Each month, about nine people are killed by cars while they are crossing the road in Florida, making it the worst state in the nation for pedestrian fatalities. Just this past Wednesday, Nov. 16, one of these fatalities occurred when a pregnant woman was hit and killed leaving doctors scrambling to try and save her unborn child.
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Even an anti-Wall Street movement can lend itself to creating profits. Hip-hop icon Jay-Z and former Run-DMC rapper Russell Simmons have figured that out. Jay-Z’s clothing line Rocawear has created shirts that spin off the OWS theme. The shirts have “Occupy All Streets” written across the front in graffiti style. Unfortunately for OWSers looking for a piece of that pie, Jay-Z has no plans to share its proceeds or throw a brick through Rupert Murdoch ‘s home, according to a statement Rocawear sent to “Business Insider”: The ‘Occupy All Streets’ T shirt was created in support of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement. Rocawear strongly encourages all forms of constructive expression, whether it be artistic, political or social. ‘Occupy All Streets’ is our way of reminding people that there is change to be made everywhere, not just on Wall Street. At this time we have not made an official commitment to monetarily support the movement. Simmons has shown support for the shirts, promoting them on Twitter a couple times:
See Reason , ” An Iraq War Veteran is in Critical Condition After Occupy Oakland Scuffles, Police Won’t Confirm What Weapons They Used .” But watch the video: Clearing the protest? Good. Police-state tactics? Not so good. The New York Times has more, ” Updates on Occupy Protests Nationwide “: Two veterans groups say that a protester who was badly wounded in Oakland on Tuesday night is a former marine who is now hospitalized with a fractured skull. According to Iraq Veterans Against the War, the protester, Scott Olsen, is a member of their group who left the Marines in 2010, after serving two tours in Iraq. In a statement, the group’s executive director Jose Vasquez, claimed that Mr. Olsen “sustained a skull fracture after being shot in the head with a police projectile while peacefully participating in an Occupy Oakland march,” on Tuesday night. Mr. Vasquez added that Mr. Olsen, a systems network administrator in Daly, Calif. “is currently sedated at a local hospital awaiting examination by a neurosurgeon.” A series of bloody photographs that appear to show Mr. Olsen after he was wounded were posted on the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center’s site, Indybay.org. Those images show that Mr. Olsen was wearing a brown military shirt with his last name on the front. Jay Finneburgh, the photographer who shot the images of Mr. Olsen, wrote on Indybay: “This poor guy was right behind me when he was hit in the head with a police projectile. He went down hard and did not get up. The bright light in the second shot is from a flash-bang grenade that went off a few feet from us. He looks like he might be a veteran. he was eventually taken to highland hospital.” Go back to New York Times to follow the links to IVAW and others. The freedom to assemble is not unlimited. Time, place, manner restrictions are routine, and the police had already ordered the crowd to disperse. According to the San Francisco Chronicle : Police said they had to protect themselves from protesters who hurled rocks, bottles and paint, and ignored orders to disperse. Still, that Olsen dude got beat up pretty bad. Looks like the police have some PR problems now. More at London’s Daily Mail , ” Marine veteran fighting for life after being shot in the face with gas canister during Occupy Oakland clashes .”
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Disturbing, amateur footage has just been released out Libya showing Moammar Gadhafi being dragged by rebel forces from the drainpipe in which he was cowering. The video show Gadhafi wiping blood from his face while he screams at his captors. According to a Sky News translation, Gadhafi asked the rebels, “What are you doing? What you are doing is forbidden is Islam. Do you know right from wrong?” Warning, this video contains graphic content: Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com (h/t FoxNewsInsider ) MISRATA, Libya (The Blaze/AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s blood-streaked body was stashed in a commercial freezer at a shopping center Friday as Libyans waited in line outside for a chance to see him and authorities tried to figure out where to bury the longtime dictator. The makeshift provisions for the corpse reflected the disorganization and confusion that has surrounded Gadhafi’s death. Accounts of how he died after being captured by revolutionary fighters remained contradictory, and the top U.N. rights official raised concerns he was shot to death in custody. His burial had been planned for Friday, in accordance with Islamic traditions calling for quick interment. But the interim government delayed it, saying the circumstances of his death still had to be determined. Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam also said authorities are “debating right now what the best place is to bury him.” An AP correspondent saw the body at the shopping center in the coastal city of Misrata, home of the fighters who killed the ousted leader a day earlier in his hometown of Sirte. The body, stripped to the waist and wearing beige trousers, was laid on a bloodied mattress on the floor of an emptied-out room-sized freezer where restaurants and stores in the center normally keep perishables. A bullet hole was visible on the left side of his head – with the bullet still lodged in his head, according to the presiding doctor – and in the center of his chest and stomach. His hair was matted and dried blood streaks his arms and head. Outside the shopping center, residents waited in line for their chance enter the freezer and have their picture taken with Gadhafi’s body. Different visiting hours have been set for women and children and for men. “This is the expected end for a tyrant,” said Abdel-Atie al-Tabouli, one of the main guards outside the freezer. Bashir Ali, a commander from the Misrata military operations room, said the burial would be in a secret location to avoid revenge attacks. “Gadhafi hurt a lot of people and many will want to find his body for revenge, so we need to make sure he is not found,” he said. The 69-year-old Gadhafi was captured wounded but alive, and there have been contradictory accounts of how and when he received his fatal wounds. New video emerged Friday of a bloodied Gadhafi being taunted and beaten by the fighters who pulled him out of a drainage tunnel following clashes in his hometown of Sirte on Thursday. “More details are needed to ascertain whether he was killed in some form of fighting or was executed after his capture,” said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, calling the images of Gadhafi’s last moments very disturbing. Gadhafi’s capture came when revolutionary fighters overwhelmed him and his last die-hard loyalists in Sirte, seizing control of the regime’s last major bastion after a heavily fought, weekslong siege. Exact details of his final hours remain unclear. According to most accounts from fighters on the ground and their commanders, Gadhafi was in a convoy trying to flee, when NATO airstrikes hit two of the vehicles. Then revolutionary forces moved in and clashed with the loyalists with Gadhafi for several hours. Gadhafi and his bodyguards fled their cars and took refuge in a nearby drainage tunnel. Fighters pursued and clashed with them, and in the end, Gadhafi emerged from tunnel and was grabbed by fighters. New footage posted on Facebook shows the moments when Gadhafi was dragged by revolutionary fighters up the hill to their vehicles. The young men screaming “Moammar, you dog!” beat the confused-looking Gadhafi, who wipes at blood covering the left side of his head and neck and left shoulder. Gadhafi gestures to the young men to be patient, and says “What’s going on?” as he wipes fresh blood from his temple and glances at his palm. A young fighter later is shown carrying a boot and screaming, “This is Moammar’s shoe! This is Moammar’s shoe! Victory! Victory!” The next point that most accounts agree upon is that Gadhafi died about 30-40 minutes later as he was being taken in an ambulance to Misrata. A coroners report said he bled to death from a shot to the head, and he also had shots to the chest and belly. Accounts have been confused, however, over where and how those fatal shots were suffered. Most commanders and fighters who were at the scene with whom The Associated Press has spoken say that when he was captured, Gadhafi had already suffered the wounds that would lead to his death. That would mean that in the video, Gadhafi would have a bullet imbedded in his head, another in his chest and a third near his belly button. Yet, he is seen upright, talking and has the strength to struggle back, and there is no blood on his chest or belly. At one point, his shirt is pulled up to his chest, but no belly wound is visible. Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril gave a different account Thursday, saying the fatal wounds were suffered later, when Gadhafi had been taken to the ambulance. As it set off for Misrata, the vehicle was caught in crossfire between revolutionaries and Gadhafi loyalists. Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam mirrored this version Friday, saying the wounds came later, after his capture. “It seems like the bullet was a stray and it could have come from the revolutionaries or the loyalists,” Shammam said. “The problem is everyone around the event is giving his own story.” But other fighters, commanders and witnesses have not spoken of any such crossfire or further clashes. Siraq al-Hamali, a 21- year-old fighter, told AP that he rode in the vehicle carrying Gadhafi as it left Sirte and did not mention coming under fire. He said by the time they reached a field hospital 20 miles (30 kilometers) outside Sirte, Gadhafi had died of wounds he already had. “I really wanted him alive and everybody did, but he was destined to die and we could do nothing to change that,” he said. “He won’t be missed, and that’s all for the best and let’s get on with our lives.” One of Gadhafi’s sons, Muatassim, was also killed in Sirte, but the fate of Gadhafi’s one-time heir apparent Seif al-Islam was unclear. Some Libyan officials said he had been wounded and was being held in a hospital in Zlitan. But Hakim al-Kisher, a local military official at the Zlitan hospital, denied that. Many Libyans awoke after a night of jubilant celebration and celebratory gunfire with hope for the future but also concern that their new rulers, the National Transitional Council, might repeat the mistakes of the past. Khaled Almslaty, a 42-year-old clothing vendor in Tripoli, said he wished Gadhafi had been captured alive. “But I believe he got what he deserved because if we prosecuted him for the smallest of his crimes, he would be punished by death,” he said. “Now we hope the NTC will accelerate the formation of a new government and … won’t waste time on irrelevant conflicts and competing for authority and positions.” Thousands of people converged for Friday prayers on Martrys’ Square, formerly known as Green Square and the site from which Gadhafi made many defiant speeches trying to rally support as the uprising against him turned into a civil war. One group of men danced and hoisted the country’s new tricolor flag, chanting slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad, who also faces an uprising against his rule as part of the Arab Spring that has also seen the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia ousted. “It’s your turn Bashar, zenga, zenga, dar, dar,” they chanted. “Zenga, zenga, dar, dar” is Arabic for “alley by alley, house by house,” a phrase used by Gadhafi in his last months in power, referring to how his forces would hunt down those who rose up against him. Women, who wore headscarves and prayed in a separate section, hoisted a banner that said, “It’s a new morning without the colonel,” using Gadhafi’s military designation. The governing National Transitional Council said interim leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil will formally declare liberation on Saturday in the eastern city of Benghazi, where the revolution began in mid-February. The NTC has said it will form a new interim government within a month of liberation and will hold elections within eight months.
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Tomorrow, a bombshell book the Obama DOJ doesn’t want you to read will be released. Injustice , by former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams, exposes the “racial agenda of the Obama Justice Department.” As I write in my endorsement of the book (published by Regnery): “Christian Adams is a truth-teller, whistle-blower, and American patriot. With great courage and investigative skill, this former Department of Justice attorney single-handedly exposes how Barack Obama and Eric Holder have systematically perverted the rule of law—for patently unjust, un-American, race-based ends. Adams witnessed first-hand the hijacking of the DOJ by radical leftist ideologues and interest groups. Now he reveals everything: the full story of Holder’s coddling of New Black Panther Party poll thugs, corruption run amok in the Civil Rights Division, open borders advocacy, selective law enforcement, and much more. If you care about justice for all, Injustice is hands-down the most important book you’ll read this year.” Over at Big Government , Andrew Breitbart has Injustice -related photos of a 2007 march in Selma, Alabama featuring fellow race hustlers Barack Obama and the NBPP: The book exposes Obama administration corruption far beyond the Panther dismissal, and reveals how the institutional Left has turned the power of the DOJ into an ideological weapon. Adams’s book also describes, in detail, the Selma march at which then-Senator Obama was joined by a group of Panthers who had come to support his candidacy. Among those appearing with Obama was Shabazz, the Panther leader who was one of the defendants in the voter intimidation case that Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed. Also present was the Panthers’ “Minister of War,” Najee Muhammed, who had called for murdering Dekalb County, Georgia, police officers with AK-47’s and then mocking their widows in this video (7:20 – 8:29). Injustice includes a disturbing photo of Shabazz and the Panthers marching behind Obama with raised fists in the “Black Power” salute. There are even more photographs. I have learned that Regnery initially received approval from a person who took pictures of the events in Selma to publish these additional photographs in Injustice. After the photographer wrote Regnery reversing his permission to include the photographs in Injustice, the images were removed from the photographer’s Flickr account. Yet we were able to capture them before they disappeared. The photographs show Obama sharing the same podium at the event with the Panthers. As Adams, who dug up video and photographic evidence of the Obama/NBPP event at the National Voting Rights Museum, observes in Injustice : “One can only imagine the media firestorm that would have erupted if a Republican presidential candidate had marched next to a racist hate group.” Yes, there would have been a veritable stoning . *** Related: All previous NBPP posts. Related: No, the Washington Post will not investigate the racially selective enforcement of law and perversion of justice at Obama’s DOJ. Instead, they’ll smear Christian Adams. We already got a preview when WaPo columnst E.J. Dionne attacked Adams last July. Read here.
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Race hustlers of a feather: Obama and the New Black Panther Party
WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — Public disclosure of graphic photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden after he was killed in May by U.S. commandos would damage national security and lead to attacks on American property and personnel, the Obama administration contends in court documents. In a response late Monday to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group seeking the imagery, Justice Department attorneys said the CIA has located 52 photographs and video recordings. But they argued the images of the deceased bin Laden are classified and are being withheld from the public to avoid inciting violence against Americans overseas and compromising secret systems and techniques used by the CIA and the military. The Justice Department has asked the court to dismiss Judicial Watch’s lawsuit because the records the group wants are “wholly exempt from disclosure,” according to the filing. Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, accused the Obama administration of making a “political decision” to keep the bin Laden imagery secret. “We shouldn’t throw out our transparency laws because complying with them might offend terrorists,” Fitton said in a statement. “The historical record of Osama bin Laden’s death should be released to the American people as the law requires.” The Associated Press has filed Freedom of Information Act requests to review a range of materials, such as contingency plans for bin Laden’s capture, reports on the performance of equipment during the May 1 assault on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and copies of DNA tests confirming the al-Qaida leader’s identity. The AP also has asked for video and photographs taken from the mission, including photos made of bin Laden after he was killed. The Obama administration refused AP’s request to quickly consider its request for the records. AP appealed the decision, arguing that unnecessary bureaucratic delays harm the public interest and allow anonymous U.S. officials to selectively leak details of the mission. Without expedited processing, requests for sensitive materials can be delayed for months and even years. The AP submitted its request to the Pentagon less than one day after bin Laden’s death. In a declaration included in the documents, John Bennett, director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, said many of the photos and video recordings are “quite graphic, as they depict the fatal bullet wound to (bin Laden) and other similarly gruesome images of his corpse.” Images were taken of bin Laden’s body at the Abbottabad compound, where he was killed by a Navy SEAL team, and during his burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson, Bennett said. “The public release of the responsive records would provide terrorist groups and other entities hostile to the United States with information to create propaganda which, in turn, could be used to recruit, raise funds, inflame tensions, or rally support for causes and actions that reasonably could be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to both the national defense and foreign relations of the United States,” Bennett wrote. Navy Adm. William McRaven, the top officer at U.S. Special Operations Command, said in a separate declaration that releasing the imagery could put the special operations team that carried out the assault on bin Laden’s compound at risk by making them “more readily identifiable in the future.” Before his current assignment, McRaven led the Joint Special Operations Command, the organization in charge of the military specialized counterterrorism units.
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Obama Administration Fights to Keep bin Laden Death Photos Secret
At GigaOM, ” Freedom of the press applies to everyone — yes, even bloggers ” (via Glenn Reynolds ): In the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, released just a few weeks ago, the judges pointed out that the First Amendment’s protection for freedom of the press “encompasses a range of conduct related to the gathering and dissemination of information,” and that citizens have the right to investigate government affairs and share what they learn with others. Judge Kermit Lipez also specifically noted that these protections don’t just apply to professional journalists. He said in his decision: [C]hanges in technology and society have made the lines between private citizen and journalist exceedingly difficult to draw. The proliferation of electronic devices with video-recording capability means that many of our images of current events come from bystanders [and] and news stories are now just as likely to be broken by a blogger at her computer as a reporter at a major newspaper. Such developments make clear why the news-gathering protections of the First Amendment cannot turn on professional credentials or status. We couldn’t have put it any better ourselves (although we have tried a number of times). The advent of social news-distribution tools like Twitter and Facebook, not to mention blogs and YouTube and other web services and social networks, have powered what Om has called a “democratization of distribution” that makes virtually anyone into a publisher. RTWT at the link . RELATED : From Carol Rose, ” Victory for liberty and the right to videotape public officials .”
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When you take 983 wide-angle shots of the Moon’s north poll and stitch them together, you get this.
(Photo: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University )
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Have you ever seen the moon like this?
