Establishment Dog and Pony Show to Go On Despite Hurricane

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com

Hurricane Isaac will not stop the RNC and the process of nominating Republicrat Mitt Romney to serve as chief teleprompter reader for the corporatist-bankster oligarchy.

From the AP:

The governor said during a media briefing that delegates were being told on how to stay safe during a storm, and officials were ready for storm surge, bridge closures and other problems that could arise during the convention.

Bankster Party delegates and attendees can breathe a sigh of relief, though, because the storm will put a big time damper on promised street protests.

“Protests were to start in full force on Sunday afternoon, and demonstrators have vowed that they will make their presence known rain or shine,” the AP notes

Is it possible the billions spent on weather modification warfare is being put to good use in the skies over Florida?

South Florida on alert as Tropical Storm Isaac exits Haiti, killing 3

Residents wade through a waist-deep flooded street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday as Tropical Storm Issac battered island.

August 25, 2012 – PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – At least three people died in Haiti as Tropical Storm Isaac triggered mudslides and flooding there before heading back over water and towards Cuba. Isaac should become a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday just as it nears the Florida Keys, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said, and then grow into an even stronger Category 2 storm. “Hurricane conditions are expected in the hurricane warning area in southwest Florida and the Florida Keys on Sunday,” the center said in a Saturday morning advisory. Gov. Rick Scott on Saturday declared a state of emergency to make sure local and state agencies would be ready. The center now expects Isaac to build to a Category 2 hurricane, with winds up to 110 mph, after it enters the warmer waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Isaac is a massive storm, with tropical storm-force winds extending 230 miles from the center. Key West International Airport was halting all flights at 7 p.m. Saturday until the storm had passed. In Haiti, a woman and a child in the town of Souvenance were killed in the storm, a local official reported. In the capital Port-au-Prince — where some 350,000 people are still living in tents or shelters after the 2010 Haiti earthquake — a girl, 10, was killed when a wall fell on her. Power outages and flooding were reported as Isaac moved across the hilly and severely deforested Caribbean country. “There’s a lot of rain, a lot of wind,” said Magdala Jean-Baptiste, who huddled with her frightened children in their home in the southern coastal city of Jacmel. “We haven’t had any power since the storm started yesterday. We passed the night with no sleep.”  In neighboring Dominican Republic, Isaac felled power and phone lines and left at least a dozen towns cut off by flood waters. The most severe damage was reported along the south coast, including the capital Santo Domingo, where more than half the city was without power. Cuba prepared by closing beaches and evacuating tourists in vulnerable areas, NBC’s Mary Murray and The Weather Channel’s Mike Seidel reported from Havana. Flights across Cuba were also suspended.

Feds Say Drones Will Not Patrol Skies Above RNC

Jamal Thalji
tampabay.com

Federal officials say unmanned drones will not be patrolling downtown’s skies and streets during next week’s Republican National Convention.

A Naples company planned to outfit small unmanned helicopters and ground vehicles with cameras and operate them on behalf of unnamed government agencies during the convention, according to a report that ran in the Tampa Tribune on Friday and on its website, TBO.com.

The part of the story about aerial drones patrolling the RNC is “completely inaccurate,” Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said.

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Scared of Anonymous: Tampa police prepare for mass arrests during Republican convention

RT.com
August 24, 2012

Are computer hackers, political activists and an underground army of anarchists preparing to overthrow next week’s Republican National Convention in Tampa? Police in Florida seem to think so, and are taking every precaution to prepare for violence.

Acting on the assumption that hacktivists with the loose-knit, international Anonymous collective will wage a war next week on Tampa with the help of weapon yielding anarchists angry at the Republican Party and American establishment all together, law enforcement agencies in Florida are in a hurry to secure the Sunshine State in the event that a mass orchestrated action disrupts the GOP’s national convention.

Authorities had originally deciphered YouTube videos uploaded by alleged Anonymous members to suggest that the group was calling for others to provoke criminal acts across Tampa. The discovery earlier this week of bricks and pipes on a Tampa rooftop has further led authorities to assume that anarchists will engage in a mass violent uprising to coincide with the RNC. To prepare for a mass revolt, the entirety of nearby Orient Road Jail has been emptied out on the command of Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee, who wants to ensure that the facility’s 1,700 beds can be utilized in the event of a mass arrest.

In Florida, it’s a classic case of fear mongering. Everywhere else, it’s a joke.

“It could be a 15 year old in the basement,” security reporter Bruce Schneier tells Tampa Bay Online. “Anonymous is a lifestyle. Anyone can say they’re with Anonymous.”

Authorities aren’t so eager to heed the expert’s advice, however, even if Schneier has authored a tremendous amount of articles on Anonymous throughout his career as a technology and security journalist.

Earlier this year, Scheiner addressed a crowd at San Francisco’s RSA conference with a lecture on cyberculture, at the time saying, “Anonymous is more of a name that anyone can pub upon themselves if they act in a way that is consistent with Anonymous’ work. We shouldn’t think of them as an actual group”.

The police aren’t buying that explanation, though, and are linking the hacktivism collective with balls-to-the-wall anarchy. In downtown Tampa’s North Florida Ave. this week, authorities discovered a pile of bricks and pipes on a businesses’ rooftop. Near the scene of the “crime” was a graffiti portrayal of Guy Fawkes, the British revolutionary whose likeness has been adopted by both Anonymous activists and Occupy Wall Street protesters as a single identity that a hive-mind can maneuver behind.

Florida-based private investigator Bill Warner is weary, to say the least. He doesn’t see the bricks and pipes as possible construction site components, but weapons or destruction. After all, not every building is erected with bricks and plumbing; only some. To Warner, this is an indication that domestic terrorists on par with al-Qaeda insurgents will disrupt the RNC.

“These are tactics terrorists use in the Middle East. They will hide bricks in piles in buildings and so forth. They will move into the area start their little protests. Then they will find their pile of bricks and pipes and start busting out windows,” Warner tells Tampa’s Fox affiliate.

In a video posted earlier in the week by a person claiming allegiance to Anonymous, a call-for-action is put forth asking supporters to dismantle the “clean zone” being set up in Tampa where people will be able to exercise their First Amendment right to protest without fear of repercussion.

“Let us band together and knock down the walls of the clean zone for it violates our Constitution,” the video claims. “The city of Tampa is our city, the peoples city. Together united by one divided zero we will fight for what belongs to the people. May freedom be with you all.”

Speaking to local Bay News 9, Warner says, “This is pretty bad,” and takes the video as an indication that “There’s a lot of trouble coming our way.”

“Have they more locations with those bricks on roofs some place around town? I don’t know but they’ve done it already.They’ve done surveillance around the area. They know where to go.This is right across the street from the hotel where the media is going to stay,” Warner adds.

On one of his several personal websites, Warner writes, “Anonymous and Black Block seek the overthrow of the US Government, they hate cops and everything they stand for and seek to disrupt the Tampa RNC.”

In another post, Warner says that Anonymous and Black Bloc — a separate, underground protest group that regularly encourages acts of violence — are one in the same and refers to them as “dirtbags.”

Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor has already prepared the city for any violence that a demonstration waged at the Republican Party could bring. She, unlike Warner, refuses to publically group the alleged Anonymous YouTube video with the other hairy evidence, though.

“This is no surprise for us, but we are watching what is happening,” she adds. “There’s no doubt that a small percentage of people who are coming here are bent on destruction and disruption.”

“Don’t think that you are bothering us. It’s our job to look into this, and we take it very seriously,” Chief Castor adds to WTSP News.

And, for those people, Sheriff Gee has a simple warning, posted on the county website in an open letter “to the agitators and anarchists who want only to bring a dark cloud” to the RNC: “criminal activity and civil disturbances will not be tolerated and enforcement actions will be swift.”

Examiner.com claims that the Tampa police have spent over $13 million on security items, an dozens of high-def closed-circuit television cameras are reported to have been installed in preparation too. In response, activists have created a smart-phone app that allows protesters to see where the city has installed surveillance cameras across Tampa.

This article first appeared on RT.com.

Mitt Romney nomination pushed up on concerns about Ron Paul

newsday.com
August 24, 2012

Republican delegates will begin the roll call vote to officially nominate Mitt Romney for president on Monday at the national convention in Tampa, which could allow Romney to accept the GOP nomination earlier in the week than has occurred at previous conventions.

The formal presidential nomination process will begin earlier than past years in part because of concerns about supporters of libertarian Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Republican officials said Thursday. Officials are also discussing the impact that Tropical Storm Isaac could have on the convention.

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