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Frank Jacobs: "I'm in the vinyl section of the shop, listening to some old Mercators"
March 16, 2015 Geohipsters, InterviewsFrank Jacobs, Strange MapsEd Freyfogle
Frank Jacobs
Frank Jacobs (@FrankJacobs) is a journalist, blogger and author. Originally from Belgium, he currently lives in Denmark with his girlfriend Hanne. He thought his map obsession was a rare affliction until 2006, when he started blogging about Strange Maps. Seventeen million hits and one book later, he's still looking for next week's strangest map.
Frank was interviewed for GeoHipster by Ed Freyfogle.
Q: What makes a map strange? Would you say you have an innate sense of geohipsterism that allows you to declare a map strange at a glance?
A: I could tell you. But then I'd have to kill you. Seriously, though: Strange Maps is my attempt to stay in touch with the sense of wonder that cartography instilled in me back when I was ten years old and got my first atlas. Maps are not just about other places, they're a place unto themselves: a playground where the world and your imagination can meet.
That playground-like quality is what I look for in maps, at least when I'm looking for maps to post on the blog. There has to be a eureka moment. Looking for a new one is exciting, because I never can tell exactly what gives a map that extra dimension. Perhaps it's the historical anecdote it illustrates. It could be the painstaking detail — or the lack of it.
I never know where the next map will come from. That element of chance makes hunting for strange maps fun, even eight years into the blog. Nevertheless, I do know that the next strange map will fit at least three criteria: it will have a compelling backstory, it will look nice, and it will be too strange for my old school atlas.
Q: Many of your maps delve into the realm of alternative histories. Others cover historic anomalies. Some just have crazy designs. Tell us a bit about the different maps and how you find them.
A: Put a few alternative history buffs in a room — a chatroom, most likely — and soon you'll be inundated with maps. No other community produces as many potential candidates for Strange Maps as the alt-history crowd. Many are beautifully made. Yet I generally steer clear of them, because the historical hypotheticals they're built upon are generally too fanciful or too obscure to interest me. There have been a few exceptions, unsurprisingly often involving Nazis, as recently with that map of The Man in the High Castle, the TV series based on Philip K. Dick's eponymous 'What If' classic.
I'm happy for Strange Maps to just be a grab bag of maps from as many different backgrounds as possible. There's lots of great examples of maps used as art, for example, some of which I've featured on the blog: Kim Dingle's sublimely simple United Shapes of America — a canvas filled with the shape of the U.S. as drawn from memory by a high school class. Or Grayson Perry's Map of an Englishman, obsessively detailing his obsessions over Englishness. On the other end of the spectrum, there are statistical maps, like Joseph Minard's stunning chart of the deadly carnage that was Napoleon's Russia campaign. Or the Inglehart-Welzel map, which plots out countries according to the secularity and self-expressiveness of their society on a map that is cultural rather than geographic. In between are fantasy maps like Tolkien's, adventure story maps like Treasure Island, maps made for propaganda or satire. As long as I can mix it all up, I'm happy.
Q: You're from Belgium, a cartographer's delight of a country with three official languages, a rich history of border changes, and of course the famous Baarle-Hertog exclave. Do you think this caused your interest in strange maps?
A: Growing up where I did was a bit surreal for a map-lover: travel south for 30 kilometres, and you're in a different culture, but still in the same country. Go east for as far, and you're in the same language area, but in a different country. It certainly reinforced my fascination with those man-made lines that traversed the maps in my atlas. Baarle might be Belgium's best-known border anomaly, but there are other, equally fascinating ones. Like the Esperanto micronation of Amikejo, set up in a neutral zone that transformed Belgium's border tripoint with the Netherlands and Germany into one of the world's rare international quadripoints. Or the five German exclaves, separated from the Heimat by a railway track that was placed under Belgian sovereignty after the First World War.
Some say Belgium itself is an experiment in surrealism: an accident of history, a collision of cultures, and the frequent object of mockery by our more important neighbours. Belgians have a hard time convincing themselves they live in a 'proper' country. No wonder Magritte — he of Ceci n'est pas une pipe — is our 'national' painter. So yes, growing up in that anomaly of a country definitely shaped my interest in surreal cartography.
Q: Relatedly, has any specific culture, region, or time period produced more strange maps than others?
A: Yes — although it's a bit unfair to hold it against them: the cartographers of the Age of Exploration produced a mass of maps of new lands, many of them drawn up on little more than hearsay. Take the history of California's depiction as an island, which occurred on and off well into the 1700s. Or all those phantom islands dotting the North Atlantic, products of tall tales, wishful thinking or just an attempt by failed explorers to get enough funding to have another go at glory.
Q: What makes for a good border dispute? Do your maps ever lead to flame wars?
A: If you value your free time, steer well clear of Balkan irredentism. Once — fortunately, a long time ago by now — I posted a map of Greater Albania, which included not only Kosovo, but also parts of Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia proper. It didn't take very long before commenters from all countries involved were insulting each other, and each other's mothers in the comments section.
Another example of maps ruffling feathers was that faulty Google Map of the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Both countries came quite close to fighting over the disputed border as a result.
Q: As more and more people use maps all the time via their phone, it seems maps are increasingly moving out of the realm of the cartonerds and into the mainstream. What's your take on this trend? Are maps a fad or is this the new norm?
A: Humans made maps before they could write. I think that's why they appeal so directly to us: they're humanity's primeval common language, in a way. As technology embeds maps in ever more aspects of our daily life, I suspect we're going towards a schism in cartography, separating the merely utilitarian from the purely beautiful. It's pretty clear which side I am on. I'm in the vinyl section of the shop, listening to some old Mercators, scratches and all, while the kids figure out how to upload their jogging route to the interweb.
Q: Does the burden of having to decide what is strange ever weigh on you?
A: No, it's a joy, and that's why I'm still doing it. Also, I get so many great ideas and maps sent in by readers of the blog that it would be a shame to stop before I've gone through all of them.
In case you've sent one in back in 2010 and are still waiting: there's about 5,000 suggestions waiting for an answer. That does weigh on me. How much does a secretary cost?
Q: What's your personal favourite map?
A: It's like with your own children: it varies. And sometimes I hate them all. But honestly, I get asked that question a lot, and I usually have a different answer. So I guess I don't have a favourite map. I do have a few favourite mapmakers. How much I wouldn't give for a nice long talk with Heinrich Bünting, who made the Whole World in a Cloverleaf map back in the 16th century. And while I'm at it, I'm also inviting Richard Edes Harrison, whose brilliant map perspectives arrived just in time to give people a sense of the global scale of World War Two. And how about all those British generals who drew half of the world's borders? To misquote Jaws: I think we need a bigger map room.
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African American biography (1)
Personal Memoirs (1)
Buddhists -- United States -- Biography (2)
Masters, Jarvis Jay, -- 1962 (2)
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African American prisoners -- Biography (1)
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography (1)
California State Prison at San Quentin -- Biography (1)
Death row inmates -- Biography (1)
Prisoners -- California -- San Quentin -- Biography (1)
Prisoners -- United States -- Biography (1)
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1) That bird has my wings: the autobiography of an innocent man on death row
Masters, Jarvis Jay
[2009] HarperOne
xvii, 281 pages ; 24 cm
Jarvis Jay Masters has taken an extraordinary journey of faith. Strangely enough, his moment of enlightenment came behind the bars of San Quentin's death row. Here, inmate author Masters takes us from the arms of his heroin-addicted mother to an abusive foster home, on his escape to the illusory freedom of the streets and through lonely nights spent in bus stations and juvenile homes, and finally to life inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison....
2) The Buddhist on death row: how one man found light in the darkest place
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who became one of America's most respected Buddhist practitioners during his two decades in solitary confinement in San Quentin"--
Masters,...


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Manifest Injustice
Corruption within the legal system
Access to Justice Is Not Meant For All
DeKalb government
judicial corruption
Personal Disappointments
DEATH BY FUK-U-SHIMA
January 14, 2020 by nootkabear
WHY GOVERNMENTS DISARM PEOPLE
https://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/indictment-consideration-1-16-20
A LEAGUE OF EVIL – The following statistics were reported in the September 11th, 1999, issue of The Economist magazine, page 7, titled "A League of Evil."[1]
1915-1917 Ottoman Turkey banned gun possession, and then targeted Armenians (mostly Christians) and killed 1-1.5 million people.
1929-1945 Soviet Union banned gun possession, and then targeted political opponents and farming communities, killing 20 million people.
1933-1945 Nazi Germany (and occupied Europe) banned gun possession, and then targeted political opponents, Jews, Gypsies and critics killing 20 million people.
1927-1949 Nationalist China banned private ownership of guns, and then targeted political opponents, army conscripts, and others, killing 10 million people.
1949-1952; 1957-1960; 1966-1976 Red China instituted the death penalty for supplying guns to "counter-revolutionary criminals" and anyone resisting any government program, and then targeted political opponents, killing 20-35 million people.
1960-1981 Guatemala banned gun possession, and then targeted Mayans, other Indians, and political enemies, killing 100,000-200,000 people.
1971-1979 Uganda registered gun owners, instituted warrantless searches, and then targeted Christians and political enemies, killing 300,000 people.
1975-1979 Cambodia registered gun owners and then targeted educated persons and political enemies, killing 2 million people.
1994 Rwanda registered gun owners and then targeted the Tutsi people killing over 800,000.
Unarmed people have no defense against a "demonical" government. In the 20th century alone, governments killed a total of 262 million civilians. – Nobel Peace Prize finalist R.J. Rummel in an update to statistics originally presented in his Death by Government, Transaction Publishers, 1994.
Who Are the Militia
George Mason[2], "I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers." –
George Mason[3], "That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defense of a free state"
NYS Constitution Article XII Section 1: "The defense and protection of the state and of the United States is an obligation of all persons within the state. The legislature shall provide for the discharge of this obligation and for the maintenance and regulation of an organized militia."
Richard Henry Lee[4], "A militia when properly formed is in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
Richard Henry Lee[5], "No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state…such area well-regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen."
James Madison[6], "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
George Washington[7], "A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined…"
Our Founding Fathers on the Second Amendment
If the People have no experience with arms, how can they defend themselves, their neighbors and our Nation if called upon?
George Washington[1], "The Constitution [is to] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms;
George Washington[2], "That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms in defense."
John Adams[3], "A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined."
Thomas Jefferson[4], "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
Thomas Jefferson[5], "I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
Thomas Jefferson[6], "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."
Thomas Jefferson[7], "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
Thomas Jefferson[8], "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks."
Thomas Jefferson[9], "The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
Benjamin Franklin, "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
George Mason[10], "To disarm the people…[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them."
Noah Webster[11], "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops."
Patrick Henry[12], "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun."
Patrick Henry[13], "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"
St. George Tucker[14], "This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty…. The right of self-defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."
Thomas Paine[15], "The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves."
Samuel Adams[16], "And that the said Constitution be never construed to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms…"
Joseph Story[17], "The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
Alexander Hamilton[18], "If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state."
Tench Coxe[19], "As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."
Tenche Coxe[20], "The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible. Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American … the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."
John Dickinson[21], "With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves."
Roger Sherman[22], "Conceived it to be the privilege of every citizen, and one of his most essential rights, to bear arms, and to resist every attack upon his liberty or property, by whomsoever made. The particular States, like private citizens, have a right to be armed, and to defend by force of arms, their rights, when invaded."
Zachariah Johnson[23], "The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them."
[1] George Washington, Debates of the Massachusetts Convention of February 6, 1788
[2] George Washington, letter to George Mason April 5th 1769
[3] John Adams, speech to US Congress January 8, 1790
[4] Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
[5] Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787
[6] Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
[7] Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776
[8] Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
[9] Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824
[10] George Mason, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788
[11] Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787
[12] Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778
[13] Patrick Henry, Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
[14] St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1803
[15] Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775
[16] Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788
[17] Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833
[18] Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28
[19] Tench Coxe, Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789
[20] Tenche Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788
[21] John Dickinson, July 6, 1775
[22] Roger Sherman, Debates on 1790 Militia Act
[23] Zachariah Johnson, Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 25, 1788
[1] Original source: Death by "Gun Control," by Aaron Zelmen and Richard W. Stevens; Mazel Freedom Press, Inc; January 1, 2001.
[2] George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788
[3] George Mason, Virginia Declaration of Rights, June 12 1776
[4] Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788
[5] Richard Henry Lee, Gazette (Charleston), September 8 1788
[6] James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789
[7] George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790
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November 20, 2019 by nootkabear
"Once you understand what Trump is about, you'll be able to appreciate the extraordinary presidency he's conducting, like no predecessor ever came close to match."
Monday, November 18, 2019 5:23 AM
To: Undisclosed Recipients
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Trump's "Art of the Deal" – Bluffs to Succeed in International Poker
(Apparently, most people didn't read the article below in the previous email, and didn't get the realities of what he's done.)
Trump wants to stop getting the US into wars, and wants to pull out of Syria and Afghanistan, even NATO,
but the Deep State / Neocons won't let him.
So Trump Bluffs high-intensity threats to get world opinion against the threats,
then the US can't destroy the country like they did Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
N.Korea: "Rocket Man" then threats to blow it off the map, World Opinion aghast and says no, then Trump makes friends with Kim Jong Un.
Venezuela: threats to invade, World Opinion aghast and says no, then US doesn't invade because world opinion against it.
Syria: Trump says we are leaving, but Deep State/CIA/Rothschilds say NO, so he blatanly says "We're going to keep the Oil" – international opinion will force us out!
Bolivia: CIA did a coup to steal the Lithium there, but Trump can't control the CIA, so he just flows with it to not be assassinated.
Israel: Trump recognized Jerusalem as Capital, and recognized Syria's Golan Heights as theirs, then Gaza => Arab Hate against Israel festers
As stated in the article below:
"The controversial President has a much clearer agenda than anyone can imagine
on both foreign policy and internal affairs,
but since he has to stay in power or even stay alive to achieve his objectives,
his strategy is so refined and subtle that next to no one can see it.
His overall objective is so ambitious that he has to follow random elliptic courses to get from point A to point B,
using patterns that throw people off on their comprehension of the man."
[so the media labels him as crazy – like a fox!!!]
"Once you understand what Trump is about,
you'll be able to appreciate the extraordinary presidency he's conducting,
like no predecessor ever came close to match."
"he's the first and only American President to ever address humanity's worst collective flaw, its total ignorance of reality. Because medias and education are both controlled by the handful of billionaires that are running the planet, we don't know anything about our history that's been twisted dry by the winners, and we don't have a clue about our present world. As he stepped in the political arena, Donald popularized the expression «fake news» to convince the American citizens, and the world population as well, that medias always lie to you. The expression has now become commonplace, but do you realize how deeply shocking is the fact that nearly everything you think you know is totally fake?"
"Media lies don't just cover history and politics, but they have shaped your false perception on topics like economy, food, climate, health, on everything. What if I told you that we know exactly who shot JFK from the grassy knoll, that the foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor was proven in court, that the CO2 greenhouse effect is scientifically absurd, that our money is created through loans by banks who don't even have the funds, or that science proves with a 100% certainty that 911 was an inside job? Ever heard of a mainstream journalist, PBS documentary or university teacher telling you about any of this? 44 Presidents came and went without even raising one word about this huge problem, before the 45th came along. Trump knows that freeing the people out of this unfathomable ignorance is the first step to overall freedom, so he started calling mainstream journalists and their news outlets for what they are: pathological liars."
"Let's make one thing clear: to the establishment, Trump isn't mentally challenged, but he's definitely seen as a possible nemesis of their world. Ever since he moved in the White House, Trump has been depicted as a narcissist, a racist, a sexist and a climate-skeptic, loaded with shady past stories and mental issues. Even though an approximate 60% of the American people don't trust medias anymore, many have bought the story that Trump might be slightly crazy or unfit to rule, and the statistic climbs even higher when you get out of the USA. Of course, Donald isn't doing anything special to change the deeply negative perception that so many journalists and people alike have about him. He's openly outrageous and provocative on Twitter, he sounds impulsive and dumb most of the time, acts irrationally, lies on a daily basis, and throws out sanctions and threats as if they were candy canes out of an elf's side bag in a mall in December. Right away, we can destroy one persistent media myth: the image Trump is projecting is self-destructive and it's the exact opposite of how pathological narcissists act, since they thrive to be loved and admired by everyone. Donald simply doesn't care if you like him or not, which makes him the ultimate anti-narcissist, by its psychological definition. And that's not even up for opinion, it's a quite simple and undeniable fact."
My input:
(By Jim)
Trump is a businessman that wants to make America Great Again, and he doesn't care to work on PR about himself.
Trump has to pick his battles, and I hate that he has caved to the Pharmaceuticals about Vaccines,
and is allowing 5G to grow, and is allowing big Corporations to encroach on our health and freedom.
But, as I see it, he is doing more to make America Great Again than any previous President, even Reagan,
but he has to be selective, or he will go the way of JFK, or get shot like Reagan, or things will happen to his kids.
I look at what he IS DOING INTERNATIONALLY, and hope he can correct some other things later.
If you don't believe me, look at what they did to Democrat Tulsi Gabbard after she said we need to stop the Wars.
Trump has to allow himself to be a puppet of the Deep State/Neocons in general, to avoid assassination,
but when he rouses international opposition in the direction he wants, he gets what he really wants = out of the wars.
——– Forwarded Original Message ——–
Subject: Trump plans to enlighten and free the US from Deep State
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 19:58:58 -0800
From: Jim
Trump plans to enlighten and free the US from Deep State
(As I said, Trump didn't fake the oil-plunder in Syria. He didn't fake that it was to "make the world safe for Democracy".
Instead, he said "we will keep the oil", to make the world mad at our blatant theft of Syria's oil.
Trump has tried to get us out of Syria, but the Neocons won't let him, so he broadcasts the theft instead of covering it up.)
Trump's "Art of the Deal" is to keep from getting Assassinated, yet inform the People of "Fake News" and try to stop Imperialism, etc.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/everything-you-need-know-about-trump-were-afraid-admit-you-wondered
His general plan exhales from one of his favorite mottos: «We will give power back to the people», because the United States and its imperialist web woven over the world have been in the hands of a few globalist bankers, military industrials and multinationals for more than a century. To achieve his plan, he has to end wars abroad, bring back the kids, dismantle NATO and CIA, get control over the Federal Reserve, cut every link with foreign allies, abolish the Swift financial system, demolish the propaganda power of the medias, drain the swamp of the deep state that's running the spying agencies and disable the shadow government that's lurking in the Council on foreign relations and Trilateral Commission's offices. In short, he has to destroy the New World Order and its globalist ideology. The task is huge and dangerous to say the least. Thankfully, he's not alone.
The timing is right for everyone to understand what Donald Trump is doing, and try to decrypt the ambiguity of how he is is doing it. The controversial President has a much clearer agenda than anyone can imagine on both foreign policy and internal affairs, but since he has to stay in power or even stay alive to achieve his objectives, his strategy is so refined and subtle that next to no one can see it. His overall objective is so ambitious that he has to follow random elliptic courses to get from point A to point B, using patterns that throw people off on their comprehension of the man. That includes most independent journalists and so-called alternative analysts, as much as Western mainstream fake-news publishers and a large majority of the population.
To start off, let's clear the one aspect of his mission that is straightforward and terribly direct: he's the first and only American President to ever address humanity's worst collective flaw, its total ignorance of reality. Because medias and education are both controlled by the handful of billionaires that are running the planet, we don't know anything about our history that's been twisted dry by the winners, and we don't have a clue about our present world. As he stepped in the political arena, Donald popularized the expression «fake news» to convince the American citizens, and the world population as well, that medias always lie to you. The expression has now become commonplace, but do you realize how deeply shocking is the fact that nearly everything you think you know is totally fake?
He's openly outrageous and provocative on Twitter, he sounds impulsive and dumb most of the time, acts irrationally, lies on a daily basis, and throws out sanctions and threats as if they were candy canes out of an elf's side bag in a mall in December. Right away, we can destroy one persistent media myth: the image Trump is projecting is self-destructive and it's the exact opposite of how pathological narcissists act, since they thrive to be loved and admired by everyone. Donald simply doesn't care if you like him or not, which makes him the ultimate anti-narcissist, by its psychological definition. And that's not even up for opinion, it's a quite simple and undeniable fact.
Mighty Russia
Since Peter the Great, the whole history of Russia is a permanent demonstration of its will to maintain its political and economical independence from international banks and imperialism, pushing this great nation to help many smaller countries fighting to keep their own independence. Twice Russia helped the United States against the British/Rothschild Empire; first by openly supporting them in the Independence War, and again in the Civil War, when Rothschild's were funding the Confederates to politically break down the nation to bring it back in the British colonial Empire's coop. Russia also destroyed Napoleon and the Nazis, whom were both funded by international banks as tools to crush economically independent nations. Independence is in their DNA. After almost a decade of Western oligarchy taking over Russia's economy after the fall of USSR in 1991, Putin took power and drained the Russian swamp. Since then, each and every move that he has made aims to destroy the American Empire, or the entity that replaced the British Empire in 1944, which is the non-conspiracy theory name of the New World Order. The new empire is basically the same central banking scheme, with just a slightly different set of owners that switched the British army for NATO, as their world Gestapo.
Until Trump came along, Putin was single handedly fighting the New World Order who's century-old obsession is the control of the world oil market, since oil is the blood running through the veins of the world economy. Oil is a thousand times more valuable than gold. Cargo ships, airplanes and armies don't run on batteries. Therefore, to counter the globalists, Putin developed the best offensive and defensive missile systems, with the result that Russia can now protect every independent oil producer such as Syria, Venezuela and Iran. Central bankers and the US shadow government are still hanging on to their dying plan, because without a victory in Syria, there's no enlarging Israel, thus ending the century-old fantasy of uniting the Middle East oil production in the hands of the New World Order. Ask Lord Balfour if you have any doubt. That's the real stake of the Syrian war, it's nothing short of do or die.
A century of lies
Now, because a shadow government is giving direct orders to the CIA and NATO in the name of banks and industries, Trump has no control over the military. The deep state is a rosary of permanent officials ruling Washington and the Pentagon, that only respond to their orders. If you still believe that the «Commander in chief» is in charge, explain why every time Trump ordered to pull out of Syria and Afghanistan, more troops came in? As I'm writing this text, US and NATO troops pulled out of the Kurdish zones, went to Iraq, and came back with heavier equipment around the oil reserves of Syria. Donald has a lot more of swamp draining to do before the Pentagon actually listens to anything he says. Trump should be outraged and denunciate out loud that the military command doesn't bother about what he thinks, but this would ignite an unimaginable chaos, and perhaps even a civil war in the US, if the citizens who own roughly 393 million weapons in their homes were to learn that private interests are in charge of the military. It would also lead to a very simple but dramatic question: «What is exactly the purpose of democracy?» These weapons are the titanium fences guarding the population from a totalitarian Big Brother.
One has to realize how much trouble the US army and spying agencies have been going through in creating false-flag operations for more than a century, so that their interventions always looked righteous, in the name of democracy promotion, human rights and justice around the planet. They blew up the Maine ship in 1898 to enter the Hispanic-American war, then the Lusitania in 1915 to enter WW1. They pushed Japan to attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, knew about the attack 10 days in advance and said nothing to the Hawaiian base. They made up a North Vietnamese torpedo aggression on their ships in the Tonkin Bay to justify sending boots on the Vietnamese ground. They made up a story of Iraqi soldiers destroying nurseries to invade Kuwait in 1991. They invented mass destruction weapons to attack Iraq again in 2003, and organized 911 to shred the 1789 Constitution, attack Afghanistan and launch a War on terror. This totally fake mask of virtue has to be preserved for controlling the opinion of the American citizens and their domestic arsenal, who have to believe that they wear the white cowboy hats of democracy.
So how did Trump react when he learned that American troops were re-entering Syria? He repeated again and again in every interview and declaration that «we have secured the oil fields of Syria», and even added «I'm thinking about sending Exxon in the region to take care of the Syrian oil». Neocons, Zionists and banks were thrilled, but everyone else is outraged, because the vast majority doesn't understand that Trump is swallowing this pill solely for its after-effects. On this single bottle is written in fine print that «the use of this drug might force American-NATO troops out of Syria under the pressure of the united world community and flabbergasted American population.» Trump made the situation unsustainable for NATO to stay in Syria, and how he's been repeating this deeply shocking, politically incorrect position clearly shows his real intention. He destroyed over a century of fake virtue in a single sentence.
Trump is a historical anomaly
Trump is only the fourth president in US history to actually fight for the people, unlike all 41 others, who mainly channeled the people's money in a pipeline of dollars that ends up in private banks. First there was Andrew Jackson who was shot after he destroyed the Second National Bank that he openly accused of being controlled by the Rothschild and The City in London. Then there was Abraham Lincoln, who was murdered after printing his «greenbacks», national money that the state issued to pay the soldiers because Lincoln had refused to borrow money from Rothschild at 24% interest. Then there was JFK, who was killed for a dozen reasons that mostly went against the banks and military industries profits, and now is Donald Trump, who shouted that he would «Give America back to the people».
Like most businessmen, Trump hates banks, for the formidable power that they have over the economy. Just take a peek at Henry Ford's only book, «The International Jew» to find out how deep was his distrust and hatred of international banks. Trump's businesses have suffered a lot because of these institutions that basically sell you an umbrella, only to take it back as soon as it rains. Private banking's control over money creation and interest rates, through every Central Bank of almost every country is a permanent power over nations, far above the ephemeral cycle of politicians. By the year 2000, these nation looters were only a few steps away from their planetary totalitarian dream, but a couple of details stood still: Vladimir Putin and 393 million American weapons. Then came along orange-faced Donald, the last piece in the puzzle that we the people, needed to terminate 250 years of the banking empire.
Techniques and tactics
Early in his mandate, Trump naively tried the direct approach, by surrounding himself with establishment rebels like Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon, then by annoying each and everyone of his foreign allies, shredding their free-trade treaties, imposing taxes on imports and insulting them in their face in the G7 meetings of 2017 and 2018. The reaction was strong and everyone doubled-down on the Russiagate absurdity, as it looked like the only option to stop the man on his path of globalism destruction. Predictably, the direct approach went nowhere; Flynn and Bannon had to go, and Trump was entangled in a handful of inquiries that made him realize that he wouldn't get anything accomplished with transparency. He had to find a way to annihilate the most dangerous people on the planet, but at the same time, stay in power and alive. He had to smarten up.
That's when his genius exploded on the world. He completely changed his strategy and approach, and started taking absurd decisions and tweeting outrageous declarations. As threatening and dangerous as some of these first looked, Trump didn't use them for their first degree meaning, but was aiming at the genuine second degree effects that his moves would have. And he didn't care about what people thought of him as he did, for only results count in the end. He would even play buffoon over Twitter, look naive, lunatic or downright idiotic, perhaps in the hope to impregnate the belief that he didn't know what he's doing, and that he couldn't be that dangerous. He's willfully being politically incorrect to show the ugly face that the United States are hiding behind their mask.
The first test on his new approach was to try to stop the growing danger of an attack and invasion of North Korea by NATO. Trump insulted Kim Jung-Un through Twitter, called him Rocket Man, and threatened to nuke North Korea to the ground. His raging political incorrectness went on for weeks until it sank in everyone's minds that those were not good reasons to attack a country. He paralyzed NATO. Trump then met Rocket Man, and they walked in the park with the start of a beautiful friendship, laughing together, while accomplishing absolutely nothing in their negotiations, since they have nothing to negotiate about. Many were talking about the Nobel price for peace, because many don't know that it's usually handed to whitewash war criminals like Obama or Kissinger.
Then came Venezuela. Trump pushed his tactic a step further, to make sure that no one could support an attack on the free country. He put the worst neo-cons available on the case: Elliott Abrams, formerly convicted of conspiracy in the Iran-Contras deal in the '80s and John Bolton, famous first-degree warmonger. Trump then confirmed Juan Guaido as his choice for president of Venezuela; an empty puppet so dumb that he can't even see how much he's being used. Again, Trump threatened to burn the country to rubbles, while the world community watched in awe the total lack of subtlety and diplomacy in Trump's behavior, with the result that Brazil and Colombia backed away and said they wanted nothing to do with an attack on Venezuela. Trump's medicine left only 40 satellite countries worldwide, with Presidents and Prime Ministers brain dead enough to shyly support Guaido the Jester. Donald checked the box beside Venezuela on his list and kept scrolling down.
Then came the two gifts to Israel: Jerusalem as a capital, and the Syrian Golan Heights as its confirmed possession. Netanyahu whom isn't the sharpest pencil in the box jumped of joy, and everyone yelled that Trump was a Zionist. The real after-effect result was that the whole of the Middle East united against Israel, which no one can support anymore. Even their historical accomplice Saudi Arabia had to openly disapprove this huge slap in the face of Islam. The two Trump gifts were in fact back stabs in the Israel state, whose future doesn't look too bright nowadays, since NATO will have to move out of the region. Check again.
As reality sinks in
But there's more! With his lack of control over NATO and the army, Trump is very limited in his actions. At first glance, the outstanding multiplication of economical sanctions on countries like Russia, Turkey, China, Iran, Venezuela and other nations look tough and merciless, but the reality of these sanctions pushed those countries out of the Swift financial system designed to keep enslaving nations through the dollar hegemony, and they're all slipping away from the international banks' grip. It forced Russia, China and India to create an alternative system of trade payments based on national currencies, instead of the almighty dollar. The bipolar reality of the world is now official, and with his upcoming next sanctions, Trump will push more countries out of the Swift system to join the other side, while important banks are starting to fall in Europe.
Even in the political hurricane Trump is in, he still finds time to display his almost childish arrogant humor. Look at his grandiose mockery of Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama, as he sat down with the most straight-faced generals he could find, to take a picture in a so-called «situation room» as they faked the monitoring of the death of Baghdadi somewhere he couldn't be, exactly like his criminal predecessors did a long time ago with the fake Bin Laden killing. He even pushed the farce to adding the details of a dog recognizing Daesch's fake caliph by sniffing his underwear. Now that you understand what Trump is really about, you will also be able to appreciate the show, in all of its splendor and true meaning.
«We have secured the oil fields of Syria». Indeed, with this short sentence, Trump joined his voice to that of General Smedley Butler who rocked the world 80 years ago with a tiny book called «War is a racket». Looting and stealing oil is definitely not as virtuous as promoting democracy and justice. What amazes me is those numerous «alternative» journalists and analysts, who know on the tip of their fingers every technical problem about 911, or scientific reality on the absurd global warming story, but still don't have a clue about what Trump is doing, 3 years in his mandate, because they bought the mainstream media that convinced everyone that Trump is mentally challenged.
or those who still entertain doubts about Trump's agenda, do you really believe that the obvious implosion of American Imperialism over the planet is a coincidence? Do you still believe that its because of the Russian influence on the 2016 election that the CIA, the FBI, every media, the American Congress, the Federal Reserve, the Democratic party and the warmongering half of the Republicans are working against him and are even trying to impeach him? Like most stuff that comes out of medias, reality is the exact opposite of what you're being told: Trump might be the most dedicated man to ever set foot in the Oval office. And certainly the most ambitious and politically incorrect.
The world will change drastically between 2020 and 2024. Trump's second and last mandate coincides with Putin's last mandate as President of Russia. There may never be another coincidence like this for a long time, and both know that it's now or perhaps never. Together, they have to end NATO, Swift, and the European Union should crumble. Terrorism and anthropogenic global warming will jump in the vortex and disappear with their creators. Trump will have to drain the swamp in the CIA and Pentagon, and he has to nationalize the Federal Reserve. Along with Xi and Modi, they could put a final end to private banking in public affairs, by refusing to pay a single penny of their debts, and reset the world economy by shifting to national currencies produced by governments, as private banks will fall like dominos, with no more Obama-like servant to bail them out at your expense. Once this is done, unbearable peace and prosperity could roam the planet, as our taxes pay for the development of our countries instead of buying useless military gear and paying interests on loans by bankers who didn't even have the money in the first place.
If you still don't understand Donald Trump after reading the above, you're hopeless. Or you're might be Trudeau, Macron, Guaido, or any other useful idiot, unaware that the carpet under your feet has already slipped away.
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April 17, 2019 by nootkabear
Parents Fighting For Kids After Police Team Forcibly Snatches Them Over Fever The victims are warning all parents that the state has the power to take your children at any time, and then place them with strangers, force the parents to perform all sorts of tasks, and fight a corrupted system of 'protection' to get their children back.
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PUBLISHED: 2:00 PM 28 Mar 2019
UPDATED: 6:47 PM 28 Mar 2019
Parents Fighting For Kids After Police Team Forcibly Snatches Them Over Fever
The victims are warning all parents that the state has the power to take your children at any time, and then place them with strangers, force the parents to perform all sorts of tasks, and fight a corrupted system of 'protection' to get their children back.
by Georgette
A loving home has been destroyed because of one meddling doctor and offended DCS do-gooders.
A dramatic video shows Arizona police officers, with guns drawn, break down the door of a family home—not a suspected drug or child trafficker or a woman pepper spraying her foster kids—and snatch three children from the parents.
One of the 2-year-old boys had a high fever, and the parents took him to the doctor.
When the doctor found out the boy had not been vaccinated, he ordered the mother to take the child to the hospital. However, when she got home, the boy's fever dropped.
She told the doctor that she decided not to go to the hospital since the child was playing and had no fever, but the doctor contacted the Department of Child Safety (DCS). DCS called the police and made the check on the boy.
When the police got to the home late that evening, the father refused to allow an invasive search.
So, police got a warrant, spurred on by DCS do-gooders, come back to the house at 2:00 a.m., and broke down the door.
They then took all three children into custody and placed them with various strangers approved by the system.
Fox News reported:
State Rep. Kelly Townsend criticized the raid as excessive.
"At that point who now owns control over the child?" Townsend said. "And it seems like we've given that now to the doctor and the parent no longer has the say or they risk the SWAT team taking all of your children and potentially the newborn."
Chandler Police said the officers who raided the home were regular officers and not a SWAT team.
Nicholas Boca, the family's attorney, said that type of force should be "reserved for violent criminals."
"All because of a fever," Boca said. "It's absolutely ridiculous."
"It was not the intent (of the law) that the level of force after obtaining a warrant was to bring in a SWAT team," Townsend said.
"The imagery is horrifying. What has our country become that we can tear down the doorway of a family who has a child with a high fever that disagrees with their doctor?"
"What about parents' rights to decide what's best for their child?" Townsend said. "Parents felt the child was fine. Next thing we know, the Gestapo is at their door."
Now, the parents are fighting to get their children back and warning others:
Arizona Central reported:
A DCS caseworker called Chandler Police and "requested officers to check the welfare of a two year old infant," according to police records. A caseworker said he was on his way to the house.
It was about 10:30 p.m. when two police officers knocked on the family's door. The officers heard someone coughing.
Officer Tyler Cascio wrote in a police report that he knocked on the door several times but no one answered.
A neighbor approached the officers and police explained the situation. The woman said she knew her neighbor and that "she was a good mother." At the request of officers, the neighbor called the mother and said police wanted to speak with her.
The DCS caseworker arrived and updated police on the toddler's fever and the mother choosing not to take her child to the hospital. The officer called the family's doctor, who repeated her recommendation that the mother take the child to the hospital.
Police dispatch told the officers that a man at the home had called requesting that they call him. They called, and the man identified himself as the sick boy's father.
The officer said they told the father they needed to enter the home for DCS to check on the child. The father refused, explaining that his son's "fever broke and he was fine," according to police records.
Officers tried to call the parents again, but no one answered. They told the caseworker the parents refused to open their door.
At about 11:30 p.m., the caseworker informed officers that DCS planned to obtain a "temporary custody notice" from a judge to remove the child for emergency medical aid.
The caseworker "advised they obtained a court order for temporary custody in order to take (redacted) to the hospital." The order was signed at 12:04 a.m. by Judge Tracy Nadzieja, according to police records.
Cascio wrote that officers consulted with the police criminal investigations bureau and SWAT.
"Based upon the court order, the intent of DCS to serve the order, and exigency to ensure the health and welfare of the child, the decision was made to force entry to the home if the parents refused to respond to verbal requests," according to police records. Police knocked, saying they had a court order and would force entry if needed, according to police records.
The Republic has requested the police-worn body-camera footage.
It was after 1 a.m. when officers kicked down the family's door. One officer carried a shield, while another was described as having "lethal coverage." Officers pointing guns yelled, "Chandler Police Department," and entered the house.
The father came to the door. Officers placed him in handcuffs and took him and the mother outside. Inside, they found a juvenile who said she was sick and had thrown up in her bed.
Officers said the home was "messy" with clothing piles and concrete floors. In the parent's room, a shotgun lay next to the bed, according to police records.
The caseworker spoke with two of the children without their parents present. He told officers it was "necessary to obtain a temporary custody order" for the parents' two other children, according to police records.
Since there was no "criminal incident" and because the mother refused, no photos were taken inside the home, according to the police records.
Neither of the parents was arrested.
Officials took the parents' three children to Banner Cardon Medical Center.
a Mesa juvenile court hearing 10 days later, the parents got their first chance before a judge to fight for their children to be returned.
Each parent had an attorney. The parents had raised a family together but weren't legally married.
The father's parents sat on a bench next to a friend of the mother. Ford and Christina Lawler, with Arizona DCS Oversight Group, sat quietly listening and taking notes. Townsend, the state lawmaker, sat near the grandparents. She wanted to see whether the family's rights had been violated.
A lawyer for the state Attorney General's Office, representing DCS, asked the judge to close the hearing to the public.
In Arizona, we like our courts to be open, Judge Jennifer Green said. After listening to the lawyer's reasoning — the attorney said members of the news media were in the courtroom and the family had spoken with the news media about the case, which he said wasn't in the best interest of the children.
Attorneys for the parents said they hadn't known of any restrictions on them speaking with media.
Green denied the request to close the hearing, but warned everyone that they could be held in contempt of court if they revealed personally-identifiable information about the children or any others mentioned in the hearing.
Attorneys for the parents said the children hadn't seen each other since being taken from their parents' home. The parents had only had one visit with their older children. DCS officials told the parents the toddler couldn't make that visit because he was at a medical appointment.
The state's attorney argued that the children shouldn't be returned to their parents yet because they'd been hostile to DCS workers and weren't cooperating. He said the parents had attended a DCS visit with members of Arizona DCS Oversight Group who were combative toward DCS workers. He said the grandfather had tried to videotape a meeting with DCS, and recording is not allowed to protect the privacy of the children.
DCS wanted the parents to undergo psychological evaluations.
Attorneys for the parents argued such evaluations were for people who had a history of mental-health issues, which neither parent had. They said the parents weren't hostile, but they were living a nightmare that started with a child's fever. They were woken up in the middle of the night, police busted down their door, brandishing guns and their three children were taken from them, attorneys said. The grandfather did what most people would think they had the right to do — record government officials.
The father had agreed to drug testing and the grandparents had agreed to background checks in hopes of becoming temporary caretakers for their grandchildren. Everyone was cooperating, the father's attorney said.
A court-appointed guardian ad litem, who's assigned to look after the best interests of the children, said he had one primary concern: Each child was still in a separate foster-care placement. Not only were the children separated from their parents, but this was also the first time they'd been separated from each other.
The judge asked the parties to attend an expedited hearing that afternoon.
After the hearing, in the courthouse hallway, the father held the mother in his arms. She cried and rested her hand on her pregnant belly.
Townsend spoke with the father about the road to getting his kids back.
"Why do they make it so hard?" he said with tears in his eyes. She tried to comfort him.
Outside the courthouse, Townsend said she didn't know the parents personally but was disturbed by the case.
"It was brought to my attention that these parents may have been targeted by the medical community because they hadn't vaccinated their children," she said.
Townsend said parents who don't vaccinate their children because of medical concerns aren't criminals and shouldn't be treated as such. She worried physicians were using it as a reason to refer parents to DCS.
"I think if DCS decides to use this as a factor they would be violating a parent's right to have a personal exemption, a religious exemption and perhaps a medical exemption," she said.
Townsend said the hearing opened her eyes to issues she will raise with fellow lawmakers. She questioned why the state's attorney and DCS used the parent's frustration with DCS to label the family as hostile and argue they weren't cooperating with DCS.
"It doesn't say anywhere that after your kids are taken, after police bust down your door, that you have to be nice to DCS to get your kids back," she said.
It was just before 2 p.m. when the parents walked back into the courtroom.
A DCS investigator, a former police officer, took the stand. She said upon visiting the hospital, doctors found the toddler had RSV, a respiratory virus that can cause serious illness in young children. She said the parents weren't complying with DCS' request to provide medical records for the children. She said they also weren't following steps to regain custody of their children.
One of the parent's attorneys asked the DCS investigator to outline specific steps the parents must follow to get their children back. The caseworker said she couldn't remember any of them.
Attorneys for the parents claimed DCS was angry at the parents for speaking with the media and as retribution DCS officials were making it more difficult for the family to regain custody of their children. They said the child's fever had gone down, as evidenced in medical reports.
The judge asked what was delaying placing three children with their grandparents. The state's attorney said the grandparents still needed a home-safety check.
Green asked if that check could be expedited. The state's attorney said DCS contracts with a company to conduct safety reviews and has no control over timelines but that it could take up to 30 days.
The guardian ad litem, representing the best interest of the children, told the judge he didn't see why the children couldn't be cared for by their grandparents while their parents worked with DCS to regain custody.
The judge said the removal was warranted, citing the mother's refusal to follow the doctor's orders. She said records showed the family had a history of domestic violence, noting an incident in which the father punched a wall.
She approved psychological evaluations for both parents, saying it would help identify the best services for the parents. She ordered DCS to complete a safety check of the grandparents' home within four days. And she ordered the father to continue drug and alcohol testing.
She reminded the grandparents and parents that they were no longer in control of the children's medical and health decisions. If a doctor orders treatment, the family must follow those directions, she said.
Then, she told the parents to remember that the state had them on a family-reunification plan and wants them to regain custody of their children.
After they left the courtroom, father and mother, both in tears, embraced.
The parents declined an interview with The Republic. They said they were afraid saying anything might upset DCS officials and hurt their efforts to regain custody of their children.
ord, with the DCS watchdog group, said this is how it goes.
"They (DCS) had no right to bust into this family's home and take their kids," she said in the courthouse parking lot. "But now, they (DCS) have control of this family. These children are traumatized, and all over a fever that wasn't even a fever anymore when they went the hospital—just like the parents had said."
She was upset with Townsend and other Arizona lawmakers who talk about holding DCS accountable but never do. Meanwhile, children and their families suffer, she said.
"They hold the purse strings, if they wanted to force DCS to make changes that would protect family's rights they'd stop funding them," she said.
Townsend hopes this case is an outlier, but the only way to know for sure is to review DCS child-welfare check policies, medical providers' power over families and the DCS warrant process for removing children.
This case is more than enough reason to be concerned, she said.
"The fact that they got the warrant shows it wasn't a matter of exigency by definition — it wasn't something that they were rescuing this child from imminent death," she said. "The expectation of child welfare is we're thinking about the children in the family. We're not talking cartels holding someone who's been kidnapped, we're not talking about a drug bust, we're not talking about a flight risk. We're not talking about any of that. This was a family with a child who has a fever. … We used a SWAT team on a family with a child with a high fever."
On March 15, the father told The Republic that DCS had placed their three children with his parents.
"We get to see them again," he said. "Thank God."
He still can't shake the night police kicked down their door and entered his home with guns drawn. He still can't believe they took all three of their children.
He said he has asked DCS why the caseworker never presented himself and showed a warrant for removal, but he hasn't received a clear answer.
"I know people have the right not to let the police into their home," he said. "But if the caseworker had called me or knocked, and shown me their warrant, I would've let them in."
He said home security video showed police had stated they had a DCS warrant for removal, but the family didn't hear them because they were sleeping in the back bedrooms with their sick children.
The judge's approval of DCS' request for psychological evaluations has created another barrier to regaining custody of their children, he said. The wait for an evaluation is months, he said.
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February 3, 2019 by nootkabear
Dekalb PD seek help in locating suspect in the alleged murder of his mother
One of my people was represented by this guy, and he stole $45,000.00 of her settlement. She and some other victims testified in Court a couple weeks ago. He was sentenced to 30 years, with 15 to serve. He was supposed to turn himself in 02/01/2019. He did not show up.
02/02/2019 Sharon Swanepoel Top News
http://news.monroelocal.org/dekalb-pd-seek-help-in-locating-suspect-in-the-alleged-murder-of-his-mother/
Tucker, Ga. – Dekalb County Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a suspect in the alleged murder of his mother. According to DCPD, at 9:30 a.m. this morning, Feb. 2, 2019, police responded to a home on Planters Row in Stone Mountain in reference to a dead person call. The victim, Shirley Merritt, was found stabbed to death inside her residence. Police believe this is an isolated domestic-related incident.
Richard Merritt, 44. Photo courtesy of Dekalb County Police Department
The victim's son, Richard Merritt, 44, has been identified as the suspect. He is described as a white male, 5'10", 175 lbs, brown eyes and brown hair. There is an active murder warrant for his arrest. He is possibly in possession of the victim's 2009 Lexus RX350, Brown Color, GA Tag CBV6004.
DeKalb Police are asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of Richard Merritt to please contact the DeKalb County Police Department at 770-724-7850 or Crime Stoppers at 404-577-TIPS(8477).
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July 4, 2018 by nootkabear
Pay Attention! Look at the money trail AFTER the foreclosure sale, by Neil Garfield
Pay Attention! Look at the money trail AFTER the foreclosure sale
Posted on July 3, 2018 by Neil Garfield
https://livinglies.wordpress.com/2018/07/03/pay-attention-look-at-the-money-trail-after-the-foreclosure-sale/
My confidence has never been higher that the handling of money after a foreclosure sale will reveal the fraudulent nature of most "foreclosures" initiated not on behalf of the owner of the debt but in spite of the the owner(s) of the debt.
It has long been obvious to me that the money trail is separated from the paper trail practically "at birth" (origination). It is an obvious fact that the owner of the debt is always someone different than the party seeking foreclosure, the alleged servicer of the debt, the alleged trust, and the alleged trustee for a nonexistent trust. When you peek beneath the hood of this scam, you can see it for yourself.
Real case in point: BONY appears as purported trustee of a purported trust. Who did that? The lawyers, not BONY. The foreclosure is allowed and the foreclosure sale takes place. The winning "bid" for the property is $230k.
Here is where it gets real interesting. The check is sent to BONY who supposedly is acting on behalf of the trust, right. Wrong. BONY is acting on behalf of Chase and Bayview loan servicing. How do we know? Because physical possession of the check made payable to BONY was forwarded to Chase, Bayview or both of them. How do we know that? Because Chase and Bayview both endorsed the check made out to BONY depositing the check for credit in a bank account probably at Chase in the name of Bayview.
OK so we have the check made out to BONY and TWO endorsements — one by Chase and one by Bayview supposedly — and then an account number that might be a Chase account and might be a Bayview account — or, it might be some other account altogether. So the question who actually received the $230k in an account controlled by them and then, what did they do with it. I suspect that even after the check was deposited "somewhere" that money was forwarded to still other entities or even people.
The bid was $230k and the check was made payable to BONY. But the fact that it wasn't deposited into any BONY account much less a BONY trust account corroborates what I have been saying for 12 years — that there is no bank account for the trust and the trust does not exist. If the trust existed the handling of the money would look very different OR the participants would be going to jail.
And that means NOW you have evidence that this is the case since BONY obviously refused to do anything with the check, financially, and instead just forwarded it to either Chase or Bayview or perhaps both, using copies and processing through Check 21.
What does this mean? It means that the use of the BONY name was a sham, since the trust didn't exist, no trust account existed, no assets had ever been entrusted to BONY as trustee and when they received the check they forwarded it to the parties who were pulling the strings even if they too were neither servicers nor owners of the debt.
Even if the trust did exist and there really was a trust officer and there really was a bank account in the name of the trust, BONY failed to treat it as a trust asset.
So either BONY was directly committing breach of fiduciary duty and theft against the alleged trust and the alleged trust beneficiaries OR BONY was complying with the terms of their contract with Chase to rent the BONY name to facilitate the illusion of a trust and to have their name used in foreclosures (as long as they were protected by indemnification by Chase who would pay for any sanctions or judgments against BONY if the case went sideways for them).
That means the foreclosure judgment and sale should be vacated. A nonexistent party cannot receive a remedy, judicially or non-judicially. The assertions made on behalf of the named foreclosing party (the trust represented by BONY "As trustee") were patently false — unless these entities come up with more fabricated paperwork showing a last minute transfer "from the trust" to Chase, Bayview or both.
The foreclosure is ripe for attack.
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June 6, 2018 by nootkabear
FORECLOSURE HELL
I had been doing so much better about keeping up with my blogs, until about this last week. I had not gotten back to posting as much as I had in the past, but was doing much better.
I have to admit though, every month, beginning the week before foreclosure hell (the day they auction the homes foreclosed upon), have been particularly hellish.
I guess for a while, no one I know was being foreclosed upon. But beginning last month, my friends began being sold at auction again. It had been a whole year until just these last couple of months. Then all of the sudden, properties that the banks had lost interest in, out of the blue, and with little or no warning, were sold at auction.
We all managed to stop two of the sales, those two were cancelled, but last month, one was lost to foreclosure, and it took a lot of work to get cancelled, the two that were cancelled.
So, even though there may not be the number of foreclosures every month that there had been for a long time, looks like the banks have managed to get lined up, these companies, that will purchase damn near any house at auction. These companies that want to turn around and rent you your house they just purchased at foreclosure.
I told everyone, back in 2008-2009 when Goldman Sachs' sorry ass said that "only the rich should own houses, everyone else should be renters", that this is what could be expected. Yes, it took another 8 years for it to happen to this scale, but it is here, and it won't be going away, till they get every one of our homes.
I have watched foreclosure sales every month since around 2006, and all the properties that were fought for, and the banks, just kind of fizzled away without a lot of fuss, homes that they realized would be close to impossible to get the foreclosed upon owner to leave, now that they can work it out to where these rent home companies, are the ones that has to get rid of the previous owners of the properties.
The banks see this as minor housekeeping, which they don't mind at all.
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September 1, 2017 by nootkabear
Comey 'Rigged' Hillary Clinton FBI Investigation, No Shit?
Donald Trump: James Comey 'Rigged'
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/09/01/donald-trump-james-comey-rigged-hillary-clinton-fbi-investigation/
by Charlie Spiering1 Sep 20175,084
President Donald Trump reacted to reports that former FBI Director James Comey already started drafting a statement clearing Hillary Clinton two months before she was interviewed by the FBI.
"Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over…and so much more," Trump wrote on Twitter. "A rigged system!"
In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Republican senators revealed transcripts of an Office of Special Council interview with Comey's Chief of Staff and other FBI officials.
"Conclusion first, fact-gathering second — that's no way to run an investigation," the letter from Senator Chuck Grassley and Senator Lindsey Graham read. "The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy."
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders also commented on the story in Thursday's press briefing.
"If it is as accurate as they say it is, that would certainly give cause and reason that Jim Comey was not the right person to lead the FBI," she said.
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Wenger Rules Out Re-Signing Gnabry
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Arsene Wenger has ruled out re-signing Serge Gnabry after speculation the youngster could be set to make a shock return to north London.
Gnabry left the Gunners for Werder Bremen in the summer and has impressed in the Bundesliga, he is the club's top scorer with seven goals this season.
Recent reports in Germany have claimed that Bayern Munich have an option to sign Gnabry and that he has a €10 million release in his current deal.
The speculation has led Bremen's Frank Baumann to insist the club would talk to Gnabry about his future.
"We will sit down with Serge Gnabry any time soon and talk about the future," he said via ESPN. "It's important for us that we most of all convince him with sporting arguments."
Later reports suggested Arsenal could then make a move to re-sign the Germany international, with Wenger having previously admitted he did not want him to leave.
However, when asked about the rumours in Thursday's pre-match press conference, Wenger denied the club were set to make a move for Gnabry.
"No, we have sold him to Bremen. At the time it looked like Bayern were behind it but I don't know. We don't want to re-sign him," he said.
Wenger's words are bound to disappoint some fans who have watched the youngster shine for Bremen, despite the side enduring a tough season, they are just three points off the drop zone.
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It's no secret that David Arnold is a good friend of mine, and that we occasionally read for one another, but trust me when I say that even if I'd never met him, I'd still be a fervent fan. There's just something about the way his characters see the world — hope and wonder tempered with dry, razor-sharp wit — that is simultaneously endlessly fun to read while being deeply moving. I'm not typically the speediest reader, but with David's stories…well, let's just say that if they were cookies, I might as well be a hairy blue monster with giant googly eyes and an insatiable sweet tooth. And after David's phenomenal debut Mosquitoland, I know I wasn't the only one waiting with bated breath for his sophomore novel, Kids of Appetite.
Also, to pull back the curtain just a tad, I'd like to draw attention to this video David made about the four individuals with Moebius Syndrome who helped him bring Vic to life. As I've heard him say many times, they did more than just help him get Vic right; without them, there would be no Vic at all.
Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell.
It begins with the death of Vic's father.
It ends with the murder of Mad's uncle.
The Hackensack Police Department would very much like to hear it.
But in order to tell their story, Vic and Mad must focus on all the chapters in between.
This is a story about:
1. A coded mission to scatter ashes across New Jersey.
2. The momentous nature of the Palisades in winter.
3. One dormant submarine.
4. Two songs about flowers.
5. Being cool in the traditional sense.
6. Sunsets & ice cream & orchards & graveyards.
7. Simultaneous extreme opposites.
8. A narrow escape from a war-torn country.
9. A story collector.
10. How to listen to someone who does not talk.
11. Falling in love with a painting.
12. Falling in love with a song.
13. Falling in love.
It's always a little risky, both as a writer and a reader, taking on a book told from multiple points of view. It's hard enough to find a book with one narrator I love, let alone two or more. Throw on top of that a non-linear structure — KIDS OF APPETITE opens on a scene that actually takes place near the end of the story, with the bulk of the narrative told in flashback — and in less capable hands, you might have a recipe for literary disaster.
Fortunately, David Arnold is far more than capable, and KIDS OF APPETITE is an often poignant, occasionally hilarious, surprisingly twisty delight from start to finish.
The central characters of KIDS OF APPETITE are a boy, Victor "Vic" Benucci, and a girl, Madeline "Mad" Falco, who meet by chance two years after the death of Vic's father, and wind up profoundly changing each other's lives forever. The narrative flips between both of their POVs, and alternates between their separate interrogations in a police station, and the events that brought them there. It's a tricky structure, but it works. Both voices are sharp and distinctive, and the skips back and forth in time flow well, and are never jarring or confusing.
Vic is a boy still grieving his father's death following a long illness. After fleeing his house during a particularly upsetting night, Vic encounters Mad and the rest of the Kids of Appetite — Baz and Zuz, refugee brothers from the Republic of the Congo, and Coco, an 11-year-old girl with a boundless imagination and a penchant for swearing. The four Kids live together in a neglected greenhouse, where they spend their time musing upon life, making grand declarations, and, every now and then, deciding to take it upon themselves to make someone else's life better. When Vic and the Kids collide, they set out on a mission to fulfill his father's final wish, and in doing so, bring Vic the closure he so desperately needs. But even as they are all working to help Vic, Vic is focused on Mad, who, despite her guarded exterior, he suspects could use some help of her own.
As the story went on, I fell in love with each of these characters. As in David Arnold's previous book, MOSQUITOLAND, the members of his cast are like a bunch of mismatched puzzle pieces coming together to to form a sort of Wes Anderson-ized whole, full of quirks and flaws and idiosyncrasies that may make them an odd fit anywhere else, but work perfectly with each other. David Arnold's great strength as a writer is in painting his characters with a vivid brush, and then stepping back and allowing them to shine through their dialogue as they interact with each other, and that talent is on full display here. In both the large moments and the small, loud and quiet, it was a joy to experience life with these characters, and to watch them live and laugh and see that it was good.
I want to take a moment to talk about the disability representation with Vic, who has a rare neurological disorder known as Moebius Syndrome, which is characterized by complete or partial facial paralysis. Before reading KIDS OF APPETITE, I had never even heard of Moebius Syndrome, and certainly had never met anyone who had it. It was evident in reading Vic's point-of-view that David was very aware that this might be the first exposure many of his readers have to Moebius, as well as the first time his readers with Moebius see someone like them represented in fiction. The care and attention to detail was clear, and there is an author's note at the end which thanks four individuals with Moebius for consulting closely on the development of Vic's character. While I am not disabled, I am a strong proponent of increased diversity in fiction, as I believe that reading about a broad spectrum of human experiences can only serve to increase empathy. There are so few books out there with disabled protagonists, and even fewer where the author really opened themselves up to input from the community they are aiming to represent. And while KIDS OF APPETITE is definitely not a book about Moebius, I really appreciated the thoughtfulness that went into crafting Vic and making sure that the portrayal of a character with Moebius was accurate.
In the end, KIDS OF APPETITE is a beautiful story of grief and healing, of friendship and found family, of first impressions and broadened horizons, and of how you can know someone so well, yet discover there are parts of them you never knew at all. It is in turns funny and heartfelt, thrilling and surprising and gutting. It is a brilliant, honest, Super Racehorse of a book, and one I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone who loves great stories.


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News, Taxis
September 30, 2019 - News, Taxis
Earlier this year it was announced that new incentives were being introduced for taxi drivers, resulting in Electric Taxis being exempt from higher tax rates in order to promote the use of zero emission capable vehicles.
The Shadow Business Secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey also recently announced that a Labour government would invest £5.8 billion into the UK's automotive industry in a bid to accelerate the shift to EVs.
The proposal has been welcomed by those in the industry who feel this acknowledges the important role which fleets play in helping the UK to reach it's zero emissions goal.
The Government has already backed a Euro 6 conversion scheme which will see NOx emissions reduced in major cities.
What are Euro 6 Standards?
The Euro 6 Standards were introduced back in 2015 and relate to environmental pollution caused by exhaust emissions. The issues lie in aging vehicles which produce more pollutants.
In an effort to reduce these emissions, standards have been introduced for manufacturers which mean they are required to meet these standards in order to sell their vehicles.
NOx is a pollutant caused by fuels such as petrol and diesel, there are limits in place as part of the Euro 6 standard. The older the vehicle and the higher the NOx levels, the higher the costs in terms of road tax.
We have previously looked into the ULEZ (Ultra Low Emissions Zone) which places daily charges on vehicles entering the zone, which are the highest pollutants, in a similar way to the congestion charge. Whilst taxis are exempt from the charges, as of this year all new taxis are required to be zero emission capable. From October 2021 we'll see an expansion of ULEZs to more UK cities outside of the Capital.
How are cars tested for emissions?
The tests are designed to reflect real world driving, with new tests being brought in last year. These focus on fuel economy and emissions, these tests are carried out on real roads as opposed to labs to ensure the tests are as reflective of real life as possible.
Taxis are at present, responsible for around 25% of NOx and are on their way to being the biggest source of transport pollution in London by next year.
There are however plenty of options for taxi companies looking to expand their fleets in a more environmentally friendly way. Companies such as LEVC are pathing the way for greener taxi manufacturing. They join Nissan as one of the world's few purpose built electric and hybrid taxi manufacturers.
Not only will switching to electric vehicles be better for our environment but there's now more and more charging points being installed across the UK which is helping to reduce fuel costs.
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