Those that vanished from Mexican Bar!

Mexico City sees its share of protests, but this one was unusual.

One woman wept. Other protesters shouted at the tops of their lungs, demanding answers. Still others showed pictures of their relatives to puzzled passersby.

The protesters who gathered Thursday are relatives of 11 party-goers who went missing more than a week ago from a bar in a posh Mexico City neighborhood known as “Zona Rosa,” or Pink Zone. The area has a vibrant night scene with bars, nightclubs and upscale restaurants on every street.

The protesters say their relatives were kidnapped on May 26 as they were partying at Heaven, an after-hours bar in the neighborhood. All 11 disappeared sometime between 10 a.m. and noon, they say.

The bar is only steps away from Paseo de la Reforma, an iconic avenue in central Mexico City. The emblematic Angel of Independence monument is nearby, as are the U.S. Embassy and the financial district.

Guadalupe Dominguez, a relative of one of the missing, said a witness told her the 11 people were kidnapped by armed men who showed up in SUVs, but authorities say there’s no evidence of such an incident.

“A young fellow who managed to escape was the one who told us about it, but we don’t really know anything else,” Dominguez said.

Most of those hanging out at the after-hours bar were in their 20s, except for Yersi Ortiz, who is 16. Maria Teresa Ramos, Ortiz’s grandmother, said relatives are mystified and want answers.

“This supposedly happened on Sunday in broad daylight. This couldn’t have happened during the day and only a few steps from Reforma Avenue without anybody noticing. There should be surveillance cameras that can show us exactly what happened,” Ramos said.

Maria del Carmen Zamudio, another relative at the protest, said the witness told them the young people were all suddenly told to leave.

“The (bar) owner apparently told them that there was going to be a police operation and turned the lights off. He told them to get out, and armed men in black SUVs were already waiting for them outside,” Zamudio said.

Police say there was no such operation. Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said authorities are treating the incident as a missing-person case because so far there’s no evidence the young people were kidnapped.

“For now, we haven’t been able to confirm how this happened or the specific location where (these young people) were kidnapped. What we have is a missing persons report and the knowledge that they’re missing. We have to do something to find them,” Mancera said.

Mexico City District Attorney Rodolfo Rios Garza said security cameras at the bar were not working, but authorities are relying on city cameras installed in the neighborhood.

So far, Rios Garza said, their analysis of surveillance video from these cameras does not show any incidents of violence in or around the bar where the kidnapping supposedly took place.

Authorities searched the bar and found illegal drugs but no signs of forced entry or anything that would indicate the young people had been kidnapped, Rios Garza said.

More than 26,000 people have gone missing in Mexico over the past six years as violence surged and the country’s government cracked down on drug cartels, according to Mexico’s Interior Ministry. Authorities don’t have data about how many of the disappearances are connected with organized crime.

The 26,121 disappearances occurred during former President Felipe Calderon’s six-year administration, which ended on December 1 when Enrique Pena Nieto assumed the presidency.

The bar has been shut down while the investigation into the disappearances continues. The Mexican attorney general‘s office has also joined the investigation.

The bar where the young people were last seen is not far from another nightclub where Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of civil rights activist Malcolm X, was beaten to death on May 9. Shabazz, 28, was found just outside the bar by police at 3:30 a.m. one block south of Plaza Garibaldi.

Two bartenders were arrested in connection with Shabazz’s killing, according to the office of the Mexico City attorney general. Rios Garza said the men work at the bar, The Palace Club, where Shabazz and three people had drinks. An argument ensued when the staff said the bill was $1,200. Shabazz was beaten while another man was threatened and stripped of his belongings, Rios said.

CNN‘s Steve Almasy and Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report.

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King Obama born in Kantadhiang Village Kenya, Not hawaii!

U.S. Supreme Court accepts an Obama Birther Case after President Obama’s Kenya African birth certificate comes forward

Breaking News : U.S. Supreme Court:
On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court scheduled a birther case brought on by Orly Taitz which calls into question Barack Hussein Obama’s eligibility to be president of the United States. Below is the actual birth record from the Kenyan Government. Obama spent over 9 million in tax dollars to keep this hush hush. Well Now we sit by for the verdict. Thanks to CNN for this wonderful news

 

Shooting on outskirts of Milwaukee, Wisconsin atleast 3 dead!

At least three people were killed and four others were injured in a shooting at a spa and beauty salon near a mall on the outskirts of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (U.S.), and the suspect is still in missing, according to police and hospital sources.

The police chief in Brookfield, Dan Tushaus, said in a press conference that three of the shooting victims have died and four others are injured.

Police have released a photo of the suspect, a black man, 45, identified as Radcliffe Haughton, and asked anyone who sees it to contact the authorities immediately.

Haughton’s vehicle, a 2003 Mazda, has been located, but the suspect is still missing.

According Tushaus, explosives were found in the spa where the shooting took place apparently placed by the suspect.

Thomas Ahern, a spokesman for the Agency for the Control of Alcohol, Snuff, Firearms and Explosives (ATF, in English), told CNN that the shooting is being investigated as an incident of domestic violence.

According to local television, Haughton is the husband of one of the employees of Azana Salon & Spa, located next to the Brookfield Square mall.

At the spa the shooting occurred around 11.00 local time (16.00 GMT) when Haughton allegedly entered the room and started shooting, according to the account of Ahern.

Television networks have been intermittently showing images of the mall, located just outside of Milwaukee, surrounded by ambulances and police and fire vehicles.

Agents of the FBI and the ATF are also in the scene conducting preliminary investigations.

In 2005 a man killed seven people during a religious service in a hotel near this mall.

On August 5 at least seven people were killed in a shooting at a temple of the Sikh community also located just outside Milwaukee.

Just two weeks earlier, on July 20, 12 people died and 52 were injured in another shooting at a cinema in the town of Aurora, near Denver (Colorado).

 

Our USA under seige! Failed Foreign Policy Obamas’ legacy!

Principle of a sonar or radar distance measurement Svenska: Princip för avståndsmätning med sonar eller radar (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Obamas Foreign Policy at work!

Under seige media detects the submarines, not Sonar!!!

 

tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer- this matters!

The tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer went on sale today, crashing its distributors’ websites on the way to selling out within hours of launch.

Looking like little more than a credit card-sized chip of circuit board, the powerful, fully-programmable PC can plug into any TV and can power 3D graphics and Blu-ray video playback.

Its British-based designers at the Raspberry Pi Foundation hope the computer, which has been in the works for six years, will spark new interest in programming among children.

“The primary goal was to build a low cost computer that every child could own, and one where programming was the natural thing to do with it,” said co-founder Robert Mullins.

The computer’s miniature uncased circuit board is crowded with an Ethernet connection for the internet, two USB ports and an SD card port for memory and is powered by a standard USB mobile charger.

The low-cost computer runs a free, open-source Linux operating system and does not include a monitor or keyboard.

The first version of the Raspberry Pi will ship soon to developers, and the hope is that they will design software that will enable children to design their own computer programs.

The project came about when a group of Cambridge-based computer programmers noticed that fewer and less-qualified students were applying for computer science courses at Cambridge University.

Inspired by computers like the BBC Micro and the Commodore 64 in the 1980s, the group of engineers set out to build a new programmable machine for a new generation.

“Each year we had fewer and fewer students applying, and most of them hadn’t really done much more than write a web page,” Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton told CNN. “So we kind of set out to recreate that feeling of the BBC Micro in the hopes it would spark a new wave of kids knowing how to program.”

Upton told CNN that an even cheaper version of the computer, which will retail for just $25, is going into production within the next several weeks.

In the long term, he hopes the computer will generate an additional 1,000 engineers in the UK each year — an “industry-changing development”, according to Upton.

“Anyone who expresses a desire to get into designing software should have a platform to do it,” he said

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Rt.com; claiming history over Sopa News!

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RT broke the story and continued to follow through with update after update throughout the evening, the other outlets left the story where they thought it belonged: under the radar of their own audiences. The campaign that took down at least half a dozen major sites became the largest assault organized by operatives with the loose knit collective Anonymous, with close to 6,000 people at one point engaged in the online war.

Hours later, CNN chimed in. MSNBC followed through as well. Fox News? Well, they didn’t say anything. Fox might call themselves the most trusted name in news, but it is easy to get away with that if you don’t report any. You can’t be reporting lies if you don’t report anything, now can you?

Big Government, the website run by Andrew Breitbart that attacked RT in recent weeks for our coverage of Editor in Chief Dana Loesch’s enthusiasm and support for the US Marines that urinated on slain Afghans, eventually carried the story as well — also hours after the fact.

On Thursday afternoon, the retaliation for the Megaupload raid brought RIAA.org, Copyright.gov and Justice.gov to a crippling halt, forcing the sites offline after thousands of users participated in an online campaign to demand the US reassess their War on the Web. Also affected was the official government site for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the online hubs for the Motion Picture Association of America and Universal Music Group, the largest record label in America that had previously put out a hit on Megaupload. The White House was also faced with an all-out web assault, but despite the massive campaign that nearly brown down the Executive Branch’s online presence, the mainstream media was just as in the dark as the RIAA’s website.

Hours after we first started reporting, one email rolled into the RT Web Department, in which an operative participating in the Anonymous-led campaign wrote that they had been approached by CNN, “but I can be of service to RT, because I believe they’re real news.”

 

Blog del Narco and Mundo Narco, Website shut down? Why?

The editors of Blog del Narco and Mundo Narco, best known for publishing uncensored, grisly images of Mexico’s drug conflict, say they had to move to a new website after the Mexican government complained to their former hosting platform, Blogger. According to the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, since October 24^th, it became difficult to access the blog through several Internet browsers, including Google Chrome. In a statement published on the website and distributed through Twitter, the anonymous blog founders said they were changing domain names due to “questions of security.” Much of the site’s archives appear to be lost or moved in part over to Blog del Capo.

With a reported three million visits a week, the Blog del Narco was one of Mexico’s best well known websites which track drug violence, compiling video, breaking news and graphic photos. The blog is less than three years old but in some ways became synonymous in the international media for the anonymous documentation of drug-related deaths. Blog del Narco also monitored the expansion of drug gang tactics to include uniforms, armored cars and other high-power weaponry. In some cases, criminal gangs would reportedly distribute videos and other promotional material (like photos of a hitman and his attractive stream of girlfriends) directly to the website. Imitation sites like Diario del Narcoand La Policiaca both perform the same service as Blog del Narco, often using similar design. But no anonymous website on Mexican violence became quite as public as the Blog del Narco did.

If Blog del Narco did in fact begin experiencing technical difficulties due to interference from the government or “other people who want to censure us,” as one editor told the Knight Center, it would coincide with recent threats by criminal gang the Zetas against similar media sites. The Zetas were reportedly behind the killing of two people in early September, who were left hanging off a bridge in Nuevo Laredo alongside a banner which threatened “Internet snitches.” The sign explicitly named Blog del Narco and two other websites. Shortly afterwards a site administrator at Nuevo Laredo en Vivo, a chat site where residents swap security tips, was killed, her decapitated body dumped by a road.

As for Blog del Narco’s implication that the “government” wanted the site shut down, there could be some weight to this argument considering that earlier this year, many of Mexico’s larger media organizations agreed to follow self-imposed guidelines when reporting on the drug violence. These measures included refusing to publish “propaganda” by drug cartels. A broad definition of “propaganda” could include the same raw coverage supplied by Blog del Narco, which refused at the time to pay attention to the mainstream media pact.

It is possible that Blog del Narco, while in some cases the alleged favored vehicle for some thugs to distribute their videos and photos, could also be viewed as a threat by criminal groups nervous about having their illicit activity documented and discussed online. Blog del Narco performed the key service of recording the extent of Mexico’s drug violence, even as many other local newspapers feared to do so. But the blog also served a useful purpose for drug gangs looking to promote themselves as violent, powerful, and willing to stop at nothing. Mexico’s drug conflict has a key propaganda component, and Blog del Narco, as the most visible of the drug violence blogs, played a key role in the cartels’ efforts to brand themselves online.

At its best, the website was a useful symbol for the power of non-traditional media and the importance of recording the brutal toll of Mexico’s drug conflict. At its worst, the website invited criticism that it was little more than an “amarillista” (yellow journalism) tabloid gone digital.