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Showing posts with label Martial law. Show all posts
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Friday, January 20, 2012
".....Stench of Deceit....." Part IV: The techniques advocated by this speaker also need to be implemented here in Israel.
Thanks to Eric Phelps and Chris; see also below radio interview tomorrow with only congressman, from Rhode Island, to oppose NDAA.
See the previous posts on this blog related to the topic of mercenaries and treasonous, illegal use of force against Jews of Judea and Samaria here:
Friday, December 23, 2011
Urgent, essential, please watch and read now! And pass it on to your friends and family before it's too late. I am not trying to be an alarmist, but this is very serious, at least from what I can tell.
B"H
To all of you:
I just found this on the Alex Jones website (the videos linked below, I was not able to embed them). This is for real! Sources, data, paperwork, everything is here.True, Alex Jones also publishes a lot of BS, and there is a lot of antisemitism on his show, but this is for real!
The moment the collapse hits the U.S., that's it! We don't know when, but as you know Europe is on the brink. The banks for now have been temporarily supported by the ECB, but Greece is on the verge, the other Euro countries are in very bad shape, and it is all one deck of cards: one collapses, who knows how many others collapse with it. Whether the U.S. will collapse at the same time is anybody's guess. For now , as I said, the banks look OK. But it could change any day.
The moment it collapses, it will be too late!
So please, devise a plan and decide what needs to be done before it happens, now!
To all of you:
I just found this on the Alex Jones website (the videos linked below, I was not able to embed them). This is for real! Sources, data, paperwork, everything is here.True, Alex Jones also publishes a lot of BS, and there is a lot of antisemitism on his show, but this is for real!
The moment the collapse hits the U.S., that's it! We don't know when, but as you know Europe is on the brink. The banks for now have been temporarily supported by the ECB, but Greece is on the verge, the other Euro countries are in very bad shape, and it is all one deck of cards: one collapses, who knows how many others collapse with it. Whether the U.S. will collapse at the same time is anybody's guess. For now , as I said, the banks look OK. But it could change any day.
The moment it collapses, it will be too late!
So please, devise a plan and decide what needs to be done before it happens, now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=0ygMxUFXMTk&feature= player_embedded#!
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=k-Q01kXGkVc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
And watch this guy who has his head on his shoulders. Never heard of him before, but he certainly deserves our attention.
Sei Gebenscht, good Shabbos, and a Happy Chanukah.
UPDATE:
David contributed this video for more information on the previous speaker:
And here is another one. Finally somebody who points the finger where it belongs: AT THE VATICAN!
Thank you, Benjamin. Are you Mashiach ben Yosef?
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Questions, anyone?
Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons
A decade of billions in spending in the name of homeland security has armed local police departments with military-style equipment and a new commando mentality. But has it gone too far? Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz of the Center for Investigative Reporting report.
by Andrew Becker , G. W. Schulz |Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communities. North Dakota’s largest city has averaged fewer than two homicides a year since 2005, and there’s not been a single international terrorism prosecution in the last decade.
But that hasn’t stopped authorities in Fargo and its surrounding county from going on an $8 million buying spree to arm police officers with the sort of gear once reserved only for soldiers fighting foreign wars.
Every city squad car is equipped today with a military-style assault rifle, and officers can don Kevlar helmets able to withstand incoming fire from battlefield-grade ammunition. And for that epic confrontation—if it ever occurs—officers can now summon a new $256,643 armored truck, complete with a rotating turret. For now, though, the menacing truck is used mostly for training and appearances at the annual city picnic, where it’s been parked near the children’s bounce house.
“Most people are so fascinated by it, because nothing happens here,” says Carol Archbold, a Fargo resident and criminal justice professor at North Dakota State University. “There’s no terrorism here.”
Like Fargo, thousands of other local police departments nationwide have been amassing stockpiles of military-style equipment in the name of homeland security, aided by more than $34 billion in federal grants since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a Daily Beast investigation conducted by the Center for Investigative Reporting has found.
The buying spree has transformed local police departments into small, army-like forces, and put intimidating equipment into the hands of civilian officers. And that is raising questions about whether the strategy has gone too far, creating a culture and capability that jeopardizes public safety and civil rights while creating an expensive false sense of security.
“The argument for up-armoring is always based on the least likely of terrorist scenarios,” says Mark Randol, a former terrorism expert at the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan research arm of Congress. “Anyone can get a gun and shoot up stuff. No amount of SWAT equipment can stop that.”
Local police bristle at the suggestion that they’ve become “militarized,” arguing the upgrade in firepower and other equipment is necessary to combat criminals with more lethal capabilities. They point to the 1997 Los Angeles-area bank robbers who pinned police for hours with assault weapons, the gun-wielding student who perpetrated the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, and the terrorists who waged a bloody rampage in Mumbai, India, that left 164 people dead and 300 wounded in 2008.
The new weaponry and battle gear, they insist, helps save lives in the face of such threats. “I don’t see us as militarizing police; I see us as keeping abreast with society,” former Los Angeles Police chief William Bratton says. “And we are a gun-crazy society.”
“I don’t see us as militarizing police; I see us as keeping abreast with society.”
Adds Fargo Police Lt. Ross Renner, who commands the regional SWAT team: “It’s foolish to not be cognizant of the threats out there, whether it’s New York, Los Angeles, or Fargo. Our residents have the right to be protected. We don’t have everyday threats here when it comes to terrorism, but we are asked to be prepared.”
The skepticism about the Homeland spending spree is less severe for Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York, which are presumed to be likelier targets. But questions persist about whether money was handed out elsewhere with any regard for risk assessment or need. And the gap in accounting for the decade-long spending spree is undeniable. The U.S. Homeland Security Department says it doesn’t closely track what’s been bought with its tax dollars or how the equipment is used. State and local governments don’t maintain uniform records either.
To assess the changes in law enforcement for The Daily Beast, the Center for Investigative Reporting conducted interviews and reviewed grant spending records obtained through open records requests in 41 states. The probe found stockpiles of weaponry and military-style protective equipment worthy of a defense contractor’s sales catalog.
In Montgomery County, Texas, the sheriff’s department owns a $300,000 pilotless surveillance drone, like those used to hunt down al Qaeda terrorists in the remote tribal regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. In Augusta, Maine, with fewer than 20,000 people and where an officer hasn’t died from gunfire in the line of duty in more than 125 years, police bought eight $1,500 tactical vests. Police in Des Moines, Iowa, bought two $180,000 bomb-disarming robots, while an Arizona sheriff is now the proud owner of a surplus Army tank.
The flood of money opened to local police after 9/11, but slowed slightly in recent years. Still, the Department of Homeland Security awarded more than $2 billion in grants to local police in 2011, and President Obama’s 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act contributed an additional half-billion dollars.
Law enforcement officials say the armored vehicles, assault weapons, and combat uniforms used by their officers provide a public safety benefit beyond their advertised capabilities, creating a sort of “shock and awe” experience they hope will encourage suspects to surrender more quickly.
“The only time I hear the complaint of ‘God, you guys look scary’ is if the incident turns out to be nothing,” says West Hartford, Conn., Police Lt. Jeremy Clark, who organizes an annual SWAT competition.
A grainy YouTube video from one of Clark’s recent competitions shows just how far the police transformation has come, displaying officers in battle fatigues, helmets, and multi-pocketed vests storming a hostile scene. One with a pistol strapped to his hip swings a battering ram into a door. A colleague lobs a flash-bang grenade into a field. Another officer, holding a pistol and wearing a rifle strapped to his back, peeks cautiously inside a bus.
The images unfold to the pulsing, ominous soundtrack of a popular videogame, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Though resembling soldiers in a far-flung war zone, the stars of this video are Massachusetts State Police troopers.
The number of SWAT teams participating in Clark’s event doubled to 40 between 2004 and 2009 as Homeland’s police funding swelled. The competition provides real-life scenarios for training, and Clark believes it is essential, because he fears many SWAT teams are falling below the 16 hours of minimum monthly training recommended by the National Tactical Officers Association.
“Luck is not for cops. Luck is for drunks and fools,” Clark said, explaining his devotion to training.
One beneficiary of Homeland’s largesse are military contractors, who have found a new market for their wares and sponsor training events like the one Clark oversees in Connecticut or a similar Urban Shield event held in California.
Special ops supplier Blackhawk Industries, founded by a former Navy SEAL, was among several Urban Shield sponsors this year. Other sponsors for such training peddle wares like ThunderSledge breaching tools for smashing open locked or chained doors, Lenco Armored Vehicles bulletproof box trucks, and KDH Defense Systems’s body armor.
“As criminal organizations are increasingly armed with military-style weapons, law enforcement operations require the same level of field-tested and combat-proven protection used by soldiers and Marines in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other high-risk locations,” boasts an Oshkosh Corp. brochure at a recent police seminar, where the company pitched its “tactical protector vehicle.”
The trend shows no sign of abating. The homeland security market for state and local agencies is projected to reach $19.2 billion by 2014, up from an estimated $15.8 billion in fiscal 2009, according to the Homeland Security Research Corp.
The rise of equipment purchases has paralleled an apparent increase in local SWAT teams, but reliable numbers are hard to come by. The National Tactical Officers Association, which provides training and develops SWAT standards, says it currently has about 1,650 team memberships, up from 1,026 in 2000.
Many of America’s newly armed officers are ex-military veterans from the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan. Charles Ramsey, who was police chief in Washington, D.C., on 9/11, upgraded the weaponry when he moved to Philadelphia in 2008. Today, some 1,500 Philly beat cops are trained to use AR-15 assault rifles.
“We have a lot of people here, like most departments, who are ex-military,” Ramsey says. “Some people are very much into guns and so forth. So it wasn’t hard to find volunteers.”
Some real-life episodes, however, are sparking a debate about whether all that gear also creates a more militarized mind-set for local police that exceeds their mission or risks public safety.
In one case, dozens of officers in combat-style gear raided a youth rave in Utah as a police helicopter buzzed overhead. An online video shows the battle-ready team wearing masks and brandishing rifles as they holler for the music to be shut off and pin partygoers to the ground.
And Arizona tactical officers this year sprayed the home of ex-Marine Jose Guerena with gunfire as he stood in a hallway with a rifle that he did not fire. He was hit 22 times and died. Police had targeted the man’s older brother in a narcotics-trafficking probe, but nothing illegal was found in the younger Guerena’s home, and no related arrests had been made months after the raid.
In Maryland, officials finally began collecting data on tactical raids after police in 2008 burst into the home of a local mayor and killed his two dogs in a case in which the mayor’s home was used as a dropoff for drug deal. The mayor’s family had nothing to do with criminal activity.
Such episodes and the sheer magnitude of the expenditures over the last decade raise legitimate questions about whether taxpayers have gotten their money’s worth and whether police might have assumed more might and capability than is necessary for civilian forces.
“With local law enforcement, their mission is to solve crimes after they’ve happened, and to ensure that people’s constitutional rights are protected in the process,” says Jesselyn McCurdy, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. “The military obviously has a mission where they are fighting an enemy. When you use military tactics in the context of law enforcement, the missions don’t match, and that’s when you see trouble with the overmilitarization of police.”
The upgrading of local police nonetheless continues. Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio now claims to operate his own air armada of private pilots—dubbed Operation Desert Sky—to monitor illegal border crossings, and he recently added a full-size surplus Army tank. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly boasted this fall he had a secret capability to shoot down an airliner if one threatened the city again. And the city of Ogden, Utah, is launching a 54-foot, remote-controlled “crime-fighting blimp” with a powerful surveillance camera.
Back in Fargo, nearby corn and soybean farmer Tim Kozojed supports the local police but questions whether the Homeland grants have been spent wisely. ”I’m very reluctant to get anxious about a terrorist attack in North Dakota,” Kozojed, 31, said. “Why would they bother?”
UPDATE:
You absolutely need to watch these videos!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgb8EfYbhXE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgb8EfYbhXE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ygMxUFXMTk&feature=player_embedded#!
This one is more detailed, if you have the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Q01kXGkVc&feature=related
This one is more detailed, if you have the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Q01kXGkVc&feature=related
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Bibi finally showing his true colors. Interesting that a military dictatorship should've been declared simultaneously in the U.S. and in Israel, in an obviously coordinated fashion. I guess they don't like to see their financial basis evaporate, do they.
...Since the Attorney General said there is nothing wrong with this picture, just as well post it.....
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/11/attorney-generals-office-says.html
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/11/attorney-generals-office-says.html
Incidentally, MARTIAL LAW was officially declared at the U.N. in Geneva in June 2009, for all U.N. member states and by definition, simply by declaration of a pandemic - remember the H1N1 hysteria???.... So, if you wonder where this simultaneous development is coming from, don't seek too far: I guess they were waiting for the proper signal; the Euro crashing must have been it. Order given. Watch for similar developments in other countries too. They had it planned all along. If you ever questioned whether Bibi is a NWO member or not, I guess you got your answer today. Thanks, brother of Yoni Netanyahu, your brother must be really proud of you today!
Actually, you don't need to put him in a Nazi uniform: his nasty, contorted features speak for themselves; the mask is off.
Congress just passed the National Defense Authorization Act in a 283-to-136 vote. 190 Republicans and 93 Democrats voted for; 43 Republicans and 93 Democrats voted "against." Prepare to be arrested, without charge, if someone believes believe you engage in "terroristy" stuff. Good luck proving them wrong.
http://www.zerohedge.com/
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People have characterized this as a "police state." Not precisely. It makes the US a military dictatorship. The military would define "terrorist" and "terrorism." The military would decide who is probably a terrorist and would be the one to conclude that the person is a terrorist in fact. The military would be, not only judge, jury and jailer. It would also be the legislator who defines the crime. If you want to see who Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, thinks might be a terrorist, look at this and this which includes groups opposed to abortion and immigration, as well as returning soldiers from combat overseas. The State Department lists as a foreign terrorist organization at least one organization (Kahane Chai) which is so classified solely for what it has said and not for what it has done.
That is not all. If the President were to call a judge and tell him that the President wants a person convicted, the judge can tell him that he, the judge, is in charge of the trial and does not answer to the President. But the President is Commander in Chief of the military. If he calls a military tribunal and orders it to convict, it is an order from their Commander in Chief.
Sadly, this bill has already been passed in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives with nary a whimper by a 322-96 vote.
Only six Republicans voted No. Like I have pointed out, electing Republicans is not enough. The established leadership of both parties has to be thrown out and the parties reconstituted in the Constitutional mold. No other has ever been agreed upon. It has been distorted and perverted, it is true, but only by stealth, taking advantage of people's ignorance. No other mold has ever been consciously agreed upon.
This measure unites Americans of [almost] all political stripes. It puts the ACLU and the John Birch Society on the same side of the issue. That's pretty impressive. As someone said, this is not a liberal thing or a conservative thing. This is an American thing.
Do Republicans who voted for this bill really trust Obama with that kind of power? Would Democrats who voted for the bill trust George Bush with that power? Do they know who the President will be in five years? Ten years? Thirty years? Why did they enact it?
There is not much time, citizens. Both houses of Congress agree with the thrust of the bill. They only need to conform their two drafts and enact the exact same bill. Pressure has to be brought immediately or America will become a military dictatorship. It will still have a very convincing democratic facade but it will be just that, a facade. Here is something to urge your Congressional representatives to do. And if they won't do it, they are derelict in their duty to defend the Constitution of the United States and their defeat for reelection should be a foregone conclusion. In fact, anyone who voted for this blatantly fascistic measure should be recalled at once...in my onionion, of course.
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- PM Approves New Security Measures in Judea and Samaria
Publish: 12/14/2011, 9:12 PM
Prime Minister Netanyahu approved new security measures for dealing with disturbances in Judea and Samaria.
Gavriel Queenann Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday accepted the recommendations of Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch and Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman for dealing with disturbances in Judea and Samaria.
The ministers formulated the recommendations after meeting with ISA, IDF, Israel Police and State Attorney's Office teams, which were:
- The immediate issuing of administrative detention orders against rioters;
- Immediately increasing the number of those barred from various areas;
- Trying rioters in military courts;
- Giving IDF soldiers the authority to detain people; and
- Increasing both the number of special ISA, Israel Police, IDF and State Attorney's Office investigation teams and the resources for investigations.
The recommendations come one day after an emergency cabinet meeting was convened to discuss a riot by some 50 angry Jewish youth at the Ephraim Brigade headquarters late Monday, during which the rioters clashed with soldiers and hurled Molotov cocktails and stones at IDF vehicles.
In a separate incident on Monday the commander of the Ephraim Brigade, Col. Ron Kahane, was injured when stones were thrown at his vehicle. Netanyahu vowed to stop violence directed at the IDF.
Prime Minister Netanyahu told reporters, "Those who raise a hand against IDF soldiers or Israel Police personnel will be punished severely. Those who rioted at the IDF Ephraim Brigade base are like those who riot in Bilin."
"It is important to me to emphasize that this is a small group that does not represent the public that lives in Judea and Samaria, who are loyal to the state and its laws and who condemn the rioting," Netanyahu added.
The incident has been overwhelmingly condemned by community leaders and rabbis in Judea and Samaria who described the riot as "shameful and disgraceful."
Also on Wednesday a delegation of Rabbis from Samaria led by Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar met with Kahane and his officers to express their solidarity with the IDF. During the meeting they unequivocally stated attacks on IDF personnel were a grave sin proscribed by the Torah.
However, they also criticized Israel's political echelon for using the IDF – the army of the people – to settle internal political disputes.
During 2005 disengagement from Gaza observers predicted that using the IDF to destroy Jewish communities would estrange idealistic young people from the IDF due to shock at seeing soldiers execute orders that destroyed their lives and ran counter to national interests.
Many of the young people became convinced that the peaceful, quiet protests that preceded the disengagement were a tactical mistake, because the government ignored them, although hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets against the disastrous move.
Despite this, youth in Judea and Samaria continue to enlist in the IDF at a disproportionately high rate compared to their peers in other segments of society.
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