it sees fit, in an effort to make the TV viewer less or more concerned?.

It's been done many times before with far less style..but still produced the same goal. 

Think for example the jubilation of the crowds during the pulling down of Saddam's statue at the end of the Iraq war,

all that took was a certain camera angle to make it seem that there actually were crowds....

click for larger

A far pan of the footage shows how set up the scene really was, for more on this see:

http://youtu.be/yyn8Kb_do8g or http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/NYI304A.html

Yes this technology makes your favourite TV show look more flashy...but use it to "Trick" the public... and it paints a very scary future for us all.

0 Dr Sanjay Gupta Forgets the script on Anderson Coopers show when talking about Bin Ladens DNA

Obama's choice of  Surgeon General 2009, though he withdrew..many think he maybe just hasn't had his 
"take one for the team & reap the rewards" moment yet.
Dr Gupta,  talking about how the DNA  Test done on Osama Bin Laden only took 5 hours....rather than the at least 
48 hours it would normally take,  loses the script and gets nicely re-directed by Cooper...who then also struggles...with the most comical  nonsensical piece of ballcrap story to come out of Washington in....oooh...a decade?

0 Photo of dead 'Osama' reported to be found on website from last December?

The below story is from
http://whatreallyhappened.com/
as the original source at
http://www.muslm.net/vb/showthread.php?t=410982
is now suddenly no longer available...
Mike Rivero caught it just in time ;o)

Well, I am no expert, but it looks to me from the date stamps on this web page like the picture blasted all over Pakistan TV of the 'Osama' that was killed today ...

 
... might be a photo that was floating around the internet for the last few months...

And it appears to be photoshopped!

                         

                      Here is the real Osama from about 15 years ago.

                                                       Now flip it left to right...

                     And compare the lower half with today's photo of the 
                                                        dead  'Osama'!

There are other signs of photoshop as well, such as blurred edges on the beard and an obvious difference in sharpness between the eyes and the mouth, It looks like someone took a dead body and pasted the real Obama's mouth onto it to make it look more like him. Did Obama just fall for a dirty trick by Pakistan's ISI? Inquiring minds want to know! :) Mike Rivero

 

0 France says U.S. economy will get a boost from bin Laden's death

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde on Monday welcomed the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and said his death could bolster consumer confidence and economic growth in the United States.

Christine Lagarde

"The U.S. economy is like the American people. It reacts very quickly either positively or negatively," Lagarde told France 2 television. "I wouldn't be surprised if this event prompted a pick-up in confidence."
News that a U.S.-led operation had killed bin Laden in a firefight in Pakistan caused the dollar to rebound from a three-year low on Monday, and Lagarde said his killing would give a lift to U.S. stocks and other financial securities.
The death of the terrorist leader who masterminded the deadly September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, would help heal a wound that had been open for nearly a decade, she said.
Bin Laden had been the object of a search since he eluded U.S. soldiers and Afghan militia forces in a large-scale assault on the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in 2011.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/us-binladen-france-economy-idUSTRE7411K920110502 

I've got just one thing to say to that....

"LOL! how stupid do they think you are??"

0 Fox News December 2001: Bin Laden Already Dead

Source:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,41576,00.html 

0 Had Essex Police overlooked rules governing the use of unmanned aircraft in the UK?

Essex Police to sell 'spy in the sky'

ESSEX Police is to sell off an unmanned aircraft dubbed the ‘spy in the sky’ because it has never been used.
The Force confirmed the machine, which was bought in May 2008 at a cost of £22,000, would be sold because it ‘does not offer value for money’.
The drone had never been licensed, despite the Force’s intentions of using it to monitor large events and track criminals.
An Essex Police spokesman said: “We own an air robot which, to date, has not been deployed operationally while clarification was obtained regarding licensing legislation.
“We have since made an assessment of our assets and we are in the process of selling the drone.

“We would hope to get the £22,000 back but like most technology, the price would have dropped over the years.”
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) confirmed that Essex Police had not applied for a licence for the drone.
The CAA said it needed to be consulted over any use of the drones, which can fly up to 400ft and reach speeds of 30mph.
Essex Police also needed to gain permission to fly within 164ft of people and within 492ft of buildings.

Robert Chambers, chairman of Essex Police Authority when the decision to buy the drone was made, said: “I’m quite happy it’s not going ahead because I’d rather see police on the ground looking at things.

“Buying it was probably one of the mistakes I made, so I hold my hands up and say sometimes you get it wrong.”

He said it was a shame money had been invested but, in the context of the authority’s budget, it only equated to “half a police officer”.

A spokesman for the CAA said: “We’ve had no communication with Essex Police.

“The police can be exempt from a certain number of rules governing the use of unmanned aircraft provided they can show they are able to use them safely.”

http://www.yellowadvertiser-today.co.uk 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech 

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news

0 Richard Gage Explains 9/11 Truth On Fox 2 Detroit

Richard Gage, the architect at the forefront of the activist group Architects & Engineers For 9/11 Truth, is given some rare mainstream TV airtime, garnering an interview with Detroit’s FOX 2. Somewhat surprisingly, anchor Huel Perkins actually lets him talk at some length:

 

 LINKS:
www.ae911truth.org/

www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local

0 The reasons to buy silver explained in layman's terms........in 4 mins.

Keep in mind this video is from 2008...at that time Silver was $15 per oz,

now just 3 years later silver is touching $49 per oz...and in some circles is predicted to possibly hit $200 per oz in the near future.

0 New Windows 8 Will Recognize Your Face

Forget about passwords and fingerprint readers, Windows laptops of the future may authenticate simply by looking at you.

Using a leaked early build of Windows 8, the hackers at Windows8italia discovered a sensor programming interface with the ability to "detect human presence." Presumably, this would allow the computer to power on when the user draws near.

A big piece of this puzzle is already in place with Microsoft's Kinect, an Xbox 360 controller that tracks motion in three dimensions. Kinect already uses facial recognition to log users into Xbox Live, so bringing the technology to Windows seems like a logical step.

Microsoft reportedly thinks so, too. Leaked planning documents from last year suggest that users could log in simply by sitting down in front of the computer, eliminating the extra step of entering a password.

Of course, as CrunchGear's Devin Coldewey points out, you'd have to get over the paranoia of having a camera that constantly scans the room, looking for you.

Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/04/22/windows-8-may-recognize-your-face/#ixzz1KXhH2cTJ

0 Credit Card Reform in Action

0 Facebook Says It May Be Allowing 'Too Much' Free Speech In Some Nations

Facebook is reportedly negotiating with Chinese partners to launch the social network in China, where it is currently blocked from use.

But expanding into China requires abiding by Chinese laws, which require web companies to censor everything from search results to status updates.

Though Facebook says it is dedicated to making the world a "more open and connected" place--a mission that clashes with the Chinese government's frequent crackdowns on Internet expression--a spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal that it is considering censoring the content that appears on its site in nations abroad.

While he did not mention China specifically, Facebook lobbyist Adam Conner told the Journal, "Maybe we will block content in some countries, but not others."

(Facebook's director of international communications noted only that the company was "studying and learning about China" but has so far "made no decisions about if, or how, we will approach it.")

Facebook has remained relatively mum on the use of the site by protestors in Tunisia, Egypt and beyond as a tool for organizing demonstrations.

Conner suggested that the company may be bringing "too much" freedom of expression in some nations.

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"We are occasionally held in uncomfortable positions because now we're allowing too much, maybe, free speech in countries that haven't experienced it before," Conner said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/facebook-free-speech-censorship_n_851499.html

0 Multiple Military Blackhawk choppers land in downtown Miami on "Domestic Security Task Force exercise"

Residents in the neighborhood saw and heard several military-style, “pitch-black” helicopters flying around and hovering on top of Brickell buildings Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.

Turns out that it was a training exercise by the Southeast Regional Domestic Security Task Force. In other words, a Homeland Security operation, that few other authorities apparently knew about, including the U.S. Coast Guard.

Lt. Russ Tippett, spokesman for the coast guard happens to live in Brickell, and said the choppers didn’t make it easy to sleep, as the drill went on for hours.

“It was extremely loud and annoying,’’ Tippett said, theorizing at first that it may have been a U.S. Customs Operation.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue didn’t know about it, referring media calls to the City of Miami’s Fire Rescue. A spokesman there assumed it was a film shoot.

Sgt. Bill Williams, who oversaw the operation for the Miami-Dade Police Department, was not immediately available for details.

“I couldn’t see them a lot of the time, but I could hear them because there are echoes around the buildings,” said Neilson Paty, who lives in Brickell Bay. “We see helicopters every day, but it was very obvious that these are not tourist or U.S. Coast Guard helicopters.”

A Miami police spokesman said the helicopters were conducting an “operational” training drill. He was not allowed to comment on details of the drill.

Paty said he is understanding of the city having its reasons to not inform residents about the drill and that he is not upset for not getting any alerts of the commotion.

“It was loud enough to wake up some people, but it wasn’t overwhelming enough to disturb the peace or something like that,” he said.

On Tuesday, Miami police officers in Brickell said that it was all part of a planned Homeland Security exercise, but confusion about the helicopters was rampant about 6 a.m. Wednesday.

It all began about 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, when at least three large Black Hawk-like choppers landed in a parking lot of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on Biscayne Boulevard and 14th Street.

The choppers then charged over the Brickell and Miami river area. Men who appeared to be SWAT team members were also seen taking part in the exercise.

Witnesses were tweeting as the event unfolded.

"Three choppers just dropped a group of men on top of the Bank of America building in Brickell," tweeted a man identified as Ianik Drouin, about 9:45 p.m.

"I just saw one of the brickell choppers turn so quickly, it had to go sideways," tweeted Sarah Elles about midnight.

Diana Pedroni also had trouble sleeping.

"Oh not again! #brickellchoppers flying on top of my building," tweeted Pedroni about midnight.

About 1 a.m., Eddie Prieto was surprised to find out he may have to endure more of it for the rest of the month.

"Five more niths? Boo! RT @Brickellinfo #DoD will be conducting drills through April 25th," tweeted Prieto about 1 a.m.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/19/2176185/military-style-helicopters-over.html#ixzz1KGZCedKV

0 Chernobyl-2 Exclusive: RT at secret Soviet facility inside dead zone

It was the world's worst nuclear disaster, but 25 years on, the battle to contain it continues. Building a new sarcophagus over the Chernobyl site is the most pressing issue, as a meeting of donor countries is held in Ukraine.

0 White Sky Diary London UK. *Yellow Gas, Instant Cloud's and possible UFO's ?

WHITE SKY DIARY - ENTRY 1

Captured in the skies above London.
Yellow gassy substance expands to form an 'instant cloud'.
As soon as the cloud reaches full expansion it is visited by several high speed flying objects.
NOTE: The objects fly THROUGH / UNDER and ABOVE the cloud, and are notably different to the flies and other insects seen at the beginning of the video.
The high speed objects were NOT visible at the time of filming.
Can anybody identify these objects?
Has anybody else noticed these instant clouds?
ARTIFICIAL CLOUD MAKING PATENT IN ACTION?
NASA BLACK PROJECT?
NATURAL PHENOMENON?
ALIENS?
Talk to me, all comments welcome here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzmxGw-iIp0&feature=channel_video_title

0 London is urged to issue smog alert as weather gets warmer

Boris Johnson today faced calls to issue a smog alert for central London.

Green Party mayoral candidate Jenny Jones said Londoners should be made aware of a poor air quality "episode" that is set to worsen with the sunny weather.

Dim outlook: how air pollution over the City can cloud view of landmarks

In a letter to the Mayor, she said he had a duty to help protect the health of vulnerable Londoners and the hundreds of thousands of visitors who will descend on the capital for the royal wedding weekend unaware of the danger to their health.

London is expected to breach its European air quality limits within the next 24 hours. A site in Marylebone Road has tipped the capital over the maximum number of breaches allowed.

Ms Jones said: "London is currently experiencing an air pollution episode and this is likely to carry on through the next week.

"The Government have issued smog alerts on occasions and I feel that the Mayor should step forward to help protect the health of vulnerable Londoners and those visiting the capital. He should be making people aware of what they are breathing in and the risks to their health.

"It is important information for people to know if they suffer from a pre-existing respiratory problem."

She added: "We have the prospect of hundreds of thousands of visitors flocking to central London to stand around all day for the royal wedding, in one of the most polluted cities in Europe."

The Greens urged Mr Johnson to advertise the Airtext service which predicts air pollution.

During previous high pollution levels the Environment Department has issued smog alerts for vulnerable people.

The Mayor's own health impact study estimated up to 4,267 deaths in London in 2008 were attributable to long-term air pollution.

Cher Piddock, the Asthma UK Adviceline nurse, said: "High levels of pollution have been linked to an increased risk of asthma attacks, so people who have pollution as a trigger should avoid going out if air quality is poor, and always carry their inhaler. They should also keep windows shut whenever possible."

A spokeswoman for the Mayor said: "Information on air pollution is widely available, including in most daily newspapers such as the Evening Standard. In addition we encourage Londoners to sign up to the excellent airText service (http://www.airtext.info/) which provides free text, e-mail or voicemail alerts of elevated levels of pollution."

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/evening standard

 

 

0 Jean Charles De Menezes CCTV Footage

This is a video that I put together a awhile ago...I have featured it here now, as I am pretty disgusted that "media"..even "alternative" has started to refer to him as

" The Brazilian guy that got shot on the London tube"...

0 Anti-internet piracy laws 'infringe human rights'

Laws designed to block access to piracy websites have been thrown further into doubt after a senior advisor to EU judges suggested such measures could infringe human rights.

Uk telegraph

Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón said similar laws in Belgium brought in to force broadband providers to detect and block unlawful filesharing were “a restriction on the right to respect for the privacy of communications and the right to protection of personal data”.

He also said such a system would restrict the fundamental right to freedom of information.

Opponents of stronger copyright enforcement online have seized on the opinion. They claim it means laws such as Britain's Digital Economy Act, which grants the government or courts powers to force ISPs to block piracy websites, are illegal.

Ofcom is already investigating the feasibility of the laws, which have never been used.

The Advocate General’s opinion was published as part of an ongoing dispute between Scarlet, a Belgian ISP, and SABAM, a rights holder group.

Scarlet took its case to the European Court of Justice after SABAM won a court order in 2007 which would force it to build a system to identify and block unlawful downloads of copyright material.
Mr Cruz Villalón recommended that the ECJ should overturn the Belgian court order.
“Neither the filtering system, which is intended to be applied on a systematic, universal, permanent and perpetual basis, nor the blocking mechanism, which can be activated without any provision being made for the persons affected to challenge it or object to it, are coupled with adequate safeguards,” he said.
If the court agrees with the Advocate General, it is not clear exactly what impact its ruling would have on the Digital Economy Act’s website blocking provisions.
The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt ordered Ofcom to review the laws in February, saying “it is not clear whether the site blocking provisions in the Act could work in practice”.
At the same time the government opened talks between ISPs and the music industry to encourage a voluntary agreement on a list of websites that would be blocked, which would avoid any need to use the Digital Economy Act.