http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=ruse Sat, 25 May 2013 09:23:27 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=ruse Fri, 24 May 2013 22:15:21 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d6a_1369447953 SAPD_HRT When police put an appeal for a wanted teenager on Facebook, they were hoping for tip-offs from the public. They probably didn't expect the criminal himself to reply, saying: 'Catch me if you can.' But the officers had the last laugh when they arrested Sam Greenwood just 12 hours later...and added their own riposte: 'Caught you. Do not pass Go, do not collect lb200, go straight to jail.' Police wanted Greenwood, 19, for breaching the terms of his release after he was locked up earlier this year for driving while disqualified and with no insurance. Officers from Greater Manchester Police put out an appeal on the official GMP Rochdale North Facebook page, alongside Greenwood's photograph. The next day Greenwood wrote underneath: 'Catch me if you can.' Police urged him to hand himself in, posting: 'You are a talented young man. Don't waste your life away. So many people are willing to help you - but you've got to start helping yourself.' Greenwood failed to heed their advice, but was spotted by officers out on patrol and placed back behind bars. They then returned to Facebook to respond a second time: 'Caught you. Do not pass Go, do not collect lb200, go straight to jail.' Inspector Umer Khan of Rochdale North said: 'Unfortunately this man was always going to be a hostage to fortune once he decided to goad us on Facebook. I tried my best to coax him into handing himself in, but he seemed determined to remain at large. 'Thankfully, we managed to track him down in no time at all and he is now back where he belongs for the time being - behind bars.' Greenwood, from Rochdale, was sentenced to four months in a Young Offenders' Institute in January after his driving conviction. He was freed on licence last month, but failed to attend mandatory appointments at Rochdale Probation Service. He is not the first criminal to regret his Facebook use. In March, thief Anthony Swinburn, 28, was caught days after he mocked up his own wanted poster and posted it on the social networking site. He was subsequently jailed for 16 months. Last year Michael Ruse, 21, was forced to change his plea to guilty after he posted a comment telling a friend he was 'going to get away with it' during his trial for assault. Judge Ian Pearson, sitting at Portsmouth Crown Court, told him: 'You were stupid enough to put on Facebook what amounted to a full confession. Your stupidity really is not much mitigation.' Paramedic Mark Small boasted on the site that he groped a patient's breasts whilst resuscitating her, writing: 'Saved someone's life and managed to cop a feel of some cracking jubblies.' A complaint was made and he was found guilty of misconduct by the Health Professions Council. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326167/Facebook-taunt-criminal-results-captured.html#ixzz2UGacvob0 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d6a_1369447953 SAPD_HRT Catch me if you can! Criminal taunted police on Facebook... Facebook, Taunt, Police, Sun, 19 May 2013 16:28:37 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f7_1368993857 amy2x Memorandum explains how UN will oversee "complete disarmament" of American people under the ruse of preventing war.UN Arms Treaty has caused so much controversy because it outlines a plan to target "all types of conventional weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons". VIDEO AT THIS LINK BLOWS THE LID OFF EVERYTHING(Documented PROOF); http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/05/troops-ordered-to-kill-all-americans-who-do-not-turn-in-guns-5-2653978.html "UN Gun Grab Follows State Department Plan "Complete disarmament" of the American people " The UN Arms Trade Treaty that has been identified by observers as a flagrant threat to the second amendment and which Barack Obama is determined to sign has its roots in a 1961 State Department memorandum which explains how the United Nations will oversee "complete disarmament" of the American people under the ruse of preventing war. The UN Arms Treaty has caused so much controversy because it outlines a plan to target "all types of conventional weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons," according to Forbes' Larry Bell. Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton also warns that the agreement "is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there is no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control." A letter sent last month by 130 Republican House members to President Obama argued that the treaty should be rejected because it infringes on the "fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms". The letter adds that "...the U.N.'s actions to date indicate that the ATT is likely to pose significant threats to our national security, foreign policy, and economic interests as well as our constitutional rights." Using the rhetoric of the threat post by terrorists, insurgents and "international crime syndicates," the UN is busy trying to imply that all weapons are somehow involved in illegal activity on a global scale and should therefore be controlled and regulated by a global authority. This is precisely the same language used in a 1961 U.S. State Department briefing which outlined a long term agenda to carry out a "Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World." Invoking the threat of nuclear warfare, the document spells out a plan to create a "United Nations Peace Force" that would "enforce the peace as the disarmament process proceeds." While the document initially focuses on scrapping nuclear weapons, it later makes it clear that the only groups allowed to own weapons of any kind would be governing authorities, "for the purpose of maintaining internal order," and the UN "peacekeeping" force itself, which would require "agreed manpower." "The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N. Peace Force and those required to maintain internal order. All other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes," states the document. While the memorandum outlines a broader mandate to destroy national sovereignty, eviscerate national armies and institute the UN as the planet's supreme authority with a world army, the document serves as a stark reminder that the plan for the United Nations to oversee the abolition of the second amendment has been in the works for decades. As Bell points out in his Forbes article, the threat of the Obama administration relying on a UN treaty to do what successive administrations have tried but failed to accomplish - taking a huge bite out of the second amendment - is by no means far fetched. After all, a plethora of UN treaties and international agreements have already stripped the United States of its sovereignty and its power to decide its own laws. The power to authorize U.S. involvement in wars and conflicts has now been almost completely stripped from Congress and handed to the United Nations. Following Barack Obama's arrogant rebuff of Congress in seeking approval to strike Libya, during which he churlishly remarked, "I don't even have to get to the Constitutional question," Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta affirmed that the U.S. now requires "international permission" before deciding on its military policy. Other Obama-endorsed UN power grabs like the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) as well as Agenda 21 and sustainable development are also serving to decimate national sovereignty and remain almost completely under the radar. You only need to look at the European Union, which now crafts around 50 per cent of the laws made in member states like Britain, to understand how unelected global institutions can and have dictated policy on a national level. The UN Arms Trade Treaty presents an existential threat to the guns rights of American citizens and should be rejected for what it is - yet another attempt by the Obama administration, in the aftermath of the Fast and Furious scandal, to abolish the second amendment by stealth. ********************* Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News. .. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f7_1368993857 amy2x Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns!(NEWS STORY) un disarmament,un disarmament commission,un disarmament treaty,un disarmament resolutions,un disarmament fellowship,alex jones,un conference disarmament,disarmament treaties Wed, 15 May 2013 22:00:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=242_1368669400 Detroit Iron by JOHN NOLTE 15 May 2013, 10:26 AM PDT For months, conservative media has been howling over the falsehood that the Accountability Review Board (ARB) offered a thorough investigation into the September 11 terror attack in Benghazi. The most frustrating part is that in order to ignore the legions of unanswered questions surrounding Libya, Obama and his media (most famously Slate's Dave Weigel , who used the report to say GOP claims of a cover up were "pure fiction") have hid behind the ARB's report as though it were definitive.On Monday, President Obama tried this ruse again. But now that the media has finally woken up from a five-year infatuation, he isn't getting away with it. PolitiFact has labeled as "mostly false," Obama's claim that.... Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of Here is PolitiFact's reasoning: While the did investigate numerous angles of the security issues, it didn't look at who perpetrated the attack, nor did it probe the administration's public communications afterward. No less an authority than the board's co-chairman undercut Obama's sweeping claim that the board "investigated every element" with repeated comments on three Sunday shows. On balance, we rate Obama's claim Mostly False. Oh how times have changed. Back in December, Weigel could get away with using the ARB report to falsely claim the Administration had been cleared of a cover up, even though the ARB didn't even look into the possibility of a cover up. Today, Obama can't even get away with it. By the way, this is the second falsehood the President of the United States has been caught telling this week. And it is only Wednesday. Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/05/15/PolitiFact-Obama-Claim-Benghazi-Thoroughly-Reviewd-Pure-Fiction http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=242_1368669400 Detroit Iron POLITIFACT: OBAMA CLAIM BENGHAZI REVIEW BOARD 'INVESTIGATED EVERY ELEMENT' IS PURE FICTION Accountability Review Board, Libya, Obama Mon, 06 May 2013 17:40:14 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c82_1367875255 Setright Jamraayaa is a town to the northwest of the capital which is home to a civilian/military research complex. The Special Forces training center shown in the map is Al-Qutayfa. Evidence indicates that the Israelis either used ground-to-ground missiles (cruise missiles, least likely) or fired missiles from F-16 fighter-bombers at the complex killing scores of civilians (most likely). SyrPer can confirm to its readers that Syria does not establish important military production centers so close to the borders of Palestine. The important centers for research and development are found in Al-Sufayra (near Aleppo) and Homs. The reasons for this should be obvious to anyone. The timing of the attack coincided with what the Israelis claimed was a Syrian convoy hauling new, &quot;game-changing&quot; equipment to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Some have surmised that the equipment was the Faateh 110, a refurbished and highly-accurate strategic missile capable of striking Israeli infrastructure. Given Israels past conduct, its indifference to international law and custom, the Syrian government is fully aware of the danger of transporting such equipment via the route suggested by the media. In fact, the Syrian government is fully aware that American spy satellites regularly &quot; surveil&quot; this area and share Intel with the Israel on a regular basis. We know, at SyrPer, that Damascus does not deliver weapons to Hezbollah in this way. We can confirm that such weapons systems are delivered through other routes, with the loads almost always in an &quot;unassembled&quot; state. We do not believe the story being bandied about by Western media. The attack on Jamraayaa could not have been for the purposes proclaimed. Instead, we believe that the Israel was deliberately provoking the Syrian Air Defense Command to fire an S-300 at an F-16 in an effort to discover guidance data that would enable the U.S. to &quot;break&quot; Syria's formidable air defense network. We note that theIsraeli jets flew in a pattern that would allow their pilots to land in Occupied Palestine if they were struck by an S-300 missile. But the Syrian Air Defense Command did not fall for the ruse. With this in mind, we recommend that President Putin begin sending Russian military units to Syria to make it clear to Obama, and his associates, that this is a run-up to WWIII if the West doesn't learn to accept the fact that the Syrian people are behind Bashar Al-Assad and against the puppet US appointed Syrian National Council The Russians have been too meek. It should be obvious from Sunday's attack that someone is trying to bate the bear but should so only at his own peril. I don't think Syria will respond any more than it responded to previous Israeli provocations, such as the attack on Al-Kibar south of Dayr El-Zor where Israel claimed Syria was developing nuclear components for a bomb! Other violations of International law took place at Jamraayaa in 2012, Latakia and southwestern Damascus. The US government believes Turkey and Israel are able to implement what we called some time ago the &quot;Obama Proxy Doctrine&quot;. Believe us when we say that the Obama Administration is playing a dangerous game,and is only going to take the U.S.A. down the path to its own destruction as he pursues policies not originating in Washington D.C. but in the interests of Israel. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c82_1367875255 Setright THE ZIONIST ATTACK ON JAMRAAYAA INDICATES THE FSA ALLIANCE IS LOSING NOT ONLY THE WAR BUT, ALSO, ITS TOUCH WITH REALITY PT 1 WORLD NEWS, MIDDLE EAST, SYRIA Mon, 06 May 2013 01:18:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cc9_1367817217 Nazel_Hut Plus poll ! (also options for the hypocrites!!) Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, who once served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff, believes that the chemical weapons used in Syria may have been an Israeli "false flag" operation aimed at implicating Bashar Assad 's regime. Wilkerson made his astounding assertion in an interview on Current TV , the network once owned by former Vice President Al Gore and recently purchased by Al-Jazeera. Wilkerson said that the evidence that it was Assad's regime that had used the chemical weapons was "flaky" and that it could very well have been the rebels or Israel who were the perpetrators. Asked why Israel would do such a thing, Wilkerson said: "I think we've got a basically geostrategically, geopolitical inept regime in Tel Aviv right now." "I think we saw really startling evidence of that," Wilkerson continued, "in the fact that President Obama had to tell Bibi Netanyahu 'Pick up the phone, you idiot, call Ankara and get yourself out of this strategic isolation you're in right now." A "false flag" operation is a covert attack on foreign or domestic soil carried out by governments or organizations under a false identity, aimed at placing blame on the enemy. It originates with a ruse once used in naval warfare in which ships would hoist the enemy's flags in order to infiltrate his ranks. Wilkerson, 63, a former Army helicopter pilot who flew combat missions in Vietnam, served as Colin Powell's chief of staff in 2002-2005. He was responsible for reviewing the intelligence information used by Powell in his by now infamous February 2003 United Nations Security Council appearance on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. After his retirement, Wilkerson described this presentation as "a hoax" and became an outspoken critic of the Bush Administration's handling of the Iraq war. He now serves as a professor at Virginia's William and Mary College and is a guest commentator on several U.S. television networks. Speaking on the Current's Young Turks program, Wilkerson said that because of the instability in the Middle East, Israel's current geo-strategic situation is "as dangerous as it's been since 1948." He added that President Obama "has got to be very circumspect about what he does in exacerbating that situation." "Netanyahu is clueless as to this," Wilkerson said. "I hope President Obama gave him a lecture in geostrategic realities." http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/former-bush-administration-official-israel-may-be-behind-use-of-chemical-arms-in-syria.premium-1.519172 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cc9_1367817217 Nazel_Hut Former Bush administration official: Israel may be behind use of chemical arms in Syria liar, or , not, wtf Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:03:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db4_1367024331 rodnilb This is a protest from Sofia where protesters have gathered people from Varna, Vraca, Blagoevgrad, Pavlikeni, Ruse, and even from Solun, Greece. All together they protest in Sofia to remove the national government of the country and requests for government of Bulgaria of the people by the people. People do not want to have a political parties, and they want to take power into their own hands, as 23 years have been lied to by all the political parties, and want to be judged all the blame politicians for their actions. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db4_1367024331 rodnilb Bulgaria - People from all over Bulgaria gathered in Sofia to protest together for a common cause. Bulgaria, Varna, Sofia, Protest, Protests, TIM, TIM Group Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:09:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e5c_1366178890 jason16 In late March, with a group of students attending the London School of Economics, an undercover BBC journalist named John Sweeney surreptitiously entered North Korea, where he and a cameraman filmed segments for an upcoming documentary. When LSE officials discovered the ruse, they delivered a blistering email to the school's student body, reading in part, BBC's actions may have seriously compromised the future ability of LSE students and staff to undertake legitimate study of North Korea. LSE students were put in serious danger if the subterfuge had been uncovered prior to their departure from North Korea. However, were these very real dangers worth the risk? The hazards - even those to which the LSE students were exposed - were an appropriate cost of documenting the conditions inside North Korea. The other, and perhaps more pressing, ethical consideration is North Korea itself. The secluded military state operates almost entirely as a black site, hidden from international scrutiny, and systematically dispatches dissidents, including Christians, to brutal working camps where prisoners carry out life sentences. North Koreans continue to suffer from food shortages instigated by a state-sponsored rationing system. The country's leaders delight in threatening both the U.S. and its geographic neighbors with nuclear annihilation. In light of these actions and threats you can begin to see how Sweeney and the BBC justified the trip, and the alleged deceptions involved in arranging it. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2013/apr/15/bbc-panorama-north-korea-video) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e5c_1366178890 jason16 BBC &quot;North Korea undercover&quot; world news Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:26:20 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ea_1365347674 dacian SEOUL: A top South Korean security official said on Sunday that North Korea may test-launch a missile this week, as the United States delayed its own missile test due to soaring tensions on the peninsula. Kim Jang-soo, chief national security adviser toPresident Park Geun-hye , said a test-launch or other provocation could come before or after Wednesday, the date by which the North has suggested that diplomats leave Pyongyang. North Korea, incensed by UN sanctions following its nuclear and missile tests and by South Korean-US military drills, has issued a series of apocalyptic threats of nuclear war in recent weeks. It has also reportedly loaded two medium-range missiles on mobile launchers and hidden them inunderground facilities near its east coast, raising speculation it is preparing for a provocative launch. "There are no signs of a full-scale war as of now, but the North will have to prepare for retaliation in case of any local war," said Kim. The spate of threats was intended to force the South and the United States to reach out with face-saving concessions, he said. Diplomats fear the rhetoric has created a situation which could spiral out of control, and the US delayed an intercontinental ballistic missile test to avoid stoking tensions with the North. A US defence official said defense secretary Chuck Hagel postponed the Minuteman 3 test at Vandenberg air force base until next month due to concerns it "might be misconstrued by some as suggesting that we were intending to exacerbate the current crisis with North Korea". And, South Korea and the US postponed a major military meeting due to take place in Washington, Seoul's military said on Sunday, reportedly due to fear of a provocation while Seoul's military chief is away. Diplomats in Pyongyang huddled at the weekend to discuss a warning from the North's authorities that their safety could not be guaranteed after April 10 if a conflict broke out. Most of their governments have made it clear they have no immediate plans to withdraw personnel, and some suggested the advisory was a ruse to fuel growing global anxiety over the crisis. German foreign minister Guido Westerwelle on Sunday reiterated that "any deadline after which North Korea would no longer ensure the security of embassies is unacceptable", his ministry said. British foreign secretary William Hague said he saw no immediate need to withdraw his country's diplomats. Hague also told the BBC the North is showing no sign of gearing up for "all-out conflict" by repositioning its armed forces, and called for calm. He said there was a "danger of miscalculation by the North Korean regime which has worked itself up into this frenetic state of rhetoric in recent weeks and the danger that they would believe their own paranoid rhetoric". "But it's also important to stress that the international response to this, including our response, must be clear, united and calm," Hague added. China is the North's sole major ally but its patience with Pyongyang also shows signs of wearing thin. Foreign minister Wang Yi said China opposes "provocative words and actions" from any party in the region and would "not allow troublemaking on China's doorstep", in sharply worded comments on Saturday to UN chief Ban Ki-moon. Beijing said it had asked the North to ensure the safety of its diplomats. The North's mobilized missiles are reported to be untested Musudan models which are believed to have a range of around 1,860 miles (3,000 kilometres) that could theoretically be pushed to 2,485 miles with a light payload. That would cover any target in South Korea and Japan, and possibly even US military bases on the Pacific island of Guam. The North has no proven intercontinental ballistic missile capability that would enable it to strike more distant US targets, and many experts say it is unlikely it can even mount a nuclear warhead on a mid-range missile. After non-stop escalation including the public deployment of US warships and planes to the region, the Pentagon move was a welcome measure to cool tensions, said Yang Moo-jin from Seoul's University of North Korean Studies. "The US military may have felt that now was the time to pace itself after weeks of hectic military confrontation," he told AFP. "If the North really launches intermediate-range missiles as widely feared, the US may be partially blamed for having pushed it to take such drastic action by deploying extremely threatening weaponry near the Korean peninsula." Western tourists returning from organized tours in Pyongyang - which have continued despite the tensions - said the situation there appeared calm. "We're glad to be back but we didn't feel frightened when we were there," said Tina Krabbe, from Denmark. Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/North-Koreas-missile-launch-may-be-imminent-South-says/articleshow/19430527.cms http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2ea_1365347674 dacian North Korea's missile launch may be imminent, winning the chicken game North Korea, USA, war, chicken Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:44:16 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a86_1365313127 dacian Published time: April 07, 2013 00:36 Edited time: April 07, 2013 04:27The Pentagon has put on hold an intercontinental ballistic missile test in California, planned for next week, citing rising tensions with North Korea. According to an official, speaking to AP on condition of anonymity, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has expressed concern that performing any tests at present could be misconstrued and lead to an escalation of the situation with North Korea. He therefore, decided to postpone the 'Minuteman 3' missile test until next month, the official said on Friday - although the test itself bears no connection to the ongoing military exercises between South Korea and the US around the Korean Peninsula. The defense official added that "this is the logical, prudent and responsible course of action to take." The 450 'Minuteman 3' missiles America has can circle the globe, and are part of the three branches of the US nuclear arsenal. Other such weapons include submarine-launched ballistic missiles and those capable of being launched by bombers and stealth bombers, like the B-52 and the B-2. Some of the latest developments in the current escalation of war rhetoric between the United States and North Korea have included Pyongyang declaring that it now has final approval for a nuclear strike on US bases in the Pacific and South Korea. The announcement earlier this week came on the heels of the US deploying its F-22 fighter jets, a 'USS Fitzgerald' destroyer, and strengthening its missile defenses in the region. In the meantime, North Korea has sent out a proposal to all foreign embassies on its territory to evacuate, although, so far no embassy has done so. "The security of the German embassy and its exposure to danger are continually being evaluated," the German Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "For now, the embassy can continue working." Currently, about two dozen countries have embassies in North Korea. Most of the represented governments have already made it clear they had no immediate plans to withdraw personnel; some suggested the advisory was just a ruse to fuel growing global anxiety over the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula. "We believe they have taken this step as part of their country's rhetoric that the US poses a threat to them," a British Foreign Office spokeswoman said. Tensions are now higher than they have been at any moment during this latest standoff, which followed Pyongyang's third mid-range missile test in February, provoking international condemnation and a fresh round of UN Security Council sanctions, to which Pyongyang has replied with the threat of a nuclear strike on the US. Last week, Pyongyang declared it had entered a state of war with its southern neighbor, following an earlier decision to withdrawal from the 60-year armistice that ended the Korean War. North Korea had previously threatened to pull out of the 1953 armistice if the South did not halt a joint annual military exercise with the US. Despite the worrying rhetoric and the displays of military power between the two countries, Washington says it has no evidence of North Korea engaging in any kind of mobilization effort for a large-scale attack. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a86_1365313127 dacian US delays intercontinental missile test over N. Korea tensions North Korea, USA, war, chicken Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:47:23 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8a0_1228261415 fisher420 by: The Dayton Daily News Before the election, there was lots of fretting that things could go really badly in Ohio and that the state could end up looking like Florida in 2000. People said that in 2004, too, and what do you want to bet that they'll say it in 2012? But Election Day went fine, thank you very much, and, for that, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and the 88 county boards of elections deserve kudos. Even though turnout wasn't as heavy as the predictions suggested, there were lawsuits and directives to respond to and conspiracy theorists to counter. Meanwhile, implementing the change that allowed people to vote early - without having to offer an explanation - put huge new demands on elections officials as they were trying to gear up for Election Day itself. Notwithstanding the success, some lawmakers want Ohioans to believe that something needs to be fixed - right now. They're proposing to make changes in the early voting law in a lame-duck session of the legislature, rather than follow Secretary Brunner's request that everyone sit tight until after a December conference designed to be a bipartisan post-game wrap-up. She wants to put together one piece of legislation and make any fixes all at once, when the new legislature takes over next year. Republicans are not prepared to wait. They're adamant about changing a law that they themselves wrote in 2005 that - inadvertently - allows people to register and vote in the same visit for a one-week window about a month before the actual election. They say this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone opens the door to fraud because there's no time for boards of elections to check out a new registrant's information. The rush to pass the legislation stems from two things. Democrats are taking over the Ohio House of Representatives in January. They're more supportive of so-called "instant voting" rules. So, even though Secretary Brunner, a Democrat, says she'll support eliminating the short time when people can register and vote, Republicans know she can't control Democratic lawmakers. Moreover, Republicans have been eager to make Secretary Brunner out to be inept and/or corrupt in anticipation of trying to take her down in two years. She's up for re-election then, and if she and Gov. Strickland are both re-elected, Democrats would have the upper hand in a group that draws state legislative district boundaries. The dominant party in that process tries to draw districts that will give it a better chance of winning seats in the Ohio Legislature. The Republicans' leading candidate to run against Secretary Brunner is Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted, of Kettering. He's already starting to compile his list of criticisms of Secretary Brunner. If he helps pass a law that remedies the potential "fraud" that Republican partisans have been hyping, that would be good for his political resume. (But, again, remember it was the Republicans who didn't check the calendar to determine what they were doing three years ago when they created the overlap allowing registration and voting simultaneously.) Another issue at hand is whether to allow county boards of elections to set up more than one polling place for early voters to cast their ballots. Having just one spot - which is all the law allows now - makes for long lines. And one thing is for sure: Many people who voted early this year will want to do so again. No sense making the process a cattle call. Elections are supposed to be political. The administration of them, however, should be resolutely nonpartisan. Rushing piecemeal bills through just so Republicans can say they fixed something is overstating the problem and overreacting. Many in Ohio registered and voted the same day during early voting. Ohio Republicans now want to change this provision and ban registration at early voting, claiming it results in increased voter fraud. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8a0_1228261415 fisher420 GOP Rush to Change Voting Rules Is <span class="highlight">Ruse</span> GOP, Voting, Ruse, Failure, Disgrace Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:28:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=243_1286400375 EL_T0R0 Three men were arraigned today in Detroit's 36th District Court in the carjacking of an elderly couple in Detroit last week, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor's office. Najee Williams, 18, Brandon Brown, 21, both of Detroit, were charged with carjacking, two counts of robbery not armed and assault with intent to do great bodily harm in the carjacking of Laverne and Harris Blow, both 73, in the driveway of their Boston-Edison home on Thursday. Louis Anthony Ware, 26, also of Detroit, was charged with being an accessory after the fact. Williams and Brown were each given $500,000 cash bonds and Ware was given a $250,000 cash bond. Their preliminary exams are set for Oct. 14, according to the prosecutor's office. The men allegedly used a Meals on Wheels truck Thursday morning on the city's east side, drove it to the Boston-Edison neighborhood, where they pretended to offer the Blows food before carjacking them in their driveway. Read more: 3 arraigned in Meals on Wheels carjack ruse | freep.com | Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/20101005/NEWS01/101005062/1003/news01/3-arraigned-in-Meals-on-Wheels-carjack-ruse#ixzz11cHIPu00 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=243_1286400375 EL_T0R0 3 arraigned in Meals on Wheels carjack <span class="highlight">ruse</span> Meals on Wheels ,carjack Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:01:01 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=65a_1201593661 theblue8 In Cold War Spy Games, a Coup for the CIA Wasn't All It Seemed BERLIN -- On a rainy day 52 years ago, the cover was blown on one of the biggest espionage plots of the Cold War. Soviet and East German forces announced that they had found a quarter-mile-long tunnel that the CIA had burrowed into East Berlin as part of a massive wiretapping operation. Though the audacious project had come to a crashing end, news of the discovery generated unrestrained glee across the Atlantic at CIA headquarters. America's spymasters were thrilled by the world's response: admiration for the CIA's daring and technical prowess, and a general assumption that the agency had roundly snookered the Soviets. "Worldwide reaction was outstandingly favorable in terms of enhancement of U.S. prestige," the CIA wrote in an internal history of the Berlin Tunnel project that was declassified last year and recently made public. Western allies in particular reacted with "unconcealed delight to this indication that the U.S., almost universally regarded as a stumbling neophyte in espionage matters, was capable of a coup against the Soviet Union, which had long been the acknowledged master in such matters." In terms of telephonic engineering and sheer skulduggery, the CIA's tunnel was a marvelous accomplishment. Begun in August 1954 under a makeshift warehouse in the Rudow sector of West Berlin, near a field of hovels built amid wartime rubble by German refugees, the mole hole was secretly dug over a period of 18 months. It extended 300 yards into the Soviet sector. Aided by British intelligence, the tunnelers tapped into three large cables that carried most of the telephone and telegraph traffic between East Berlin and points farther afield, including Moscow. For nearly a year, U.S. and British spies recorded the communists' communications, amassing more than 25 tons of magnetic tape that were culled for clues by hundreds of translators and processors in Washington and London. More than a half-century later, however, scholars and spies are still arguing over which side really succeeded in pulling the wool over the other's eyes. The debate, revived in part by the recent release of the CIA's internal history of the operation, underscores how public perceptions are often more important in espionage than the value of stolen secrets. "It was all part of the bigger game between the Americans and the Soviets during the Cold War," said Bernd Stoever, a historian at the University of Potsdam who studies the conflict. "Spying was something like a contest, in which they showed each other who was better at playing the game. They were happy to show the public that they were professionals in this secret spy war, in which normally they can't talk about anything." After exposing the tunnel on April 22, 1956, the Soviets and East Germans immediately tried to squeeze out a propaganda victory. They held a news conference -- something the Soviet military almost never did -- and invited reporters from both sides of the border to attend. In the ensuing weeks, as Washington remained silent about its complicity, the communist authorities paraded 50,000 East Berliners through the tunnel to give them a firsthand glimpse of the enemy's "filthy trick," as one East German official put it. At the CIA, however, the spooks were elated that the communists had gone public. Planners had assumed they would find the tunnel eventually but hush it up. "It was felt that for the Soviets to admit that the U.S. had been reading their high level communications circuits would cause the Soviets to lose face," according to the CIA's internal account of the episode, which was written in 1967 and 1968. "Perhaps fortunately, fate intervened, and as a possible consequence, the Soviet course of action was exactly contrary to expectation." The truth was much more complicated. Unbeknownst to the CIA, the Soviets had known about the tunnel all along. Before breaking ground, the CIA had made the mistake of discussing its plans with George Blake, a high-ranking British intelligence official. In 1961, Blake was exposed as a mole for the KGB who had betrayed the identities of hundreds of British agents, as well as plans for the tunnel project. According to a book co-written by Blake's KGB handler, Sergei A. Kondrashev, Soviet intelligence officials were highly concerned about the risk of exposing their source. They worried that suspicions might be aroused if they "discovered" the tunnel too quickly, so they let the operation proceed unmolested. Heavy rains that damaged one of the cables in the spring of 1956 gave them an excuse to inspect the communications lines and make it appear as if they had stumbled across the tunnel. So it was the CIA that was snookered: According to an August 1956 internal memo, the CIA concluded that the Soviet detection of the tapping scheme had been "purely fortuitous and was not the result of a penetration of the U.S. or U.K. agencies concerned." Blake's exposure as a double agent five years later led to a reappraisal of the wiretapping project: Had it generated any real secrets? Or had the Soviets fed disinformation through the cables? In his book, Kondrashev said the cable traffic was genuine and that the Soviets hadn't dared transmit false material for fear of compromising Blake. But scholars remain uncertain. "It's going to be hard to know for sure until we have more information on the Soviet side," said Christian F. Ostermann, director of the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. "That story is still to be told." Meanwhile, despite the passage of time, the tunnel keeps turning up. In 2005, a German construction crew stumbled upon a buried section of the steel-reinforced passageway while building a highway to Berlin's Schoenefeld airport. It was excavated and taken to the Allied Museum in the former West Berlin, where a major exhibit was held a year later on the 50th anniversary of the tunnel's discovery. Blake, who escaped from a British prison in 1966 and fled to Moscow, is still alive but has never divulged exactly what he told the KGB. In November, in honor of his 85th birthday, he received the Order of Friendship, the highest award that can be given to a noncitizen, from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Washington Post News Article Declassified CIA Documents on Berlin Tunnel http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=65a_1201593661 theblue8 The East Berlin Tunnel: Whose <span class="highlight">Ruse</span>? Berlin Tunnel, KGB, CIA, Spy, Cold War, Wire Tapping, Espionage, Soviet Union, Germany