Thursday, May 29, 2014

Leaked DOJ Memo: Outlaw And Confiscate All Guns...

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The National Rifle Association has obtained a Department of Justice memo calling for national gun registration and confiscation. The nine page “cursory summary” on current gun control initiatives was not officially released by the Obama administration.
The DOJ memo (downloadable here as a PDF) states the administration “believes that a gun ban will not work without mandatory gun confiscation,” according to the NRA, and thinks universal background checks “won’t work without requiring national gun registration.” Obama has yet to publicly support national registration or firearms confiscation, although the memo reveals his administration is moving in that direction.
The memo stands in stark contrast to the administration’s public stance on so-called gun control. White House spokesman Jay Carney said last month that laws proposed by Obama would not “take away a gun from a single law-abiding American.”
The NRA declined to explain how it obtained the document. The memo was written by the acting director of the Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice, Greg Ridgeway. It is dated January 4, two weeks before Obama mounted his attack on the Second Amendment following the Sandy Hook massacre. Ridgeway came to the Justice Department from the RAND corporation.
The memo says universal background checks on firearms purchases may help the government push to control and eventually outlaw firearms, but it would lead to an increase in illegally purchased guns.
DOJ memo states: “Buybacks are ineffective unless massive and coupled with a ban.”
DOJ MEMO STATES: “BUYBACKS ARE INEFFECTIVE UNLESS MASSIVE AND COUPLED WITH A BAN.”
It pointed out that banning high capacity ammunition clips would be ineffective due to the fact there is a large number of them already in circulation.
A Justice Department official said the memo is an unfinished review of gun violence research and does not represent administration policy.
The DOJ memo arrived a few weeks prior to a letter sent out by the Department of Veterans Affairs. “A determination of incompetency will prohibit you from purchasing, possessing, receiving, or transporting a firearm or ammunition,” the sent to military veterans states. “If you knowingly violate any of these prohibitions, you may be fined, imprisoned, or both pursuant to the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, Pub.L.No. 103-159, as implemented at 18, United States Code 924(a)(2).”
“US veterans are receiving letters from the government informing them that they are disabled and not allowed to own, purchase or possess a firearm. If the veteran does decide to purchase a firearm he will by fined, imprisoned or both,” the Gateway Pundit remarked.

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A Virus That Killed 7 Million Swine Has Reemerged in Indiana

Bacon prices could be on their way up with news that a farm in Indiana has confirmed asecond outbreak of a pig disease that has already killed off seven million swine in just over a year.
The farm’s veterinarian, Matt Ackerman, announced on Tuesday that the unidentified farm had experienced a re-break of the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), making it the first in the country to publicly confirm a second incident.
"Just because a farm broke with PEDv last year doesn't mean that they are protected from re-breaking with it this year," Ackerman told Reuters.
PEDv is a viral disease that causes severe diarrhea and vomiting in pigs. The virus largely affects young piglets and has a mortality rate as high as 100 percent. While the disease is deadly in pigs, it is not transmissible to humans and does not affect food safety. PEDv first appeared in Europe in 1971 and caused an endemic in Asia in 1982, but was not seen in the US until April of 2013.
Since the first outbreak occurred last year, ten percent of the country's swine population has been wiped out. Until recently, researchers and industry experts largely believed that immunity developed in infected pigs within two to three weeks and could last for years. However, the news of a confirmed re-break and other unreported second outbreaks are raising concern.
“In the beginning we thought all of the practices used to reduce Transmissible Gastroenteritis would work with PEDv, but we’re finding PED is a tougher virus, much more infective,” Liz Wagstrom, the chief veterinarian at the National Pork Producer’s Council, told VICE News, referring to another common coronavirus that affects pigs. “It’s a lot harder to control than its cousin.”
When PEDv first broke, industry experts began recommending improved biosecurity measures — practices that are already considered quite thorough in US pig farms. The virus is believed to be transmitted between the animals through contaminated manure, which can be transported via the pigs themselves, on the clothes of farm workers or even on trucks transporting the animals.
Farms have had to amp up measures to limit animal movement and ensure vehicle and personnel are disinfected upon entering and exiting farms and meat packing plants. These measures have not been as successful at combatting PEDv as originally thought. Facing the fact that the risk of re-breaks is no longer just a possibility, Wagstrom says the industry is starting to look at other transmission risk factors they might have missed.
“We do have some farms that have rebroken that can’t be explained by biosecurity or pig movement,” she said. “We’re looking at what else might be bringing it in.”
While veterinarians like Wagstrom work on a tackling PEDv, the virus has already taken a toll on pig supply and pork industry prices. Both hog futures and retail pork prices are at record highs. Futures have hit $115 per hundredweight, up 26 percent since PEDv first hit the scene last year.
Steve Meyer, a pork economist and president of Paragon Economics, told VICE News that the industry reacted strongly to the initial outbreak and the resulting pig deaths. He expects prices to remain stable through the summer, but says there will be a gap in the market this fall when the piglet deaths from the re-break become more apparent.
Hogs will be raised to heavier weights before being taken to market, which will help balance out population declines. But Meyer says there will still be supply issues that will trickle down to the consumer.
“The cost of this is going to fall on pork consumers at some point because this is a supply issue, not a demand issue,” he said, explaining that demand has stayed the same despite already increasing pork prices.
Bacon fanatics may be paying more at the grocery store, but one of the more concerning effects could be the impact PEDv could have on workers at pork processing plants. Meyer says plants from North Carolina to Oklahoma have already cut back on slaughtering operations and work hours.
In March, Smithfield Foods Inc. eliminated a day from its slaughtering schedule at the Tar Heel pork processing plant in North Carolina because of the virus' effect on the pig population. The Tar Heel facility is the largest of its kind in the US, where up to 34,000 pigs are slaughtered each day. Similarly, Hormel Foods Corp. announced plans to reduce operations in its Midwest plants.
Meyer said he expects a lot of plants in the upper Midwest will cut hours this year as a result of PEDv’s continued presence. As of 2011 there were 136 pork processing plants throughout the country and nearly 35,000 direct, full-time pork producing jobs. The industry generates more than $20 billion in personal income each year.
“It’s going to have an effect on a lot of small towns,” Meyer said. “If you take a day of work out of the paychecks of some of these workers, that’s going to leave a mark on Mainstreet.”
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Rebuilding God's Temple from the inside out



If the Jewish Temple is ever to be rebuilt in Jerusalem, the massive curtain – 66 feet high by 33 feet wide and 2 inches thick – that once hung in the Second Temple and was consumed by fire in A.D. 70, will need to be recreated.

That task is already underway in the Jewish community of Shiloh, located in biblical Samaria about 40 minutes north of Jerusalem, reports Israel Today.
For more than two years women from the community have been working to assemble the materials and learn the techniques needed to weave the veil that will hang between, and separate, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies.
While the command given to Moses at Sinai – “You shall make a veil woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen … with an artistic design of cherubim” (Exodus 26:31) – may have been clear to the people of Israel in the mid-15th century B.C., the techniques for weaving the required six-cord threads and the proper way to recreate the needed dyes are unknown today.
The scarlet is believed to have been made out of an oak aphid, reported Israel Today, and the blue from a special sea snail. The purple was also animal-derived, but which animals is unknown.
In some ways Shiloh as the place for “the women of the veil chamber” to pursue their task is a natural one.
Ancient Israel’s Tabernacle – precursor to the First Temple built in Jerusalem by King Solomon – stood in Shiloh for over 300 years. It was to Shiloh that the tribes of Israel came for annual festivals. One of those occasions is the biblical setting for the begining of the ministry of the Prophet Samuel (1 Samuel 1). It was from here the Ark of the Covenant was sent into battle against Israel’s arch enemy, the Philistines, and captured (1 Samuel 4). Some 300 years later, in the time of the Prophet Jeremiah, the city was in ruins.
In 2013, archaeologists announced they had found the site at Shiloh where the Tabernacle had stood. Hewn holes that once supported wooden beams, large stoves not meant for home use, structures dating to the period between Joshua and King David and proximity to the city gate led to their identification. Past findings in the surrounding hills include what researchers say are the bones of sacrificed animals that were eaten during those times when thousands of Israelites would assemble at Shiloh, reported Israel National News. The bones have been dated to the same biblical period.
The synagogue of the modern community of Shiloh is designed as a replica of the Tabernacle.
Shiloh synagogue modeled on Tabernacle
The veil project mirrors another that has been underway for four years, recreating the priestly garments needed for Temple worship. Some Jews who claim priestly lineage have already purchased the special clothing.
The weavers of the veil see their work as a “holy activity” that hastens the time of Israel’s redemption.
The Gospel of Matthew records that upon Jesus death, the great veil of the Temple “was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split.” (Matthew 27:51)

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First Circuit Court of Appeals Rules: Filming Cops During Arrests Is Protected by First Amendment!



The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the filming of police officers, during arrests or otherwise, is a constitutional right protected by the First Amendment.
The decision came after Carla Gericke, a New Hampshire native and president of the Free State Project, was arrested in 2010 after attempting to record on her cell phone a traffic stop involving her friend and the Weare Police Department. According to RT, Gericke’s cell phone malfunctioned though and failed to record the incident, but the officer still arrested her on charges of obstruction, disobeying a police officer, and what the courts are calling, “unlawful interception of oral communications.”
Citizen’s rights to record officers in public has been hotly debated over the past few years with many police officers and departments saying citizens do not have the right to film officers while carrying out their duties.
The Department of Justice in 2013, according to Politico, argued not only do citizens have the right film officers in public as protected by the First Amendment, but citizens are also protected by the Fourth and14th Amendment from having any such recordings seized by officers without a warrant.
Many states have held hearings on similar cases involving the recording of officers. In 2012, the state of Illinois ruled in favor of the ACLU of Illinois to “record police officers while they are publicly performing official duties.
In some states, particularly in Massachusetts, the law reads citizens can record officers, but only if the citizen tells the officer beforehand they are being recorded. If the citizen were to privately record the officer, this could be considered a crime.
In the case of Gericke, the court ruled, “It is clearly established in this circuit that police officers cannot, consistently with the Constitution, prosecute citizens for violating wiretapping laws when they peacefully record a police officer performing his or her official duties in a public area.”
The First Circuit Court covers the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Island, and Maine, and this decision may nullify any laws in those states which make recording officers a crime or otherwise.


Read more: http://benswann.com/first-circuit-court-rules-recording-of-police-protected-by-first-amendment/#ixzz339Lu3YWs
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U.S. activist Cynthia McKinney seeks new trial for Denis Rancourt

Fired professor Denis Rancourt has a high-profile ally. Cynthia McKinney, an American activist who ran for president in 2008 as the Green party nominee, has started a petition protesting Rancourt's treatment during his ongoing civil trial for allegedly defaming University of Ottawa law professor Joanne St. Lewis.
Fired professor Denis Rancourt has a high-profile ally. Cynthia McKinney, an American activist who ran for president in 2008 as the Green party nominee, has started a petition protesting Rancourt's treatment during his ongoing civil trial for allegedly defaming University of Ottawa law professor Joanne St. Lewis.

A high-profile American activist who ran for president in 2008 as the Green party nominee has started a petition protesting Denis Rancourt’s treatment during his ongoing civil trial for allegedly defaming University of Ottawa law professor Joanne St. Lewis.
Cynthia McKinney, a former six-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the first black woman elected to represent Georgia in the House, created the petition on change.org Wednesday. As of Friday afternoon, it had attracted 115 signatures.
The petition expresses “grave concern” about Ontario Superior Court Judge Michel Charbonneau’s “unjust treatment” of Rancourt during the trial. Charbonneau’s decision to disallow one of Rancourt’s three legal defences, it says, is “a shocking affront against basic justice” that puts Canadian courts into disrepute.
It points out Charbonneau’s connections to the University of Ottawa — the judge is a graduate and has contributed to its scholarship funds — and calls for a new trial with a judge who has no ties to the university, which is funding St. Lewis’s lawsuit.
“This attempt to railroad Dr. Rancourt in his defamation trial is a disservice to all justice-seeking citizens,” the petition asserts.
St. Lewis is seeking $1 million in damages from Rancourt — formerly a tenured professor of physics who was fired in 2009 by the University of Ottawa — for characterizing her as university president Allan Rock’s “house Negro” in two postings on his U of O Watch blog in 2011.
Rancourt made the comment after the university asked St. Lewis to assess a student report that alleged there was systemic racism in its academic fraud processes. St. Lewis found serious methodological problems with the report but recommended the university conduct an independent review of the allegations.
The trial started last week. Rancourt, who is representing himself, walked out on the second day, saying he didn’t want to legitimize the process after Charbonneau’s disallowance of his “abuse-of-process” defence.
The trial has continued in his absence. St. Lewis’s lawyer, Richard Dearden — who regularly acts for the Citizen — completed his evidence Thursday and will make closing arguments June 2. Dearden said he will respond to McKinney’s petition after the jury renders its verdict.
McKinney, 59, is a controversial figure. Following the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S., she gained national attention by charging that then-president George W Bush might have had advance knowledge of the attacks but allowed them to happen.
In 2006, she struck a Capitol Hill Police officer who tried to stop her and ask for identification, igniting a frenzy of media coverage.
Though she appears to have no direct connection to Rancourt, she wrote on the change.org site that she started the petition “because a terrible wrong has been committed and I want to see justice.”
 Why I walked out of the trial in which I am being sued
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LUKE RUDKOWSKI AND DAN DICKS ARRESTED AT BILDERBERG 2014! (MEDIA ADVISORY)

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TORONTO – MAY 28, 2014 – Dan Dicks of Press For Truth and Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change were arrested at the Marriott Hotel while covering Bilderberg 2014. They were eventually released without being charged with a crime. Reasons given for the arrest were at first “drugs” even though none were found, then after public backlash and a demand for answers the reason given was “engaging in suspicious activity”.
This was an illegal detention of journalists and the rights of the free press were violated.
Activist and investigative journalist Dan Dicks is at the Bilderberg protest in Denmark with his media company, Press for Truth. The protest is taking outside the Marriott Hotel where the 62nd annual Bilderberg meeting is happening. Both the meeting and demonstration will occur from May 29 to June 1. This four-day annual event is an opportunity for activists and citizen journalists to protest the secretive meeting of the world’s top financial, political and industrial elite.
ABOUT DAN DICKS: Dan Dicks lives in Toronto, Ontario. His films include: The Nation’s Deathbed, Into The Fire, The Toronto Hearings on 9/11: Uncovering Ten Years of Deception as well as countless video reports through Press For Truth.
ABOUT PRESS FOR TRUTH: When it comes to investigative journalism and documentary film making Press For Truth has emerged as one of Canada’s leading groups who are on the front lines of fighting the new world order. In the last five years we have released five films The Nation’s Deathbed, United We Fall, Into The Fire, The Toronto Hearings on 911, and our latest The Turning Point. Our coverage of the G20 summit, the Bilderberg conferences and similar events have contributed to the growth of our audience which now reaches over two million hits a month (and growing quickly). For more information visit pressfortruth.ca.

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Biden challenges graduating AF Academy cadets to create ‘new world order’


Patrick Shannon, left, and Luke Cowen smoke celebratory cigars after graduating from the United States Air Force Academy at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Wednesday, May 28.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Under a blazing sun, Vice President Joe Biden challenged graduating Air Force Academy cadets on Wednesday to help create a “new world order for the 21st century.”

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Biden called on images from the end of World War II, part of a White House push to burnish a foreign policy that has been challenged by Russian aggression and continued trouble from North Africa to Afghanistan.
“I believe we and mainly you have an incredible opportunity to lead in shaping a new world order for the 21st century in a way consistent with American interests and common interests,” Biden said before shaking hands with 995 members of the class of 2014.
The reference to a “new world order” echoed a similar goal set by President George Bush after the collapse of European communism.
Biden described the new order as a world that seeks human rights, free trade and an end to poverty and oppression.
“First and foremost our work begins by rebuilding America’s foundations, our economic foundations, our moral and strategic foundations,” he told cadets.
That work, Biden said, won’t see America leave the world stage.
“One thing we know, if America isn’t on the field, the vacuum will be filled,” Biden told cadets and a crowd of more than 22,000 people in Falcon Stadium.
Biden described administration plans to leave nearly 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after combat operations end on Dec. 31. And, according to Biden, those troops will have the responsibility of tracking down the remnants of al-Qaida.
The Afghan government hasn’t signed off on a continued U.S. troop presence after a United Nations mandate for the U.S. mission there expires on Dec. 31.
Biden said he understands those who want all U.S. forces home and said those feelings are similar to sentiments following the end of World War II.
“There was an overwhelming desire of our grandparents and my parent’s generation to bring home every single one of the 12 million forces stationed in Europe and Asia,” he said.
The continued military presence abroad after World War II, though, served a high purpose, he said.
“They knew they had to lay a foundation for a new world order, an order that brought the longest period of sustained and peace in Europe and Asia,” he said.
Biden made several references to Russian aggression, restating a U.S. guarantee of a democratic Ukraine.
He also decried “the use of corruption and oligarchs as a sinister tool of foreign policy,” but did not mention Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Biden said the nation must turn its focus to the Pacific. In that, the Democrat, praised China as a friend and trade partner, but also said it hasn’t captured America’s ability to innovate.
Biden got a smattering of applause during the policy portion of his speech, and shouts and cheers when he praised cadets.
“You are Falcons and you carry America on your back,” he said, rallying a crowd that sweltered in the sun and 80-degree temperatures in Falcon Stadium. “And America will have your back forever.”
Senior Cadet Charles Lewis of Colorado Springs wasn’t thinking about Biden’s speech so much as getting a diploma and shaking Biden’s hand.
“It’s great to finally make it through,” Lewis said. “It’s the culminating thing, and then I’m finally done,” Lewis said.
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