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USA: Civil asset forfeiture - your guide to policing for fun and profit - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

Straight outta the modern regime of empire, USA: Civil asset forfeiture - your guide to policing for fun and profit - if you're a USA police officer that is. Is there any wonder the USA is struggling to feign anything even remotely resembling a moral high ground? Also, a solid ground of outright tyranny and why the USA must fall. Of course chaos is the intention of (((TPTB))) - the federal reserve banker cabal, who were hoping to prance in under the radar of chaotic civil something and institute some new USA or possibly pan-American currency. Remember the Fed! Policing For Profit: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Has Perverted American Law Enforcement https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-23/policing-profit-how-civil-asset-f… https://ammo.com/articles/civil-asset-forfeiture-policing-for-profit … It’s called civil asset forfeiture and it’s a multi-billion dollar piggybank for state, local and federal police departments to fund all sorts of pet projects. … contemporary civil asset forfeiture begins right where you’d think that it would: The War on Drugs. … the criminalization of American life and asset forfeiture have continued to feed each other. … In sum, asset forfeiture creates a motivation to draft more laws by the legislature, while more laws create greater opportunities for seizure by law enforcement. This perverse incentive structure is having devastating consequences: In 2014 alone, law enforcement took more stuff from American citizens than burglars did. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff… The current state of civil asset forfeiture in the United States is one of almost naked tyranny. https://ammo.com/articles/democide-hitler-stalin-mao-state-violence-guide … The Origins of Civil Asset Forfeiture … … In 1984, civil asset forfeiture entered a new phase. The Comprehensive Crime Control Act, championed by then-President Ronald Reagan, allowed for police agencies to keep the assets they seized. This highly incentivized the seizure of assets for the purpose of funding police departments rather than pursuing criminal charges. However, the game changed completely in 1996 – the year of the landmark Supreme Court decision Bennis v. Michigan(516 U.S. 442). This ruling held that the innocent owner defense was not sufficient to recover assets seized during civil asset forfeiture.… Civil Asset Forfeiture: Big Business For Police To say that police departments are funding themselves with civil asset forfeiture is more true than you might think. Civil asset forfeiture has exploded since 1986, when total seizures were at $93.7 million. By 2005, this had passed the $1 billion mark. That was double the 2004 amount, $567 million. By 2010, this figure jumped to $2.5 billion with more than 15,000 forfeiture cases – 11,000 of which were civil, not criminal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512253265073870 By 2014, this figure climbed to $4.5 billion, with $29 billion seized between 2001 and 2014. Between 1985 and 1991, federal forfeitures increased by 1,500 percent, an increase of over 26 times. The Justice Department’s forfeiture fund (that does not include customs forfeitures) ballooned from $27 million in 1985 to $644 million in 1991. By 1996, this fund grew to over $1 billion for the first time. By 2008, it had tripled again to $3.1 billion. https://www.forbes.com/2011/06/08/property-civil-forfeiture.html Cash seizures in Tennessee have gotten so widespread that the state legislature has begun investigating it. Traffic stops have turned into shakedown operations. Interstate 40 was described as “a major profit center” by Phil Williams, a reporter for Channel 5 in Nashville. Much like extra-legal gangs, police gangs in Tennessee have started engaging in turf warfare over the spoils of civil asset forfeiture. The Dixon Interdiction Enforcement (DICE) and the 23rd Judicial District Drug Taskforce were caught on video trying to cut one another off in their vehicles to stop civilians and search for cash. Indeed, officers were in danger of losing their jobs if they didn’t seize enough cash. The head of DICE admitted that it was funded entirely by civil asset forfeiture cash. … … Sheriff’s deputies in Campbell County, TN tortured a suspect until he agreed to sign over his assets. http://archive.knoxnews.com/news/state/civil-rights-lawsuits-tossed-in-tort… In El Monte, CA, narcotics officers shot a 65-year-old grandfather as he knelt beside his bed. They then seized his life savings and hauled his family in for questioning before admitting that no one had any connection to the drug trade. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/aug/28/news/mn-4413 Police in Bradenton, FL have a longstanding policy of coercing drug suspects into signing over their assets. https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20061022/News/605240344/SH/ In many municipalities, it is policy to seize vehicles from intoxicated drivers who have had no criminal trial. … …

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Free Assange: Assange in Belmarsh
by grarpamp 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

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Penn Law Professor Thinks She Understands The Ideology of the Moment
by Ryan Carboni 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-penn-law-professor-wants-to-make-a… >Whether or not something is “racist”—I put it in heavy quotes, because I think it is a protean term, it is a promiscuous term, it is a term that’s trotted out as a mindless bludgeon, whatever. The question is, is it true? And, in fact, it’s emblematic of sliding toward Third Worldism that we now have this dominant idea that to notice a reality that might be quote-unquote “racist” is impermissible. It can’t be true. This is a spectacular answer. Beyond proving that she values literacy or any other transient knowledge (there will always be more words) over knowledge with some sort of lineage, she invents a new word “Third Worldism” as a purely strawman ideology. Naturally as Mohammed Ali says “They never called me, ‘nigger’”, racism does exist. Although, oddly enough, I doubt a professor is capable of rhetoric. The above paragraph is incorrect, it is refuting an argument she has not made. The verbosity and vagueness would enable any opponent to focus on the part “it can’t be true”. So what is she arguing? Even that is unclear other than signaling she is vapid with no firmly well thought out beliefs. I have no doubt she is being interviewed for her insights, whatever those may be. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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Charlie Rose: Trump, Putin, Assange, Hawking, Jackson, Iran... and other Random Interviews
by grarpamp 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

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Re: [liberationtech] Postdoc & RA opportunities in Big Data & Development at UC Berkeley
by grarpamp 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

> “Big Data and Development” Who owns it. You? > economic development People farming. Resource raping. > - Social networks in developing economies Trap them while they're young. > - Measuring poverty and vulnerability Find ripe for exploit. > - Fairness and privacy in machine learning A private club and you're not in it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUaqFzZLxU > - Understanding the consequences of violence and conflict on welfare Architect and maintain disruptive advantage. Steer revolution[ary ideas] against itself. > - Financial inclusion Financial control. > digital credit Digital slavery. > Cryptocurrency https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bitcoin+documentary Liberation Tech.

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Hackers can tell what people are typing just by listening through a smartphone's microphone
by jim bell 25 Aug '19

25 Aug '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MbloCip?s=a3&pd=02h1yVjC Hackers can tell what people are typing just by listening through a smartphone's microphone Daily Mail Hackers could be able to tell what you are typing on your computer just by listening to your keystrokes through your smartphone's microphone, a new study warns. Shared from News Break Jim Bell's comment:Peter Wright's 1970's book, Spycatcher, described an early, primitive version of this technology.

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PUA: Shit Tests
by grarpamp 25 Aug '19

25 Aug '19

> shit test > hypergamous https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shit+test+hypergamy

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Schneier: ShoreUpGovtDemoc, deploy KillChains against InfluOps GentForuSpy
by grarpamp 25 Aug '19

25 Aug '19

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/12/8-ways-to-stay-ahead-of-influence-oper… "With election meddling inevitable in 2020, the United States needs a powerful kill chain." https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm Step 1: Norm Political Control Step 2: Force Social and Media Corps to Censor Step 3: Education Control Step 4: Fact Propaganda Step 5: Coop on Narrative Interlink Step 6: Censor and Volume Inversion Step 7: Govt Present Bogus WMD Evidence Step 8: Regime Forever "But Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election shows not just that such actions are possible but also that they’re surprisingly inexpensive to run. As these tactics continue to be democratized, more people will attempt them. And as more people, and multiple parties, conduct influence operations, they will increasingly be seen as how the game of politics is played in the information age. This means that the line will increasingly blur between influence operations and politics as usual, and that domestic influencers will be using them as part of campaigning. Defending democracy against foreign influence also necessitates making our own political debate healthier." Pols are talking like InfluOps are something new, a new horror that just popped up in the mid 2010's that has to be crushed. Pols been running same InfluOps game themselves since forever. Nothing new there. Other than a new agnostic tool that came on the scene for them all to use... The Internet. They're just crying over which Pol butthurt the other last with it in their little con-noncon orgy. And fighting amongst themselves over who gets to own, use, and control it... Their list does not include you. Own it, defend that, or disconnect and build your own.

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Does anyone no what happened to Juan
by rooty 25 Aug '19

25 Aug '19

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Earth: Collapsing You Stupid Humans RSN, re BrBrBr
by grarpamp 25 Aug '19

25 Aug '19

https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/satellite-images-from-planet-reveal-devas… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_capacity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_degradation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(population) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-renewable_resource https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Warming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wars-Long-Run-military-civilian-fataliti… https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/ In roughly 125 years you've managed to destroy 125M years of your own evolution, and about 500M years worth of everything else. Now there are 7B too many of you. You're overshot far beyond reaching even the most generously drawn recovery curve. You knew the science facts at least 50 years ago when you were 4B less in the hole, but thought you could play a game. Now it's Earth's turn and billions shall die. Welcome to your own demise, you retarded fools... Discussion regarding the potential collapse of global civilization, defined as a significant decrease in human population and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time. We seek to deepen our understanding of collapse while providing mutual support, not to document every detail of our demise. Overindulging in this sub may be detrimental to your mental health. Anxiety and depression are common reactions when studying collapse. Please remain conscious of your mental health and effects this may have on you. If you are considering suicide, please call a hotline, visit /r/SuicideWatch, /r/SWResources, /r/depression, or seek professional help. If you are having difficulty coping and looking for dialogue you may visit r/CollapseSupport or the Collapse Discord. "Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world." -- Thomas Malthus, 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population. Don't worry, be happy, at least something will evolve to take your place... :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_organisms_by_population

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