Citizens for Legitimate Government: 28 April 2013

Deploy drones to hover above next Boston Marathon, Police Commissioner says 24 Apr 2013 Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis is pushing for a city-run system of eye-level street surveillance technology and making a case for a dedicated NYPD-style anti-terrorism unit to protect Boston from another soft-target strike like the deadly marathon bombing. Davis said he would also consider deploying domestic reconnaissance drones to hover above next year’s Boston Marathon. The use of domestic surveillance drones to hunt terrorists in U.S. cities has been hotly debated, but yesterday New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said they were all but inevitable. [Mission accomplished. --MDR]

After Boston, spending on video surveillance expected to surge 26 Apr 2013 Video surveillance, a market that was already on an upward trajectory, is expected to receive a big boost in spending following the bombings in Boston. The market for video surveillance equipment was already forecast to grow to $20.5 billion in revenue in 2016, up 114% from 2010's revenue of $9.6 billion, according to IHS, an insights and analytics company. But now, IHS says it is recalculating its forecast after the Boston Marathon bombings. IHS says high-profile terrorist attacks historically have driven governments to increase spending on video surveillance equipment, and the same is expected following the Boston bombings. [Secondary mission accomplished. --LRP]

Police eye second car in Watertown shootout after Boston bombing 27 Apr 2013 Two cars, not one, appear to be at the center of the investigation into how the two brothers allegedly behind the Boston Marathon bombings carried out the fatal shooting of a police officer and the wounding of another during their final night rampage. An NBC News probe over the past several days has established that the brothers used and then dumped a green Honda as well as a stolen SUV as they led police on a wild chase. Massachusetts State Police, combined with local law enforcement, conducted a reenactment Thursday night at the scene of the April 18 shooting of Officer Sean Collier in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Boston bomb suspect in small cell with steel door 27 Apr 2013 The Boston Marathon bombing suspect is being held in a small cell with a steel door at a federal medical detention center about 40 miles outside the city, a federal official said Saturday. Federal Medical Center Devens spokesman John Collauti described the conditions under which 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being held in the Ayer facility after being moved there from a hospital Friday. Collauti said in a telephone interview that Tsarnaev is in secure housing where authorities can monitor him.

Muslim group says spray-painting of Oklahoma mosque may be Boston backlash 27 Apr 2013 Police said Saturday they were investigating what a Muslim advocacy group described as an act of vandalism against an Oklahoma City mosque that may have been part of a backlash after the Boston Marathon bombings. Words were spray-painted on the mosque before dawn Saturday, said Lt. Arthur Gregory, a spokesman for Oklahoma City police. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement that the words were obscenities. It wants the matter investigated as a hate crime and wants state and federal law enforcement to determine whether the vandalism was a reaction to the bombings.

Bill Maher: America is becoming a 'police state' --Maher slams Boston police 27 Apr 2013 Bill Maher called Boston police officers "unprofessional" on Friday for shooting at the boat where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding even though it turned out he was unarmed. According to reports, no gun was found inside the boat after Tsarnaev was captured, although the Boston Police commissioner had earlier said that cops had exchanged fire with the suspect. Maher also said that America is becoming a "police state."

Conn. state employee fired for allegedly showing Newtown gunman's body 27 Apr 2013 The employee at Connecticut's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner accused of letting her husband see the body of the [alleged] Newtown school shooter has been fired. Chief Medical Examiner Dr. H. Wayne Carver, in a dismissal letter to Jean Henry released Friday, wrote that bringing her husband into the morgue in December violated the agency's ethical mission and showed "extremely poor judgment." Chris DeFrancesco, a University of Connecticut Health Center spokesman, says a grievance process is underway and no further information is available.

Mississippi man linked to ricin letters charged with biological weapons use 27 Apr 2013 A Mississippi martial arts instructor was charged on Saturday with attempting to use a biological weapon after a ricin-laced letter was sent to President Barack Obama earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Everett Dutschke, 41, was arrested at his Tupelo home shortly after midnight by FBI agents following searches of the residence and a former business as part of the ricin letter investigation. He was later charged with "developing...and possessing" ricin and "attempting" to use it "as a weapon," according to a joint statement by the U.S. attorney for the northern district of Mississippi and the head of the FBI's Mississippi office.

James Everett Dutschke arrested in connection to ricin letters case 27 Apr 2013 James Everett Dutschke was arrested at 1 a.m. at his home in Tupelo Saturday and turned over to the U.S. Marshal Services without incident, Tupelo Police Chief Tony Carleton, confirmed Saturday morning. FBI spokeswoman Deborah Madden tells The Associated Press 41-year-old Everett Dutschke was arrested Saturday at his Tupelo home in connection with the letters, which allegedly contained ricin. They were sent last week to President Barack Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and earlier to a Lee County judge, Sadie Holland.

Former BBC security guard jailed for terrorism offences 25 Apr 2013 Richard Dart, who used to work for the BBC, and his co-conspirators, Jahangir Alom and Imran Mahmood, were sentenced at the Old Bailey for engaging in conduct in preparation of acts of terrorism. They admitted the offence between July 2010 and July last year at a previous hearing last month. Dart, the son of a teacher from Dorset, was jailed for 11 years, Alom for four years and six months and Mahmood for nine years and nine months. Mr Justice Simon told the trio they held ''radical Islamist beliefs and have shown yourselves to be committed to acts of terrorism''.

Air Force general, his wife and pet dog killed in plane crash as cause remains unknown 26 Apr 2013 Authorities are currently investigating what caused a plane crash in Virginia that killed a highly trained pilot from the Air Force Friday evening. Major General Joseph D. Brown IV, 54, his wife Sue Brown, and a family pet were killed when the single-engine plane he was piloting, a Cessna 210, crashed near the Williamsburg-Jamestown Airport. He was a highly decorated officer who rose through the ranks and became a Major General in August of 2010.

Lab-Altered H5N1 Flu More Infectious to Humans than Birds 26 Apr 2013 A new study suggests a laboratory-mutated H5N1 avian influenza virus could pose a greater risk to humans than to birds, adding to concerns about the new avian flu strain that has emerged recently in China. Over a year ago, Japanese researchers created a genetically-altered version of the H5N1 avian influenza virus to explore the risk of start human-to-human transmission. They reported in the journal Nature in early 2012 that the mutated pathogen could be transmitted among mammals through the air in aerosol droplets -- for example, from sneezing. They conducted their experiments with ferrets, small domesticated mammals that are a good model for human disease transmission. [Right, US (and Japanese) bioterrorists are *dying* to get the pandemic party started, to make a killing on their deadly vaccines.]

China finds new bird flu case in eastern Fujian province: Xinhua 26 Apr 2013 Chinese authorities discovered on Friday the first case of a new strain of bird flu in the eastern province of Fujian, signaling the spread of the virus which has killed 23 people in China, the official Xinhua news agency reported. This week, the World Health Organisation called the virus, known as H7N9, "one of the most lethal", and said it is more easily transmitted than an earlier strain that has killed hundreds around the world since 2003. Fujian's health authority said a 65-year-old man surnamed Luo had tested positive for the virus, Xinhua reported.

Red Cross arrives at Guantanamo as hunger strike hits 100 mark 27 Apr 2013 International Red Cross delegates began inspecting conditions at the Guantánamo prison camps on Saturday, as the U.S. military said the number of hunger strikers had reached 100. One-fifth of the hunger strikers were being force fed nutritional supplements through feeding tubes, said Army Lt. Col. Samuel House, a prison camps spokesman. Five of the 20 men being force fed were hospitalized, although none "currently have any life-threatening conditions," House said by email from the remote base in southeast Cuba. In Washington, International Red Cross spokesman Simon Schorno said five delegates arrived Friday at the Navy base for a "an ad-hoc assessment visit" now that the majority of captives are in single-cell lockdown.

Official number of Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers jumps to 100 27 Apr 2013 The official number of hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay reached 100 on Saturday -- three more than the day before. Twenty of the detainees are receiving enteral feeds, five of whom are being observed in a detainee hospital. Lawyers for the detainees contest the official numbers, saying that some 130 prisoners are actually taking part in the protest. The hunger strike began around February 6, when detainees claimed prison officials searched their copies of the Koran for contraband, according to their attorneys. Prisoners are also protesting their extrajudicial incarceration at the prison.

Some force-fed captives are cleared for release from Guantánamo 26 Apr 2013 At least four of the captives being force-fed at Guantánamo were cleared for release years ago. As of Friday, the U.S. prison in southeast Cuba classified 97 of its 166 captives as hunger strikers, according to Army Lt. Col. Samuel House, a prison spokesman. Navy medical workers were administering tube feedings to 19 of the hunger strikers, five of them at the prison hospital. Prison officials have refused to name any of the hunger strikers. But the Justice Department has been notifying the attorneys of prisoners who have become so malnourished that they now require the tube feedings.

Six Afghan policemen poisoned, shot to death; seventh is missing 26 Apr 2013 Six village police officers were poisoned and then shot to death Thursday night at a remote outpost in northern Afghanistan, the deputy governor of Kunduz province reported Friday. A seventh member of the Afghan Local Police unit is missing. An investigation has concluded that the officer conspired with insurgents to poison fellow officers and then flee, said Hamdullah Danishi, the deputy governor. The killings took place in the Dasht e Archi district in northeastern Kunduz, about 180 miles north of Kabul, the capital. The incident was one of several in recent months in which insurgents have infiltrated Afghan security force units or recruited police or soldiers to poison or attack their comrades.

4 ISAF soldiers killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan 28 Apr 2013 Four soldiers serving with the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan have died in a helicopter crash in the south of the country, the coalition has announced. ISAF issued a statement saying that the soldiers were killed on Saturday when their plane went down in the province of Zabul. Most foreign troops in southern Afghanistan are from the United States, but ISAF did not announce the nationality of the soldiers who died.

Syria: U.S. manipulating chemical weapons evidence, like it did with Iraq 26 Apr 2013 Syria denies that it has used, or even possesses, chemical weapons, accusing the United States and Britain of lying in order to pressure the embattled Damascus government. Syrian Information Minister Omran Al-Zoubi talked to Russia TV on Friday, dismissing a claim by U.S. officials a day earlier that they had evidence the chemical weapon sarin had been used in Syria on a small scale. Al-Zoubi said the Syrian government is the one that called for an investigation of an incident in which it claimed chemical weapons were used by "terrorist groups." Syria does not have chemical weapons and would not use them if it did, he said.

Syrian officials deny government use of chemical weapons 26 Apr 2013 Two Syrian officials have denied Western allegations that the government in Damascus has used chemical weapons against foreign-backed militants. An unnamed Syrian government official said on Friday that President Bashar Assad's military "did not and will not use chemical weapons even if it had them," AP news agency reported. He added that the Syrian army has no need for using chemical weapons "because it is capable of reaching any area in Syria it wants" without them. [Dollars to doughnuts, if chemical weapons were used, CIA-backed rapists, terrorists and sociopaths -- aka the 'rebels' -- used them.]

Jordanians torch U.S. flag to protest troop deployment 26 Apr 2013 Jordanian protesters torched a U.S. flag at a demonstration in Amman Friday against an American troop deployment in Jordan in connection with the war in neighboring Syria as hundreds also rallied in other cities. An AFP photographer said about 400 people took to the streets of the old city of Amman after weekly Muslim prayers chanting: "We don't want to see American" soldiers in our country. Some demonstrators set on fire a U.S. flag before the rally broke off into two groups, one heading towards the royal palace that overlooks downtown Amman, while the other marched on the main square outside city hall. Similar protests were held in the northern city of Irbid and in Zarqa, east of the capital, a stronghold of Islamists, where demonstrators chanted: "America is the head of the snake" and "Syria free, free. America out," witnesses said.

French troops to stay in Mali even after UN forces arrive, defense minister says 27 Apr 2013 France's defense minister has reaffirmed that the country will keep 1,000 troops in Mali to fight armed groups even after the arrival of more than 12,000 UN peacekeepers later this year. During his visit to Mali, Le Drian met Acting President Dioncounda Traoré and General Ibrahim Dahrou Dembele to discuss efforts underway to train the Malian military. A day after the UN Security Council authorized the deployment of the peacekeeping force, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visited the city of Gao in northeastern Mali.

San Francisco gay pride rescinds honour for Bradley Manning --SF Pride president says notification that WikiLeaks suspect would be honorary grand marshal was 'an error' 27 Apr 2013 The president of San Francisco's annual gay pride celebration said on Friday that Bradley Manning, the US Army private who is charged in a massive leak of US secrets to the WikiLeaks website, will not be an honorary grand marshal after all. SF Pride board president Lisa Williams said in a statement that an employee of the organization had prematurely notified imprisoned intelligence specialist Manning this week that he had been selected for the distinction, which recognizes about a dozen celebrities, politicians and community organizations each year for their contributions to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.

Justice Breyer Has Shoulder Surgery After Bicycle Accident 28 Apr 2013 According to Supreme Court spokesperson Kathleen Arberg, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer underwent reverse shoulder replacement surgery for a proximal humerus fracture at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital on the morning of April 27th. The fracture was sustained in his right shoulder after a fall from his bicycle on the afternoon of April 26th, where he was taken to the hospital by an ambulance. This is the third biking mishap for Justice Breyer.

6 months after Sandy, thousands homeless in NY, NJ 27 Apr 2013 Six months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal areas of New England, the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating, yet often hopeful, recovery. Tens of thousands of people remain homeless. Housing, business, tourism and coastal protection all remain major issues with the summer vacation -- and hurricane -- seasons almost here again.

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever --The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix 25 Apr 2013 In the Libor scandal, at least three -- and perhaps as many as 16 -- of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion worth of financial instruments. When that sprawling con burst into public view last year, it was easily the biggest financial scandal in history... But word has leaked that the London-based firm ICAP, the world's largest broker of interest-rate swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess. Regulators are looking into whether or not a small group of brokers at ICAP may have worked with up to 15 of the world's largest banks to manipulate ISDAfix, a benchmark number used around the world to calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps.

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