2012-02-29
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2012-02-27
Trying To File A Police Complaint! (Arrested For Trying)
Pretty old video but interesting and informative
2012-02-26
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2012-02-22
2012-02-21
Shaolin warrior training
I understand their authoritarian feudal history as well as working with the CIA, but I thought this would be interesting to watch.
2012-02-20
Why It Matters That Our Politicians Are Rich
This clip speaks to the fact that this culture holds plutocrats on an alter like catholic saints. This's no new news. The rich has always lacked sympathy and empathy.
CNN: Iran Has Female NINJAS That Could Be Used As ASSASSINS! DUN! DUN! DUN!
As the drums of war grows louder and louder. But don't forget about Rio and Carnival.
2012-02-19
2012-02-18
2012-02-17
POLICE TANK PURCHASE RILES NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN
"We're going to have our own tank."
That's what Keene, N.H., Mayor Kendall Lane whispered to Councilman Mitch Greenwood during a December city council meeting.
It's not quite a tank. But the quaint town of 23,000 -- scene of just two murders since 1999 -- had just accepted a $285,933 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to purchase a Bearcat, an eight-ton armored personnel vehicle made by Lenco Industries Inc.
Since the 1990s, the Pentagon has made military equipment available to local police departments for free or at steep discounts. This, along with drug war-related policies, has spurred a trend toward a more militarized domestic police force in America. Law enforcement and elected officials have argued for years that better-armed, high-powered police departments are needed to fight the war on drugs.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the war on terror has accelerated the trend toward militarization. Homeland Security hands out anti-terrorism grants to cities and towns, many specifically to buy military-grade equipment from companies like Lenco. In December, the Center for Investigative Reporting reported that Homeland Security grants totalled $34 billion, and went to such unlikely terrorism targets as Fargo, N.D.; Fon du Lac, Wisc.; and Canyon County, Idaho. The report noted that because of the grants, defense contractors that long served the Pentagon exclusively have increasingly turned looked to police departments, hoping to tap a "homeland security market" expected to reach $19 billion by 2014.
Until only recently, public and press reaction to these grants and the gear purchased with them has been positive or non-existent. Most towns obtain and use the grants without much discussion or news coverage. At most, the local paper might run a supportive story touting the police department's new acquisition, usually without controversy. But it has been different in Keene, in part because Clark and a group of libertarian activists have made the Bearcat an issue.
Jim Massery, the government sales manager for Pittsfield, Mass.-based Lenco, dismissed critics who wonder why a town with almost no crime would need a $300,000 armored truck. "I don't think there's any place in the country where you can say, 'That isn't a likely terrorist target,'" Massery said. "How would you know? We don' t know what the terrorists are thinking. No one predicted that terrorists would take over airplanes on Sept. 11. If a group of terrorists decide to shoot up a shopping mall in a town like Keene, wouldn't you rather be prepared?"
Massery said Keene's anti-Bearcat citizens deliberately mischaracterize how the vehicle would be used, and pointed to incidents he said have saved police officers' lives. "When you see some Palestinian terrorist causing problems in Jerusalem, what do you usually see next? You see a tank with a cannon show up outside the guy's house, and the tank blows the house to smithereens. When a Lenco Bearcat shows up at a crime scene where a suicidal killer is holding hostages, it doesn't show up with a cannon. It shows up with a negotiator. Our trucks save lives. They save police lives. And I can't help but think that the people who are trying to stop this just don't think police officers' lives are worth saving."
Keene residents opposed to the Bearcat point to a video Lenco uses to market the vehicle to police departments. (See below.) The video doesn't stress negotiation, but shows the vehicle being used aggressively. The video viewpoint is similar to that of a shooter role-playing game, set to the AC/DC song "Thunderstruck." Cops dressed in camouflage tote assault weapons, pile in and out of the vehicle, and take aim at targets from around and behind the vehicle. They attach a battering ram to the front of the vehicle, break through the front door of a house, then inject tear gas. The Keene city council barred Clark from showing the video at the February committee meeting, and LENCO has since removed the video from publicly-accessible pages of its website.
"That video is totally irrelevant," Massery said. "We used some Hollywood effects and slick marketing to promote our product. So what?"
Neither Keene Mayor Kendall Lane nor police Chief Kenneth Meola returned HuffPost's requests for comment - 16 February 2012.
2012-02-16
2012-02-15
Athens,Greece
"(February 12th, 2012) Demonstrators take to the streets in the capital city of Athens in protest of the Greek bailout, throwing rocks, firebombs and just about anything they can use. News and Updated information below on continuing violence.
Man knocked unconscious at start of the video by Athens security forces."
Video's description.
2012-02-14
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2012-02-10
Cop Lied and Video Proves It
A police officer's claim that a Brooklyn man nearly ran him over is undercut by video footage that's "crystal clear" proof of a false arrest, a defense lawyer charged Friday.
2012-02-09
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2012-02-05
NYPD Officer Shoots And Kills Unarmed Teen over stop and frisk
Lying pigs. Here's the video of the young man "running" from the police into his home.
2012-02-04
Man beaten after calling 911.
Marco Chiclana called police after his father tried to leave hospital after heart surgery....you can see what happens when they arrive.
2012-02-03
2012-02-02
Police Shot And Kill Autistic Teen With Butter Knife Inside His Home After Arguing With Father Over Computer!
Stop calling the kkkops on your own children. Solve your family problems yourself. The kkkops are not mediators or your friend.
2012-02-01
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