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"And Then They Came For Me": The Black Bagging of Adam Kokesh

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick]
The outright harassment, intimidation and black bagging of political opponents in the US has reached new levels in recent weeks.
The extortion arm of the US government, the IRS, has admitted to targetting people with certain political beliefs for aggressive shakedowns. And good friend of TDV, Adam Kokesh, who was planning a peaceful armed march in support of the Second Amendment of the Constitution on Washington DC on July 4th was kidnapped in broad daylight on May 18th in Philadelphia.
Here is one of numerous angles showing Adam Kokesh doing nothing but submitting to the people assaulting him and being taken away.
Today, in the USSA, Amanda Billyrock has modernized the quote of Martin Neimoller, a German pastor during the Nazi era:
First they came for Irwin Schiff, and I didn't speak out because I always pay my taxes.
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Then they came for Bradley Manning, and I didn't speak out because documents are classified for a reason.
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Then they came for Bernard von Nothaus, and I didn't speak out because I use paper money.
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Then they came for Adam Kokesh, and I didn't speak out because I don't support his march on D.C.
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Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/5/23/and-then-they-came...

US sends more jets as North Korea vows nuclear build-up

 

The US has deployed several military planes over South Korea in the past month

 

The US says it sent stealth fighters to South Korea on Sunday, as the North pledged to build up its nuclear arsenal at a meeting of top leaders.

The F-22 fighters were deployed as part of ongoing joint military exercises with South Korea, the US said.
In recent days B-52 bombers and stealth planes have also flown over the area, amid fiery rhetoric from Pyongyang.
North Korea said on Saturday that it was entering a "state of war" with the South.
The communist state has been angered both by UN sanctions imposed after its nuclear test in February and the joint US-South Korea annual military drills.
In recent days it has issued multiple warnings of attacks on US and South Korean targets - to which the US has responded with the various aircraft flights.
The US F-22 planes were flown from Japan to South Korea's Osan Air base on Sunday, officials said.
"[North Korea] will achieve nothing by threats or provocations, which will only further isolate North Korea and undermine international efforts to ensure peace and stability in Northeast Asia," the US military command in South Korea said in a statement reported by Reuters news agency.
In March, the US deployed both B-2 and B-52 planes, which have nuclear capabilities, over South Korea. It said this demonstrated its "capability... to provide extended deterrence to [its] allies in the Asia-Pacific region".
At a rare high-level meeting on Sunday, North Korea's Central Committee described nuclear weapons as "the nation's life" and vowed to further develop its nuclear programme, state-run news agency KCNA said.
more
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21992174

Why did FBI militia informant have a foot in Alaska politics?

 

William Fulton was an FBI informant who helped gather evidence against an Alaska militia leader. He also had some involvement in right-wing politics. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch / January 14, 2013)

By Kim Murphy
 

January 14, 2013, 9:24 p.m.

SEATTLE -- Now that the mole who helped bring down the leadership of the Alaska Peacemaker Militia has talked publicly, the big question on some minds in Alaska is: Why was federal FBI informant William Fulton involved in political campaigns?


The controversy has erupted over the past few days, as it emerged that Fulton, an Anchorage military surplus store owner who helped gather evidence against militia leader Schaeffer Cox, had helped manage the unsuccessful campaign of right-wing former radio host Eddie Burke for lieutenant governor in 2010. He also provided a controversial security detail for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller that year -- all while penetrating Alaska’s far-right fringes as part of the Cox investigation.

Fulton, who has since left Alaska to avoid the chance of reprisals stemming from his FBI work, insists that federal law enforcement agents had no involvement in his political activity and in fact were uncomfortable when they learned of it.

“They had absolutely nothing ever to do with anything like that,” Fulton told the Los Angeles Times on Monday. “The only thing that they ever asked me to do was to look into Schaeffer Cox and a few other people. The only thing they said [about the political activities] was, ‘Hmm, Bill, maybe you shouldn’t be doing this.”

The issue has caused a brouhaha of sorts in Alaska, with the Alaska Dispatch asking, "Should the FBI have kept a tighter leash on its militia mole?"

The controversy is tied in large part to Fulton’s work on a security detail for a campaign event  for Miller, who was running on a tea party platform.

The event proved disastrous when Fulton handcuffed and detained a man who had aggressively followed the candidate in an attempt to ask questions. The man -- whom Fulton said he didn’t know -- refused several orders to leave. As it turned out, the man was a reporter and editor for the Alaska Dispatch, and the specter of a beefy security guard handcuffing a journalist  undermined Miller’s campaign.

Although Miller won the Republican primary against the relatively moderate U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, she launched an unprecedented write-in campaign and beat him in the general election.

The widely reported arrest of a journalist at a town hall meeting “absolutely” was detrimental to his campaign, Miller said Monday in an interview with The Times.

“I’m a strong supporter of the 1st Amendment,  and I had close friends that had been supporters of my campaign question, ‘Why would Joe Miller handcuff a journalist?’ For crying out loud, I wasn’t even in the building,” Miller said. “It was utilized as a political weapon against us in the state.”

Miller said he is now troubled that Fulton, whose personal politics turn out to be not at all aligned with the far right, was injecting controversy  into his campaign and was also working on the campaign of Burke, another right-wing candidate who lost -- all during 2010, when he was a paid informant for the FBI.

Miller recalled the well-publicized election of 2008, when longtime U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens lost his bid for reelection after being convicted  of failing to report gifts from an oil industry lobbyist at the end of a long investigation waged by the FBI in Anchorage. The charges were dismissed in 2009 on the U.S. Justice Department’s own motion when it was learned that potentially exculpatory evidence had not been turned over to the defense. But by then, Democrat Mark Begich had won Stevens’ seat.

“This is the second U.S. Senate race in Alaska that the FBI has had some involvement in,” Miller said. “I’m certainly not expressing any type of conspiracy theory about the FBI causing any kind of trouble to my campaign, but it’s conceptually troubling to me that you have a paid informant working on multiple campaigns answering to the FBI, being debriefed by the FBI, and I really think it’s incumbent on that agency to come clean about the scope of this individual’s employment and the level of involvement the FBI had in that.”

 more

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-fbi-militia-fulton-politics-20130114,0,4693123.story

Oracle releases software update to fix Java vulnerability

Emergency software update repairs vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

by Steven Musil

January 13, 2013 3:43 PM PST Follow @stevenmusil

Oracle released an emergency software update today to fix a security vulnerability in its Java software that could allow attackers to break into computers.
The update, which is available on Oracle's Web site, fixes a critical vulnerability in Oracle's Java 7 that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code. The attack can be induced if someone visits a Web site that's been set up with malicious code to take advantage of the hole.
Oracle said the update modifies the way Java interacts with Web applications.
"The default security level for Java applets and web start applications has been increased from 'medium' to 'high," Oracle said in an advisory today. "This affects the conditions under which unsigned (sandboxed) Java web applications can run. Previously, as long as you had the latest secure Java release installed applets and web start applications would continue to run as always. With the 'high' setting the user is always warned before any unsigned application is run to prevent silent exploitation."
The vulnerability was being exploited by a zero-day Trojan horse called Mal/JavaJar-B, which was already identified as attacking Windows, Linux and Unix systems and being distributed in exploit kits "Blackhole" and "NuclearPack," making it far more convenient to attackers.

White Plains home on handgun permit database burglarized

Officials say two burglars used a ladder to break into the home to try and steal legally-owned guns out of the homeowner's safe. (January 13, 2013 6:21 PM)

A White Plains home that is listed on a publicized handgun permit database was burglarized last night.   Officials say the target of the burglary was the homeowner's gun case.   Police are trying to determine if the break-in was a result of the homeowner's name and address being published by the Journal News last month, along with thousands of other registered gun owners.

http://westchester.news12.com/news/white-plains-home-on-handgun-permit-database-burglarized-1.4442333?qr=1

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