16 Cleveland officers decline to testify in police shooting case, prosecutor likens it to 'organized crime syndicate'

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Prosecutor Timothy McGinty says he's run into a blue wall of silence.

Before Officer Michael Brelo's trial began, 16 Cleveland police officers declined to meet with prosecutors to review their testimony about the officer's shooting of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams.

Once the case reached a courtroom, seven officers exercised their 5th Amendment rights and refused to testify about Brelo, who prosecutors say leaped onto the hood of Russell's car after a lengthy pursuit and fired 15 rounds from his pistol, killing both occupants.

The officers' lack of cooperation led McGinty to ask the court to treat them as hostile witnesses. In court documents, he likened their silence to the actions of an "organized crime syndicate."

McGinty declined to comment on the pending case, but in court documents his office has lambasted the officers and the police union.

"This unprecedented failure to cooperate with investigators then and now is relevant and direct evidence that some of these Cleveland police officers subpoenaed to testify refuse to do their duty and are adverse to the best interests of the city," prosecutors wrote.

 http://lat.ms/1B7wSr2

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Ep. 41 Occupy: COIN -Guest: Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Record Date: 5/14/2015

Guest: Michael Gould-Wartofsky

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Occupy Interview Ep.  1
Merry Christmas from the 12/12 Port Blockade



Ep. 2
OccupyInterview.com - Radio - With guest Brandon Turbeville --Occupy and Tea Party Join Forces to Defeat Unconstitutional NDAA


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Ep. 4 Occupy: Delphi
Combating the Delphi Technique and #Occupy Infiltration"


Ep. 5 Occupy: Crackdown
Kevin Gosztola of Firedoflake.com about the recent Truthout FOIA request that reveals DHS direction of the crackdown on Occupy


Ep. 6 Occupy: 9/11
Occupy Interview Radio with Kevin Ryan


Ep. 7 Occupy: Machiavellian Democracy
John P. McCormick, Professor, Political Science Department, University of Chicago


Ep. 8 Occupy: Mayday
May Day and the History of the Workers Rights
Guest Jacob Remes - May Day's Radical History: What Occupy Is Fighting for This May 1st

Ep. 9 Occupy: Ballot Box
w/Cliff Arnebeck 


Ep. 10 Occupy: Political Prisoner
 w/ David Somerville 


Ep. 11 Occupy: Constitutional Law
Dr. Edwin Vieira http://edwinvieira.com/


Ep. 12 Occupy: Count the Votes
Founder and Director of Black Box Voting Bev  Harris


Ep. 13 Occupy: Third Party Debates
"From the Third Party Debate" - The r3volution and an Independent meets Occupy!


Ep. 14 Occupy: Media
Ben Swann ... award winning journalist kicked off the Season opener for Occupy Interview


Ep. 15 Occupy: Road to Damascus 
Road to Damascus  with  writer Brandon Turbeville



Ep. 16 Occupy: Liberal
The "iconic shot" on the OASN masthead at the top of the page was the subject of one of our earliest blogs. Take a close look at that picture.

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Ep. 17 Occupy: 1776



Ep. 18 Occupy: Gold
Terry Bain (from Occupy America) and Robin interview Anthem Blanchard about the monetary and banking system, sound money and gold, in particular…



Ep. 19 Occupy: Malthus Mistake

See the Tiny Blue Dot above the arrow – You Are Here. This is a Postcard of “Home Sweet Home,” from the Cassini Spacecraft at Saturn.
I don’t think you can see Uranus from here.  Somebody commented “Take it again, my eyes were closed.” Our very special guest for this Podcast, Melinda Pillsbury-Foster said, “I did not see me. Was I smiling?”  Listen to the Podcast, you’ll agree she probably was. She added, “Climb out of your paradigm today -It’s the shortest journey to the longest view.”

Ep. 20 Occupy: Space
  According to Planetary Society, "In 200,000 years of human existence, people have walked on the Moon only in the last 44." One comment asks, "66 years after the 1st powered flight, man landed on the moon 44 years later what's the goal for humans in space?"  And another notes"Or, sadly, in the narrow range from 44 to 41 years ago." Census data says median age for 2010 was 37.2 years of age, so about half the people in the country aren't old enough to have seen any moonwalks.



Ep. 21 Occupy: Constitutional Militia

Record Date: 10/28/2013
Guest is Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr.

 
Ep. 22 Occupy: False Flag 101
Context is everything - Our guest for this episode is Ziad Amin Abu Fadel of  Syrian Perspective.  Co-hosts are Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, and Brandon Turbeville. Occupy Syria reached out to OASN Occupy America for support.



E. 23 Occupy: Securitization



E 24 Occupy: Peaceful Streets

 

Ep. 25 Occupy: Support Your Local Sheriff
Record Date:  1/28/2014 --Guest:  Richard Mack -- Co-host: Ben Swann



Ep. 26 Occupy: Independent Voters
Record Date: 2/6/2014
Guest:  Chad Peace (IVCMediaLLC.com)

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Ep. 27 Occupy: Sovereignty
Record Date: 2/12/2014
 Guest:  Richard Fry, Co-founder RT2A and Defend not Amend


Ep.28 Occupy: Growth
Record Date: 2/19/2014
Guest:  Dr. Walter Block
"Walter Block, an Austrian school economist and anarcho-libertarian philosopher, is Harold E. Wirth Eminent Scholar Chair in Economics and Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans and Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute."



Ep. 29 Occupy: "Secure These Rights..."
Record Date:  2/21/2014 Guest:  KrisAnne Hall
"KrisAnne Hall is a former prosecutor and Constitutional attorney who was fired from her job for teaching the Constitution to citizen groups. She is a disabled veteran of the US Army, a Russian linguist, a mother, a pastor's wife and a patriot. Her former employer

Ep. 30 Occupy: What Really Happened
Record Date:  4/7/14
Guests: Michael and Claire Rivero  --Michael is webmaster of whatreallyhappened.com and host of the What Really Happened radio shows on the Republic Broadcasting Network. The whatreallyhappened.com website is now in its 18th year.

Ep. 31 Occupy: Security
 Record Date: 4/15/14
Guests: David Callihan, President of Revitalizing the 2nd Amendment, RT2A Citizens' Homeland Security Associations, Oathkeeper chapter leader in Tallahassee Florida Sheriff Jeff Christopher, Sussex County, Delaware, CSPOA

Ep. 32 Occupy: Robbing Cowboys and Indians
Record Date: 4/22/2014Guests Richard Mack, Raymond Yowell, Ramona Hage MorrisonUpdate - see links at  http://12160.info/m/blogpost?id=2649739%3ABlogPost%3A1456918



Ep. 33 Occupy Stop LAPD Spying
 Record Date: 4/28/2014Guest Jamie Garciahttp://stoplapdspying.org/

 

Ep. 34 Occupy: Anomie



Ep. 35 Occupy: Occupation
Record Date: 10/03/2014Guest: Sam Bahour"Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American business consultant at aim.ps in Ramallah and serves as a policy adviser to Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network.



Ep. 36 Occupy: Fusion

 Record Date:  10/24/14  Guest Hamid Khan, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition"The STOP LAPD SPYING COALITION – Campaign to Rescind Special Order 1(1) is an alliance of different organizations (and, in our case, individuals), each with their own interests, mission and vision, that come together to collaborate and take collective action together toward a common goal(s). We reject all forms of police oppression and any policy that make us all suspects in the eyes of the State. Our vision is the dismantling of government-sanctioned spying and intelligence gathering, in all its multiple forms.

Ep. 37 Occupy: Phoenix -- No Game, No Joke
10/27/2014 Guests;  Doug Valentine   Brendan McQuade Additional Links http://m.democracynow.org/web_exclusives/1762 "Offensive CCI can be leveraged in a number of ways including the use of sock puppets (or fake personas) on online forums to gather information about adversary intelligence collection operations



Ep. 38 Occupy: Relief
11/20/2014Guests: Brandi Williams,  Pastor Renita Lamkinhttp://operationhelporhush.org/donate/



Ep 39 Occupy: Frontier
 

Ep. 40 Occupy: Decolonize

Record Date: 3/13/2015Guest Dr. Michael Yellow Bird
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