Corporate Governance

There are Over 50,000 SWAT Team Raids Annually in America

The Psychotic Militarization of Law Enforcement

What is all of this outrage really about? It has nothing to do with race. The only thing that makes sense to me, is that for whatever reason(s), the media moguls are in collusion with some sort of psychological/social engineering scheme to cause panic, fear, and most of all distraction from the real issues people should be concerned about.

Just like with the prior school shootings, we don't hear mention of them anymore. We will never hear the name George Zimmerman one year from now. It will be the next guy, or next operation.

Los Angeles' W Hotel confirms that claims of $15,000 in damages allegedly resulting from protests never happened - BY BRAD FRIEDMAN

Despite reporting to the contrary from both Los Angeles’ NBC affiliate and the Los Angeles Police Department, Trayvon Martin protesters in Hollywood on Sunday night neither “stormed” nor caused “about $15,000 worth of damage” at a local hotel.

For the most part, protests in the wake of the “not guilty” verdict for George Zimmerman in Florida, have been peaceful here in L.A., though, at times, it seems as if NBC’s local affiliate, NBC4 hoped they might not be.

The BRAD BLOG has confirmed with a spokesman at the W Hotel in Hollywood that “no protestors ever entered” the facility, even as NBC4′s NewsChopper4 reporter Megan Reyes told both the studio and viewers watching their live web stream of protests on Sunday night that protesters were “getting very rowdy” and had “broken glass” at the hotel. She cited no source for her reporting, and NBC4 did not respond to The BRAD BLOG’s request last night via Twitter for detailed on Reyes’ sourcing.

By Monday on NBC4, false reports of “broken glass” had turned into false reports of “$15,000 worth of damage” at the hotel, after reporter Tony Guinyard informed viewers that protesters “stormed” the hotel and, as as an LAPD Commander, on camera, confirmed that report.

All of that, however, was completely disputed by two W Hotel officials we contacted on Monday…

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“In Hollywood, a large group [of protesters] stormed the W hotel,” Guinyard reported, before LAPD Commander Andrew Smith offered official confirmation.
“At one point,” Smith says in the report (see beginning at appx 1:10 in the video here), “a group broke of them broke off and went into the W Hotel, committed what I’m told is about $15,000 worth of damage. Spray-paint, graffiti, that type of thing, and then they left.”

“Those were some of the individuals we arrested later that were part of that group,” Smith continued. “We have a total of 5 people that were arrested in Hollywood for failure to disperse from an unlawful assembly. And now I’m getting reports that one more person was arrested for throwing bottles at our officers in Hollywood as well.”

………….In 2008 the former prime minister was a guest speaker at a conference held in the Black Sea resort of Yalta and organised by Mr Pinchuk, at which Mr Blair pushed Ukraine’s case to join the European Union, the presidency of which Mr Blair was then widely tipped to take.
Mr Pinchuk has been a keen advocate of EU membership, setting up a firm to promote Ukraine’s EU credentials. Its directors included, until 2010, Stephen Byers, Mr Blair’s former trade secretary.
Shortly after leaving Downing Street, Mr Blair was introduced to Mr Pinchuk through Bill Clinton and senior staff at the Clinton Foundation.
The former president’s foundation was given $1.1 million (£700,000), by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2011.
What is certainly known is that Mr Pinchuk enjoys making new friends, and makes an intriguing one for Mr Blair.
Other acquaintances Mr Blair has nurtured include Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch, and Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda.
Like many of those who became rich as the Soviet Union collapsed, Mr Pinchuk has been targeted by gangsters and attracted controversy.
Born in Kiev in 1960, he grew up in Dnipropetrovsk and studied at the city’s metallurgical institute before beginning a career as a research engineer in pipe production.
He founded Interpipe in 1990 just as the Soviet Union was breaking up. In 1996, he was kidnapped by gangsters and freed after several weeks when a ransom was paid.
He was already married when he met his second wife, Elena Franchuk, a year later in 1997. She was also married but each left their spouses and wed in 2002. Mrs Franchuk, as she then was, is the daughter of Leonid Kuchma, who was Ukraine’s president from 1994 to 2005.
It was during this period that Mr Pinchuk, who was already successful, turned himself into a billionaire.
His rise did not come without some controversy. Interpipe bought a 50 per cent stake in the Nikopol steel plant in 2003 for $80 million.
The sale was contested two years later following a change in government. Viktor Yushchenko, the president who came to power after the Orange Revolution, said: “Despite all of Pinchuk’s sniffles and groans, the factory will be returned to the state.” In fact, Mr Yushchenko was still in power when the privatisation was confirmed as lawful………....

Stealth Players: Who's on Putin's American Payroll?

What's not included in the NBC News article by Eamon Javers, is that the British have been working to separate Russia from the EU as is evidenced by the fact that GPlus Europe, which is a subsidy of Ketchum specializes in recruiting former EU officials and well known journalists. For example, Gregor Kreuzhber, who leads GPlus Europe leads the company's pro-Gazprom operations.

Germany strongly disagrees with Britain attempting to isolate Russia and its continued attempts through IMF and the World Trade Organization (WTO) lackeys like Catherine Ashton to push Russia out of the EU and pull Ukraine into the EU at the same time.

Germany is distancing itself from the U.S. Peter Witt is a retired German deputy ambassador to the EU before he was hired by GPlus. The U.S. is in an economic war with Russia.

This NBC News article is attempting to further distance Russia and isolate Vladimir Putin. All countries in some way spend money on U.S. and British public relations and law firms to represent them in the U.S. and in Britain. Russia is no different. Take a look at the PR firms in Europe and in the U.S. Israel has hired. It is astounding.

Thanks for forwarding.

*BREAKING* Leak : Estonian FM says Maidan snipers were not Yanukovich's

MOSCOW – Russia’s TNK-BP said Thursday that it is in talks with its 50 percent shareholder, BP Plc, on the troubled giant’s Venezuelan assets, valued at some $1 billion.

The smaller company supports BP’s plans to restructure its assets in Venezuela and is actively considering the possibility of participating in these projects, a TNK executive told Russian state-owned news agency RIA-Novosti.

“TNK-BP views this as a possibility to increase its international assets portfolio and expand its presence in Venezuela,” the spokesman said.

The executive recalled that TNK-BP already participates in oil exploration and production in Venezuela as a member of a consortium that partners with state oil company PDVSA.

“We think the realignment of BP’s assets is in the interest of both companies and also will contribute to the efficient development of Venezuela’s oil sector,” the TNK-BP representative said.

Western media report that BP, which plans to sell assets valued at $30 billion to cover the costs of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is in talks with its Russian joint venture on the possible transfer of its Venezuelan oil assets.

Those assets include BP’s minority stakes in two oil exploration and production projects being carried out jointly with PDVSA, although a BP representative characterized that information as “rumor and speculation.”

BP and Russian consortium AAR, whose largest shareholder is billionaire Mikhail Fridman, each own 50 percent stakes in TNK-BP, which was founded in 2003.

TNK-BP has production assets in western and eastern Siberia and the Volga-Ural Mountains region. The company also manages five refineries in Russia and the Ukraine and a network of 1,400 service stations that operate under both brands, TNK and BP.

TNK-BP, which also owns 50 percent of Russian oil and gas company Slavneft, accounts for 16 percent of Russian crude production.

The company’s proven reserves, calculated according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules, amounted to nearly 8.59 billion barrels on Dec. 31 of last year.