Amerika na ivici propasti?

[Ghoul]

uragan sandy zahvatio i sagitu. nema zive duse! ajd gul, ali on se ne broji.

ja sam nebrojiv.

[Lord Kufer]

Sandman ima da gi buglarizuje 

[Lord Kufer]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6addbOCcAE9QMq.jpg:large

[džin tonik]

ja sam nebrojiv.

gul je inventar.

[Ghoul]

gul je, sine, qua non.

[džin tonik]

svidja mi se ova gule.

[Barbarin]

Sandy_ConEd Explosion



Men Dance Behind Reporter Covering Hurricane Sandy In Atlantic City


Dvorišni pas

[džin tonik]

[Lord Kufer]

Okupaj Volstrit...

[džin tonik]

lol

[Barbarin]

86th Street Subway tunnel under water, photographer unknown.



Početak horor priče 

[mirkiekishka]

http://youtu.be/y-oQrDhqhTI

[Ghoul]

lepo je reko taxista:
Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Слабо је ово. 

[džin tonik]

jbt, a sta bi ti dzone? independance day sa alternativnim krajom?

[-_-]

Šest lažnih fotografija uragana "Sendi" koje kruže Internetom

[Tex Murphy]

Okupaj Volstrit...

[Lord Kufer]

Bog govori srpski 

[Hiperhik]

http://gma.yahoo.com/terrorist-offers-hurricane-aid-us-says-no-thanks-151821686--abc-news-topstories.html

[Lord Kufer]

Ovo bolan nije predviđeno...

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/weather/2012/11/02/ac-intv-sandy-staten-island-molinaro.cnn?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Ви хев но карс! Президент Обама, плииз, лисен ту ас даун хир! Вир гона дај!

[Meho Krljic]

 

Court OKs warrantless use of hidden surveillance cameras

Police are allowed in some circumstances to install hidden surveillance cameras on private property without obtaining a search warrant, a federal judge said yesterday.
CNET has learned that U.S. District Judge William Griesbach ruled that it was reasonable for Drug Enforcement Administration agents to enter rural property without permission -- and without a warrant -- to install multiple "covert digital surveillance cameras" in hopes of uncovering evidence that 30 to 40 marijuana plants were being grown.
This is the latest case to highlight how advances in technology are causing the legal system to rethink how Americans' privacy rights are protected by law. In January, the Supreme Court rejected warrantless GPS tracking after previously rejecting warrantless thermal imaging, but it has not yet ruled on warrantless cell phone tracking or warrantless use of surveillance cameras placed on private property without permission.
Yesterday Griesbach adopted a recommendation by U.S. Magistrate Judge William Callahan dated October 9. That recommendation said that the DEA's warrantless surveillance did not violate the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and requires that warrants describe the place that's being searched.
"The Supreme Court has upheld the use of technology as a substitute for ordinary police surveillance," Callahan wrote.
Two defendants in the case, Manuel Mendoza and Marco Magana of Green Bay, Wis., have been charged with federal drug crimes after DEA agent Steven Curran claimed to have discovered more than 1,000 marijuana plants grown on the property, and face possible life imprisonment and fines of up to $10 million. Mendoza and Magana asked Callahan to throw out the video evidence on Fourth Amendment grounds, noting that "No Trespassing" signs were posted throughout the heavily wooded, 22-acre property owned by Magana and that it also had a locked gate.

Callahan based his reasoning on a 1984 Supreme Court case called Oliver v. United States, in which a majority of the justices said that "open fields" could be searched without warrants because they're not covered by the Fourth Amendment. What lawyers call "curtilage," on the other hand, meaning the land immediately surrounding a residence, still has greater privacy protections.
"Placing a video camera in a location that allows law enforcement to record activities outside of a home and beyond protected curtilage does not violate the Fourth Amendment," Justice Department prosecutors James Santelle and William Lipscomb told Callahan.
As digital sensors become cheaper and wireless connections become more powerful, the Justice Department's argument would allow police to install cameras on private property without court oversight -- subject only to budgetary limits and political pressure.
About four days after the DEA's warrantless installation of surveillance cameras, a magistrate judge did subsequently grant a warrant. But attorneys for Mendoza and Magana noticed that the surveillance took place before the warrant was granted.
"That one's actions could be recorded on their own property, even if the property is not within the curtilage, is contrary to society's concept of privacy," wrote Brett Reetz, Magana's attorney, in a legal filing last month. "The owner and his guest... had reason to believe that their activities on the property were not subject to video surveillance as it would constitute a violation of privacy."
A jury trial has been scheduled for January 22.

[Meho Krljic]

[Tex Murphy]

Империја Зла се неминовно ближи свом крају и то је оно што радује. Тако да је свеједно која од ове двије марионете ће да побиједи. Ипак, навијам за Ромнија, чисто не би ли се они изразито напорни и иритантни фанови Барака Обмане мало изнервирали.

Осим тога, добили су црнца у Бијелој кући, сад би вала могли и једног мормона.

[scallop]

Morona? Pa, to je u opisu radnog mesta.

[Lord Kufer]

Their job is to fail 

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Ипак, навијам за Ромнија, чисто не би ли се они изразито напорни и иритантни фанови Барака Обмане мало изнервирали.

Барака ХУСЕИНА Обмане. Иначе, +1.

Ромни има занимљиве и живописне крелце око себе, кога има Обмана? Ону Клинтонову некрофилку и све неке иритирајуће фаце. Ех, да. Како не навијати за човека са фризуром какву фура Ромни? 

[scallop]

Glasanje je u utorak, a ja ne videh da je neko ovde napaljen.

[Karl Rosman]

Glasanje je u utorak, a ja ne videh da je neko ovde napaljen.

Mozda tu, ali negde tamo nekog ipak pogadjaju izbori? 

Tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney

[Meho Krljic]

Ромни има занимљиве и живописне крелце око себе, кога има Обмана? Ону Клинтонову некрофилку и све неке иритирајуће фаце.

Ali Klintonka se svejedno povlači sa funkcije DS i ako pobedi Obama, tako da bi bilo lepo da umesto nje svoje staro radno mesto dobije Kondoliza Rajs, čisto rasne ujednačenosti radi.

[Meho Krljic]

Hurricane Sandy's darker side: Looting and other crime

Residents say the Rockaways is a family friendly place. But Hurricane Sandy's aftereffects are making the area more dangerous, with looting and robberies, despite an increased police presence. By Amy Lieberman | Christian Science Monitor – 13 hrs ago
  The last bus from Brooklyn rolled into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of the Rockaways, Queens, on Friday evening just before 6 p.m., as darkness slipped quickly over the beach-town streets, obscuring curbside piles of discarded furniture and electronics.
No lights powered on inside the modest one and two-story houses, as they haven't for the past five nights, since Hurricane Sandy – a post-tropical cyclone with 80 mile-per-hour winds – struck this small peninsula and the greater New York City area and New Jersey on Monday, knocking out power for 3.5 million homes and businesses.
When the bus stopped, the 11 passengers scuttled out and set off for home, without lingering on the normally commercial street. Residents describe the Rockaways as a family friendly place, with certain pockets of rough neighborhoods.
But some people say Sandy's aftereffect of darkness is making the area more dangerous, resulting in looting and at-home robberies, despite an increased police presence.
"I saw this guy stealing televisions from a nursing home right on the boardwalk on Tuesday, and the workers were chasing him up the street," said Ben Cooper, who lives in Belle Harbor. "Every time I saw him he had a different TV."
IN PICTURES: Sandy: Chronicle of an unrelenting storm
Mr. Cooper and a few friends stood talking on his house's porch. It was about 7:45 p.m. and they were the only people around. The ocean breeze was getting colder and stronger. He held his flashlight and looked out onto the street, which was still covered with sand.
"There's no lights, there's no cameras, there's no alarms, there's no nothing. It's kind of scary, you know?" he said.
His neighbor, Talentin Gutierez showed a reporter a borrowed generator, worth about $2,000. His was robbed the other day. Tonight, he will sleep in his car – wrecked from water damage – to guard the generator.
An hour later, a New York City Police Department officer looked on as four National Guards unloaded cases of bottled water and ready-to-eat emergency food packs outside a recently launched community center half a block away.
Looting and robberies have been up across all of New York City since Sandy hit, said the officer.
In Far Rockaway Peninsula, 15 people were charged with looting businesses on Wednesday. Reported arrests in Manhattan, Coney Island, Brooklyn, and Staten Island for looting at businesses like supermarkets and sneaker stores totaled 20 last week.
An NYPD spokesperson said in a phone interview that a team is currently investigating how the blackout for swaths of the city has impacted looting and robbery rates in New York City.
In New Jersey, the Monmouth County prosecutor was quoted as saying that police made 25 arrests for burglaries and looting incidents. But Governor Chris Christie has said that there is no evidence of widespread looting in the state.
Back in the Rockaways, about 20 blocks away from Belle Harbor, Candice Dugar waited in line for soup nearby a well-lit police precinct. She said she heard about a break-in at a sneaker store, Lee's, and a local convenience store nearby a group of public housing projects.
Melvin Flemings said a group of men looted a liquor store near the police precinct in this neighborhood, Rockaway Park, and are now selling the alcohol on the beach.
Not everyone in the neighborhood has heard of looting and robberies since Sandy.
"I haven't heard anything, but if they are taking from the grocery stores, it's because they need it," said Rebecca Kelly talking as she ate a cup of soup. "There's no grocery stores open."
The community center, one of several that have popped up since Sandy, was one of the few places lit as the night thickened and the streets cleared of people. It's powered by solar panels from a Greenpeace truck, which arrived Thursday with groups of volunteers and former Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.
Two local women helped out inside the center, passing out food and clothing. They waited until after 10 p.m. for friends to accompany them on their 5 minute walk home. They are afraid of more than just petty crime, a concern they never had before they lost electricity.
One older woman, who asked only to be identified by her first name, Rosemary, said someone tried to break into her house early Tuesday morning when she was asleep. Today, she found her front door frame ripped off.
"Everything is dark. People take advantage of that factor. It's only normal. It's not only here," she said.
Beatrice Loperfito witnessed two separate attempted home robberies last night. "I heard them breaking windows and I went out with my flashlight. These guys ran and the cops came."
She said she is more worried, though, about the two convicted rapists living on her block.
"I have to protect myself. I have nothing else to give but myself. Everything else is all gone," she explained.
The women and the rest of the volunteers eventually left and the lingering community center volunteers locked its doors close to 11 p.m., leaving bread and water outside.
Inside, the roaming police cars' blue and red beams reflected through the center's glass doors and onto a wall throughout the night.
In the morning, sunlight faded in slowly at 7 a.m. On the main drag in Belle Harbor, small groups of people huddled, waiting for express buses to Brooklyn and Queens.

[Lord Kufer]

Odlično su se snašli. Amerika - zemlja oportunista!

[Father Jape]

Da sam odrastao uz xkcd sada bih radio u statističkom zavodu. Ustvari, i ovako mi je malo falilo.


http://xkcd.com/1127/

[Ugly MF]

Why is the US military preparing for a zombie apocalypse?

That's the latest training exercise that US Marines and Navy special-operations forces will be taking part in on an island off the coast of San Diego – starting on Wednesday, aka Halloween.

"This is a very real exercise. This is not some type of big costume party," Brad Barker, president of the Halo Corp. security company, told the Associated Press.

[RECOMMENDED: War games – Pentagon's 3 nightmare scenario]

This scenario is dire, modeled in part on a public-service campaign that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched last year, warning that US citizens should be prepared in the event of a zombie invasion.

It will play out Wednesday and Thursday at Halo's annual Counter-Terrorism Summit security conference, which will be attended by, among other people, former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden.

Zombies will invade Paradise Point Resort, which covers 44 acres on an island that will be transformed with Hollywood-style sets, including a Middle Eastern village and a pirate cove. Some 1,000 US military personnel, police, and state and federal government officials will be charged with responding.

"No doubt when a zombie apocalypse occurs, it's going to be a federal incident, so we're making it happen," Mr. Barker told the AP.

The training scenario has not come without its share of unwelcome attention, he noted, adding that "every whack job in the world" has called about the exercise.

Barker acknowledges that the "zombie apocalypse is very whimsical," telling the Military Times that the scenario was created to "add some levity to the more-dire scenarios summitgoers will encounter," including terrorists roaming hospital halls shooting people and pilots trapped behind enemy lines.

That said, an affinity for zombie television shows and movies could help provide a teachable moment not only for US troops, but also for the American public.

This is particularly true when it comes to the uncertainty that surrounds unexpected catastrophic events, including natural disasters and terrorist attacks.

"No one knows what the zombies will do in our scenario, but quite frankly, no one knows what a terrorist will do," Barker told the AP. "If a law-enforcement officer sees a zombie and says, 'Freeze, get your hands in the air!' what's a zombie going to do? He's going to moan at you. If someone on PCP or some other psychotic drug is told that, the truth is he's not going to react to you."

When it launched its awareness campaign last year on a zombie apocalypse, the CDC used it as a chance to encourage Americans to be prepared for any unexpected emergency.

"We have a very small office and an equally small budget," Maggie Silver, a CDC official, told ABC News. "So we had to do something that wasn't going to take a lot of manpower or dollars."

The CDC recommended doing things such as stocking up on water (one gallon per person per day), food (nonperishable items you eat regularly), tools like duct tape, a battery-powered radio, and blankets.

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security released its own tongue-in-cheek webinar about zombie preparation as an "effective way of engaging new audiences," as one FEMA official noted.

The CDC zombie campaign grew out of an effort "to spice up our general preparedness message," added Ms. Silver. "We decided, why not give people what they want?"

[Lord Kufer]

It's not over until the director says its over...


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57544997/superstorm-sandys-victims-brace-for-new-storm/

Superstorm Sandy's victims brace for new storm

NEW YORK A new storm was expected to hit the New York-New Jersey region still shivering and cleaning up after last week's Superstorm Sandy, bringing the threat of 55 mph gusts and more beach erosion, flooding and rain by Wednesday.

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New Yorkers helping neighbors after Sandy

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Cold weather a new problem for Sandy victims

Temperatures dipped toward freezing early Monday, and tens of thousands of people without power along the ravaged Atlantic coastline faced the growing certainly that they would have to find somewhere else to stay. Especially hard hit were the thousands in public housing, who often have no place to go and barricade themselves in darkened apartments for the 12 hours of night.

"Nights are the worst because you feel like you're outside when you're inside," said Genice Josey, a Far Rockaway resident who sleeps under three blankets and wears long johns under her pajamas. "You shiver yourself to sleep."

David Bernard, chief meteorologist for CBS' Miami station WFOR-TV, reports that between Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning the storm will begin to gather strength off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

The weather will likely deteriorate across the Northeast during the day Wednesday, Bernard reports. Even inland areas like Washington, D.C., could see a heavy, wet snow Wednesday evening before changing over to rain. The bad weather could last until Thursday night and possibly even Friday night.

As more than a million students joined the morning rush hour Monday for the first time since the storm, commuters continued to wait - and sometimes sleep - in their cars in long lines for gas. Other commuters packed the limited-service Long Island trains so tightly that some people couldn't get on.

"We're a gallon away from turning into a Third World country," New York commuter Scott Sire said Monday.

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Obama on Sandy: We will put "120 percent" toward recovery

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Romney on Hurricane Sandy: "We are going through trauma"

And with the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, New York City's mayor was asked if the city would be ready for it. "I have absolutely no idea," Michael Bloomberg said.

The new storm worried the large swaths of the region that were returning to something resembling normal.

"Prepare for more outages," said National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Pollina. "Stay indoors. Stock up again."

Sandy left more than 100 people dead in 10 states. Half a million people in New York state remained without power, and more than 800,000 were without power in New Jersey a week after the storm.

To help victims of Sandy, donations to the American Red Cross can be made by visiting Red Cross disaster relief, or you can text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

With temperatures sinking into the 30s overnight, New York City officials handed out blankets and urged victims to go to overnight shelters or daytime warming centers.

But government leaders began to wonder where to find housing in the densely developed area around the largest U.S. city for the tens of thousands whose homes could be uninhabitable for weeks or months.

Bloomberg said 30,000 to 40,000 New Yorkers may need to be relocated - a monumental task in a city where housing is scarce and expensive - though he said that number will probably drop to 20,000 within a couple of weeks as power is restored in more places.

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On the Road: Children of the storm

"We're not going to let anybody go sleeping in the streets. ... But it's a challenge, and we're working on it," Bloomberg said.

One option is setting up Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer camps of the kind that existed after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, said George W. Contreras, associate director of the emergency and disaster management program at Metropolitan College of New York.

Contreras speculated that large encampments might be set up at a stadium, in a park or in some other open space in the city - something he couldn't recall being done in New York ever before.

"The amount of actual units the city might have in buildings is probably very limited, so I think people will be in FEMA shelters for a while," he said.

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Sandy's devastation on Staten Island

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Good Samaritans bring relief to Staten Island

In a powerless and heavily flooded Staten Island neighborhood, Sara Zavala sleeps under two blankets and layers of clothing. She has a propane heater but turns it on for only a couple of hours in the morning.

"When I woke up, I was like, 'It's freezing.' And I thought, 'This can't go on too much longer,'" she said Sunday.

Nearly 1 million homes and businesses were still without power in New Jersey, and about 650,000 in New York City, its northern suburbs and Long Island.

Sue Chadwick, who left her Long Island, house ahead of the storm, said Sunday night she and others were told to leave their Extended Stay America hotel rooms in Melville that she had booked through the end of next week - to make room for other storm victims.

Chadwick's own house remained uninhabitable. She found her way to Vermont to stay with family.

"It's not like I'm there on business and could catch the next plane out," she said. "There are people in worse shape, but I just feel like when people are in these dire circumstances, you don't want to make it worse."

The phone rang unanswered at the hotel Sunday night.

[Lord Kufer]

Onaj oil spill je izgleda sjebo golfsku struju...

[Alec]

Onaj oil spill je izgleda sjebo golfsku struju...

totalno

[Lord Kufer]

Blago si ga njima

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/06/opinion/ghitis-democracy-election/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

On Election Day, pause to marvel at democracy

Mogu da biraju između Ološijeg i Gorijeg.

Čudo jedno! 

[scallop]

Pobediće Mito Obate.

[Ghoul]

pobediće amerika!!!

[raindelay]

Srbija pobedila jos prosle nedelje 

[Melkor]

2012 Voting Machines Altering Votes

[mac]

Hej, ovo nisam znao, pa oni imaju četiri kandidata za predsednika.

EDIT: nije četiri nego šest. Zanimljivo je kako oni to komplikuju s tim glasanjem.

[scallop]

Evo ti pa ih broj ako te ne mrzi.


http://www.politics1.com/p2012.htm

[дејан]

од рос пероа нису имали трећег кандидата који би узео више од 5% гласова

[Barbarin]

Obama predsednik SAD još 4 godine

[Tex Murphy]

 

[Stipan]

Crnčuga...

[Meho Krljic]

Ipak im je doneo poboljšanu zdravstvenu zaštitu.

[Stipan]

Crnčugama uvek uvaljuju poslove koje nijedan pošteni belac neće obaviti...