http://www.infowars.com/congress-critter-science-over-population-of-guam-will-tip-the-island-over/

No, it is not an April Fools’ Day joke. Democrat Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson said during an Armed Services Committee hearing last week that Guam is in danger. “My fear that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize,” he said in all seriousness.

“We don’t anticipate that,” responded Adm. Robert Willard. For some reason he did not bust out laughing.

Johnson went on to warn about climate change.

versions of the video are at these links (updated April 3, 2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs23CjIWMgA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjG958lZ1KI
 
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100329/us_time/08599197492700

By KATY STEINMETZ / WASHINGTON Katy Steinmetz

Could a national identity card help resolve the heated immigration-reform divide?

Two Senators, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, certainly seem to think so. They recently presented an immigration-bill blueprint to President Barack Obama that includes a proposal to issue a biometric ID card - one that would contain physical data such as fingerprints or retinal scans - to all working Americans. The "enhanced Social Security card" is being touted as a way to curb illegal immigration by giving employers the power to quickly and accurately determine who is eligible to work. "If you say [illegal immigrants] can't get a job when they come here, you'll stop it," Schumer told the Wall Street Journal. Proponents also hope legal hiring will be easier for employers if there's a single go-to document instead of the 26 that new employees can currently use to show they're authorized to work.

But with a congressional skirmish over comprehensive immigration reform on the horizon, skeptics from the left and the right have raised numerous concerns about the biometric ID - some of which pop up every time a form of national identification is proposed, and some that hinge on the shape this plan ultimately takes. (See 25 gotta-have travel gadgets.)

The sheer scale of the project is a potential problem, in terms of time, money and technology. The premise of using a biometric employment card (which would most likely contain fingerprint data) to stop illegal immigrants from working requires that all 150 million–plus American workers, not just immigrants, have one. Michael Cherry, president of identification-technology company Cherry Biometrics, says the accuracy of such large-scale biometric measuring hasn't been proved. "What study have we done?" he says. "We just have a few assumptions."

Schumer estimates that employers would have to pay up to $800 for card-reading machines, and many point out that compliance could prove burdensome for many small-to-medium-size businesses. In a similar program run by the Department of Homeland Security, in which 1.4 million transportation workers have been issued biometric credentials, applicants each pay $132.50 to help cover the costs of the initiative, which so far run in the hundreds of millions. "This is sort of like the worst combination of the DMV and the TSA," says Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the ACLU, an organization that has traditionally opposed all forms of national ID. "It's going to be enormously costly no matter what." (See photos of the High Seas Border Patrol in action.)

Lynden Melmed, former chief counsel for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, says the pace of expanding the program is crucial. He believes that issuing the cards on a rolling basis and viewing them as "the next version of the driver's license" makes the idea of a nationally issued biometric ID seem much less daunting. "I think that there is a risk in overreaching too quickly," he says.

Another potential issue is whether the card will result in people being wrongfully denied work. The average person isn't equipped to determine whether two fingerprints are a match - even FBI fingerprint experts have their off days, as when they incorrectly implicated a Portland, Ore., attorney in the 2004 bombings in Madrid - which means employers would be relying on an automated system. And that, as well as the fingerprinting process itself, invariably leads to some small number of mistakes. (See how border-patrol officials are securing the perimeter.)

In testimony given at a Senate immigration hearing in July 2009, Illinois Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, who has led the drive for immigration reform in the House, pointed out that an error rate of just 1% would mean that more than 1.5 million people - roughly the population of Philadelphia - would be wrongly deemed ineligible for work. "This is no small number," he said, "especially in this economy, where so many workers already face extraordinary obstacles to finding a job." Dean Pradeep Khosla, founding director of Carnegie Mellon's cybersecurity lab, estimates that the error rates of computerized systems would likely be less than 2% (and could be less than 1%) but says they can never be zero. Civil-liberties advocates, citing the secret post-9/11 no-fly lists that innocents couldn't get their names removed from, worry about whether those mistakenly put on the no-job list will ever be given the chance to correct the information.

Many skeptics also worry about false positives that come not from the computer but from counterfeits or employers looking to bypass the system. "It's naive to think that this document won't be faked," Calabrese says. "Folks are already paying $10,000 to sneak into the country. What's a couple thousand more?" In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Schumer and Graham said the card would be "fraud-proof" and that employers would face "stiff fines" and possibly imprisonment if they tried to get around using it. But Cherry half-jokes that someone could falsify such an ID in 15 minutes, and Khosla says that while current technology makes fingerprints the most feasible biometric marker to use, they're also one of the easiest to steal.

Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, believes that keeping biometric information out of a centralized database is "the biggest challenge." Otherwise, she says, the prospect of having millions of fingerprints on hand would be too tempting for the government not to abuse. In their op-ed, the Senators said the information would be stored only on the card.

Although the card is being presented as existing solely for determining employment eligibility, "it will be almost impossible to say that this wealth of information is there, but you can only use it for this purpose," Coney says. "Privacy is pretty much hinged on the notion that if you collect data for one purpose, you can't use it for another." Calabrese expresses worries that this ID will become a "central identity document" that one will need in order to travel, vote or perhaps own a gun, which Melmed calls "mission creep."

Some dismiss privacy concerns as reflections of general government mistrust rather than legitimate technology issues. But Melmed believes that the practical issues will have to be addressed before the "social-acceptance debate" over biometric cards can even begin, and both rely on many details that the Senators have yet to present. "People are waiting to see something in writing," Calabrese says. "But the idea doesn't fill people with a warm, fuzzy feeling."
 
 

http://www.reddirtreport.com/news.php?id=14899

By Andrew W. GriffinAndrew W. Griffin

OKLAHOMA CITY – Late last week, Red Dirt Report featured a story about reports indicating that there was somewhat of a resurgence in Ku Klux Klan membership in Oklahoma.

That story, which was among the most-viewed stories on the site this past week, triggered some discussion online, on the radio and with me personally. It seems as though the story reminded some folks here in the state of Elohim City out in Adair County, Okla. and that white supremacist community’s connection to Timothy McVeigh and the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building here in Oklahoma City.

Of course federal infiltration of right-wing extremist groups like the KKK, is well-known and thoroughly covered via the COINTELPRO operation directed by the FBI four decades ago. The raid on the “Hutaree” militia in Michigan and surrounding states is a major red flag, considering the FBI involvement in the raid and their history.

With all that is going on with Tea Parties, militias, Republicans and Democrats at each other’s throats … it is starting to feel like 1994-95 all over again. There is a Democrat president extremely interested in government-run health care. A top official named “Janet” interested in cracking down on right-wing extremists … and then there are these comments from David Cid, executive director of the Oklahoma City-based Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, as reported Monday by the Associated Press …

Cid said there has been a “resurgence in the past year or two of ‘domestic militancy’ similar to what was seen before the Oklahoma City bombing.”

Indeed, Mr. Cid, who is also a former FBI counterterrorism agent is an expert on these sorts of issues. But one wonders who is really stoking the flames of ‘militancy’?

Continuing, Cid tells the AP: “It’s issues like eminent domain and immigration, and apparently national health care in some quarters. It’s increasing these people’s ire and their discomfort with their own government.”

One phone call to your Red Dirt Reporter was of particular interest. It was from a person I am familiar with and some of my readers are probably familiar with. This person had read my story on the KKK report connected to a site called Hatetrackers.com

The conversation went quickly from my story on the KKK in Oklahoma to the Elohim City connection and Andreas “Andy the German” Strassmeier, a foreign operative.

The caller said he believes the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Alabama, is connected to figures linked to the bombing. Indeed, SPLC leader Morris Dees has previously told reporters about links to Elohim City and an informant that “If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.”

And this very week, SPLC is all over the news talking about the Hutaree militia and their alleged plans of waging war against the government and an “Anti-Christ.”

Back in 1995, this individual knew of a man who worked for a cleaning company that worked at the Murrah federal building in 1995. He was told how a young man working for the company happened upon two men – Timothy McVeigh and a Hispanic man – who were seeking a judge’s office wanting to “get married.”

It was after hours and on an upper floor of the Murrah building. They were wearing blue smocks, like those of the cleaning company workers. There had been reports of missing uniforms and equipment in the weeks leading up to the bombing and security, he told us, "was very lax."

As for the odd encounter with "McVeigh" and the "Hispanic man," it certainly alarmed the cleaning worker, who was reportedly interrogated for nearly an hour by federal officials in the days following the bombing.

Another thing he mentioned had to do with “John Doe 2” and his identity. The cleaning person identified the second man in the Murrah building in the days prior to the bombing as being the elusive “John Doe 2.” He was allegedly Hispanic, we were told, and had been a convict from California. The FBI, he said, had a photo of the Hispanic man and not just the famous sketch.

The person who called me shared more information about things he saw and heard in the following days, information related not only to the Murrah bombing but to 9/11, information that may be elaborated upon in future posts.

Talking to an Oklahoma City-based bombing researcher about this new information, he told Red Dirt Report that the deep source that contacted this online newspaper gave us information that corroborated information he has gathered in his many years of research and witness interviews. More on that in coming posts.

And don’t forget, as has been reported in recent years in the Salt Lake Tribune, things are not always as they seem.

Reported the Tribune in 2007: “Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official ‘apparently’ was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack.”

And on Monday, we see a story posted at KTOK.com by reporter Jerry Bohnen headlined “CIA documents suggest foreign involvement in OKC 1995 bombing.”

Bohnen’s story notes that Salt Lake City, Utah attorney, Jesse Trentadue, whose brother was murdered in prison in the wake of the bombing, “sought a dozen document s from the CIA and (the federal judge Clark Waddoups) ruled they were considered ‘national security’ and would not be made available to the public. It was the first such national security defense ever used by the government in denying records to Trentadue.”

Naturally, the question that arises is what would the CIA have to do with a domestic terrorist attack that focused solely on McVeigh and Terry Nichols, two Americans.

In the KTOK story, Bohnen lists 12 “exhibits” are featured, ranging from foreign operatives offering information to the CIA to a cable from a day after the bombing that was “relaying information about the Oklahoma City bombing that was provided to a U.S. ambassador by a foreign official.” Many of these are simply listed as “classified as secret.”

In the story, Bohnen asks if there was “foreign involvement in some manner in the bombing or the investigation?”

Trentadue responds in the story by saying “Without a doubt.”

He then adds: “If there was no foreign involvement, then why was the CIA asked to help federal prosecutors?” He concludes saying that Enid attorney Stephen Jones was never offered the information about the possible CIA connection.

And on Monday afternoon, Lee Matthews, sitting in for Mark Shannon on KTOK's "Mark Shannon Show," asked listeners to call in and share their thoughts on this new revelation pointing to CIA links to McVeigh and the bombing. Reactions were mixed, with one caller saying that some information is best left alone.

Undeniably, something is in the air and it isn't just a lot of pollen. We here at Red Dirt Report hope the government will do the right thing and put all the information out there related to the Murrah bombing and others who may have been involved in that horrible terror attack nearly 15 years ago.
 
 

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Star+lawyer+calls+criminal+probe+into+Winnipeg+emergency+room+death/2752459/story.html

By Jen Skerritt and Gabrielle Giroday, Winnipeg Free PressApril 1, 2010

WINNIPEG — City police will review evidence surrounding the death of double amputee Brian Sinclair after a national legal expert lambasted the force for its "shocking" failure to investigate why Sinclair was found dead after 34 hours in a hospital emergency room.

Renowned criminal and human rights lawyer Clayton Ruby criticized the Winnipeg Police Service on Wednesday, saying he believes charges of criminal negligence causing death and failure to provide the necessaries of life could be laid against Health Sciences Centre and medical staff in charge of its ER.

Winnipeg police never investigated what factors led to the double-amputee's death in an inner-city hospital waiting room — an omission Ruby called "inexplicable." He urged the police force to reconsider and launch a probe into Sinclair's death, saying this isn't the Winnipeg of 50 years ago when the plight of aboriginals and the disabled was dismissed.

Sinclair, a wheelchair-bound aboriginal man, was found dead on Sept. 21, 2008, after he waited 34 hours in the HSC emergency room without being treated for a bladder infection that required a simple catheter change and antibiotics.

"The police are aware of this obligation. They're not dumb," Ruby said during a teleconference in Toronto early Wednesday. "They figure they can get away with not doing an investigation in this case because of who he was and the circumstances."

Ruby's comments prompted Winnipeg police Chief Keith McCaskill to issue a statement saying officers will review any material about the death the Sinclair family's lawyers have. If any evidence of criminal wrongdoing exists, police said they will investigate fully.

"I want to emphasize that, prior to (Wednesday) the WPS had never received any suggestion that there had been evidence of criminal wrongdoing in relation to the death of Mr. Sinclair," said the prepared statement.

McCaskill said police did not attend the hospital after Sinclair died because investigators from the medical examiner's office did not ask them to. Chief Medical Examiner Thambirajah Balachandra confirmed Wednesday that police were not needed to investigate the death, McCaskill said.

He said the only contact police had with medical examiner investigators was over how to notify Sinclair's next-of-kin.

"They determined it wasn't necessary for us to be involved, simple as that," McCaskill said.

Ruby weighed in on the high-profile case after the Sinclair family sought his legal opinion, although he did not receive any financial compensation and will not represent the family at the upcoming inquest. Ruby doesn't know of any other cases where hospitals have faced criminal charges, but said Sinclair's case is unique enough to warrant a full police investigation.

His opinion has been endorsed by two United Nations international human rights experts, a leading American law centre, and 26 Canadian criminal law professors.

"They're a modern police force in a major city and this is just inexplicable," Ruby said. "Fifty years ago, you could say, 'Ah, it's an Indian, who cares.' Or, 'He's a cripple, it didn't matter.' But we don't do that, and I'm sure it's not being done here. But it is inexplicable that there's been no investigation."

Winnipeg health officials say they alert police when they suspect a crime has occurred in city hospitals.

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority spokeswoman Heidi Graham said officials notified the chief medical examiner and launched a critical incident investigation into Sinclair's death, but there was no suggestion of a criminal offence during interviews with staff and a review of the emergency room security videos.

However, she said the health authority will co-operate fully with police if they decide to go ahead with an investigation.

"Unfortunately, the legal opinion released (Wednesday) appears to make assumptions based on erroneous information," Graham said.
 
 

http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=12241850

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) – Westside Schools will remain on a limited lockdown for the remainder of Thursday after police advised the school to go on lockdown after a man was spotted in the area carrying a rifle.

The Craighead County Sheriff's Department alerted the school to lockdown the buildings as a precautionary measure after a man was spotted on a nearby road carrying a rifle.

According to Craighead County Sheriff Jack McCann, the man was located around County Road 102 and State Highway 349, and was never closer than a couple of miles to the school.

Sheriff McCann said that Arkansas State Police and Craighead County Sheriff's Deputies were alerted to the area, but never found anyone.

Police and school officials say he never made it to school grounds, and again was never closer than a couple of miles to the school.

The school will remain on limited lockdown, which means they will have limited outside activities, but will be as normal inside the schools.

Police and school officials tell Region 8 News the campus was never in imminent danger.