Police Beat

Freaking 'copter is still orbiting, three hrs. later.

Police activity @ Hobart Blvd between 1st and 2nd St. If you see something unusual call 911. @LAPDHQ @Koreatown311 pic.twitter.com/g4ERy8u64l
— LAPDOlympic (@LAPDOlympic) April 21, 2015

Stills in a while, maybe.

GUILTY!!

We see that the San Ber'doo Sheriff's Dep't. has admitted complete culpability in this criminal attack on an innocent civilian who was literally frightened for his well-being.

Man Assaulted by Deputies
Settles for $650,000

Francis Jared Pusok, 30, of Apple Valley, was beaten by San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies
in an incident caught by NewsChopper4

Remember that things would have been entirely different had "NewsChopper4" not recorded the vicious & unprovoked attacked by the sheriff's bully-boys. The bigger question is what will happen to the thugs who assaulted Mr. Pusok. Firing, charging & trying the deputies seems like the least that should be done. Taking their pensions to pay the settlement would be just as well.

Numb

New approach: Hoping to numb the population so that self-deportation from this mortal coil is the only possible relief. I've been bored numb for 60+ yrs., now they can suffer:

East on Santa Monica Blvd. at Wilshire Blvd. Z-z-z-z-z ...

Realize the utter pointlessness of "existence".

It's like a sporting event w/ an inevitable, predetermined outcome (death & decay);
why not leave now & avoid the traffic?

New Gov. Of Guam

SAT 20 APR 1940
Captain George J. McMillin relieves Captain James T. Alexander as Governor of Guam and Commandant U.S. Naval Station, Guam.

U.S. freighters Flying Fish and Charles McCormick are reported safe at Norwegian ports; concern had been expressed over their safety in view of the German invasion of Norway. They had been shifted from Bergen to neighboring, safer places.

Faith In Humanity Restored

Snapping pix of another fake police car in front of Ralphs®; this guy expressed himself for the camera on his way out.

Trash, Go Pick It Up!

I am not contributing to this problem.

The Global E-waste Monitor 2014: Quantities, Flows and Resources provides an unprecedented level of detail and accuracy about the size of the world’s e-waste challenge, ongoing progress in establishing specialized e-waste collection and treatment systems, and the outlook for the future.

The bulk of global e-waste in 2014 (almost 60%) was discarded kitchen, laundry, and bathroom equipment. Personal information and communication technology (ICT) devices — such as mobile phones, personal computers, and printers — accounted for 7% of e-waste last year.

I just never throw anything away.

Two Stupid Hobbies You Should Stop Immediately

Patriotism & marathon-running. You can't get much stupider. Patriotism, of course, long known as the first refuge of scoundrels & grifters & remember what happened to Pheidippides who ran the original ... waitaminit ... naw, keep running, faster faster!!

Untitled

Sure They Don't

FRI 19 APR 1940
Japanese government informs United States that Japan has no aggressive intentions toward the Netherlands East Indies.

G.O. Pepsi: For Those Who Think Old

The crowd at Rick Perry’s “youth town hall summit” in Milford, N.H. pic.twitter.com/bwpUQHcyR0

— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) April 16, 2015

Noted previously:

Indeed, the Rubio team’s assuredness about his youthful appeal may come from the fact that they’re all in Florida. Winning “the youth vote” in Florida amounts to sweeping the retirement communities rather than the nursing homes.

Also from inside the bubble (& also from the Daily Beast):

Heroin overdose has stalked the region around parts of New Hampshire and Vermont. All the politicians gathered at the Crowne Plaza Hotel for the First-in-the-Nation Republican Leadership Summit came prepared to discuss how lethal, how dangerous, ISIS was but there was no mention of the life-destroying availability of a drug that has flooded parts of the nation they seek to lead.

In their defense, were they to face that they'd have to admit there's something very wrong w/ these United Snakes.

JETZ EX5

Was going to credit whoever shinnied up the pole but then I figured they probably just stood on top of a car.

Poland Gets Pissy

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Foreign Ministry urgently summoned U.S. Ambassador Stephen Mull on Sunday to "protest and demand an apology," saying the head of the FBI suggested that Poles were accomplices in the Holocaust.

FBI director James Comey made the remarks in an article about the Holocaust that was published by The Washington Post on Thursday. It was adapted from a speech he gave Wednesday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In the article, Comey said, "In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do."

Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said Comey's words were "unacceptable" in Poland.

Protesting a little much aren't they? As if anyone believes the Catholics of WWII Poland were all innocent &/or hiding Jewish Poles from the Nazis. Ha ha ha. All those jokes were right. Fucking Polacks. Hope the Ambassador gives them a lesson in history.

20 Yrs. Ago Today In American Patriotism

Proud of yourselves, reactionary Christians, militia members & other Patriots? You really showed Clinton, didn't you?

A truck bomb made with more than 5,000 lb. (2,300 kg) of explosive-grade ammonium nitrate fertilizer
ripped off the north side of the Albert P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
The blast killed 168 people, including 19 children.                                                      BOB DAEMMERICH/AFP/GETTY

Meanwhile, in the reality-based world: Threat, or profitable fearmongering?

Twenty years later, the Oklahoma City Bombing remains the deadliest mass casualty attack in US history carried out by domestic extremists on US soil. Domestic extremism, however, remains a persistent threat, and the United States has experienced violent ideologically-motivated criminal acts, both prior to and after the Oklahoma City attack.

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Today In Testi-Lying

Police Terror state:

FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.

The cases include those of 32 defendants sentenced to death. Of those, 14 have been executed or died in prison, the groups said under an agreement with the government to release results after the review of the first 200 convictions.

Justice system. It is to vomit. Fuck the F.B.I., fuck the police, fuck the attorneys, fuck the judges, fuck the juries.

Percy Sledge

The late Mr. Sledge poses in classic R&B style, w/ chin pensively in hand & conk job.

Let's Make The Water Turn Black!

Lest you forget Erik Prince's Army of Gawd..

Fire trUCK

Another Exact Anniv. (Barely)

Paul Kuntzler said that when he and nine other people picketed the White House 50 years ago today, protesting the government's treatment of gays and lesbians, he could not imagine how far the gay rights movement would come in five decades.

That protest on April 17, 1965, is believed to the first gay rights demonstration, advocates say.

"It was so revolutionary,” Kuntzler, 73, said. “It had never been done before anywhere in the world. We all wore coats and ties and we all had pseudonyms."

At the time they felt they had to use made-up names to protect their identities, he said.

Tonight In Kristallnacht, "Self-Deportation" & So On

Keep telling yourself "It can't happen here." Not even if the dictator Obama's executive "orders" are upheld by whatever courts.

There has been another night of xenophobic violence in parts of South Africa's largest city.

Protesters set cars alight on Friday night and attempted to loot shops owned by foreigners in the Jeppestown suburb of Johannesburg.

Stones were thrown at police who fired rubber bullets at the crowd.

The violence has been going on for about a fortnight - mostly in Durban. But in the past few days, trouble has spread to Johannesburg.

[...]

There are an estimated five million immigrants in South Africa.

They come mostly from other African countries - such as Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Nigeria.

[skyNEWS]

70 Yrs. Later We Must Ask Again: Who Won WWII?

Thought that old bastard MacArthur beat democracy into the less-than-100-yrs.-from-feudalism Nipponese. Lied to again?

Summons of Japanese media raises complaints of interference

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's ruling party summoned executives from two leading television networks Friday, the latest in a series of actions that opponents say endanger press freedom and intimidate the media.

The Liberal Democratic Party's panel on information and communications strategy questioned the executives from Asahi TV and public broadcaster NHK about two separate programs at the party's headquarters.

In one program, an Asahi commentator made remarks critical of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office, while another program on NHK allegedly contained staged material.

The opposition Democratic Party criticized the questioning as a potential infringement of press freedom.

Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga denied suggestions of censorship and said the summons were not intended to pressure the media.

Abe's government has been criticized as being too sensitive to critical reporting.

Jiro Kawasaki, head of the LDP panel, said the two executives were summoned to answer questions about allegations that the programs contained "distorted" materials.

Media watchers and political analysts say mainstream media have been shunning critical reporting to avoid trouble with officials who are increasingly touchy about how Japan and government policies are portrayed by both domestic and foreign media.

Koichi Nakano, an international politics professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, said Abe's government is promoting a revisionist view of Japan's wartime military atrocities, and is steering public opinion to support divisive policies such as expanding the military's role and revising the country's war-renouncing constitution.

Without checks and balances from a viable liberal opposition, "the LDP has no limits," Nakano said.

Conservative businessman Katsuto Momii, appointed by Abe in 2013 to head NHK, quickly sparked criticism by saying that the public broadcaster's reporting should be aligned with government policy, despite its longstanding editorial independence.

Although Japan's Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and press, many see worrisome trends in the past several years:
— Ahead of a December general election, the LDP sent a statement to Japanese media requesting "fair coverage."
— Abe and his government chastised the liberal-leaning Asahi newspaper over decades-old stories about Japan's wartime military brothel system — a topic of abiding friction with China, South Korea and other countries whose citizens suffered abuses by the Imperial Army before and during World War II.
— The Foreign Ministry complained to U.S. publisher McGraw-Hill about references to the military brothel system in a high school history textbook and sent an envoy to one of the writers to protest in person. The issues raised in Friday's meeting were somewhat more mundane.

Shigeaki Koga, a former trade ministry official, quit TV Asahi's "Hodo Station," a popular nightly news show, after recently making critical remarks about the Prime Minister's Office's treatment of the media.

Koga, who now is an independent commentator, says he finds many stories are not getting the coverage they deserve because of a trend toward authoritarianism.

"If the ongoing media self-censorship continues and there is only news that serves the government's interest, people will be brainwashed," Koga said in a speech Thursday at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan.

The Foreign Ministry's budget for propagating its official views on history and territorial disputes was raised to 52 billion yen ($438 million) this year from 2 billion yen last year to "correct understanding by the international society," the ministry says.

Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies at Temple University in Tokyo, says intolerance of criticism has grown because of a tendency to equate criticism of the Japanese government with anti-Japanese sentiment.

"This shabby tactic defines criticism of Abe as criticism of Japan putting journalists in the awkward position of having to demonstrate 'love' for Japan," he said in an article Friday in the online review Asia-Pacific Journal.

© 2015 Associated Press

Marines pass through a small village where a Japanese soldier lies dead.
Okinawa, April 1945. Norris G. McElroy. (Marine Corps) Exact Date Unknown
NARA FILE #: 127-N-95-119485 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1231