humansarefree--2020-08-29--Video Analysis: Kyle Rittenhouse Did Not Shoot First

New video analysis of the incident in Kenosha during which two people were shot dead proves that Kyle Rittenhouse did not shoot first and acted in self-defense .
Rittenhouse shot three rioters during the confrontation , killing two , one of whom was a convicted pedophile and on the Wisconsin sex offenders registry .
Video footage and images from the incident show how Rittenhouse was being pursued and physically attacked before firing any shots .
One of the individuals he shot was carrying a handgun , while another tried to hit him over the head with a skateboard and another @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he lay on the ground .
Now new analysis of footage that preceded Rittenhouse discharging his AR-15 by New York Times Visual Investigations journalist Christiaan Triebert shows that the 17-year-old did not shoot first : “ At 23:19 , Rittenhouse is seen in this YouTube livestream .
He ’ s being chased into a parking lot .
While he is being pursued , an unknown gunman fires the first shot into the air , ” tweeted Triebert .
The muzzle flash of the first shot can also be seen in the video from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charged with 1st degree murder , presumably to satiate the Black Lives Matter mob , but all the evidence clearly shows he acted in self-defense .
The man killed by Kyle Rittenhouse in this video was a convicted pedophile , who used the N-word on video and provoked people to ‘ shoot me ’ .
One wonders if the media will acknowledge that there were at least two gunmen involved in the confrontation and that the one pursuing Rittenhouse fired his weapon first .

New video analysis of the incident in Kenosha during which two people were shot dead proves that Kyle Rittenhouse did not shoot first and acted in self-defense.
Rittenhouse shot three rioters during the confrontation, killing two, one of whom was a convicted pedophile and on the Wisconsin sex offenders registry.
Video footage and images from the incident show how Rittenhouse was being pursued and physically attacked before firing any shots.
One of the individuals he shot was carrying a handgun, while another tried to hit him over the head with a skateboard and another aimed a kick at his head as he lay on the ground.
Now new analysis of footage that preceded Rittenhouse discharging his AR-15 by New York Times Visual Investigations journalist Christiaan Triebert shows that the 17-year-old did not shoot first:
At 23:19, Rittenhouse is seen in this YouTube livestream. He's being chased into a parking lot. While he is being pursued, an unknown gunman fires the first shot into the air. pic.twitter.com/BSD8rd6ARN — Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) August 27, 2020
“At 23:19, Rittenhouse is seen in this YouTube livestream. He’s being chased into a parking lot. While he is being pursued, an unknown gunman fires the first shot into the air,” tweeted Triebert.
The muzzle flash of the first shot can also be seen in the video from a different angle:
The muzzle flash of the first shot by the unknown gunman and the smoke rising from the handgun can be seen in this video capturing the first shooting from a different angle. pic.twitter.com/ddRjsgiMN7 — Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) August 27, 2020
Rittenhouse has been charged with 1st degree murder, presumably to satiate the Black Lives Matter mob, but all the evidence clearly shows he acted in self-defense.
The man killed by Kyle Rittenhouse in this video was a convicted pedophile, who used the N-word on video and provoked people to ‘shoot me’.
One wonders if the media will acknowledge that there were at least two gunmen involved in the confrontation and that the one pursuing Rittenhouse fired his weapon first.
Don’t hold your breath.
Reference: Summit.news


humansarefree--2020-08-29--Cop Praised as ‘Hero’ Just Arrested on Multiple Charges of Child Sexual Abuse

Jacksonville , FL — Just 10 months ago , the Fraternal Order of Police in Jacksonville took to Facebook to praise officer David Gedert for his heroism on the job .
This month , however , they are quickly distancing themselves from the man after he was arrested for the alleged rape of a child under the age of 13 .
On Tuesday , Gedert was arrested on two outstanding warrants for charges of criminal sexual misconduct with a victim younger than 13 , according to the Jacksonville Sheriff ’ s office .
Gedert had been on the force just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gedert attempted to escape the pending charges against him as he moved to Jacksonville , Florida and the charges were from Kalamazoo , Michigan .
Because Gedert had only been with the department for less than two years , he was not yet in the protected status and police could fire him .
“ He is fired without question and will no longer serve as a police officer here , ” Undersheriff Pat Ivey said , noting Gedert could be terminated immediately since he was a probationary employee and had no civil service @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s charges are sealed due to the nature of his alleged crimes and the age of the victim .
Ivey said the department had no way of knowing they hired an alleged pedophile given that the crimes for which he was just arrested are alleged to have happened six years ago .
“ This is very significant here and he needs to be held accountable , ” Ivey said .
“ … I wish we could have caught this one in the processing , but again knowing the behavior was six years ago @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indicator.
” Though these crimes are alleged to have happened six years ago , as TFTP has reported , pedophiles rarely act only once and in fact usually have dozens of victims over the course of their lives .
Ivey told reporters that Gedert ’ s alleged crimes do not represent the department as a whole .
The canned excuse of Gedert “ is a unique case and a bad apple , ” falls short of explaining away this alleged crime because the Jacksonville Sheriff ’ s office is rife with criminals .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fifth Jacksonville Sheriff ’ s Office employee arrested this year , four of whom were police or corrections officers , Ivey said .
That includes two Jacksonville corrections officers arrested in March after a disabled inmate was beaten in the Duval County jail , the Sheriff ’ s Office reported .
It is a sad day when police officers — the ones who claim to protect us — are caught preying on society ’ s most vulnerable .
However , there are a lot of sad days as this situation plays out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over again .
Pedophiles often seek out positions of power and authority over children so they are in a position to abuse .
Priests , teachers , coaches , police officers , counselors , and others are just some of the fields in which pedophiles will attempt to gain employment .
Unfortunately , it ’ s not the first time we have reported on police officers raping kids .
As TFTP has reported , a study exposed the startling fact that police officers are arrested about 1,100 times a year , or roughly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of these arrests are over unspeakable sex crimes .
“ Police crimes are not uncommon , ” the study ’ s lead researcher Philip M. Stinson concluded .
“ Our data directly contradicts some of the prevailing assumptions and the proposition that only a small group of rotten apples perpetrate the vast majority of police crime.
” Although nearly 60 percent of the crimes “ occurred when the officer was technically off-duty , ” Stinson wrote , “ a significant portion of these so-called off-duty crimes also lies within the context of police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a police officer , including instances where off-duty officers flash a badge , an official weapon , or otherwise use their power , authority , and the respect afforded to them as a means to commit crime.
” According to a report from WaPo , in cases involving allegations of sexual abuse , 72 percent of the officers were fired , and more than 80 percent resulted in convictions , the study found .
There were 422 reported cases of forcible and statutory rape , 352 cases of forcible fondling and 94 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the study , which Stinson called “ larger than expected based on the existing research.
” The data search turned up 174 examples of male officers arrested in cases of “ Driving While Female , ” in which women drivers were harassed or assaulted .
About 82 percent of those cases ended in convictions .
Despite the high rate of conviction , the sentences handed out are insultingly low .

Jacksonville, FL — Just 10 months ago, the Fraternal Order of Police in Jacksonville took to Facebook to praise officer David Gedert for his heroism on the job.
This month, however, they are quickly distancing themselves from the man after he was arrested for the alleged rape of a child under the age of 13.
On Tuesday, Gedert was arrested on two outstanding warrants for charges of criminal sexual misconduct with a victim younger than 13, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office. Gedert had been on the force just 21 months.
It seems as though Gedert attempted to escape the pending charges against him as he moved to Jacksonville, Florida and the charges were from Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Because Gedert had only been with the department for less than two years, he was not yet in the protected status and police could fire him.
“He is fired without question and will no longer serve as a police officer here,” Undersheriff Pat Ivey said, noting Gedert could be terminated immediately since he was a probationary employee and had no civil service protection.
The details of Gedert’s charges are sealed due to the nature of his alleged crimes and the age of the victim.
Ivey said the department had no way of knowing they hired an alleged pedophile given that the crimes for which he was just arrested are alleged to have happened six years ago.
“This is very significant here and he needs to be held accountable,” Ivey said. “… I wish we could have caught this one in the processing, but again knowing the behavior was six years ago, there may not have been an indicator.”
Though these crimes are alleged to have happened six years ago, as TFTP has reported, pedophiles rarely act only once and in fact usually have dozens of victims over the course of their lives.
Ivey told reporters that Gedert’s alleged crimes do not represent the department as a whole.
The canned excuse of Gedert “is a unique case and a bad apple,” falls short of explaining away this alleged crime because the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office is rife with criminals.
As Jacksonville.com points out, Gedert was the fifth Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office employee arrested this year, four of whom were police or corrections officers, Ivey said.
That includes two Jacksonville corrections officers arrested in March after a disabled inmate was beaten in the Duval County jail, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
It is a sad day when police officers — the ones who claim to protect us — are caught preying on society’s most vulnerable.
However, there are a lot of sad days as this situation plays out like a broken record, over and over again.
Pedophiles often seek out positions of power and authority over children so they are in a position to abuse. Priests, teachers, coaches, police officers, counselors, and others are just some of the fields in which pedophiles will attempt to gain employment. Unfortunately, it’s not the first time we have reported on police officers raping kids.
As TFTP has reported, a study exposed the startling fact that police officers are arrested about 1,100 times a year, or roughly three officers charged every day. Many of these arrests are over unspeakable sex crimes.
“Police crimes are not uncommon,” the study’s lead researcher Philip M. Stinson concluded. “Our data directly contradicts some of the prevailing assumptions and the proposition that only a small group of rotten apples perpetrate the vast majority of police crime.”
Although nearly 60 percent of the crimes “occurred when the officer was technically off-duty,” Stinson wrote, “a significant portion of these so-called off-duty crimes also lies within the context of police work and the perpetrator’s role as a police officer, including instances where off-duty officers flash a badge, an official weapon, or otherwise use their power, authority, and the respect afforded to them as a means to commit crime.”
According to a report from WaPo, in cases involving allegations of sexual abuse, 72 percent of the officers were fired, and more than 80 percent resulted in convictions, the study found.
There were 422 reported cases of forcible and statutory rape, 352 cases of forcible fondling and 94 sodomy cases over the seven years of the study, which Stinson called “larger than expected based on the existing research.”
The data search turned up 174 examples of male officers arrested in cases of “Driving While Female,” in which women drivers were harassed or assaulted. About 82 percent of those cases ended in convictions.
Despite the high rate of conviction, the sentences handed out are insultingly low.
By Matt Agorist, Guest writer


humansarefree--2020-08-29--The WHO Is Watching Your Every Move, Everywhere You Go Online

By Dr. Joseph Mercola , the author of Fat for Fuel : A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer , Boost @ @ @ @ @ Your Energy The World Health Organization is busy eavesdropping on everything you do online , @ @ @ @ @ and watching your social media interactions , to analyzing your emotions .
The WHO is @ @ @ @ @ to fight what it calls the “ spread of misleading information ” about the pandemic @ @ @ @ @ listening approach , ” the measures are being used to scan more than 1.6 million @ @ @ @ @ .
The aim is to counteract anything that doesn ’ t align with the WHO @ @ @ @ @ illnesses , treatments , interventions and causes of disease .
The United Nations has already @ @ @ @ @ its own with 10,000 digital volunteers who troll the internet for what they consider “ @ @ @ @ @ think they need to combat .
Read more here : WHO Is Monitoring Online Conversations @ @ @ @ @ Narratives

By Dr. Joseph Mercola, the author of Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy
The World Health Organization is busy eavesdropping on everything you do online, from listening to your conversations and watching your social media interactions, to analyzing your emotions.
The WHO is partnering with an analytics company to fight what it calls the “spread of misleading information” about the pandemic.
Dubbed a “social listening approach,” the measures are being used to scan more than 1.6 million social media posts a week.
The aim is to counteract anything that doesn’t align with the WHO’s current narrative on illnesses, treatments, interventions and causes of disease.
The United Nations has already launched a troll army of its own with 10,000 digital volunteers who troll the internet for what they consider “false” information that they think they need to combat.
Read more here: WHO Is Monitoring Online Conversations And Emotions To Change COVID Narratives


humansarefree--2020-08-30--NASA Astronaut Says He Saw An ‘Organic, Alien-Like Creature’ in Shuttle Payload Bay

NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin claims he saw what appeared to be an ‘ organic , alien-like ’ creature in the Space Shuttle payload bay and even reported the sighing to ground control .
NASA engineer Leland Melvin made the astonishing claims — welcomed by UFO hunters , during a discussion with Scott C. Warring from UFO Sightings Daily .
The NASA astronaut — and former NFL football player confessed to seeing the alleged creature in the payload bay of the space shuttle Atlantis , which was orbiting Earth .
Immediately after noticing the ‘ creature ’ , he and his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but the space agency experts answered that the most likely explanation or the mysterious sightings were ice which had broken off from the shuttle and that it was the movement of the floating shards that caught the astronaut ’ s eye , making him see ‘ an organic ’ creature .
The peculiar conversation took place on Twitter where Mr. Waring asked : “ What ’ s your outlook about the existence of intelligent alien life living in our solar system ?
Have you ever witnessed a UFO ?
” The NASA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ curved , organic looking ’ when he was working with colleague Randy Bresnik .
He joked saying : ‘ I was about to say “ Houston we have a problem ” but know everyone spins-up when those words are uttered from a space vehicle.
’ The astronauts went on asking NASA what they may have seen in space , and the space agency answered that the most likely explanation was ice that had broken away floated of the freon hoses .
Warring went on to suggest that Nasa ’ s explanation was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ although he did write , ‘ you never know ’ .
Melvin isn ’ t the first to speak out about aliens .
A number of NASA astronauts have made sensational claims about alien life , and things they had witnessed during their time in space .
Astronaut John Glenn was once surrounded by mysterious objects while he was in space : “ They ’ re all over the sky… ” This is Friendship Seven .
I ’ ll try to describe what I ’ m in here .
I am in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that are brilliantly lit up like they ’ re luminescent .
I never saw anything like it .
They round a little ; they ’ re coming by the capsule , and they look like little stars .
A whole shower of them coming by .

NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin claims he saw what appeared to be an ‘organic, alien-like’ creature in the Space Shuttle payload bay and even reported the sighing to ground control.
NASA engineer Leland Melvin made the astonishing claims — welcomed by UFO hunters, during a discussion with Scott C. Warring from UFO Sightings Daily.
The NASA astronaut — and former NFL football player confessed to seeing the alleged creature in the payload bay of the space shuttle Atlantis, which was orbiting Earth.
Immediately after noticing the ‘creature’, he and his fellow astronauts reported the sighting to NASA, but the space agency experts answered that the most likely explanation or the mysterious sightings were ice which had broken off from the shuttle and that it was the movement of the floating shards that caught the astronaut’s eye, making him see ‘an organic’ creature.
The peculiar conversation took place on Twitter where Mr. Waring asked: “What’s your outlook about the existence of intelligent alien life living in our solar system? Have you ever witnessed a UFO?”
The NASA engineer responded he witnessed something translucent, curved, organic looking’ when he was working with colleague Randy Bresnik.
He joked saying: ‘I was about to say “Houston we have a problem” but know everyone spins-up when those words are uttered from a space vehicle.’
The astronauts went on asking NASA what they may have seen in space, and the space agency answered that the most likely explanation was ice that had broken away floated of the freon hoses.
Warring went on to suggest that Nasa’s explanation was a cover, what Mr. Melvin dismissed, although he did write, ‘you never know’.
Melvin isn’t the first to speak out about aliens.
A number of NASA astronauts have made sensational claims about alien life, and things they had witnessed during their time in space.
Astronaut John Glenn was once surrounded by mysterious objects while he was in space:
“They’re all over the sky…”
This is Friendship Seven. I’ll try to describe what I’m in here. I am in a big mass of some very small particles, that are brilliantly lit up like they’re luminescent. I never saw anything like it. They round a little; they’re coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars. A whole shower of them coming by.
Reference: Ancient-Code.com


humansarefree--2020-08-29--The Police State’s War on Weed and Backyard Gardens

“ They came again this morning at about 8:00 o ’ clock .
A large cargo-type helicopter flew low over the cabin , shaking it on its very foundations .
It shook all of us inside , too .
I feel frightened … I see how helpless and tormented I am becoming with disgust and disillusionment with the government which has turned this beautiful country into a police state … I feel like I am in the middle of a war zone.
” — Journal entry from a California resident describing the government ’ s aerial searches for marijuana plants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have become collateral damage in the government ’ s war on drugs , especially marijuana [ a plant that grows naturally on Earth and , unlike tobacco , doesn ’ t cause cancer and probably nobody ever died from it ] .
In fact , merely growing a vegetable garden on your own property , or in a greenhouse on your property , or shopping at a gardening store for gardening supplies — incredibly enough — could set you up for a drug raid sanctioned by the courts .
After shopping for hydroponic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Kansas family found themselves subjected to a SWAT team raid as part of a multi-state , annual campaign dubbed “ Operation Constant Gardener , ” in which police collected the license plates of hundreds of customers at the gardening store and then investigated them for possible marijuana possession .
By “ investigated , ” I mean that police searched through the family ’ s trash .
( You can thank the Supreme Court and their 1978 ruling in California v. Greenwood for allowing police to invade your trash can . )
Finding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ garbage , the cops somehow managed to convince themselves — and a judge — that it was marijuana .
In fact , it was loose-leaf tea , but those pesky details don ’ t usually bother the cops when they ’ re conducting field tests .
Indeed , field tests routinely read positive for illegal drugs even when no drugs are present .
According to investigative journalist Radley Balko , “ it ’ s almost as if these tests come up positive whenever the police need them to .
A partial list of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illegal drugs would include sage , chocolate chip cookies , motor oil , spearmint , soap , tortilla dough , deodorant , billiard ’ s chalk , patchouli , flour , eucalyptus , breath mints , Jolly Ranchers and vitamins.
” There ’ s a long list of innocent ingredients that could be mistaken for drugs and get you subjected to a raid , because that ’ s all it takes — just the barest whiff of a suspicion by police that you might be engaged in criminal activity — to start the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so-called “ investigations ” follow the usual script : judge issues a warrant for a SWAT raid based on botched data , cops raid the home and terrorize the family at gunpoint , cops find no drugs , family sues over a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights , and then the courts protect the cops and their botched raid on the basis of qualified immunity .
It happens all the time .
As Balko reports , “ Police have broken down doors , screamed obscenities , and held innocent people at gunpoint @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were marijuana plants were really sunflowers , hibiscus , ragweed , tomatoes , or elderberry bushes .
( It ’ s happened with all five . )
” Surely , you might think , the government has enough on its hands right now — policing a novel coronavirus pandemic , instituting nationwide lockdowns , quelling civil unrests over police brutality — that it doesn ’ t need to waste time and resources ferreting out pot farmers .
This is a government that excels at make-work projects in which it assigns at-times unnecessary jobs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or employed .
In this case , however , the make-work principle ( translation : making work to keep the police state busy at taxpayer expense ) is being used to justify sending police and expensive military helicopters likely equipped with sophisticated surveillance and thermal imaging devices on exploratory sorties every summer — again at taxpayer expense — in order to uncover illegal marijuana growing operations .
Often , however , what these air and ground searches end up targeting are backyard gardeners growing tomato plants .
Just recently , in fact , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ buzzing over rural and suburban neighborhoods as part of a multi-agency operation to search for marijuana growers .
Oftentimes these joint operations involve local police , state police and the Army National Guard .
One woman reported having her “ tomato plants complimented by the 7 cops that pulled up in my yard in unmarked SUVs , after a helicopter hovered over our house for 20 minutes this morning.
” Another man reported a similar experience from a few years ago when police “ showed up in unmarked SUV ’ s with guns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ground argued with the helicopter because the heat signature in the ‘ copter didn ’ t match what was growing.
” Back in 2013 , an aerial surveillance mission spotted what police thought might be marijuana plants .
Two days later , dozens of city officials , SWAT team , police officers and code compliance employees , and numerous official vehicles including dozens of police cars and several specialized vehicular equipment , including helicopters and unmanned flying drones , descended on The Garden of Eden , a 3.5-acre farm in Arlington , Texas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of marijuana that turned up nothing more than tomato , blackberry and okra plants .
These aerial and ground sweeps have become regular occurrences across the country , part of the government ’ s multi-million dollar Domestic Cannabis Eradication Program .
Local cops refer to the annual military maneuvers as “ Eradication Day.
” Started in 1979 as a way to fund local efforts to crack down on marijuana growers in California and Hawaii , the Eradication Program went national in 1985 , right around the time the Reagan Administration enabled the armed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ domestic “ war on drugs.
” Writing for The Washington Post , Radley Balko describes how these raids started off , with the National Guard , spy planes and helicopters : The project was called the Campaign Against Marijuana Production , or CAMP… In all , thirteen California counties were invaded by choppers , some of them blaring Wagner ’ s “ Ride of the Valkyries ” as they dropped Guardsmen and law enforcement officers armed with automatic weapons , sandviks , and machetes into the fields of California … In CAMP ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 524 raids , arrested 128 people , and seized about 65,000 marijuana plants .
Operating costs ran at a little over $ 1.5 million .
The next year , 24 more sheriffs signed up for the program , for a total of 37 .
CAMP conducted 398 raids , seized nearly 160,000 plants , and made 218 arrests at a cost to taxpayers of $ 2.3 million .
The area ’ s larger growers had been put out of business ( or , probably more accurately , had set up shop somewhere else @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the second campaign in 1984 , CAMP officials were already targeting increasingly smaller growers .
By the end of that 1984 campaign , the helicopters had to fly at lower and lower altitudes to spot smaller batches of plants .
The noise , wind , and vibration from the choppers could knock out windows , kick up dust clouds , and scare livestock .
The officials running the operation made no bones about the paramilitary tactics they were using .
They considered the areas they were raiding to be war zones .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” they gave themselves permission to search any structures relatively close to a marijuana supply , without a warrant .
Anyone coming anywhere near a raid operation was subject to detainment , usually at gunpoint .
Right around the same time , in the mid-1980s , the federal government started handing out grants to local police departments to assist with their local boots-on-the-ground “ war on drugs.
” These grants ( through the Byrne Grant program and COPS program , both of which started to be phased out under George W. Bush , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) could be used to pay for additional police personnel , equipment , training , technical assistance and information systems .
However , studies show that while these federal grants did not improve police effectiveness or drug deterrence , they did incentivize SWAT team raids .
But how do you go from a “ war on drugs ” to SWAT-style raids on vegetable gardens ?
Connect the dots , starting with the government ’ s war on marijuana , the emergence of SWAT teams , the militarization of local police forces through the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pentagon to transfer “ vast amounts of military equipment — machine guns and ammunition , helicopters , night-vision gear , armored cars — to local police departments , ” and the transformation of American communities into battlefields : as always , it comes back to the make work principle , which starts with local police finding ways to justify the use of military equipment and federal funding .
Each year , the government spends between $ 14 and $ 18 million funding helicopter sweeps and police overtime to help the states track down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even being carried out in states where it ’ s now legal to grow marijuana .
The sweeps work like this : Local police , working with multiple state agencies including the National Guard , carry out ground and air searches of different sectors .
Air spotters flying overhead in helicopters relay their findings to police on the ground , who then carry out a search-and-destroy mission .
Mark my words : the use of police drones will make these kinds of aerial missions even more common .
For the most part , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Holland Michel writes for The Atlantic : “ When it comes to law enforcement , police are likewise free to use aerial surveillance without a warrant or special permission .
Under current privacy law , these operations are just as legal as policing practices whereby an officer spots unlawful activity while walking or driving through a neighborhood.
” There have been a few notable exceptions .
In 2015 , the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that surveillance from a low-flying helicopter conducting an aerial search for marijuana by state police and the national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The court reasoned that “ when low-flying aerial activity leads to more than just observation and actually causes an unreasonable intrusion on the ground — most commonly from an unreasonable amount of wind , dust , broken objects , noise , and sheer panic — then at some point courts are compelled to step in and require a warrant before law enforcement engages in such activity .
The Fourth Amendment and its prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures demands no less.
” In Philip Cobbs ’ case , helicopter spotters claimed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the wreckage of a fallen oak tree on the Virginia native ’ s 39-acre family farm .
Cobbs noticed the black helicopter circling overhead while spraying the blueberry bushes near his house .
After watching the helicopter for several moments , Cobbs went inside to check on his blind , deaf 90-year-old mother .
By the time he returned outside , several unmarked police SUVs had driven onto his property , and police ( ten in all ) in flak jackets , carrying semi-automatic weapons and shouting unintelligibly , had exited the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Of course , it was never about the two pot plants .
What the cops were really after was an excuse to search Cobbs ’ little greenhouse , which he had used that spring to start tomato plants , cantaloupes , and watermelons , as well as asters and hollyhocks , which he planned to sell at a roadside stand near his home .
The search of the greenhouse turned up nothing more than used tomato seedling containers .
Nevertheless , police charged Cobbs with misdemeanor possession of marijuana for the two plants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the charges were dismissed but not before The Rutherford Institute took up Cobbs ’ case , which revealed that police hadn ’ t even bothered to secure a warrant before embarking on their raid of Cobbs ’ property — a raid that had to cost taxpayers upwards of $ 25,000 , at the very least — part of their routine sweep of the countryside in search of pot-growing operations .
Two plants or two hundred or no plants at all : it doesn ’ t matter .
A SWAT team targeted one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worth of pot on two different occasions .
The Washington Post reports : The SWAT team “ broke down Betton ’ s door with a battering ram , then fired at least 57 bullets at him , hitting him nine times .
He lost portions of his gallbladder , colon , bowel and rectum , and is paralyzed from the waist down .
He also suffered damage to his liver , lung , small intestine and pancreas .
Two of his vertebrae were damaged , and another was partially destroyed .
Another bullet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ showed that most of what police said about the raid was a lie , the cops settled the case for $ 2.75 million .
Monetary awards like that are the exception , however .
Most of the time , the cops get away with murder and mayhem .
Literally .
Bottom line : no amount of marijuana is too insignificant if it allows police to qualify for federal grants and equipment and lay claim to seized assets ( there ’ s the profit motive ) under the guise of fighting the War on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 80,000 no-knock raids every year .
The vast majority of these raids are to serve routine drug warrants , many times for crimes no more serious than possession of marijuana .
Although growing numbers of states continue to decriminalize marijuana use and 9 out of 10 Americans favor the legalization of either medical or recreational/adult-use marijuana , the government ’ s profit-driven “ War on Drugs ” — waged with state and local police officers dressed in SWAT gear , armed to the hilt , and trained to act like soldiers on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provided by the U.S. government , particularly the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) — has not abated .
Since the formation of the DHS post-9/11 , hundreds of billions of dollars in grants have flowed to local police departments for SWAT teams , giving rise to a “ police industrial complex ” that routinely devastates communities , terrorizes families , and destroys innocent lives .
No longer reserved exclusively for deadly situations , SWAT teams are now increasingly being deployed for relatively routine police matters , with some SWAT @ @ @ @ @ @ @ five times a day .
Nationwide , SWAT teams have been employed to address an astonishingly trivial array of criminal activity or mere community nuisances : angry dogs , domestic disputes , improper paperwork filed by an orchid farmer , and misdemeanor marijuana possession , to give a brief sampling .
Unfortunately , general incompetence , collateral damage ( fatalities , property damage , etc . )
and botched raids tend to go hand in hand with an overuse of paramilitary forces .
In some cases , officers misread the address on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ barge into the wrong house or even the wrong building .
In another subset of cases , police conduct a search of a building where the suspect no longer resides .
SWAT teams have even on occasion conducted multiple , sequential raids on wrong addresses or executed search warrants despite the fact that the suspect is already in police custody .
Police have also raided homes on the basis of mistaking the presence or scent of legal substances for drugs .
Incredibly , these substances have included tomatoes , sunflowers , fish , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and ragweed .
All too often , the shock-and-awe tactics utilized by many SWAT teams only increases the likelihood that someone will get hurt with little consequences for law enforcement , even when the raids are botched .
Botched SWAT team raids have resulted in the loss of countless lives , including children and the elderly .
Usually , however , the first to be shot are the family dogs .
SWAT raids are usually carried out late at night or shortly before dawn .
Unfortunately , to the unsuspecting homeowner—especially in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — a raid can appear to be nothing less than a violent home invasion , with armed intruders crashing through their door .
That ’ s exactly what happened to Jose Guerena , the young ex-Marine who was killed after a SWAT team kicked open the door of his Arizona home during a drug raid and opened fire .
According to news reports , Guerena , 26 years old and the father of two young children , grabbed a gun in response to the forced invasion but never fired .
In fact , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when he was killed .
Police officers were not as restrained .
The young Iraqi war veteran was allegedly fired upon 71 times .
Guerena had no prior criminal record , and the police found nothing illegal in his home .
The problems inherent in these situations are further compounded by the fact that SWAT teams are granted “ no-knock ” warrants at high rates such that the warrants themselves are rendered practically meaningless .
This sorry state of affairs is made even worse by U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have essentially done @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no-knock ” warrant altogether , giving the police authority to disregard the protections afforded American citizens by the Fourth Amendment .
Clearly , as I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , something must be done .
When the war on drugs — a.k.a .
the war on the American people — becomes little more than a thinly veiled attempt to keep SWAT teams employed and special interests appeased , it ’ s time to revisit our drug policies and laws .
“ You take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , all the rights you expect to have — when they come in like that , the only right you have is not to get shot if you cooperate .
They open that door , your life is on the line , ” concluded Bob Harte , whose home was raided by a SWAT team simply because the family was seen shopping at a garden store , cops found loose tea in the family ’ s trash and mistook it for marijuana .
“ Our family will never be the same , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raid that had police invading their suburban home with a battering ram and AR-15 rifles .
Bob found himself flat on floor , hands behind his head , his eyes locked on the boots of the officer standing over him with an AR-15 assault rifle .
“ Are there kids ?
” the officers were yelling .
“ Where are the kids ?
” “ And I ’ m laying there staring at this guy ’ s boots fearing for my kids ’ lives , trying to tell them where my children are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deposition on July 9 , 2015 .
“ They are sending these guys with their guns drawn running upstairs to bust into my children ’ s house , bedroom , wake them out of bed.
” It didn ’ t matter that no drugs were found — nothing but a hydroponic tomato garden and loose tea leaves .
The search and SWAT raid were reasonable , according to the courts .
There ’ s a lesson here for the rest of us .
As Bob Harte concluded : “ If this can happen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs to be afraid .
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“They came again this morning at about 8:00 o’clock. A large cargo-type helicopter flew low over the cabin, shaking it on its very foundations. It shook all of us inside, too. I feel frightened … I see how helpless and tormented I am becoming with disgust and disillusionment with the government which has turned this beautiful country into a police state … I feel like I am in the middle of a war zone.” — Journal entry from a California resident describing the government’s aerial searches for marijuana plants
Backyard gardeners, beware: tomato plants have become collateral damage in the government’s war on drugs, especially marijuana [a plant that grows naturally on Earth and, unlike tobacco, doesn’t cause cancer and probably nobody ever died from it].
In fact, merely growing a vegetable garden on your own property, or in a greenhouse on your property, or shopping at a gardening store for gardening supplies — incredibly enough — could set you up for a drug raid sanctioned by the courts.
It’s happened before.
After shopping for hydroponic tomatoes at their local gardening store, a Kansas family found themselves subjected to a SWAT team raid as part of a multi-state, annual campaign dubbed “Operation Constant Gardener,” in which police collected the license plates of hundreds of customers at the gardening store and then investigated them for possible marijuana possession.
By “investigated,” I mean that police searched through the family’s trash. (You can thank the Supreme Court and their 1978 ruling in California v. Greenwood for allowing police to invade your trash can.) Finding “wet glob vegetation” in the garbage, the cops somehow managed to convince themselves — and a judge — that it was marijuana.
In fact, it was loose-leaf tea, but those pesky details don’t usually bother the cops when they’re conducting field tests.
Indeed, field tests routinely read positive for illegal drugs even when no drugs are present. According to investigative journalist Radley Balko, “it’s almost as if these tests come up positive whenever the police need them to. A partial list of substances that the tests have mistaken for illegal drugs would include sage, chocolate chip cookies, motor oil, spearmint, soap, tortilla dough, deodorant, billiard’s chalk, patchouli, flour, eucalyptus, breath mints, Jolly Ranchers and vitamins.”
There’s a long list of innocent ingredients that could be mistaken for drugs and get you subjected to a raid, because that’s all it takes — just the barest whiff of a suspicion by police that you might be engaged in criminal activity — to start the ball rolling.
From there, these so-called “investigations” follow the usual script: judge issues a warrant for a SWAT raid based on botched data, cops raid the home and terrorize the family at gunpoint, cops find no drugs, family sues over a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights, and then the courts protect the cops and their botched raid on the basis of qualified immunity.
It happens all the time.
As Balko reports, “Police have broken down doors, screamed obscenities, and held innocent people at gunpoint only to discover that what they thought were marijuana plants were really sunflowers, hibiscus, ragweed, tomatoes, or elderberry bushes. (It’s happened with all five.)”
Surely, you might think, the government has enough on its hands right now — policing a novel coronavirus pandemic, instituting nationwide lockdowns, quelling civil unrests over police brutality — that it doesn’t need to waste time and resources ferreting out pot farmers.
You’d be wrong.
This is a government that excels at make-work projects in which it assigns at-times unnecessary jobs to government agents to keep them busy or employed.
In this case, however, the make-work principle (translation: making work to keep the police state busy at taxpayer expense) is being used to justify sending police and expensive military helicopters likely equipped with sophisticated surveillance and thermal imaging devices on exploratory sorties every summer — again at taxpayer expense — in order to uncover illegal marijuana growing operations.
Often, however, what these air and ground searches end up targeting are backyard gardeners growing tomato plants.
Just recently, in fact, eyewitnesses in Virginia reported low-flying black helicopters buzzing over rural and suburban neighborhoods as part of a multi-agency operation to search for marijuana growers. Oftentimes these joint operations involve local police, state police and the Army National Guard.
One woman reported having her “tomato plants complimented by the 7 cops that pulled up in my yard in unmarked SUVs, after a helicopter hovered over our house for 20 minutes this morning.” Another man reported a similar experience from a few years ago when police “showed up in unmarked SUV’s with guns pulled. Then the cops on the ground argued with the helicopter because the heat signature in the ‘copter didn’t match what was growing.”
Back in 2013, an aerial surveillance mission spotted what police thought might be marijuana plants. Two days later, dozens of city officials, SWAT team, police officers and code compliance employees, and numerous official vehicles including dozens of police cars and several specialized vehicular equipment, including helicopters and unmanned flying drones, descended on The Garden of Eden, a 3.5-acre farm in Arlington, Texas, for a 10-hour raid in search of marijuana that turned up nothing more than tomato, blackberry and okra plants.
These aerial and ground sweeps have become regular occurrences across the country, part of the government’s multi-million dollar Domestic Cannabis Eradication Program. Local cops refer to the annual military maneuvers as “Eradication Day.”
Started in 1979 as a way to fund local efforts to crack down on marijuana growers in California and Hawaii, the Eradication Program went national in 1985, right around the time the Reagan Administration enabled the armed forces to get more involved in the domestic “war on drugs.”
Writing for The Washington Post, Radley Balko describes how these raids started off, with the National Guard, spy planes and helicopters:
The project was called the Campaign Against Marijuana Production, or CAMP… In all, thirteen California counties were invaded by choppers, some of them blaring Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” as they dropped Guardsmen and law enforcement officers armed with automatic weapons, sandviks, and machetes into the fields of California …
In CAMP’s first year, the program conducted 524 raids, arrested 128 people, and seized about 65,000 marijuana plants. Operating costs ran at a little over $1.5 million. The next year, 24 more sheriffs signed up for the program, for a total of 37. CAMP conducted 398 raids, seized nearly 160,000 plants, and made 218 arrests at a cost to taxpayers of $2.3 million.
The area’s larger growers had been put out of business (or, probably more accurately, had set up shop somewhere else), so by the start of the second campaign in 1984, CAMP officials were already targeting increasingly smaller growers. By the end of that 1984 campaign, the helicopters had to fly at lower and lower altitudes to spot smaller batches of plants.
The noise, wind, and vibration from the choppers could knock out windows, kick up dust clouds, and scare livestock. The officials running the operation made no bones about the paramilitary tactics they were using. They considered the areas they were raiding to be war zones.
In the interest of “officer safety,” they gave themselves permission to search any structures relatively close to a marijuana supply, without a warrant. Anyone coming anywhere near a raid operation was subject to detainment, usually at gunpoint.
Right around the same time, in the mid-1980s, the federal government started handing out grants to local police departments to assist with their local boots-on-the-ground “war on drugs.”
These grants (through the Byrne Grant program and COPS program, both of which started to be phased out under George W. Bush, only to be re-upped by Barack Obama) could be used to pay for additional police personnel, equipment, training, technical assistance and information systems.
However, studies show that while these federal grants did not improve police effectiveness or drug deterrence, they did incentivize SWAT team raids.
But how do you go from a “war on drugs” to SWAT-style raids on vegetable gardens?
Connect the dots, starting with the government’s war on marijuana, the emergence of SWAT teams, the militarization of local police forces through the federal 1033 Program, which allows the Pentagon to transfer “vast amounts of military equipment — machine guns and ammunition, helicopters, night-vision gear, armored cars — to local police departments,” and the transformation of American communities into battlefields: as always, it comes back to the make work principle, which starts with local police finding ways to justify the use of military equipment and federal funding.
Each year, the government spends between $14 and $18 million funding helicopter sweeps and police overtime to help the states track down illegal marijuana plants. These sweeps are even being carried out in states where it’s now legal to grow marijuana.
The sweeps work like this: Local police, working with multiple state agencies including the National Guard, carry out ground and air searches of different sectors. Air spotters flying overhead in helicopters relay their findings to police on the ground, who then carry out a search-and-destroy mission.
Mark my words: the use of police drones will make these kinds of aerial missions even more common.
For the most part, aerial surveillance is legal. As Arthur Holland Michel writes for The Atlantic:
“When it comes to law enforcement, police are likewise free to use aerial surveillance without a warrant or special permission. Under current privacy law, these operations are just as legal as policing practices whereby an officer spots unlawful activity while walking or driving through a neighborhood.”
There have been a few notable exceptions.
In 2015, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that surveillance from a low-flying helicopter conducting an aerial search for marijuana by state police and the national guard was illegal under the U.S. Constitution.
The court reasoned that “when low-flying aerial activity leads to more than just observation and actually causes an unreasonable intrusion on the ground — most commonly from an unreasonable amount of wind, dust, broken objects, noise, and sheer panic — then at some point courts are compelled to step in and require a warrant before law enforcement engages in such activity. The Fourth Amendment and its prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures demands no less.”
In Philip Cobbs’ case, helicopter spotters claimed to have seen two lone marijuana plants growing in the wreckage of a fallen oak tree on the Virginia native’s 39-acre family farm.
Cobbs noticed the black helicopter circling overhead while spraying the blueberry bushes near his house. After watching the helicopter for several moments, Cobbs went inside to check on his blind, deaf 90-year-old mother.
By the time he returned outside, several unmarked police SUVs had driven onto his property, and police (ten in all) in flak jackets, carrying semi-automatic weapons and shouting unintelligibly, had exited the vehicles and were moving toward him.
Of course, it was never about the two pot plants.
What the cops were really after was an excuse to search Cobbs’ little greenhouse, which he had used that spring to start tomato plants, cantaloupes, and watermelons, as well as asters and hollyhocks, which he planned to sell at a roadside stand near his home. The search of the greenhouse turned up nothing more than used tomato seedling containers.
Nevertheless, police charged Cobbs with misdemeanor possession of marijuana for the two plants they claimed to have found. Eventually, the charges were dismissed but not before The Rutherford Institute took up Cobbs’ case, which revealed that police hadn’t even bothered to secure a warrant before embarking on their raid of Cobbs’ property — a raid that had to cost taxpayers upwards of $25,000, at the very least — part of their routine sweep of the countryside in search of pot-growing operations.
Two plants or two hundred or no plants at all: it doesn’t matter.
A SWAT team targeted one South Carolina man for selling $50 worth of pot on two different occasions. The Washington Post reports: The SWAT team “broke down Betton’s door with a battering ram, then fired at least 57 bullets at him, hitting him nine times. He lost portions of his gallbladder, colon, bowel and rectum, and is paralyzed from the waist down. He also suffered damage to his liver, lung, small intestine and pancreas.
Two of his vertebrae were damaged, and another was partially destroyed. Another bullet shattered his leg.” After security footage showed that most of what police said about the raid was a lie, the cops settled the case for $2.75 million.
Monetary awards like that are the exception, however.
Most of the time, the cops get away with murder and mayhem. Literally.
Bottom line: no amount of marijuana is too insignificant if it allows police to qualify for federal grants and equipment and lay claim to seized assets (there’s the profit motive) under the guise of fighting the War on Drugs.
SWAT teams carry out more than 80,000 no-knock raids every year. The vast majority of these raids are to serve routine drug warrants, many times for crimes no more serious than possession of marijuana.
Although growing numbers of states continue to decriminalize marijuana use and 9 out of 10 Americans favor the legalization of either medical or recreational/adult-use marijuana, the government’s profit-driven “War on Drugs” — waged with state and local police officers dressed in SWAT gear, armed to the hilt, and trained to act like soldiers on a battlefield, all thanks to funding provided by the U.S. government, particularly the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — has not abated.
Since the formation of the DHS post-9/11, hundreds of billions of dollars in grants have flowed to local police departments for SWAT teams, giving rise to a “police industrial complex” that routinely devastates communities, terrorizes families, and destroys innocent lives.
No longer reserved exclusively for deadly situations, SWAT teams are now increasingly being deployed for relatively routine police matters, with some SWAT teams being sent out as much as five times a day.
Nationwide, SWAT teams have been employed to address an astonishingly trivial array of criminal activity or mere community nuisances: angry dogs, domestic disputes, improper paperwork filed by an orchid farmer, and misdemeanor marijuana possession, to give a brief sampling.
Unfortunately, general incompetence, collateral damage (fatalities, property damage, etc.) and botched raids tend to go hand in hand with an overuse of paramilitary forces.
In some cases, officers misread the address on the warrant. In others, they simply barge into the wrong house or even the wrong building. In another subset of cases, police conduct a search of a building where the suspect no longer resides.
SWAT teams have even on occasion conducted multiple, sequential raids on wrong addresses or executed search warrants despite the fact that the suspect is already in police custody. Police have also raided homes on the basis of mistaking the presence or scent of legal substances for drugs. Incredibly, these substances have included tomatoes, sunflowers, fish, elderberry bushes, kenaf plants, hibiscus, and ragweed.
All too often, the shock-and-awe tactics utilized by many SWAT teams only increases the likelihood that someone will get hurt with little consequences for law enforcement, even when the raids are botched.
Botched SWAT team raids have resulted in the loss of countless lives, including children and the elderly. Usually, however, the first to be shot are the family dogs.
SWAT raids are usually carried out late at night or shortly before dawn. Unfortunately, to the unsuspecting homeowner—especially in cases involving mistaken identities or wrong addresses — a raid can appear to be nothing less than a violent home invasion, with armed intruders crashing through their door.
That’s exactly what happened to Jose Guerena, the young ex-Marine who was killed after a SWAT team kicked open the door of his Arizona home during a drug raid and opened fire. According to news reports, Guerena, 26 years old and the father of two young children, grabbed a gun in response to the forced invasion but never fired.
In fact, the safety was still on his gun when he was killed. Police officers were not as restrained. The young Iraqi war veteran was allegedly fired upon 71 times. Guerena had no prior criminal record, and the police found nothing illegal in his home.
The problems inherent in these situations are further compounded by the fact that SWAT teams are granted “no-knock” warrants at high rates such that the warrants themselves are rendered practically meaningless.
This sorry state of affairs is made even worse by U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have essentially done away with the need for a “no-knock” warrant altogether, giving the police authority to disregard the protections afforded American citizens by the Fourth Amendment.
Clearly, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, something must be done.
When the war on drugs — a.k.a. the war on the American people — becomes little more than a thinly veiled attempt to keep SWAT teams employed and special interests appeased, it’s time to revisit our drug policies and laws.
“You take the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, all the rights you expect to have — when they come in like that, the only right you have is not to get shot if you cooperate. They open that door, your life is on the line,” concluded Bob Harte, whose home was raided by a SWAT team simply because the family was seen shopping at a garden store, cops found loose tea in the family’s trash and mistook it for marijuana.
“Our family will never be the same,” said Addie Harte, recalling the two-hour raid that had police invading their suburban home with a battering ram and AR-15 rifles.
As The Washington Post reports:
Bob found himself flat on floor, hands behind his head, his eyes locked on the boots of the officer standing over him with an AR-15 assault rifle. “Are there kids?” the officers were yelling. “Where are the kids?” “And I’m laying there staring at this guy’s boots fearing for my kids’ lives, trying to tell them where my children are,” Harte recalled later in a deposition on July 9, 2015. “They are sending these guys with their guns drawn running upstairs to bust into my children’s house, bedroom, wake them out of bed.”
It didn’t matter that no drugs were found — nothing but a hydroponic tomato garden and loose tea leaves. The search and SWAT raid were reasonable, according to the courts.
There’s a lesson here for the rest of us. As Bob Harte concluded: “If this can happen to us, everybody in the country needs to be afraid.”


humansarefree--2020-08-29--Fediverse Apps Promise a Future Free of Censorship and Big Tech, but Google is Threatening Them

Google gives developers the impossible task of ensuring users don ’ t come across anything that could be deemed “ hateful.
” Google has put several open-service Fediverse apps on notice and threatened to remove them from the Play Store within seven days unless they prevent their users from connecting to user-generated content that violates their policies .
Google ’ s “ User Generated Content ( UGC ) policy ” bans apps that allow users to access posts that “ promote violence , or incite hatred against individuals or groups based on race or ethnic origin , religion , disability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , sexual orientation , gender , gender identity , or any other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization.
” So far , the Fediverse apps Subway Tooter , Fedilab , and Husky have reportedly been sent these notices .
Tens of thousands of users have collectively downloaded these apps via the Play Store .
“ Hatred ” is a subjective term and many existing Big Tech “ hate speech ” rules result in the censorship of jokes , opposition , criticism , and more .
But censoring Fediverse apps based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ further problems .
The purpose of Fediverse apps is to allow users to connect to and interact with a decentralized network of servers which each have their own rules , members , and moderators who control the content that gets posted and the content that gets taken down .
The Fediverse app developers have no control over the content that gets posted to these servers .
The way Fediverse apps connect users with this content is similar to the way browser apps allow users to connect to and interact with websites .
Asking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t connect to any rule-violating content is the equivalent of asking the developer of a browser app to ensure that their users don ’ t see anything on the internet that could be classed as hateful .
Since there ’ s no way for an app developer to predict what Google might find hateful or to proactively police the billions of pieces of user-generated content on the internet , Google ’ s UGC policy essentially sets an impossible standard for browsers , podcast clients , social media apps , and other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Not only does it set an impossible standard but Big Tech ’ s apps aren ’ t held to this same standard .
Mainstream social media apps such as Facebook and Twitter are filled with user-generated content that some people will likely deem to be hateful .
Likewise , Google Podcasts and the Google Chrome browser can be used to find user-generated content that some would brand as hateful .
But when so-called hate speech is found in apps controlled by Big Tech , they use their vague , subjective hate speech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Despite the impossible standard and the inconsistencies when it comes to enforcement , this isn ’ t the first time Google has used this policy to ban an independent social media app .
Free speech social media app Gab was given a similar notice in July 2019 and ultimately banned from the Google Play Store because it allowed users to connect with user-generated content that Google deemed to be “ objectionable .
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Google gives developers the impossible task of ensuring users don’t come across anything that could be deemed “hateful.”
by Tom Parker
Google has put several open-service Fediverse apps on notice and threatened to remove them from the Play Store within seven days unless they prevent their users from connecting to user-generated content that violates their policies.
Google’s “User Generated Content (UGC) policy” bans apps that allow users to access posts that “promote violence, or incite hatred against individuals or groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or any other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization.”
So far, the Fediverse apps Subway Tooter, Fedilab, and Husky have reportedly been sent these notices. Tens of thousands of users have collectively downloaded these apps via the Play Store.
“Hatred” is a subjective term and many existing Big Tech “hate speech” rules result in the censorship of jokes, opposition, criticism, and more.
But censoring Fediverse apps based on this vague, subjective term creates further problems.
The purpose of Fediverse apps is to allow users to connect to and interact with a decentralized network of servers which each have their own rules, members, and moderators who control the content that gets posted and the content that gets taken down. The Fediverse app developers have no control over the content that gets posted to these servers.
The way Fediverse apps connect users with this content is similar to the way browser apps allow users to connect to and interact with websites.
Asking Fediverse apps to ensure that their users don’t connect to any rule-violating content is the equivalent of asking the developer of a browser app to ensure that their users don’t see anything on the internet that could be classed as hateful.
Since there’s no way for an app developer to predict what Google might find hateful or to proactively police the billions of pieces of user-generated content on the internet, Google’s UGC policy essentially sets an impossible standard for browsers, podcast clients, social media apps, and other apps that connect users with user-generated content.
Not only does it set an impossible standard but Big Tech’s apps aren’t held to this same standard.
Mainstream social media apps such as Facebook and Twitter are filled with user-generated content that some people will likely deem to be hateful.
Likewise, Google Podcasts and the Google Chrome browser can be used to find user-generated content that some would brand as hateful.
But when so-called hate speech is found in apps controlled by Big Tech, they use their vague, subjective hate speech policies to censor their users instead.
Despite the impossible standard and the inconsistencies when it comes to enforcement, this isn’t the first time Google has used this policy to ban an independent social media app.
Free speech social media app Gab was given a similar notice in July 2019 and ultimately banned from the Google Play Store because it allowed users to connect with user-generated content that Google deemed to be “objectionable.”


humansarefree--2020-08-29--The Totalitarian Future Globalists Want For The Entire World Is Being Revealed

All over the Western world ever since 9/11 there have been incremental steps towards what many liberty advocates would call a “ police state ” ; a system in which governments are no longer restricted by the boundaries of civil liberties and are given the power to do just about anything they want in the name of public safety .
The use of “ the law ” as a tool for injecting tyranny into a culture is the first tactic of all totalitarians .
The idea is that by simply writing government criminality into the law books , that criminality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recognition .
Whenever government abuse of the people is initiated , it ’ s always initiated in the name of what ’ s “ best for society as a whole ” .
To save society , the individuals that make up a society must be sublimated or destroyed .
This mentality is the complete opposite of what the Founding Fathers in America fought and died for , but as Thomas Jefferson once said : “ Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ within the limits of the law ’ because law is often but the tyrant ’ s will , and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
” In countries like Australia , which claim to value Western democratic principles of liberty and rule by the people , the perception is that civil rights are codified into the legal framework just as they are in the US .
However , there are some glaring differences and issues ; specifically , Australian citizens ( like many European citizens ) have absolutely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the elites that influence their government to limit themselves .
It is these nations , in which the populations have been mostly disarmed and pacified , that any agenda for tyranny will first be established .
But we will get to that in a moment… Make no mistake , there is a very OPEN and easily identifiable agenda on the part of globalists to establish a heavily centralized police state system in every country they are able .
This is not “ conspiracy theory ” , this is conspiracy fact .
For many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , economists and geopolitical experts in the alternative media that have predicted and warned the public about the globalist strategy of “ order out of chaos ” .
In other words , the ultra-wealthy power brokers that hold influence over most governments on Earth seek to “ reshape ” the existing social order through the creation of crisis and disaster .
By engineering public desperation , they hope to lure us into accepting restrictions on our freedoms that we would have never considered otherwise .
The goal of a single global economy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time and time again , yet it is still to this day called “ conspiracy theory ” or “ paranoid delusion ” .
Scientific Study : ‘ Conspiracy Theorists ’ Are The Sanest Of All I could quote these elites and their organizations all day long , but I ’ ll cite a few choice statements to make my point .
As former Deputy Secretary of State under Clinton and Council on Foreign Relations member Strobe Talbot wrote in an article for Time Magazine in 1992 titled ‘ America Abroad : The Birth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the next century , nations as we know it will be obsolete ; all states will recognize a single , global authority .
National sovereignty wasn ’ t such a great idea after all .
As elitist and Fabian Socialist HG Wells outlines in his non-fiction treatise titled The New World Order : “ …When the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy , there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system .
“ Countless people … will hate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ die protesting against it .
When we attempt to evaluate its promise , we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents , many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.
” And how about one of my favorite revealing quotes from Trilateral Commission member Richard N. Gardner , former deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under Kennedy and Johnson ?
He wrote in the April , 1974 issue of the Council on Foreign Relation ’ s ( CFR ) journal Foreign Affairs ( pg @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ The Hard Road To World Order ’ : “ In short , the ‘ house of world order ’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down .
It will look like a great ‘ booming , buzzing confusion , ’ to use William James ’ famous description of reality , but an end run around national sovereignty , eroding it piece by piece , will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.
” Members of globalist foundations and think-tanks like the CFR have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presidential cabinet for the past several decades .
This includes the two dozen or so CFR members in Donald Trump ’ s cabinet .
Draining the swamp ?
Not going to happen .
As Harper ’ s Magazine candidly revealed in a 1958 expose titled ‘ School For Statesmen ’ : The most powerful clique in these ( CFR ) groups have one objective in common , they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S .
They want to end national boundaries and racial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ensure world peace .
What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people .
The CFR was founded for “ the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all powerful one world government .
The easiest method for the globalists to get what they openly say they want is to either conjure a crisis or exploit an existing crisis in order to “ erode sovereignty ” .
The current pandemic fits this plan perfectly , but before sovereignty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they need to undermine sovereignty on an individual level first .
Actions within the US and nations allied to the US suggest an accelerated attack on personal liberties is at hand .
There are sister foundations to the CFR in many other countries .
For example , in Australia they have the highly embedded and influential Strategic Policy Institute , which has been consistently advocating for complete centralization of government power in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic .
Their stated plan is to concentrate policy administration in the hands of a new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ made up of the “ brightest minds ” .
This commission would not be tasked with getting Australia back to normal , but convincing the public to ACCEPT the “ new normal ” beyond the pandemic .
The ASPI enthusiastically heralds the idea in an article titled ‘ Coronavirus Response A Chance To Reimagine Future For Australia ’ : “ The agenda of such a department now is not about getting Australia back to normal after the pandemic .
It ’ s about re-imagining what Australia can be and how we can thrive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus and in light of drought , bushfires and climate change .
“ Think about the kind of new economy we can have after the forced , rapid adoption of dispersed home working and schooling through digital means .
We can be the leading digital economy the prime minister desired before the pandemic , not by 2030 but much earlier.
” This reminds me immediately of the post 9/11 push to rapidly remove constitutional protections while the public was blinded by fear and confusion .
As US globalist Rahm Emanuel would say : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to go to waste .
And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.
” The ASPI reveals the true agenda , which is the complete federalization and unilateral implementation of law without public approval .
The plan is to do this by exploiting the pandemic event to its full potential and then applying the rapid societal changes in government structure .
This will then be carried on long after the coronavirus disappears in the name of the economy , welfare programs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The pandemic response is just a means to an end , and the end game is total dominance of the population .
I focus on Australia and the surrounding regions in particular because this seems to be the place where globalists are enforcing technocratic policies first .
Or at the very least , they are test-running their strategy and using Australians as guinea pigs .
When the ASPI says they plan to keep the pandemic changes in place well after the virus is gone , they aren ’ t just talking about shifting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Australia and New Zealand are slamming citizens with perhaps the most draconian measures yet in the Western world .
These are policies that the elites want to introduce everywhere , but they are going full bore in Australia , and it just keeps getting worse .
In various areas of Australia “ Level 4 ” response measures have been enforced for at least the next six weeks , including curfews , strict mask policies including people being forced to wear masks OUTSIDE ( contrary to everything science and virology has to say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and open air ) , residents are not allowed to travel more than 3 miles from their homes and only one person from a household is allowed to leave at any given time .
Citizens violating these rules are subject to $ 10,000 fines or arrest .
And , yes , people are being arrested simply for not wearing mask or being too far from home .
In New Zealand , the situation has become exceedingly grim and I think it should be treated as a warning to Americans specifically as to our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of “ public health security ” to be turned into a vehicle for tyranny .
While Australia has been using quarantine facilities to force people considered high risk to isolate , NZ quarantine camps are now fully under the control of the military , and ALL citizens who test positive or are suspected to have Covid can be separated from their families and placed in the camps , which are hotels converted into prisons .
It is the complete erasure if personal liberties all because of an increase in cases which has amounted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and 22 deaths in New Zealand .
I believe the reason Australia and New Zealand have been targeted with this level of restrictions first is because they have been almost fully disarmed and have no means to defend themselves from government overstep .
That said , I see signs that similar measures will be attempted in the US as well .
In states like New York , there are low-key programs to set up Covid checkpoints stopping and checking vehicles coming into the state .
This is where heavier restrictions start .
First @ @ @ @ @ @ @ name of keeping infected people out of a state or city .
Then , those same checkpoints will be used to keep people from leaving a state or city .
Then , checkpoints will be set up at random to test people for fever or symptoms of illness .
If allowed to continue , the natural progression of checkpoints is to terrify the population into not traveling anywhere for any reason .
Like in Australia and NZ , people will effectively be imprisoned in their homes .
At this stage , bringing in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaving home will be easier ; they will have already acclimated to being trapped at home anyway .
Furthermore , elites and globalists within the US are calling for hard lockdowns for at least six weeks , just like the Level 4 lockdowns in Australia .
Federal Reserve member Neel Kashkari recently asserted that Americans are saving more , thus they should be subjected to hard lockdowns “ because they can afford it ” .
Virginia is planning mandatory Covid vaccinations , even though vaccines for SARS like viruses have proven impossible to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccines have a history of harming or killing people rather than protecting them .
Set aside the issue that giving government the power to force citizens to inject anything into their bodies is immoral .
What ’ s next ?
Covid camps ?
Well , yes , unless Americans make a hard stand .
Mainstream media outlets have been suggesting this strategy for months .
The Washington Post applauded the use of forced isolation camps in other nations and asks why the US has not yet used them beyond ports for foreign travelers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans will not go along with such measures , and will use force in-kind against anyone trying to lock them up because of a virus that is a moderate threat at most to a small percentage of the population .
That said , don ’ t assume that the establishment will not eventually try it here .
They will .
Be ready when they do so .
Look to the actions in places like Australia and NZ and ask yourself , am I willing to go along with that ?
And if so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ globalists intend for these restrictions to become the “ new normal ” .
They intend for this nightmare to last forever .

All over the Western world ever since 9/11 there have been incremental steps towards what many liberty advocates would call a “police state”; a system in which governments are no longer restricted by the boundaries of civil liberties and are given the power to do just about anything they want in the name of public safety.
by Brandon Smith
The use of “the law” as a tool for injecting tyranny into a culture is the first tactic of all totalitarians.
The idea is that by simply writing government criminality into the law books, that criminality somehow becomes justified by virtue of legal recognition.
It’s all very circular.
Whenever government abuse of the people is initiated, it’s always initiated in the name of what’s “best for society as a whole”. To save society, the individuals that make up a society must be sublimated or destroyed.
This mentality is the complete opposite of what the Founding Fathers in America fought and died for, but as Thomas Jefferson once said:
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
In countries like Australia, which claim to value Western democratic principles of liberty and rule by the people, the perception is that civil rights are codified into the legal framework just as they are in the US.
However, there are some glaring differences and issues; specifically, Australian citizens (like many European citizens) have absolutely no means to compel their government or the elites that influence their government to limit themselves.
It is these nations, in which the populations have been mostly disarmed and pacified, that any agenda for tyranny will first be established. But we will get to that in a moment…
Make no mistake, there is a very OPEN and easily identifiable agenda on the part of globalists to establish a heavily centralized police state system in every country they are able.
This is not “conspiracy theory”, this is conspiracy fact.
For many years now there have been numerous analysts, economists and geopolitical experts in the alternative media that have predicted and warned the public about the globalist strategy of “order out of chaos”.
In other words, the ultra-wealthy power brokers that hold influence over most governments on Earth seek to “reshape” the existing social order through the creation of crisis and disaster.
By engineering public desperation, they hope to lure us into accepting restrictions on our freedoms that we would have never considered otherwise.
The goal of a single global economy and government has been spoken of by elites time and time again, yet it is still to this day called “conspiracy theory” or “paranoid delusion”.
Scientific Study: ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Are The Sanest Of All
I could quote these elites and their organizations all day long, but I’ll cite a few choice statements to make my point.
As former Deputy Secretary of State under Clinton and Council on Foreign Relations member Strobe Talbot wrote in an article for Time Magazine in 1992 titled ‘America Abroad: The Birth Of The Global Nation’:
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.
As elitist and Fabian Socialist HG Wells outlines in his non-fiction treatise titled The New World Order:
“…When the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system.
“Countless people … will hate the new world order … and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.”
And how about one of my favorite revealing quotes from Trilateral Commission member Richard N. Gardner, former deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under Kennedy and Johnson?
He wrote in the April, 1974 issue of the Council on Foreign Relation’s (CFR) journal Foreign Affairs (pg. 558) in an article titled ‘The Hard Road To World Order’:
“In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”
Members of globalist foundations and think-tanks like the CFR have inhabited nearly every US government office and presidential cabinet for the past several decades.
This includes the two dozen or so CFR members in Donald Trump’s cabinet. Draining the swamp? Not going to happen.
As Harper’s Magazine candidly revealed in a 1958 expose titled ‘School For Statesmen’:
The most powerful clique in these (CFR) groups have one objective in common, they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S.
They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace. What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people.
The CFR was founded for “the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all powerful one world government.
The easiest method for the globalists to get what they openly say they want is to either conjure a crisis or exploit an existing crisis in order to “erode sovereignty”.
The current pandemic fits this plan perfectly, but before sovereignty can be eliminated on a national level they need to undermine sovereignty on an individual level first.
Actions within the US and nations allied to the US suggest an accelerated attack on personal liberties is at hand.
There are sister foundations to the CFR in many other countries.
For example, in Australia they have the highly embedded and influential Strategic Policy Institute, which has been consistently advocating for complete centralization of government power in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Their stated plan is to concentrate policy administration in the hands of a new “commission” or “department” made up of the “brightest minds”.
This commission would not be tasked with getting Australia back to normal, but convincing the public to ACCEPT the “new normal” beyond the pandemic.
The ASPI enthusiastically heralds the idea in an article titled ‘Coronavirus Response A Chance To Reimagine Future For Australia’:
“The agenda of such a department now is not about getting Australia back to normal after the pandemic. It’s about re-imagining what Australia can be and how we can thrive and prosper in our future beyond the coronavirus and in light of drought, bushfires and climate change.
“Think about the kind of new economy we can have after the forced, rapid adoption of dispersed home working and schooling through digital means. We can be the leading digital economy the prime minister desired before the pandemic, not by 2030 but much earlier.”
This reminds me immediately of the post 9/11 push to rapidly remove constitutional protections while the public was blinded by fear and confusion. As US globalist Rahm Emanuel would say:
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
The ASPI reveals the true agenda, which is the complete federalization and unilateral implementation of law without public approval. The plan is to do this by exploiting the pandemic event to its full potential and then applying the rapid societal changes in government structure.
This will then be carried on long after the coronavirus disappears in the name of the economy, welfare programs and so-called “global warming”.
The pandemic response is just a means to an end, and the end game is total dominance of the population.
I focus on Australia and the surrounding regions in particular because this seems to be the place where globalists are enforcing technocratic policies first. Or at the very least, they are test-running their strategy and using Australians as guinea pigs.
When the ASPI says they plan to keep the pandemic changes in place well after the virus is gone, they aren’t just talking about shifting into a digital economy.
Right now, Australia and New Zealand are slamming citizens with perhaps the most draconian measures yet in the Western world. These are policies that the elites want to introduce everywhere, but they are going full bore in Australia, and it just keeps getting worse.
In various areas of Australia “Level 4” response measures have been enforced for at least the next six weeks, including curfews, strict mask policies including people being forced to wear masks OUTSIDE (contrary to everything science and virology has to say about low possibility of transmission in sunlight and open air), residents are not allowed to travel more than 3 miles from their homes and only one person from a household is allowed to leave at any given time.
Citizens violating these rules are subject to $10,000 fines or arrest. And, yes, people are being arrested simply for not wearing mask or being too far from home.
In New Zealand, the situation has become exceedingly grim and I think it should be treated as a warning to Americans specifically as to our potential future is we allow the narrative of “public health security” to be turned into a vehicle for tyranny.
While Australia has been using quarantine facilities to force people considered high risk to isolate, NZ quarantine camps are now fully under the control of the military, and ALL citizens who test positive or are suspected to have Covid can be separated from their families and placed in the camps, which are hotels converted into prisons.
It is the complete erasure if personal liberties all because of an increase in cases which has amounted to a mere 525 deaths in Australia and 22 deaths in New Zealand.
I believe the reason Australia and New Zealand have been targeted with this level of restrictions first is because they have been almost fully disarmed and have no means to defend themselves from government overstep.
That said, I see signs that similar measures will be attempted in the US as well.
In states like New York, there are low-key programs to set up Covid checkpoints stopping and checking vehicles coming into the state. This is where heavier restrictions start.
First, checkpoints will be established in the name of keeping infected people out of a state or city.
Then, those same checkpoints will be used to keep people from leaving a state or city. Then, checkpoints will be set up at random to test people for fever or symptoms of illness.
If allowed to continue, the natural progression of checkpoints is to terrify the population into not traveling anywhere for any reason.
Like in Australia and NZ, people will effectively be imprisoned in their homes. At this stage, bringing in laws or executive orders punishing people for leaving home will be easier; they will have already acclimated to being trapped at home anyway.
Furthermore, elites and globalists within the US are calling for hard lockdowns for at least six weeks, just like the Level 4 lockdowns in Australia.
Federal Reserve member Neel Kashkari recently asserted that Americans are saving more, thus they should be subjected to hard lockdowns “because they can afford it”.
Virginia is planning mandatory Covid vaccinations, even though jjabs for SARS like viruses have proven impossible to develop in the past, and rushed jjabs have a history of harming or killing people rather than protecting them. Set aside the issue that giving government the power to force citizens to inject anything into their bodies is immoral.
What’s next? Covid camps? Well, yes, unless Americans make a hard stand. Mainstream media outlets have been suggesting this strategy for months.
The Washington Post applauded the use of forced isolation camps in other nations and asks why the US has not yet used them beyond ports for foreign travelers?
The reason is this: Many Americans will not go along with such measures, and will use force in-kind against anyone trying to lock them up because of a virus that is a moderate threat at most to a small percentage of the population.
That said, don’t assume that the establishment will not eventually try it here. They will. Be ready when they do so.
Look to the actions in places like Australia and NZ and ask yourself, am I willing to go along with that? And if so, for how long?
Because the globalists intend for these restrictions to become the “new normal”. They intend for this nightmare to last forever.


humansarefree--2020-08-30--Aerial Images Reveal How Britain’s Heatwave Has Exposed More Than 1,500 Lost Ancient Monuments

Around 1,500 hidden archaeological sites across the UK landscape have been rediscovered say , experts , from prehistoric ‘ cursus ’ monuments , laid out more than 5,000 years ago , to the outline of a long-demolished Tudor hall , and lost ancient settlements .
Weeks of unprecedented summer heat and drought have revealed evidence of around 1,5000 long-lost archaeological sites across the UK — helping experts discovered from prehistoric ‘ cursus ’ monuments laid out more than 5,000 years ago , to traces of long-lost walls and Stonehenge-like monuments .
According to reports by Historic England , aerial footage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Bronze Age burial Mounds , and Roman farms , all of which have been revealed in UK ’ s blistering summer heat .
According to reports , the record-breaking dry summer has been good for archaeologists who had ideal conditions to examine the scorching landscape from the air , since cropmarks form quicker and are easier to spot when the soil is dried up .
The differences in crop color and height help reveal the layers of buried structures which once were settlements , temples or other ancient monuments .
The most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neolithic cursus monuments located near Clofton Renes and Milton Keynes .
One of the ancient monuments remained hidden from sight until this year beneath a medieval bank which is gradually being plowed away .
The monuments are believed to be some of the oldest structures in the country , dating as far as 3,600 BC .
So far , experts know very little about the ancient structures which can stretch several kilometers in length .
Archaeologists have uncovered similar structures existing next to some of the most famous archaeological sites in the UK @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Newgrange .
Experts across the UK are still going through the discoveries .
Damian Grady , the aerial reconnaissance manager from Historic England said in a statement : “ This has been one of my busiest summers in 20 years of flying.
” “ This has been one of my busiest summers in 20 years of flying and it is has been very rewarding making discoveries in areas that do not normally reveal cropmarks , ” added Damian Grady , Historic England aerial reconnaissance manager .
Faint outlines of long-lost , ancient structures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ancient stone or wood buried in the soil flourish or deteriorate at different rates compared to surrounding plant life during a heatwave .
This effect creates outlines visible from the surface which can help archaeologists pinpoint the location of ancient settlements that are otherwise hidden beneath the surface .
These so-called landscapes scars are commonly referred to by experts as ‘ cropmarks ’ and can often only be seen from aerial footage or photographs of the countryside , and almost never from the surface .

Around 1,500 hidden archaeological sites across the UK landscape have been rediscovered say, experts, from prehistoric ‘cursus’ monuments, laid out more than 5,000 years ago, to the outline of a long-demolished Tudor hall, and lost ancient settlements.
Weeks of unprecedented summer heat and drought have revealed evidence of around 1,5000 long-lost archaeological sites across the UK — helping experts discovered from prehistoric ‘cursus’ monuments laid out more than 5,000 years ago, to traces of long-lost walls and Stonehenge-like monuments.
According to reports by Historic England, aerial footage has helped archeologists find Iron Age settlements, Bronze Age burial Mounds, and Roman farms, all of which have been revealed in UK’s blistering summer heat.
According to reports, the record-breaking dry summer has been good for archaeologists who had ideal conditions to examine the scorching landscape from the air, since cropmarks form quicker and are easier to spot when the soil is dried up.
The differences in crop color and height help reveal the layers of buried structures which once were settlements, temples or other ancient monuments.
The most notorious discoveries made this year were two neolithic cursus monuments located near Clofton Renes and Milton Keynes.
One of the ancient monuments remained hidden from sight until this year beneath a medieval bank which is gradually being plowed away.
The monuments are believed to be some of the oldest structures in the country, dating as far as 3,600 BC.
So far, experts know very little about the ancient structures which can stretch several kilometers in length.
Archaeologists have uncovered similar structures existing next to some of the most famous archaeological sites in the UK, including Stonehenge, Thornborough, and Newgrange.
Experts across the UK are still going through the discoveries. Damian Grady, the aerial reconnaissance manager from Historic England said in a statement:
“This has been one of my busiest summers in 20 years of flying.”
“This has been one of my busiest summers in 20 years of flying and it is has been very rewarding making discoveries in areas that do not normally reveal cropmarks,” added Damian Grady, Historic England aerial reconnaissance manager.
Faint outlines of long-lost, ancient structures appear in fields when grass above the ancient stone or wood buried in the soil flourish or deteriorate at different rates compared to surrounding plant life during a heatwave.
This effect creates outlines visible from the surface which can help archaeologists pinpoint the location of ancient settlements that are otherwise hidden beneath the surface.
These so-called landscapes scars are commonly referred to by experts as ‘cropmarks’ and can often only be seen from aerial footage or photographs of the countryside, and almost never from the surface.
Reference: Ancient-Code.com