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Organizing to stop FBI repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists
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Rasmea Odeh
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Rasmea Odeh is a 67 year old Palestinian American community leader who was tortured by the Israelis in 1969.
Rasmea Odeh is at home in Chicago and preparing for her appeal in a Cincinnati courtroom. This follows an outrageous sentencing of 18 months in prison, to be followed by her deportation.
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Organizing to stop FBI repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists
Buy a Liberty Bond to Support the Legal Defense
Rasmea Odeh
All out for Cincinnati to support Rasmea at her appeal Wednesday, October 14, 2015!
TAKE ACTION
Rasmea Odeh is a 67 year old Palestinian American community leader who was tortured by the Israelis in 1969.
Rasmea Odeh is at home in Chicago and preparing for her appeal in a Cincinnati courtroom. This follows an outrageous sentencing of 18 months in prison, to be followed by her deportation.
Join the week of justice Sep 8 - 14
Come to Cincinnati Oct 14 to support Rasmea
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2 stories
let god sort out the truth
1.
Pittsburgh's FBI Keeping the Nation Safe from Hackers
October 19 2015
Cyber attacks as seen by norsecorp.com
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Today’s news about possible hacking of the CIA director reinforces the increasing concern for the United States. Guest host, and Tribune Review investigative reporter Andrew Conte, sat down with Pittsburgh FBI agents Chris Geary and Mike Christman to talk about what the agency has been doing to help keep American information safe.
Agent Geary heads one of two cyber security teams stationed in Pittsburgh whose main focus is on hacks coming from China. Geary’s team was successful in indicting five Chinese military officers, who are accused of stealing information from companies in Pittsburgh.
“The spy war isn’t over because the Cold War has ended,” Geary said on the threat of hacking from China. “The spies are even more prolific now than ever.”
Geary described working on hacking cases as long and grueling, calling them “a marathon.” He occasionally finds himself working late into the night due to his targets operating in different time zones and says a lot of information is needed to accuse someone of a cybercrime.
Despite this, Geary finds it very rewarding to finally give over the evidence his team has discovered to the US Attorney’s office. Geary expressed a desire to see those five Chinese officers brought to Pittsburgh in order to stand trial.
Agent Christman, is in charge of cybercrimes in Pittsburgh. He describes Pittsburgh as a “technology center in the United States,” with many companies focused on technological advances. As such, the city
2.
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Hacker releases new purported personal data for top CIA, DHS officials [Updated]
Alleged hacker tells Ars that the authorities have not contacted him.
Oct 19, 2015 6:58pm EDT
Further Reading
Bush family privacy shattered after e-mails, photos exposed online
"Why would someone do this?" asks GWB's sister.
The person who claims to have hacked an AOL e-mail account belonging to John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has now released a small spreadsheet with alleged personal information for a number of former and current government officials. The sample includes phone numbers, social security numbers, e-mail addresses, and level of security clearance and employment status in some cases.
Ars has contacted several of the people on the list by phone, text, and e-mail, including Brennan and the former deputy director of intelligence at the CIA, Jami Miscik. A male voice responded to the number listed for Miscik, and when Ars asked for her, the voice said it was the wrong number and hung up. No others immediately responded.
Update (10/19, 5:45p CT): Twitter has suspended the @_CWA_ account through which the information was released.
Earlier on Monday, the hacker told the New York Post that he took sensitive documents contained within the AOL account, including Brennan's 47-page application for top-secret security clearance. CNN has since reported that the FBI and the Secret Service are investigating. CWA, the hacker who told the Post he was a high school student, claimed that he social engineered a customer service agent into giving up access to Brennan's AOL account. (Ars could not independently verify the claims.)
On Twitter through the handle @_CWA_, the hacker spoke to Ars through an encrypted chat. He said his
let god sort out the truth
1.
Pittsburgh's FBI Keeping the Nation Safe from Hackers
October 19 2015
Cyber attacks as seen by norsecorp.com
Credit norsecorp.com /
Today’s news about possible hacking of the CIA director reinforces the increasing concern for the United States. Guest host, and Tribune Review investigative reporter Andrew Conte, sat down with Pittsburgh FBI agents Chris Geary and Mike Christman to talk about what the agency has been doing to help keep American information safe.
Agent Geary heads one of two cyber security teams stationed in Pittsburgh whose main focus is on hacks coming from China. Geary’s team was successful in indicting five Chinese military officers, who are accused of stealing information from companies in Pittsburgh.
“The spy war isn’t over because the Cold War has ended,” Geary said on the threat of hacking from China. “The spies are even more prolific now than ever.”
Geary described working on hacking cases as long and grueling, calling them “a marathon.” He occasionally finds himself working late into the night due to his targets operating in different time zones and says a lot of information is needed to accuse someone of a cybercrime.
Despite this, Geary finds it very rewarding to finally give over the evidence his team has discovered to the US Attorney’s office. Geary expressed a desire to see those five Chinese officers brought to Pittsburgh in order to stand trial.
Agent Christman, is in charge of cybercrimes in Pittsburgh. He describes Pittsburgh as a “technology center in the United States,” with many companies focused on technological advances. As such, the city
2.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015 ... officials/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Hacker releases new purported personal data for top CIA, DHS officials [Updated]
Alleged hacker tells Ars that the authorities have not contacted him.
Oct 19, 2015 6:58pm EDT
Further Reading
Bush family privacy shattered after e-mails, photos exposed online
"Why would someone do this?" asks GWB's sister.
The person who claims to have hacked an AOL e-mail account belonging to John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has now released a small spreadsheet with alleged personal information for a number of former and current government officials. The sample includes phone numbers, social security numbers, e-mail addresses, and level of security clearance and employment status in some cases.
Ars has contacted several of the people on the list by phone, text, and e-mail, including Brennan and the former deputy director of intelligence at the CIA, Jami Miscik. A male voice responded to the number listed for Miscik, and when Ars asked for her, the voice said it was the wrong number and hung up. No others immediately responded.
Update (10/19, 5:45p CT): Twitter has suspended the @_CWA_ account through which the information was released.
Earlier on Monday, the hacker told the New York Post that he took sensitive documents contained within the AOL account, including Brennan's 47-page application for top-secret security clearance. CNN has since reported that the FBI and the Secret Service are investigating. CWA, the hacker who told the Post he was a high school student, claimed that he social engineered a customer service agent into giving up access to Brennan's AOL account. (Ars could not independently verify the claims.)
On Twitter through the handle @_CWA_, the hacker spoke to Ars through an encrypted chat. He said his
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Science Thomas Valone, Integrity Research Institute, Press Release: Integrity Research Institute, sponsor of COFE7, is collaborating with the ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference and TeslaTech to present a three-day conference event with peer-reviewed published proceedings on July 30, 31, and Aug. 1, 2015 with an extra introductory talk on July 29th at 5 PM by Dr. Tom Valone. COFE traditionally fulfills the mission statement of Integrity Research Institute to "research scientific integrity in the areas of energy, propulsion, and bioenergetics" so original papers on those vital topics are presented.
From IRI - Future Energy e-News/April 2015: With the mission of researching scientific integrity in the emerging areas of clean energy, fuelless propulsion and bioenergetics, Integrity Research Institute presents a stellar lineup of world experts on the investigations of these emerging scientific fields vital to human sustainability.
IRI has presented a half dozen International Conferences on Future Energy (COFE) in the past 16 years, including the first one (COFE1) . Every COFE event has been a cutting edge experience, often a media frenzy, and more revolutionary and practical than TED conferences. This year COFE7 will be held at the Albuquerque Embassy Suites Hotel from with very reasonable hotel rates for registered conference attendees!
COFE PROGRAM SCHEDULE
IRI is proud to bring the amazing adjunct professor of engineering, Dr. Nick Simos from Brookhaven National Labs to give a convincing critical assessment of Nikola Tesla's "Worldwide Wireless Energy System" that has often baffled and confused all of the world's electrical engineering experts, as compared to the comfortable, familiar, umbilical cord we call the "electrical utility grid" which normally loses 2/3 of its generated energy* upon delivery and ALL of it during any major storm. (See all COFE7 speakers abstracts and biographies online).
Another spectacular first is Mike Gambles' dual presentations on various perspectives of inertial propulsion which to the uninitiated is the future of satellite and space travel propulsion, as compared to "solar sails" and other wimpy alternatives. Mike will explain the basic fundamentals of the gyroscopic origins of the science of producing unidirectional force electrically and then astound the audience with a separate talk just for the COFE7 audience on the inside scoop of Boeing's actual research into the "control moment gyro propulsionengineering" or how to use gyros to keep satellites in orbit for years!
Complimenting that presentation is the "anti-gravity" inertial propulsion technology of the Nazi Bell (die Glocke) experiment by William Alek which, from the extensive original articles of the WWII period which he has posted online, proves that the Nazis were also actively pursuing "gyroscopic propulsion."**
Much anticipated is the well-researched and investigative report on the mysterious Papp Noble Gas Engine by Ryan Wood, just before he competes in the IronMan 2015 Boulder Triathlon
Science Thomas Valone, Integrity Research Institute, Press Release: Integrity Research Institute, sponsor of COFE7, is collaborating with the ExtraOrdinary Technology Conference and TeslaTech to present a three-day conference event with peer-reviewed published proceedings on July 30, 31, and Aug. 1, 2015 with an extra introductory talk on July 29th at 5 PM by Dr. Tom Valone. COFE traditionally fulfills the mission statement of Integrity Research Institute to "research scientific integrity in the areas of energy, propulsion, and bioenergetics" so original papers on those vital topics are presented.
From IRI - Future Energy e-News/April 2015: With the mission of researching scientific integrity in the emerging areas of clean energy, fuelless propulsion and bioenergetics, Integrity Research Institute presents a stellar lineup of world experts on the investigations of these emerging scientific fields vital to human sustainability.
IRI has presented a half dozen International Conferences on Future Energy (COFE) in the past 16 years, including the first one (COFE1) . Every COFE event has been a cutting edge experience, often a media frenzy, and more revolutionary and practical than TED conferences. This year COFE7 will be held at the Albuquerque Embassy Suites Hotel from with very reasonable hotel rates for registered conference attendees!
COFE PROGRAM SCHEDULE
IRI is proud to bring the amazing adjunct professor of engineering, Dr. Nick Simos from Brookhaven National Labs to give a convincing critical assessment of Nikola Tesla's "Worldwide Wireless Energy System" that has often baffled and confused all of the world's electrical engineering experts, as compared to the comfortable, familiar, umbilical cord we call the "electrical utility grid" which normally loses 2/3 of its generated energy* upon delivery and ALL of it during any major storm. (See all COFE7 speakers abstracts and biographies online).
Another spectacular first is Mike Gambles' dual presentations on various perspectives of inertial propulsion which to the uninitiated is the future of satellite and space travel propulsion, as compared to "solar sails" and other wimpy alternatives. Mike will explain the basic fundamentals of the gyroscopic origins of the science of producing unidirectional force electrically and then astound the audience with a separate talk just for the COFE7 audience on the inside scoop of Boeing's actual research into the "control moment gyro propulsionengineering" or how to use gyros to keep satellites in orbit for years!
Complimenting that presentation is the "anti-gravity" inertial propulsion technology of the Nazi Bell (die Glocke) experiment by William Alek which, from the extensive original articles of the WWII period which he has posted online, proves that the Nazis were also actively pursuing "gyroscopic propulsion."**
Much anticipated is the well-researched and investigative report on the mysterious Papp Noble Gas Engine by Ryan Wood, just before he competes in the IronMan 2015 Boulder Triathlon
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Climate
This Is About As Mad As The Dalai Lama Gets
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This Is About As Mad As The Dalai Lama Gets
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reporting from the whisper stream in Maine
*DDATTers,*
*Deb Burdin of Bwarts in Dexter is trying to find some local solutions to
the economic and social problems we are all facing. Here's her invitation
to come brainstorm:*
Bwarts Sustainable Community and shelter Every Sunday from 2:00 - at the
Abbot Memorial Library, Dexter.
If you could make your own vision of humanity, what would it look like?
What type of economic system, social structure, and government, as well as
their roles would you propose?
What will humanity be like?
What will our neighborhoods look like?
Could we build a 100% sustainable community, sustainable homes, energy,
food, income
could we include a homeless shelter, a women shelter, sustainable
educational and training programs .
Education, infrastructure, anything really.
Here's the hard part, how do you (we) achieve this vision?
Looking for a group of people who want to be part of a team to do it.
Let's get it done.
Open Meetings every Sunday at the library at 2:00
This is a good thing something we need to get done.
Thank you
Debra Burdin {Bwarts}. 207 924-6538
[email protected]
*DDATTers,*
*Deb Burdin of Bwarts in Dexter is trying to find some local solutions to
the economic and social problems we are all facing. Here's her invitation
to come brainstorm:*
Bwarts Sustainable Community and shelter Every Sunday from 2:00 - at the
Abbot Memorial Library, Dexter.
If you could make your own vision of humanity, what would it look like?
What type of economic system, social structure, and government, as well as
their roles would you propose?
What will humanity be like?
What will our neighborhoods look like?
Could we build a 100% sustainable community, sustainable homes, energy,
food, income
could we include a homeless shelter, a women shelter, sustainable
educational and training programs .
Education, infrastructure, anything really.
Here's the hard part, how do you (we) achieve this vision?
Looking for a group of people who want to be part of a team to do it.
Let's get it done.
Open Meetings every Sunday at the library at 2:00
This is a good thing something we need to get done.
Thank you
Debra Burdin {Bwarts}. 207 924-6538
[email protected]
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Harvard Law School Launches “Free the Law” Project with Ravel Law To Digitize US Case Law, Provide Free Access
October 29, 2015
Teaching & Learning
Harvard Law School has announced that, with the support of Ravel Law, a legal research and analytics platform, it is digitizing its entire collection of U.S. case law, one of the largest collections of legal materials in the world, and that it will make the collection available online, for free, to anyone with an Internet connection.
The “Free the Law” initiative will provide open, wide-ranging access to American case law for the first time in United States history. “Driving this effort is a shared belief that the law should be free and open to all,” said Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow. “Using technology to create broad access to legal information will help create a more transparent and more just legal system.”
stacks of old books
Credit: Lorin Granger
Harvard Law School’s collection comprises 40,000 books containing approximately forty million pages of court decisions, including original materials from cases that predate the U.S. Constitution. It is the most comprehensive and authoritative database of American law and cases available anywhere except for the Library of Congress, containing binding judicial decisions from the federal government and each of the fifty states, from the founding of each respective jurisdiction. The Harvard Law School Library—the largest academic law library in the world—has been collecting these decisions over the past two hundred years.
Digitizing these materials will make them broadly accessible to nonprofits, academics, practitioners, researchers, and law students—anyone with a smartphone or Internet connection. The material will be added to—and will be searchable through—Ravel’s platform, which uses data science, machine learning, and visualization to help people sift quickly through millions of court opinions.
scanning documents
Credit: Lorin Granger
In the Harvard Library Innovation Lab (a unit within the Harvard Law School Library), bound volumes are being scanned by high-speed imaging equipment capable of scanning 500,000 pages per week, and the text of each decision is then extracted into machine-readable files made available to Ravel Law and to Harvard – and ultimately the public at large.
Case law for California jurisdictions will be online in November. The full collection of nationwide case law is expected to be digitized and searchable for free by mid-2017, and will be available through http://www.ravellaw.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Harvard and Ravel have agreed to release the entire database for bulk use by anyone within eight years.
“Libraries were founded as an engine for the democratization of knowledge, and the digitization of Harvard Law School’s collection of U.S. case law is a tremendous step forward in making legal information open and easily accessible to the public,” said Jonathan Zittrain, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources. “The materials in the library’s collection tell a story that goes back to the founding of America, and we’re proud to preserve and share that story,” said Zittrain, who also holds appointments as Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Daniel Lewis, co-founder and chief executive officer of Ravel Law, said: “We share with Harvard Law School a common belief that increasing access to our country’s legal records through technology will help make our legal system more transparent and just. By collaborating together on this digitization effort, we hope to provide the public with unique and powerful ways to find and understand the law.”
Nik Reed, co-founder and chief of everything else of Ravel Law, added: “As a company founded by lawyers, we understand firsthand the importance of access to legal information. The immense volume and complexity of the law creates challenges for anyone appearing in court, and through this collaboration, we seek to empower lawyers with an extensive database of American case law along with Ravel’s innovative analytics to help develop winning legal strategies.”
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Said Jim Sandman, president of the Legal Services Corporation, the largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans: “This is a great development. Making legal materials and analytical tools available for free will be of great value to non-profit legal aid lawyers in providing essential legal services to low-income people.”
Ralph Baxter, an advisor to Ravel and also to the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession said: “Technology is changing the legal landscape, and the law firm of the future will need to be more efficient, more agile, and more opportunistic in finding new ways to deliver legal services. The collaboration between Harvard Law School and Ravel Law offers a new and exciting resource that lawyers can deploy to improve how they practice law.”
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Harvard Law School Launches “Free the Law” Project with Ravel Law To Digitize US Case Law, Provide Free Access
October 29, 2015
Teaching & Learning
Harvard Law School has announced that, with the support of Ravel Law, a legal research and analytics platform, it is digitizing its entire collection of U.S. case law, one of the largest collections of legal materials in the world, and that it will make the collection available online, for free, to anyone with an Internet connection.
The “Free the Law” initiative will provide open, wide-ranging access to American case law for the first time in United States history. “Driving this effort is a shared belief that the law should be free and open to all,” said Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow. “Using technology to create broad access to legal information will help create a more transparent and more just legal system.”
stacks of old books
Credit: Lorin Granger
Harvard Law School’s collection comprises 40,000 books containing approximately forty million pages of court decisions, including original materials from cases that predate the U.S. Constitution. It is the most comprehensive and authoritative database of American law and cases available anywhere except for the Library of Congress, containing binding judicial decisions from the federal government and each of the fifty states, from the founding of each respective jurisdiction. The Harvard Law School Library—the largest academic law library in the world—has been collecting these decisions over the past two hundred years.
Digitizing these materials will make them broadly accessible to nonprofits, academics, practitioners, researchers, and law students—anyone with a smartphone or Internet connection. The material will be added to—and will be searchable through—Ravel’s platform, which uses data science, machine learning, and visualization to help people sift quickly through millions of court opinions.
scanning documents
Credit: Lorin Granger
In the Harvard Library Innovation Lab (a unit within the Harvard Law School Library), bound volumes are being scanned by high-speed imaging equipment capable of scanning 500,000 pages per week, and the text of each decision is then extracted into machine-readable files made available to Ravel Law and to Harvard – and ultimately the public at large.
Case law for California jurisdictions will be online in November. The full collection of nationwide case law is expected to be digitized and searchable for free by mid-2017, and will be available through http://www.ravellaw.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Harvard and Ravel have agreed to release the entire database for bulk use by anyone within eight years.
“Libraries were founded as an engine for the democratization of knowledge, and the digitization of Harvard Law School’s collection of U.S. case law is a tremendous step forward in making legal information open and easily accessible to the public,” said Jonathan Zittrain, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School, and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources. “The materials in the library’s collection tell a story that goes back to the founding of America, and we’re proud to preserve and share that story,” said Zittrain, who also holds appointments as Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Professor at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Daniel Lewis, co-founder and chief executive officer of Ravel Law, said: “We share with Harvard Law School a common belief that increasing access to our country’s legal records through technology will help make our legal system more transparent and just. By collaborating together on this digitization effort, we hope to provide the public with unique and powerful ways to find and understand the law.”
Nik Reed, co-founder and chief of everything else of Ravel Law, added: “As a company founded by lawyers, we understand firsthand the importance of access to legal information. The immense volume and complexity of the law creates challenges for anyone appearing in court, and through this collaboration, we seek to empower lawyers with an extensive database of American case law along with Ravel’s innovative analytics to help develop winning legal strategies.”
breaking book binding
Credit: Lorin Granger
Said Jim Sandman, president of the Legal Services Corporation, the largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans: “This is a great development. Making legal materials and analytical tools available for free will be of great value to non-profit legal aid lawyers in providing essential legal services to low-income people.”
Ralph Baxter, an advisor to Ravel and also to the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession said: “Technology is changing the legal landscape, and the law firm of the future will need to be more efficient, more agile, and more opportunistic in finding new ways to deliver legal services. The collaboration between Harvard Law School and Ravel Law offers a new and exciting resource that lawyers can deploy to improve how they practice law.”
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Dailt Recap 10-29-15
October 30, 2015
Here are the ten reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, October 29, 2015:
Live Oak, Florida: An officer was arrested for possession of child pornography. ow.ly/TZwaM
Maurice, Louisiana: An officer was found not guilty of negligent homicide for his role in the automobile crash that killed Paul Suire in 2012. ow.ly/TZwOh
Honolulu, Hawaii: The City is being sued by a same-sex couple who claim they were beat up and arrested by officer for kissing in a grocery store. ow.ly/TZy7R
Cambria County, Pennsylvania: A now-former detective was arrested for tipping-off a drug dealer to a law enforcement investigation.ow.ly/TZXhW
Update: Tate County, Mississippi: A now-former deputy pled guilty to illegally tasing an inmate. The inmate consequently suffered skull fracture during the incident. ow.ly/U0oC9
San Antonio, Texas: An officer was fired for participating in an unauthorized high-speed chase of a car with a baby inside. ow.ly/TZZxa
St. Paul, Minnesota: A transit officer was fired after a violent takedown of an autistic teenager. ow.ly/U0bIu
Update: Galloway Township, New Jersey: An officer pled guilty to aggravated assault for domestic violence. He was sentenced to 220 days in jail. ow.ly/U0dOr
DeKalb County, Georgia: A now-former deputy was arrested and fired from the Covington PD for stealing a seized motorcycle DeKalb County while he was employed there. The Covington authorities received an anonymous tip that he was in possession of the stolen vehicle. ow.ly/U0ewC
Canby, Oregon: A civil jury found that a lieutenant retaliated against a now-former officer. The jury awarded the former officer with a $120,000 judgment. The City and the police chief were not found liable for their roles in the incident. ow.ly/U0iCY
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Dailt Recap 10-29-15
October 30, 2015
Here are the ten reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, October 29, 2015:
Live Oak, Florida: An officer was arrested for possession of child pornography. ow.ly/TZwaM
Maurice, Louisiana: An officer was found not guilty of negligent homicide for his role in the automobile crash that killed Paul Suire in 2012. ow.ly/TZwOh
Honolulu, Hawaii: The City is being sued by a same-sex couple who claim they were beat up and arrested by officer for kissing in a grocery store. ow.ly/TZy7R
Cambria County, Pennsylvania: A now-former detective was arrested for tipping-off a drug dealer to a law enforcement investigation.ow.ly/TZXhW
Update: Tate County, Mississippi: A now-former deputy pled guilty to illegally tasing an inmate. The inmate consequently suffered skull fracture during the incident. ow.ly/U0oC9
San Antonio, Texas: An officer was fired for participating in an unauthorized high-speed chase of a car with a baby inside. ow.ly/TZZxa
St. Paul, Minnesota: A transit officer was fired after a violent takedown of an autistic teenager. ow.ly/U0bIu
Update: Galloway Township, New Jersey: An officer pled guilty to aggravated assault for domestic violence. He was sentenced to 220 days in jail. ow.ly/U0dOr
DeKalb County, Georgia: A now-former deputy was arrested and fired from the Covington PD for stealing a seized motorcycle DeKalb County while he was employed there. The Covington authorities received an anonymous tip that he was in possession of the stolen vehicle. ow.ly/U0ewC
Canby, Oregon: A civil jury found that a lieutenant retaliated against a now-former officer. The jury awarded the former officer with a $120,000 judgment. The City and the police chief were not found liable for their roles in the incident. ow.ly/U0iCY
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Security Date of Publication: 11.06.15.
11.06.15
CIA Email Hackers Return With Major Law Enforcement Breach
Hackers who broke into the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan have struck again.
This time the group, which goes by the name Crackas With Attitude, says it gained access to an even more important target—a portal for law enforcement that grants access to arrest records and other sensitive data, including what appears to be a tool for sharing information about active shooters and terrorist events, and a system for real-time chats between law enforcement agents.
The CWA hackers said they found a vulnerability that allowed them to gain access to the private portal, which is supposed to be available only to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies around the country. That portal in turn, they say, gave them access to more than a dozen law enforcement tools that are used for information sharing.
The hackers wouldn’t identify the vulnerability that gave them access, but one of the hackers, who calls himself Cracka, provided WIRED with a screenshot of one of the systems they accessed called JABS. JABS stands for Joint Automated Booking System, and is a database of arrest records for the US.
Cracka is the same handle of a hacker who spoke with WIRED last month to describe how the same group hacked into the private email account of the CIA director.
This latest breach, if legitimate, is significant because it gives the hackers access to arrest records directly after they have been entered into the system. This would be valuable information for gossip sites and other media outlets interested in breaking stories about the arrest of celebrities and politicians.
More importantly, the system can also include information about arrests that are under court seal and may not be made public for months or years—such as the arrest of suspected terrorists, gang members and drug suspects. Knowledge about these arrests can tip off other members of a terrorist cell or gang to help them avoid capture.
“Just to clear this up,” Cracka tweeted on Thursday about the breach of the JABS database. “CWA did, indeed, have access to everybody in USA’s private information, now imagine if we was Russia or China.”
Sealed arrest records are also quite common in hacker investigations when law enforcement officials quietly arrest an individual, then flip him to work as a confidential informant with agents to capture others.
Security Date of Publication: 11.06.15.
11.06.15
CIA Email Hackers Return With Major Law Enforcement Breach
Hackers who broke into the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan have struck again.
This time the group, which goes by the name Crackas With Attitude, says it gained access to an even more important target—a portal for law enforcement that grants access to arrest records and other sensitive data, including what appears to be a tool for sharing information about active shooters and terrorist events, and a system for real-time chats between law enforcement agents.
The CWA hackers said they found a vulnerability that allowed them to gain access to the private portal, which is supposed to be available only to the FBI and other law enforcement agencies around the country. That portal in turn, they say, gave them access to more than a dozen law enforcement tools that are used for information sharing.
The hackers wouldn’t identify the vulnerability that gave them access, but one of the hackers, who calls himself Cracka, provided WIRED with a screenshot of one of the systems they accessed called JABS. JABS stands for Joint Automated Booking System, and is a database of arrest records for the US.
Cracka is the same handle of a hacker who spoke with WIRED last month to describe how the same group hacked into the private email account of the CIA director.
This latest breach, if legitimate, is significant because it gives the hackers access to arrest records directly after they have been entered into the system. This would be valuable information for gossip sites and other media outlets interested in breaking stories about the arrest of celebrities and politicians.
More importantly, the system can also include information about arrests that are under court seal and may not be made public for months or years—such as the arrest of suspected terrorists, gang members and drug suspects. Knowledge about these arrests can tip off other members of a terrorist cell or gang to help them avoid capture.
“Just to clear this up,” Cracka tweeted on Thursday about the breach of the JABS database. “CWA did, indeed, have access to everybody in USA’s private information, now imagine if we was Russia or China.”
Sealed arrest records are also quite common in hacker investigations when law enforcement officials quietly arrest an individual, then flip him to work as a confidential informant with agents to capture others.
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Why Does Facebook Censor the Word “Tsu”?
Posted by Iván Ulchur-Rota - October 28, 2015 at 6:21 pm
A Social Network that Returns 90 Percent of Advertising Dollars to the People: Send Me an Invitation, Please!
By Ivan Ulchur-Rota
Translated from GKillCity Magazine
At this point, it’s hard to imagine. Mark Zuckerberg’s giant has rapidly established itself as the social network bigwig. Facebook has bought its competitors like Instagram and by incorporating chat and video messaging has distinguished itself from platforms like Twitter or Linkedin. The network has constructed an empire through advertisements that accompany the content generated by its users. That’s why it’s censorship of every link to the fast-growing social network Tsu.co—that returns 90 percent of all ad revenue to its users—reveals what could become the giant’s Achiilles’ Heel: the redistribution of profit based on content.
Ivan Ulchur-Rota met Sebastian Sobczak, CEO of Tsu, at the Narco News 15th Anniversary Celebration earlier this month in New York City. Photo DR 2015 by Al Giordano.
When Al Giordano—founder and publisher of Narco News and the School of Authentic Journalism in Mexico—moved to Tsu, he had already been frustrated with Facebook since December 2012. Giordano and the authentic journalism team had utilized the network as an outreach platform and built a community of more than 25,000 members to promote their journalism and school. Then, three years ago, Facebook imposed an “algorithm” to put 95 percent of that community out of reach unless the nonprofit media bought ads to promote the links to its stories there. “The Facebook user quickly got tired of all the ads, so they stopped clicking.” Another social network, Ello, launched as an alternative that did not sell users’ information, but was unable to prosper now that the whole world, it seemed, was addicted to Facebook.
For Giordano the critical point was the realization that on Tsu nine out of ten dollars generated by advertisements would return to its users. “Facebook had pulled a ‘bait and switch’ on us, using our texts, voices and images to sell ads and kept all the value for itself. If someone had told us in 2007 that we could publish our work their website, recruit our friends and readers to use it, that they’d get money from ads and profit from it, and then we’d have to pay to reach the people we organized to come there, I would have told them to go to hell. But that’s how Facebook tricked everybody.”
Tsu is not playing Zuckerberg’s game. Instead, it has turned the rules upside down. By elevating the user as the main generator of profit, Tsu reinvents both social networking practices and our overall understanding of this type of technology. “When people realize that their content can generate money they generally behave better and the quality of their work improves,” he explains not without recognizing that this can also mean more work to purge the experience from money-seeking parasites and trolls whom the idea might attract as well. But the project is a radical departure from an established and accepted paradigm. This explains Facebook’s pre-emptive censorship of Tsu imposed this past month. Not
Why Does Facebook Censor the Word “Tsu”?
Posted by Iván Ulchur-Rota - October 28, 2015 at 6:21 pm
A Social Network that Returns 90 Percent of Advertising Dollars to the People: Send Me an Invitation, Please!
By Ivan Ulchur-Rota
Translated from GKillCity Magazine
At this point, it’s hard to imagine. Mark Zuckerberg’s giant has rapidly established itself as the social network bigwig. Facebook has bought its competitors like Instagram and by incorporating chat and video messaging has distinguished itself from platforms like Twitter or Linkedin. The network has constructed an empire through advertisements that accompany the content generated by its users. That’s why it’s censorship of every link to the fast-growing social network Tsu.co—that returns 90 percent of all ad revenue to its users—reveals what could become the giant’s Achiilles’ Heel: the redistribution of profit based on content.
Ivan Ulchur-Rota met Sebastian Sobczak, CEO of Tsu, at the Narco News 15th Anniversary Celebration earlier this month in New York City. Photo DR 2015 by Al Giordano.
When Al Giordano—founder and publisher of Narco News and the School of Authentic Journalism in Mexico—moved to Tsu, he had already been frustrated with Facebook since December 2012. Giordano and the authentic journalism team had utilized the network as an outreach platform and built a community of more than 25,000 members to promote their journalism and school. Then, three years ago, Facebook imposed an “algorithm” to put 95 percent of that community out of reach unless the nonprofit media bought ads to promote the links to its stories there. “The Facebook user quickly got tired of all the ads, so they stopped clicking.” Another social network, Ello, launched as an alternative that did not sell users’ information, but was unable to prosper now that the whole world, it seemed, was addicted to Facebook.
For Giordano the critical point was the realization that on Tsu nine out of ten dollars generated by advertisements would return to its users. “Facebook had pulled a ‘bait and switch’ on us, using our texts, voices and images to sell ads and kept all the value for itself. If someone had told us in 2007 that we could publish our work their website, recruit our friends and readers to use it, that they’d get money from ads and profit from it, and then we’d have to pay to reach the people we organized to come there, I would have told them to go to hell. But that’s how Facebook tricked everybody.”
Tsu is not playing Zuckerberg’s game. Instead, it has turned the rules upside down. By elevating the user as the main generator of profit, Tsu reinvents both social networking practices and our overall understanding of this type of technology. “When people realize that their content can generate money they generally behave better and the quality of their work improves,” he explains not without recognizing that this can also mean more work to purge the experience from money-seeking parasites and trolls whom the idea might attract as well. But the project is a radical departure from an established and accepted paradigm. This explains Facebook’s pre-emptive censorship of Tsu imposed this past month. Not
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Stetson Kennedy first released this book in 1954, the 1990 edition includes some practical ideas to fight Klan and other neo-fascist organizations in an afterword.
This book is a very easy read, conversational in tone, and compelling in content. Mr. Kennedy outlines his infiltration into the headquarters chapter of the KKK in Atlanta and the Columbia Brownshirt organization there, and his undercover hob-knobbing with violent racists and hatemongers, and the colorful illiterates and semi-literates that made up the membership of the Klan and their fellow travellers. He put his life in danger many times confronting the evil, brutal and stupid nature of southern racists.
Another compelling part of the story is the complicity of the police, FBI, the Democratic machine of the Talmadge family, (who rode the upsurge in Klan violence to national political prominence), and the Republican businessmen of the south who paid Klansmen to help bust union drives by busting heads and nightriding.
He also spends alot of time detailing Klan rituals and meetings, and the seemingly neverending lists of Kleagles, Kludds, etc. that made up the hoodoo hierarchy of the Klan organization. It seems like never had so much empty ritual been used in attempt to 'sanctify' such mindless violence.
A good book that gives a good cross-section of what Klan terror and rightist violence was all about in the 1940s and 1950s.
Stetson Kennedy first released this book in 1954, the 1990 edition includes some practical ideas to fight Klan and other neo-fascist organizations in an afterword.
This book is a very easy read, conversational in tone, and compelling in content. Mr. Kennedy outlines his infiltration into the headquarters chapter of the KKK in Atlanta and the Columbia Brownshirt organization there, and his undercover hob-knobbing with violent racists and hatemongers, and the colorful illiterates and semi-literates that made up the membership of the Klan and their fellow travellers. He put his life in danger many times confronting the evil, brutal and stupid nature of southern racists.
Another compelling part of the story is the complicity of the police, FBI, the Democratic machine of the Talmadge family, (who rode the upsurge in Klan violence to national political prominence), and the Republican businessmen of the south who paid Klansmen to help bust union drives by busting heads and nightriding.
He also spends alot of time detailing Klan rituals and meetings, and the seemingly neverending lists of Kleagles, Kludds, etc. that made up the hoodoo hierarchy of the Klan organization. It seems like never had so much empty ritual been used in attempt to 'sanctify' such mindless violence.
A good book that gives a good cross-section of what Klan terror and rightist violence was all about in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Ten UK universities divest from fossil fuels
Institutions with endowments worth £115m are withdrawing their investments from fossil fuels ahead of crunch UN climate talks in Paris
Wolfson College at the University of Oxford has divested its £42m endowment from thermal coal and tar sands.
Wolfson College at the University of Oxford has divested its £42m endowment from thermal coal and tar sands. Photograph: Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS
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Ten UK universities with endowments worth £115m are in the process of moving their money out of fossil fuels ahead of crunch UN climate change talks in Paris later this month.
The University of Surrey, the University of Arts in London and Oxford Brookes University have divested their respective £42m, £3.9m and £1.6m endowments from all fossil fuel companies.
Wolfson College at the University of Oxford has divested its £42m endowment from thermal coal and tar sands, often considered the dirtiest fossil fuels because of the high level of carbon they emit. It follows a similar move by the university in May after a two-year campaign by students and alumni.
A further six universities – Birmingham City University, Cranfield University, Heriot-Watt Uni
Ten UK universities divest from fossil fuels
Institutions with endowments worth £115m are withdrawing their investments from fossil fuels ahead of crunch UN climate talks in Paris
Wolfson College at the University of Oxford has divested its £42m endowment from thermal coal and tar sands.
Wolfson College at the University of Oxford has divested its £42m endowment from thermal coal and tar sands. Photograph: Stringer Shanghai/REUTERS
Tuesday 10 November 2015 10.36 EST
Last modified on Tuesday 10 November 2015 10.38 EST
Ten UK universities with endowments worth £115m are in the process of moving their money out of fossil fuels ahead of crunch UN climate change talks in Paris later this month.
The University of Surrey, the University of Arts in London and Oxford Brookes University have divested their respective £42m, £3.9m and £1.6m endowments from all fossil fuel companies.
Wolfson College at the University of Oxford has divested its £42m endowment from thermal coal and tar sands, often considered the dirtiest fossil fuels because of the high level of carbon they emit. It follows a similar move by the university in May after a two-year campaign by students and alumni.
A further six universities – Birmingham City University, Cranfield University, Heriot-Watt Uni
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Smith student activists barred reporters from entering their sit-in
| 11.19.15 | 1:35 PM
Activists at Smith College banned journalists from an on-campus sit-in held to show solidarity with University of Missouri protestors.
Reporters were prohibited from covering the 12-hour Student Center sit-in Wednesday unless they agreed to express their support for the students’ cause in their re
Smith student activists barred reporters from entering their sit-in
| 11.19.15 | 1:35 PM
Activists at Smith College banned journalists from an on-campus sit-in held to show solidarity with University of Missouri protestors.
Reporters were prohibited from covering the 12-hour Student Center sit-in Wednesday unless they agreed to express their support for the students’ cause in their re
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25 Disturbing Demands from ‘Black Lives Matter’-Inspired Student Groups
20 Nov 2015
Professional protesters Johnetta Elzie and Deray McKesson have put together a website, demands.org, showing demands made by various student protest groups at 37 campuses across the country and in Canada.
Each list is written by students at a given university, so there is no consistent style or message. But many lists show similar demands — increased funding for student groups, increased hiring of black professors, and higher recruitment goals for black students. These seem to be coherent or reasonable things for black and minority students to be concerned about.
But there are also some demands that seem to go beyond ordinary bounds, i.e. telling university presidents to apologize in writing for things they did not do, or demanding everyone “acknowledge their racism,” or that all students attend mandatory semester-long classes in “cultural competency.”
Then there are some demands which just seem random or especially difficult to justify, like a staff civil-rights lawyer or naming a building after a woman on the FBI’s 10-Most-Wanted list.
What follows are 25 unusual demands made by these student groups as posted at demands.org.
1. University of Missouri protesters demanded (ex-) President Tim Wolfe acknowledge his white privilege in a press conference:
We demand that University of Missouri System President, Tim Wolfe, writes a hand-written apology to Concerned Student 1-9-5-0 demonstrators and holds a press conference in the Mizzou Student Center reading the letter. In the letter and at the press conference, Tim Wolfe must acknowledge his white privilege, recognize tha
25 Disturbing Demands from ‘Black Lives Matter’-Inspired Student Groups
20 Nov 2015
Professional protesters Johnetta Elzie and Deray McKesson have put together a website, demands.org, showing demands made by various student protest groups at 37 campuses across the country and in Canada.
Each list is written by students at a given university, so there is no consistent style or message. But many lists show similar demands — increased funding for student groups, increased hiring of black professors, and higher recruitment goals for black students. These seem to be coherent or reasonable things for black and minority students to be concerned about.
But there are also some demands that seem to go beyond ordinary bounds, i.e. telling university presidents to apologize in writing for things they did not do, or demanding everyone “acknowledge their racism,” or that all students attend mandatory semester-long classes in “cultural competency.”
Then there are some demands which just seem random or especially difficult to justify, like a staff civil-rights lawyer or naming a building after a woman on the FBI’s 10-Most-Wanted list.
What follows are 25 unusual demands made by these student groups as posted at demands.org.
1. University of Missouri protesters demanded (ex-) President Tim Wolfe acknowledge his white privilege in a press conference:
We demand that University of Missouri System President, Tim Wolfe, writes a hand-written apology to Concerned Student 1-9-5-0 demonstrators and holds a press conference in the Mizzou Student Center reading the letter. In the letter and at the press conference, Tim Wolfe must acknowledge his white privilege, recognize tha
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As Commissioner of Youth Services in Massacusetts Jerome Miller
shut down all the reform schools
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Dr. Jerome G. Miller, Co-Founder of NCIA, Dies at the Age of 83
Dr. Jerome G. Miller With saddened hearts, we announce that Dr. Jerome G. Miller, Co-Founder of NCIA, passed away on August 7, 2015. Dr. Jerome Miller, better known as “Jerry”, was compassionate and committed to the human service and juvenile corrections field throughout his 60 year career. “We at NCIA owe a lot to Dr. Miller. He was my mentor, my inspiration and instilled in me the need to provide services to those most in need. He lived his life with the tenets of unconditional care and the need to provide individualized plans for all those we serve. His constant theme was to treat each client as we would want our own family and friends treated. These are all values I have tried to instill in NCIA. He was a prolific writer and always spoke from his heart”, stated Herb Hoelter, Co-Founder & CEO of NCIA. Since Herb & Jerry founded NCIA in 1977, Jerry has had a profound impact on our company’s continued success. With Jerry’s expertise, NCIA became known for influencing public policy in the development and growth of alternatives to incarceration across the United States. Through NCIA, Dr. Miller opened the Augustus Institute, one of the first community-based clinics for the treatment of sex offenders, and helped numerous jurisdictions in closing or reducing juvenile prison populations throughout the country. He also authored and assisted on numerous books and studies including the Real War on Crime (HaperCollins, 1996) and Search and Destroy: African American Males in the Criminal Justice System (Cambridge University Press, 1996; 2nd edition 2011). Dr. Miller was a powerful force in the justice system and we are grateful for all his efforts, as NCIA wouldn’t be the same without him. His funeral was held on Friday, August 14, 2015. Below are links to Dr. Miller’s obituaries from the New York Times and Washington Post: http://wapo.st/1N9TOj7" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/je ... aries&_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
shut down all the reform schools
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Dr. Jerome G. Miller, Co-Founder of NCIA, Dies at the Age of 83
Dr. Jerome G. Miller With saddened hearts, we announce that Dr. Jerome G. Miller, Co-Founder of NCIA, passed away on August 7, 2015. Dr. Jerome Miller, better known as “Jerry”, was compassionate and committed to the human service and juvenile corrections field throughout his 60 year career. “We at NCIA owe a lot to Dr. Miller. He was my mentor, my inspiration and instilled in me the need to provide services to those most in need. He lived his life with the tenets of unconditional care and the need to provide individualized plans for all those we serve. His constant theme was to treat each client as we would want our own family and friends treated. These are all values I have tried to instill in NCIA. He was a prolific writer and always spoke from his heart”, stated Herb Hoelter, Co-Founder & CEO of NCIA. Since Herb & Jerry founded NCIA in 1977, Jerry has had a profound impact on our company’s continued success. With Jerry’s expertise, NCIA became known for influencing public policy in the development and growth of alternatives to incarceration across the United States. Through NCIA, Dr. Miller opened the Augustus Institute, one of the first community-based clinics for the treatment of sex offenders, and helped numerous jurisdictions in closing or reducing juvenile prison populations throughout the country. He also authored and assisted on numerous books and studies including the Real War on Crime (HaperCollins, 1996) and Search and Destroy: African American Males in the Criminal Justice System (Cambridge University Press, 1996; 2nd edition 2011). Dr. Miller was a powerful force in the justice system and we are grateful for all his efforts, as NCIA wouldn’t be the same without him. His funeral was held on Friday, August 14, 2015. Below are links to Dr. Miller’s obituaries from the New York Times and Washington Post: http://wapo.st/1N9TOj7" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/us/je ... aries&_r=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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My name is Ann Wright, and I’m a retired Army Colonel and diplomat who resigned after 16 years in the State Department in opposition to President Bush’s illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. I’m also a proud member of CODEPINK, an organization that makes incredible waves with just a few on staff and lots of dedicated volunteers like me.
This holiday season, please consider making a gift to CODEPINK. <codepink.org/donate>Your support helps us hold elected officials accountable, support brave whistleblowers, lead international peace delegations, and so much more.
Working with a powerful peace coalition and 100 prominent American women, we ensured the passage of the Iran nuclear deal. This helped us avoid another unnecessary war, showing the world that peace is possible through diplomacy.
Also this year, CODEPINK brought over 300 peace ambassadors to Cuba to learn how diplomacy can work. In November, we traveled to Guantanamo for an international summit to abolish foreign military bases. We're thrilled that in 2015, Cuba was taken off the US state terrorist list and embassies were opened in both Havana and Washington DC. In the new year, we are dedicated to shutting down the US prison in Guantanamo and returning the naval base to the Cuban people, lifting the travel ban, and ending the embargo. In February and in May we’ll be going back to Cuba to expand our Local Peace Economy campaign <http://codepink.org/peaceeconomy>. It’s not too late to sign up for one of our trips <http://www.codepink.org/travel_with_codepink> today!
In May, CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans and I joined WomenCrossDMZ, the first-ever international women’s peace walk from North Korea through the demilitarized zone into South Korea. Now we are part of a new national coalition for peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula. We visited Jeju Island (pictured above!) to meet with activists resisting the US military presence on the island. Just last week I returned from a delegation to Okinawa, Japan to oppose the destructive expansion of the US base there. Next year, join me for a CODEPINK delegation to Okinawa. Stay tuned for how you can apply to join!
But our work for peace is only possible with your support.
Please consider making a donation today to help us continue our work for a more peaceful world in 2016. <codepink.org/donate>
Thank you.
For a peaceful new year,
Ret. Colonel Ann Wright
PS: Feeling down about 2015? Lift your spirits and check out Medea's latest, 10 Good Things About the Not-So-Good Year 2015. <http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politi ... -year-2015> <>
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CODEPINK ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2015
To celebrate diplomacy and the normalization of relations with CUBA, we brought over 200 peace delegates to Cuba. Our trip was a defiant demonstration against the American embargo—an unjust policy we are committed to ending. After celebrating the release of Shaker Aamer in November, we also brought 60 people to GUANTANAMO and called for the U.S. naval base and prison to be closed, and the land to be returned to the Cubans.
Calling for reunification and peace in KOREA, we travelled across the demilitarized zone from North Korea to South Korea with 30 prominent international women. Alongside thousands of Korean women, we joined their moving call to end heavily militarized borders.
In honor of those who sacrifice their lives to tell the truth and inform the public, we continued supporting our whistleblower shero, CHELSEA MANNING. You helped us raise $45,000 for her legal fees to defend her against trumped-up charges and keep her out of solitary confinement. We also helped whistleblower JOHN KIRIAKOU during his transition out of prison.
We held WAR CRIMINALS accountable and spoke truth to power, from attempting an epic citizen’s arrest of Henry Kissinger (which made John McCain go berserk!) to a bold disruption of Dick Cheney when he was hawking for war with Iran.
Dedicated to ending US support for repressive regimes, we have worked all year to end U.S. military aid to EGYPT. After our tireless advocacy on his behalf, pro-democracy Egyptian American political prisoner Mohamed Soltan was freed and returned to his family.
Horrified by the destruction wrought by ISIS, which came to power because of the U.S. war on Iraq, you helped us raise $14,000 to fund a trauma and rape healing center for women and girls in IRAQ. Over a decade later, we still haven’t forgotten the crimes of the Bush administration in Iraq. We’re supporting Iraqi mother Sundus Saleh Shaker and her lawyer, Inder Comar in their lawsuit against Bush and his cronies.
After 14 years of a failed, horrifically destructive war on AFGHANISTAN, the situation is worse for women in the country. We exposed this truth with a shocking report published on the anniversary of the war. We are also pushing for an independent investigation into the U.S. bombing of a hospital in Kunduz.
When the media is looking for an opposing voice to killer DRONES, they come to us as one of the leading organizations pushing this issue. All year long, our Bay Area chapter hosted monthly protests at Beale Air Force Base in California and two annual protests at the Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.
We launched a new campaign this year to grow the LOCAL PEACE ECONOMY as a personal act against the economy that drives war. The relational, ...
My name is Ann Wright, and I’m a retired Army Colonel and diplomat who resigned after 16 years in the State Department in opposition to President Bush’s illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. I’m also a proud member of CODEPINK, an organization that makes incredible waves with just a few on staff and lots of dedicated volunteers like me.
This holiday season, please consider making a gift to CODEPINK. <codepink.org/donate>Your support helps us hold elected officials accountable, support brave whistleblowers, lead international peace delegations, and so much more.
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Also this year, CODEPINK brought over 300 peace ambassadors to Cuba to learn how diplomacy can work. In November, we traveled to Guantanamo for an international summit to abolish foreign military bases. We're thrilled that in 2015, Cuba was taken off the US state terrorist list and embassies were opened in both Havana and Washington DC. In the new year, we are dedicated to shutting down the US prison in Guantanamo and returning the naval base to the Cuban people, lifting the travel ban, and ending the embargo. In February and in May we’ll be going back to Cuba to expand our Local Peace Economy campaign <http://codepink.org/peaceeconomy>. It’s not too late to sign up for one of our trips <http://www.codepink.org/travel_with_codepink> today!
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In honor of those who sacrifice their lives to tell the truth and inform the public, we continued supporting our whistleblower shero, CHELSEA MANNING. You helped us raise $45,000 for her legal fees to defend her against trumped-up charges and keep her out of solitary confinement. We also helped whistleblower JOHN KIRIAKOU during his transition out of prison.
We held WAR CRIMINALS accountable and spoke truth to power, from attempting an epic citizen’s arrest of Henry Kissinger (which made John McCain go berserk!) to a bold disruption of Dick Cheney when he was hawking for war with Iran.
Dedicated to ending US support for repressive regimes, we have worked all year to end U.S. military aid to EGYPT. After our tireless advocacy on his behalf, pro-democracy Egyptian American political prisoner Mohamed Soltan was freed and returned to his family.
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After 14 years of a failed, horrifically destructive war on AFGHANISTAN, the situation is worse for women in the country. We exposed this truth with a shocking report published on the anniversary of the war. We are also pushing for an independent investigation into the U.S. bombing of a hospital in Kunduz.
When the media is looking for an opposing voice to killer DRONES, they come to us as one of the leading organizations pushing this issue. All year long, our Bay Area chapter hosted monthly protests at Beale Air Force Base in California and two annual protests at the Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.
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CLEVELAND-- A group demanding Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty resign from his post, ‘died-in’ outside his home in the West Park neighborhood of Cleveland.
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"die-in" for Tamir Rice
Friday afternoon, about 150 people marched from Impett Park to McGinty’s home. People who were able, then laid down side-by-side on the sidewalk in front of his home. Demonstrators remained on the ground for four minutes, symbolizing the time Tamir Rice lay bleeding to death while the officers involved in his death did not render aid. An FBI agent in the area for an unrelated matter eventually came to help the 12-year-old.
The marchers included an amalgamation of people, ranging in age from very young to very old. Various races and faiths were also represented.
Latonya Goldsby, Tamir’s cousin walked with the group and spoke over loudspeaker about the case. This is the first time since the grand jury’s decision not to indict the officers involved in Rice’s death, that a family member has directly spoken about the ‘no bill.’ “It’s very emotional to have to actually go through this process,” Goldsby told WKYC Channel 3’s Hilary Golston. “You would have thought that the prosecutor would have rendered some type of justice.”
Besides McGinty’s removal, the group articulated three other areas of action it desires. Organizers indicated they want to ensure Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback never return to the Cleveland Police force. Garmback was driving the police cruiser November 22, 2014, when Tamir was fatally wounded. Loehmann exited the vehicle and within 2 seconds fired his weapon, striking Rice. Like other groups, the protestors demand a federal investigation into the shooting of Tamir. The use of independent prosecutors in future deadly force cases, is also a top priority for organizers.
The group organized after noon in Impett Park and continued to demonstrate until around 2:30 p.m.
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Large group of people march to McGinty's house
Those present included Dr. Jawanza Colvin pastor of the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church and Rachelle Smith, both members of the ‘Cleveland Eight.’ The pair along with 6 others filed a citizen’s affidavit asking a judge to review the case and charge Loehmann and Garmback with a crime for Rice’s death. “We are calling for a resignation… and the reason is this: when a case is brought into the county it is not Timothy McGinty versus that person. It is the people versus that person,” Dr. Colvin said over a bull horn.
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge, Ronald Adrine, subsequently found probable cause to charge the officers with murder and other charges. However, despite efforts by the ‘Eight’ charges were never filed.
To complete their actions, the demonstrators brought the children walking with the group to McGinty’s driveway and asked them to place flowers there as a symbol for Tamir. “Y’all are the future…
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"die-in" for Tamir Rice
Friday afternoon, about 150 people marched from Impett Park to McGinty’s home. People who were able, then laid down side-by-side on the sidewalk in front of his home. Demonstrators remained on the ground for four minutes, symbolizing the time Tamir Rice lay bleeding to death while the officers involved in his death did not render aid. An FBI agent in the area for an unrelated matter eventually came to help the 12-year-old.
The marchers included an amalgamation of people, ranging in age from very young to very old. Various races and faiths were also represented.
Latonya Goldsby, Tamir’s cousin walked with the group and spoke over loudspeaker about the case. This is the first time since the grand jury’s decision not to indict the officers involved in Rice’s death, that a family member has directly spoken about the ‘no bill.’ “It’s very emotional to have to actually go through this process,” Goldsby told WKYC Channel 3’s Hilary Golston. “You would have thought that the prosecutor would have rendered some type of justice.”
Besides McGinty’s removal, the group articulated three other areas of action it desires. Organizers indicated they want to ensure Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback never return to the Cleveland Police force. Garmback was driving the police cruiser November 22, 2014, when Tamir was fatally wounded. Loehmann exited the vehicle and within 2 seconds fired his weapon, striking Rice. Like other groups, the protestors demand a federal investigation into the shooting of Tamir. The use of independent prosecutors in future deadly force cases, is also a top priority for organizers.
The group organized after noon in Impett Park and continued to demonstrate until around 2:30 p.m.
Hilary Golston - WKYC
Large group of people march to McGinty's house
Those present included Dr. Jawanza Colvin pastor of the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church and Rachelle Smith, both members of the ‘Cleveland Eight.’ The pair along with 6 others filed a citizen’s affidavit asking a judge to review the case and charge Loehmann and Garmback with a crime for Rice’s death. “We are calling for a resignation… and the reason is this: when a case is brought into the county it is not Timothy McGinty versus that person. It is the people versus that person,” Dr. Colvin said over a bull horn.
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge, Ronald Adrine, subsequently found probable cause to charge the officers with murder and other charges. However, despite efforts by the ‘Eight’ charges were never filed.
To complete their actions, the demonstrators brought the children walking with the group to McGinty’s driveway and asked them to place flowers there as a symbol for Tamir. “Y’all are the future…
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William Turner: Tribute to a Courageous FBI Agent Turned Critic
Obituary
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Global Research, January 13, 2016
Who What Why 9 January 2016
Region: USA
Theme: Culture, Society & History, Media Disinformation, Police State & Civil Rights
First published by WhoWhatWhy
I first met William Weyland Turner at a political conference, in a hotel bar in Los Angeles. He was 71, and Parkinson’s disease made his every move a staggering, slow-motion effort; walking, taking a sip of a drink, even laughing. Yet his brain remained sharp.
We bonded immediately over our distaste for our hotel. The rooms, all bad angles and David Lynch lighting, had allegedly been designed with feng shui in mind. Rooms of absurd discomfort resulted, with tiny nonsensical chairs and televisions that were propped up six inches off the ground and facing the window, as if for the benefit of local birds. The elevators were bathed in ominous red light; when moving between floors, they produced ominous whispering rather than Muzak.
Most importantly, neither of us could turn on the overhead lights in our rooms, so we were forced to rely on the closet light for illumination. “I’m a smart guy,” Turner said. “You’re a smart guy. And we still can’t figure this out.” I ordered another $15 cocktail, unhappy about the tab but happy with the company.
William Turner – or, forever after, Bill – was in the final chapter of one hell of a life. He started off as the embodiment of one of those pragmatic, respectable, square-jawed men celebrated on mid-twentieth century American television, but wound up among hippies and conspiracy theorists. And the damndest thing about it was that the progression actually made perfect logical sense.
Born in 1927, he enrolled in the Navy at age 17, and was assigned to the Pacific shortly before the bombs were dropped in Japan. Returning home, he played semi-pro hockey, at one point flirting with the New York Rangers of the NHL.
But the FBI paid better – back then anyway. He stayed with the Bureau from 1951 to 1961, becoming increasingly dubious about its tactics and the curious obsessions of its leader, J. Edgar Hoover. When he finally left the FBI for good – he had tried to leave in 1957 but was assured that changes were in store – he didn’t go out, as he put it, with “the customary hearts and flowers routine.”[1] Instead, he decided to file suit for violations of his free speech rights, and although it was unsuccessful he did manage to get some negative assessments into the public record from other agents.
Turner had become increasingly uncomfortable with the director’s focus on rooting out a largely illusionary Communist threat, the beginnings of COINTELPRO (a program that targeted mostly black organizations, such as the Black Panthers, as well as Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King), wiretapping and illegal “black-bag” jobs. In Turner’s opinion, the FBI seemed to be little more than the church of J. Edgar Hoover, which was dangerous for national security. As Turner himself jocularly relates in his autobiography:
…Hoover projected an image of perfection…An example of this is the story about the New York agents who cornered a fugitive at a subway entrance. A shootout ensued, and one agent was taken to the hospital with a leg wound. The next morning Hoover appeared with his civic group as scheduled. “Gentlemen,” he began, “I am with you this morning even though my heart is heavy, for last night in New York one of my agents was killed in a gun battle.” When the Director’s words reached New York, agents drew straws to see who would go to the hospital and finish off the wounded agent.[2]
Turner realized he was at a crossroads. He had served in the Navy and spent ten years investigating and prosecuting crime as one of Hoover’s finest. So what would he do? He would become a journalist, and not just any journalist – he would wind up as the editor of Ramparts magazine.
Along with Paul Krassner’s iconoclastic The Realist, Ramparts was one of the most radical magazines of its time: an ostensibly Catholic publication that was in practice a leftist attack on the status quo. Typical articles probed government surveillance or CIA infiltration of liberal groups. Authors included members of the Black Panther party .
In the 50s, every red-blooded American kid ran around with a Junior G-man badge; in the next decade, the FBI would be seen as yet another arm of an oppressive state. And somehow Bill Turner had moved from one to the other. It was like television star Donna Reed suddenly appearing in a West African dashiki.
The fact is, Turner had stayed true to his principles. He was a patriot, but he wasn’t a fool – and when he saw the FBI as part of the problem, he didn’t hesitate to join the other side.
The cover of Ramparts, June 1967. This issue contained an article by William W. Turner titled “"JFK Assassination: The Inquest”. Photo credit: Newmanology
As editor of Ramparts under publisher Warren Hinckle, he produced some of the most radical writing of the period, as well as giving voice to what was labeled the New American Left. This was a reaction to the Vietnam War, the emerging surveillance state, the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and the major assassinations of the Sixties – John and Robert Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.
In many ways, Turner was ahead of his time. One example is an article he wrote in the January 1967 Ramparts about the right-wing militia called the Minutemen. In words that could scarcely be more relevant today, he berates the FBI for spending all its time chasing the ghosts of Communism when a real American threat grows within our own society – disenfranchised white men violently opposed to racial change.
The article gained credence coming from someone who had recently been involved in the very organization he now criticized. Although offended, Hoover’s outfit realized that confronting Turner was pointless. An internal FBI memo notes that “Due to Turner’s attitude toward the Bureau, it would be useless to contact him to set him straight…No further action is necessary as this article merely represents another of Turner’s attempts to smear the Bureau.”[3]
That same issue of Ramparts played an important role in history for quite another reason: it contained William Pepper’s scathing anti-war article, “The Children of Vietnam.”
FBI Redactions regarding William W. Turner and Ramparts Magazine Photo credit: governmentattic.org
After reading Pepper’s piece, Dr. King asked the author to speak to his Atlanta congregation. This relationship spurred the civil-rights leader to turn his attention to the Vietnam war, which he condemned in his famous April 4, 1967,speech. (King would be assassinated exactly one year after that speech.)
Meanwhile, Turner’s Minutemen article attracted the attention of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who asked Turner to help him investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.[4]
A key figure in this investigation, dramatized in Oliver Stone’s 1991 movie, JFK, was a New Orleans businessman and CIA contract agent named Clay Shaw, whom Garrison accused of conspiring to kill Kennedy.
Turner agreed to help Garrison, and almost a year later wrote a cover story in Ramparts: “In my opinion, there is no question they have uncovered a conspiracy.”
One aspect of the case that Ramparts magazine focused on in the early going was a cluster of mysterious deaths of people involved in some way with the assassination.
An FBI memorandum, dated 10/27/1966, notes that in previous articles the magazine “…focused on at least 10 persons known to have been murdered, to have committed suicide, or died in suspicious circumstances since the Kennedy assassination…” Then there is a space and one remark: “The Director asked, What do we know of [REDACTED].”
A most intriguing redaction.
Turner himself wrote about some of these suspicious deaths, including that of Gary Underhill. Underhill had been in military intelligence in World War II, before working for the CIA and serving as an advisor to LIFE Magazine publisher Henry Luce, who controlled the famous Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination .[5]
Several days after the JFK assassination, Underhill told a friend that he knew a drug-running faction of the CIA had killed Kennedy, adding, ominously, “they knew that he knew.” Underhill would later be found shot dead, with a pistol under his left arm. His death was ruled a suicide, despite the fact that Underhill was right-handed.
Turner wrote:
J . Garrett Underhill had been an intelligence agent during World War II and was a recognized authority on limited warfare and small arms. A researcher and writer on military affairs, he was on a first-name basis with many of the top brass in the Pentagon. He was also on intimate terms with a number of high ranking CIA officials – he was one of the Agency’s “un-people” who performed special assignments. At one time he had been a friend of Samuel Cummings of Interarmco, the arms broker that numbers among its customers the CIA and, ironically, Klein’s Sporting Goods of Chicago, from whence the mail order Carcano allegedly was purchased by Oswald.[6]
Having spent so much time aiding Garrison on the latter’s doomed investigation of President Kennedy’s assassination — Shaw was eventually acquitted of involvement — Turner would find himself investigating the murder of another Kennedy, John’s brother Robert, shot to death in June 1968. The resulting book (written with Jonn Christian), The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The Conspiracy and Coverup, continues to be one of the key volumes written on the case, along with Shane O’Sullivan’s Who Killed Bobby?
The general public is mostly unaware of the evidence for a conspiracy in the death of RFK, even though the physical evidence is easier to understand than in the JFK case. Although witnesses saw Sirhan Sirhan shoot at RFK while facing his front, the Senator’s wounds are in his back and the rear of his head, from a gun fired at point-blank range.
An astonishing story in its own right, complete with a Girl in a Polka Dot Dress, a “Walking Bible,” and mind control, the RFK assassination narrative is too complex to relate here. However, Turner and Christian must have done something right, because Random House destroyed 20,000 copies of the book rather than publish it, allegedly in response to the threat of a lawsuit by a known criminal with an FBI rap sheet.[7]
Turner would go on to write more books, including an autobiography. Although slowed in later years by his Parkinson’s, his ailments did not affect his mind. He continued to write and research, and remained as passionate as ever about exposing the truth behind government obfuscations.
Bill Turner died on December 26, 2015.
I worked with him numerous times over the years, helping him deliver his speeches at the yearly Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA) conferences, and he was always flexible, polite, and pleasant. (This may not seem like much, but when you work with dozens of remote speakers from all over the world, an affable and cooperative manner truly matters).
In a research “community” too often characterized by cut-throat competitiveness, Bill made himself a lot of friends for his gentle spirit and his kindness. His memory, as well as his work, will live on.
Notes:
[1] Ibid, 15.
[2] Turner, William. Rearview Mirror (Penmarin Books: Granite Bay, CA: 2001), 3.
[3] Memorandum, 1/19/1967, to W. S. Sullivan from C. D. Brennan, Subject: “Minutemen”
[4] Turner, 116.
[5] DiEugenio, James. Destiny Betrayed (Skyhorse Publishing: New York, NY: 2012), 98.
[6] Turner, William, “The Inquest,” Ramparts, June 1967.
[7] Turner, Rearview Mirror, 259.
Obituary
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Global Research, January 13, 2016
Who What Why 9 January 2016
Region: USA
Theme: Culture, Society & History, Media Disinformation, Police State & Civil Rights
First published by WhoWhatWhy
I first met William Weyland Turner at a political conference, in a hotel bar in Los Angeles. He was 71, and Parkinson’s disease made his every move a staggering, slow-motion effort; walking, taking a sip of a drink, even laughing. Yet his brain remained sharp.
We bonded immediately over our distaste for our hotel. The rooms, all bad angles and David Lynch lighting, had allegedly been designed with feng shui in mind. Rooms of absurd discomfort resulted, with tiny nonsensical chairs and televisions that were propped up six inches off the ground and facing the window, as if for the benefit of local birds. The elevators were bathed in ominous red light; when moving between floors, they produced ominous whispering rather than Muzak.
Most importantly, neither of us could turn on the overhead lights in our rooms, so we were forced to rely on the closet light for illumination. “I’m a smart guy,” Turner said. “You’re a smart guy. And we still can’t figure this out.” I ordered another $15 cocktail, unhappy about the tab but happy with the company.
William Turner – or, forever after, Bill – was in the final chapter of one hell of a life. He started off as the embodiment of one of those pragmatic, respectable, square-jawed men celebrated on mid-twentieth century American television, but wound up among hippies and conspiracy theorists. And the damndest thing about it was that the progression actually made perfect logical sense.
Born in 1927, he enrolled in the Navy at age 17, and was assigned to the Pacific shortly before the bombs were dropped in Japan. Returning home, he played semi-pro hockey, at one point flirting with the New York Rangers of the NHL.
But the FBI paid better – back then anyway. He stayed with the Bureau from 1951 to 1961, becoming increasingly dubious about its tactics and the curious obsessions of its leader, J. Edgar Hoover. When he finally left the FBI for good – he had tried to leave in 1957 but was assured that changes were in store – he didn’t go out, as he put it, with “the customary hearts and flowers routine.”[1] Instead, he decided to file suit for violations of his free speech rights, and although it was unsuccessful he did manage to get some negative assessments into the public record from other agents.
Turner had become increasingly uncomfortable with the director’s focus on rooting out a largely illusionary Communist threat, the beginnings of COINTELPRO (a program that targeted mostly black organizations, such as the Black Panthers, as well as Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King), wiretapping and illegal “black-bag” jobs. In Turner’s opinion, the FBI seemed to be little more than the church of J. Edgar Hoover, which was dangerous for national security. As Turner himself jocularly relates in his autobiography:
…Hoover projected an image of perfection…An example of this is the story about the New York agents who cornered a fugitive at a subway entrance. A shootout ensued, and one agent was taken to the hospital with a leg wound. The next morning Hoover appeared with his civic group as scheduled. “Gentlemen,” he began, “I am with you this morning even though my heart is heavy, for last night in New York one of my agents was killed in a gun battle.” When the Director’s words reached New York, agents drew straws to see who would go to the hospital and finish off the wounded agent.[2]
Turner realized he was at a crossroads. He had served in the Navy and spent ten years investigating and prosecuting crime as one of Hoover’s finest. So what would he do? He would become a journalist, and not just any journalist – he would wind up as the editor of Ramparts magazine.
Along with Paul Krassner’s iconoclastic The Realist, Ramparts was one of the most radical magazines of its time: an ostensibly Catholic publication that was in practice a leftist attack on the status quo. Typical articles probed government surveillance or CIA infiltration of liberal groups. Authors included members of the Black Panther party .
In the 50s, every red-blooded American kid ran around with a Junior G-man badge; in the next decade, the FBI would be seen as yet another arm of an oppressive state. And somehow Bill Turner had moved from one to the other. It was like television star Donna Reed suddenly appearing in a West African dashiki.
The fact is, Turner had stayed true to his principles. He was a patriot, but he wasn’t a fool – and when he saw the FBI as part of the problem, he didn’t hesitate to join the other side.
The cover of Ramparts, June 1967. This issue contained an article by William W. Turner titled “"JFK Assassination: The Inquest”. Photo credit: Newmanology
As editor of Ramparts under publisher Warren Hinckle, he produced some of the most radical writing of the period, as well as giving voice to what was labeled the New American Left. This was a reaction to the Vietnam War, the emerging surveillance state, the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and the major assassinations of the Sixties – John and Robert Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.
In many ways, Turner was ahead of his time. One example is an article he wrote in the January 1967 Ramparts about the right-wing militia called the Minutemen. In words that could scarcely be more relevant today, he berates the FBI for spending all its time chasing the ghosts of Communism when a real American threat grows within our own society – disenfranchised white men violently opposed to racial change.
The article gained credence coming from someone who had recently been involved in the very organization he now criticized. Although offended, Hoover’s outfit realized that confronting Turner was pointless. An internal FBI memo notes that “Due to Turner’s attitude toward the Bureau, it would be useless to contact him to set him straight…No further action is necessary as this article merely represents another of Turner’s attempts to smear the Bureau.”[3]
That same issue of Ramparts played an important role in history for quite another reason: it contained William Pepper’s scathing anti-war article, “The Children of Vietnam.”
FBI Redactions regarding William W. Turner and Ramparts Magazine Photo credit: governmentattic.org
After reading Pepper’s piece, Dr. King asked the author to speak to his Atlanta congregation. This relationship spurred the civil-rights leader to turn his attention to the Vietnam war, which he condemned in his famous April 4, 1967,speech. (King would be assassinated exactly one year after that speech.)
Meanwhile, Turner’s Minutemen article attracted the attention of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who asked Turner to help him investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.[4]
A key figure in this investigation, dramatized in Oliver Stone’s 1991 movie, JFK, was a New Orleans businessman and CIA contract agent named Clay Shaw, whom Garrison accused of conspiring to kill Kennedy.
Turner agreed to help Garrison, and almost a year later wrote a cover story in Ramparts: “In my opinion, there is no question they have uncovered a conspiracy.”
One aspect of the case that Ramparts magazine focused on in the early going was a cluster of mysterious deaths of people involved in some way with the assassination.
An FBI memorandum, dated 10/27/1966, notes that in previous articles the magazine “…focused on at least 10 persons known to have been murdered, to have committed suicide, or died in suspicious circumstances since the Kennedy assassination…” Then there is a space and one remark: “The Director asked, What do we know of [REDACTED].”
A most intriguing redaction.
Turner himself wrote about some of these suspicious deaths, including that of Gary Underhill. Underhill had been in military intelligence in World War II, before working for the CIA and serving as an advisor to LIFE Magazine publisher Henry Luce, who controlled the famous Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination .[5]
Several days after the JFK assassination, Underhill told a friend that he knew a drug-running faction of the CIA had killed Kennedy, adding, ominously, “they knew that he knew.” Underhill would later be found shot dead, with a pistol under his left arm. His death was ruled a suicide, despite the fact that Underhill was right-handed.
Turner wrote:
J . Garrett Underhill had been an intelligence agent during World War II and was a recognized authority on limited warfare and small arms. A researcher and writer on military affairs, he was on a first-name basis with many of the top brass in the Pentagon. He was also on intimate terms with a number of high ranking CIA officials – he was one of the Agency’s “un-people” who performed special assignments. At one time he had been a friend of Samuel Cummings of Interarmco, the arms broker that numbers among its customers the CIA and, ironically, Klein’s Sporting Goods of Chicago, from whence the mail order Carcano allegedly was purchased by Oswald.[6]
Having spent so much time aiding Garrison on the latter’s doomed investigation of President Kennedy’s assassination — Shaw was eventually acquitted of involvement — Turner would find himself investigating the murder of another Kennedy, John’s brother Robert, shot to death in June 1968. The resulting book (written with Jonn Christian), The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The Conspiracy and Coverup, continues to be one of the key volumes written on the case, along with Shane O’Sullivan’s Who Killed Bobby?
The general public is mostly unaware of the evidence for a conspiracy in the death of RFK, even though the physical evidence is easier to understand than in the JFK case. Although witnesses saw Sirhan Sirhan shoot at RFK while facing his front, the Senator’s wounds are in his back and the rear of his head, from a gun fired at point-blank range.
An astonishing story in its own right, complete with a Girl in a Polka Dot Dress, a “Walking Bible,” and mind control, the RFK assassination narrative is too complex to relate here. However, Turner and Christian must have done something right, because Random House destroyed 20,000 copies of the book rather than publish it, allegedly in response to the threat of a lawsuit by a known criminal with an FBI rap sheet.[7]
Turner would go on to write more books, including an autobiography. Although slowed in later years by his Parkinson’s, his ailments did not affect his mind. He continued to write and research, and remained as passionate as ever about exposing the truth behind government obfuscations.
Bill Turner died on December 26, 2015.
I worked with him numerous times over the years, helping him deliver his speeches at the yearly Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA) conferences, and he was always flexible, polite, and pleasant. (This may not seem like much, but when you work with dozens of remote speakers from all over the world, an affable and cooperative manner truly matters).
In a research “community” too often characterized by cut-throat competitiveness, Bill made himself a lot of friends for his gentle spirit and his kindness. His memory, as well as his work, will live on.
Notes:
[1] Ibid, 15.
[2] Turner, William. Rearview Mirror (Penmarin Books: Granite Bay, CA: 2001), 3.
[3] Memorandum, 1/19/1967, to W. S. Sullivan from C. D. Brennan, Subject: “Minutemen”
[4] Turner, 116.
[5] DiEugenio, James. Destiny Betrayed (Skyhorse Publishing: New York, NY: 2012), 98.
[6] Turner, William, “The Inquest,” Ramparts, June 1967.
[7] Turner, Rearview Mirror, 259.
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Civil disobedience often leads to jail. But now, protesters can explain themselves
Tim DeChristopher
In a historic ruling, several environmental campaigners will be able to argue at criminal trial that their political motives are a defense to their illegal acts
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Activists blockaded an oil train like this one in Minnesota. A judge will let the jury consider why they did it. Photograph: Tom Wallace/AP
Wednesday 13 January 2016 07.30 EST
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In the face of governmental failure in addressing climate change, the climate movement has seen a dramatic increase of civil disobedience. The threat of jail is real to activists who use these tactics – as I learned first hand. But now activists now have a powerful form of defense: necessity.
For the very first time, US climate activists have been able to argue the necessity defense – which argues that so-called criminal acts were committed out of necessity – to a jury. The Delta 5, who blockaded an oil train at the Delta rail yard near Seattle in September of 2014, have been been allowed to use the defense in a historic climate change civil disobedience trial being heard this week. They said they acted to prevent the greater harm of climate change and oil train explosions.
Like all civil disobedience, this new wave of climate disobedience is an inherent critique of the moral authority of government. The necessity defense is an opportunity to elaborate that implicit critique into a fully developed legal argument for the responsibility of citizen action in the face of governmental failure.
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In addition to gaining the permission to openly argue the necessity defense, the Delta 5 defendants have so far been winning the crucial legal maneuvers in the courtroom. The trial started with several motions from the prosecution to limit how the defense could present “sympathetic” evidence or anything related to their backgrounds. These motions were denied.
The judge has shown himself to be committed to a fully open trial of all the factors that would drive people to risk their bodies to stop fossil fuel expansion. This kind of openness is distressingly rare for civil disobedience cases in American courts. Why this particular judge, Anthony Howard, is breaking ranks in this climate trial is unknown, but I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that he is young enough that he will still be alive in 2050.
This willingness to weigh deep questions of justice in the courtroom is already paying off with a thought-provoking trial. The jury selection developed into an insightful conversation about civic engagement, protest and how to express one’s disagreement with the government.
This work of arousing consciences is an essential feature of good civil disobedience. Just by participating in the selection
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Civil disobedience often leads to jail. But now, protesters can explain themselves
Tim DeChristopher
In a historic ruling, several environmental campaigners will be able to argue at criminal trial that their political motives are a defense to their illegal acts
oil train
Activists blockaded an oil train like this one in Minnesota. A judge will let the jury consider why they did it. Photograph: Tom Wallace/AP
Wednesday 13 January 2016 07.30 EST
Last modified on Wednesday 13 January 2016 20.25 EST
In the face of governmental failure in addressing climate change, the climate movement has seen a dramatic increase of civil disobedience. The threat of jail is real to activists who use these tactics – as I learned first hand. But now activists now have a powerful form of defense: necessity.
For the very first time, US climate activists have been able to argue the necessity defense – which argues that so-called criminal acts were committed out of necessity – to a jury. The Delta 5, who blockaded an oil train at the Delta rail yard near Seattle in September of 2014, have been been allowed to use the defense in a historic climate change civil disobedience trial being heard this week. They said they acted to prevent the greater harm of climate change and oil train explosions.
Like all civil disobedience, this new wave of climate disobedience is an inherent critique of the moral authority of government. The necessity defense is an opportunity to elaborate that implicit critique into a fully developed legal argument for the responsibility of citizen action in the face of governmental failure.
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In addition to gaining the permission to openly argue the necessity defense, the Delta 5 defendants have so far been winning the crucial legal maneuvers in the courtroom. The trial started with several motions from the prosecution to limit how the defense could present “sympathetic” evidence or anything related to their backgrounds. These motions were denied.
The judge has shown himself to be committed to a fully open trial of all the factors that would drive people to risk their bodies to stop fossil fuel expansion. This kind of openness is distressingly rare for civil disobedience cases in American courts. Why this particular judge, Anthony Howard, is breaking ranks in this climate trial is unknown, but I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that he is young enough that he will still be alive in 2050.
This willingness to weigh deep questions of justice in the courtroom is already paying off with a thought-provoking trial. The jury selection developed into an insightful conversation about civic engagement, protest and how to express one’s disagreement with the government.
This work of arousing consciences is an essential feature of good civil disobedience. Just by participating in the selection
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Civil disobedience often leads to jail. But now, protesters can explain themselves
Tim DeChristopher
In a historic ruling, several environmental campaigners will be able to argue at criminal trial that their political motives are a defense to their illegal acts
oil train
Activists blockaded an oil train like this one in Minnesota. A judge will let the jury consider why they did it. Photograph: Tom Wallace/AP
Wednesday 13 January 2016 07.30 EST
Last modified on Wednesday 13 January 2016 20.25 EST
In the face of governmental failure in addressing climate change, the climate movement has seen a dramatic increase of civil disobedience. The threat of jail is real to activists who use these tactics – as I learned first hand. But now activists now have a powerful form of defense: necessity.
For the very first time, US climate activists have been able to argue the necessity defense – which argues that so-called criminal acts were committed out of necessity – to a jury. The Delta 5, who blockaded an oil train at the Delta rail yard near Seattle in September of 2014, have been been allowed to use the defense in a historic climate change civil disobedience trial being heard this week. They said they acted to prevent the greater harm of climate change and oil train explosions.
Like all civil disobedience, this new wave of climate disobedience is an inherent critique of the moral authority of government. The necessity defense is an opportunity to elaborate that implicit critique into a fully developed legal argument for the responsibility of citizen action in the face of governmental failure.
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In addition to gaining the permission to openly argue the necessity defense, the Delta 5 defendants have so far been winning the crucial legal maneuvers in the courtroom. The trial started with several motions from the prosecution to limit how the defense could present “sympathetic” evidence or anything related to their backgrounds. These motions were denied.
The judge has shown himself to be committed to a fully open trial of all the factors that would drive people to risk their bodies to stop fossil fuel expansion. This kind of openness is distressingly rare for civil disobedience cases in American courts. Why this particular judge, Anthony Howard, is breaking ranks in this climate trial is unknown, but I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that he is young enough that he will still be alive in 2050.
This willingness to weigh deep questions of justice in the courtroom is already paying off with a thought-provoking trial. The jury selection developed into an insightful conversation about civic engagement, protest and how to express one’s disagreement with the government.
This work of arousing consciences is an essential feature of good civil disobedience. Just by participating in the selection
1.
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org ... hristopher" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
DeChristopher
Climate Justice Activist : b. 1981
"… those who write the rules are those who profit from the status quo. If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don’t make any substantial change."
2.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... themselves" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Civil disobedience often leads to jail. But now, protesters can explain themselves
Tim DeChristopher
In a historic ruling, several environmental campaigners will be able to argue at criminal trial that their political motives are a defense to their illegal acts
oil train
Activists blockaded an oil train like this one in Minnesota. A judge will let the jury consider why they did it. Photograph: Tom Wallace/AP
Wednesday 13 January 2016 07.30 EST
Last modified on Wednesday 13 January 2016 20.25 EST
In the face of governmental failure in addressing climate change, the climate movement has seen a dramatic increase of civil disobedience. The threat of jail is real to activists who use these tactics – as I learned first hand. But now activists now have a powerful form of defense: necessity.
For the very first time, US climate activists have been able to argue the necessity defense – which argues that so-called criminal acts were committed out of necessity – to a jury. The Delta 5, who blockaded an oil train at the Delta rail yard near Seattle in September of 2014, have been been allowed to use the defense in a historic climate change civil disobedience trial being heard this week. They said they acted to prevent the greater harm of climate change and oil train explosions.
Like all civil disobedience, this new wave of climate disobedience is an inherent critique of the moral authority of government. The necessity defense is an opportunity to elaborate that implicit critique into a fully developed legal argument for the responsibility of citizen action in the face of governmental failure.
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In addition to gaining the permission to openly argue the necessity defense, the Delta 5 defendants have so far been winning the crucial legal maneuvers in the courtroom. The trial started with several motions from the prosecution to limit how the defense could present “sympathetic” evidence or anything related to their backgrounds. These motions were denied.
The judge has shown himself to be committed to a fully open trial of all the factors that would drive people to risk their bodies to stop fossil fuel expansion. This kind of openness is distressingly rare for civil disobedience cases in American courts. Why this particular judge, Anthony Howard, is breaking ranks in this climate trial is unknown, but I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that he is young enough that he will still be alive in 2050.
This willingness to weigh deep questions of justice in the courtroom is already paying off with a thought-provoking trial. The jury selection developed into an insightful conversation about civic engagement, protest and how to express one’s disagreement with the government.
This work of arousing consciences is an essential feature of good civil disobedience. Just by participating in the selection
