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Private communications being sent to government?
by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | JANUARY 21, 2015
Samsung has responded to privacy concerns over its warning that voice recognition software used in the company’s line of smart TVs is being used to record “personal” conversations and send them to third parties.
Last November we highlighted Samsung’s global privacy policy, which advises users to, “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.”
Michael Price, counsel in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, wrote that the potential of his private conversations being shared with unnamed third parties now meant he was “terrified” of his TV.
Samsung Smart TVs also log website visits, have a built-in camera for facial recognition and use tracking cookies to detect “when you have viewed particular content or a particular email message.”
Concerned blogger Joe Fabeets contacted Samsung in an effort to identify exactly who this “third party” was that would be receiving users’ private communications. Although Samsung indicates in its privacy policy that the third party is a “service that converts speech to text,” answers given by representatives of the company leave room for doubt.
Noting that he had put the same question to Verizon about communications being stored, Fabeets asked the representative, “Is that what this is, are you complying with a federal court order to record what’s going on in my living room?”
“Yes sir, exactly,” responds the representative, before contradicting herself and Samsung’s own global privacy policy by adding, “Everything is confidential, nothing is shared,” asserting that the service is merely a means of improving the features on the smart TV.
“You asked me if we complied with federal law and I did say yes,” the representative added when Fabeets attempted to clarify the question. There appeared to be some confusion about whether the representative thought that Samsung recording private information and sending it to the government was part of this compliance process.
As televisions, games consoles and a myriad of of other technological devices become more sophisticated in tailoring themselves to consumers via speech recognition and the ‘Internet of things’, the potential for private communications and activity to be monitored and shared is greater than ever before. In 2012, former CIA director David Petraeus hailed this development as a transformational boon for “clandestine tradecraft”.
Since its launch in 2010, Microsoft’s X-Box Kinect games device has included a video camera and a microphone that records speech. The company informs its users that they “should not expect any level of privacy concerning your use of the live communication features,” while Microsoft also “may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications.”
Last year, Microsoft was forced to deny claims that the Xbox One’s Kinect camera could see gamers’ genitals after video footage emerged which suggested the device’s IR camera was so sophisticated that it could capture the outline of a user’s penis.
Gamers also complained that Kinect was monitoring their Skype conversations for swearing and then punishing them with account bans.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Uh-Oh! Obamacare's Website is Sending Sensitive Personal Information to Marketing and Advertising Companies
Since before Obamacare's health insurance exchanges went online, there have been worries about the safety and security of personal data collected by the system. But despite hearings and government watchdog reports saying that necessary security precautions weren't taken, the Obama administration has always assured the public that their data is perfectly secure.
“There’s no higher priority than protecting consumer information and maintaining trust for the consumers,” Andy Slavitt, who is slated to take over the top post at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services later this year, told Politico last November.
Turns out we didn't need to worry about hackers breaking into the government's data troves. The government has been secretly sending out sensitive personal data, including age, zip code, and income information, to private advertising and marketing companies, according to a worrying report this evening from the Associated Press:
The scope of what is disclosed or how it might be used was not immediately clear, but it can include age, income, ZIP code, whether a person smokes, and if a person is pregnant. It can include a computer's Internet address, which can identify a person's name or address when combined with other information collected by sophisticated online marketing or advertising firms.
The Obama administration says HealthCare.gov's connections to data firms were intended to help improve the consumer experience. Officials said outside firms are barred from using the data to further their own business interests.
There is no evidence that personal information has been misused. But connections to dozens of third-party tech firms were documented by technology experts who analyzed HealthCare.gov and then confirmed by AP. A handful of the companies were also collecting highly specific information. That combination is raising concerns.
There are two big problems here. The first is disclosure. This is being done without the knowledge of most users. And while HealthCare.gov explicitly insists that "no personally identifiable information" is collected on users, the sort of details that it sends out to marketing firms could help advertisers pin down individual identities or personal health information.
The other problem is the security of the data once it's sent elsewhere. Even if the government were taking all the necessary precautions in its own handling of sensitive, personal electronic information—and thanks to the Government Accountability Office we know that it isn't—there's no guarantee that outside marketing analysts will take the same precautions.
As the AP notes, "The administration did not explain how it ensures that companies were following the government's privacy and security policies." Presumably if security requirements were in place they would be able to say what they are.
And there are a lot of third parties involved. According to the AP report, there are at least 50 of what it calls "third-party connections" on HealthCare.gov, the federally run Obamacare exchange portal. The connections were caught by a security consultant, and in a test, the AP confirmed that the federal website was sending out information.
At minimum, the Obama administration's handling of the website security and privacy is sloppy and poorly thought out. Possibly it is dangerous and actively misleading. It's not much of a surprise, given the administration's lacklustre management of the exchanges so far, but even still, it's unsettling. And it's further evidence that when it comes to tech management, the Obama administration simply isn't competent.
But remember: There’s no higher priority than protecting consumer information and maintaining trust for the consumers. This, apparently, is how the Obama administration manages its highest priorities.
Uh-Oh! Obamacare's Website is Sending Sensitive Personal Information to Marketing and Advertising Companies
Peter Suderman
Tue, 20 Jan 2015 23:25:00 GMT
The Swiss will not have more EU QE
The Swiss will not have more EU QE
The Swiss will not have more EU QE
In
the ridiculous charade that passes for the foreign exchange currency
markets, the ease upon which a 39% spike in the Swiss Franc to the EU
has most financial journalist puzzled. A flagship of establishment
journalism like the Washington Post provides a quaint explanation in Why Switzerland’s currency is going historically crazy.
The Swiss intend to keep their exchange rate at 1.2 Swiss francs per
euro caused unsustainable negative competiveness in Swiss exports to EU
customers. How many times have you heard that same old song? Corporatist
media consistently spins a yarn that suppressing one’s own currency is
good for business.
Rely on viewpoints from reliable sources like The Economic Collapse.
Their insight should be obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense
left. “The euro is falling apart, and the Swiss did not want to be
married to it any longer. Unfortunately, when any marriage ends the
pain can be enormous.”
Peter Schiff, who is a major precious metal dealer, is getting a boost in this latest development. The article Switzerland Surrenders the Currency War, but America Still Racing to the Bottom published in the Libertarian and Austrian Economic site, Lewrockwell.com provides an expected response.
“The
Swiss are going to be able to get a better deal on all the products
that they import from Europe and from other countries, so they won’t
have to export as much to pay for their imports. So that’s positive for
the Swiss. I would be worried about the Europeans who are now going to
have to spend more money to buy Swiss products. They’re the ones that
hurt, as are Americans. Swiss products are now going to be more
expensive for Americans, but American products… are going to be cheaper
for the Swiss. So the Swiss win because they have a stronger currency,
and Europeans and Americans lose because we have a weaker currency… “
These
conclusions are so basic and correct that when mainline economists
preach their financial orthodoxy, the idiocy of the “Free Trade” hoax
screams out for a sense of monetary sanity.
Not to spoil the cheers for the Swiss, an important component must be factored in. When the Swiss Voters Reject Initiative on Central-Bank Gold, the hard money advocates expressed great disappointment.
“Swiss
voters overwhelmingly rejected an initiative on Sunday that would have
forced the country’s central bank to hold one-fifth of its assets in
gold, a move that would have eroded its ability to conduct monetary
policy.
Critics of the initiative feared that the SNB’s
commitment to the cap would have been challenged because the central
bank would have been forced to buy gold every time it intervened in the
currency market.”
This result seems to reinforce that the gnomes
of central banking were once again in control of their gold hoards and
refused to share any of its value with the holders of the Swiss Franc.
So
how can one account, after rejecting the plebiscite on adopting making
the Swiss Franc as a real hard money value currency that the exchange
rates raise so sharply?
Fundamentals and measures that favor and
protect the wealth of a national currency are not applied as standards,
when central Banksters play the money float game. In order to
understand why the Swiss Franc surged, one must examine the sickness
within the EU and the extreme pressure on the EURO coming from desperate
measures to keep the single European currency afloat.
The panic begins as the ECB Stimulation: The Trap Closes. Last week the EU Court of Justice advocate general ruled that the central bank could purchase sovereign debt.
“It
referred to an existing ECB program called Outright Monetary
Transactions -- which isn't quite QE but which does involve purchases of
government bonds. The court won't rule for another four to six months,
but it's likely to follow the advocate general's guidance. That's good
enough for Draghi to act now.
Many in Europe, especially in
Germany, remain opposed. They see QE as a ruse by which the richer
members of the currency bloc will end up paying for the fiscal
misadventures of their neighbors.”
Let the race begin and only
the quickest will be left sitting tight, when the music stops playing.
It seems that Steen Jakobsen writing in Endgame for central bankers agrees.
“Many
central banks will envy the SNB (Swiss National Bank) for its move last
week, as it at least tries to regain some control of its future, but
the conclusion remains: central banks have as a group lost credibility
and when the ECB starts QE this week the beginning of the end for
central banks is completed. They are running out of time – that’s the
real real bottom line: the SNB ran out of time, the ECB runs out of time
this week, and the Fed, Bank of Japan and the Bank of England ran out
of time in 2014.
What comes now is a new reality – the SNB move
was true paradigm shift – we can no longer look at central banks, the
markets and extend-and-pretend in the same light as we did last
Wednesday (the day before the SNB pounced).”
Now for the kicker .
. . When a solid financial adviser acknowledges in their financial
letter, like Chris Hunter, Editor-in-Chief, Bonner & Partners - Did the Swiss Just Burst the “Central Bank Bubble”?,
that the crown prince of collectivist economics condemns the Swiss; you
know they were correct in ditching their peg ratio to the EURO.
“We
usually don’t see eye to eye with economist Paul Krugman. But he’s hit
the nail on the head about the “Swiss shock.” From his New York Times
column: “The SNB’s wimp-out will make life harder for monetary policy in
other countries, because it will leave markets skeptical about whether
other supposed commitments to keep up unconventional policy will
similarly prove time-limited.”
How evil those Swiss must be to
actually defend their currency and their own wealth. As the EU implodes,
the smart money will sit out the coming grand depression, provided by
your friendly central banks, in the charm of the Swiss Alps.
James Hall – January 21, 2015
The Swiss will not have more EU QE
In
the ridiculous charade that passes for the foreign exchange currency
markets, the ease upon which a 39% spike in the Swiss Franc to the EU
has most financial journalist puzzled. A flagship of establishment
journalism like the Washington Post provides a quaint explanation in Why Switzerland’s currency is going historically crazy.
The Swiss intend to keep their exchange rate at 1.2 Swiss francs per
euro caused unsustainable negative competiveness in Swiss exports to EU
customers. How many times have you heard that same old song? Corporatist
media consistently spins a yarn that suppressing one’s own currency is
good for business.
Rely on viewpoints from reliable sources like The Economic Collapse.
Their insight should be obvious to anyone with an ounce of common sense
left. “The euro is falling apart, and the Swiss did not want to be
married to it any longer. Unfortunately, when any marriage ends the
pain can be enormous.”
Peter Schiff, who is a major precious metal dealer, is getting a boost in this latest development. The article Switzerland Surrenders the Currency War, but America Still Racing to the Bottom published in the Libertarian and Austrian Economic site, Lewrockwell.com provides an expected response.
“The
Swiss are going to be able to get a better deal on all the products
that they import from Europe and from other countries, so they won’t
have to export as much to pay for their imports. So that’s positive for
the Swiss. I would be worried about the Europeans who are now going to
have to spend more money to buy Swiss products. They’re the ones that
hurt, as are Americans. Swiss products are now going to be more
expensive for Americans, but American products… are going to be cheaper
for the Swiss. So the Swiss win because they have a stronger currency,
and Europeans and Americans lose because we have a weaker currency… “
These
conclusions are so basic and correct that when mainline economists
preach their financial orthodoxy, the idiocy of the “Free Trade” hoax
screams out for a sense of monetary sanity.
Not to spoil the cheers for the Swiss, an important component must be factored in. When the Swiss Voters Reject Initiative on Central-Bank Gold, the hard money advocates expressed great disappointment.
“Swiss
voters overwhelmingly rejected an initiative on Sunday that would have
forced the country’s central bank to hold one-fifth of its assets in
gold, a move that would have eroded its ability to conduct monetary
policy.
Critics of the initiative feared that the SNB’s
commitment to the cap would have been challenged because the central
bank would have been forced to buy gold every time it intervened in the
currency market.”
This result seems to reinforce that the gnomes
of central banking were once again in control of their gold hoards and
refused to share any of its value with the holders of the Swiss Franc.
So
how can one account, after rejecting the plebiscite on adopting making
the Swiss Franc as a real hard money value currency that the exchange
rates raise so sharply?
Fundamentals and measures that favor and
protect the wealth of a national currency are not applied as standards,
when central Banksters play the money float game. In order to
understand why the Swiss Franc surged, one must examine the sickness
within the EU and the extreme pressure on the EURO coming from desperate
measures to keep the single European currency afloat.
The panic begins as the ECB Stimulation: The Trap Closes. Last week the EU Court of Justice advocate general ruled that the central bank could purchase sovereign debt.
“It
referred to an existing ECB program called Outright Monetary
Transactions -- which isn't quite QE but which does involve purchases of
government bonds. The court won't rule for another four to six months,
but it's likely to follow the advocate general's guidance. That's good
enough for Draghi to act now.
Many in Europe, especially in
Germany, remain opposed. They see QE as a ruse by which the richer
members of the currency bloc will end up paying for the fiscal
misadventures of their neighbors.”
Let the race begin and only
the quickest will be left sitting tight, when the music stops playing.
It seems that Steen Jakobsen writing in Endgame for central bankers agrees.
“Many
central banks will envy the SNB (Swiss National Bank) for its move last
week, as it at least tries to regain some control of its future, but
the conclusion remains: central banks have as a group lost credibility
and when the ECB starts QE this week the beginning of the end for
central banks is completed. They are running out of time – that’s the
real real bottom line: the SNB ran out of time, the ECB runs out of time
this week, and the Fed, Bank of Japan and the Bank of England ran out
of time in 2014.
What comes now is a new reality – the SNB move
was true paradigm shift – we can no longer look at central banks, the
markets and extend-and-pretend in the same light as we did last
Wednesday (the day before the SNB pounced).”
Now for the kicker .
. . When a solid financial adviser acknowledges in their financial
letter, like Chris Hunter, Editor-in-Chief, Bonner & Partners - Did the Swiss Just Burst the “Central Bank Bubble”?,
that the crown prince of collectivist economics condemns the Swiss; you
know they were correct in ditching their peg ratio to the EURO.
“We
usually don’t see eye to eye with economist Paul Krugman. But he’s hit
the nail on the head about the “Swiss shock.” From his New York Times
column: “The SNB’s wimp-out will make life harder for monetary policy in
other countries, because it will leave markets skeptical about whether
other supposed commitments to keep up unconventional policy will
similarly prove time-limited.”
How evil those Swiss must be to
actually defend their currency and their own wealth. As the EU implodes,
the smart money will sit out the coming grand depression, provided by
your friendly central banks, in the charm of the Swiss Alps.
James Hall – January 21, 2015
DoJ Update to Policy Regarding Questioning, Arresting, or Charging Members of the News Media
The following is an update to an Attorney General Order issued in February 2014 by Eric Holder.
UPDATED POLICY REGARDING OBTAINING INFORMATION FROM, OR RECORDS OF, MEMBERS OF THE NEWS MEDIA; AND REGARDING QUESTIONING, ARRESTING, OR CHARGING MEMBER OF THE NEWS MEDIA
- 3 pages
- January 14, 2015
On February 21, 2014, I issued revisions to the Department’s policy regarding obtaining information from, or records of, members of the news media; and regarding questioning, arresting, or charging members of the news media. Based on comments from federal prosecutors and other interested parties, including news media representatives through their participation in the News Media Dialogue Group, I determined that additional revisions were necessary.
This final rule revises the existing provisions in the Department’s regulations at 28 C.F.R. § 50.10. The revisions are intended to ensure consistent interpretation and application of the policy; clarify and expand the scope of the policy; and ensure the highest level of oversight when members of the Department seek to obtain information from, or records of, a member of the news media. The most significant change is the elimination of the phrase “ordinary newsgathering activities,” which has been replaced throughout with “newsgathering activities.” The change mandates that, unless one of the exceptions identified in paragraphs (c)(3) or (d)(4) is applicable, when the investigative or prosecutorial need for information or records relates to newsgathering activities, the Attorney General must authorize the issuance of all subpoenas to members of the news media; the use of all subpoenas or court orders issued pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2703(d) or 3123 to obtain communications records or business records as defined by paragraphs (b)(3)(i) and (b)(3)(iii); and all applications for warrants to search the premises or property, or to obtain from third-party communication service providers the communications records or business records of members of the news media.
Given the elimination of the phrase “ordinary newsgathering activities,” the policy reflects additional revisions that are necessary to strike the proper balance between law enforcement and free press interests. For example, the changes ensure the highest level of Department oversight by providing that the Attorney General must both determine that the affected member of the news media is a subject or target of an investigation relating to an offense committed in the course of, or arising out of, newsgathering activities, and authorize the use of the requested law enforcement tool. See 28 C.F.R. §§ 50.10(c)(1), (c)(4)(i), and (c)(5)(i). The revised policy does not, however, require the Attorney General to take into account the considerations identified in paragraphs (c)(4)(ii) – (viii) or (c)(5)(ii) – (viii). The changes also permit, but do not require, that notice be provided to the affected member of the news media. See 28 C.F.R. § 50.10(e)(1).
Mandatory Consultation with the Criminal Division
The Department currently is in the process of revising the USAM to provide further guidance regarding the application o f the policy. In the meantime, before (1) issuing a subpoena to a member of the news media; (2) using a subpoena or court order to obtain from a third party communications records or business records of a member of the news media; (3) applying for a warrant to search the premises, property, communications records, or business records of a member of the news media; or (4) questioning, arresting, or charging a member of the news media as to any offense that he or she is suspected of having committed in the course of, or arising out of, newsgathering activities, members of the Department are required to consult with the Policy and Statutory Enforcement Unit of the Criminal Division’s Office of Enforcement Operations (PSEU), at pseu@usdoj.gov or (202) 305-4023. In particular, members of the Department must consult with PSEU in the following circumstances, or regarding the following determinations:
• When there is a question regarding whether an individual or entity is a “member of the news media.”
• Whether an individual or entity is not covered by, and therefore not entitled to the protections of, the policy, pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 50.10(b)(l)(ii), which expressly provides that the protections of the policy do not extend to any individual or entity in certain circumstances (e.g., where there are reasonable grounds to believe that the individual or entity is a foreign power or an agent o f a foreign power).
• Whether the conduct at issue of the affected member of the news media constitutes or relates to “newsgathering activities.”
• Whether records sought constitute “communications records” or “business records” as defined by the policy. See 28 C.F.R. § 50.10(b)(3).
• Whether a proposed subpoena or court order falls within one of the exceptions to the Attorney General authorization requirement and, therefore, may be authorized by the United States Attorney or Assistant Attorney General responsible for the matter. See 28 C.F.R. §50.10(c)(3)(ii).
• Whether a member of the news media is a subject or target of an investigation relating to an offense committed in the course of, or arising out of, newsgathering activities, see 28 C.F.R. §§ 50.10(c)(4)(i), (c)(5)(i), and (e); or suspected having committed and offense in the course of, or arising out of, newsgathering activities, see 28 C.F.R. § 50.10(f).To satisfy the consultation requirement, before employing the use of a law enforcement tool covered by the Department’s policy, members of the Department shall submit to PSEU a written request for consultation, and shall not employ the use of the tool until the Criminal Division has provided a written response.
Enforcement of Subpoenas Issued By Other Executive Branch Departments or Agencies Although not expressly covered by 28 C.F.R. § 50.10, members of the Department must consult with PSEU before taking steps to enforce subpoenas issued to members of the news media, or to compel compliance with subpoenas or court orders issued to third parties for communications records or business records of members of the news media, which subpoenas or court orders were issued in the first instance by other Executive Branch departments or agencies.
Questions
Any questions regarding this policy should be directed to PSEU at pseu@usdoj.gov or (202) 305-4023.
DoJ Update to Policy Regarding Questioning, Arresting, or Charging Members of the News Media
Public Intelligence
Mon, 19 Jan 2015 01:19:16 GMT
Arkansas Takes Away 7 Homeschool Children because Father had "Unapproved Mineral Supplement" | Peace . Gold . LOVE
Arkansas Takes Away 7 Homeschool Children because Father had "Unapproved Mineral Supplement" Submitted by Stonewall Jackson on Mon, 01/19/2015 - 17:52
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Daily Paul Liberty Forum
Arkansas
Relatives of the Stanley family in Garland County, Arkansas have reached out to MedicalKidnap.com to notify the public that the 7 homeschool children of Hal and Michelle Stanley were removed during the night by DHS and fully armed sheriffs this past week, simply because they reportedly found a supplement in the home that was not approved by the FDA.
KARK4 in Hot Springs Arkansas has reported on the situation:
Stanley family children being removed from home during the night because the father allegedly used an unapproved mineral supplement. Photo from the Bringthestanleykidshome Facebook Page.
UPDATE 1/19/2015
The Bringthestanleykidshome Facebook Page is reporting:
Praise God this morning we got the news a local well known lawyer who deals with family cases, has taken their case free of charge. Also a national news group is going to run the story. Several radio stations want to do radio interviews.
by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News Editor
Relatives of the Stanley family in Garland County, Arkansas have reached out to MedicalKidnap.com to notify the public that the 7 homeschool children of Hal and Michelle Stanley were removed during the night by DHS and fully armed sheriffs this past week, simply because they reportedly found a supplement in the home that was not approved by the FDA.
KARK4 in Hot Springs Arkansas has reported on the situation:
Some excerpts from the KARK4 report:
A “miracle” mineral treatment alleged to be a remedy for cancer and AIDS is at the center of an law enforcement search warrant. The investigation ended in the removal of seven children from their home in Garland County.
The family has cried foul, saying only the father has taken it and it’s mostly used for purifying water for their garden. Hal and his wife Michelle were kept outside for hours while officers searched the home with their seven children inside.
They avoid most contact with the government. The parents have home schooled their nine children, two of whom have graduated and gone on to college. The Stanleys keep to themselves, are generally self-sustained and consider themselves “preppers”.
Hal added, “There’s never been any beer, liquor.” They say they’ve never had a run-in with the law before. “I’ve never had a speeding ticket.” The Stanleys say since the night they had their children taken, friends and relatives have called and shown support.
As the children were removed from the home Hal and his wife Michelle say they emotionally asked who made the decision. Hal said, “And finally a young man from the Sheriff’s department raised his hand, ‘I did it and I’m proud of the decision’.”
in
Daily Paul Liberty Forum
Arkansas
Relatives of the Stanley family in Garland County, Arkansas have reached out to MedicalKidnap.com to notify the public that the 7 homeschool children of Hal and Michelle Stanley were removed during the night by DHS and fully armed sheriffs this past week, simply because they reportedly found a supplement in the home that was not approved by the FDA.
KARK4 in Hot Springs Arkansas has reported on the situation:
Stanley family children being removed from home during the night because the father allegedly used an unapproved mineral supplement. Photo from the Bringthestanleykidshome Facebook Page.
UPDATE 1/19/2015
The Bringthestanleykidshome Facebook Page is reporting:
Praise God this morning we got the news a local well known lawyer who deals with family cases, has taken their case free of charge. Also a national news group is going to run the story. Several radio stations want to do radio interviews.
by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News Editor
Relatives of the Stanley family in Garland County, Arkansas have reached out to MedicalKidnap.com to notify the public that the 7 homeschool children of Hal and Michelle Stanley were removed during the night by DHS and fully armed sheriffs this past week, simply because they reportedly found a supplement in the home that was not approved by the FDA.
KARK4 in Hot Springs Arkansas has reported on the situation:
Some excerpts from the KARK4 report:
A “miracle” mineral treatment alleged to be a remedy for cancer and AIDS is at the center of an law enforcement search warrant. The investigation ended in the removal of seven children from their home in Garland County.
The family has cried foul, saying only the father has taken it and it’s mostly used for purifying water for their garden. Hal and his wife Michelle were kept outside for hours while officers searched the home with their seven children inside.
They avoid most contact with the government. The parents have home schooled their nine children, two of whom have graduated and gone on to college. The Stanleys keep to themselves, are generally self-sustained and consider themselves “preppers”.
Hal added, “There’s never been any beer, liquor.” They say they’ve never had a run-in with the law before. “I’ve never had a speeding ticket.” The Stanleys say since the night they had their children taken, friends and relatives have called and shown support.
As the children were removed from the home Hal and his wife Michelle say they emotionally asked who made the decision. Hal said, “And finally a young man from the Sheriff’s department raised his hand, ‘I did it and I’m proud of the decision’.”
West Texas oil producers reduce capital budgets, rig count - Washington Times
West Texas oil producers reduce capital budgets, rig count - Washington Times
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/19/west-texas-oil-producers-reduce-capital-budgets-ri/#ixzz3POWTNeGW
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MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A swift plunge in the price of crude is sending shockwaves across West Texas oil country.
Some
producers in the oil-rich Permian Basin are slashing spending plans for
2015 as crude prices have fallen by nearly half in just six months,
according to the Midland Reporter-Telegram (http://bit.ly/1xp2ZAj).
Some
producers in the oil-rich Permian Basin are slashing spending plans for
2015 as crude prices have fallen by nearly half in just six months,
according to the Midland Reporter-Telegram (http://bit.ly/1xp2ZAj).
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/19/west-texas-oil-producers-reduce-capital-budgets-ri/#ixzz3POWTNeGW
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» American Sniper Exposed As Giant Hoax Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
» American Sniper Exposed As Giant Hoax Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
American Sniper is the number one movie in America, which proves we love a good story over the truth.
Alex Jones covers the instances in which the U.S. government used its soldiers as propaganda pieces only to discard them when they cease to be useful. The official story surrounding Chris Kyle, the American Sniper, is another hoax used to brainwash the American people that war is good for our society.
Generals conclude Obama backed al-Qaida
Generals conclude Obama backed al-Qaida
WND EXCLUSIVE Probe of military experts finds U.S. 'switched sides' in terror war Published: 16 hours ago
Jerome R. Corsi
Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff reporter. He
has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The
Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is "Who Really Killed Kennedy?"
NEW YORK – The Obama White House and the State Department under the
management of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “changed sides in the
war on terror” in 2011 by implementing a policy of facilitating the
delivery of weapons to the al-Qaida-dominated rebel militias in Libya
attempting to oust Moammar Gadhafi from power, the Citizens Commission
on Benghazi concluded in its interim report.
In WND interviews,
several members of the commission have disclosed their finding that the
mission of Christopher Stevens, prior to the fall of Gadhafi and during
Stevens’ time as U.S. ambassador, was the management of a secret
gun-running program operated out of the Benghazi compound.
The
Obama administration’s gun-running project in Libya, much like the
“fast and furious” program under Eric Holder’s Justice Department,
operated without seeking or obtaining authorization by Congress.
WND reported Monday
that in exclusive interviews conducted with 11 of the 17 members of the
commission, it is clear that while the CCB is still enthusiastic to
work with Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Select
Committee on Benghazi, and hopeful that Boehner is serious about the
investigation, various members of the CCB, speaking on their own behalf
and not as spokesmen for the commission, are expressing concerns,
wanting to make sure the Gowdy investigation is not compromised by
elements within the GOP.
The Citizen’s Commission on Benghazi’s
interim report, in a paragraph titled “Changing sides in the War on
Terror,” alleges “the U.S. was fully aware of and facilitating the
delivery of weapons to the Al Qaeda-dominated rebel militias throughout
the 2011 rebellion.”
The report asserted the jihadist agenda of
AQIM, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and other Islamic terror groups
represented among the rebel forces was well known to U.S. officials
responsible for Libya policy.
“The rebels made no secret of
their Al Qaeda affiliation, openly flying and speaking in front of the
black flag of Islamic jihad, according to author John Rosenthal and
multiple media reports,” the interim report said. “And yet, the White
House and senior Congressional members deliberately and knowingly
pursued a policy that provided material support to terrorist
organizations in order to topple a ruler who had been working closely
with the West actively to suppress Al Qaeda.”
The report
concluded: “The result in Libya, across much of North Africa, and beyond
has been utter chaos, disruption of Libya’s oil industry, the spread of
dangerous weapons (including surface-to-air missiles), and the
empowerment of jihadist organizations like Al Qaeda and the Muslim
Brotherhood.”
Christopher Stevens: ’1st U.S. envoy to al-Qaida’
In
the WND interviews, several members of the citizens’ commission,
speaking for themselves, not for the commission, added important
background to the interim report’s conclusion.
“In early 2011,
before Gadhafi was deposed, Christopher Stevens came to Benghazi in a
cargo ship, and his title at the time was envoy to the Libyan rebels,’
which basically means Christopher Stevens was America’s very first envoy
to al-Qaida,” explained Clare Lopez, a member of the commission who
served as a career operations officer with the CIA and current is vice
president for research at the Washington-based Center for Security
Policy.
“At that time, Stevens was facilitating the delivery of
weapons to the al-Qaida-related militia in Libya,” Lopez continued. “The
weapons were produced at factories in Eastern Europe and shipped to a
logistics hub in Qatar. The weapons were financed by the UAE and
delivered via Qatar mostly on ships, with some possibly on airplanes,
for delivery to Benghazi. The weapons were small arms, including
Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenades and lots of ammunition.”
Lopez
further explained that during the period of time when Stevens was
facilitating the delivery of weapons to the al-Qaida-affiliated militia
in Libya, he was living in the facility that was later designated the
Special Mission Compound in Benghazi.
“This was about weapons
going into Libya, and Stevens is coordinating with Abdelhakim Belhadj,
the leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, other
al-Qaida-affiliated militia leaders and leaders of the Libyan Muslim
Brotherhood that directed the rebellion against Qadhafi as an offshoot
of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,” Lopez said. “Many of the individual
members of the al-Qaida-related militias, including the LIFG, and the
groups that would later become Ansar Al-Sharia, were Muslim Brotherhood
members first.”
According to the interim report, as detailed by
Lopez, a delegation from the UAE traveled to Libya after the fall of
Gadhafi to collect payment for the weapons the UAE had financed and that
Qatar had delivered to the Transitional National Council in Libya
during the war.
“The UAE delegation was seeking $1 billion it
claimed was owed,” the interim report noted. “During their visit to
Tripoli, the UAE officials discovered that half of the $1 billion worth
of weapons it had financed for the rebels had, in fact, been diverted by
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the Muslim Brotherhood head of the Libyan TNC, and
sold to Qaddafi.”
According to information discovered during
the UAE visit to Tripoli, when Jalil learned that Maj. Gen. Abdel Fatah
Younis, Gadhafi’s former minister of the interior before his late
February 2011 defection to the rebel forces, had found out about the
weapons diversion and the $500 million payment from Gadhafi, Jalil
ordered Abu Salim Abu Khattala, leader of the Abu Obeida Bin al-Jarrah
brigade to kill Younis.
“Abu Khattala, later identified as a
Ansar al- Shariah commander who participated in the 11 September 2012
attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, accepted the orders and directed
the killing of Gen. Younis in July 2011,” the interim report noted.
Abu
Khattala is currently in custody in New York awaiting trial under a
Department of Justice-sealed indictment, after U.S. Delta Force special
operations personnel captured him over the weekend of June 14-15, 2014,
in a covert mission in Libya. Abu Khattala’s brigade merged into Ansar
al-Shariah in 2012, and he was positively identified to the FBI in a
cell phone photo from the scene of the attack on the U.S. mission in
Benghazi.
The language of the interim report made clear why the sequence of events is important.
“The
key significance of this episode is the demonstration of a military
chain-of-command relationship between the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood
leadership of the TNC and the Al Qaeda-affiliated militia (Ansar
al-Shariah) that has been named responsible for the attack on the U.S.
mission in Benghazi,” the interim Rreport concluded.
“What we
have here is the Muslim Brotherhood leadership of the revolution giving a
kill order to a Muslim militia affiliated with al-Qaida, which then
carried it out,” Lopez summarized. “This chain-of-command link is
important even though it has not yet received enough attention in the
media.
A big ‘oh no’ moment
“After Gadhafi is deposed
and Stevens was appointed U.S. ambassador to Libya, the flow of weapons
reverses,” Lopez noted. “Now Stevens has the job of overseeing the
shipment of arms from Libya to Syria to arm the rebels fighting Assad,
some of whom ultimately become al-Nusra in Syria and some become ISIS.”
Lopez
distinguished that “al-Nusra in Syria still claims allegiance to
al-Qaida, while ISIS has broken away from al-Qaida, not because ISIS is
too violent, but out of insubordination, after Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the
leader of ISIS, wanted to run his own show inside Syria as well as
Iraq, thereby disobeying orders from al-Qaida leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri.”
She noted that in this period of time, after the fall of
Gadhafi and before the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the Benghazi compound,
Stevens was working with Turkey to ship weapons out of Libya into Syria
for the use of the rebels fighting Assad.
According to the
authors of the bestselling book “13 Hours,” on Sept. 11, 2012, before
the attack on the Benghazi compound started, Stevens had dinner with
Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin. Stevens reportedly escorted the
Turkish diplomat outside the main gate of the Benghazi compound to say
good-bye to Akin at approximately 7:40 p.m. local time, before he
returned to Villa C to retire for the evening.
Kevin Shipp, a
former CIA counterintelligence expert who worked on the seventh floor at
Langley as protective staff to then-CIA Director William Casey, again
speaking for himself in his interview with WND, agreed with Lopez that
the gun-running operation Stevens managed is a secret the Obama White
House and Clinton State Department have sought to suppress from the
public.
“The shocking part, maybe even a violation of
international law that the Obama administration has been terrified to
have fully revealed, is that Stevens as part of his duties as a State
Department employee was assisting in the shipment of arms first into
Libya for the al-Qaida-affiliated militia, with the weapons shipped
subsequently out of Libya into Syria for use by the al-Qaida-affiliated
rebels fighting Assad,” Shipp told WND.
“Very possibly, these gun-running activities could be looked at even as treasonable offenses,” he said.
Shipp
further noted that in gun-running operations in which the CIA wants
deniability, the CIA generally involves a third party.
“The way
the CIA works is through a ‘cut-out,’ in that you get Qatar to transport
the weapons and you facilitate the transport. So now the third party is
to blame,” he explained.
“Qatar probably would have been able
to pull this off without any attribution to the CIA if the Benghazi
attack had not happened. The attack basically shed the light on this
operation the White House, the State Department and the CIA were trying
to keep quiet,” he said.
“The attack on Benghazi was a big ‘oh no’ moment.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/generals-conclude-obama-backed-al-qaida/#KW9rYvYDWZg0eTtQ.99
WND EXCLUSIVE Probe of military experts finds U.S. 'switched sides' in terror war Published: 16 hours ago
Jerome R. Corsi
Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff reporter. He
has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The
Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is "Who Really Killed Kennedy?"
NEW YORK – The Obama White House and the State Department under the
management of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “changed sides in the
war on terror” in 2011 by implementing a policy of facilitating the
delivery of weapons to the al-Qaida-dominated rebel militias in Libya
attempting to oust Moammar Gadhafi from power, the Citizens Commission
on Benghazi concluded in its interim report.
In WND interviews,
several members of the commission have disclosed their finding that the
mission of Christopher Stevens, prior to the fall of Gadhafi and during
Stevens’ time as U.S. ambassador, was the management of a secret
gun-running program operated out of the Benghazi compound.
The
Obama administration’s gun-running project in Libya, much like the
“fast and furious” program under Eric Holder’s Justice Department,
operated without seeking or obtaining authorization by Congress.
WND reported Monday
that in exclusive interviews conducted with 11 of the 17 members of the
commission, it is clear that while the CCB is still enthusiastic to
work with Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., chairman of the House Select
Committee on Benghazi, and hopeful that Boehner is serious about the
investigation, various members of the CCB, speaking on their own behalf
and not as spokesmen for the commission, are expressing concerns,
wanting to make sure the Gowdy investigation is not compromised by
elements within the GOP.
The Citizen’s Commission on Benghazi’s
interim report, in a paragraph titled “Changing sides in the War on
Terror,” alleges “the U.S. was fully aware of and facilitating the
delivery of weapons to the Al Qaeda-dominated rebel militias throughout
the 2011 rebellion.”
The report asserted the jihadist agenda of
AQIM, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and other Islamic terror groups
represented among the rebel forces was well known to U.S. officials
responsible for Libya policy.
“The rebels made no secret of
their Al Qaeda affiliation, openly flying and speaking in front of the
black flag of Islamic jihad, according to author John Rosenthal and
multiple media reports,” the interim report said. “And yet, the White
House and senior Congressional members deliberately and knowingly
pursued a policy that provided material support to terrorist
organizations in order to topple a ruler who had been working closely
with the West actively to suppress Al Qaeda.”
The report
concluded: “The result in Libya, across much of North Africa, and beyond
has been utter chaos, disruption of Libya’s oil industry, the spread of
dangerous weapons (including surface-to-air missiles), and the
empowerment of jihadist organizations like Al Qaeda and the Muslim
Brotherhood.”
Christopher Stevens: ’1st U.S. envoy to al-Qaida’
In
the WND interviews, several members of the citizens’ commission,
speaking for themselves, not for the commission, added important
background to the interim report’s conclusion.
“In early 2011,
before Gadhafi was deposed, Christopher Stevens came to Benghazi in a
cargo ship, and his title at the time was envoy to the Libyan rebels,’
which basically means Christopher Stevens was America’s very first envoy
to al-Qaida,” explained Clare Lopez, a member of the commission who
served as a career operations officer with the CIA and current is vice
president for research at the Washington-based Center for Security
Policy.
“At that time, Stevens was facilitating the delivery of
weapons to the al-Qaida-related militia in Libya,” Lopez continued. “The
weapons were produced at factories in Eastern Europe and shipped to a
logistics hub in Qatar. The weapons were financed by the UAE and
delivered via Qatar mostly on ships, with some possibly on airplanes,
for delivery to Benghazi. The weapons were small arms, including
Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenades and lots of ammunition.”
Lopez
further explained that during the period of time when Stevens was
facilitating the delivery of weapons to the al-Qaida-affiliated militia
in Libya, he was living in the facility that was later designated the
Special Mission Compound in Benghazi.
“This was about weapons
going into Libya, and Stevens is coordinating with Abdelhakim Belhadj,
the leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, other
al-Qaida-affiliated militia leaders and leaders of the Libyan Muslim
Brotherhood that directed the rebellion against Qadhafi as an offshoot
of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood,” Lopez said. “Many of the individual
members of the al-Qaida-related militias, including the LIFG, and the
groups that would later become Ansar Al-Sharia, were Muslim Brotherhood
members first.”
According to the interim report, as detailed by
Lopez, a delegation from the UAE traveled to Libya after the fall of
Gadhafi to collect payment for the weapons the UAE had financed and that
Qatar had delivered to the Transitional National Council in Libya
during the war.
“The UAE delegation was seeking $1 billion it
claimed was owed,” the interim report noted. “During their visit to
Tripoli, the UAE officials discovered that half of the $1 billion worth
of weapons it had financed for the rebels had, in fact, been diverted by
Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the Muslim Brotherhood head of the Libyan TNC, and
sold to Qaddafi.”
According to information discovered during
the UAE visit to Tripoli, when Jalil learned that Maj. Gen. Abdel Fatah
Younis, Gadhafi’s former minister of the interior before his late
February 2011 defection to the rebel forces, had found out about the
weapons diversion and the $500 million payment from Gadhafi, Jalil
ordered Abu Salim Abu Khattala, leader of the Abu Obeida Bin al-Jarrah
brigade to kill Younis.
“Abu Khattala, later identified as a
Ansar al- Shariah commander who participated in the 11 September 2012
attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, accepted the orders and directed
the killing of Gen. Younis in July 2011,” the interim report noted.
Abu
Khattala is currently in custody in New York awaiting trial under a
Department of Justice-sealed indictment, after U.S. Delta Force special
operations personnel captured him over the weekend of June 14-15, 2014,
in a covert mission in Libya. Abu Khattala’s brigade merged into Ansar
al-Shariah in 2012, and he was positively identified to the FBI in a
cell phone photo from the scene of the attack on the U.S. mission in
Benghazi.
The language of the interim report made clear why the sequence of events is important.
“The
key significance of this episode is the demonstration of a military
chain-of-command relationship between the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood
leadership of the TNC and the Al Qaeda-affiliated militia (Ansar
al-Shariah) that has been named responsible for the attack on the U.S.
mission in Benghazi,” the interim Rreport concluded.
“What we
have here is the Muslim Brotherhood leadership of the revolution giving a
kill order to a Muslim militia affiliated with al-Qaida, which then
carried it out,” Lopez summarized. “This chain-of-command link is
important even though it has not yet received enough attention in the
media.
A big ‘oh no’ moment
“After Gadhafi is deposed
and Stevens was appointed U.S. ambassador to Libya, the flow of weapons
reverses,” Lopez noted. “Now Stevens has the job of overseeing the
shipment of arms from Libya to Syria to arm the rebels fighting Assad,
some of whom ultimately become al-Nusra in Syria and some become ISIS.”
Lopez
distinguished that “al-Nusra in Syria still claims allegiance to
al-Qaida, while ISIS has broken away from al-Qaida, not because ISIS is
too violent, but out of insubordination, after Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the
leader of ISIS, wanted to run his own show inside Syria as well as
Iraq, thereby disobeying orders from al-Qaida leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri.”
She noted that in this period of time, after the fall of
Gadhafi and before the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the Benghazi compound,
Stevens was working with Turkey to ship weapons out of Libya into Syria
for the use of the rebels fighting Assad.
According to the
authors of the bestselling book “13 Hours,” on Sept. 11, 2012, before
the attack on the Benghazi compound started, Stevens had dinner with
Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin. Stevens reportedly escorted the
Turkish diplomat outside the main gate of the Benghazi compound to say
good-bye to Akin at approximately 7:40 p.m. local time, before he
returned to Villa C to retire for the evening.
Kevin Shipp, a
former CIA counterintelligence expert who worked on the seventh floor at
Langley as protective staff to then-CIA Director William Casey, again
speaking for himself in his interview with WND, agreed with Lopez that
the gun-running operation Stevens managed is a secret the Obama White
House and Clinton State Department have sought to suppress from the
public.
“The shocking part, maybe even a violation of
international law that the Obama administration has been terrified to
have fully revealed, is that Stevens as part of his duties as a State
Department employee was assisting in the shipment of arms first into
Libya for the al-Qaida-affiliated militia, with the weapons shipped
subsequently out of Libya into Syria for use by the al-Qaida-affiliated
rebels fighting Assad,” Shipp told WND.
“Very possibly, these gun-running activities could be looked at even as treasonable offenses,” he said.
Shipp
further noted that in gun-running operations in which the CIA wants
deniability, the CIA generally involves a third party.
“The way
the CIA works is through a ‘cut-out,’ in that you get Qatar to transport
the weapons and you facilitate the transport. So now the third party is
to blame,” he explained.
“Qatar probably would have been able
to pull this off without any attribution to the CIA if the Benghazi
attack had not happened. The attack basically shed the light on this
operation the White House, the State Department and the CIA were trying
to keep quiet,” he said.
“The attack on Benghazi was a big ‘oh no’ moment.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/generals-conclude-obama-backed-al-qaida/#KW9rYvYDWZg0eTtQ.99
» Anti-Establishment Movie Director Found Dead Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
» Anti-Establishment Movie Director Found Dead Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
by Adan Salazar | Infowars.com | January 19, 2015
An independent filmmaker and his family were found dead in a Minnesota home over the weekend from what media outlets are describing as an “apparent murder suicide.”
On Saturday, a neighbor alerted authorities after seeing the lifeless bodies of 29-year-old writer, film producer and Army veteran David Crowley, his wife Komel, 28, and their 5-year-old daughter, Rani, laying inside their Apple Valley home.
David and Komel Crowley / Image credit: InstagramNeighbor Collin Prochnow was investigating why packages had been sitting on the family’s doorstep for weeks. Prochnow says that after ringing the doorbell he peered through the window and “saw three bodies on the ground with a black handgun next to them,” according to KARE11.
It’s uncertain how long the bodies had been there, but neighbors suspect they died sometime over the Christmas holiday.
Numerous law enforcement agencies are investigating the causes of death, but police have yet to release a statement. They are reportedly treating the death as “suspicious,” notes the Daily Mail.
“Crowley served a tour of duty in Iraq during his five-year stint in the Army and met Komel while stationed in Texas,” reports New York Daily News.
Neighbors say they hadn’t taken notice of the family’s absence, but say they’d previously seen Crowley in his yard playing with his daughter.
Though scant details have been made public, reports are already suggesting Crowley may be responsible due to a recent short haircut, recent pictures uploaded to social media and because he “started wearing fatigues” according to the Star Tribune.
Adding to the suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths is the controversial nature of Crowley’s latest project, entitled Gray State, a highly-anticipated independent film envisioning a brutal police state, martial law crackdown, complete with biometric identification, a ubiquitous surveillance state and FEMA stormtroopers rounding dissidents up into camps.
One of the actors appearing in a trailer for Gray State, Charles Hubbell, told Pioneer Press Crowley seemed level-headed and destined to succeed.
“He seemed more grounded and focused than would lend itself to anything chaotic,” Hubbell described. “The entire time I worked with him there was nothing aggressive or chaotic or strange or abnormal. He was one of the ones I was hanging my hat on, one who was going to succeed.”
The film’s Indiegogo campaign met its finance goal in October 2012, raising $61,332 that would go towards “pre-production needs.”
Crowley had also been working on a non-fiction film entitled Gray State: The Rise, “a documentary extolling the beauty of liberty over oppression, slavery, and tyranny,” according to the film’s Facebook page. A message appearing on the page yesterday lamented its director’s loss:
Director David Crowley and Gray State co-producer Danny Mason were interviewed on the Alex Jones Show in September 2012.
“Going back to the nature of resistance, resistance is victory. That is a statement that the Gray State does a very good job of describing,” Crowley told Alex. “Even though you may be killed resisting, the act of resistance on a metaphysical level has value…”
by Adan Salazar | Infowars.com | January 19, 2015
An independent filmmaker and his family were found dead in a Minnesota home over the weekend from what media outlets are describing as an “apparent murder suicide.”
On Saturday, a neighbor alerted authorities after seeing the lifeless bodies of 29-year-old writer, film producer and Army veteran David Crowley, his wife Komel, 28, and their 5-year-old daughter, Rani, laying inside their Apple Valley home.
David and Komel Crowley / Image credit: InstagramNeighbor Collin Prochnow was investigating why packages had been sitting on the family’s doorstep for weeks. Prochnow says that after ringing the doorbell he peered through the window and “saw three bodies on the ground with a black handgun next to them,” according to KARE11.
It’s uncertain how long the bodies had been there, but neighbors suspect they died sometime over the Christmas holiday.
Numerous law enforcement agencies are investigating the causes of death, but police have yet to release a statement. They are reportedly treating the death as “suspicious,” notes the Daily Mail.
“Crowley served a tour of duty in Iraq during his five-year stint in the Army and met Komel while stationed in Texas,” reports New York Daily News.
Neighbors say they hadn’t taken notice of the family’s absence, but say they’d previously seen Crowley in his yard playing with his daughter.
Though scant details have been made public, reports are already suggesting Crowley may be responsible due to a recent short haircut, recent pictures uploaded to social media and because he “started wearing fatigues” according to the Star Tribune.
Adding to the suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths is the controversial nature of Crowley’s latest project, entitled Gray State, a highly-anticipated independent film envisioning a brutal police state, martial law crackdown, complete with biometric identification, a ubiquitous surveillance state and FEMA stormtroopers rounding dissidents up into camps.
One of the actors appearing in a trailer for Gray State, Charles Hubbell, told Pioneer Press Crowley seemed level-headed and destined to succeed.
“He seemed more grounded and focused than would lend itself to anything chaotic,” Hubbell described. “The entire time I worked with him there was nothing aggressive or chaotic or strange or abnormal. He was one of the ones I was hanging my hat on, one who was going to succeed.”
The film’s Indiegogo campaign met its finance goal in October 2012, raising $61,332 that would go towards “pre-production needs.”
Crowley had also been working on a non-fiction film entitled Gray State: The Rise, “a documentary extolling the beauty of liberty over oppression, slavery, and tyranny,” according to the film’s Facebook page. A message appearing on the page yesterday lamented its director’s loss:
Director David Crowley and Gray State co-producer Danny Mason were interviewed on the Alex Jones Show in September 2012.
“Going back to the nature of resistance, resistance is victory. That is a statement that the Gray State does a very good job of describing,” Crowley told Alex. “Even though you may be killed resisting, the act of resistance on a metaphysical level has value…”
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