Crime in Los Angeles is a gritty enterprise, and donning an LAPD badge has historically involved getting your hands dirty. Long before the New York Police Department was spying on Muslim students, the LAPD was running a large-scale domestic spy operation in the 1970s and ’80s, snooping on and infiltrating more than 200 political, labor and civic organizations including the office of then Mayor Tom Bradley. Today, the LAPD isn’t quite so aggressive, but it still employs a directive titled Special Order 1, which permits police officers to deem what is “suspicious” and then act on it.
AND THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, IF ANY MAN WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVE HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD, OR IN HIS HAND. *** REVELATION 14:9
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Neighbors Spying on You? New Program Spreading Across the US Takes Neighborhood Watch to Scary New Level
Crime in Los Angeles is a gritty enterprise, and donning an LAPD badge has historically involved getting your hands dirty. Long before the New York Police Department was spying on Muslim students, the LAPD was running a large-scale domestic spy operation in the 1970s and ’80s, snooping on and infiltrating more than 200 political, labor and civic organizations including the office of then Mayor Tom Bradley. Today, the LAPD isn’t quite so aggressive, but it still employs a directive titled Special Order 1, which permits police officers to deem what is “suspicious” and then act on it.
Tornadoes reported near Dallas-Fort Worth area
Hague 'court of last resort,' SNAP chief says
Filing is topic at UT panel discussion
BY DAVID YONKE
BLADE RELIGION EDITOR
Monday, April 02, 2012
I'm Marrying a Preacher Man!
6.3 magnitude quake strikes southern Mexico
Five dead in shooting at Oakland university; suspect arrested in Alameda
Posted: 04/02/2012 11:09:03 AM PDT
Updated: 04/02/2012 01:40:34 PM PDT
Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

UK Government wants access to emails, texts and web use
Mon Apr 02 2012, 10:17
THE AUTHORITARIAN UK Government wants access to all emails, text messages and internet use and will propose sweeping snooping powers in legislation to give it that soon.
The bill will be announced during the Queen's speech and will give crime busting agencies like GCHQ, the government's central intelligence *cough* spying agency, MI5, the police and who knows else access to all of the emails, text messages and internet histories of everyone in the UK.
The Home Office claims that the legislation is necessary to "obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public."
Accessible data will include the "time, duration and dialling numbers of a phone call, or an email address, but not the content of the phone call or email," it added. The spokesman said that the Government does not plan to make changes to the existing legal basis for the interception of communications.
"As set out in the Strategic Defence and Security Review we will legislate as soon as parliamentary time allows to ensure that the use of communications data is compatible with the Government's approach to civil liberties," it said.
Big Brother Watch, a civil liberties organisation, has already condemned the proposals and sniffed at their timing,
"This is an unprecedented step that will see Britain adopt the same kind of surveillance seen in China and Iran. This is an absolute attack on privacy online and it is far from clear this will actually improve public safety, while adding significant costs to internet businesses," said Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.
He asked, "If this was such a serious security issue why has the Home Office not ensured these powers were in place before the Olympics?"
The Pirate Party is also concerned about the powers, which it said would lead to more insecurity.
"This story looked for all the world like an April Fool's joke: Labour's plan for a massive surveillance programme that would dwarf anything dreamed up by the KGB, brought back to life by its opponents?," said Andrew Robinson, the founder of the Pirate Party UK.
Robinson said that the powers would be circumvented by those that the government would seek to detect, while opening up everyone else to unnecessary inspection.
"We're bound to hear the sinister justification that 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear'. Well, the exact opposite is true in this case. If you do have something to hide, it's inevitably going to be trivially easy to avoid this surveillance system, through privacy systems like Tor, or simply by using foreign web servers," he added.
"If you're just an honest member of the public you have to fear not just the phenomenal multi-billion pound cost of the system, or the massive logistical and economic burdens that UK companies will have to cope with, but something far worse: The absolute certainty of leaks."
This is the sort of thing that came up during the riots last year, when intrusive police access to Twitter and Blackberry's BBM messaging tool was considered but not implemented. µ
Source: The Inquirer (http://s.tt/18FmE)
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Sunday, April 01, 2012
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"Do Not Track" Has It Backwards
Google is doing its part for Internet privacy by adding a Do Not Track feature to its Chrome Web browser. The move is admirable, and Do Not Track may be better than nothing, but why should users have to opt out of having their online actions monitored?
The move from Google comes in the wake of allegations that it has been circumventing privacy controls in the Safari Web browser on iOS devices, and in Internet Explorer to track online activity. However, it is not a reaction to that controversy. A Google spokesperson told me: “We've been evaluating our [Do Not Track] options for a long time and have also been closely involved with standards bodies.”
Google is jumping on the "Do Not Track" bandwagon by adding the feature to the Chrome browser.
It also comes on the heels of increased pressure from Washington DC in the form of President Obama’s blueprint for a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. Susan Wojcicki, Google Senior Vice President for Advertising, praised that initiative. “We’re pleased to join a broad industry agreement to respect the ‘Do Not Track’ header in a consistent and meaningful way that offers users choice and clearly explained browser controls.”
Tracking isn’t a truly black and white issue, though. Wojcicki pointed out in a recent blog post that gathering information about online behavior enables Google to tailor the Web experience. By tracking activity, Google can target relevant content more likely to be of interest to you.
Even if the issue was truly that simple, though, the Do Not Track solution leaves a lot to be desired. The Wall Street Journal points out that the very concept of the Do Not Track feature has holes because it is dependent on companies agreeing to play by those rules--it is a voluntary system. It also points out that the Do Not Track initiative limits the ways data can be collected or used, but it can still be used for certain purposes like “market research”, or “product development.”
Assume for a minute, though, that Do Not Track actually meant what it says, and that every online company agreed to play along. There is still something inherently wrong with a system that automatically assumes you want to be spied on until or unless you figure out where the Do Not Track button is for your browser and make the effort to enable it.
The Internet operates on some sort of reverse moral code that says if you don’t make it implicitly clear that you don’t want something to happen, then--ipso facto--you have given implied consent for that something to occur.
What if other areas of life worked that way? Most people expect others not to randomly walk up and kick them without having to wear a sign that says “Do Not Kick.” They assume that nobody will throw rocks through their windows without the need for a sign that says “Do Not Stone.” They are confident that strangers won’t come up and start screaming in their face without having to display a “Do Not Yell” sign.
Why is it, then, that when we go online it becomes OK for companies to do things they know cross the line simply because they choose to pretend the line doesn’t exist unless you explicitly remind them? It doesn’t make any sense.
All tracking should be specifically opt-in. Companies should state up front what types of information they want to track, and what benefits that tracking will potentially provide for the online experience, and request consent before monitoring online activity and user behavior.
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center
For the NSA, overflowing with tens of billions of dollars in post-9/11 budget awards, the cryptanalysis breakthrough came at a time of explosive growth, in size as well as in power. Established as an arm of the Department of Defense following Pearl Harbor, with the primary purpose of preventing another surprise assault, the NSA suffered a series of humiliations in the post-Cold War years. Caught offguard by an escalating series of terrorist attacks—the first World Trade Center bombing, the blowing up of US embassies in East Africa, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, and finally the devastation of 9/11—some began questioning the agency’s very reason for being. In response, the NSA has quietly been reborn. And while there is little indication that its actual effectiveness has improved—after all, despite numerous pieces of evidence and intelligence-gathering opportunities, it missed the near-disastrous attempted attacks by the underwear bomber on a flight to Detroit in 2009 and by the car bomber in Times Square in 2010—there is no doubt that it has transformed itself into the largest, most covert, and potentially most intrusive intelligence agency ever created.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Night march held to protest against escalating violence
BY NAOMI MARTIN
Advocate staff writer
March 31, 2012
Hearing the chants of “justice” in the streets, neighbors streamed out of their houses Friday night to join a group of about 150 Baton Rouge residents holding candles and marching along Fairfields Avenue to call attention to the city’s high murder rate, as well as the killing of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
“The violence here is crazy,” said Brenton Scott, 16, who knows five boys who have been shot and killed from his Park Forest neighborhood. “I came tonight because I wanted to show everybody that we’re doing something about it.”
The march, organized by the Working Interfaith Network of Baton Rouge, began at the Berean Seventh Day Adventist Church about 6:30 p.m. with speeches and prayers. The organizers urged participants to sign their “next day pledge,” a commitment to take part in efforts to reduce youth violence and mass incarceration in East Baton Rouge Parish.
The speakers decried black-on-black violence.
The Rev. Robert Davis, pastor of Berean Seventh Day Adventist Church, said that a public outrage similar to that being expressed over Trayvon Martin’s killing should have happened earlier in the black community, considering the country’s 58,500 black-on-black murders over the past 10 years.
“Enough is enough,” Davis said. “We’ve already shed too much blood.”
Davis said the community needs to take action and partner with law enforcement to quell the violence.
“But if we don’t have a partner in law enforcement, we’re going to stand over your shoulder and you’re going to get sick and tired of seeing our faces,” Davis said. “We are not going to stand idly by any longer.”
The Rev. Jennifer Jones-Bridgett, of Shiloh Baptist Church, said she hoped the outrage sparked by Trayvon Martin’s killing would call attention to the injustices of Baton Rouge’s own murder problem.
“Everybody in here knows somebody who been killed, questions never really got answered, and we got silent and went back in the house,” she said. The audience answered, “Amen.”
Kerrick Alexander, 23, said the march was an outlet for black people to voice their frustrations with both crime and racism.
“To see people come together and actually show we care, the young people care — that’s really cool to see,” he said.
Alexander said he coaches teenagers in basketball because he wants to keep them off the streets to avoid the kind of violence that took the life of his best friend when he was 14 years old.
“It’s really making me consider it as a career because I’m able to make a change in a kid’s life and keep them from being dead or on the path to being dead or in jail,” he said.
Margaret Evans, 50, said she wanted to march to draw attention to the racism she and her family still experience today. She said one of her sons had recently been harassed by police in Mississippi who had told him: “You can’t do anything about it.”
“This is our opportunity to say, ‘Yes we can,’” she said.
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Earth Hour 2012 Official Video
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This Earth Hour 2012: 8.30pm, Saturday 31 March, celebrate your action for the planet with the people of world by switching off your lights for an hour, then go beyond the hour.
From its inception as a single-city initiative -- Sydney, Australia - in 2007, Earth Hour has grown into a global symbol of hope and movement for change. Earth Hour 2011 created history as the world's largest ever voluntary action with people, businesses and governments in 135 countries across every continent coming together to celebrate an unambiguous commitment to the one thing that unites us all -- the planet.
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them

Thursday, March 29, 2012
ADVENTISTS OFFER CONDOLENCES FOR COPTIC POPE
Even in the Adventist Church
We have far more to fear from within than from without. The hindrances to strength and success are far greater from the church itself than from the world. Unbelievers have a right to expect that those who profess to be keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, will do more than any other class to promote and honor, by their consistent lives, by their godly example and their active influence, the cause which they represent. But how often have the professed advocates of the truth proved the greatest obstacle to its advancement! The unbelief indulged, the doubts expressed, the darkness cherished, encourage the presence of evil angels, and open the way for the accomplishment of Satan’s devices.
Selected Messages 1, pp.122 (1887).
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
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Passenger on US Airways flight from North Carolina to Florida arrested after allegedly attacking crew
| Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – A passenger aboard a US Airways flight from North Carolina to Florida has been arrested after witnesses say she attacked crew members before being wrestled to the floor.
A spokeswoman for the airport authority in Fort Myers, Florida, said Wednesday police arrested a US Airways passenger. Spokeswoman Victoria Moreland would not provide details until an arrest report is released. US Airways did not return calls.
WNCN-TV in Raleigh reports a passenger from Charlotte to Fort Myers kicked, scratched and spit on crew members. The TV station said one of its reporters was in the Fort Myers terminal and spoke to crew members.
The incident came hours after passengers aboard a JetBlue flight from New York to Las Vegas had to restrain that plane's agitated pilot.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/28/passenger-on-us-airways-flight-from-north-carolina-to-florida-arrested-after/#ixzz1qQrNTc00
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JetBlue passengers describe pilot's mid-air 'breakdown'
Staff and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 March 2012 11.41 EDT
Passengers aboard a flight from New York to Las Vegas have described the moment when a pilot suffered an apparent breakdown which led to him being pinned to the floor while another pilot made an emergency landing.
Holidaymakers on the JetBlue flight on Tuesday realised something was wrong when the pilot, Clayton Osbon, 49, walked out of the cockpit and attempted to force his way into an occupied bathroom.
Osbon's colleagues tried to calm him down as he became more jittery, coaxing the pilot to the back of the plane while ensuring he did not get near the plane's controls. But he broke free and sprinted up the aisle, claiming there was a bomb. Passengers said Olson urged them to pray and shouted, "They're going to take us down."
"Nobody knew what to do because he is the captain of the plane," said Don Davis, who was aboard the plane at the time. "You're not just going to jump up and attack the captain."
Four men managed to restrain Osbon, using seatbelt extenders and zip-tie handcuffs to pin him to the floor for more than 20 minutes while the co-captain and an off-duty pilot landed the plane in Amarillo, Texas.
Tony Antolino, who sat in the 10th row and tackled Osbon when he attempted to re-enter the cockpit, said: "Clearly the pilot had an emotional or mental type of breakdown. He became almost delusional."
Fellow passenger Josh Redick said Osbon seemed "irate" and was "spouting off about Afghanistan and souls and al-Qaida".
The chief executive of JetBlue, Dave Barger, told NBC Osbon was a "consummate professional" he had known for years. There was nothing in the pilot's record to indicate he would be a risk, Barger added.
The airline described the incident as a "medical situation involving the captain of JetBlue airways flight 191 from New York's John F Kennedy airport". The pilot was later taken to a hospital, it added.
Gabriel Schonzeit, who was sitting in the third row, said the pilot had said there could be a bomb on board the flight. "He started screaming about al-Qaida and possibly a bomb on the plane and Iraq and Iran and about how we were all going down," he told Amarillo Globe-News. "A group of us … grabbed him and put him to the ground."
An off-duty airline captain who was on the plane entered the flight deck and took over the duties of the ill captain before landing in Amarillo, the airline said.
Airline authorities and police officers interviewed passengers on arrival. Grant Heppes, who was on the flight, said: "I had no idea [Olson] was an employee … I just assumed he was a passenger who flipped out."
An FBI spokeswoman, Lydia Maese, said it was co-ordinating an investigation with airport police, Amarillo police, the FAA and the Transportation Safety Administration. She declined to comment on any arrests.
John Cox, an aviation safety consultant and former airline pilot, said such incidents were rare. He recalled two or three similar examples in some 40 years.
Airlines and the FAA encouraged pilots to assert themselves if they thought flight safety was at risk, even if it meant contradicting the captain's orders, Cox said.
All pilots working for scheduled airlines must have a first-class medical certificate, which must be renewed by the FAA every six months to a year, depending on the pilot's age. To receive the certificate, pilots must be examined by an FAA-designated doctor, who asks questions about the interviewee's psychological condition. Pilots are required to disclose any ailments and list any medication they may be taking.
The incident aboard the JetBlue flight comes weeks after an American Airlines flight attendant was removed from a plane after making references to 9/11 and voicing concerns that the plane would crash.
In 2008, an Air Canada co-pilot was removed from flight from Toronto to London then later restrained and sedated after having a mental breakdown.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Egypt Designates Israel Its Top Enemy — Obama Restores Military Aid
Posted by Robert Spencer Bio ↓ on Mar 21st, 2012
Egypt’s parliament, which is dominated by two pro-Sharia Islamic supremacist groups, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists,voted unanimously last Monday to expel Israel’s ambassador to Egypt, and signaled that the Camp David Accords would soon be a thing of the past: Egypt, the parliamentarians declared, would “never” be Israel’s ally. In fact, Israel was Egypt’s “number one enemy.” And how did Barack Obama respond to this egregious trampling upon the agreement that has kept an uneasy peace between Israel and Egypt for thirty years? By announcing a resumption of military aid to Egypt.
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NCTC aimed at usurping powers of state govts: Badal
Chandigarh, Mar 27 (PTI) Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today alleged the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) is aimed at usurping the powers of state governments, contrary to the spirit of federalism. He said this was "a planned and deliberate attempt of the Centre to dilute the federal character of our country to make it unitary, which would be ever opposed by our government tooth and nail". Badal was replying to the Assembly debate on the motion of thanks to the Governor's address.
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New counterterrorism guidelines permit data on U.S. citizens to be held longer
The guidelines have prompted concern from civil liberties advocates.
Those advocates have repeatedly clashed with the administration over a host of national security issues, including its military detention without trial of individuals in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, its authorization of the killing of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in a drone strike in Yemen, and its prosecution of an unprecedented number of suspects in the leaking of classified information.