Watch the opening of this shocking killing - the screaming of the "Command-and-Control" tactics are terrifying. It's not police officer Philip Brailsford doing that, but he's the one who fired the shots to kill Daniel Shaver, pleasing on his knees. Listen to the slant of this report from the Real News Network - most people are outraged more than 3 years after the killing CONTROL-AND-COMMAND
Published on Jul 22, 2019
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A recent secret deal to give a Mesa, Arizona police officer a lifetime pension after a controversial shooting is raising questions about a system that appears to have troublesome incentives
As the founder, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX, a private company that makes rockets and spacecraft, Elon Musk envisions a time when his reusable rockets will bring people to the moon and Mars. He's focused on humans becoming a "multi-planet species," and on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, he speaks with Jeffrey Kluger (editor-at-large at Time magazine, and the co-author of "Apollo 13") about his vision for the future.
Gone bust with Mr. Pie! Serving your best interests with 'dirty little deals" HAVIN' A GOOD GO AT IT AGAIN
Published on Jul 23, 2019
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The planned High Speed rail project HS2, could cost the tax payers as much as £100billion and will be an environmental disaster. But it will hopefully have free WiFi. If you want HS2 to be scrapped contact your MP by clicking here: https://hs2.jonathanpie.com
"Federal workplaces are supposed to be free of politics, but a Trump administration appointee used a government forum Wednesday to express support for the president’s reelection.
At a conferenceon religious freedom hosted by the State Department, an official told the crowd of several hundred people that “hopefully he will be reelected,” referring to President Donald Trump.
It’s illegal for federal employees to engage in political activities while they are on the job.
“It’s a violation of the Hatch Act for a federal official, to say in her official capacity, to hope that the president will be reelected,” said Kathleen Clark, an expert on legal ethics at the Washington University in St. Louis.
It’s not the first time a Trump administration official has appeared to cross a line.
In a harsh report, a government ethics office concluded that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway was a “repeat offender” and recommended she be fired. . .
“Ms. Conway’s violations, if left unpunished, would send a message to all federal employees that they need not abide by the Hatch Act’s restrictions,” the ethics office wrote. “Her actions thus erode the principal foundation of our democratic system — the rule of law.”
Trump did not punish Conway.
> The latest questionable comment came from Samah Norquist, a special adviser on religious pluralism in the Middle East at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
> Norquist is alsothewife of conservative tax activist Grover Norquist.
> In response to ProPublica’s questions,
Tom Babington, a USAID spokesman, said in a written statement that agency personnel “immediately alerted” USAID’s chief legal officer about the comment. The legal office sent the issue to USAID’s ethics official for review and action.
“The Agency takes the Hatch Act very seriously and requires all employees to receive annual ethics training, which includes training on the Hatch Act,”Babington said.
“No final decision has been made regarding a determination of a violation or potential appropriate administrative action.”
We are interested in seeing how widespread this behavior is. Are you an ethics expert who monitors this kind of thing? A federal official who has witnessed partisan political actions or statements on the job? If you know of government officials undertaking political activity in their official capacity, tell us. Email yeganeh.torbati@propublica.org or contact her via Signal at 405-568-7011.
At the same time Mesa Mayor John Giles is all-over-the-place foisting himself out-to-the-world begging for more federal funds for 'the birder crisis' 150 miles away, his questionable compassionate conservatism is a convenient cover-up for what's been a bonanza for a private airline charter contractor at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport that's assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE with deportation flights and detainee transfer flights. It's one of five airports.
What's the difference - who cares? THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS at The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington does . . . . They issued a report on April 23, 2019 Hidden in Plain Sight: ICE Air and the Machinery of Mass Deportation https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2019/04/23/ice-air/
_________________________________________________________________________________ Concern about the human rights implications of the detention and deportation of immigrants has spread across the United States. Dedicated activists and researchers have exposed problems throughout the many processes of immigration enforcement:
Apparently that report on human rights hasn't trickled down here in Mesa, but it obviously did in Takoma at the end of 2018, about the same time Southwest Key detention facilities hit the headlines here in Arizona [there's one about a block away from the LDS Temple].
Just before the Human Rights report was released in April, ICE was ready to claim that 'local policy' was interfering with the enforcement of federal law
ICE: King County 'intimidating' us over deportation flights from Boeing Field
ICE claims intimidation, misunderstanding in order signed ahead of UW's Center for Human Rights report on deportations from Boeing Field
By Alex Halverson, SeattlePI "Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday told King County officials that local policymaking was interfering with federal law, part of a statement issued in response to an order from the county aimed at halting flights of immigration detainees outofBoeing Field. King County Executive Dow Constantine signed the orderTuesday with the end goal of banning flights of immigration detainees from Boeing Field -- where an average of 360 a month were deported from, according to a report from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights. "It's unfortunate to see yet another example of local policymaking aimed at intimidating ICE and our partners, particularly when such policies harm the very communities whose welfare they claim to protect, by making it more difficult to remove criminal aliens who prey upon the innocent," ICE spokesperson Tanya Roman said in the statement. Constantine's order, issued just ahead of the UW report's release, took aim at flights chartered by ICE, but it wouldn't end deportation flights with the stroke of a pen. It would create leases in the future with companies that comply with local immigration ordinances before companies were contracted with the Department of Homeland Security and operated at Boeing Field, using King County infrastructure. The county wasn't contracted with DHS or the federal government. . . King County International Airport, or Boeing Field - and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport + 3 other airports - are all a "link in the deportation chain" for ICE Air operations. Most of ICE's statement are taken from the Trum Playbook: inaccurate The statement tried to jump on the narrative of the criminal, undocumented immigrant -- a trope that The Marshall Project broke down in their piece, "The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant," that found no relationship between immigration and violent crime. The Center for Human Rights' report said that nationally, 52% of those deported nationally had criminal convictions. "Federal immigration law provides extensive and rigorous procedures to be followed before an alien can be ordered removed from the United States, including a full and fair opportunity to pursue asylum and other forms of relief and protection from removal,"
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_________________________________________________________________________________ READ THIS LOCAL REPORT by AZ Mirror Reporter Jerod Macdonald-Evoy. He's been featured in an earlier post on this blog for his "Mild-Mannered Reporting" Images have been inserted by MesaZona blogger - they were not in the original and are posted here for information purposes only.
. . . The company also conducts flights for professional sports teams, college athletic programs and touts on its website that it has flown “presidential candidates.” READ MORE from AZ Mirror > https://www.azmirror.com/2019/07/17/ice-air
'Mapping The World' might be one good thing Google does, but when it comes to INVASION OF PRIVACY we really need to draw a line on the limits. Google has a fleet of StreetView cars deployed in more than 30 countries around the globe - your MesaZona blogger spotted one cruising around DTMesa two months ago. When you think that just one Google StreetView car was here for just a couple of days, you can image what fleets of city-owned cars can cover all the time.
At right is Marius Milner, formerly known as Engineer Doe, the Googler who created a Wi-Fi sniffing code which allowed Street View cars to suck up usernames, passwords, emails, and at least one conversation between two people planning an extra-marital affair. Google had previously declined to identify him publicly, but a state investigator who had been looking into the "Wi-Spy" case revealed Milner's name to the New York Times Welcome to The Not-So Private Parts where technology & privacy collide Reference > Forbes 2012/0501 by Kashmir Hill _________________________________________________________________________ NO IDEA what "Wi-Spy" is?
Google agreed to pay $13 million to end long-running litigation over claims that it violated a U.S. wiretapping law when vehicles used for its Street View mapping project captured data from private Wi-Fi networks.
The settlement agreement filed Friday in .the company to destroy all the collected data, as well as to educate people how to set up encrypted wireless networks, . .
HOLD ON JUST A MOMENT!This was 'settled' before wasn't it?
First a comment from a consumer watchdog group included in the announcement:
". . . Asking Google to educate consumers about privacy is like asking the fox to teach the chickens how to ensure the security of their coop,”
----- said John M. Simpson, Consumer Watchdog’s Privacy Project director. “The educational video will also drive consumers to the YouTube platform, where Google will just gather more data about them for its digital dossiers” . . . "
It’s Official: Google Settles “WiSpy” Case For $7 Million
"As reported last week, Google has formally settled the so-called “WiSpy” case with 30 US state Attorneys General for $7 million. The agreement also contains some other non-monetary provisions that are, frankly, more meaningful.
The investigation began in 2010 concerning unauthorized collection of private emails and other “payload” data by Google Street View vehicles. The US Federal Communications Commission concluded its own investigation of the affair with no finding of liability against Google. As mentioned, the $7 million settlement is insignificant for Google. However, the press release outlines additional measures that Google must take to educate employees and consumers about data privacy . . .
While there may be a couple of European investigations still winding down (privacy and advertising is still a very hot topic in Europe), the bulk of WiSpy cases around the world have now been closed or settled. Postscript: Persistent Google critic Consumer Watchdog issued the following statement in response to the settlement announced earlier today [see above insert] Reference: Search Engine Land.com ________________________________________________________________________
> Settlement will close the books on a scandal from a decade ago
> Money to go to privacy groups instead of Wi-Fi network owners
"Google is poised to pay a modest $13 million to end a 2010 privacy lawsuit that was once called thebiggest U.S. wiretap case everand threatened the internet giant with billions of dollars in damages.
The settlement would close the books on a scandal that was touched off by vehicles used by Google for its Street View mapping project. Cars and trucks scooped up emails, passwords and other personal information from unencrypted household Wi-Fi networks belonging to tens of millions of people all over the world.
The accord still requires approval of a San Francisco judge. But under the settlement, proposed Friday night with no fanfare, the owners of the Wi-Fi networks whose information was captured by Google won’t get individualpayouts, except for about 20 plaintiffs who filed the complaint as a class action.
Instead, what’s left of the $13 million -- after administrative costs and the lawyers who brought the lawsuit get a commission of as much as 25% -- will be distributed to a handful of consumer privacy advocacy groups, according to a court filing detailing the terms of the deal.
. . . in Friday’s filing, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said the settlement was justified, in part, because there was a risk that they could still lose the case -- and end up with nothing.
They also argued >that the accord will act as a deterrent and
> that the funds designated for privacy-oriented groups will help educate future information technology workers to “to become safeguards of internet privacy rather than exploiters of personal information communicated over the internet.”
Google declined to comment.
— With assistance by Mark Bergen, and Robert Burnson
Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, would you like to hear a song? HAL 9000 is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. First appearing in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL is a sentient computer that controls the systems of the Discovery One spacecraft and interacts with the ship's astronaut crew.
Science fiction from more than 50 years ago - before the Apollo Moon Landing that's was "one leap" onto the Lunar surface and "one giant step for Mankind" or so the images and voices from that time told us in a huge public relations campaign for NASA. Luckily, that mission did not aborted when humans intervened to fix glitches in the onboard computer. Stanley Kubrick also directed "A Clockwork Orange"- again science fiction but a fore-telling of what's going on now here on Earth. _________________________________________________________________________ HAL 9000 Deactivation - '2001: A Space Odyssey' (HD)
