Friday 07-29-16

Federal Judge Rules Hidden Microphones in Public Do Not Violate Constitution

TOPICS:ConstitutionDerrick BrozeSurveillance

July 27, 2016

By Derrick Broze
A federal judge has ruled that law enforcement may continue to place recording devices in public places because it does not violate the constitutional guarantee against warrantless searches and privacy protections. 
On Friday July 22, U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton issued a 17-page ruling which found the practice of placing recording devices on the steps of courthouses in Oakland and Martinez, California to be “unsettling,” but not in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The four defendants in the federal criminal fraud case are accused of rigging real estate bids throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
In an attempt to eavesdrop on the conversations of the defendants, the Federal Bureau of Investigations placed microphones in a light fixture on the steps of the Almeda County Courthouse and just outside the Contra Costa County Courthouse, among other locations. The information gathered from the conversations was then used as evidence in grand jury proceedings.

The defense called the secret recordings a violation of Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search and seizure and asked for the evidence to be suppressed. Judge Hamilton ruled that the four defendants did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy when speaking in public about the alleged fraud.
“While the court agrees with defendants that it is at the very least unsettling that the government would plant listening devices on the courthouse steps given the personal nature of many of the conversations in which people exiting the courthouse might be engaged, it is equally unrealistic for anyone to believe that open public behavior including conversations can be private given that there are video cameras on many street corners, storefronts and front porches, and in the hand of nearly every person who owns a smartphone,” Hamilton wrote in her ruling.

The four defendants, Michael Marr, Gregory Casorso, Javier Sanchez and Victor Marr, are accused of conspiring to restrain competition by agreeing not to compete with one another during auctions for foreclosed properties and then splitting the proceeds or taking place in private secondary auctions known as “rounds.”
The defense team attempted to argue that the men were huddled together speaking in hushed tones, indicating a significant effort to keep their conversations private. Judge Hamilton disagreed, noting that the recording devices did not amplify the sound and that all four men can be heard discussing their plan in normal voices and even shouting over a jackhammer at one point.
“Privacy advocates are concerned the ruling could establish a precedent allowing law enforcement to eavesdrop on attorneys and clients discussing aspects of their cases outside the courtroom,” Courthouse News writes. Despite the privacy worries, Judge Hamilton assured the court that, “It is unlikely, and certainly unreasonable, for attorneys to risk breaching their confidential communications with clients by discussing sensitive matters out in the open, in conversational tones, in front of a public forum such as a courthouse.”
Still, there is reason to be concerned about the government installing hidden recording devices in public. As with other surveillance tools like the Stingray cellphone surveillance, once the feds are caught they drop the evidence so they do not have to offer an explanation. If law enforcement is not even willing to legally use these tools and provide valid reasoning to justify the use of invasive tools, what is the point of spending millions of dollars on surveillance equipment?

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Thursday 07-28-16

Paul Craig Roberts – We Are About To Witness The End Of The World As We Know It

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, just warned that we are about to witness the end of the world as we know it.

“One Ring to rule them all . . . and in the darkness bind them.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

(King World News) Dr. Paul Craig Roberts:  “World War II resulted in Europe being conquered, not by Berlin but by Washington…

The conquest was certain but not all at once. Washington’s conquest of Europe resulted from the Marshall Plan, from fears of Stalin’s Red Army that caused Europe to rely on Washington’s protection and to subordinate Europe’s militaries to Washington in NATO, from the replacement of the British pound as world reserve currency with the US dollar, and from the long process of the subordination of the sovereignty of individual European countries to the European Union, a CIA initiative implemented by Washington in order to control all of Europe by controlling only one unaccountable government.
With few exceptions, principally the UK, membership in the EU also meant loss of financial independence. As only the European Central Bank, an EU institution, can create euros, those countries so foolish as to accept the euro as their currency no longer have the power to create their own money in order to finance budget deficits.
Banksters Looting EuropeThe countries that joined the euro must rely on private banks to finance their deficits. The result of this is that over-indebted countries can no longer pay their debts by creating money or expect their debts to be written down to levels that they can service. Instead, Greece, Portugal, Latvia, and Ireland were looted by the private banks.
The EU forced the pseudo-governments of these countries to pay the northern European private banks by suppressing the living standards of their populations and by privatizing public assets at pennies on the dollar. Thus retirement pensions, public employment, education and health services have been cut and the money redirected to private banks. Municipal water companies have been privatized with the result being higher water bills. And so on.
As there is no reward, only punishment, for being a member of the EU, why did governments, despite the expressed wishes of their peoples, join?
The answer is that Washington would have it no other way. The European founders of the EU are mythical creatures. Washington used politicians that Washington controlled to create the EU.
Some years ago CIA documents proving that the EU was a CIA initiative were released. See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1356047/Euro-federalists-financed-by-US-spy-chiefs.html and http://benwilliamslibrary.com/blog/?p=5080


“They Belong To Us”In the 1970s my Ph.D. dissertation chairman, then a very high-ranking official in Washington with control over international security affairs, asked me to undertake a sensitive mission abroad. I refused. Nevertheless, he answered my question:

“How does Washington get foreign countries to do what Washington wants?”

“Money,” he said. “We give their leaders bagfuls of money. They belong to us.”

The record is clear that the EU serves the interests of Washington, not the interests of Europe. For example, the French people and government are opposed to GMOs, but the EU permits a “precautionary market authorization” of GMO introduction, relying perhaps on the “scientific findings” of the scientists on Monsanto’s payroll.
Monsanto Forcing GMO Down The World’s Throat
When the US state of Vermont passed a law requiring labeling of GMO foods, Monsanto sued the state of Vermont. Once the paid-off EU officials sign the TTIP agreement written by US global corporations, Monsanto will take over European agriculture.
But the danger to Europe goes far beyond the health of European peoples who will be forced to dine on poisonous foods. Washington is using the EU to force Europeans into conflict with Russia, a powerful nuclear power capable of destroying all of Europe and all of the United States in a few minutes.
This is happening because the paid-off with “bagfuls of money” European “leaders” had rather have Washington’s money in the short-run than for Europeans to live in the long-run.
Just Brainwash The Public With Propaganda
It is not possible that any European politician is sufficiently moronic to believe that Russia invaded Ukraine, that Russia any moment will invade Poland and the Baltic states, or that Putin is a “new Hitler” scheming to reconstruct the Soviet Empire. These absurd allegations are nothing but Washington propaganda devoid entirely of truth. Washington’s propaganda is completely transparent. Not even an idiot could believe it.

Yet the EU goes along with the propaganda, as does NATO.
Why? The answer is Washington’s money. The EU and NATO are utterly corrupt. They are Washington’s well paid whores.
The only way Europeans can prevent a nuclear World War III and continue to live and to enjoy what remains of their culture that the Americans have not destroyed with America’s culture of sex and violence and greed, is for the European governments to follow the lead of the English and exit the CIA-created European Union. And exit NATO, the purpose of which evaporated with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and which is now being used as an instrument of Washington’s World Hegemony.
Why do Europeans want to die for Washington’s world hegemony? That means Europeans are dying for Washington’s hegemony over Europe as well.
Why do Europeans want to support Washington when Washington’s high officials, such as Victoria Nuland, say “Fuck the EU.”
Europeans are already suffering from the economic sanctions that their overlord in Washington forced them to apply to Russia and Iran. Why do Europeans want to be destroyed by war with Russia? Do Europeans have a death wish? Have Europeans been Americanized and no longer appreciate the historic accumulation of artistic and architectural beauty, literature and music achievements of which their countries are custodians?
The answer is that it makes no difference whatsoever what Europeans think, because Washington has set up a government for them that is totally independent of their wishes. The EU government is accountable only to Washington’s money. A few people capable of issuing edicts are on Washington’s payroll. The entire peoples of Europe are Washington’s serfs.
Therefore, if Europeans remain the gullible, insouciant, and stupid peoples that they currently are, they are are doomed, along with the rest of us.
The End Of The World As We Know It On the other hand, if the European peoples can come to their senses, free themselves from The Matrix that Washington has imposed on them, and revolt against Washington’s agents who control them, the European peoples can save their own lives and the lives of the rest of us.”

http://kingworldnews.com/paul-craig-roberts-we-are-about-to-witness-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/

Wednesday 07-17-16

WSJ Reporter's "Shocking" Discovery: DHS Can Confiscate Any Device Along The Border Without Suspicion

A WSJ reporter who covers the Middle East had a very "troubling" close-encounter with the US police superstate.
Maria Abi-Habib was detained by federal agents at Los Angeles International Airport, who demanded to confiscate her two cell phones, and was shocked to learn that border agents have the authority to do that. The reporter has both U.S. and Lebanese citizenship and was traveling on an American passport. She was flying into Los Angeles from Beirut last Thursday when she taken out of line at immigration.
"They grilled me for an hour," she wrote. "I answered jovially, because I've had enough high-level security experiences to know that being annoyed or hostile will work against you." Abi-Habib said that the agents then asked for her cellphones in order to "collect information."
"That is where I drew the line," Abi-Habib wrote. "I told her I had First Amendment rights as a journalist she couldn't violate and I was protected under."
According to Abi-Habib, the agent then presented a DHS document which explained that the government has the right to confiscate phones within 100 miles from U.S. borders: the document "basically says the US government has the right to seize my phones and my rights as a US citizen (or citizen of the world) go out the window." 
She posted a photo of this tearsheet on the Facebook post.  The same document is also available on the website of the US Customs and Border Patrol and can be found at the following link. The key section is the following:

You’re receiving this sheet because your electronic device(s) has been detained for further examination, which may include copying. You will receive a written receipt (Form 6051-D) that details what item(s) are being detained, who at CBP will be your point of contact, and the contact information (including telephone number) you provide to facilitate the return of your property within a reasonable time upon completion of the examination.
 
The CBP officer who approved the detention will speak with you and explain the process, and provide his or her name and contact telephone number if you have any concerns. Some airport locations have dedicated Passenger Service Managers who are available in addition to the onsite supervisor to address any concerns.

More importantly, one can not refuse to hand over any demanded electronic device to the customs agent, as "collection of this information is mandatory at the time that CBP or ICE seeks to copy information from the electronic device. Failure to provide information to assist CBP or ICE in the copying of information from the electronic device may result in its detention and/or seizure."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-21/wsj-reporters-shocking-discovery-dhs-can-confiscate-any-device-along-border-without-

Explorers spot mysterious purple orb on ocean floor

The research vessel Nautilus is a floating laboratory equipped with cameras that can peer deep down to the ocean floor. Researchers with the Ocean Exploration Trust posted a video on Monday showing an unusual find. The Nautilus spied a small bright-purple orb underwater in the Channel Islands off the coast of California.
The main focus for the vehicle's Channel Islands mission is to study deep-sea corals, but the odd sphere attracted the scientists' attention. The video includes a soundtrack of the researchers making real-time observations as the camera sweeps along. They call it a "purple blob" and then wonder aloud "What is that?"
The researchers throw out some scientific names as possibilities before deciding to suck it up into a tube for a closer look. They wonder if it might be an egg sac or an embryo of some sort. There's a moment of suspense as a crab closes in on the orb and jars it with its leg, but the Nautilus successfully grabs the sphere using a remote-controlled suction tube.

The Nautilus website offers an update on the oddball discovery: "This unidentified purple orb stumped our scientists onboard. After sampling, it began to unfold to reveal two distinct lobes. This could possibly be a new species of nudibranch."
Nudibranchs are marine mollusks. They have soft bodies and some of them are quite colorful, appearing in bright shades of orange, blue and pink. Some have slug-like shapes, while others have small branch-like protuberances.
If you're looking for answers as to exactly what the purple orb is, you'll probably have to wait for some time. The Nautilus team notes, "It could take several years for scientists to determine if this organism is a new species."

http://www.cnet.com/news/explorers-spot-mysterious-purple-orb-on-ocean-floor/

Tuesday 07-26-16

Worth watching

https://youtu.be/U6fNShSY_Iw



A Mouth Full of Crickets? Lobbyists Speak Up for Edible Insects

At the Oyamel Cocina Mexicana in Washington, metal butterfly mobiles hang from the ceiling and bugs are on the menu.
The chapulines tacos are jammed with thumb-sized roasted grasshoppers, a delicacy head chef Colin King cooks in tequila and chipotle puree and serves with shallots.
“There’s a lot of instances when people try them for the first time where, if they can get over the mental aspect of it, then they end up really liking them," King said. "I know I went through that when I first tried them.”

Connoisseurs of edible insects say more and more people are coming to like such dishes, which represent an untapped source of environmentally sustainable protein. And the industry is getting organized to push for further consumer -- and government -- acceptance.
At a conference of bug-eaters held in May in Detroit, the North American Edible Insect Coalition was organized. It plans to announce a lobbying campaign in a few months to convince the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to add mealworms, crickets protein powder and other insect products to the agency’s database of Generally Recognized as Safe ingredients, or GRAS.

Like Seafood

Someday, supporters say, bugs could be listed as their own food group, similar to seafood.
“One thing that the edible-insect community has really been good at is educating people about safety, but it is difficult to do so when the FDA doesn’t acknowledge that it is safe to eat,” said Mark Nagy, a member of the coalition and brand owner of cricket food company Incredible Foods, in Fort Worth, Texas.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-25/a-mouth-full-of-crickets-lobbyists-speak-up-for-edible-insects

Monday 07-25-16

As Biometric Scanning Use Grows, So Does Security Risk

Without you necessarily realizing it, your unique attributes — or "biometrics" — are being used to verify your identity.
Every time you unlock your smartphone, use a fingerprint scanner at the airport, or upload a photo with facial recognition to Facebook, your physical attributes are scanned and scrutinized against a template.

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The use of biometrics has exploded in recent years, with companies ranging from 24-Hour Fitness to NYU Langone Medical Center using this convenient technology to identify their customers.
By 2019, biometrics are expected to be a 25-billion-dollar industry with more than 500 million biometric scanners in use around the world, according to Marc Goodman, an advisor to Interpol and the FBI. Newest to the scene, Wells Fargo this fall will begin offering a smartphone app with biometric authentication — making all your financial information just an eye scan away.
With biometrics, there's no need to memorize an unwieldy sequence of numbers and letters as with passwords — and consumers value that convenience. In a OnePoll/Gigya survey, 80 percent of consumers who expressed a preference said they think biometric authentication is more secure than traditional passwords, and 52 percent of consumers said they would choose anything but a traditional password when given the choice.
But, unlike a password, if a person's biometrics are hacked, they can't be changed.
Read More: 5.6 Million Fingerprints (Not 1.1 Million) Were Stolen in OPM Breach

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"You can always get a new credit card. You can always create a new password. [It's] really hard to get new fingers. You only have ten of them and once that information leaks, it's out and there's nothing you can do," Goodman said in an interview with NBC News.
Most companies rolling out biometrics say they will safeguard consumer biometric data carefully to prevent against hacks. Wells Fargo, for example, will not store the original images of their customers' eyes used in authentication, and the data will be encrypted.
But there have already been cases of biometric hacking on a large scale. An estimated 22 million people had their personal data stolen in a massive data breach at the Office of Personnel Management in December 2014, including RAND privacy expert and mother of two Rebecca Balebako. She received a letter from OPM last year informing her that her personal information, including her ten fingerprints, were stolen in the breach.

 

Balebako worries that her information was stolen by a foreign state, like China, and that it could be used against her or her family. Read More: MasterCard Customers Will Soon Be Able to Use a 'Selfie' Password
"That information is going to remain stolen, and I'm not going to change my fingerprints. I also don't know what they're going to do with information about my children or about my husband or about his family," Balebako said.
Balebako had submitted years of personal information, including her Social Security number and previous addresses, for a government background check required for her job.
"I don't know what to do. I work in this field. I'm a security researcher. I'm a privacy researcher. And I don't know what to do. I can't see there's much I can do to protect myself," Balebako said.                      

As biometric technology grows more personal and more widespread, so too do the risks to personal privacy.
"The best thing that we can do is to demand more from our government and from the companies to whom we provide this information, to hold them accountable," Goodman said. "As our society moves more and more online and citizens spend more and more of their time in digital space, law enforcement has failed to keep up. And this major gap is growing larger and larger."

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/biometric-scanning-use-grows-so-do-security-risks-n593161

Thief Destroys Teen’s “Back The Blue” Lemonade Stand

A thief tried to stop a 14-year-old Denton girl from a fundraiser for the families of fallen police officers.
Mia Cagle wanted to have a lemonade stand after she heard about the deaths of the officers in Dallas and Baton Rogue.
“I asked my Mom, ‘can I please help them?’ I just really wanted to help them” she says.
So last weekend, she did – complete with “Back The Blue” signs and a gallon of Country Time Lemonade. But when she stepped away for a minute, somebody stole her bench, broke her table and destroyed her signs. They didn’t steal any money, but succeeded in taking some of her faith.
“I was just heartbroken, because these people who I’m helping needed that, and I was just in shock,” she says.
Her family called Denton Police, but they never expected the reaction they received from the property crime detectives.
“We thought, well, what can we do to show our appreciation for her support? So we decided to replace her lemonade stand,” says Detective Wade Laughlin with the Denton Police Department.
Using their own money, the detectives bought a new table, markers, posters boards, lemonade and cups. And Thursday – Mia’s 14th birthday – she was back in business.
“The police are here to help the community whichever way we can,” says Det. Laughlin.
“I’m like ‘thank you, somebody has our back’, ” Mia says.
A life lesson in turning lemons into lemonade – with a little help from the blue.
“The situation that we’re in is heartbreaking, but the good that comes and the people who jump out of the sidelines to help,” says customer Meg Langlitz. “It’s heartwarming.”
Mia has to date raised more than $700. Denton Police say they have an open investigation into the theft.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/07/21/thief-destroys-teens-back-the-blue-lemonade-stand/

Saturday 07-23-16

How about a little good news for a change?

Amish man beats Big Brother 4 times running

State and township officials in Pennsylvania who have been trying to disrupt an Amish farmer’s practice of allowing members of a private food-buyers club into his barn to buy his products have gone to court and lost.

And gone to court, and lost. And a third time. And even a fourth.

“If at first you don’t succeed at harassing a farmer out of business, try again … and again … and again,” explains a report from the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, which works on, monitors, and reports on such fights.
“That has been the tack the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Hopewell Township have taken since 2012 against Amish farmer and FTCLDF member Chris Zook. Four times either the commonwealth or the township have brought a court action for alleged violations of either the local zoning code or the Pennsylvania Uniform Construction Code against Zook; each time the farmer has emerged victorious,” the report said.
FTCLDF General Counsel Gary Cox has represented Zook.
“Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality,” marshals the terrifying evidence to show the world of Big Brother is much closer than we want to admit.
The organization explained all four actions have been prompted by officials’ fretting over Zook’s new barn. It was built, with all the proper permits, to replace one that was burned in a 2011 fire.
But the state and township both have objected to Zook’s decision to allow members of the Community Alliance for Responsible Eco-farming, of which he is a member, to buy his products in the barn.

“Barns are exempt as agricultural buildings from the Pennsylvania construction code, but both the township and the commonwealth have contended that since there is a retail store in the barn, it is actually a commercial building subject to local zoning requirements and the Commonwealth Uniform Construction Code,” the organization reported.
That would cost Zook thousands of dollars to comply.
“In the latest action, Cumberland County district court dismissed criminal charges against Zook in a July 5 hearing on the grounds that the commonwealth failed to cite any specific provision of law that Zook had violated,” the report said.
The group said after Magistrate Judge Jessica Brewbaker in March dismissed an earlier claim by the government that the commonwealth had not proven its case.
“Brewbaker held that a barn can be used for both agricultural and commercial purposes and still be under the building code exemption. After the commonwealth’s witnesses had finished testifying and without having any of the defense’s witnesses testify, Cox made a motion to dismiss the case which the judge granted.”
The attacks on the farmer have been both civil and criminal.
The first ruling came way back in 2012, when a magistrate ruled the Pennsylvania Right to Farm Act protected the right to sell their farm products without needing to apply for a conditional use permit.
No word whether the government will make a fifth attempt.

 

http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/amish-man-beats-big-brother-4-times-running/

Friday 07-22-16

The governments best and brightest are at it again.  That is what happens with any kind of behavior, when you let them feel you up, to the point it does not excite them anymore.  Then they need something new and more deviant to get excited they need to do something else, when the trill is gone.


Seattle TSA Worker Arrested on Voyeurism Charge

A Transportation Security Administration agent in Seattle was arrested after allegedly being spotted using a phone to take video up a woman's skirt at the city's airport, according to authorities.
Nicholas Fernandez, 29, was arrested on a charge of voyeurism Tuesday, Seattle police said in an arrest report. The incident occurred on an escalator, and not in a security line.
"TSA does not tolerate illegal, unethical or immoral conduct," a spokesperson for the TSA said in a statement.
"When such conduct is alleged, TSA investigates it thoroughly. When appropriate, TSA requests that it be investigated by a law enforcement authority. When an investigation finds that misconduct has occurred, the appropriate action is taken."
Fernandez has been removed from screening duties and he has been suspended without pay, the agency said.

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According to an arrest report, the TSA was investigating information it received that Fernandez, who works at Seattle Tacoma International Airport, might have taken inappropriate photos of women.
A TSA special agent saw Fernandez take a break from a checkpoint at around 11:15 a.m. and follow a woman up an escalator, where he activated a cell phone flashlight and appeared to take video of the woman.
Fernandez is jailed in lieu of $7,500 bail, according to jail records. Court records online did not list an attorney.
Last year, the TSA fired two employees at Denver's airport after the agency alleged they were involved in the groping of male passengers in a security line.
The TSA said a male screener enlisted the aid of a female employee so he could arrange to pat down attractive male passengers.                      

The employees were not identified and no criminal charged were filed. Prosecutors said no victims in that case came forward so no charges could be filed.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/seattle-tsa-worker-arrested-voyeurism-charge-n613711

Thursday 07-21-16

The Feds “Assault” on U.S. War Veterans You Won’t Believe

Constitutional Attorney Michael Connelly, JD, who also is the Executive Director of the United States Justice Foundation, has written the article “OUTRAGEOUS: Veterans are now receiving letters prohibiting the purchase, possession, receipt, or transport of a firearm/ammunition…” that every voter and law abiding citizen in the USA ought to read to understand the scope of what’s happened in this country and, seemingly, we don’t give a fiddler’s damn about.  How truly sad!
According to Connelly, veterans are receiving a letter from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that states in part,

A determination of incompetency will prohibit you from purchasing, possessing, receiving, or transporting a firearm or ammunition. If you knowingly violate any of these prohibitions, you may be fined, imprisoned, or both pursuant to the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, Pub.L.No. 103-159, as implemented at 18, United States Code 924(a)(2).?

It seems as if the VA has taken another tact of dealing with neutralizing veterans apparently by denying them due process because, according to Connelly,

In every state in the United States no one can be declared incompetent to administer their own affairs without due process of law and that usually requires a judicial hearing with evidence being offered to prove to a judge that the person is indeed incompetent. This is a requirement of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that states that no person shall “… be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law…

Veterans of all wars, first and foremost, this writer wants to thank YOU for your personal sacrifices you made on behalf of our country, and also extend the most heartfelt condolences to those families who lost loved ones during those “war games” – some of which, probably historically, were unnecessary, e.g., Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan [1], plus other skirmishes stretching back decades that only greased the skids toward globalism, in my opinion.
How about all the unconstitutional war games our military and troops engaged in because Congress was never consulted? [2,3,4,5]  Did they want to play with their newest technological war games and see how they work?  How about the depleted uranium weapons used in Middle East wars!  [7,8]  What are we doing to our military personnel who deploy and were exposed to those ordnances, let alone innocent citizens of the countries the U.S. ‘saves for democracy’.
If there is such a thing as karma, then I only can cringe at what probably is storing up in the ethers of law and justice for the USA.  When will we wake up and demand NO MORE WAR!
Currently, our country, as this writer assesses it, is ‘chomping at the bit’ to participate in what’s being ‘euphemized’ as World War 3.  Are the media programming us for it?  Geopolitical signs everywhere point to it.  Why?  War fills the financial coffers of those ‘movers and shakers’ who want it, plan it, and profit from it! [6]   Check out the 36 minute documentary “War = Profit”

http://www.activistpost.com/2016/07/feds-assault-u-s-war-veterans-wont-believe.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ActivistPost+%28Activist+Post%29

Miramar Police Officer Refused Service At Local Gas Station

MIRAMAR (CBSMiami) – A Miramar police officer says he was refused service at a Sunoco service station and convenience store.

“And here you are just trying to do your job, you effort an arrest. You go inside the store and the clerk won’t serve you,” said Jeff Marano with the Miramar PD.
This from the Miramar police officer, who described the clerk as a black male:  “[he] walked up to me and asked why we had arrested ‘his boy.’ The individual stated he would not ring me up and stated, ‘you know why.’ I proceeded to ask him again to ring me up and the individual again refused.”
“Apparently there is some kind of relationship, the way I understand it, between the clerk and the person that was arrested, because he called him, ‘his boy,’” said Marano.
All this went down Sunday, the same day three Baton Rouge police officers were ambushed and killed and with the death of five Dallas police officers July 7th fresh on the nation’s mind.
“I was not here yesterday and I do not want to talk to anyone,” said a clerk at the store Monday evening. “[The owners] will be here a little later.”
Marano wrote “I asked the individual why he was refusing to ring up a police officer trying to buy a drink, to which he stated, ‘Because I don’t have to, that’s why.’”
“Basically tells you he is not going to serve you in front of other customers while you are standing there in a police uniform,” said Marano.

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/07/18/miramar-police-officer-refused-service-at-local-gas-station/

Wednesday 07-20-16

Peter Boockvar – What Is Really Happening In China May Surprise People

 

On the heels of a failed coup attempt in Turkey and continued uncertainty in global markets, Peter Boockvar notes that what is really happening in China may surprise people.
Here is what Peter Boockvar wrote today as the world awaits the next round of monetary madness:  I have to admit, a Turkish coup or even an attempt at one was not on my list of focus. I’ll leave the consequences for others to discuss but realize that most geopolitical events are not market relevant for more than a few days and this may very well be just a Turkish thing. That said, disgust with the ruling class is being seen again.
As we get bombarded over the next few weeks with Q2 earnings, I’ll say what I seem to say quarterly. Expect about 70% of companies to beat earnings estimates. That is the benchmark so a beat rate around that level should not be considered good, it should be referred to as normal.
The pound is rallying again after BoE member Martin Weale said an August ease is not set in stone. “For there to be a case for easing policy I will need to expect weakness in output to be large enough more than to compensate for any overshoot in inflation.” They only have 50 bps to play with as most on the MPC don’t believe in negative interest rates. The line of the day though from Weale was this, “The old Lady of Threadneedle Street is not a nurse to markets.” We’ll see if he means it because any further amount of easing will not result in one bit of benefit to their economy as only costs are being built up.
The ECB meets on Thursday and no added policy changes are expected. After all, Mario Draghi is already killing his banking system, starving the region’s pension systems and bankrupting insurance companies for no discernible benefit. At what point does a central banker say “We’ve gone too far”?
What Is Really Happening in China May Surprise People
The number of price gains in 70 China cities surveyed moderated on a m/o/m basis. For new apartments, prices rose in 55 cities in June vs 60 in May and 65 in April. In December there 39 cities that saw price increases. For existing apartments prices rose in 48 cities, down 1 from May and down 3 from April. In December it was at 37. On a y/o/y basis for both new and existing apartments however, prices grew in even more cities than the month prior. Price gains are still out of control in the major cities with Shenzhen seeing a 47% y/o/y increase but that is actually down from 53% in May. Prices in Shanghai were up 28% vs last year, the same pace as the prior month and they were higher by 20% in Beijing. Acknowledging the bubbles, these cities have taken steps to curb the enthusiasm by raising down payment requirements for 2nd homes among other things. Prices in 2nd tier cities slowed.
Bottom line, Chinese government policy remains all about managing the excesses that have built up over the past 7 years in order to slow the pace of growth in an orderly manner. Smoke and mirrors is how they are doing it but the process continues. Either way, as seen in the US, it is taking more and more debt to generate the same level of economic growth. The Shanghai property stock index fell .7% in response to the m/o/m price slowdown while the Shanghai comp was lower by .4%. The yuan was also softer with it now above 6.70 vs the US dollar for the 1st time in 5 yrs. The H share index though was up by .5% with most of Asia modestly up. Copper is down about 1%.

http://kingworldnews.com/peter-boockvar-what-is-really-happening-in-china-may-surprise-people/

See the Sun Flip Out in Wild New Satellite View

The sun appears to take a dizzying flip in a new video captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft .
SDO did a full somersault on July 6 over the course of about 7 hours, taking pictures of the sun every 12 seconds all the while.
These photos, which SDO team members combined into a video, are pretty wild.
The video seems "to show the sun spinning, as if stuck on a pinwheel," NASA officials wrote in an image description Friday (July 15).

The sun appears to do a somersault in these images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft on July 6, 2016 — but SDO was the one doing the spinning.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng

SDO does such a somersault twice a year to help its Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument take good measurements of the sun's outer edge.
"Were the sun perfectly spherical, this would be a much simpler task. But the solar surface is dynamic, leading to occasional distortions," NASA officials wrote. "This makes it hard for HMI to find the sun’s edge when it’s perfectly still. HMI’s biannual roll lets each part of the camera look at the entire perimeter of the sun, helping it map the sun’s shape much more precisely."

http://www.space.com/33462-sun-somersault-photos-nasa-sdo.html

Tuesday 07-19-16

What could go wrong?

This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals

When historians look back at the turmoil over prejudice and policing in the U.S. over the past few years, they’re unlikely to dwell on the case of Eric Loomis. Police in La Crosse, Wis., arrested Loomis in February 2013 for driving a car that was used in a drive-by shooting. He had been arrested a dozen times before. Loomis took a plea, and was sentenced to six years in prison plus five years of probation.

The episode was unremarkable compared with the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling at the hands of police, which were captured on camera and distributed widely online. But Loomis’s story marks an important point in a quieter debate over the role of fairness and technology in policing. Before his sentence, the judge in the case received an automatically generated risk score that determined Loomis was likely to commit violent crimes in the future.

Risk scores, generated by algorithms, are an increasingly common factor in sentencing. Computers crunch data—arrests, type of crime committed, and demographic information—and a risk rating is generated. The idea is to create a guide that’s less likely to be subject to unconscious biases, the mood of a judge, or other human shortcomings. Similar tools are used to decide which blocks police officers should patrol, where to put inmates in prison, and who to let out on parole. Supporters of these tools claim they’ll help solve historical inequities, but their critics say they have the potential to aggravate them, by hiding old prejudices under the veneer of computerized precision. Some people see them as a sterilized version of what brought protesters into the streets at Black Lives Matter rallies.
Loomis is a surprising fulcrum in this controversy: He’s a white man. But when Loomis challenged the state’s use of a risk score in his sentence, he cited many of the fundamental criticisms of the tools: that they’re too mysterious to be used in court, that they punish people for the crimes of others, and that they hold your demographics against you. Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against Loomis, but the decision validated some of his core claims. The case, say legal experts, could serve as a jumping-off point for legal challenges questioning the constitutionality of these kinds of techniques.
To understand the algorithms being used all over the country, it’s good to talk to Richard Berk. He’s been writing them for decades (though he didn’t write the tool that created Loomis’s risk score). Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is a shortish, bald guy, whose solid stature and I-dare-you-to-disagree-with-me demeanor might lead people to mistake him for an ex-cop. In fact, he’s a career statistician.
His tools have been used by prisons to determine which inmates to place in restrictive settings; parole departments to choose how closely to supervise people being released from prison; and police officers to predict whether people arrested for domestic violence will re-offend. He once created an algorithm that would tell the Occupational Safety and Health Administration which workplaces were likely to commit safety violations, but says the agency never used it for anything. Starting this fall, the state of Pennsylvania plans to run a pilot program using Berk’s system in sentencing decisions.
As his work has been put into use across the country, Berk’s academic pursuits have become progressively fantastical. He’s currently working on an algorithm that he says will be able to predict at the time of someone’s birth how likely she is to commit a crime by the time she turns 18. The only limit to applications like this, in Berk’s mind, is the data he can find to feed into them.

“The policy position that is taken is that it’s much more dangerous to release Darth Vader than it is to incarcerate Luke Skywalker”

This kind of talk makes people uncomfortable, something Berk was clearly aware of on a sunny Thursday morning in May as he headed into a conference in the basement of a campus building at Penn to play the role of least popular man in the room. He was scheduled to participate in the first panel of the day, which was essentially a referendum on his work. Berk settled into his chair and prepared for a spirited debate about whether what he does all day is good for society.
The moderator, a researcher named Sandra Mayson, took the podium. “This panel is the Minority Report panel,” she said, referring to the Tom Cruise movie where the government employs a trio of psychic mutants to identify future murderers, then arrests these “pre-criminals” before their offenses occur. The comparison is so common it’s become a kind of joke. “I use it too, occasionally, because there’s no way to avoid it," Berk said later.
For the next hour, the other members of the panel took turns questioning the scientific integrity, utility, and basic fairness of predictive techniques such as Berk’s. As it went on, he began to fidget in frustration. Berk leaned all the way back in his chair and crossed his hands over his stomach. He leaned all the way forward and flexed his fingers. He scribbled a few notes. He rested his chin in one hand like a bored teenager and stared off into space.
Eventually, the debate was too much for him: “Here’s what I, maybe hyperbolically, get out of this,” Berk said. “No data are any good, the criminal justice system sucks, and all the actors in the criminal justice system are biased by race and gender. If that’s the takeaway message, we might as well all go home. There’s nothing more to do.” The room tittered with awkward laughter.

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-richard-berk-future-crime/

Monday 07-18-16

Security firms have repeated warnings that unofficial versions of Pokemon Go are likely tainted with spyware or trojans.

RiskIQ has found more than 215 unofficial versions of the app in more than 21 app stores.

Separately security researchers at security software firm ESET warn that the first ever fake lockscreen app on the Google Play Android Store and two scareware apps all posed as Pokemon Go-related apps.

The lockscreen app deliberately locks the screen right after the app is started forcing the user to restart the device. "After reboot, it runs in the background hidden from the victim, silently clicking on porn ads online," ESET reports.

"Pokemon GO Ultimate" - the lockscreen app - and scareware apps "Guide & Cheats for Pokemon Go" and "Install Pokemongo" are no longer available on Google Play. Each was quickly banned. Nonetheless the concern remains that cybercrooks are more than likely to try similar tricks on Google Play and elsewhere - so discretion is advised.

The widely popular augmented reality game was unleashed on the UK market on 14 July, following the US launch of Pokemon Go on 11 July.

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/15/pokemon_go_fake_menace_snowballs/

Friday 07-15-16

This is the result of having politicians and not Statesmen anymore. 
Small stepping stone finally made it with over 50,000 page views.

Three Foreign-Born Cases of Multi-Drug Resistant TB in Nashville, Tennessee

NASHVILLE, Tennessee–Three foreign-born residents of Nashville, Tennessee were diagnosed with multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) in 2014 and 2015, according to the Tennessee Department of Health.

All told, in the six years between 2010 and 2015, seven cases of MDR TB were diagnosed in the state of Tennessee, including the three Nashville cases. The Tennessee Department of Health confirms that two of these seven cases of MDR TB were refugees, four were foreign-born but not refugees, and one was U.S.-born.

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“One of those [two refugees] was diagnosed [with MDR TB] in 2013 and one was diagnosed in 2010. The one diagnosed in 2013 did not have a TB B-classification in 2007 upon arrival,” a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Health says.
The spokesperson did not add whether this refugee diagnosed with MDR TB in 2013 was tested for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) upon the initial medical screening that every refugee is supposed to undergo upon arrival in the United States.
As Breitbart News reported previously, 27 percent of refugees recently resettled in Tennessee have tested positive for LTBI, one of the highest rates in the country.
Four percent of the general population tests positive for LTBI. The rate at which those in the general population who test positive for LTBI develop active TB at some time in their life is ten percent.
The refugee diagnosed with MDR TB in 2013 developed the disease six years after arriving in the United States in 2007.

Several recent studies have indicated that the high rate of LTBI among resettled refugees poses a risk of active TB in resettlement communities because many refugees who develop TB do so as much as five or more years after their arrival in the country.
“The one [refugee diagnosed with MDR TB] in 2010 had a TB B1-classification upon arrival in 2010,” the spokesperson says.
Under the federal refugee resettlement program operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, all refugees are given overseas medical screenings as part of a program developed and supervised by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that supporters frequently describe as “stringent.”
When those screenings reveal health risks in a refugee, they receive specific classifications. Refugees diagnosed with active TB are given Class A classifications, meaning they are not allowed to be admitted to the United States, with one very big loophole.
Refugees diagnosed overseas with active infectious TB and are classified as Class A medical risks are permitted to resettle in the United States if they receive a medical waiver from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) of the Department of Homeland Security.
Breitbart News has asked CDC to report on the number of refugees given Class A active tuberculosis classifications in their overseas medical screenings who have received medical waivers from the USCIS that allow them to enter the United States, but has not received a response.

Refugees who have abnormal chest x-rays but are sputum smear negative, or who have successfully completed the full regimen of treatment for active TB are classified as B1 medical risks with “active non-infectious tuberculosis,” using the CDC’s terminology, and are allowed to enter the United States without a waiver.
In the case of the one refugee who was diagnosed with MDR TB in 2010, it appears that refugee may have received a B1 “active non-infectious tuberculosis” classification overseas, but been diagnosed with MDR TB almost immediately upon arriving in the United States.
The spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Health tells Breitbart News none of the three foreign-born cases diagnosed in Nashville in 2014 and 2015 were refugees, but refuses to provide either their country of origin or their immigration status. If not refugees, they were either illegal aliens, asylees, parolees, student visa holders, foreign tourists, or permanent legal residents.
“Due to the small number of persons with MDR TB in one county, we have determined providing information about the country of origin for each could contribute to their identification and could violate their protections under HIPAA,” the spokesperson tells Breitbart News.
The HIPAA excuse, a long legal stretch at best, is one often made by politically correct public health officials in an effort to conceal the immigration status of patients with TB or other infectious diseases.
Michael Evans of the Tennessee Office for Refugees (TOR), the subsidiary of Catholic Charities of Tennessee hired by the federal government as the resettlement agency in the Volunteer State, tells Breitbart News, “Because the Tennessee Department of Health does not directly track immigration status, the Tennessee Office for Refugees provided research support to TNDH staff.”

TOR has previously claimed that it does not monitor the medical status of resettled refugees and is unable to provide data on the number of refugees that have been diagnosed with active TB.
Breitbart News has asked both the Tennessee Department of Health and TOR to provide information on the number of refugees diagnosed with active TB over the past five years, but neither organization has done so.
Under the Refugee Act of 1980, TOR is required by law to both report and monitor illnesses such as LTBI, active TB, and MDR TB diagnosed among refugees to the county public health departments in which those cases are diagnosed.
To date, TOR has not fully complied with that requirement.
As Breitbart News reported previously, public health directors in Davidson County and Shelby County (Memphis is another refugee resettlement community in the state) have said that TOR has not reported any of this data – LTBI, active TB, or MDR TB – to them.
Nashville, in Davidson County, is the leading refugee resettlement community in the state. In 2015, 1,162 of the 1,601 refugees resettled in the Volunteer State were placed in Nashville.

MDR TB is a very dangerous form of active TB. Only 60 percent of those diagnosed with the disease survive, according to one medical expert who specializes in tuberculosis.
In contrast to active TB, which can be successfully treated over 9 months with four standard drugs at a cost of $17,000 per patient, MDR TB takes 20 to 26 months to treat at a cost of $150,000 per patient.
In 2014, there were only 91 MDR TB cases in the entire United States, out of a total of 9,421 cases of active TB. Worldwide, however, there were 480,000 cases of MTB TB out of a total of 9 million cases of active TB.
Breitbart News asked Nashville Mayor Megan Barry what specifically she plans to do to limit the health risk to Nashville residents from foreign-born MDR TB.
Mayor Barry has not yet responded.
With a population of 644,000 and at least two confirmed cases of MDR TB in 2015, Nashville, Tennessee appears to have the highest rate of MDR TB of any county in the country: one case for every 322,000 residents during the year.
Across the country in 2014 the 91 MDR TB cases were diagnosed out of a total United States population of 323 million, or one case for every 3.5 million residents during the year.
Breitbart News asked the three members of Congress who represent the metropolitan Nashville area–Rep. Jim Cooper, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, and Rep. Diane Black–to comment, but none have yet responded.
Their challengers, however, readily offered their views on the news that Nashville has developed such a high rate of MDR TB.
“Rep. Diane Black and her Democratic allies in Washington, like Rep. Jim Cooper, have combined to pass budgets bringing refugees into Tennessee and the United States that now have apparently contributed to making Nashville, Tennessee the multi-drug resistant TB capital of America,” former State Rep. Joe Carr, who is challenging Rep. Black for the GOP nomination in the Sixth Congressional District, tells Breitbart News.
Stacy Ries Snyder, who is running for the GOP nomination to take on Rep. Jim Cooper in the Fifth Congressional District this fall, tells Breitbart News, “Jim Cooper, who has served in Congress for 26 years and represents Nashville/Davidson County, should be out in front of this issue since these refugees affect his district more than any other in Tennessee. He is either uninterested or unable to protect the citizens of his district.”
“There are refugees being allowed into this country unfettered – we don’t know who they are or even if they have contagious diseases. We must re-institute an Ellis Island type of inspection station where those with diseases can either be treated or some returned to their native country. Until such an inspection station is instituted, there needs to be a moratorium on refugees until we can find out who is in this country and in what state of health they are,” Snyder says.
“As a Catholic, I am extremely disturbed by the knowledge that Catholic Charities is helping to bring in these refugees and failing to protect the American populace in the meantime. They are doing this in violation of the Refugee Act of 1980 which allowed States to opt out-which Tennessee did. Catholic Charities is not operating under laws, it is operating under regulations that circumvent the people’s voice to its own government,” she adds.
Big John Smith, who is competing with Snyder for the GOP nomination in the Fifth District, tells Breitbart News, “it’s very puzzling to me why our federal government seems hell-bent to bring immigrants into our country from places where TB infections are common, if not rampant.”
“At Ellis Island, individuals were admitted to America after a medical screening.  Those
policies were designed to protect Americans, to keep them safe.  Our life boat will sink and all will perish if our earlier American policies are not resurrected, ” Smith adds.
“In my town of Nashville, the local office of refugee resettlement with its sister organization, Catholic Charities,  have been very sly in concealing which of its current immigrants are infected.  Catholic Charities is paid for each person entering America through their crowded offices,” Smith adds.
“What is unfair to Nashvillians and Tennesseans in general is that it is they who will have to bear the costs for housing, medical care, food stamps, earned income tax rebates and the thousands of dollars spent every year for a people with no education and few marketable skills. These policies are so costly and unfair to the people in my own community as they struggle to keep their own families fed and housed,” Smith concludes.
The Department of Health presentation from October 2015, “MDR in NDR: Nashville’s Trio of Multidrug-Resistant TB Cases,” by Ben Katz, MPH, of the Tennessee Tuberculosis Elimination Program offered a description of each of the three foreign-born patients who were diagnosed with MDR TB.
Patient 1 in Nashville was a 44-year-old, foreign-born male who “presented to local hospital with cough and abnormal chest x-ray,” on May 15, 2015.
Two weeks later, on June 2, “Molecular detection of drug resistance (MDDR) showed INH, EMB, and PZA mutations.”
Patient 2 in Nashville was a a 47-year-old, foreign-born female who had a “Previous diagnosis 2011 with treatment.” On March 30, 2015, she had a “TST placed.” On April 3, that test revealed the presence of TB. That same day she “[r]eported night sweats, weight loss, fatigue, and cough.”
Patient 3 in Nashville was a 28-year-old, foreign-born female who “[r]eported TB treatment overseas” between February 2013 and February 2014 “with Isoniazid, Rifampin, and Ethambutol.”
On April 14, 2014, two months after completing a year of treatment for active TB overseas, Patient 3 “[s]ought care related to lump in neck and related medical complaints,” in Nashville.
On May 29, 2014, Patient 3’s “[b]iopsy reported MTb probe positive.”
As of October 7, 2015, more than one year later, Patient 3 was still undergoing treatment.
Tennessee is one of fourteen states that have withdrawn from the federal refugee resettlement program. In those states, the federal government has hired contractors, voluntary agencies (VOLAGs), to resettle refugees under the statutorily questionable Wilson Fish alternative program.
In April, the Tennessee General Assembly passed Senate Joint Resolution 467 declaring its intent to sue the federal government on Tenth Amendment grounds for its operation of the refugee resettlement program in the Volunteer State.
In July Tennessee Attorney General Herb Slatery gave the state legislature the green light to proceed with the litigation, though he said he would not personally represent the state in the proceedings.
“This news of two refugees with MDR TB in Tennessee underscores the need for judicial relief through our Tenth Amendment lawsuit. Inconsistent data and conflicting reports indicate unacceptable risk when it comes to the health and safety of our citizens,” State Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris (R-Collierville), the sponsor of SJR 467, tells Breitbart News.
An attorney familiar with the federal refugee resettlement program agrees.
“Recent articles detailing cases of refugee arrivals with TB including those of greatest concern, being active and multi-drug resistant, highlight the need for meaningful accountability and transparency on the part of the federal resettlement contractors who bring refugees to our communities,” the attorney tells Breitbart News.
“VOLAG (volunteer agency resettlement agency) accountability has been discussed in Congress repeatedly since the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980 and unfortunately, not much has changed.  The federal program continues to operate with sanctioned secrecy, including the concealment of resettlement plans prior to the start of the fiscal year and other information that has serious implications for public health,” the attorney adds.
“This secrecy surrounding the whole refugee program must be unveiled,” State Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver (R-Lancaster), the main sponsor of SJR 467 in the Tennessee House tells Breitbart News.
“We want to know who, how many and where these refugees are coming from. It is wrong to put our state in danger of epidemic proportions that will only escalate that could be prevented if we knew the truth,” Weaver adds.
The Tennessee General Assembly is expected to hire the Thomas More Law Center, which has said it will represent the state at no cost, to litigate the case on its behalf in federal court.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/07/15/hold-til-three-foreign-born-cases-multi-drug-resistant-tb-nashville-tennessee/

Thursday 07-14-16

Michigan State Police To Conduct Roadside Drug Tests In Pilot Program


LANSING (WWJ) – A one-year pilot program set up in five counties will allow Michigan State Police to conduct roadside drug tests.
First Lt. Michael Shaw says if a driver is pulled over for a traffic offense and shows signs of being under the influence of drugs –specially trained “drug recognition experts” will conduct traditional field sobriety tests.
Next, the officers will use a saliva-based testing to check drivers to see if they’ve smoked marijuana or used heroin or cocaine.
“Were seeing throughout the state of Michigan there’s an increase in both drugged driving and drugged driving fatalities,” Shaw told WWJ Newsradio 950’s Zahra Huber.
The program was approved in legislation passed in Lansing as statistics show the total number of traffic crashes involving drugs has reached a decade-high in Michigan.
Police statistics show the total number of traffic crashes involving drugs has reached a decade-high in Michigan.
“So what this bill does is allows us to have another step in field sobriety process, or the probable cause process, to arrest some of these drugged drivers.”
Shaw said troopers will not be pulling people over indiscriminately.
“Some of the concerns were we were going to just start randomly testing people, and that’s not the case,” he said. “There’s still going to be probable cause for a traffic stop — just like it was….This is just an added component to the probable cause portion of it.”
The program is expected to begin later this year.
Shaw said police have not yet decided on the five participating counties



http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2016/07/13/michigan-state-police-to-conduct-roadside-drug-tests-in-pilot-program/