The Shooting of Korryn Gaines in Context

Police asked Facebook to suspend accounts during standoff
August 2, 2016

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — During a standoff, police asked Facebook to suspend an armed woman's social media accounts because people commenting on videos she was posting were encouraging her not to comply with officers, authorities said Tuesday.

Korryn Gaines, 23, was shot to death Monday at her Randallstown apartment after a five-hour standoff with officers who were trying to serve an arrest warrant, police said. Her five-year-old son was with her throughout the negotiations, and the boy was wounded in the arm during an exchange of gunfire between police and Gaines, authorities said.

Videos posted on Facebook and Instagram accounts appeared to show Gaines, who was black, talking with an officer who is standing in the doorway of her apartment and to her son during the standoff. In one video, she asks her son what the police are trying to do.

"They trying to kill us," the boy says.

"Do you want to go out there?"

"No," he says.

Gaines also posted videos from a March 10 traffic stop. Police said she was pulled over because instead of a license plate, she had a cardboard tag that said: "Any Government official who compromises this pursuit of happiness and right to travel will be held criminally responsible and fined, as this is a natural right and freedom."

During the stop, she said officers were trying to "steal her car," that she wasn't complying with officers' "criminal" ways, and that they would have to "murder" her to get her out of her car, according to court documents.

Officers said she had to be pulled from the car and repeatedly yelled to a crowd of people who had gathered to "record this" while police were arresting her.

She was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. When she didn't appear in court, officers went to her apartment Monday to serve arrest warrants on her and her boyfriend, Kareem K. Courtney, 39, according to police. He left the apartment with a 1-year-old child and was arrested.

Gaines holed up in her apartment, within view of the officers. Authorities said she was armed with a 12-gauge pistol grip shotgun that was legally purchased last year. At several points during negotiations she pointed it directly at an officer. Finally, she said, "If you don't leave, I'm going to kill you."
An officer shot at her and Gaines fired two shots, but missed the officers, who returned three rounds and killed her, police said.

The boy is in good condition at a hospital. Police are not sure whether he was hit by gunfire or shrapnel.

Gaines' boyfriend is charged with second-degree assault, which stems from a June fight with Gaines, police said. He has been released on his own recognizance.

It's not clear what Gaines' relationship with the baby is, or whether the infant was the one with her during the March traffic stop.

The department did not release the names or races of the officers involved, who were placed on administrative leave. Their first initials and last names will be released 48 hours after the shooting, in accordance with the department's contract with the Fraternal Order of Police.

Gaines' uncle Jerome Barnett told The Baltimore Sun that Gaines "was feisty, but she was smart and she was respectful."

The department is bringing body cameras online but none of the officers had one.

here:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-officers-kill-armed-woman-apartment-boy-wounded-093136751.html?ref=gs

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"We discharged one round at her, in return, she fired several rounds back at us. We fired again at her, striking and killing her."

Note, the admit they shot first.

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Now, let's compare this to other armed suspects:

Heavily Armed White Man Arrested Alive After Shooting at Police Officer
Tom Cahill | July 7, 2016

62-year-old William Bruce Ray, who is white, was arrested alive Tuesday afternoon by police in Wake County, North Carolina, despite pointing his shotgun at oncoming traffic and even firing a .22 caliber pistol at officers responding to the scene. According to local media, Ray threatened deputy D.R. Farmer with his shotgun before reaching for the handgun in his pocket, saying, “I got something for you.”

Sheriff Donnie Harrison told WRAL-TV that Farmer was able to subdue Ray peacefully, though Ray’s pistol did discharge into the air as he was subdued.

“The deputy luckily grabbed the barrel and pushed him back,” Harrison said. “Luckily, nobody got hurt. That’s the good thing. God was looking out for us… (Ray) was very fortunate that he didn’t get shot, very fortunate that anybody didn’t get shot.”

Ray was charged with two counts of assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm and is being held at the Wake County Jail on a $150,000 bond. Prosecutors say his charges may be upgraded to attempted murder. According to WRAL, Ray had been drinking. His neighbors told local media that he had a mental illness.

more here:
http://usuncut.com/news/armed-white-man-arrested-alive-nc/

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Man arrested for pointing gun at cop during road rage
By Micah Bailey, Producer Published: July 8, 2016, 11:23 pm

BRANFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A Branford man is facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at an off-duty police officer while driving through Branford with road rage Thursday night.

According to officials, 29 year-old Anthony Vigliotti was arrested at his home after the alleged incident. Authorities say he was tailgating and blowing his horn at the off-duty New Haven officer. Vigliotti then pulled up alongside him, pointed a gun at the officer and sped off.

Police say Vigliotti pointed the gun at the officer at East Main Street and Windmill Road, around 9 p.m. It was a .45 caliber handgun, that police found him with at his home.

Officers took him into custody at his home. Vigliotti is due in New Haven court on July 19.

http://wtnh.com/2016/07/08/man-arrested-for-pointing-gun-at-cop-during-road-rage/

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Texas man arrested after pointing gun at New Castle Police officers
Posted: Jan 03, 2015 2:14 PM CST
Updated: Jan 09, 2015 6:14 AM CST

HICKORY Twp., Pa. -  Pennsylvania State Police have arrested a man after he reportedly pulled a gun on officers.

Paramedics arrived at the scene of a car accident shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Saturday where 25-year-old Jed Frazier, of Corpus Christi, Texas had driven a truck off of the road and into a ditch.

Police say when they approached Frazier's vehicle it appeared he was going in and out of consciousness and that he refused to acknowledge requests to unlock the vehicle doors.

When officers attempted to gain entry into the vehicle Frazier allegedly pulled a small caliber hand gun from his coat pocket and pointed it at police.

Officers and medics took shelter and continued to make contact with Frazier.

Shortly before 3 a.m. Police say they broke the windows in the truck and extricated Frazier.

Frazier was treated for minor injuries before being taken to the Lawrence County Jail.

Officers tell 21 News Frazier was arraigned early this morning and is being held on a $10,000 for charges of aggravated assault, carrying firearms without a license, driving while intoxicated, simple assault, reckless endangering, and resisting arrest.

No other drivers were injured in the incident.

http://www.wfmj.com/story/27753282/texas-man-arrested-after-pointing-gun-at-new-castle-police-officers

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Ex-counselor's own mental health crumbled for years before 67-hour police standoff in Norfolk
By Joanne Kimberlin, Jonathan Edwards and Cindy Clayton
The Virginian-Pilot
Jul 28, 2016

The mentally ill man involved in a 67-hour standoff with police was once a licensed counselor helping clients deal with psychological illnesses.

Larry M. Wooster, 72, was taken into custody at 3:30 a.m. Thursday after barricading himself inside his Larchmont home with a gun. Police spent nearly three sweltering days trying to coax him out. Many residents were barred from the neighborhood or allowed in and out only with a police escort.

According to state records, Wooster was licensed in 1997 as a professional counselor. That license was suspended in 2008 after a Virginia Board of Counseling panel decided Wooster was “a substantial danger to public health or safety.”

His latest troubles began at 8:30 a.m. Monday, when police showed up at his house because Wooster was suspected of vandalism. Armed with a gun, he ran inside and refused to surrender, police said.

As of Thursday evening, police hadn’t said how they finally removed him from his house. They only said the barricaded man was taken into custody “without further incident.” They did not release details about Wooster or say whether they planned to charge him with a crime. They wouldn’t say where he was being held.

According to the state board’s records, Wooster’s mental illness began in 1981, right around the time he purchased the small white house at 1514 Melrose Pkwy.

Over the decades, he’s had numerous run-ins with neighbors and police. He’s been arrested for stalking, making threats and trespassing and was involuntarily hospitalized more than once for psychiatric treatment. He was diagnosed in 2009 with schizoaffective disorder – the symptoms of which can include hallucinations, delusions and both manic behavior and depression – and chronically went off his medication, according to the records.

Wooster tried to get his counselor’s license reinstated, but his appeal was denied, according to the records. Reasons cited: He continued to blame others for his troubles, held “unusual beliefs” and exhibited “grandiosity” and “religiosity.”

In 2010, Wooster self-published a short book, a memoir titled “VIETNAM: Spooky & Civil Affairs: some positive memories.”

In the book, Wooster says he served in the Air Force in Vietnam from 1967-69, retiring as a major in 1981. His military record could not be confirmed Thursday.

Before the war, Wooster wrote, he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Virginia Tech. During the war, he flew gunships, worked on civil affairs projects and was awarded numerous medals. After retiring, he earned a master’s degree in guidance and counseling at Old Dominion University, the book said.

The school would not confirm his degree.

http://pilotonline.com/news/local/crime/standoff-entering-fourth-day-in-norfolk-ends-with-man-in/article_2a82c0fb-a22d-5afc-ab82-2b16a070de58.html

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Clearly, the police know exactly how to de-escalate a situation without harming the suspect.
They do it all of the time.

-Spyda

Previous write up on this:
Race and Crime Data & Black Lives Matter, Only?
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/2016/07/race-and-crime-data-black-lives-matter.html

The Politics of Plagiarism

I honestly do not care that Malania Trump totally ripped off Michelle Obama.
This is about reporting what actually happened:



So, because of this, people have re-uploaded this video:



Here's the difference between Trump and Obama:

Trump:

Donald Trump Calls Melania Trump’s Controversial Speech a ‘Success’
JULY 18, 2016 | 11:26PM PT

“In her beautiful speech, Melania’s team of writes took notes on her life’s inspirations, and in some instances included fragments of that reflected her own thinking,” the statement read. “Melania’s immigrant experience and love for America shone through her in her speech, which made it such a success.”

more here:
http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/donald-trump-calls-melania-trumps-controversial-speech-a-success-1201816984/

UPDATE:

Trump aide offers resignation in Melania Trump plagiarism incident
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 12:40 PM ET, Wed July 20, 2016

"Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama's speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech. I did not check Mrs. Obama's speeches. This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant."

more here:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/trump-aide-offers-resignation-in-melania-trump-plagiarism-incident/index.html

Obama:

Clinton Camp Says Obama Plagiarized in Speech
By JEFF ZELENYFEB. 19, 2008

During a news conference here, Mr. Obama said he and Mr. Patrick “trade ideas all the time.” Asked if he should have given credit to Mr. Patrick, he said, “I’m sure I should have,” but he said he doubted that voters were concerned by the dust-up.

“I’m happy to give Deval credit, as I give to a lot of people for spurring all kinds of ideas,” he said. “But I think it’s fair to say that everything we’ve been doing and generating excitement and the interest that people have had in the elections is based on the core belief in me that we need change in America.”

more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/us/politics/19campaign.html

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All the Trump campaign has to do is own up to it.
Plain and simple.

The truth is, the Elite lie all day long and people continue to vote for them.

I expect that from Babylonains, not from Convenant Keepers.

-Spyda

The Baton Rouge Shooter was a Sovereign Citizen

I was thinking MSNBC was making this up, but it's true.

Here's the shooters own documentation on it:

Gavin Long Sovereign Citizen by Ian Cummings on Scribd

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Inside the Moorish ‘sovereign citizen’ movement that motivated the Baton Rouge cop killer
Travis Gettys
18 Jul 2016 at 07:20 ET 

The gunman who killed three Baton Rouge police officers Sunday apparently believed most laws did not apply to him because he’d declared himself a “sovereign citizen.”

Gavin Eugene Long, who went by the name Cosmo Setepenra, filed documents last year near his Missouri home declaring himself a United Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah Mu’ur Nation, Mid-West Washita Tribes, reported the Kansas City Star.

Long, who served five years in the U.S. Marines and about six months in Iraq, posted YouTube videos and social media tips about achieving “complete and full masculinity,” and he shared the anti-government views of the loosely organized sovereign citizen movement.

“This group believes that they are indigenous to the continent and therefore above all federal, state and local laws,” said author J.J. MacNab, an expert on anti-government extremists and a fellow at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. “(Those) documents show Long’s attempt to separate his flesh and blood ‘indigenous’ self from his legal entity self.”

He put those anti-government beliefs into action after becoming increasingly angry over the police shootings of unarmed black men, saying that non-violent protest had accomplished nothing.

Sovereign citizens are fairly easy to spot in news reports, even when their affiliation isn’t specified.

Adherents claim immunity from federal, state, and local laws, citing God’s law or common law over constitutional authority, and they frequently use fake driver’s licenses issued by the “Kingdom of Heaven” or phony Native American tribes and place hand-drawn license plates on their vehicles.

Sometimes they carry weapons or threaten others with them, and they often file bogus court documents and act as their own attorneys.

The sovereign citizen belief system originated about 40 years ago in the deeply racist and anti-Semitic Posse Comitatus movement, which teaches that the government has authority over only those citizens who submit to a contract.

The Posse Comitatus movement also teaches that black Americans were made citizens by the 14th Amendment and were therefore bound under permanent contract to the U.S. government.

But the idea that tax and criminal laws can be nullified by individuals who exploit certain loopholes or incant the correct words in the proper order proved irresistible to some black Americans – just like their white counterparts.

“These people really seem to feel that filing certain kinds of legal papers that are connected to their theories will somehow also magically have the power to alter relationships and grant things that otherwise would be unobtainable,” said Michael Barkun, a retired Syracuse University political science professor.

The anti-black sovereign citizen movement’s teachings turned out to be highly adaptable to the black nationalist teachings of Noble Drew Ali, who founded the exclusively black Moorish Science Temple of America in the early 20th century.

He taught that black “Moors” had been America’s original inhabitants, so they were entitled to self-governing status as a nation within a nation – giving them rights that predate the Constitution, just as sovereign citizens believe.

The Nation of Islam arose from the Moorish Science Temple movement after the death of Noble Drew Ali, which splintered the organization.

The current leader of the Moorish Science Temple says sovereign citizen adherents misrepresent the religious group’s teachings.

“We do not follow ‘sovereignty,’” said Brother R. Jones Bey, grand sheik of the Moorish Science Temple. “The prophet never talked about that. Our organization has been misunderstood by people who see the value of our religion but don’t want to conform. They are not members of our organization.”

Moorish sovereign citizens often cite treaties signed more than 200 years ago between the U.S. and Barbary Coast states, which a retired judge – who studies history in his time away from the bench – said were no longer valid.

“Those treaties were with nations that existed independently for a short period of time, [and] any treaty was totally abrogated by subsequent events initiated by the Barbary states,” said retired judge Robert McLeod, who served on the bench for 17 years in New Jersey. “I simply rattled that off at them, and they looked at me blankly, took off their robes and fezzes, and went back to their birth names and pled guilty.”

New Jersey is a hotbed of Moorish sovereign citizen activity – including a man who was ordered to stand trial in 2014 on a variety of charges despite his claims to be the Crown Prince Emperor El Bey Bigbay Bagby.

A recent study found that law enforcement agencies consider sovereign citizens to be the top terrorist threat in their communities.

Although some adherents of the loosely organized movement have been involved — like Long — in violent confrontations with law enforcement or community members, federal authorities say they more typically commit acts of “paper terrorism.”

Sovereign citizens might file dozens of bogus court documents written in nonsensical language that claim exemption to the law and government authority, and Moorish adherents often use exotic-sounding pseudonyms in an attempt to avoid legal responsibilities.

They’ve also been implicated in real estate scams – such as filing phony paperwork and squatting in homes until property owners can force them out through costly court battles.

Moorish sovereign citizens, like their white counterparts, frequently file false liens – which must be accepted in many states without judgment of validity — against public officials and others as a form of harassment.

The practice has become so commonplace that the National Association of Secretaries of State released urged state officials to find ways to speed up the removal of liens and increase penalties for fraudulent filings.

Sovereign citizens are increasingly drawn from a variety of backgrounds for a variety of reasons.

The ideology originated during the farm-foreclosure crisis in the 1970s, and many newer adherents have been similarly motivated by their experiences during the recent foreclosure crisis.

More recent converts could be attempting to claim for themselves some of the privileges enjoyed by corporations and super-wealthy individuals — who avoid taxes and other responsibilities through one weird trick or another.

Most sovereign citizens are drawn from the ranks of right-wing extremists, while some have come out of the back-to-the-earth homesteader movement or even Hollywood – such as actor Wesley Snipes, whose tax filings made clear he believed the IRS was an illegitimate authority.

Many adherents attend costly seminars to learn the pseudo-legal maneuvers to declare themselves sovereign citizens, and some of those instructors have been convicted of a variety of crimes related to their schemes.

Regardless of their path to the extremist ideology, there are an estimated 300,000 sovereign citizens in the U.S. – and law enforcement and extremist watchdogs believe their numbers are growing.

Law enforcement agencies and court officials have undergone training to spot the telltale signs of sovereign citizens and handle their cases.

While most sovereign citizens are merely nuisances or even harmless, they reflect an apparently increasing disregard for laws individuals determine to be unjust or unconstitutional.

The support by lawmakers and conservative media for scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons – who, while not a sovereign citizens themselves, have expressed views that originated in the Posse Comitatus and other right-wing extremist movements – illustrates this on one level.

More organized groups such as the Oath Keepers justify their refusal to follow or enforce laws they don’t like by citing the theory of nullification – which has never been upheld in federal court – and residents of all 50 states started online petitions asking to secede to protest the re-election of President Barack Obama in 2012.

A part-time police officer from New Jersey resigned two years ago after claiming he did not have to follow the Constitution because, as he told a citizen, Obama had violated the law.

The former officer’s remarks about the president’s supposed lawlessness were similar to those made by the right-wing talk show hosts he claimed to admire on his Facebook page, and even some some Republican candidates for office openly flout laws they don’t like to fight against “tyranny.”

Michelle Fiore, the Bundy-backing Nevada assemblywoman, stirred up controversy in May by telling a local TV reporter that the Second Amendment gave Americans the right to point guns at law enforcement officers in self-defense — although she later said she didn’t mean local police, but only some federal agents.

Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage met with a pair of sovereign citizen radio hosts as they discussed their legal theories and whether it would be possible to execute Democratic lawmakers for treason.

The Internet has allowed sovereign citizen ideology to spread beyond the political fringes, and many within the movement intentionally blur the lines between sovereign citizen beliefs and more commonly held anti-government views.

“If one criticizes the government in any form they can be labeled a sovereign citizen,” warned blogger Dave Hodges. “And if the government can label one a sovereign Citizen, then that citizen has no rights and ostensibly, the government can do what they will with that citizen.”

Sounds ominous enough, but sovereign citizens aren’t jailed for their views, they’re jailed when they put those beliefs into action and bump up against the legal system — or worse.

found here:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/inside-the-moorish-sovereign-citizen-movement-that-motivated-the-baton-rouge-cop-killer/

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If you know anything about this kind of movement, they've already killed officers, including state troopers.



BONUS:



This is from 60 minutes. It's been re-uploaded several times calling it a 'hit piece':



The spokesman for the movement has threatened to kill those in government. I had a guy tell me he's listened to this guys radio show for years and he's never said that, but he clearly says it.

UPDATE:


Sovereign Citizens Are America’s Top Cop-Killers
Caitlin Dickson | 11.25.14 3:15 PM ET
Just last week an anti-government extremist ambushed and killed a police officer after setting his own house on fire. One ex-police chief is telling local law enforcement how to spot the greatest threat to their lives.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/25/sovereign-citizens-are-america-s-top-cop-killers.html

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I find it interesting the intersection of Black Militants and Sovereign Citizens is happening now.

Very interesting, indeed.
-Spyda

#AllLivesMatter*

*If you are in Nice or a Cop in Dallas...

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Baghdad just suffered Iraq's worst terror attack since the US-led invasion, and we've already forgotten

July 16, 2016 · 12:30 PM EDT
By Fatma Tanis

News coverage, especially on television, can last days, even weeks. Every angle is analyzed: How did it happen? Who did it? Why?

But some places get less attention, less coverage, less curiosity — even if they happen to be hit with major back-to-back attacks. Or back-to-back-to-back-to-back attacks.

Places like Baghdad.

Just two weeks ago, Baghdad suffered Iraq's worst terror attack since the US-led invasion in 2003. More than 300 people were killed when a van exploded in a crowded commercial area of the city, during Ramadan.

But it didn't stop there. Four days later, a suicide bomber killed at least 40 people at a Shia shrine near Baghdad.

Then on Tuesday, at least 12 people were killed in a suicide car bombing at a fruit and vegetable market in Baghdad.

And on Wednesday, another suicide car bombing, also in Baghdad, killed at least 10 people at a police checkpoint.

As people around the world pray for Nice, Baghdad journalist Sahar Issa says Iraqis "are the best people who can feel for the victims" of that attack.

"We know what it feels like. We know what bereavement is," Issa says in an interview. "We feel for the people, for the families. We [know] how it feels to be hit when you are not expecting to be hit, and that is terrifying."

"We as a people, whether Muslims in Iraq or Muslims elsewhere, or Christians or whoever it is all over the world, what we want is one: We want to live in peace ... we want our children to go to schools, and we want them to come back safely home," Issa says. 

But at the same time, according to Issa, Iraqis are skeptical that Western countries will empathize as well with them. They are very much aware of the difference in attention given to "terror attacks in the Western world versus terror attacks that take place in the Middle East."

She thinks people may have come to believe that "volatility is a characteristic of the Middle East, whereas we are just people. We want to live in peace."

Many Iraqis question the lack of a media spotlight on Iraq. Issa thinks it has to do with fewer Western soldiers in the country.

"When the US forces left Iraq in 2011, most of the International media — especially American media — left. They only left behind a freelancer or a one-person bureau."

But Iraq requires international attention, Issa says. "Monitoring is part of the reform process. If there is no monitoring from the international community, what have we done here in Iraq? What was the purpose?"

listen to the interview, here:
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-07-16/baghdad-just-suffered-iraqs-worst-terror-attack-us-led-invasion-and-weve-already

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When I hear people say "Pray for Dallas Police and the People in Nice" and leave out everyone else...I get a little sad, which actually makes me angry.

I mean, I literally heard someone just today mention those places and left out Turkey and everywhere else.

I should be use to this kind of the double standard by now, I guess it's going to take some more time.

-Spyda

Race and Crime Data & Black Lives Matter, Only?

I should not have to even bother saying this, but since people have already come to the conclusion that I voted or wanted Barack Obama to win in 2012, I'll come right out and say this before continuing with this email:

1) I don't vote (and never have), resist tyranny or participate in politics of any form.

2) I don't protest anything and I am not an activist.

3) I don't care who is in the White House. With the corruption we have it's been more like an Out House since inception.

4) I don't agree with every tactic that Black Lives Matter has done:
> sitting in front the White House: cool, that makes sense.
> sitting in the middle of a highway: stupid, really stupid.

5) I am waiting on the arrival of the Kingdom of God, period.

I wish the gossipers and the people who spread lies would spread that for once.
As a matter of fact, feel free to email your friends who believe this. Seriously. Do it.

If you have a hard time understanding why I don't vote, watch these two videos:

Should Christians Vote?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt4ZEJ1Dhls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lba-znKo2h4

and check out the sermon:

"Who are you?" #1471A.

David's voting sermon is pretty consistent with his sermonette on being an Ambassador, "Who are you?" #1471A.

He starts out by asking:

"Who are you?"
"Are you an Ambassador of Jesus Christ?"

At one point he's painfully clear about this:

"None of Gods servants tried to beat the system..."

"We're not Democrats, we're not Republicans, we're not Reformed party members, we're not Independents, we're not Libertarians..."

Then right after that he says this:

"Everyone of these systems, whether you want to believe it or not, people that are running them, are in Satan's system."

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I would like to also note:

Dallas Police Department Was Posting Pictures of Peaceful Protesters Before Shooting Started
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
Before it began posting information about the apparent Thurdsay-night sniper attack in which at least four officers were killed at a protest march, the Dallas police department's official Twitter account was posting photos, with respectful captions, of peaceful protesters.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/08/dallas_police_department_twitter_feed_before_the_shootings.html

The DPD were protecting the BLM protesters:

The irony at the heart of the Dallas police deaths after a Black Lives Matter march
By Philip Bump July 8
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/08/the-irony-at-the-heart-of-the-dallas-police-deaths-after-a-black-lives-matter-march/

Dallas Police, Protesters Were United Before Sniper Attack
by Jordan Rudner July 8, 2016
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/07/08/dallas-police-protesters-were-united-sniper-attack/

The police in Dallas are actually really cool.
I've never had a problem with them.

Cops in Arlington Texas, those guys pull people over for farting.

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This about facts and a proper interpretation of real data.

So, here we go

This meme has been making the rounds:



and this one:



read this black man's viral words here:
http://imgur.com/gallery/sKabZ

I honestly do not care if you read the following or not.
However, I'm getting really bored of having to send this kind of stuff out.

Understand something, Black People already know there is a black on black crime problem:

“People tend to kill the people they live around. Black people are among the most hyper-segregated group in the country. The fact that black killers tend to kill other black people is not refutation of American racism, but the ultimate statement of American racism.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Bringing up crime stats that are really misunderstood while black are SCREAMING for HELP and BEGGING law enforcement to stop shooting us as often as they want is pretty damn racist to be honest.

Analysis: More whites killed by police, but blacks 2.5 times more likely to be killed
by Wesley Lowery
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-police-shootings-race-20160711-story.html

original article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yes-but-no/?utm_term=.240def29efee

5 Facts That Shatter the Myth of ‘Black-on-Black’ Crime
C. Robert Gibson | December 29, 2015
http://usuncut.com/black-lives-matter/black-on-black-crime/

Black Crime Rates: What Happens When Numbers Aren’t Neutral
09/02/2015 03:28 pm ET | Updated Jan 19, 2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-farbota/black-crime-rates-your-st_b_8078586.html

7/21/15 4:06 PM
The next time someone says ‘all lives matter,’ show them these 5 paragraphs
http://fusion.net/story/170591/the-next-time-someone-says-all-lives-matter-show-them-these-5-paragraphs/

The following comic sums this up really well, too:



The Black Live Matter movement is not asking for special treatment.
They are asking for Constitutional treatment under the Law.

The same thing right-wing activist are asking for, and demand under threat of resisting violently:
http://globalistnews.blogspot.com/search?q=cliven+bundy

or this guy:

"Police said as they tried to place him in custody, Tusch became combative and actively resisted. During the confrontation, Tusch allegedly hit an officer on the left side of the face. Police said he also grabbed an officer around the neck and put him into a choke hold. Another officer helped free the officer from Tusch."



http://www.eastidahonews.com/2016/07/avery-b-tusch-felony-battery-officer-thursday/

or these guys:

8 White People Who Pointed Guns At Police Officers and Managed Not to Get Killed
White guys get arrested; black guys often get shot in similar cases.
By Harmon Leon / AlterNet
January 12, 2015
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/8-white-people-who-pointed-guns-police-officers-and-managed-not-get-killed

It's not:

Blacks Live Matter, only.

It's:

Black Lives Matter, too.

KING: White men killed more American police than any other group this year, but conservatives won't address the facts
Updated: Wednesday, May 11, 2016, 3:19 PM

"Back in February, when police began protesting Beyoncé, I noticed then that 7 out of the 8 officers who had been killed so far were killed by white men. My gut was that most of them weren't Beyoncé fans."

read more here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-cops-killed-white-men-conservatives-silent-article-1.2632965

I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing
by Redditt Hudson on July 7, 2016
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer

Here's what we don't need.

I see a lot of right-wing white folks sending out the Chris Rock video (really meant to laugh at the sadness that is police brutality) as lessons for black folks to obey the law.

The people you see being shot by police are the ones who are simply fed up with being harassed on a daily basis.

This goes back the my original point I made about not voting or protesting or being activist.

None of these actions by BLM or Right-Wing Groups will bring the Kingdom of God.

...but it will bring World Government.

-Spyda

Cashless Society Update - 06.10.2016

The Shift to a Cashless Society is Snowballing
JEFF DESJARDINS on May 17, 2016 at 12:15 pm



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The Shift to a Cashless Society is Snowballing

Love it or hate it, cash is playing an increasingly less important role in society.

In some ways this is great news for consumers. The rise of mobile and electronic payments means faster, convenient, and more efficient purchases in most instances. New technologies are being built and improved to facilitate these transactions, and improving security is also a priority for many payment providers.

However, there is also a darker side in the shift to a cashless society. Governments and central banks have a different rationale behind the elimination of cash transactions, and as a result, the so-called “war on cash” is on.

ON THE PATH TO A CASHLESS SOCIETY

The Federal Reserve estimates that there will be $616.9 billion in cashless transactions in 2016. That’s up from around $60 billion in 2010.

Despite the magnitude of this overall shift, what is happening from country to country varies quite considerably. Consider the contradicting evidence between Sweden and Germany.

In Sweden, about 59% of all consumer transactions are cashless, and hard currency makes up just 2% of the economy. Yet, across the Baltic Sea, Germans are far bigger proponents of modern cash. This should not be too surprising, considering that the German words for “debt” and “guilt” are the exact same.

Within Germany, only 33% of consumer transactions are cashless, and there are only 0.06 credit cards in existence per person.

THE DARK SIDE OF CASHLESS

The shift to a cashless society is even gaining momentum in Germany, but it is not because of the willing adoption from the general public. According to Handelsblatt, a leading German business newspaper, a proposal to eliminate the €500 note while capping all cash transactions at €5,000 was made in February by the junior partner of the coalition government.

Governments have been increasingly pushing for a cashless society. Ostensibly, by having a paper trail for all transactions, such a move would decrease crime, money laundering, and tax evasion. France’s finance minister recently stated that he would “fight against the use of cash and anonymity in the French economy” in order to prevent terrorism and other threats. Meanwhile, former Secretary of the Treasury and economist Larry Summers has called for scrapping the U.S. $100 bill – the most widely used currency note in the world.

“SMOOTHER” AGGREGATE DEMAND?

It’s not simply an argument of the above government rationale versus that of privacy and anonymity. Perhaps the least talked-about implication of a cashless society is the way that it could potentially empower central banking to have more ammunition in “smoothing” out the way people save and spend money.

By eliminating the prospect of cash savings, monetary policy options like negative interest rates would be much more effective if implemented. All money would presumably be stored under the same banking system umbrella, and even the most prudent savers could be taxed with negative rates to encourage consumer spending.

While there are certainly benefits to using digital payments, our view is that going digital should be an individual consumer choice that can be based on personal benefits and drawbacks. People should have the voluntary choice of going plastic or using apps for payment, but they shouldn’t be pushed into either option unwillingly.

Forced banishment of cash is a completely different thing, and we should be increasingly wary and suspicious of the real rationale behind such a scheme.

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/shift-cashless-society-snowballing/

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How will the homeless survive in a cashless society?
Toby Meyjes for Metro.co.uk Friday 10 Jun 2016 4:47 pm



In less than ten years time it is estimated that only one in four payments will made by cash.

Although it might feel to some like we have reached that point already, it will mark a dramatic shift from the current status quo when around half of all payments are made by notes or coins.

But while the shift to a cash free existence might feel like an inevitability, there are people on the fringes of society who are so reliant on it, that a life without it almost seems like an impossibility.

Yet, there is a growing awareness amongst the homeless and those that support them that action needs to be taken now so they are ready when the time comes.

For those with no fixed abode there are a huge array of different hurdles that need to be jumped in order for them live a life not wholly reliant on cash.

Take setting up a bank account, for instance.

It seems tough enough when you have a permanent address, proof of other credit facilities and ID.

But when you don’t it becomes a whole lot harder.

And that is why charities like St Mungo’s and the Big Issue Foundation (the charitable arm of the Big Issue) are working hard to help as many people as possible gain access to the things we take for granted.

Around one in four of St Mungo’s clients dont have a bank account, many having only dealt with cash before.

read more here:
http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/10/how-will-the-homeless-survive-in-a-cashless-society-5936662/

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Sweden leads the race to become cashless society
Swedes are blazing a trail in Europe, with banks, buses, street vendors and even churches expecting plastic or virtual payment

Jon Henley
Saturday 4 June 2016 11.00 EDT



In 1661, Stockholms Banco, the precursor to the Swedish central bank, issued Europe’s first banknotes, on thick watermarked paper bearing the bank’s seal and eight handwritten signatures.

Last year – as Britain did last week – Sweden launched a new series of notes, cheery affairs featuring 20th-century Swedish cultural giants such as Astrid Lindgren, the creator of Pippi Longstocking, Greta Garbo and filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. But like its Nordic neighbours Norway, Denmark and Finland, Sweden is fast becoming an almost entirely cashless society.

“I don’t use cash any more, for anything,” said Louise Henriksson, 26, a teaching assistant. “You just don’t need it. Shops don’t want it; lots of banks don’t even have it. Even for a candy bar or a paper, you use a card or phone.”

Swedish buses have not taken cash for years, it is impossible to buy a ticket on the Stockholm metro with cash, retailers are legally entitled to refuse coins and notes, and street vendors – and even churches – increasingly prefer card or phone payments.

According to central bank the Riksbank, cash transactions made up barely 2% of the value of all payments made in Sweden last year – a figure some see dropping to 0.5% by 2020. In shops, cash is now used for barely 20% of transactions, half the number five years ago, and way below the global average of 75%.

And astonishingly, about 900 of Sweden’s 1,600 bank branches no longer keep cash on hand or take cash deposits – and many, especially in rural areas, no longer have ATMs. Circulation of Swedish krona has fallen from around 106bn in 2009 to 80bn last year.

“I think, in practice, Sweden will pretty much be a cashless society within about five years,” said Niklas Arvidsson, an associate professor specialising in payment systems innovation at Stockholm’s Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/04/sweden-cashless-society-cards-phone-apps-leading-europe

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A last hurrah for banknotes as UK switches to mobile and card payment
With the launch of the new plastic fiver, Patrick Collinson looks at changing payment methods and asks if Britain is ready to become a cashless society

Patrick Collinson
Saturday 4 June 2016 11.00 EDT



Winston Churchill gazes out from one side of the new £5 plastic note, the Queen from the other. But the chances of Prince William appearing on a banknote are looking slim. More than 300 years after the first Bank of England banknotes appeared, the new plastic ones could perhaps be the last.

Stop a young adult on a British high street and you will find that one in eight has not a penny in cash on them. Even the ones who do are likely to have no more than £20. For them, the cashless society is not tomorrow’s world, but today’s: a contactless card flashed to enter the tube; a smartphone tapped at Pret for a lunchtime sandwich; another card waved at a Tesco Express on the way home; the cab journey back from the pub processed by Uber.

Who needs banknotes? According to a survey by payments company Worldpay, six out of 10 young adults would prefer not to use cash at all.

When Transport for London banned cash on the buses in mid-2014, it was greeted with a backlash from some quarters; “passenger fury” said one headline, “ban hits the vulnerable” was another. Yet, two years on, behaviour has adjusted. TfL says it has saved £24m in cash-handling costs, and queues have improved.

The cashless society has been long mooted, but only now is it arriving. A 1996 trial in Swindon to encourage the town’s 150,000-plus people to use “electronic purses” flopped through lack of interest. But contactless cards – there are now more than 36m in Britain’s wallets – and more recently Apple Pay and Android Pay, have dramatically accelerated the switch away from cash.

Crucially, it has been the readiness of big retailers to accept “tap-and-go” technology for small-value items, with Tesco and TfL at the forefront, that has spurred the revolution. Monthly spending on contactless cards is now running at around £1.5bn, or three times the level of just a year ago.

Technology experts see contactless payment as just a stepping stone to the cashless society, with smartphones becoming the main way to pay. Since the launch of Apple Pay in July last year, 8 million journeys on London Underground have been paid for by iPhone users tapping their handset at entry and exit points. Meanwhile, Google’s rival, Android Pay, was launched last month. Unlike contactless cards, where spending is capped at £30, Apple and Android users can spend more freely, although they may have to authenticate with a Pin or fingerprint.

more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/04/uk-switch-to-cashless-society-contactless-payment

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The Countries That Would Profit Most from a Cashless World
Bhaskar ChakravortiRavi Shankar ChaturvediBenjamin Mazzotta
MAY 31, 2016

It’s been nearly 300 years since paper money became accepted as legal tender. While much has changed about how we make, sell, and buy goods, cash has stuck around. It’s been only recently that the road to a wider cashless society has started to really take shape. From apps such as PayPal, Venmo, or Square Cash to mobile payment platforms like Kenya’s mPesa, Bangladesh’s bKash, or Apple Pay, there are signs that cash is following the path of other “information goods,” such as printed photographs, cassette tapes, and DVDs in being replaced by digital alternatives.

Or as Samantha Bee, host of the show Full Frontal, put it recently: “I’d like to talk a little bit about money. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, it’s like Venmo for old people.”

But all of this may still leave us with a question – if cash isn’t inherently broken, why fix it?

Policy makers and economists, such as Harvard’s Ken Rogoff, have made elegant arguments for the benefits of a cashless society. Economic uncertainty around the globe has raised concerns that consumers could take cash out of banks – especially in negative interest rate envrionments — and hoard it. Eliminating cash is one way to reduce that risk. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are already considering it, while the European Central Bank is considering getting rid of large-denomination bills.

Cash, according to a recent MasterCard study, accounts for nearly 85% of global consumer transactions. Cash has stubbornly resisted going the way of digital extinction. Paper currency is ubiquitous. It is also untraceable and universally accepted (except in some circumstances, usually involving very large payments). For many users, cash equates to a sense of security and for many it is a sense of independence from government oversight. The rise of cyber-crime and growing concerns about the ability of public agencies to look through digital records will add to the unwillingness among many to let go of paper money.

The migration to a cashless society is far from being either uniform or universal. Whereas most Swedes are embracing a cashless future, along with an unlikely peer group, that includes both Somaliland and South Korea, some of Sweden’s neighbors, in response to EU’s increasing regulations on restricting cash usage, are demanding a “constitutional right to pay in cash” fueled by concerns around negative interest rates and a perceived loss of privacy that comes with digital money.

more here:
https://hbr.org/2016/05/the-countries-that-would-profit-most-from-a-cashless-world

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-Spyda

The CFR Speaks: "America is ALREADY great" -Fareed Zakaria

Fareed's Take: America is ALREADY great

While Donald Trump wants to "make America great again," Fareed argues it still is the world's leading economic, technological, military and political power.

Video here:
http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/06/01/exp-gps-0529-take-trump.cnn

I've written before about Fareed Zakaria.


This video here from 2012 covers the deception of nostalgia:


Don't let the idea of Trump sucker you into a false sense of security.
He won't be president in the coming Kingdom of God.

-Spyda