RT: 13 AIRPLANES DISAPPEAR FROM RADARS IN CENTRAL EUROPE DURING EXERCISE

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Joseph P. Farrell • Filed Under: News •http://gizadeathstar.com/2014/07/rt-13-airplanes-disappear-radars-central-europe-exercise/

As most of you know, during the last weekend of June, I was honored to be invited to be one of the speakers at the Secret Space Program/Breakaway Civilization conference in San Mateo, California. While this was happening, my email pile grew to enormous proportions,  and a number of stories occurred that require some commentary, no matter how belated that may be. (One reason for my late commentary on some of these stories during the next couple of weeks is that I had to schedule five weeks’ worth of blogs in order to cover the period of my absence during the conference, so I beg your indulgence the next couple of weeks as I attempt to “catch up” with some of these stories in the blogs). In any case, here’s RT’s short article on the story:
‘Unprecedented’: 13 aircraft mysteriously disappear from radars in heart of Europe
This article is so short, it’s worth citing in full, with the italicized portions representing what, to my mind anyway, represents the “story hidden between the lines”:

“A total of 13 aircraft suddenly vanished off radars for about 25 minutes on two occasions over Austria and neighboring countries, Austria’s flight safety monitor said, calling for an EU probe into the “unprecedented” incidents.
“The flights vanished from air traffic controllers’ screens in Austria on June 5 and June 10 for 25 minutes each time, Marcus Pohanka of Austro Control – Austria’s flight safety organization – said Thursday.
“Air traffic control in neighboring regions of Germany and the Czech Republic also reported similar problems.
“Pohanka said the location, height, and identity of the 13 aircraft vanished over Austria both times, in what he called “unprecedented” incidents, AP reported.
“He added that some neighboring countries had experienced similar problems. The daily Kurier, based in Vienna, elaborated that similar problems were experienced by flight controllers in Munich and Karlsruhe in Germany and in Prague, Czech Republic.
“Poahanka declined to say which airlines and planes were involved, but suggested that some may have been passenger jets, which fly at high altitudes. The EU’s Eurocontrol and European Aviation Safety Agency will investigate the incidents.
“Poahanka stressed that at no time were any of the planes in danger, as extra air traffic controllers were immediately called to their posts and emergency measures were brought in, which included immediately establishing voice contact with the pilots and the widening of flight corridors.
“The Kurier cited an unnamed expert as saying that the problem was most likely to do with interference between the aircraft transponders and the ground.”(Russia Today, “‘Unprecedented’: 13 aircraft mysteriously disappear from radars in heart of Europe,” June 13, 2014, bold-italics emphasis added).

Now note the main points:

1. 13 aircraft over Austra disappeared from radar;
2. A similar problem was reported in Germany and the Czech republic, implying that the actual number of airplanes affected may be higher than 13;
3. Emergency measures were initiated; and,
4. An unknown source implied that the problem was due to interference between aircraft transponders and ground air traffic control.

It’s the last point that is the crux of the issue, for interference with transponders implies an “interferer”, and that implies someone with the motivation and technology to do so. Additionally, there are the usual internet rumors – one or two that crossed my email desk – that allege that all of this occurred during a NATO exercise. But exercise or not, the interference implies an interferer, with the technology and motivation to do so.
In the post-Malaysia Air flight 370 world, this incident gives one pause. I cannot exorcise the nagging intuition that somehow, the two incidents are related; indeed, I cannot get rid of the nagging intuition that perhaps the USS Donald Cook incident might be related, for Russia clearly demonstrated a capability during that incident. If the “unknown source’s” allegations are true, then someone reached into the air traffic control system of central Europe, and created a disruption.
The question is, who?
My high octane speculation? I doubt very much any of the BRICSA nations would have sufficient motivation to risk such an incident. For imagine if something had gone tragically wrong: if that had happened, the Western oligarchs would have ramped up their media band organs and churned out some spin on their media carousels and pointed the finger of blame at those nations.NATO was apparently conducting drills at the time, and most here know the drill about drills: real time operations are often piggy-backed into such drills. But still… if the BRICSA nations had pulled such a stunt, and it had gone somehow wrong, just to send “a message,” the message would have backfired colossally. Could it be “radical Islamic terrorists”, the convenient and most-favored-villain in today’s world? Possible, but if so, then the technology to do so, not to mention the intelligence organization to do so, would have had to have come from somewhere else. Could it have been the insane oligarchs of the West? Well, from the point of insanity, they’d be crazy enough to stage such a demonstration to the countries of central Europe, and note, two of the three countries mentioned – Austria and the Czech Republic, and Germany – are all countries dominated by the third country mentioned, Germany, which has been a-less-than-compliant lap dog lately(how dare they ask for their gold back? how dare they try to cement stronger relationships with Russia? &c). But the strategy is risky, for all the reasons mentioned before.
So in other words, in the end, we’re left with questions and no firm foundation for speculation. It’s anybody’s guess.
And there’s always the possibility that it was just a fluke, an accident. A simultaneous failure of transponders….
…. Nah!

Gun Confiscation Begins in New York?

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Paul Joseph Watson

Nassau County man: State Police “just came to my home and took everything”

Second amendment activists are expressing concern that authorities in New York state have begun moving towards mass gun confiscation after a man had all his firearms seized by police over a 15-year-old misdemeanor charge.

Breaking News - Gun Confiscation Has Begun In NY!!! Must Watch!!

In a post on the nyfirearms.com forum entitled, “NY State Police Just Came to My Home and Took Everything,” a Nassau County man describes how he received a visit from State Police who wanted to inspect the serial number of a semi-automatic rifle he had just purchased.

“I brought him to my safe, opened it and the 2nd officer went in and took out my cx4, Remington 70 sps and Remington 870 shotgun. Then he says that I had a misdemeanor possession charge 15 years ago and all the guns will be taken,” the man wrote, adding that he was put through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System when he purchased the guns with no issues.

The post elicited a huge response from other forum members who encouraged the man to get a lawyer while advising them that he shouldn’t have allowed cops to enter his home without a warrant. Others said the case highlighted how “registration leads to confiscation.”

The man now faces having to get permission from a judge in order to have his firearms returned.

“The mods reached out to him, and he proved his case by showing them the paperwork from the state troopers,” writes Dan Zimmerman.

After the passage of the the NY Safe Act back in April, which was described by Governor Andrew Cuomo as the “toughest” gun control law in the United States, less than 10 per cent of residents obeyed by registering their assault-style weapons.

Some Sheriffs publicly stated that they would not order their deputies to enforce the law, while Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb derided the Safe Act as “the worst piece of legislation I have seen in my 14 years as a member of the Assembly.”

Protesters against the measure marked the deadline by shredding their registration cards during a demonstration in upstate New York, arguing that the law merely creates a new class of criminals out of responsible gun owners.

The backlash against the NY Safe Act mirrors what happened in Connecticut, where residents were required by law to register high capacity magazines and assault rifles manufactured after 1994, yet just 13% of gun owners complied.

Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google

Rockstar paid $4.5 billion for Nortel patents and has launched a major attack.

by Joe Mullin - Oct 31 2013

• Patents

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/patent-war-goes-nuclear-microsoft-apple-owned-rockstar-sues-google/

Rockstar's reverse-engineering lab in Ottawa, Canada.

Rockstar Consortium

Canada-based telecom Nortel went bankrupt in 2009 and sold its biggest asset—a portfolio of more than 6,000 patents covering 4G wireless innovations and a range of technologies—at an auction in 2011.
Google bid for the patents, but it didn't get them. Instead, the patents went to a group of competitors—Microsoft, Apple, RIM, Ericsson, and Sony—operating under the name "Rockstar Bidco." The companies together bid the shocking sum of $4.5 billion.
Patent insiders knew that the Nortel portfolio was the patent equivalent of a nuclear stockpile: dangerous in the wrong hands, and a bit scary even if held by a "responsible" party.
This afternoon, that stockpile was finally used for what pretty much everyone suspected it would be used for—launching an all-out patent attack on Google and Android. The smartphone patent wars have been underway for a few years now, and the eight lawsuits filed in federal court today by Rockstar Consortium mean that the conflict just hit DEFCON 1. 
Google probably knew this was coming. When it lost out in the Nortel auction, the company's top lawyer, David Drummond, complained that the Microsoft-Apple patent alliance was part of a "hostile, organized campaign against Android." Google's failure to get patents in the Nortel auction was seen as one of the driving factors in its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola in 2011.
Rockstar, meanwhile, was pretty unapologetic about embracing the "patent troll" business model. Most trolls, of course, aren't holding thousands of patents from gigantic technology companies. When Rockstar was profiled by Wired last year, about 25 of its 32 employees were former Nortel employees.
The suits filed today are against Google and seven companies that make Android smartphones: Asustek, HTC, Huawei, LG Electronics, Pantech, Samsung, and ZTE. The case was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, long considered a district friendly to patent plaintiffs.

The lawsuits

The complaint against Google involves six patents, all from the same patent "family." They're all titled "associative search engine" and list Richard Skillen and Prescott Livermore as inventors. The patents describe "an advertisement machine which provides advertisements to a user searching for desired information within a data network."

The smartphone patent wars have been underway for a few years now, and the conflict just hit DEFCON 1.

The oldest patent in the case is US Patent No. 6,098,065, with a filing date of 1997, one year before Google was founded. The newest patent in the suit was filed in 2007 and granted in 2011.
The complaint tries to use the fact that Google bid for the patents as an extra point against the search giant. "Google subsequently increased its bid multiple times, ultimately bidding as high as $4.4 billion," wrote Rockstar's lawyers. "That price was insufficient to win the auction, as a group led by the current shareholders of Rockstar purchased the portfolio for $4.5 billion. Despite losing in its attempt to acquire the patents-in-suit at auction, Google has infringed and continues to infringe the patents-in-suit."
The suits against the six manufacturing companies each assert the same patents—either six or seven of them, depending on the target. The patents cover a variety of innovations and have different inventors. One patent filed in 1997 for a "navigation tool for graphical user interface" describes a way of navigating through electronic documents. Another describes an "Internet protocol filter," and a third patent describes an "integrated message center."
The manufacturer lawsuits name the targets' whole array of smartphones and tablets. The lawsuit against Huawei, for instance, claims the infringing products include "the Huawei M865 MUVE, Huawei Ascend II, and Huawei Premia 4G M931, and Huawei’s family of tablets, including but not limited to the Huawei MediaPad and Huawei IDEOS S7 Slim."
Rockstar has employed two different law firms to file the suits; both firms have patent experience and experience litigating in the Eastern District of Texas. The Google search suit is being handled by Susman Godfrey, which has taken on other sue-the-world patent cases, like Paul Allen's lawsuits against Facebook, Google, and others.
The manufacturer suits, meanwhile, are being handled by McKool Smith, a formidable Texas law firm that has probably wrung more massive verdicts out of tech companies than any other firm. It scored $368 million from Apple for VirnetX, $290 million from Microsoft over i4i's XML patent, and most recently notched a $173 million verdict against Qualcomm.

The ultimate “patent privateer”

When Wired visited Rockstar's Ontario headquarters, it found 10 reverse-engineering experts, working daily to take apart products and find patent infringement. With just a few dozen employees, Rockstar is hoping to convince more than 100 technology companies to pay it patent licensing fees for a huge array of products. "Pretty much anyone out there is infringing," said Rockstar's CEO, John Veschi.
The Rockstar Consortium may be the ultimate example of patent "privateering"—when big companies hand off their patents to small shell companies to do the dirty work of suing their competitors. Essentially, it's patent trolling gone corporate.
The "privateering" phenomenon has long irked Google. In February, when Google filed a patent lawsuit against British Telecom, it said one of the reasons for the suit was that BT had not only sued Google directly, but it had also gone around "arming patent trolls."
Part of Rockstar's strategy is avoiding a patent countersuit by not having any operating businesses. Essentially, the company wants to enjoy the same advantage patent trolls have, even though it's owned by direct Google competitors like Apple and Microsoft.
"The principals have plausible deniability," said Thomas Ewing, an IP attorney who spoke to Wired about Rockstar. "They can say with a straight face: ‘They’re an independent company. We don’t control them.’ And there’s some truth to that."
And Rockstar's CEO was quite straightforward about his belief that whatever promises Microsoft and Apple might have made about how they'll use their patents, those promises don't apply to Rockstar. “We are separate,” he says. “That does not apply to us.”
Rockstar may want to keep the patent conflict as a kind of "proxy war" between Google and its competitors. But Google has plenty of patents, and this new attack seems assured to bring a counterattack.
The smartphone market is more valuable than ever, and the $4.5 billion Rockstar purchase shows that Google's competitors will spare no expense to put a damper on Android, and they hope to make money while they do it. Patents have become the arena in which tech companies have chosen to do battle. Six years after the iPhone and five years after the launch of Android, the stakes keep getting raised.

Ad Offers Up To $6054 a Month, TAX FREE, to House Illegal Immigrant Children

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Dean Garrison

Photo Credit: BenSwann.com

With half of the population now making less than $27,520 per year America is hurting and the middle class is dying. The present immigration disaster will not help matters for those who are struggling financially.
As one patriot in Murrieta recently noted, “If somebody brought six children to your house and you ain’t got no job, are you going to take them in?… Are you going to try to find out where they came from? Are you going to try to send them back?… What are we going to do for the people who are here who are starving already?…Why would we add to the problem?”
This young patriot might change his tune if those six kids brought him a big government check. Hopefully he would not, but that is not the point. Someone has to pay for all of this.
It goes without saying that the promise of over $72,000 a year, for taking in some illegal immigrant kids, is a seriously tempting carrot being dangled in front of a population of starving rabbits.
This is a classified ad, which obviously lacks details, and the $6,054 offer will certainly only be available upon meeting certain requirements. In this case it involves taking in six children and having a large enough house to do so.
Ben Swann reports:

Benswann.com called Crittenton FFA, which is located in Orange County and provides services for Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, and found that for those willing to a take in a child under the age of 16, you can receive up to $854.00 tax free per month. For those taking in a child over 16, the total is $1,008.00 per month in reimbursement. If you have a 5 bedroom house and can take in as many as 6 children, you can receive reimbursement of up to $6,054.00 per month tax free.
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As for who is paying for all of this? We were told that for normal foster services, the reimbursement is provided by a series of state and local grants but in the case of the “unaccompanied refugee minors”, 100% of the reimbursement will come from the federal government.

As if America didn’t have enough reasons to be angry already. Now the federal government is paying $854 to $1008 per month/per child to pay for the care of these illegal immigrants while refusing to secure the border and send these kids home. There will be other taxpayer funded benefits on top of that, like medical care.
This money is coming from the taxpayers and we simply can not afford it.
There has been a lot of talk about the diseases that these kids are carrying and the undue financial stress this puts upon the system.
However, there is another problem that very few are talking about.
Do you remember the story of Monika Weselowski and her son Dylan? Dylan was taken by the state under false pretenses and put into a home where he allegedly suffered sexual abuse.
Let’s not forget about this sex trafficking angle which is not being discussed much in the media. A lot of this money will go from your pocket and eventually into the hands of perverts, pimps and traffickers who will ultimately be responsible for the sexual abuse of some of these children.
The ad ironically mentions “human trafficking.”
This is real and the ad may pull on the heart strings of some, but it is also a bold proclamation for deviants to line up and collect their free government money for preying upon innocent children.
It is a pervert’s dream. They are actually getting paid to molest kids and you and I are financing it. I’m not saying that all these kids will suffer this fate but some will. It is already happening to a lot of very unfortunate children in this country and no one cares to talk about it.
This is something the bleeding hearts are certainly not talking about, but rest assured that for a lot of these kids the American Dream will turn into a nightmare.
There are so many things wrong with this immigration situation and you can rest assured that we are not getting the whole truth about any of it.
Wake up America!
It’s time to get angry.