The Swamp

The narcotics, vice and anti-gang units operating out of Homan Square, on Chicago’s west side, take arrestees to the nondescript warehouse from all over the city: police data obtained by the Guardian and mapped against the city grid show that 53% of disclosed arrestees come from more than 2.5 miles away from the warehouse. No contemporaneous public record of someone’s presence at Homan Square is known to exist.

Nor are any booking records generated at Homan Square, as confirmed by a sworn deposition of a police researcher in late September, further preventing relatives or attorneys from finding someone taken there.

“The reality is, no one knows where that person is at Homan Square,” said Craig Futterman, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who studies policing. “They’re disappeared at that point.”
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“Try finding a phone number for Homan to see if anyone’s there. You can’t, ever,” said Gaeger. “If you’re laboring under the assumption that your client’s at Homan, there really isn’t much you can do as a lawyer. You’re shut out. It’s guarded like a military installation.”

Steve of phpBB wrote:I try not to pay close attention to what any politician says, but did Netanyahu really say the Holocaust happened because an Arab cleric convinced Hitler to do it?

Joe K wrote:

Steve of phpBB wrote:I try not to pay close attention to what any politician says, but did Netanyahu really say the Holocaust happened because an Arab cleric convinced Hitler to do it?

Yes, he did, repeating a myth that's been long debunked in an effort to further demonize Palestinians. It's a joke that Netanyahu gets invited to Congress to give speeches when his attempts to sabotage any reconciliation with Iran or Palestine are directly adverse to U.S. interests in the region.

“Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time,” the prime minister said. “He wanted to expel the Jews. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said: ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here,’” meaning Palestine. Netanyahu continued: “’So what should I do with them?’ he asked. He said, ‘Burn them.’”

Numerous news accounts of the dustup simply report, like CNN’s Greg Botelho, that the facts can’t be nailed down. “There’s no video or audio, not even a transcript, that can definitively prove Netanyahu’s account of the conversation between Hitler and Husseini,” Botelho wrote.

Actually, there is a record — possibly two, in fact. Hitler’s translator, Paul Otto Schmidt, took notes at the meeting, and they’re readily available. (Find the English translation here or here.) Moreover, the mufti himself kept a diary. The common Internet version of what are said to be his notes from his Hitler powwow (here) tracks closely with Schmidt’s minutes.

Venezuela’s ruling “Chavista” coalition has responded to the setback suffered in the December 6 parliamentary elections, when it lost its long-standing majority to the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), by installing a parallel “communal parliament” that aims to exercise the same powers of the National Assembly under the Constitution.

Johnnie wrote:Angry Protesters Ransack and Torch Saudi Embassy in Iran After Mass Execution

The Middle East is such a clusterfuck.

Johnny Carwash wrote:

Johnnie wrote:Angry Protesters Ransack and Torch Saudi Embassy in Iran After Mass Execution

The Middle East is such a clusterfuck.

Nah, you're overreacting if you think Iranians attacking a foreign embassy will have massive geoplolitical implications.

Johnny Carwash wrote:

Johnnie wrote:Angry Protesters Ransack and Torch Saudi Embassy in Iran After Mass Execution

The Middle East is such a clusterfuck.

Nah, you're overreacting if you think Iranians attacking a foreign embassy will have massive geopolitical implications.

brian wrote:I would like to bet $1 million that if it was ISIS and not a bunch of white hillbillies occupying federal land that right-wingers would be calling for air strikes and the Navy SEALs to take that shit back.

brian wrote:I would like to bet $1 million that if it was ISIS and not a bunch of white hillbillies occupying federal land that right-wingers would be calling for air strikes and the Navy SEALs to take that shit back.

Johnnie wrote:Didn't Jerloma post a "Y'all Qaeda" pic when that ridiculous Hobby Lobby/Chik-Fil-A girl decided to hold a bible with her AR-15 in front of an American flag? I remember reading that on here and everyone getting a good laugh at the name.

Johnnie wrote:The other hysterical hashtag: #YokelHaram

It's so fun posting shit on my Facebook page for the TOP fundies to go nuts for.

I'm now a Senator from Obamaland!

DaveInSeattle wrote:Seems like the Super-Geniuses didn't bring enough food to their stand off...

Bundy has repeatedly said the group is prepared for the long-haul. However during a tour of the site on earlier in the day, the Guardian was shown a food storage room that did not look like it could sustain a dozen men for more than a few weeks.

It included a cardboard box of apples and oranges, a few dozen pots of instant ramen, 24 cans of chicken noodle soup, a similar number of cans of sweetcorn, peas, beans and chili, and 20 boxes of macaroni and cheese.

There were also three sacks of potatoes, one bag of flour, another of rolled oats, boxes of raisins, a single bag of pretzels and one granola bar.

DaveInSeattle wrote:Just turn off the power (its cold in them thar hills!), and shut down the nearest cell phone power and these guys will be begging for food, heat, and media access is 3 hours.

sancarlos wrote:

DaveInSeattle wrote:Just turn off the power (its cold in them thar hills!), and shut down the nearest cell phone power and these guys will be begging for food, heat, and media access is 3 hours.

DiS should be running things!

Jerloma wrote:Is it true that the government is illegally trying to force the Hammonds out of their land?

Jerloma wrote:You mean like they stopped paying taxes on it?

Jerloma wrote:You mean like they stopped paying taxes on it?

A_B wrote: Maybe I have the two mixed up, but the main crux seems to be that they say the land was theirs and they shouldn't have to pay to use it.