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Saturday, November 1, 2014
RAF jets scrambled to meet 'unusual' level of Russian bombers that flew close to Britain
A pair of Russian bombers flew close past Britain[PA]
Two Eurofighter Typhoons were dispatched from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland to meet a pair of Tupolev Tu-95 which are icons from the Cold War.
It happened as the strategic bombers flew south over the North Sea and they were later tracked by Portuguese F-16s in the Atlantic before they flew home.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: "The RAF Typhoon pilots visually identified the Russian aircraft and escorted them through the UK flight information region."
The planes are Russia's equivalent to the B-52s used by the US Air Force.
The bombers were intercepted by RAF fighter jets [PA]
The RAF Typhoon pilots visually identified the Russian aircraft and escorted them through the UK flight information region
The Ministry of Defence
They were part of an eight plane formation made up of four Tupolev Tu-95 bombers and four refuelling tanker aircrafts.
They were spotted over the Norwegian sea in the early hours of yesterday where F-16s were scrambled from Norway and tracked the formation.
The eight plane group from Russia eventually broke up with six heading back home and two flying close to Britain where RAF Typhoons met them.
It was part of four groups of Kremlin aircrafts NATO had intercepted in around 24 hours since Tuesday.
In a statement the alliance said: "These sizeable Russian flights represent an unusual level of air activity over European airspace."
Two Eurofighter Typhoons were dispatched from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland to meet a pair of Tupolev Tu-95 which are icons from the Cold War.
It happened as the strategic bombers flew south over the North Sea and they were later tracked by Portuguese F-16s in the Atlantic before they flew home.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said: "The RAF Typhoon pilots visually identified the Russian aircraft and escorted them through the UK flight information region."
The planes are Russia's equivalent to the B-52s used by the US Air Force.
The bombers were intercepted by RAF fighter jets [PA]The RAF Typhoon pilots visually identified the Russian aircraft and escorted them through the UK flight information region
The Ministry of Defence
They were part of an eight plane formation made up of four Tupolev Tu-95 bombers and four refuelling tanker aircrafts.
They were spotted over the Norwegian sea in the early hours of yesterday where F-16s were scrambled from Norway and tracked the formation.
The eight plane group from Russia eventually broke up with six heading back home and two flying close to Britain where RAF Typhoons met them.
It was part of four groups of Kremlin aircrafts NATO had intercepted in around 24 hours since Tuesday.
In a statement the alliance said: "These sizeable Russian flights represent an unusual level of air activity over European airspace."
The pair of Tupolev Tu-95 bombers were part of an eight plane formation [REUTERS]
A spokesman stressed there had been no violation of NATO airspace as there was last week when a Russian spy plane briefly crossed Estonia's border.
However, he added that such high numbers of dispatches by the Russian air force in one day were rare in recent years.
A Norwegian military spokesman added: "We see Russian aircraft near our airspace on a regular basis but what was unusual is that it was a large number of aircraft and pushed further south than we normally see."
In a second incident on Wednesday two Russian bombers accompanied by a pair of fighter jets were being tracked by Turkish aircraft over the Black Sea.
A spokesman stressed there had been no violation of NATO airspace as there was last week when a Russian spy plane briefly crossed Estonia's border.
However, he added that such high numbers of dispatches by the Russian air force in one day were rare in recent years.
A Norwegian military spokesman added: "We see Russian aircraft near our airspace on a regular basis but what was unusual is that it was a large number of aircraft and pushed further south than we normally see."
In a second incident on Wednesday two Russian bombers accompanied by a pair of fighter jets were being tracked by Turkish aircraft over the Black Sea.
Vladimir Putin has said he is committed to reinvigorating Russia's armed forces [EPA]
While flights of seven Russian warplanes were monitored on Tuesday and Wednesday over the Baltic Sea.
On Tuesday, German and Danish planes were involved in tracking them as well as aircraft from non-NATO states Sweden and Finland.
NATO said it had conducted more than 100 such intercepts of Russian aircraft this year so far - about three times as many as in 2013.
This was prior to the confrontation with Moscow about clashes between Russian separatists and government forces in Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin has said he is committed to reinvigorating Russia's armed forces which has been undermined by the country's economic problems.
Credit to The express.co.uk
While flights of seven Russian warplanes were monitored on Tuesday and Wednesday over the Baltic Sea.
On Tuesday, German and Danish planes were involved in tracking them as well as aircraft from non-NATO states Sweden and Finland.
NATO said it had conducted more than 100 such intercepts of Russian aircraft this year so far - about three times as many as in 2013.
This was prior to the confrontation with Moscow about clashes between Russian separatists and government forces in Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin has said he is committed to reinvigorating Russia's armed forces which has been undermined by the country's economic problems.
Credit to The express.co.uk
Martin Armstrong: "At What Point Does Revolution Take Place?"
Reuters has published the result of what is being touted as theIgnorance Index. The one question as an example: “Guess how many U.S. girls aged 15-19 give birth each year. Go ahead, guess. If you calculated the number at 3 percent you’re correct; if you guessed 24 percent, you’re American.”
I rarely watch TV. If I do, it tends to be national news – never local that think a burning house is news or some guy shot his wife in a domestic dispute. I was at dinner and the TV was on. I could not believe the TV advertisements for the elections. They are all NEGATIVE calling the other a liar or misrepresenting the facts on everything. One said the candidate cut the number of police, made the streets more dangerous and then shows a picture of ISIS and then said she raise taxes. Then the very next advertisement flips and calls the other a liar for something or another. There was ZERO advertisement about anything other than vote for me because I lie less that the other liar.
It seems that the Ignorant Index may be more tied to the bias and lack of integrity of the media. They focus on sensationalism to gain readership and in the process focus of one thing and create false images in the minds of the average person.
A classic issue is immigration and Muslims. Americans, according to the Ignorant Index, “significantly miss the mark on the proportion of the population that is comprised of immigrants, guessing 32 percent against the true number of 13 percent. Americans also overestimate the number of Muslims in the population, 15 percent versus only 1 percent in reality, and underestimate the number of Christians, 56 percent to 78 percent. ”
It seems as if the problem is not that Americans are ignorant, they are being fed nonsense by the media to sell newspaper and TV advertising. We have fallen into a cycle of Yellow Journalism that was begun by Pulitzer. It was Pulitzer for created the Spanish-American War by making up shit to sell newspapers. The famous Pulitzer Prize given by Columbia University is named after the father of Yellow Journalism– go figure!
One good place to start is OUTLAW negative advertising. COMPELpolitical candidates to state what they stand for rather than calling their opponent a liar. Then if they do not vote for what they profess and knuckle under to party rule, that should be FRAUD and time for a vacation in the “Big House” (Penitentiary named after a place you were supposed to be silent and do penance).. We seem to elect people for no reason and then wonder why nothing changes. Obama’s vote for me for real change has been a joke – he kept the same people Bush had in place. This is why polls place politicians at 7% trust factors. The days of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Maggie Thatcher who at least stood for what they believed in regardless of what people thought, are over. They were at least ethical.
At what point does revolution take place? It does not appear to be a percentage in our review of history, but the economic trend. In other words, turn the economy down and the percent of discontent rises exponentially. So beware – not ghosts and goblins, but politicians 2015.75-2020. So perhaps Americans will wise up only when the economy turns down and the Internet provides a greater proportion of real news compared to mainstream media. Indeed, the younger generation under 40 rely on the internet and those who subscribe to newspapers or watch the TV news are diminishing rapidly. This in itself will be a dynamic shift that restores freedom of the press and only then perhaps we will see Americans rise in the Ignorance Index.
Credit to Zero Hedge
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
"They Just Want The Money!" How The IRS Can Seize Accounts On Suspicion Alone
“How can this happen?” Ms. Hinders said in a recent interview. “Who takes your money before they prove that you’ve done anything wrong with it?”
The federal government does.
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The topic of civil asset forfeiture has been high on our agenda recently asfederal 'agents' discover how to steal Americans' hard-earned cash with zero repurcussions , and decide unilaterally how much cash a 'common man' is allowed to carry; but as The NY Times reports, the escalation to The IRS brings a whole new world of possibilities with regard asset confiscation based on no actual crime being proved...
For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished out Mexican specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant. For just as long, she deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away - until last year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and informed her that they had seized her checking account, almost $33,000.The Internal Revenue Service agents did not accuse Ms. Hinders of money laundering or cheating on her taxes — in fact, she has not been charged with any crime. Instead, the money was seized solely because she had deposited less than $10,000 at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a required government report.
Her money was seized under an increasingly controversial area of law known as civil asset forfeiture, which allows law enforcement agents to take property they suspect of being tied to crime even if no criminal charges are filed. Law enforcement agencies get to keep a share of whatever is forfeited.
Critics say this incentive has led to the creation of a law enforcement dragnet, with more than 100 multiagency task forces combing through bank reports, looking for bank accounts to seize.
Using a law designed to catch drug traffickers, racketeers and terrorists by tracking their cash, the government has gone after run-of-the-mill business owners and wage earners without so much as an allegation that they have committed serious crimes. The government can take the money without ever filing a criminal complaint, and the owners are left to prove they are innocent. Many give up.
“They’re going after people who are really not criminals,” said David Smith, a former federal prosecutor who is now a forfeiture expert and lawyer in Virginia. “They’re middle-class citizens who have never had any trouble with the law.”On Thursday, in response to questions from The New York Times, the I.R.S. announced that it would curtail the practice, focusing instead on cases where the money is believed to have been acquired illegally or seizure is deemed justified by “exceptional circumstances.”...But the Institute for Justice, a Washington-based public interest law firm that is seeking to reform civil forfeiture practices, analyzed structuring data from the I.R.S., which made 639 seizures in 2012, up from 114 in 2005. Only one in five was prosecuted as a criminal structuring case.The practice has swept up dairy farmers in Maryland, an Army sergeant in Virginia saving for his children’s college education and Ms. Hinders, 67, who has borrowed money, strained her credit cards and taken out a second mortgage to keep her restaurant going.
The $10,000 loophole line in the sand...
Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks and other financial institutions must report cash deposits greater than $10,000.But since many criminals are aware of that requirement, banks also are supposed to report any suspicious transactions, including deposit patterns below $10,000. Last year, banks filed more than 700,000 suspicious activity reports.Owners who are caught up in structuring cases often cannot afford to fight. The median amount seized by the I.R.S. was $34,000, according to the Institute for Justice analysis, while legal costs can easily mount to $20,000 or more.There is nothing illegal about depositing less than $10,000cash unless it is done specifically to evade the reporting requirement. But often a mere bank statement is enough for investigators to obtain a seizure warrant. In one Long Island case, the police submitted almost a year’s worth of daily deposits by a business, ranging from $5,550 to $9,910. The officer wrote in his warrant affidavit that based on his training and experience, the pattern “is consistent with structuring.” The government seized $447,000 from the business, a cash-intensive candy and cigarette distributor that has been run by one family for 27 years.
As one lawyer defending against the IRS' aggressive 'stealing' tactics concludes...
“I don’t think they’re really interested in anything,” Mr. Potashnik said of the prosecutors. “They just want the money.”
Credit to Zero Hedge
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