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C’è un filo rosso che unisce la legge sull’editoria del 2001 alle parole del presidente dell’Antitrust Pitruzzella quindici anni dopo: l’idea che la Rete rappresenti una minaccia. Dall’istituzione del ROC nel 2007 fino ad oggi, si è assistito a una strisciante retorica da parte dei dirigenti politici, spesso ospiti sulla carta stampata e in trasmissioni televisive, che addita il web come luogo di ”prostituzione e auto distruttività”, “aggravante” per la mancanza di sicurezza dei cittadini; dal famigerato emendamento D’Alia , i j’accuse di Gabriella Carlucci, Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa, Angelino Alfano, e poi Laura Boldrini, il ministro Andrea Orlando in tempi più recenti, passando da lunghe serie di disegni di legge sulle intercettazioni che hanno scatenato contro-manifestazioni con tanto di bavaglio riverberate nel resto del mondo: l’Italia è un paese laboratorio di discussioni colpevoliste a proposito di Internet già prima dei social network. Poi è arrivata la post-verità, un termine che sembra aver convinto la classe dirigente ad accelerare: bisogna metter mano con un intervento pubblico alla “eccessiva libertà” con la quale la gente comune condivide contenuti, si informa, finisce per credere alle bufale che circolano in questi habitat online e che condizionerebbe il corretto svolgersi democratico. Ma è davvero così? E sono migliori le democrazie a basso rumore di fondo di Internet? Ma soprattutto: fra tutte queste proposte ce n’è qualcuna davvero applicabile? Organizzato in collaborazione con Webnews.it.
There is a fil rouge connecting the 2001 law on publishing and the words of the President of the Antitrust Authority, Pitruzzella, fifteen years later: the idea that the Internet is a threat. Since the establishment of the ROC in 2007, a creeping rhetoric has been pursued by political leaders which targets the web as a place of “prostitution and self-destructiveness,” aggravating the lack of citizens’ security; from the notorious D’Alia Amendment to a long series of draft laws on wiretapping. Then came so-called post-truth, a notion that seems to have convinced the establishment of the need to speed up: with a new law, they want to tackle the “excessive freedom” with which citizens share content and inform themselves, and in consequence end up believing hoaxes circulating online. But this proposed law would affect the proper conduct of democratic processes. Furthermore, are democracies really better off when the Internet noise is left low in the background? And above all, are the proposed measures really the right ones?
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I am not saying this lamp, produced by this company, is currently eavesdropping on you. But it would not take much to make it do so. The U.S. government has already mandated all bulbs sold in the future convert to this technology. These lamps can become an intelligent device without too much R&D. In fact, much of the technology was developed during the Cold War. Each lamp is connected to a mass integrated circuit called the electrical grid. Zeros and ones can be transmitted over the grid. That is an irrefutable fact. Just ask the NSA. How long before we learn that scientists have converted these energy savers to liberty depleters? How hard will it be to make them video and audio processors? Learn about what is legal in the U.S. already. Read what the government already collects legally every time you make a phone call. Each day, each hour, each minute, we are falling asleep at the switch. Protect Liberty. Protect Sovereignty. Read George Orwell. Read Aldous Huxley. Wake up. It would certainly make for an interesting political science movie script, right?
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Residential building on Kudrinskaya square (Building on Uprising square) - a high-rise building in Moscow, one of the «Stalin's skyscrapers» («Seven Sisters»)
Built in 1948-1954 years. designed by architects MV Posokhin, AA Mndoyants and designer MN Vohomskogo.
The building consists of a central (24 floors, the height of the tower and spire - 156 meters) and side buildings (18 residential floors) constituting a single structural array, based on the total ground floor.
On the first and ground floors of the building were originally shops and a cinema "Flame" (currently not working), in the basement - underground garages.
Skyscraper popularly called the «House of aviators», because the apartment was given to the workers the aviation industry (in particular, employees of the Tupolev design Bureau) and the test pilot, but, of course, among the tenants there were many party activists.
Said that, when opened near the US Embassy, the top two floors were settled. There KGB installed equipment for wiretapping, and from there to "watch" for Americans.
Sculptures on the facade of the building symbolize creativity, defense, and labor of the Soviet citizens.
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Rome on ‘verge of collapse’ due to advanced ‘state of decay', THE DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK CITY (15 JULY 2015) & THE NEW YORK TIMES (22 JULY 2015), p. A4;
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s.v., Il degrado di Roma sul New York Times: Marino più interessato ai ricchi stranieri che ai cittadini, THE NEW YORK TIMES (22|07|2015), p. A4; LA REPUBBLICA & Forexinfo.it (23|07|2015).
“Il declino di Roma, di nuovo?”. Se lo chiede il New York Times che pubblica sulla prima pagina della versione internazionale del quotidiano americano un servizio, poi ripreso anche dall’edizione newyorkese, sulla capitale e il suo degrado. Accanto, la grande foto di un vicolo del rione Trastevere, in pieno centro, sommerso dai cartoni e dall’immondizia non raccolta. Più sotto due “pescatori” tra l’erba alta delle banchine del Tevere.
Fonte: ROMA, LA REP (23|07|2015) | NEW YORK TIMES (22|07|2015) - Il degrado di Roma finisce sul New York Times: "Marino onesto, ma è anche capace?"Il degrado di Roma finisce sul New York Times: "Marino onesto, ma è anche capace?"
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THE DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK CITY (15 JULY 2015) - Dirty and disorganized, Rome is once more in decline. City hall is paralyzed by allegations of Mafia infiltration, basic services are in tatters, the main airport is partially closed, and wild cat strikes have frayed an already ropey public transport network.
For generations, the Italian capital has rested on past glories rather than built on them. The years of neglect, corruption and bureaucratic bungling have taken a fierce toll, reflecting a wider malaise that afflicts Italy as a whole.
"Rome is on the verge of collapse," Giancarlo Cremonesi, the president of the Rome Chamber of Commerce, told Reuters. "It is unacceptable that a major city which calls itself developed can find itself in such a state of decay."
One of the 10 biggest cities in Europe, with a population of 2.8 million, Rome boasts some of the most spectacular squares, fountains, museums and churches in the world.
But like its ancient monuments, its problems are plain for all to see, starting at the main international gateway into the city, Fiumicino, Italy's largest airport, which is struggling to bounce back from a fire that broke out on May 7.
Although the blaze was confined to just part of one of its three terminals, more than two months later, 40 percent of all flights still have to be canceled each day because of a dispute over the danger posed by contaminants
unleashed by the flames. Magistrates sealed the site for weeks to gauge the air quality, while various public bodies argued over how airports should be classified when it came to measuring pollution.
"In this case you see many things that are typically Italian. For example the role of the magistrates," Vito Riggio, the head of the Italian Civil Aviation Authority, told Reuters. All the fire damaged material should have been immediately removed to speed up the rebuilding, he said.
"Instead the place was officially sealed. Nobody could enter and the source of the (contaminants) continued to pollute. It is not hard to grasp, but no one said anything, not even the government. I don't believe other countries are like that."
The prosecutors' office dealing with the case said the sequestration order was lifted on June 24 and there was no legal impediment preventing a return to normal operations, although its investigation continues.
No date has been set for a full reopening and the smell of burnt plastics lingers in the departures halls.
MAFIA MESS
A much larger investigation has engulfed Rome city hall, housed in a Renaissance palace designed by Michelangelo and gazes out across the ruins of the ancient Roman forum.
The "Mafia Capital" probe, which hit the headlines last December following a first wave of arrests, has rattled Italy, suggesting that organized crime was flourishing far beyond its traditional southern bastions. Buried under 14 billion euros ($15.5 billion) of debt, Rome was saved from bankruptcy last year by emergency state funds. The mafia scandal has helped explain the financial mess, with wiretap transcripts suggesting mobsters had siphoned off millions of euros from a string of lucrative contracts, covering everything from recycling paper to sheltering immigrants.
Italy is struggling to shake off its worst post World War Two slump, a three year slide that has driven unemployment up to 1970s levels. While the real economy plunged, the illegal one, such as that unmasked in Rome, has spread
and thrived. Much of the alleged corruption dates back to the time of the previous mayor, Gianni Alemanno, a former rightwing minister who is under investigation. He denies any wrongdoing. However, magistrates say the mobsters' tentacles have also delved into the current administration, run by Ignazio Marino, a liver transplant surgeon and an ally of centerleft Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
While Marino is not implicated, a number of his staff have come under scrutiny, leading to a stream of resignations. A city source says an official review has recommended that around 30 major public contracts be annulled and reoffered for tender.
In a letter to Corriere della Sera newspaper, published on Monday, mayor Marino conceded that much of Rome's public administration was "substantially rotten".
But, in the same way that Renzi was trying to change Italy with a battery of reforms, so he was looking to shake up sclerotic Rome, he said. "There is strenuous resistance to any type of change (here) ... but I will never give up,"
he wrote. With grass running wild by the kerbsides and graffiti spreading like garish vines along buildings, Marino this month put together a 500 strong taskforce of employees and volunteers to help clean up Rome's neglected green spaces. "Rome is falling apart at the seams," the city's main newspaper, Il Messaggero, lamented on its frontpage last week. On an inside page it reported a rat infestation in the center.
A 2013 European Commission survey placed Rome last out of 28 EU capitals in the rankings for the efficiency of city services. Despite its fine cuisine and sunny climate, Rome came second to last for quality of life satisfaction. Athens
was bottom.
Rome also came last when it came to satisfaction with public transport. This summer's chaos will not have
improved sentiment.
RUBBISH AND PICKPOCKETS
Metro drivers have staged a series of go slows to protest at a new norm requiring them to clock into work. The
mayor says this is needed to boost productivity, arguing that while drivers in Milan work 1,200 hours a year, in Rome they put in 730 hours.
The dispute has led to delays of up to 25 minutes between trains, leaving stranded passengers sweltering in the hottest July for more than a decade and fuelling anger on Internet protest sites like 'Rome Sucks' (Roma Fa Schifo).
Rome is the most popular tourist destination in the country, attracting some 10.61 million foreign visitors in 2014. This was down from more than 11 million the year before and locals say the poor state of infrastructure is hurting.
"All my clients say Rome is beautiful, but all of them, without fail, complain about the services," said Marcello Lazazzera, who owns a small bed and breakfast, Domus Cornelia.
"The metros never arrive on time, the stations are full of pickpockets, the streets are full of rubbish. Instead of getting better, the situation is getting worse."
It could get worse still in 2016, when 25 million pilgrims are expected to flow into the Eternal City in response to Pope Francis's call for an extraordinary Holy Year one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important events.
The mayor's office has yet to layout its strategy for coping with the influx, or earmark any funds to cover the cost.
"The prayers of the pope will not be enough. Here we need a miracle from the lord above for Rome to emerge in good shape," said Chamber of Commerce chief, Cremonesi.
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-- THE DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK CITY (15 JULY 2015).
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Rusty object in the ashy remains of the fire.
Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum was a great, kid friendly attraction. It had a giant snake on the roof, and was full of old-school scares, like air blowing on your legs, a rotating tunnel to run through, and a levitating table during a seance. Earlier this year, arsonists burned it down. This is the second attraction to be burned down of his in the area, the locals seem to hate good, creative, fun. I went here several times when it was open, including on Halloween. In the woods there were life size fiberglass dinosaurs. Today, all that remains is the shell of the house, ashes, melted glass, burnt trees, and rusted, twisted metal. Very sad.
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A Thompson Sub Machine Gun. Nicknamed a “Tommy Gun,” this firearm became very popular among law enforcement and the Mob during the prohibition era and came to be one of the most iconic symbols of that time period. The Mob Museum is a modern-day museum and offers highly experiential and interactive experiences. Fascinating stories are brought to life through one-of-a-kind artifacts, interactive touch screens and multi-media presentations. Visitors can not only see an authentic Tommy Gun, but also “shoot” a simulated version, listen to real FBI surveillance tapes on wiretapping equipment and take part in FBI weapons training.
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Paul B. Couming is taken into custody after being indicted for criminal contempt April 23, 1971 for refusing to testify before a Harrisburg grand jury in an alleged bombing and kidnap plot involving Catholic antiwar activists
He joined John Swinglish, Anne E. Metz and Joseph Gilchrist in refusing to talk and being charged with criminal contempt despite being granted immunity.
Couming was already on three years’ probation for burning a draft card.
Couming issued a statement saying he would "not cooperate with any branch of the United States government" until its officials are tried for Vietnam war crimes.
Couming was released pending trial.
11 others were also subpoenaed and a dozen more subpoenas would be issued in the coming weeks with a number refusing to testify and being charged with either civil or criminal contempt, including a Catholic priest who refused to divulge anything said in confession.
The grand jury indicted Phillip Berrigan and five others on charges of conspiring to destroy government property and to kidnap national security advisor Henry Kissinger using the heating tunnels under Washington, D.C. to carry out the alleged plot.
The Harrisburg Defense Committee issued a statement charging the federal government with using the grand jury to “discover the kind of defense which will be provided for those indicted.”
The group charged that the subpoenas constituted, “an illegal use of the grand jury to obtain statements from witnesses for the defense after these witnesses had previously refused to talk with the FBI agents and is a total prostitution of the grand jury process.”
It would later be determined that prosecutors were calling anyone referred to in letters or conversations that had been illegally wiretapped in an effort to glean any detail even though they had no evidence that any of those subpoenaed had any connection with the case.
Two more people were later indicted by the grand jury on conspiracy charges for a total of eight.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The eight charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist and John “Ted” Glick, a pacifist activist.
Glick’s case was severed from the others when he insisted on acting as his own attorney.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
Glick was jailed for other “hit and stay” actions of the Flower City Conspiracy that included raiding draft boards in Philadelphia and in Delaware and the Washington, D.C. offices of General Electric. He was jailed 11 months for some of these actions.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glick.
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CHICAGO – Federal authorities arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Tuesday on charges that he brazenly conspired to sell or trade the Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama to the highest bidder.
Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune, in the sale of Wrigley Field, according to a federal criminal complaint. In return for state assistance, Blagojevich allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him fired.
A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democratic governor was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife, Patti.
Otherwise, Blagojevich considered appointing himself. The affidavit said that as late as Nov. 3, he told his deputy governor that if "they're not going to offer me anything of value I might as well take it."
"I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain," Blagojevich allegedly said later that day, according to the affidavit, which also quoted him as saying in a remark punctuated by profanity that the seat was "a valuable thing — you just don't give it away for nothing."
The affidavit said Blagojevich also discussed getting a substantial salary for himself at a nonprofit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions.
It said Blagojevich also talked about getting his wife placed on corporate boards where she might get $150,000 a year in director's fees.
He also allegedly discussed getting campaign funds for himself or possibly a post in the president's cabinet or an ambassadorship once he left the governor's office. He noted becoming a U.S. senator might remake his image for a possible presidential run in 2016, according to the affidavit. And he allegedly said a Senate seat would also provide him with corporate contacts if he needed a job and present an opportunity for his wife to work as a lobbyist.
"I want to make money," the affidavit quotes him as saying in one conversation.
The affidavit said Blagojevich expressed frustration at being "stuck" as governor and that he would have access to greater resources if he were indicted while in the U.S. Senate than while sitting as governor.
U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement that "the breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering."
"They allege that Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States senator," Fitzgerald said."
Among those being considered for the post include U.S. Reps. Danny Davis and Jesse Jackson Jr.
Blagojevich also was charged with using his authority as governor in an attempt to squeeze out campaign contributions.
His chief of staff, John Harris, also was arrested.
Corruption in the Blagojevich administration has been the focus of a federal investigation involving an alleged $7 million scheme aimed at squeezing kickbacks out of companies seeking business from the state. Federal prosecutors have acknowledged they're also investigating "serious allegations of endemic hiring fraud" under Blagojevich.
Political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko who raised money for the campaigns of both Blagojevich and Obama is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of fraud and other charges. Blagojevich's chief fundraiser, Christopher G. Kelly, is due to stand trial early next year on charges of obstructing the Internal Revenue Service.
According to Tuesday's complaint, Blagojevich schemed with Rezko, millionaire-fundraiser turned federal witness Stuart Levine and others to get financial benefits for himself and his campaign committee.
Federal prosecutors said Blagojevich and the chairman of his campaign committee have been speeding up corrupt fundraising activities in the last month to get as much money as possible before the end of the year when a new law would curtail his ability to raise contributions from companies with state contracts worth more than $50,000.
According to the affidavit, agents learned Blagojevich was seeking $2.5 million in campaign contributions by the end of the year, with a large part allegedly to come from companies and individuals who have gotten state contracts or appointments.
Blagojevich took the chief executive's office in 2003 as a reformer promising to clean up former Gov. George Ryan's mess.
Ryan, a Republican, is serving a 6-year prison sentence after being convicted on racketeering and fraud charges. A decade-long investigation began with the sale of driver's licenses for bribes and led to the conviction of dozens of people who worked for Ryan when he was secretary of state and governor.
FBI spokesman Frank Bochte said federal agents arrested the governor and Harris simultaneously at their homes at 6:15 a.m. and took them to the Chicago FBI headquarters.
Bochte said he did not know if either man was handcuffed or if the governor's family was their North Side home at the time of his arrest. He did say Blagojevich and Harris both were given time to get dressed before being taken to the headquarters.
He also did not have any details about Blagojevich's arrest, only that he was cooperative with federal agents.
"It was a very calm setting," he said.
The governor was to appear later Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan to answer the charges. The time was not immediately set.
****He sort of looks like a cross between Ted Koppel, Sean Hannity, and Moe from the three stooges, LOL!
Blast damage at the Pentagon May 19, 1972 can be seen in the corridor outside the restroom where the bomb was placed by member(s) of the Weather Underground.
The view down the hallway shows a door on the left blown into the corridor and the wall buckled outward.
Shortly before the blast, the Washington Post and New York Times received a call from a man identifying himself as a “Weatherman” and warning of the bomb at the Pentagon.
A later communiqué from the group noted the date was the birthday of the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and declared resistance to the war in Vietnam.
The investigation and pending charges were later dropped against Weather Underground members due to the U.S. refusal to disclose wiretapping sources. Bill Ayers, a fugitive at the time of the bombing, later claimed he was a participant in the Pentagon bombing.
The blast destroyed the women’s restroom and caused water damage to computers and property in the rooms below.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/2Mq65M
The photographer is unknown. The image is an auction find.
Antonello Giacomelli
Martina Pennisi
Stefano Quintarelli
Marco Viviani
C’è un filo rosso che unisce la legge sull’editoria del 2001 alle parole del presidente dell’Antitrust Pitruzzella quindici anni dopo: l’idea che la Rete rappresenti una minaccia. Dall’istituzione del ROC nel 2007 fino ad oggi, si è assistito a una strisciante retorica da parte dei dirigenti politici, spesso ospiti sulla carta stampata e in trasmissioni televisive, che addita il web come luogo di ”prostituzione e auto distruttività”, “aggravante” per la mancanza di sicurezza dei cittadini; dal famigerato emendamento D’Alia , i j’accuse di Gabriella Carlucci, Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa, Angelino Alfano, e poi Laura Boldrini, il ministro Andrea Orlando in tempi più recenti, passando da lunghe serie di disegni di legge sulle intercettazioni che hanno scatenato contro-manifestazioni con tanto di bavaglio riverberate nel resto del mondo: l’Italia è un paese laboratorio di discussioni colpevoliste a proposito di Internet già prima dei social network. Poi è arrivata la post-verità, un termine che sembra aver convinto la classe dirigente ad accelerare: bisogna metter mano con un intervento pubblico alla “eccessiva libertà” con la quale la gente comune condivide contenuti, si informa, finisce per credere alle bufale che circolano in questi habitat online e che condizionerebbe il corretto svolgersi democratico. Ma è davvero così? E sono migliori le democrazie a basso rumore di fondo di Internet? Ma soprattutto: fra tutte queste proposte ce n’è qualcuna davvero applicabile? Organizzato in collaborazione con Webnews.it.
There is a fil rouge connecting the 2001 law on publishing and the words of the President of the Antitrust Authority, Pitruzzella, fifteen years later: the idea that the Internet is a threat. Since the establishment of the ROC in 2007, a creeping rhetoric has been pursued by political leaders which targets the web as a place of “prostitution and self-destructiveness,” aggravating the lack of citizens’ security; from the notorious D’Alia Amendment to a long series of draft laws on wiretapping. Then came so-called post-truth, a notion that seems to have convinced the establishment of the need to speed up: with a new law, they want to tackle the “excessive freedom” with which citizens share content and inform themselves, and in consequence end up believing hoaxes circulating online. But this proposed law would affect the proper conduct of democratic processes. Furthermore, are democracies really better off when the Internet noise is left low in the background? And above all, are the proposed measures really the right ones?
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/time-to-legis...
The story of the Rajneesh Movement in Oregon involved the largest single incident of fraudulent marriages, the most massive scheme of wiretapping and bugging, and the largest mass poisoning in United States history. However the greatest luck of the entire incident-the fact that no one actually died-meant that it has largely been forgotten in American history, especially in comparison to far more fatal mass cult cases like Jonestown and Waco. Periodically media attention refocuses on the event, such as after the second (and to date last) biological attack in United States history, the 2001 Anthrax Attacks, or the 2018 release of the Netflix Documentary Wild Wild Country.
After deportation back to India, Rajneesh became a hero denouncing the United States. However authorities quickly tired of his antics and non-Indians in his party had their passports revoked. He moved to Crete, only to have his visa rejected by Greek authorities, and so on; moving to Switzerland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Uganda, Jamaica, and finally back to India. Rajneesh returned to his old haunts, but his health was clearly deteriorating; renaming himself "Osho", he claimed that he was poisoned by US authorities in prison; others have suggested chronic diabetes or even AIDS. He died of heart failure in 1990, though the movement (which still remains) claims that he had died because "living in the body had become a hell". He was never prosecuted for the attempted murders or biological attacks.
Sheela and Puja, who actually committed the biological attack and attempted murders, only served 29 months of their sentences before being released on good behavior. Sheela was then deported to Switzerland, where she married and is apparently running two nursing homes.
Rajneeshpuram reverted to the State after its abandonment; in 1987 the courts finally decided on the long-running court cases: the formation of the city by the cult had indeed violated the church/state division, while the incorporation of the city had not violated the state planning system's agricultural land goals. Neither court decision mattered, as the city was gone. Big Muddy is now Washington Family Ranch, ironically run by Christian Youth organization Young Life as a summer camp. One of my professors apparently worked there briefly.
The culpability of Rajneesh on the dark crimes of 1984 remains an open question to this day. His supporters claim that the guru was kept in the dark about Sheela's activities, who used Rajneesh's vow of silence and transfer of power of attorney against him and kept him a prisoner within his own cult. Detractors, including Sheela, claim that Rajneesh had control of his subordinate every step of the way, and was capable of violence-which was supported by his apocalyptic rhetoric. It probably will never be known for certain, though if he was a fool, I suppose he was a very very stupid one that failed both himself and his own supporters.
As for Antelope, Oregon, after returning to their original name the locals found out that the Post Office had never bothered to change it in the first place. It remains a quiet, sleepy town (I saw absolutely no one). The only memorial to the entire drama of the Rajneesh is this little plaque beneath the flagpole in front of the post office. It reads:
"Dedicated to those of this community who, through the Rajneesh invasion and occupation of 1981-85, remained, resisted, and remembered..." and "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing (Edmund Burke)".
Antelope, Oregon
Men In Grey emerge as a manifestation of Network Anxiety, a fearful apparition
in a time of government wiretaps, Facebook spies, Google caches, Internet
filters and mandatory ISP logging.
Operating at the intersection of hacking and invasive situationist action, any
open wireless network becomes their stage for a reverse-engineering of network
dependence and the implicit trust we place in the metal and minds that make it
all work.
In the grey suit of an unidentifiable bureaucrat, carrying briefcases filled
with hardware and software, the Men In Grey dissect and manipulate wireless
network traffic then reflect it back to the public with unsettling results.
credit: Julian Oliver, Danja Vasiliev
William L. Gardiner refused to testify before Harrisburg grand jury in an alleged bombing and kidnap plot involving Catholic antiwar activists and was charged civil contempt May 12, 1971.
Gardiner was from Moorestown N.J. and a senior at Bucknell.
He joined at least 10 others who refused to testify. The prosecutors would later up the ante and begin charging uncooperative witne3sses with criminal contempt.
Among those refusing to testify in the coming weeks were a Catholic priest who refused to divulge anything said in confession.
The grand jury indicted Phillip Berrigan and five others on charges of conspiring to destroy government property and to kidnap national security advisor Henry Kissinger using the heating tunnels under Washington, D.C. to carry out the alleged plot.
The Harrisburg Defense Committee later issued a statement charging the federal government with using the grand jury to “discover the kind of defense which will be provided for those indicted.”
The group charged that the subpoenas constituted, “an illegal use of the grand jury to obtain statements from witnesses for the defense after these witnesses had previously refused to talk with the FBI agents and is a total prostitution of the grand jury process.”
It would later be determined that prosecutors were calling anyone referred to in letters or conversations that had been illegally wiretapped in an effort to glean any detail even though they had no evidence that any of those subpoenaed had any connection with the case.
Two more people were later indicted by the grand jury on conspiracy charges for a total of eight.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The eight charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist and John “Ted” Glick, a pacifist activist.
Glick’s case was severed from the others when he insisted on acting as his own attorney.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
Glick was jailed for other “hit and stay” actions of the Flower City Conspiracy that included raiding draft boards in Philadelphia and in Delaware and the Washington, D.C. offices of General Electric. He was jailed 11 months for some of these actions.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glickl.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is a United Press International photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
Striking a New Balance
Renewing and Reviewing the PATRIOT Act
Full Event Video:
www.americanprogressaction.org/events/2009/10/PatriotAct....
“The expiration this year of several provisions of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act…has prompted fresh debate in Congress over the appropriate balance of counterterrorism authorities for U.S. law enforcement agencies and the need to preserve American civil liberties and privacy,” said Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event last Tuesday.
In light of the PATRIOT Act debate the Action Fund hosted a discussion with Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) and Ken Gude, Associate Director of CAP Action’s International Rights and Responsibility program, about how the government could ensure national security without compromising civil liberties.
Controversial items in the PATRIOT Act up for debate this year include the ease of access to business records, roving wire tapping provisions applicable to today’s digital technology, and surveillance of individual or “lone wolf” suspects who are unconnected to any terrorist organization. The panelists discussed the effectiveness of these provisions and whether they violated an individual’s right to privacy.
Rep. Harman has served as a member of the House Intelligence Committee for eight years and is currently chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment. She explained that a strong national security system could not come at the expense of civil liberties. “Security and liberty are reinforcing values…it’s not more of one and less at the other—it’s more of both or less of both.”
Rep. Harman lauded the Obama administration for its national security policies, but she said further steps are necessary. She praised President Barack Obama’s commitment to closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp, too, and his limiting the overclassification of material by the Homeland Security department. But she called for more debates over State Secrets Privilege—a legal precedent under which a court is asked to omit evidence based on government affidavit stating that court proceedings might release information that could jeopardize national security.
Harman commended the current House version of PATRIOT Act revisions because it would prohibit a person’s reading habits from being used as evidence of terrorist activity or intent.The bill would also change the target of a roving wiretap to a single individual rather than a single phone. Rep. Harman pointed out that the current rules are incongruent with new technology that allows a person to use disposable cell phones. New technology has made the need for a court order on every tapped phone inefficient.
Gude supported the expiration of the Lone Wolf Provision, which allows Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigations of lone terrorists that are not connected to a specific organization. He explained that FISA was created to monitor people connected to foreign powers or terrorist groups and therefore the threshold for obtaining a surveillance warrant was lower. He and Rep. Harman agreed that the Lone Wolf Provision leaves individuals vulnerable to a violation of privacy by the government.
Gude explained that his objection to the Lone Wolf Provision isn’t that the government should be prohibited from conducting surveillance on individuals. However, he thought traditional criminal wiretaps were more appropriate when no evidence links the person to a foreign terrorist group.
Harman said that now “we have the opportunity to debate new rules in a new environment” since after 9/11, legislators did not take time to “get [counterterrorism] laws right.” She spoke about to the “authorization to use military force” on groups connected to 9/11 that “gave the president the right to act unilaterally.” She called for a new balance of power between branches of government regarding national security issues, and said that the laws after 9/11 gave the president too much power to make counterterrorism decisions without congressional or public debate.
In the spirit of checks and balances, Gude said there was hope for bipartisan consensus on counterterrorism reforms. “On an issue like this there is probably more room for bipartisan commitment than on almost any other issue on the Hill right now,” he said. Gude and Rep. Harman recognized a need for robust debate and strong cooperation on national security reform. Rep. Harman noted that “the terrorists are not going to check our party registration before they blow us up, so we really better be in this together.”
This was actually a centerfold from Mad Magazine, which I subscribed to for a year recently for $11. Quite politically relevant.
This one fit nicely over our sink.
politician: George W. Bush.
listening, pointing.
Uncle Sam, beard, clipping, headphones, politics, privacy, wiretapping.
kitchen, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
October 27, 2009.
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Antonello Giacomelli
Martina Pennisi
Stefano Quintarelli
Marco Viviani
C’è un filo rosso che unisce la legge sull’editoria del 2001 alle parole del presidente dell’Antitrust Pitruzzella quindici anni dopo: l’idea che la Rete rappresenti una minaccia. Dall’istituzione del ROC nel 2007 fino ad oggi, si è assistito a una strisciante retorica da parte dei dirigenti politici, spesso ospiti sulla carta stampata e in trasmissioni televisive, che addita il web come luogo di ”prostituzione e auto distruttività”, “aggravante” per la mancanza di sicurezza dei cittadini; dal famigerato emendamento D’Alia , i j’accuse di Gabriella Carlucci, Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa, Angelino Alfano, e poi Laura Boldrini, il ministro Andrea Orlando in tempi più recenti, passando da lunghe serie di disegni di legge sulle intercettazioni che hanno scatenato contro-manifestazioni con tanto di bavaglio riverberate nel resto del mondo: l’Italia è un paese laboratorio di discussioni colpevoliste a proposito di Internet già prima dei social network. Poi è arrivata la post-verità, un termine che sembra aver convinto la classe dirigente ad accelerare: bisogna metter mano con un intervento pubblico alla “eccessiva libertà” con la quale la gente comune condivide contenuti, si informa, finisce per credere alle bufale che circolano in questi habitat online e che condizionerebbe il corretto svolgersi democratico. Ma è davvero così? E sono migliori le democrazie a basso rumore di fondo di Internet? Ma soprattutto: fra tutte queste proposte ce n’è qualcuna davvero applicabile? Organizzato in collaborazione con Webnews.it.
There is a fil rouge connecting the 2001 law on publishing and the words of the President of the Antitrust Authority, Pitruzzella, fifteen years later: the idea that the Internet is a threat. Since the establishment of the ROC in 2007, a creeping rhetoric has been pursued by political leaders which targets the web as a place of “prostitution and self-destructiveness,” aggravating the lack of citizens’ security; from the notorious D’Alia Amendment to a long series of draft laws on wiretapping. Then came so-called post-truth, a notion that seems to have convinced the establishment of the need to speed up: with a new law, they want to tackle the “excessive freedom” with which citizens share content and inform themselves, and in consequence end up believing hoaxes circulating online. But this proposed law would affect the proper conduct of democratic processes. Furthermore, are democracies really better off when the Internet noise is left low in the background? And above all, are the proposed measures really the right ones?
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/time-to-legis...
Collage photograph from before the fire :-(
Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum was a great, kid friendly attraction. It had a giant snake on the roof, and was full of old-school scares, like air blowing on your legs, a rotating tunnel to run through, and a levitating table during a seance. Earlier this year, arsonists burned it down. This is the second attraction to be burned down of his in the area, the locals seem to hate good, creative, fun. I went here several times when it was open, including on Halloween. In the woods there were life size fiberglass dinosaurs. Today, all that remains is the shell of the house, ashes, melted glass, burnt trees, and rusted, twisted metal. Very sad.
Full fire story: www.readthehook.com/103993/burning-roadside-can-mark-clin...
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The 2013 crime drama "Gangster Squad" (top) takes place in a 1949 Los Angeles. Lots of great vintage locations were used to film this epic movie.
The power pole that Keeler (Giovanni Ribisi) climbs to do his wiretap can be found on Palmetto St., which is right in front of Paddy’s Pub from “It’s Always Sunny…”.
This location is at 544 Mateo Street, Los Angeles.
Antonello Giacomelli
Martina Pennisi
Stefano Quintarelli
Marco Viviani
C’è un filo rosso che unisce la legge sull’editoria del 2001 alle parole del presidente dell’Antitrust Pitruzzella quindici anni dopo: l’idea che la Rete rappresenti una minaccia. Dall’istituzione del ROC nel 2007 fino ad oggi, si è assistito a una strisciante retorica da parte dei dirigenti politici, spesso ospiti sulla carta stampata e in trasmissioni televisive, che addita il web come luogo di ”prostituzione e auto distruttività”, “aggravante” per la mancanza di sicurezza dei cittadini; dal famigerato emendamento D’Alia , i j’accuse di Gabriella Carlucci, Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa, Angelino Alfano, e poi Laura Boldrini, il ministro Andrea Orlando in tempi più recenti, passando da lunghe serie di disegni di legge sulle intercettazioni che hanno scatenato contro-manifestazioni con tanto di bavaglio riverberate nel resto del mondo: l’Italia è un paese laboratorio di discussioni colpevoliste a proposito di Internet già prima dei social network. Poi è arrivata la post-verità, un termine che sembra aver convinto la classe dirigente ad accelerare: bisogna metter mano con un intervento pubblico alla “eccessiva libertà” con la quale la gente comune condivide contenuti, si informa, finisce per credere alle bufale che circolano in questi habitat online e che condizionerebbe il corretto svolgersi democratico. Ma è davvero così? E sono migliori le democrazie a basso rumore di fondo di Internet? Ma soprattutto: fra tutte queste proposte ce n’è qualcuna davvero applicabile? Organizzato in collaborazione con Webnews.it.
There is a fil rouge connecting the 2001 law on publishing and the words of the President of the Antitrust Authority, Pitruzzella, fifteen years later: the idea that the Internet is a threat. Since the establishment of the ROC in 2007, a creeping rhetoric has been pursued by political leaders which targets the web as a place of “prostitution and self-destructiveness,” aggravating the lack of citizens’ security; from the notorious D’Alia Amendment to a long series of draft laws on wiretapping. Then came so-called post-truth, a notion that seems to have convinced the establishment of the need to speed up: with a new law, they want to tackle the “excessive freedom” with which citizens share content and inform themselves, and in consequence end up believing hoaxes circulating online. But this proposed law would affect the proper conduct of democratic processes. Furthermore, are democracies really better off when the Internet noise is left low in the background? And above all, are the proposed measures really the right ones?
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/time-to-legis...
July 31, 2013 -- Italy's supreme court is expected to deliver a verdict on Silvio Berlusconi's final appeal against a jail sentence and ban from public office. Berlusconi is appealing a conviction that his Mediaset business empire falsely inflated the price of film distribution rights so as to avoid paying higher taxes in a case that first went to trial in 2006. Graphic shows the trials of Silvio Berlusconi
Antonello Giacomelli
Martina Pennisi
Stefano Quintarelli
Marco Viviani
C’è un filo rosso che unisce la legge sull’editoria del 2001 alle parole del presidente dell’Antitrust Pitruzzella quindici anni dopo: l’idea che la Rete rappresenti una minaccia. Dall’istituzione del ROC nel 2007 fino ad oggi, si è assistito a una strisciante retorica da parte dei dirigenti politici, spesso ospiti sulla carta stampata e in trasmissioni televisive, che addita il web come luogo di ”prostituzione e auto distruttività”, “aggravante” per la mancanza di sicurezza dei cittadini; dal famigerato emendamento D’Alia , i j’accuse di Gabriella Carlucci, Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa, Angelino Alfano, e poi Laura Boldrini, il ministro Andrea Orlando in tempi più recenti, passando da lunghe serie di disegni di legge sulle intercettazioni che hanno scatenato contro-manifestazioni con tanto di bavaglio riverberate nel resto del mondo: l’Italia è un paese laboratorio di discussioni colpevoliste a proposito di Internet già prima dei social network. Poi è arrivata la post-verità, un termine che sembra aver convinto la classe dirigente ad accelerare: bisogna metter mano con un intervento pubblico alla “eccessiva libertà” con la quale la gente comune condivide contenuti, si informa, finisce per credere alle bufale che circolano in questi habitat online e che condizionerebbe il corretto svolgersi democratico. Ma è davvero così? E sono migliori le democrazie a basso rumore di fondo di Internet? Ma soprattutto: fra tutte queste proposte ce n’è qualcuna davvero applicabile? Organizzato in collaborazione con Webnews.it.
There is a fil rouge connecting the 2001 law on publishing and the words of the President of the Antitrust Authority, Pitruzzella, fifteen years later: the idea that the Internet is a threat. Since the establishment of the ROC in 2007, a creeping rhetoric has been pursued by political leaders which targets the web as a place of “prostitution and self-destructiveness,” aggravating the lack of citizens’ security; from the notorious D’Alia Amendment to a long series of draft laws on wiretapping. Then came so-called post-truth, a notion that seems to have convinced the establishment of the need to speed up: with a new law, they want to tackle the “excessive freedom” with which citizens share content and inform themselves, and in consequence end up believing hoaxes circulating online. But this proposed law would affect the proper conduct of democratic processes. Furthermore, are democracies really better off when the Internet noise is left low in the background? And above all, are the proposed measures really the right ones?
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/time-to-legis...
The Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court.
By Todd Lindeman.
2013 © The Washington Post. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. All Rights Reserved.
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Yes, it is puerile and silly, but we all know he is the worlds largest source of hot air.
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Antonello Giacomelli
Martina Pennisi
Stefano Quintarelli
Marco Viviani
C’è un filo rosso che unisce la legge sull’editoria del 2001 alle parole del presidente dell’Antitrust Pitruzzella quindici anni dopo: l’idea che la Rete rappresenti una minaccia. Dall’istituzione del ROC nel 2007 fino ad oggi, si è assistito a una strisciante retorica da parte dei dirigenti politici, spesso ospiti sulla carta stampata e in trasmissioni televisive, che addita il web come luogo di ”prostituzione e auto distruttività”, “aggravante” per la mancanza di sicurezza dei cittadini; dal famigerato emendamento D’Alia , i j’accuse di Gabriella Carlucci, Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa, Angelino Alfano, e poi Laura Boldrini, il ministro Andrea Orlando in tempi più recenti, passando da lunghe serie di disegni di legge sulle intercettazioni che hanno scatenato contro-manifestazioni con tanto di bavaglio riverberate nel resto del mondo: l’Italia è un paese laboratorio di discussioni colpevoliste a proposito di Internet già prima dei social network. Poi è arrivata la post-verità, un termine che sembra aver convinto la classe dirigente ad accelerare: bisogna metter mano con un intervento pubblico alla “eccessiva libertà” con la quale la gente comune condivide contenuti, si informa, finisce per credere alle bufale che circolano in questi habitat online e che condizionerebbe il corretto svolgersi democratico. Ma è davvero così? E sono migliori le democrazie a basso rumore di fondo di Internet? Ma soprattutto: fra tutte queste proposte ce n’è qualcuna davvero applicabile? Organizzato in collaborazione con Webnews.it.
There is a fil rouge connecting the 2001 law on publishing and the words of the President of the Antitrust Authority, Pitruzzella, fifteen years later: the idea that the Internet is a threat. Since the establishment of the ROC in 2007, a creeping rhetoric has been pursued by political leaders which targets the web as a place of “prostitution and self-destructiveness,” aggravating the lack of citizens’ security; from the notorious D’Alia Amendment to a long series of draft laws on wiretapping. Then came so-called post-truth, a notion that seems to have convinced the establishment of the need to speed up: with a new law, they want to tackle the “excessive freedom” with which citizens share content and inform themselves, and in consequence end up believing hoaxes circulating online. But this proposed law would affect the proper conduct of democratic processes. Furthermore, are democracies really better off when the Internet noise is left low in the background? And above all, are the proposed measures really the right ones?
video: media.journalismfestival.com/programme/2017/time-to-legis...
Unser Neuzugang... Blade: Reinigungsfachkraft was Untote betrifft (und solche die es werden wollen).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxuodY-c0yU
Hear my cries
Hear my call
Lend me your ears
See my fall
See my error
Know my faults
Time halts
See my loss
Know I'm lacking
Backtracking
Where I met you
Pistol packing
Itchy finger
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Bad rap
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The Watergate complex sits on a superblock to the southeast, bound by Virginia Avenue, New Hampshire Avenue, F Street, and Rock Creek and the Potomac Parkway. The office-apartment-hotel complex is best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Nixon.
The complex was built in 1967 and developed by the Italian firm Società Generale Immobiliare, which purchased the 10 acres on the defunct Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the early 1960s for $10 million. Italian architect Luigi Moretti designed the six buildings on the site: a hotel, two office buildings, three apartment buildings and a retail center. The name of the complex was derived from the terraced step area to the north of the Lincoln Memorial that leads down to the Potomac and used to face a floating ampitheater.
The Watergate Hotel, at 2650 Virginia Avenue NW, offered 250 guest rooms and 146 suites prior to a luxury co-op renovation. The two office buildings stand at 600 New Hampshire Avenue NW and 2600 Virginia Avenue NW. In 1972, the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters on the sixth floor of the 11-story Virginia Avenue building. On May 28, 1972, a team of burglars working for Nixon's re-election campaign put wiretaps, which were monitored from across the street at the Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge hotel, and took photos in and near the DNC chairman's office. During a second burglary on June 17, 1972, to replace a malfunctioning "bug" and collect more information, five burglars were arrested and the Watergate scandal began to unfold.
Watergate National Register #05000540 (2005)
Part of the communique (the first page and the signature from the fifth page) from the Weather Underground’s March 1, 1971 bombing of the U.S. Capitol is pictured in this photograph.
Note the rainbow symbol banner and the small National Liberation Front flag in the upper right corner. It is dated for February—prior to the blast.
The group charged Nixon with “attempting the brutal conquest of yet another nation in Indochina. Lies about the war “dwindling down” cannot hide the criminal invasion of Laos.”
The group went on to explain that they “attacked the Capitol because it is, along with the White House and the Pentagon, the worldwide symbol of the government.”
The powerful bomb exploded in a restroom of the U.S. Senate side of the Capitol March 1, 1971 causing $300,000 in damage but no injuries.
The bomb was placed behind a false wall in back of the toilet stalls. In order to access, it was necessary to lift a marble slab which from outward appearances was permanently fixed in place.
Captain L. H. Ballard of the Capitol police said, that “whoever did it was a professional. It went off almost to the minute that they said it would.”
Ballard went on to say that because of the location of the bomb and the timing of the explosion, he said there was not “one chance in a million of doing any harm to a human being.”
The FBI blamed some of the antiwar organizers of the upcoming Mayday demonstrations for the blast, specifically Stew Albert, Judy Gumbo and Leslie Bacon.
Bacon was arrested and spirited out of Washington, D.C. where she was held incommunicado for six weeks until her attorneys secured her release after her refusal to testify before a Grand Jury. The U.S. Court of Appeals later voided contempt charges against her after the government refused to turn over transcripts of illegal wiretaps.
Weather Underground member Bill Ayers later took credit for the bombing.
A.J. Weberman, the Yippie famous for dogging Bob Dylan, disputes Ayers and the Weather Underground and says Stew Albert placed the bomb and claims Jerry Rubin told him this in May 1971 in front of Albert. Weberman also claims Gumbo and Bacon had a role in the bombing.
Gumbo disclaims any role for Albert, Bacon and herself and says she was “exultant” when she heard the news, but that they played no part in the bombing.
No one was ever charged in the bombing.
The Weather Underground also planted bombs at the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C. area as well as dozens of other sites across the U.S. mainly in protest of U.S. actions abroad and hoping to spark a revolutionary upsurge in the U.S.
Their bombs were always preceded by telephoned warnings and the only casualties were three of their own that were killed while make explosives in 1969.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskgJjpPP
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photograph.
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The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company building on West Seventh Street in Cincinnati, Ohio was completed in 1931. The Art Deco-style building was designed by Harry Hake, a Cincinnati architect.
The 12-story builidng was designed with floor heights of at least 12 feet to house the new telephone equipment.
A decorative border above the second story is lined with niches in which cut-stone French telephones alternate with headphones. Communication is further symbolized by several reliefs showing the ancient runner, Alexander Bells's first telephone effort, flag signaling from a ship, and conventional representations of a woman with a hare, swan, and hawk. In the ornate marble lobby are gold-and-silver metal reliefs of figures symbolizing man's art, industry, and conquest of space.
The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
www.cincinnatibell.com/aboutus/history/
The City and Suburban Telegraph Company, later Cincinnati Bell Telephone, was officially incorporated on July 5, 1873, becoming the first company in the city to provide direct communication between the city`s homes and businesses. Manufacturer and philanthropist Andrew Erkenbrecher became the company`s first president in 1874. Rates were fixed at $300 a year for one line.
By mid-1877, when the telephone was first demonstrated in Cincinnati, the Association was maintaining about 50 private telegraph lines between offices and plants or residences. Customers were equipped with a simple telegraph instrument and a code book, and young men who pedaled foot treadles served as operators and powered the call bells.
In September 1878, the City and Suburban Association signed a contract with the Bell Telephone Company of Boston (the nation`s first telephone service and manufacturing company) for a license to furnish Bell telephone service in the Queen City area. The Association then became the exclusive agent for Bell telephones within a 25-mile radius of Cincinnati.
Located at the corner of Fourth and Walnut streets downtown, Bell Telephonic Exchange was the first telephonic exchange in Ohio and the 10th in the nation. In 1879, the first telephone directory was published and the first line extended across the Suspension Bridge to Covington, Ky. Women, or "hello girls" who had to memorize all callers` names, took the place of men as operators, and 25 employees served more than 1,000 customers. A total of 145,392 calls had been recorded for the year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Bell
Cincinnati Bell is one of only two American companies that continue to actively promote itself under the "Bell" name. As of August 2006, Cincinnati Bell has ceased all public usage of the last Bell logo, designed in 1969 by Saul Bass, simply opting to use a stylized, shadowed version of its corporate name on its website. The company had already removed the Bell logo from its telephone directories' covers for some time.
The newsmagazine 60 Minutes reported in 1989 that Cincinnati Bell cooperated with local police to wiretap local residents in search of alleged communist or criminal activity from 1972 to 1984.
www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/CINCINNATI-BELL...
Workers clean up debris after a powerful bomb exploded in a restroom of the U.S. Senate in the Capitol March 1, 1971 causing $300,000 in damage but no injuries.
The Weather Underground Organization later claimed credit for blast saying it was an attack on a symbol of government that was perpetrating war in Indochina. The ongoing U.S. invasion of Laos was specifically cited.
The bomb was placed behind a false wall in back of the toilet stalls. In order to access, it was necessary to lift a marble slab which from outward appearances was permanently fixed in place.
Captain L. H. Ballard of the Capitol police said, that “whoever did it was a professional. It went off almost to the minute that they said it would.”
Ballard went on to say that because of the location of the bomb and the timing of the explosion, he said there was not “one chance in a million of doing any harm to a human being.”
The FBI blamed some of the antiwar organizers of the upcoming Mayday demonstrations for the blast, specifically Stew Albert, Judy Gumbo and Leslie Bacon.
Bacon was arrested and spirited out of Washington, D.C. where she was held incommunicado for six weeks until her attorneys secured her release after her refusal to testify before a Grand Jury. The U.S. Court of Appeals later voided contempt charges against her after the government refused to turn over transcripts of illegal wiretaps.
Weather Underground member Bill Ayers later took credit for the bombing.
A.J. Weberman, the Yippie famous for dogging Bob Dylan, disputes Ayers and the Weather Underground and says Stew Albert placed the bomb and claims Jerry Rubin told him this in May 1971 in front of Albert. Weberman also claims Gumbo and Bacon had a role in the bombing.
Gumbo disclaims any role for Albert, Bacon and herself and says she was “exultant” when she heard the news, but that they played no part in the bombing.
The Weather Underground also planted bombs at the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C. area as well as dozens of other sites across the U.S. mainly in protest of U.S. actions abroad and hoping to spark a revolutionary upsurge in the U.S.
Their bombs were always preceded by telephoned warnings and the only casualties were three of their own that were killed while make explosives in 1969.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHskgJjpPP
The photographer is unknown. The image is an auction find.
Ann E. Menz of Philadelphia, Pa. refused to testify before Harrisburg grand jury in an alleged bombing and kidnap plot involving Catholic antiwar activists and was charged with criminal contempt May 25, 1971.
She joined John Swinglish, Paul Couming and Joseph Gilchrist in refusing to talk despite being granted immunity.
All except Gilchrist were released pending trial on the contempt charge. Gilchrist was in federal prison for destroying draft board records in protest of the Vietnam War.
11 others were also subpoenaed and a dozen more subpoenas would be issued in the coming weeks with a number refusing to testify and being charged with either civil or criminal contempt, including a Catholic priest who refused to divulge anything said in confession.
The grand jury indicted Phillip Berrigan and five others on charges of conspiring to destroy government property and to kidnap national security advisor Henry Kissinger using the heating tunnels under Washington, D.C. to carry out the alleged plot.
The Harrisburg Defense Committee issued a statement charging the federal government with using the grand jury to “discover the kind of defense which will be provided for those indicted.”
The group charged that the subpoenas constituted, “an illegal use of the grand jury to obtain statements from witnesses for the defense after these witnesses had previously refused to talk with the FBI agents and is a total prostitution of the grand jury process.”
It would later be determined that prosecutors were calling anyone referred to in letters or conversations that had been illegally wiretapped in an effort to glean any detail even though they had no evidence that any of those subpoenaed had any connection with the case.
Two more people were later indicted by the grand jury on conspiracy charges for a total of eight.
It seemed surreal. A group of well-known Catholic and other non-violent activists committed to non-violence charged with conspiracy to raid federal offices, blow up government buildings and kidnap National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger using Washington D.C.’s heating tunnels to carry out the plot.
The eight charged were primarily composed of Catholic non-violent direct action activists: Phillip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth MacAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick along with Eqbal Ahmad—a Pakistani journalist and political scientist and John “Ted” Glick, a pacifist activist.
Glick’s case was severed from the others when he insisted on acting as his own attorney.
The trial sparked a nationwide defense effort that included a rally in Harrisburg that drew upwards of 20,000 people to support the seven.
Father Berrigan was serving time in the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, in central Pennsylvania at the time of the alleged conspiracy.
Boyd Douglas, who eventually would become an FBI informant and star prosecution witness - was a fellow inmate. Douglas was on a work-release at the library at nearby Bucknell University.
Douglas used his real connection with Berrigan to convince some students at Bucknell that he was an anti-war activist, telling some that he was serving time for anti-war activities. In fact, he was in prison for check forgery. In the course of the investigation the government resorted to unauthorized and illegal wiretapping.
Douglas set up a mail drop and persuaded students to transcribe letters intended for Berrigan into his school notebooks to smuggle into the prison. (They were later called, unwillingly, as government witnesses.)
Librarian Zoia Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for refusing to testify for the prosecution on the grounds that her forced testimony would threaten intellectual and academic freedom. She was the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience.
U.S. attorneys obtained an indictment charging the Harrisburg Seven with conspiracy to kidnap Kissinger and to bomb steam tunnels. Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark led the defense team for their trial during the spring months of 1972. Clark used a then relatively untested theory of scientific jury selection—the use of demographic factors to identify unfavorable jurors.
Unconventionally, he didn't call any witnesses in his clients' defense, including the defendants themselves. He reasoned that the jury was sympathetic to his Catholic clients and that that sympathy would be ruined by their testimony that they'd burned their draft cards. After nearly 60 hours of deliberations, the jury remained hung and the defendants were freed.
Douglas testified that he transmitted transcribed letters between the defendants, which the prosecution used as evidence of a conspiracy among them. Several of Douglas' former girlfriends testified at the trial that he acted not just as an informer, but also as a catalyst and agent provocateur for the group's plans.
There were minor convictions for a few of the defendants, based on smuggling mail into the prison; most of those were overturned on appeal.
Glick was jailed for other “hit and stay” actions of the Flower City Conspiracy that included raiding draft boards in Philadelphia and in Delaware and the Washington, D.C. offices of General Electric. He was jailed 11 months for some of these actions.
After the trial of the main group of defendants in the Harrisburg resulted in a hung jury, prosecutors then dropped the charges against Glick..
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsm9Xu4r5
The photographer is unknown. The image is a United Press International photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
Operativ-Technische Sektor (OTS) @ Roedernstraße in Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen
The departments main task was the production of special intelligence technology. The OTS was responsible for the development, production and maintenance of every kind of espionage equipment including secret wiretapping devices, cameras, camouflage and monitoring instruments.
Full reportage: Elephant in Berlin
Hundreds of thousands of refugees in
Pakistan + bombing civilians in Afghanistan.
From: Yahoo news.
The Obama just like Bush item
Bird Eye says:
I'll freely admit to starting too many items regarding how Obama's war, finance, and civil liberties polices are just like Bush. So this item is to link to stories where Obama's polices are just like Bush. I'll start Obama AGAIN defends government secrecy to keep people from knowing whether the government is spying on them:
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/06/BARP...
See also:
www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/07-1
Posted at 4:56PM, 7 April 2009 PDT ( permalink )
David C. Foster says:
You seem to want him to fail?
Posted 5 weeks ago. ( permalink )
Bird Eye says:
No David I voted for Obama and as a lefty progressive I very much wanted him as our first African American president to be the real thing and a refreshing change for the country.
Sadly though he seems to be behaving EXACTLY like Bush which makes me bitter and angry. I am not going to SUDDENLY support policies like government secrecy on behalf on Un-Constitutional wiretapping of Americans, escalation of unwinable Vietnam like quagmire wars, and massive unaccountable transfers of taxpayer money from the average American to the ultra elite rich just because it's done by a D.
I have always voted for Greens in the past and clearly this experiment of "lesser two evils" shows why, lesser evil often turns out to be just plain evil. Instead of FDR and real help for a hurting country it seems we have gotten a slicker more articulate personable Bush II :(!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bird Eye edited this topic 5 weeks ago.
Patriot 1958 says:
Bird...has any leftist progressive government ever done any long standing good for anyone?
Posted 5 weeks ago. ( permalink )
iamyourbestfriend says:
Bird Eye If you would have paid attention during class you would have heard the warnings of how Obama was a fraud.
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