Ben Fulford: Putin, George Bush Sr., Saudi King Abdullah and Venezuela’s Chavez all reported ill during same week; Big oil involved

December 3, 2012
Benjamin Fulford

Last week there were a flurry of reports, all officially denied, that George Bush Sr., President Vladimir Putin of Russia, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and President Cesar Chavez of Venezuela were all suffering from serious health problems.


Bush:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Former-President-George-H-W-Bush-hospitalized-in-4077162.php

Putin:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/whats-happened-to-action-man-vladimir-putin-forced-to-play-down-health-rumours-8372490.html

Abdullah:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/11/28/Saudi-kings-health-spurs-succession-issue/UPI-89161354129123/

Chavez:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/11/29/venezuelan-president-hugo-chavez-battling-bone-metastasis-report-says/

Most intriguing of all is the article in the Houston Chronicle, linked in the widely read Drudge Report, about Bush’s health. If you click on the to the article above, the James Bond theme song starts playing and a video ad appears for the latest James Bond movie with a subtitle about Bush’s hospitalization at the bottom of the video (or at least it did at the time of writing this article).

White Dragon Society sources say that the Pope, the Rockefellers, The Queen, Obama and others decided to gang up on the Bush brothers who have now lost the ongoing power struggle in the West.
These reports coincide with a major move to start shipping North American oil and oil products to Asia as a substitute for Middle Eastern oil. It is also big oil’s plea to Japan to agree to a gradual transition away from oil and into new energy sources.

The effort to start shipping North American oil to Asia comes amid a glut (thanks to new technologies) in North American fossil fuel supplies. That is why it seems to be no coincidence that the heads of biggest non-North American oil powers (the Bushes control Iraq) all got “sick” simultaneously.




In this context, North American LPG and LNG is being offered to Asian buyers for long term contracts at a 30-50% discount from Middle Eastern prices, according to a major Japanese oil products importer.

Until recently the Japanese were forced to pay the highest prices in the world for oil and had to rely on the Middle East for almost all of it supplies. Any attempts to buy from elsewhere in the world were ruthlessly suppressed by Western oil oligarchs.

Negotiations have just started and the shift will take a few years (the time needed to build pipelines) using current technology.

Perhaps the sudden change of heart has to do with the fact that devices like this one are now available at Japanese electronics markets:

http://en.akihabaranews.com/118056/environment/green-house-outs-the-gh-led10wbw-a-new-led-based-lantern-that-runs-on-salty-water

Here is a link to where you can actually order one of these devices online (if you can navigate through the Japanese):

http://www.green-house.co.jp/campaign/products_special/bousai/

The item is in the bottom right corner of the page. A Japanese reader of mine brought one of these generators to me and demonstrated it so I can say I have seen it with my own eyes. It runs for 120 hours on a small bag of salt water. Maybe soon, instead of charging the batteries for your mobile, you will just say “pass the salt.”

The sale of these items is linked to a recently held meeting of the heads of the secret society known as the Yatagarasu or three-legged crow that decided to make Japan an independent country and end 66 years of military occupation of Japan. The members of this group, who wear black veils to hide their faces when they meet, voted overwhelmingly for such a move. The presentation of evidence that Japan was attacked, for the third time, with nuclear weapons on March 11, 2011 helped clinch the vote.

Since the Japanese have long had alternative energy technology available to them they have now decided to go full speed ahead and start developing it.

Needless to say the fossil fuel giants, and the pentagon they pay for, are pleading for 100 years’ worth of oil based industrial infrastructure to be given time for a smooth transition. It has been informally agreed that for now at least, the new technology will be used for purposes, like turning deserts green, that current energy technology cannot accomplish.

The Nazi Zionists and their proxy country Israel are also now rushing to try to set up their Middle Eastern kingdom before they lose all control of their US puppet state. The third paragraph from the bottom of this article on the Mossad-linked Debka report basically admits this:

“recognition of Hamas at the expense of Fatah in Ramallah as part of the burgeoning Sunni Muslim Middle East axis, which is strongly though silently endorsed by the US and Israel.”

http://www.debka.com/article/22570/As-Fatah-fades-UN-recognition-of-Palestine-may-eventually-benefit-Hamas

Needless to say, in their version, the “Sunni Axis” would be under the thumb of the Nazi created Muslim Brotherhood.

The rest of the world is sick and tired of Zionist war mongering and the financial net against these thugs is getting tighter by the day. That is why the move away from Middle Eastern oil has begun. It is also why the “financial crisis” continues unabated in the Zionist controlled nations of the West.
In that context, the latest intelligence on the new financial system reveals that the US dollar is here to stay even though the soon to be restored Republic of the United States itself will start issuing its own separate (and devalued) greenbacks.

The reason for this, as mentioned before in this newsletter, is that most of the dollars ever created are not owned by Americans. Any attempt by the US to unilaterally devalue the US dollar would lead to other countries to devalue by the same amount, making such a move impossible. Let us face the facts; the US dollar is no longer American. The yen, yuan, ruble and other currencies will continue to gain in importance over the coming years but they will be part of an international basket with the dollar acting as a sort of averaging point between them. That average will probably slowly shift towards the Chinese Yuan but there will not be a “one world currency” as envisaged by the New World Order gang.

The historical rights of the original owners of the world’s treasures, mostly Asian royal families, are being reasserted and they will continue to act as caretakers for the gold and treasure that now back the de facto international dollar.

The story being told to me by highly placed power brokers is that there will be no big announcements of these changes but that future generations will look back and see that a mental pole shift in the human collective conscious towards love and harmony took place around about December 21st, 2012.

Poofness - 12-2-12 - No Worries

Greetings and Salutations;

I must apologize for the interview that folks heard on the net, I have turned down many interviews in the past, this time I did not know I was being recorded so, I was little 'blue' for some listeners. Much info I have been sitting on for years and have kept to myself. When you Know the game and the players, you know the lies being perpetrated thru the media. When the info is given to the public, I won't be one of the people shocked by what is told, I'll be relieved. And my head won't be exploding anymore with 'contained' intel and info. Just because you know something doesn't mean you need to speak it out to the uninitiated that have no background in understanding.

I know the world you are entering but to explain it in detail, I would fail miserably because it is of something that is far from people's experience. What they've been taught since youth. So, for some it will be like being a little tyke going to their first day in school. The bad guys in this world are in panic mode so, the venom coming out of their mouths and off their finger tips is at an all time high. They aren't the first I have ticked off, that honor belongs to my parents. I asked too many unsettling questions, to which they responded by saying, 'that's the way it is and why can't you just leave things alone?'. Now those questions are about to be answered, publicly. That's why they are in fear of exposure. Don't cry now, you didn't cry when you did what you did. Don't expect to hear about the guilty and the arrested going out in the daily news, not time yet. Close but, not this instant. You can be sure their families know, they haven't come home from work. Most had no prior knowledge their jobs were in jeopardy. So no chance to 'set up' for their terminations. The 60 at the us treasury were just snatched in the moment.

Before this all hits the ground, the rafters performed some operations to make sure you wouldn't be going thru a bunch of crap once you went to the banks to access. It's not like folks didn't have plenty of warning prior to this, they chose to believe...it would never happen or that somehow they could stop it. Study long, study wrong. If your theory is wrong, sooner or later it will prove wrong.

Love is the most powerful force in the universe, not all that relative stuff. The creative force that causes all to exist. Pure unaldulterated love. Sometime Truth sounds mean...oh well, get over yourself. The warm and cuddly's are over, time to put your big pants on and be the adult. Remember: 10,000 may fall on your right side, 10,000 at your left, but, not a hair on your head would be harmed. Could you be loved?

All is moving down out of the rafters right now, so chill out and let the screamers scream as you prepare to walk away from them. I leave you with this 'tube' to contemplate.

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1312

Consultations until the door bell rings.

Love and Kisses,

Poofness

bob marley-could you be loved
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Bob Marley

"Could You Be Loved"

Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved and be loved?

Don't let them fool ya,
Or even try to school ya! Oh, no!
We've got a mind of our own,
So go to hell if what you're thinking is not right!
Love would never leave us alone,
A-yin the darkness there must come out to light.

Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved, wo now! - and be loved?

(The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,
So while you point your fingers someone else is judging you)
Love your brotherman!
(Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be loved?)

Don't let them change ya, oh! -
Or even rearrange ya! Oh, no!
We've got a life to live.
They say: only - only -
only the fittest of the fittest shall survive -
Stay alive! Eh!

Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved, wo now! - and be loved?

(You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry;
No matter how you treat him, the man will never be satisfied.)
Say something! (Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?
Could you be - could you be loved?)
Say something! Say something!
(Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?)
Say something! (Could you be - could you be loved?)
Say something! Say something! (Say something!)
Say something! Say something! (Could you be loved?)
Say something! Say something! Reggae, reggae!
Say something! Rockers, rockers!
Say something! Reggae, reggae!
Say something! Rockers, rockers!
Say something! (Could you be loved?)
Say something! Uh!
Say something! Come on!
Say something! (Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?)
Say something! (Could you be - could you be loved?)
Say something! (Could you be - could you be - could you be loved?)
Say something! (Could you be - could you be loved?) [fadeout]

Senate: Get forces out, end war in Afghanistan

By The Associated Press 

WASHINGTON — Reflecting a war-weary nation, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday for an accelerated withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan after more than a decade of fighting.

The strong bipartisan vote of 62-33 sends a clear message to President Obama and the military as they engage in high-stakes talks about the pace of drawing down the 66,000 troops there, with a White House announcement expected within weeks.

Although the vote was on a nonbinding amendment to a Defense policy bill, its significance could not be discounted amid the current discussions.

Thirteen Republicans, including Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, the top GOP lawmaker on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, backed the measure.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., its chief sponsor, argued that al-Qaida is stronger in other parts of the world and that nation-building in Afghanistan has gone off track. His measure endorsed Obama’s timetable to withdraw all combat troops by the end of 2014 but pressed for a quicker pace, without specifying how that would be achieved.

“It is time to end this war, end the longest war in United States history,” Merkley said during Senate debate.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday that the United States will need to keep troops in Afghanistan even after the combat mission ends in 2014 because al-Qaida remains in the country and is trying to strengthen its influence.

Panetta would not say how many American troops he thinks will be needed to conduct that mission, nor did he mention a time period.

The overall defense bill authorizes $631 billion for weapons, ships, aircraft and a 1.7 percent pay raise for military personnel.

The White House has threatened to veto the legislation in its current form, citing limits on the president’s authority in handling detainees at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and restrictions on cuts to the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve.

Read more: http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/3048784-74/afghanistan-senate-troops-war-military-defense-obama-vote-2014-bill#ixzz2DkPgSv3T

A Renaissance in Consciousness

Fast growing sunspot AR1620 has a beta-gamma-delta
magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares.
Credit: SDO/HMI

REMOVINGTHESHACKCLES

I started writing this article yesterday, and then got side tracked by Life the Universe and Everything. 

Our lovely Sol is tossing off solar flares once again after a very short break. Two M Class flares- 1.0 & 1.2 two days ago, and an M 2.2 late last night.  But even during the small break from flares, the sun has been sending a constant stream of CMEs from filaments tearing off.  Not all the CMEs have been Earth facing, but there have been a fair share that have been- we are expecting two directly earth facing CMEs today through to tomorrow and some minor geomagnetic activity.

More M-class flares will probably occur in the coming 48 hours in one or both of these active regions. NOAA/SWPC forecasters estimate 35% chance of M-class and 5% chance of X-class solar flares.

Region 1623 also grew significantly in areal coverage but the magnetic complexity is difficult to determine with its proximity to the limb.

Active region view, November 28, 2012 (Source: SDO’s HMI Intensitygram

A proton event is possible in case of a strong flare in any of these two sunspot groups due to their position in the western solar hemisphere.

The Earth is currently inside a slow (around 380 km/s) solar wind flow with average (around 4 nT) interplanetary magnetic field magnitude.

The arrival of the interplanetary shock driven by the ICME corresponding to the partial halo CME observed on the Sun yesterday is expected on November 30, 2012. As a result we can expect active to minor storm geomagnetic conditions. Isolated unsettled periods are possible through December 1, 2012 due to coronal hole high-speed stream effects.

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/11/29/sunspot-1620-generated-m2-2-solar-flare/

"Isolated unsettled periods are possible through December 1, 2012 due to coronal hole high-speed stream effects."   I highlighted that last sentence because I think it's important to note that we have a massive coronal hole now direct earth facing and sending a constant stream of high speed energy our way.

Here is SuspiciousObservers update for today:

Skywatchers88 put together this excellent video outlining the solar activity on the 27th- amazing visuals of our sun dancing the energy our way:

I have always thought that solar energy is one of the greatest factors in our evolution of consciousness- hence my intense interest in Sol's endless dance of light.  Reading Daniel's paper on "Geoengineering, Chemtrails, HAARP, World Orders, Time Lines & Ascension"  really gave me a boost of "Eureka!!" as he directly linked the activity on and in our sun to the energetic changes happening to us, our planet, and our solar system.

This article also gives a simple explanation (although not quite accurate) of these effects:

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science,
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
(ISAS/JAXA) & NASA

http://www.lunarplanner.com/SolarCycles.html 

Solar cycles and their activity play an intimate part in the unfoldment of human consciousness. Solar flares affect the Central Nervous System (stomach lining), all brain activity (including equilibrium), all human and animal behavior and all psychophysiological (mental-emotional-physical) response.

Solar flares can cause some people to be nervous, anxious, worrisome, jittery, irritable, lethargic, to have short term memory loss, to feel nauseous, queasy, and have prolonged head pressure or head aches. They can also cause trouble with the radio, phone, Internet, computers, and all forms of communication--both human and technological.
 
Solar activity can also be stimulating, invigorating, illuminating, and create a heightened sense of awareness, and it can enhance vision and creativity tremendously. It especially stimulates the pineal gland in the brain, which is our center of vision and creativity. The pineal gland is a "neuroendocrine transducer" that converts gravitational-magnetic signals into chemical hormonal responses that control, via the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland. The pituitary is the master control center of the brain that governs the rest of the neurological system. This information expresses into the cellular structure of the individual--essentially into the molecular matrix of the cell in a "DNA Illumination Sequence" that is responsible for our evolutionary awakening. The pituitary is the administrative seat controlling cellular memory, and hence, the remembrance / emergence of our true selves.
 
How a person experiences enhanced solar activity is a function of the resonance of their physical neurology. If a person is crystalized with mental, emotional and physical blockages, then increase solar activity may seem uncomfortable. It is like trying to get something to improve in vibrational resonance that has resistance to do so. It a person has a more refined neurological resonance, that is for people that have done the inner work to clear mental, emotional and physical crystallizations, then enhanced solar activity is enlivening, and gives one a heightened perceptual awareness. In addition, if a person's pineal gland is severely calcified, which is common amongst most humans and generally occurs at age six, partly due to the stifling of extra-sensory awareness and creativity when very young, then the pineal is not able to respond (vibrate) to increase "light" solar activity as it should.

Solar activity, although dramatic, catalyzes, and is essential for our evolutionary process by stimulating radical change and transformation in the organizational foundation of matter, energy and consciousness. Solar activity plays an intimate role along with the dynamic transition in Earth's precessional cycle, and the erect precessional cross which occurred around 1998-2000 A.D. and which began the "time of change" in Earth's ~25,000-year "Evolutionary Cycle of the Soul." Solar flare activity and other stellar explosions (supernovas) are the primary catalysts that stimulate a renaissance in consciousness. They provide cosmic impulses that supports the evolutionary maturation of the incarnate soul--the illumination of consciousness that we all seek.

Remember, solar activity illuminates consciousness, dissolving duality's paradox - the fear and judgment based monsters within are consumed in Light - old patterns of behavior vanish, while true elegance and majesty of self emerges.

Unconditional Love banishes Fear - a choice.
Choose a new octave of participation in harmony and beauty,
above the raging tempest of the old world.

So as I've said before, if you're feeling the physical effects of  all this amazing solar energy, slow down, take it easy and rest as much as possible.  One of my favourite things to do is to go outside and sit back and close my eyes and feel the sun on my face. Imagining it bathing me in positive energy, feeling it flow into me, energizing me.


..... and a little Vitamin D never hurts either!





Source: http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/

http://www.solarham.net/
http://spaceweather.com/
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/11/29/sunspot-1620-generated-m2-2-solar-flare/

Solar Revolution

Its here now... http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/solar-revolution/

Guests were invited to watch a special sneak preview of the film SOLAR REVOLUTION and also to meet with the filmmakers, for a ‘behind-the-scenes’ discussion about the making of the movie and see Dieter Broers LIVE via web transmission from Vienna, Austria!! 

The movie asks the questions – does the sun have the power to transform humankind? World famous German biophysicist, Dieter Broers, makes a compelling case, pointing to a wealth of scientific evidence including NASA research that shows a remarkable correlation between increases in solar activity and advances in our creative, mental, and spiritual abilities. 

We are in the midst of a dramatic rise in solar disturbances, which have the capability of disrupting the Earth’s geomagnetic field and, as a result, our global ecology. Broers, however, sees this not as an impending apocalypse but as the dawn of a new age! 

Drawing on cutting edge research from a variety of disciplines, he shows how erupting solar activity carries the potential to boost brain capacity and expand the mind in ways humanity has never imagined possible. Abilities now seen as extraordinary or supernatural—telepathy, extrasensory perception, and off-the-charts intelligence quotients—may soon become ordinary and natural and could very well help us solve the mounting global crises we are facing. 




“Humankind is going through an evolutionary leap”, says Broers, and the process has already begun!! Be the first to hear Broers stunning conclusions in this amazing new movie SOLAR REVOLUTION! Secure your seat – Click above to Book Now!! 

Dieter Broers’ film is all the suggestion we need to realize that we have come to the end of our infatuation with the straight line, and are awakening to a virgin appreciation of all it means to be human. I gladly recommend it. ~ Barnet Bain, Producer of What Dreams May Come, and The Celestine Prophecy. ; 

(Featuring: DIETER BROERS, RUPERT SHELDRAKE, MICHAEL PERSINGER, ERNST SENKOWSKI, MICHAEL KONIG, ILLOBRAND VON LUDWIGER, ELIZABETH RAUSCHER, ROLLIN MCCRATY, FRANZ HALBERG, GIULIANA CONFORTO, JJ & DESIREE HURTAK, FRANCINE BLAKE, and RICK STRASSMAN. 

Dieter Broers 

“I’m convinced that a change will come about in 2012. The question is: ‘When is 2012?…’”
Dieter Broers is a renowned bio-physicist and best-selling author, whose worldview is one which fuses spirit and matter, two subjects which are currently viewed by the scientific world as being separate. He uses advanced science to describe a holistic existence. 

Dieter Broers studied physics and electrical engineering in Hamburg and Kiel. Since 1980, he has conducted research in the field of frequency medicine and regulation therapy. Broers holds over 100 patents worldwide in 85 countries. 

The core of his inventions include the effects of geomagnetic and electro-weak fields on biological organisms. His scientific efforts led him to consciousness science and the effects of these EM fields on biological systems and states of consciousness.

With the release of his book, ‘The Matrix Code’, he began his career as a bestselling author. Besides ‘Solar Revolution’, his popular works include ‘Checklist 2012 – Seven Strategies on how to turn the crisis into opportunity’, ‘Thoughts Create Reality’ and ‘(R)Evolution 2012’. His books and films had a significant impact in the German speaking countries and Russia. The author lives and works in Austria and Greece. 

Life on Mercury? Scientists claim discovery of water on 'the Swift Planet'

A mosaic of MESSENGER images of Mercury's north polar region is pictured
in this handout image from NASA. Instruments aboard NASA's MErcury Surface,
Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft
studying the planet Mercury have provided compelling support for the long-held
hypothesis the planet harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials
within its permanently shadowed polar craters. (Reuters/NASA/Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/National
Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory)

Scientists have confirmed for the first time that the planet Mercury holds “at least 100 billion tons of water ice” and also has “organic material” in the permanently-shadowed craters at its north pole. The alleged findings came from NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft, which has been in orbit around Mercury since 2011.

Theories that Mercury – also known as the Swift Planet – could potentially contain forms of water were already being discussed back in 1992. Back then, Earth-based telescopes had picked up “bright areas” in and around the planet’s polar regions.

Alternative explanations were put forward to account for the bright areas, but Messenger provided enough evidence for water ice to exist on the planet closest to our sun.

The discovery is even more spectacular, taking into account that Mercury’s surface temperatures can sometimes reach 427 degrees Celsius (800 F).

Although the finding of almost 22 cubic miles pales when compared with our planet’s water capacity (an estimated 332,500,000 cubic miles!), Mercury is our solar system’s smallest planet, roughly one tenth the size of Earth.

Image credit: NASA

Even so, as much as 1.1 trillion tons of ice could lie on or just beneath Mercury's surface in the nooks and crannies of craters that never see sunlight, according to scientists working on the Messenger mission. Much of that ice may be protected by a dark layer of carbon-rich organic material several inches thick, they said.

The new research "doesn't mean we have life on Mercury, but it is relevant for the question of life in the solar system in general," UCLA planetary scientist David Paige, lead author of one of three papers published Thursday by the journal Science, said.

The water and organic material probably aren't native to Mercury; one theory suggests they could have been delivered by icy comets as they smashed into the surface.

It's widely believed that this is how organic molecules made their way to Earth as well, meaning Mercury, then, could offer a glimpse of a possible early stage before the development of life as we know it.

Image from www.wired.com

This image of the planet Mercury was taken by NASA's unmanned Messenger spacecraft during its October 6, 2008, fly-by of the planet closest to the sun. (Reuters/NASA-Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Handout)

An image of the planet Mercury, made during the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is seen in this image released by NASA July 3, 2008. (Reuters/NASA/JHUAP/Arizona State University/Handout)

Supreme Court declares right to film police is protected under First Amendment

(NaturalNews) Ever since ordinary Americans have been able to instantly videotape any given situation, there have been powerful forces working to circumvent the Constitution and prohibit use of such technology.

The most recent example involves a California man who was tossed in jail for four days after he attempted to videotape police officers on a public street.

In that case, Daniel J. Saulmon was charged with resisting, delaying and obstructing an officer, even though the video clearly shows him standing well away from a traffic stop, and that he was only arrested after he failed to produce identification for an approaching officer. As an aside, there is no California law that requires a citizen to produce identification (remember, this is a state that welcomes illegal immigrants). And, as others have pointed out, even if there was such a law on the books, officers would be required to have reasonable suspicion that the person being asked for ID was committing a crime.

Unable to defend the indefensible

Now; however, such arrests will hopefully become a thing of the past following a just-announced U.S. Supreme Court ruling which upholds a citizen's right to video police.

Justices decided not to hear a case involving the state of Illinois' authoritarian "eavesdropping" law that has been regularly abused by authorities to prevent citizens from taping cops in action.

The Chicago Tribune reported that in deciding to pass on the issue, justices left standing a ruling by a lower federal appeals court which found that the law violates free-speech rights when it is applied to persons who tape police.

In June, the appeals court issued a temporary injunction, which effectively barred Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez from prosecuting anyone under the current statute. In late November, the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued Alvarez over the statute, asked a federal judge hearing the case to make the injunction permanent, according to Harvey Grossman, the legal director for the ACLU's Illinois chapter.

Grossman went on to tell the paper he believes a permanent injunction would ultimately set a precedent across the state that irreparably hampers enforcement of the law.




This is the way of Chicago politics

Alvarez has a deadline to respond to the ACLU's request, but a spokeswoman for her office, Sally Daly, said a Supreme Court ruling in the case would have been better, providing "prosecutors across Illinois with legal clarification and guidance with respect to the constitutionality and enforcement" of the statute.

And yet, the high court's non-ruling seems to have done just that - provided enough nails in the coffin of this authoritarian statute to bury it, since the lower court already ruled as much, at least in regards to the taping of police officers.

Which is as it should be, if the goal is to reaffirm constitutional liberty. The state's eavesdropping law is one of the most stringent in the country, making audio recording of a law enforcement officer, even while in public and on duty, a felony that is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

That's not surprising in a state where Chicago politics, and the mob mentality associated with it, rules. We can't have citizens recording corrupt public officials counting the votes of dead people, after all.

Fortunately, the law was so ridiculous and harsh that it sparked a widening public debate that began last year. In August 2011, the Tribune said, a Cook County jury acquitted a woman who was charged with recording Chicago police internal affairs investigators she thought were attempting to dissuade her from filing a sexual harassment complaint against a patrol officer.

Later, judges in Cook and Crawford counties declared the law unconstitutional. The McLean County state's attorney further cited problems in the law when dropping charges in February against a man who was accused of recording a policeman during a traffic stop.

Using what can only be described as twisting legal logic, Alvarez argued that allowing citizens to record police would act as a deterrent, dissuading them from talking candidly to police and thereby causing problems in securing crime scenes or conducting what she called sensitive investigations.

Nothing constitutional about it

The federal appeals court; however, ruled that the law "restricts far more speech than necessary to protect legitimate privacy interests."

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says he's in favor of a change in the law that would permit citizens to tape police - and vice versa.

But this law doesn't need to be "revised," it needs to go away. The state of Illinois has a way of abusing its citizens that pales by comparison.

Resident Michael Allison essentially facing life in prison for recording police after authorities and prosecutors considered the maximum sentence possible for five counts of violating the eavesdropping statute.

Following a public outcry, the judge in the case threw it out, recognizing its unconstitutionality.

Sources:

http://www.chicagotribune.com

http://www.infowars.com

http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/appndxa/penalco/penco148.htm

Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/038123_filming_police_first_amendment_Supreme_Court.html#ixzz2DindA6G5