September 9, Canada’s Vancouver Island felt a 6.7 quake, according to the USGS.
Many Canadians on the mainland said they didn’t notice. The epicenter was 175 miles (281.6 km) west of the city of Vancouver, and 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Port Alice, British Columbia.
The unincorporated U.S. territory of Puetro Rico, has one of the worst police violence records in the United States, that’s according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
The DoJ report accuses the Puerto Rico Police Department of regularly: “…using force, including deadly force, when no force or lesser force was called for.”
The DoJ report says police officials reasons for the violence does not justify it: “Puerto Rico officials maintain that drug trafficking and social deterioration are fueling the wave of violent crime. However, increasing crime cannot be used to justify continued civil rights violations or the failure to implement meaningful reforms.”
One problem identified in the report was the use of swat teams for standard community policing. Puerto Rico has the second largest police force in in the United States.
“This was not a deliberate act. The employee was just switching out a piece of equipment that was problematic.”-Daniel Froetscher, Arizona Public Service
At least 2.5 million people in the U.S. and Mexico, lost power because of maintenance at a Yuma, Arizona, substation.
Around 15:30 September 8, monitoring equipment was replaced. That caused power to go out for about 56,000 customers. Ten minutes later, after an attempt to restore power, the lights went out for 2.5 million customers from Yuma, Arizona, to San Diego, California, to Tijuana, Baja California.
Apparently circuits were shorted out. Power company officials are trying to find out why such actions would have created a “cascade” effect along the power grid.
The power outage also shut down the San Onofre nuclear plant, and caused a 3.2-million gallon sewage spill San Diego beaches.
“Turkish warships, in the first place, are authorized to protect our ships that carry humanitarian aid to Gaza. From now on, we will not let these ships to be attacked by Israel, as what happened with the Freedom Flotilla.”-Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey
Erdogan said that Turkey will boost its naval presence in eastern Mediterranean to challenge Israel’s domination in the sea.
In a reference to Israeli plans to exploit huge gas and oil reserves found beneath the Mediterranean Sea, that are claimed by Lebanon, Erdogan said Turkish forces will also stop Israel from exploiting natural resources in the area.
On July 26 Lebanon issued similar warnings to Israel: “We warn Israel against extending its hands to this area to steal Lebanon’s resources from Lebanese waters.”-Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary General
The Turkish prime minister indicated that Israel’s claim to all the resources of the Mediterranean is what will lead to war: “You know that Israel has begun to declare that it has the right to act in exclusive economic areas in the Mediterranean. You will see that it will not be the owner of this right, because Turkey, as a guarantor of the Turkish republic of north Cyprus, has taken steps in the area, and it will be decisive and holding fast to the right to monitor international waters in the east Mediterranean.”
A Kobe, Japan, private-sector group announced the results of their studies on sunflowers in the contaminated areas of Japan.
They grew sunflowers in 4 fields in Minamisoma City, within 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
They found that soil contamination was reduced between 20% and 50%. Radiation was absorbed by the sunflowers’ roots. The problem is that the sunflowers are now considered nuclear waste.
Researchers at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto University and other institutes say the actual radiation pouring into the Pacific Ocean, from Fukushima Daiichi, is at least three times what Tokyo Electric Power Company is officially reporting.
The researchers say that at least 15,000 terabecquerels (1 terabecquerel = 1.0 × 10+12 becquerels) of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-137 has entered the ocean!!! They say TEPCo is not monitoring airborne radiation that falls into the ocean.
In less than a day after Japan’s new policy chief Seiji Maehara recommended changes to Japan’s military policies, Russia has declared a no fly zone north of Japan.
The no fly zone could be part of Russia’s planned war games in the Sea of Okhotsk, northeast of Hokkaido. Japan is asking for details from Russia.
Russian officials are confirming that two of their Tu 95 Bear bombers flew around Japan. But insisted they were over international water. The Japanese scrambled fighter jets, the Japanese pilots confirmed the Russian bombers were over international water.
These incidents have got the fragile Japanese government on edge. Russia and Japan are disputing claims over islands north of Hokkaido.
On September 7, moderator Brian Williams opened up a question for Governor Perry by first reminding him that his state has executed 234 men under his watch, a bodycount much greater than any other governor, but before Williams could get to his question, the crowd broke into applause to laud Perry for his accomplishment.
“Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?” Williams asked Perry.
“No sir,” responded the ‘christian’ governor Rick Perry, “I’ve never struggled with that at all.”
Now realize that Texas has executed innocent people! Which makes these Texas ‘christians’ even more sick in the head!
Other Texans are going to make sure everyone knows that innocent people have been executed under ‘christian’ Rick Perry’s watch: The 12th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty is October 22, in Austin at the Texas Capitol.
A woman lay belly-down on the floor of the Pimlico Race Course, handcuffed and beaten bloody by Baltimore Police. A man recorded the scene on his cell phone camera. Immediately the police grabbed the phone and erased the recording, including months of family recordings.
Now, thanks to the 1st Circuit of the U. S. Court of Appeals, which ruled that police business is public business, therefore can be recorded, the man who lost the recordings is now suing.
The American Civil Liberties Union is also suing: “It is antithetical to a democracy for the government to tell its citizens that they do not have the right to record what government officials say or do or how they behave in public.”-Deobrah Jeon, ACLU
On August 26, the 1st Circuit of the U. S. Court of Appeals held that videotaping police in the course of their public duties is “unambiguously” a free speech right protected under the First Amendment!
However, that is not stopping the state of Illinois from trying a man charged with eavesdropping, after he recorded an incident in which he was confronted by police on his mother’s property.
The man is facing five counts of eavesdropping, and could face 15 years in prison for each charge.
In the 1st Circuit of the U. S. Court of Appeals case Massachusetts police argued that their privacy rights were being violated every time someone recorded them on duty. The courts ruled that while a police officer is on duty they are no longer living a private life, they are on public duty. The appellate judges found that citizens have a First Amendment right to record government officials carrying out their duties in a public space!
Here’s something else to think about: If police claim they can not be recorded because it violates their privacy, and is a threat to security, then their own dash cams in their police cars are illegal! In fact all security cameras are illegal by that reasoning! Haven’t people tried to fight security camera use using that very reasoning, and lost? What gives police the special right to be excluded from public video and audio recordings?