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      <title>U.S. designates Syrian rebel commanders as terrorists</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:10:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>The
State Department on Thursday added the leader of an al Qaeda-linked
Syrian rebel group to its global terror list, freezing any assets he
might have in the U.S. and making it illegal for Americans or
U.S.-based companies to do business with him.

&quot;This
will help choke their finances,&quot; a State department official told
The Washington Times.

The
move, the official said, is part of an effort by the United States
and its European allies to try and marginalize the al-Nusra Front,
the extremist militia which has been among the most successful rebel
force on the ground in Syria - both militarily and in terms of the
governance it offers the people who live in areas captured from the
Damascus government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the
country's increasingly bloody two-year civil war.

Muhammad
al-Jawlani is the leader of the al Nusra front, the State Department
said in a statement Thursday.

&quot;He
has stated in videos that his ultimate goal is the overthrow of the
Syrian regime and the institution of Islamist shari'a law
throughout the country,&quot; the statement said, adding that he had
been specially tasked by al Qaeda in Iraq to form al Nusra as a front
organization behind which al Qaeda supporters could operate in Syria.

Earlier
this year, Mr. al-Jawlani went public with the link, saying the
subterfuge was necessary for security reasons.

&quot;Under
al-Jawlani's leadership, al-Nusrah Front has carried out multiple
suicide attacks throughout Syria,&quot; said the State Department. The
group has specialized in large car bombings in
civilian neighborhoods,
outside police buildings, and security headquarters in Damascus and
other cities. &quot;Many of these attacks have killed innocent Syrian
civilians,&quot; said the department.

More
than 70,000 have died in the conflict, according to the United
Nations.

As
the violent stalemate in Syria continues, pressure has increased on
the United States and its allies to begin arming the rebels.

But
there are concerns that arms might find their way to extremist groups
like al-Nusra. Even more mainstream groups like the Omar al-Farooq
Brigade have faced criticism from human rights groups, most recently
when a
vidieo surfaced   o  f
one of their commanders eating the heart of a dead Syrian soldier and
urging his followers to &quot;kill the Alawites&quot; and &quot;eat their
hearts.&quot;

Mr.
al-Assad and some of his government and supporters are members of
Syria's Shiite minority sect, the Alawites. The Omar al-Farooq
Brigade, the al-Nusra Front and almost all other Syrian rebel
militias are Sunni Muslims and the conflict has begun to take on an
increasingly sectarian tone.

Earlier
this week, London's Daily Telegraph reported that Britain and
France were leading a push at the United Nations to get al-Nusra and
its leaders designated by the Security Council's al Qaeda sanctions
committee, which would impose a banking and asset freeze worldwide.</description>
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      <title>The 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes (720p)</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:11:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Another video about the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes, this time produced jointly by the USGS and the state of Tennessee with more of a focus on Tennessee itself.  

  The 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes were an intense intraplate earthquake series beginning with an initial pair of very large earthquakes on December 16, 1811. These earthquakes remain the most powerful earthquakes to hit the eastern United States in recorded history. These events, as well as the seismic zone of their occurrence, were named for the Mississippi River town of New Madrid, then part of the Louisiana Territory, now within Missouri.  

  There are estimates that the earthquakes were felt strongly over roughly 50,000 sq mi, and moderately across nearly 1 million square miles. The historic 1906 San Francisco earthquake, by comparison, was felt moderately over roughly 6,200 sq mi.  

 



 The 1811-1812 earthquakes 

The four earthquakes

  December 16, 1811, 2:15 a.m. (M ~7.2 - 8.1) epicenter in northeast Arkansas. It caused only slight damage to man-made structures, mainly because of the sparse population in the epicentral area. The future location of Memphis, Tennessee experienced level IX shaking on the Mercalli intensity scale. A seismic seiche propagated upriver, and Little Prairie (a village that was on the site of the former Fort San Fernando, near the site of present-day Caruthersville, Missouri) was heavily damaged by soil liquefaction.  

  December 16, 1811, 8:15 a.m. (M ~7.2-8.1) epicenter in northeast Arkansas. This shock followed the first earthquake by six hours and was similar in intensity.  

  January 23, 1812, 9 a.m. (M ~7.0-7.8) epicenter in the Missouri Bootheel. The meizoseismal area was characterized by general ground warping, ejections, fissuring, severe landslides, and caving of stream banks. Johnson and Schweig attributed this earthquake to a rupture on the New Madrid North Fault. This may have placed strain on the Reelfoot Fault.  

  February 7, 1812, 4:45 a.m. (M ~7.4-8.0) epicenter near New Madrid, Missouri. New Madrid was destroyed. At St. Louis, Missouri, many houses were severely damaged, and their chimneys were toppled. This shock was definitively attributed to the Reelfoot Fault by Johnston and Schweig. Uplift along a segment of this reverse fault created temporary waterfalls on the Mississippi at Kentucky Bend, created waves that propagated upstream, and caused the formation of Reelfoot Lake by obstructing streams in what is now Lake County, Tennessee.  


  Susan Hough, a seismologist of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), has recently estimated the earthquakes' magnitudes as &quot;right around magnitude 7. Possibly a bit below, possibly a bit above, but not as big as 7.5.&quot;  


 Eyewitness accounts 

  John Bradbury, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, was on the Mississippi on the night of December 15, 1811, and describes the tremors in great detail in his Travels in the Interior of America in the Years 1809, 1810 and 1811, published in 1817.  

      After supper, we went to sleep as usual: about ten o'clock, and in the night I was awakened by the most tremendous noise, accompanied by an agitation of the boat so violent, that it appeared in danger of upsetting ... I could distinctly see the river as if agitated by a storm; and although the noise was inconceivably loud and terrific, I could distinctly hear the crash of falling trees, and the screaming of the wild fowl on the river, but found that the boat was still safe at her moorings. By the time we could get to our fire, which was on a large flag in the stern of the boat, the shock had ceased; but immediately the perpendicular banks, both above and below us, began to fall into the river in such vast masses, as to nearly sink our boat by the swell they occasioned ... At day-light we had counted twenty-seven shocks.  

  Eliza Bryan in New Madrid, Territory of Missouri, wrote the following eyewitness account in March, 1812.  

      On the 16th of December, 1811, about two o'clock, a.m., we were visited by a violent shock of an earthquake, accompanied by a very awful noise resembling loud but distant thunder, but more hoarse and vibrating, which was followed in a few minutes by the complete saturation of the atmosphere, with sulphurious vapor, causing total darkness. The screams of the affrighted inhabitants running to and fro, not knowing where to go, or what to do-the cries of the fowls and beasts of every species-the cracking of trees falling, and the roaring of the Mississippi- the current of which was retrograde for a few minutes, owing as is supposed, to an irruption in its bed- formed a scene truly horrible.  

  John Reynolds (February 26, 1788 - May 8, 1865) who was the 4th governor of Illinois, among other political posts, mentions the earthquake in his biography My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life (1855):  

      On the night of 16th November, 1811, an earthquake occurred, that produced great consternation amongst the people. The centre of the violence was in New Madrid, Missouri, but the whole valley of the Mississippi was violently agitated. Our family all were sleeping in a log cabin, and my father leaped out of bed crying aloud &quot;the Indians are on the house&quot; ... We laughed at the mistake of my father, but soon found out it was worse than the Indians. Not one in the family knew at the time that it was an earthquake. The next morning another shock made us acquainted with it, so we decided it was an earthquake. The cattle came running home bellowing with fear, and all animals were terribly alarmed on the occasion. Our house cracked and quivered, so we were fearful it would fall to the ground. In the American Bottom many chimneys were thrown down, and the church bell in Cahokia sounded by the agitation of the building. It is said the shock of an earthquake was felt in Kaskaskia in 1804, but I did not perceive it. The shocks continued for years in Illinois, and some have experienced it this year, 1855.  

  The Shaker diarist Samuel Swan McClelland described the effects of the earthquake on the Shaker settlement at West Union (Busro), Indiana, where the earthquakes contributed to the temporary abandonment of the westernmost Shaker community.  


 Consequence of the 1811-12 earthquakes 

  Sand blows were common throughout the area, and can still be seen from the air in cultivated fields. The shockwaves propagated efficiently through the firm midwestern bedrock, with residents as far away as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk, Virginia, awakened by intense shaking.  Church bells were reported to ring as far as Boston, Massachusetts and York, Ontario (now Toronto), and sidewalks were reported to have been cracked and broken in Washington, D.C.  There were also reports of toppled chimneys in Maine.  


 Disaster relief 

  A request, dated January 13, 1812, by William Clark (famous for his exploration of the American West with Meriwether Lewis and the Corps of Discovery from 1803 to 1805), then the governor of the Louisiana Territory (the territory was renamed the Missouri Territory soon after the quake to eliminate confusion with the new state of Louisiana), asked for federal relief for the &quot;inhabitants of New Madrid County.&quot;  

      Whereas the Catalogue of miseries and afflictions, with which it has pleased the Supreme Being of the Universe to visit the inhabitants of the earth there are none more truly awful and destructive than Earthquakes ... The inhabitants of the late District now County of New Madrid, in this Territory, have lately been visited with several calamities of this kind, which have deluged large portions of their country and involved in the greatest distress many families, whilst others have been entirely ruined ... In the opinion of the said General Assembly provisions ought to be made by law for or cashiered to the said inhabitants relief, either out of the public fund or in some other way as may can meet to the cost demand availability of the General Government.  

  This is possibly the very first request that the U.S. Federal Government had received for aid from one of its territories.  


 Slave George murder 

  The earthquakes helped bring to justice the murderers of George Lewis (commonly known as &quot;Slave George&quot;). George was slain on the night of December 15-16, 1811 by two nephews of Thomas Jefferson, Lilburn Lewis and Isham Lewis, who were also relatives of Meriwether Lewis. After killing him with an axe in front of other slaves, George's owners intended to burn his remains, but the first New Madrid earthquake interrupted their effort, and so the corpse was interred in a brick chimney. The murder might well have escaped discovery by authorities, except that the January 23 and February 7 quakes caused the chimney to partially collapse, exposing George's remains. Lilburn and Isham Lewis were quickly investigated, arrested and charged. Lilburn killed himself; Isham escaped from jail and probably died during the War of 1812.  


 Geologic setting 

  The underlying cause of New Madrid earthquakes is not well understood, but modern faulting seems to be related to an ancient geologic feature buried under the Mississippi River alluvial plain, known as the Reelfoot Rift.  


 Reelfoot rift 

  The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) is made up of reactivated faults that formed when what is now North America began to split or rift apart during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia in the Neoproterozoic Era (about 750 million years ago). Faults were created along the rift and igneous rocks formed from magma that was being pushed towards the surface. The resulting rift system failed but has remained as an aulacogen (a scar or zone of weakness) deep underground. Another unsuccessful attempt at rifting 200 million years ago created additional faults, which made the area weaker. The resulting geological structures make up the Reelfoot Rift, and have since been deeply buried by younger sediments. But the ancient faults appear to have made the rocks deep in the Earth's crust in the New Madrid area mechanically weaker than much of the rest of North America.  

  This weakness, possibly combined with focusing effects from mechanically stronger igneous rocks nearby, allows the relatively small east-west compressive forces that exist in the North American plate to reactivate old faults, making the area prone to earthquakes.  

  Since other rifts are known to occur in North America's stress environment but not all are associated with modern earthquakes, (for example the Midcontinent Rift System that stretches from Minnesota to Kansas), other processes could be at work to locally increase mechanical stress on the New Madrid faults. Stress changes associated with bending of the lithosphere caused by the melting of continental glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age, has been considered to play a role, as well as downward pull from sinking igneous rock bodies below the fault. It has also been suggested that some form of heating in the lithosphere below the area may be making deep rocks more plastic, which concentrates compressive stress in the shallower subsurface area where the faulting occurs. There may be local stress from a change in the flow of the mantle beneath the NMSZ, caused by the sinking Farallon Plate, according to one model.  


 Seismic zone 

  When epicenters of modern earthquakes are plotted on a map, three trends become apparent. First is the general northeast-southwest trend paralleling the trend of the Reelfoot Rift, in Arkansas, south of where the epicenters turn northwest. This is a right-lateral strike-slip fault system parallel to the Reelfoot Rift.  

  The second is the southeast to northwest trend that occurs just southwest of New Madrid. This trend is a stepover thrust fault known as the Reelfoot Fault, associated with the Tiptonville dome and the impoundment of Reelfoot Lake. Epicenter locations on this fault are more spread out because the fault surface is inclined and dips into the ground, towards the south, at around forty degrees. Slip is towards the northeast. Motion on this fault in the 1811-1812 series created waterfalls on the Mississippi.  

  The third line, extending northeast from the northwestern end of the Reelfoot Fault is another right-lateral strike-slip fault, termed New Madrid North.  

  The epicenters of over 4,000 earthquakes can be identified from seismic measurements taken since 1974. It can be seen that the earthquakes originate from the seismic activity of the Reelfoot Rift. The zone which is colored in red on the map is called the New Madrid Seismic Zone.  


 Recent earthquakes 

4000 earthquake reports since 1974

  The zone remains active today. In recent decades minor earthquakes have continued. New forecasts estimate a 7 to 10 percent chance, in the next 50 years, of a repeat of a major earthquake like those that occurred in 1811-1812, which likely had magnitudes of between 7.5 and 8.0. There is a 25 to 40 percent chance, in a 50-year time span, of a magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquake.  


 Recurrence potential 

  In a report filed in November 2008, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in &quot;the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States,&quot; further predicting &quot;widespread and catastrophic&quot; damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and particularly Tennessee, where a 7.7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure.  

  The potential for the recurrence of large earthquakes and their impact today on densely populated cities in and around the seismic zone has prompted research devoted to understanding the New Madrid Seismic Zone. By studying evidence of past quakes and closely monitoring ground motion and current earthquake activity, scientists attempt to understand their causes and recurrence intervals.  

  The lack of apparent land movement along the New Madrid fault system has long puzzled scientists. In 2009 two studies based on eight years of GPS measurements indicated that the faults were moving at no more than 0.2 millimeters (0.0079 in) a year. In contrast, the rate of slippage on the San Andreas Fault averages as much as 37 mm (1.5 in) a year across California.  



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      <title>Mayhem In Sweden Part 3 - Riots Spread All Over Stockholm</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 03:17:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>kauan</dc:creator>
      <description>Source: http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/05/carbecues-in-the-stockholm-banlieues/

It seems that Stockholm has become the Paris of the North - but 
probably not in a way that would gladden the heart of a Swedish tourism 
minister.



A third night of rioting has engulfed the suburbs of Stockholm, 
spreading from Husby to Tensta, Kista, Rinkeby, Jakobsberg, and other 
culturally enriched neighborhoods. The Swedish and Norwegian media are 
covering the events (assiduously avoiding saying anything about the 
ethnicity or immigrant status of the perpetrators), but I'm told that 
Danish outlets have so far made no mention of what is happening in the 
capital of their Nordic neighbor. Which is curious, considering the 
Denmark is generally more open than Norway or Sweden.

Many thanks to The Observer for translating this article from Aftenposten:

More car fires and unrest in various locations in Stockholm

For the third night in a row riots have broken out in the Swedish capital.

Cars are burning in various locations in and around the city according to Swedish media reports late Tuesday night.

In addition to the car fires a barn, Husby Gard  , which 
houses a cafe and an art center, have been torched according to  Svenska Dagbladet   


According to the newspaper, the fire department is at the scene, but the building is completely ablaze.

Kindergarten is burning

Cars have been torched in several suburbs in the northwestern parts 
of Stockholm, including in Husby, Tensta and Kista, writes DN.se.  

Cars are also burning in the southwestern part of the city, according to the newspaper.

In Husby, a kindergarten was set on fire, but the fire was put out just before one o'clock on Wednesday morning, writes  Aftonbladet .

&quot;We're not used to dealing with situations like this on such a scale.
 It's hard when it spreads to different areas,&quot; says Lars-Aker Stevelin,
 leader of operations at the S&quot;odert&quot;orn fire station, to the newspaper.

 Threw rocks at the police 

Aftonbladet writes that according to police reports, rescue 
personnel in Norsborg in the southwestern part of Stockholm had rocks 
thrown at them during the riots.

DN.se writes that the police were engaged in a confrontation with 
youths outside the police station in Jakobsberg, in the northwestern 
region of Stockholm.

Youths threw objects at the police and the police station was exposed to vandalism, the newspaper writes

Third night in a row

This is the third night in a row that major unrest has erupted in and around Stockholm.

The riots allegedly started after police officers shot and killed a 
69-year-old immigrant who was threatening people with a knife   in Husby.

Several commentators have pointed, however, out that the root causes 
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      <title>Defending the IRS: MSNBC's Support Of Obama, Once An Asset, Now Puts Network In A Losing Position</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:02:36 -0400</pubDate>
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by  Joe Concha  
 8:58 am, May 16th, 2013

&quot;I do not believe what the IRS was reported to have been doing is an outrage. I believe that the IRS agents in this case did nothing wrong. Let me say it again, you won't hear it anywhere else: the IRS agents did nothing wrong. They were simply trying to enforce the law as the IRS has understood it since 1959.&quot; - Lawrence O'Donnell on the IRS.
&quot;Conservatives still want to change the subject to the fake, ginned up scandal they've been pushing month after month.&quot; -  Chris Hayes  on Benghazi.

&quot;So now they're (Republicans are) viewing an actual real world abuse of power scandal (the IRS Scandal), not as its own outrage, but as a means of supporting their preexisting witch hunt on Benghazi, which they really struggled to turn into a scandal in large part because they themselves cannot seem to settle on what the scandal even is. It's a cover-up. Just don't ask what's being covered up...&quot; -  Hayes  on the IRS Scandal being used for political gain for Republicans on...Benghazi.

&quot;Does this mean that the IRS is hereby forever neutered from doing what is, after all, the very important work of making sure that political fundraising groups are not making a laughingstock of the rules that are supposed to limit what they do? Will we ever really have an IRS doing that important work again, giving how badly they screwed up trying to do it over these past couple of years?&quot; -  Rachel Maddow  on the IRS Scandal and its potential ramifications for the agency.

And so it goes at MSNBC.  The formula worked in 2012  in turning  Mitt Romney  into  Gordon Gekko  while the network soared to its highest ratings ever. But that formula-part-attack Republicans, part-defend-the President at all costs-is a one-track record that the public-even some on the left-aren't buying. And when the choice is to join the GOP in holding the President accountable with the same passion they did when taking on Bush 43, the captains of MSNBC primetime appear to be prepared to go down with the ship...if it means embracing  that  horrific alternative.

If ratings (those slightly-important indicators that ultimately pay the bills and allow network people to keep their jobs and hosts to keep their shows on the air)  Phil Griffin 's network has experienced arguably the worst six weeks of his tenure. If you recall, Griffin declared in March he would kick his friend  Jeff Zucker's  &quot;ass&quot; in the ratings, all while overtaking Fox News-which has been number one for over a decade-within the calendar year.

At the time I commended Griffin for thinking big,  but also cautioned him to be wary of Zucker  in his rearview mirror . At that time, CNN was plodding along in third or fourth place (depending on what was going on with  Jodi Arias  and HLN). But then Boston happened and many viewers-particularly casual ones-turned to CNN. And after the terrorists were killed and captured, respectively, a funny thing happened: Audiences mostly liked what they saw on CNN and stuck around.

The result? HLN and CNN leapfrogged MSNBC in April in total viewers and the all-important 25-54 demo.

No matter. All cable networks have a bad month when breaking news or events help steer some views away. With Boston in the past, May would be the month MSNBC would rebound when things returned to normal, whatever that is.

But like a 1-2-1 jab, four huge stories hit the fan.

Benghazi Rebooted.

Adios Arias.

Cleveland Captivity and the Charles Ramsey Show.

The IRS-Targeting-Conservative-Groups Scandal.

Arias and Cleveland kidnappings helped Turner Broadcasting's CNN and HLN continue its momentum of recent weeks. Arias, of course, is the (demented)  gift that keeps on giving  for HLN, while CNN wisely dedicated resources to LeBron's former home to cover the kidnapping story extensively. And of course, Fox might as well open a bureau in Benghazi in appreciation for all of the mileage that story has provided the network in a non-election year.

So the fourth place finishes have continued for MSNBC, which (as also noted in this space recently) is a network without a narrative during said non-election year.

In short,   Phil Griffin  's network revolves around one thing: Politics. And that world just ain't that compelling unless there's ballot box somewhere in the near future.

MSNBC is also built on pointing out the hypocrisy and/or evil nature of the Republican Party and Fox News, two cornerstones of its content.

But now it is President Obama and his promise to be a completely transparent administration that is being gleefully exposed as hypocritical by the GOP and Fox.

If  Nate Silver  is the next Nostradamus, the President is already a lame-duck. Silver says Democrats have little chance to take back the house in 2014. No House control, no ability for a President-whose credibility has taken a toll over the past month for which it will be difficult to recover from-to advance anything grandiose in a second term.

In other words, the President is (to quote  Tom Cruise  in  The Firm ): &quot;...like a ship carrying a cargo that will never reach any port&quot;.

On the U.S.S. Obama is MSNBC. And in making a run at Fox and in an effort to distance itself from CNN, they simply rearranged the deck chairs by doing things like moving Chris Hayes from weekday mornings to primetime. The result has been nothing short of disastrous, as he now trails The O'Reilly Factor  by a 7-to-1 margin while failing to get 500,000 viewers per night ( Keith Olbermann , conversely, routinely generated over 1.2 million viewers before being asked to leave).

The only hope, of course, is Hillary and the  Clinton for President  2.0 2016 campaign. It was somehow the lead story on the  Chris Matthews Show  on Sunday. All complete with fat jokes about Chris Christie  (lather, rinse, repeat) from the host, who ain't exactly  Calista Flockhart himself...

Benghazi? IRS? AP phone records seized?

Nope...it's all about an election 42 months away.

Why?

Because it's a challenge to defend the President these days.

His party won't win in 2014.

He's already past tense, a lame duck.

What to do?

Either continue to defend entities like the IRS...

Or  Lean Forward  with Hillary to 2016.

- -
&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Follow Joe Concha on Twitter @ConchSports

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      <title>Iran's new drone</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:03:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Darius20190</dc:creator>
      <description>:O</description>
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      <title>HPD Officer Driving Recklessly</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 13:38:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>MrLt1</dc:creator>
      <description>I filmed this HPD officer on HWY 249 in Houston,Texas on 1/21/2013. The posted speed limit on this highway is 65 MPH. In the video you can see two units, a H.C.S.O. white dodge charger and a H.P.D. white dodge ram in the far left lane at the beginning of the video. Both officers where well in excess of the posted speed limit and pushing 100 MPH. I maintained a speed between 85-95 MPH throughout the majority of the video and as you can see, I did not gain any ground on the HPD unit. You can clearly see that there were no lights therefore no emergency. They believe they do not have to obey the traffic laws as we do and its about time this behavior stops.

On 5/17/2013 I missed an opportunity to record yet another officer on the same highway, driving on the shoulder during rush hour because he did not want to wait in traffic like everyone else. Once again, no lights, no emergency. There are officers on a daily basis hiding on the feeder road to the right of the HWY waiting to catch people doing exactly this and when they catch them they write them a big fat ticket. 

There is not much we can do as citizens to stop this behavior, but the least we can do is record and expose the hypocrisy. 
Thanks for watching!

HPD UNIT #38695
PLATE #106 5419</description>
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      <title>My Pissed Off bitching And Raising Hell Form Of A Yoursay The Best Way I Can</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:26:56 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8cf_1369134957</link>
      <dc:creator>star53</dc:creator>
      <description>If the video doesn't get rejected or deleted.Attention LL Hayden...reply to my support ticket said...I'm sure Hayden would like to hear from you..So..HERE YA GO.</description>
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        <media:category label="Tags">OUT OF HAND,BIASED, AGENDA DRIVEN, UNFAIR,MODERATOR, THAT TARGETS,CERTAIN LIVE LEAK,CONTRIBUTORS,APPROVES,THEN REJECT, DELETS, VIDEO POST, THAT MEET T.O.S.</media:category>
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      <title>No margin for error.</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:04:24 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=931_1369144817</link>
      <dc:creator>Mr Ebk</dc:creator>
      <description>On board with  Ander Vilari~no's BMW for some Euro hill climbing action.</description>
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        <media:title>No margin for error.</media:title>
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      <title>Death Threats Against Man Who Supposedly Planted Drugs On Adam Kokesh</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:00:21 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=47b_1369129915</link>
      <dc:creator>sixhundredn66</dc:creator>
      <description>During the last couple of days since the Arrest of Agent Provocateur Adam Kokesh a lot of his followers have come out issuing death threats to Don DeZarn who supposedly planted drugs on Kokesh during the 5th Smoke Down event in Philadelphia this year.

It has now been admitted (even by Kokesh's own Facebook and himself) that Don De Zarn has it fact not planted any drugs on him and neither did he attempt to.

Kokesh is being charged with resisting arrest since he remained in a stiff body position while continuing to incite attendees o the smoke down rallye to 'break the law' and smoke in front of the police. Only a few months ago, Kokesh had to retract publicly from a statement he made concerning his opinion that ordinary citizens should kill police officers who may be taking away their guns. Kokesh still plans to organize an armed march through Washington D.C on July 4th, a clear violation of Washington State laws.

Here is an explanation video from Don De Zarn
</description>
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      <title>RACECARD</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:08:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Bricksnsticks</dc:creator>
      <description>Usage 
In the less critical sense, the phrase is commonly used in two 
contexts. In the first, and more common context, it alleges that someone
 has deliberately and falsely accused another person of being a racist 
in order to gain some sort of advantage.    An example of this use of the term occurred during the  O. J. Simpson   murder trial , when critics accused the defense of &amp;quot;playing the race card&amp;quot;    in presenting  Mark Fuhrman 's past (e.g., his recorded use of the word &amp;quot; ***** &amp;quot; in addition to his being accused of tampering with murder evidence in prior cases, as well as his use of the  Fifth Amendment  to avoid potential self-incrimination upon questioning) as a reason to draw his credibility as a witness into question.
In the second context, it refers to someone exploiting  prejudice  against another race for political or some other advantage. The use of the  southern strategy  by a political candidate is said by some to be a version of playing the race card, such as when former Senator  Jesse Helms , during his 1990  North Carolina  Senate campaign, ran an ad showing a black man taking a white man's job, intended as a criticism of the idea of  racial quotas . The ad was interpreted by many people as trying to play to racist fears among white voters.


Stanford professor Richard Thompson Ford has argued that the race 
card can be played independent of the person making the claim, or the 
race in question. An example cited was the Hillary Clinton campaign 
claiming that Obama won the 2008 Democratic Primary in  South Carolina  due to the disproportionate number of black registered Democrats in the state, implying more racism in the general population.   
George Dei, Karumanchery, et alia, in the book  Playing the Race Card     argue that the term itself is a  rhetorical device  used in an effort to devalue and minimize claims of racism.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_card


Obama Claims He's Visited 57 States



At a campaign event in Beaverton, OR, Obama claimed to have visited 57 U.S. states during the campaign.



http://youtu.be/EpGH02DtIws</description>
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      <title>Dedicated to Danny Jock:  A Garden Yoursay from RickBond!</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:36:01 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a18_1369084253</link>
      <dc:creator>RickBond</dc:creator>
      <description>If you don't like veggie gardens, please skip this item!

Corn varieties:  Golden Cross Bantam, Early Sunglow, Kandy Korn, Sugar Dots

Pumpkin:  Cucurbita Maxima

Zucchini:  Spineless Beauty

Tomato varieties:  Cherry, Creole, Big Beef, Goliath

Eggplant:  Epic F1

Bell Pepper varieties:  Red, Big Bertha, Bonne Green, Orange, Yummy Snacking, &amp;amp; 3 more unknown types

Cantaloupe varieties:  Super 45 Hybrid, Hale's Best Jumbo, Ambrosia F1

CORRECTIONS:
I said nothing was planted after March.  
In fact, The Cajun Bell Pepper and the Jumbo Jalape~no were planted a week or two ago.  
That last Artichoke was planted yesterday.
I said Banana Bell Pepper, when I should have said Banana Pepper

Yes, yes I know the corn area needs weeding!</description>
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      <title>Gaza Strip has shortage of rocks</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:59:09 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b12_1369099796</link>
      <dc:creator>Franky_be_nice</dc:creator>
      <description>Palestinian's are known for throwing rocks, so many have been thrown over the years that there is now a shortage. Israelian Citizens are now taking full advantage, truck loads a day have recently been sent into the Gaza Strip for a marginal profit. Palestinian of the O distract 'Shaive Me-Sphinctor' is in Israelian custody and appears to be the 'O' ring leader.</description>
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