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Michelle Malkin

‘Spoiler alert': White House having a ‘good time’ while Ferguson burns

==> http://twitchy.com/2014/08/13/spoile...erguson-burns/

Uh oh: Another black teen shot by cops in Ferguson, Missouri
Escalation.
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This is seriously messed up...



VIDEO: Ferguson Police Reportedly Slam Reporter's Head Into Soda Machine While Arresting Journalists
Maybe some of our political leaders will find out about this "on the news"...
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VIDEO: Ferguson Police Reportedly Slam Reporter’s Head Into Soda Machine While Arresting Journalists

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Video's at the page link:

Two journalists were arrested Wednesday during the Ferguson protest after police emptied out a McDonald’s they were working from, angering many on social media who called it an act of intimidation against the press. The protests broke out after an unarmed teen was fatally shot by police and neighborhood witnesses accused the police of lying about the circumstances.

Wesley Lowery is a reporter at the Washington Post while Ryan Reilly works for Huffington Post. They tweeted throughout the experience:


Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow
6 hours ago Ryan Reilly introduced himself to me in a McDonalds. Then we ended up in jail. Wonder what he's got planned for our second date
10:45 PM - 13 Aug 2014

Here’s how it all began:

Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow Police come into McD where me and @ryanjreilly working. Try to kick everyone out.
7:53 PM - 13 Aug 2014


Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Police come into McD where me and @ryanjreilly working. Try to kick everyone out.

Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow
"We cannot guarantee your safety. We will not be answering 911 calls"
7:53 PM - 13 Aug 2014


Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow Was arrested
8:39 PM - 13 Aug 2014




Police arresting reporters at McDonald’s in Ferguson Missouri.






Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow
Also Ryan Reilly of Huff Po. Assaulted and arrested
8:40 PM - 13 Aug 2014


Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow Officers decided we weren't leaving McDonalds quickly enough, shouldn't have been taping them.
8:40 PM - 13 Aug 2014

Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow Released without any charges, no paperwork whatsoever
8:41 PM - 13 Aug 2014

Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow Refusing to give us any names of the officers
8:41 PM - 13 Aug 2014

Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow Officers slammed me into a fountain soda machine because I was confused about which door they were asking me to walk out of
8:44 PM - 13 Aug 2014


Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow Detained, booked, given answers to no questions. Then just let out
8:46 PM - 13 Aug 2014


Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow Got no explaination at any point why in custody other than "trespassing" - at a mcdonalds where we were customers
8:58 PM - 13 Aug 2014


Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow "The chief thought he was doing you a favor" - police officer tells me about release. With no charges, no police report
9:04 PM - 13 Aug 2014

Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow It's as if the arrest and the assaults never took place. Just opened the doors and let is out as if we'd let it go
9:04 PM - 13 Aug 2014

Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow Apparently, in America, in 2014, police can manhandle you, take you into custody, put you in cell & then open the door like it didn't happen
9:13 PM - 13 Aug 2014

Ryan J. Reilly ✔ @ryanjreilly Follow Well, @WesleyLowery and I have been released. That was an experience.
8:41 PM - 13 Aug 2014

Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow Police now say there might be a report available to Ryan and I in "a week or two


Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow
Really upset, and have conflicting emotions - but can't shake anger that (part) of story about my stupid detention and not about ferguson
9:25 PM - 13 Aug 2014


Here is the video captured by one of the journalists while being arrested:

2nd Video at the page link:



Two journalists were arrested Wednesday during the Ferguson protest after police emptied out a McDonald’s they were working from, angering many on social media who called it an act of intimidation against the press. The protests broke out after an unarmed teen was fatally shot by police and neighborhood witnesses accused the police of lying about the circumstances.
Wesley Lowery is a reporter at the Washington Post while Ryan Reilly works for Huffington Post. They tweeted throughout the experience:
Here’s how it all began:


Police arresting reporters at McDonald’s in Ferguson Missouri.



Here is the video captured by one of the journalists while being arrested:

While they were upset at their treatment, many on Twitter pointed out that law enforcement is not Constitutionally bound to tell a person what they’ve been arrested for at the time of arrest. Although, if it happened to me, I’d be pretty upset. Many also point out that it is legal to video tape a policeman, even though the cop in the video said he could not continue filming.

Whether you believe the police were justified in these arrests or not, it’s clear that this altercation between community protesters and the law enforcement authorities is not anywhere near over.



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Ferguson’s Police Chief Freaked Out After Finding Out His Cops Arrested Two Reporters

"Oh God," Jackson said after learning of the arrests


by Hunter Walker | Business Insider | August 14, 2014

The police chief of Ferguson, Missouri had a stunned response after he learned his officers arrested a pair of reporters who were covering the ongoing protests that began in the city after an unarmed African-American teenager was shot by police there on Saturday. According to the Los Angeles Times, Chief Thomas Jackson was shocked when he found out the Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery and the Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly were arrested Wednesday evening.
“Oh God,” Jackson said after learning of the arrests.
The Times said Jackson claimed he immediately called the St. Louis County Police Department, which was leading the command, after learning the reporters were in custody.
Police have said the teenager who was killed, Michael Brown, attempted to attack an officer and take his gun. Protesters have accused law enforcement in Ferguson of engaging in racial profiling. Officers have responded to the protests with rubber bullets and tear gas.
Both Reilly and Lowery said they were taken into custody and released soon after SWAT teams came into a McDonald’s restaurant where they were working Wednesday.
Lowery did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Reilly, who said he was held with Lowery, told Business Insider he did not hear from Jackson after his arrest.

Full article here

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DANCING THE WORLD AWAY...

MYSTERY: Obama returning to DC this weekend...

POLICE CHIEF RIPS OBAMA
'DISCUSSING TACTICS FROM MARTHA'S VINEYARD NOT HELPFUL'









RAND PAUL: WE MUST DEMILITARIZE POLICE...

PENTAGON WEAPONRY CONFIRMED IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY...

Half a billion dollars of military gear given to local law enforcement -- last year...


400 armored vehicles, 500 aircraft, 93,000 machine guns...





MO COPS GAS NEWS CREW...


VIDEO...


T E N S E...


More violence overnight in Ferguson...


Tear gas, smoke bombs vs. molotov cocktails...


Police Chief: 'It's a Powder Keg'...


New Black Panther Party Takes Over News Conference...


Congressman calls for martial law...


Troopers take control of security...


NAACP appeals to UN...


Obama calls for calm, then golfs...


HOLDER: Police Should 'Consider' Becoming Racially Diverse...


Dispatches team that 'inflamed' Trayvon case...


Protesters Lash Out at Obama, Sharpton 'You Haven't Changed Nothin. F*ck Y'all'...




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Ferguson, Bundy Ranch, & 'Dancing The Night Away' With The Obamas

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/14/2014 22:27 -0400

Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

“My administration has been closely monitoring the situation in Egypt, and I know that we will be learning more tomorrow when day breaks. As the situation continues to unfold, our first concern is preventing injury or loss of life. So I want to be very clear in calling upon the Egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protestors.

The people of Egypt have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech, and the ability to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. And the United States will stand up for them everywhere.”

- U.S. President Barack Obama, January 28, 2011 (official statement here).

The events in Ferguson, Missouri went from what could have been just another all too common and tragic incident in which an unarmed black man is killed by an overly aggressive and unprofessional police force, to what may be a historically significant event in American history. So how did this transformation occur and what does it mean going forward? Those are the two questions I intend to address in this post.
There are two primary factors that have collided to create the current out of control situation in a suburb roughly 15 miles northwest of St. Louis, which before this past weekend, almost no one had ever heard of. The first factor is the underlying tension in American society that I have been writing about for several years now. Nowhere is this tension more apparent than in the minority majority inner cities or their outskirts. Being a privileged person, I have thankfully never experienced the dehumanization and oppression felt by so many in these disenfranchised communities, but I can still understand the fact that these neighborhoods are ground zero in the civil unrest that is likely to continue into the foreseeable future.
The second factor is the entirely inappropriate and dangerous militarization of police forces throughout these United States. While extreme tension between impoverished communities and the police has been well documented for decades and expressed through music and movies (I grew up with NWA’s **** Tha Police and Colors), the cops were generally speaking merely men and women driving around in patrol cars with guns and batons. Not to dismiss the violence that can and has been inflicted through those means, but the police in recent years have taken things to a whole new frightening level: Total Militarization.
I consider this trend to be such an existential threat to freedom and civil liberties that I have expended a considerable deal of time and energy over the past several years highlighting it. I have covered the topic too many times to list here (I will provide a compilation at the end of this post), but there is one in particular I want to mention. The post was published two months ago and was titled: The Militarization of Police Continues…Machine Guns, Grenade Launchers, Silencers and More. In it I quoted the following from a New York Times article:

During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft.

The equipment has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units. Police SWAT teams are now deployed tens of thousands of times each year, increasingly for routine jobs. Masked, heavily armed police officers in Louisiana raided a nightclub in 2006 as part of a liquor inspection. In Florida in 2010, officers in SWAT gear and with guns drawn carried out raids on barbershops that mostly led only to charges of “barbering without a license.”

I then concluded the post with the following observation:

Of all the bad ideas currently being implemented in these United States, turning the police into soldiers is certainly near the top of the list.

Indeed, and we are now reaping some of the rewards from this absurd and fascist policy. One that must be reversed immediately. If you think I or others may be exaggerating the threat here, think again. Social media and the internet generally is filled with veterans reacting in horror at what they are seeing unfold domestically. Here are two of the most powerful tweets I came across:




Brandon Friedman @BFriedmanDC
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The gentleman on the left has more personal body armor and weaponry than I did while invading Iraq.
9:26 PM - 13 Aug 2014


Broken Handmic @13F2PL7 Follow


I leveled my weapon twice overseas. Leveled. Not fired. I had legit threats and went through proper EOF. Stop ****ing up, Ferguson PD.
10:07 PM - 13 Aug 2014

At this point I’d like to remind everyone that crime in the U.S. has been dropping since the 1990′s. So why has domestic police force militarization been growing exponentially since then? Ostensibly, it is for the “war on terror” and to keep us safe. In reality, we know this is bullshit. Just like the NSA’s constitutional spying hasn’t stopped a single terrorist attack, turning local cops into a domestic army hasn’t done a single thing to make us safe.To the contrary, it is creating an environment where the general public harbors increased resentment and skepticism toward police, and the police view the citizenry as the “enemy.” This takes the societal tinderbox that already exists and makes it downright explosive. Ferguson is just the latest example of the tension bubbling to the surface, but there will likely be many more in the future.
While the above exposes the excuse for militarization for the lie it is, it doesn’t answer the question. As I have maintained for years now, I believe all police state activities, from NSA surveillance to the militarization of the police, is a entirely deliberate program being implemented by the status quo (oligarchs, Wall Street, politicians, intelligence agencies, etc) to put in place a police state ahead of the civil unrest and dissent they know is coming. How do they know it’s coming? Simple. They know better than anyone else the extent of their collective theft and lawlessness and they know full well domestic blowback is coming. They are just getting geared up ahead of time.
So where do we go from here? What does all this mean and can we expect more of this in the future? One of the more disturbing aspects of this entire affair, particularly to the black community, must be President Barack Obama’s complete indifference to the entire incident. He had been pretty much silent on the entire thing, yet Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz found the time to release the following statement last night updating the world on…Obama’s vacation.

Here’s the official press briefing:

Tonight, the President and First Lady attended the birthday celebration for Mrs. Ann Jordan at an event at the Farm Neck Golf Club. There were approximately 150 guests in attendance.

Among the attendees seated with the Jordans and the President and First Lady were former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Valerie Jarrett and her mother Mrs. Barbara Bowman, Ursula Burns, Kenneth Chenault and his wife Kathy, along with other friends and family of Mrs. Jordan. President Obama honored Mrs. Jordan with a toast before dinner, as did Mr. Jordan and Secretary Clinton and others. The President and First Lady have known the Jordans for over twenty years, and were grateful to have been able to share this special evening with them.

The President and First Lady also were happy to have the chance to spend time with Secretary Clinton and former President Clinton.

A little color: in his toast for Mrs. Jordan, President quipped that he met Vernon and first, but liked Ann more. The menu consisted of surf and turf and pasta. The Obamas danced nearly every song. A good time was had by all.

Glad you had such a fun time as the death of American civil society was being broadcast to the world. I’m dying to know. How was the lobster? More importantly, compare Obama’s apathy toward what is happening in Ferguson to his impassioned expression of support he officially voiced toward the protesters in Egypt. It’s quite telling to see how much more interested he is in the freedom of people halfway across the world than within his own nation. That’s all you really need to know.
*Note: Since writing this piece, Obama has made his first public statement on Ferguson (see here). Apparently he is doing damage control after his dance party press release last night. What I find so interesting is how he first calls for calm on behalf of the protesters and then afterward addresses the police. Compare that to his statements on Egypt at the top.
At this point I want to make a comparison that relatively few people have zeroed in on. The similarities between the Bundy Ranch confrontation earlier this year and the unrest in Ferguson. While the superficial differences are stark (one group being white, rural and likely relatively well off, with the other being black, urban and poor), I believe the root cause of the unrest is more similar than you might think. There is seething anger at what is correctly perceived to be oppression and authoritarianism on behalf of the “status quo.” The key distinction here is that poor, black, urban communities have been dealing with this for generations, while it has only more recently targeted its sights on formerly middle-class white communities. This makes for an absolutely explosive situation going forward as the looting and pillaging of the power structure continues without repercussions for the offenders. So why am I bringing up the comparison to the Bundy Ranch in the first place? Because I don’t want Americans to be divided and conquered further based on false superficial differences. All of us as citizens are involved in a monumental struggle not against each other, but against the status quo. The quicker we recognize this, the quicker we can deal with the real problem. Very early on, I attempted to focus on the similarities between the the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street so that those two movements could join forces. I highlighted the following graphic whenever possible:




Although we are now starting to see libertarians and progressives unite in Congress on some very important issues such as domestic surveillance, the demonization of each others’ movements by both sides as somehow less pure or enlightened than the other prevented a much wider and united action for social and economic justice. It was a huge missed opportunity and I don’t want this to happen again. The Bundy Ranch affair and the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri should be seen as two sides of the same coin. The American public finally getting fed up with the authoritarianism of the corrupt status quo. One of my most popular posts of 2014 was the piece on the Bundy Ranch titled: Why the Standoff at the Bundy Ranch is a Very Big Deal. I concluded that piece with the following:

However, my long-term fear is that unless the government and its puppet masters on Wall Street and elsewhere in big business change course, social upheaval will prove inevitable, whether the Bundy Ranch sparks it, or some other incident down the road. These are troubled times and they are likely going to get worse before they get better.

We are seeing some of what I feared back then play out in Missouri right now. I found the following tweet to be extremely powerful and poignant:

Lucy Steigerwald @LucyStag Follow
Dear liberals comparing protests to Bundy Ranch: are you saying protesters should have more guns, or are you regretting lack of Bundy blood?
12:04 AM - 14 Aug 2014

The last point I want to address is the historical significance I think Ferguson will ultimately command. This could’ve simply been an incident such as the one recently in New York City in which a cop killed an unarmed black man with an illegal chokehold. A huge part of the reason it has escalated to the current level is because the local police force decided to come out dressed like soldiers wanting to play war with American citizens. However, even that in itself wouldn’t translate into the historical significance I believe this event will ultimately hold.
I believe Ferguson will be seen as a major turning point. The point in which many well-intentioned, but incredibly naive folks in white mainstream America woke up to what we have become. Many people, particularly those in the media, have been willfully ignorant about the destruction of freedom and civil liberties in America. The events in Fergus have taken a gigantic mirror and successfully pointed it squarely at our civil society and the image it has reflected back is one of a horrific, militarized, authoritarian monster.
If it takes two reporters (one from the Washing Post and one from the Huffington Post) being unlawfully arrested to shake some sense into the privileged class in America, then so be it.
The only question now is, having been awakened from our blissful slumber to the sober nightmare that is reality, what are we going to do about it?



As promised, here are some of my many articles warning of police militarization over the years:

19-Month-Old Toddler in Critical Condition After Cops Throw Flash Bang Grenade into Playpen
An Iowa City with a Population of 7,000 Will Receive Armored Military Vehicle
There are Over 50,000 SWAT Team Raids Annually in America
New Hampshire City Requests a Tank to Deal with “Domestic Terrorist” Groups Like Occupy Wall Street and Libertarians
Retired Marine Colonel to New Hampshire City Council: “We’re Building a Domestic Army”
Video of the Day – Thuggish Militarized Police Terrorize and SWAT Team Iowa Family



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White Man Beaten With Hammer By 4 Black Men In Ferguson, MO

Aug 22 10:19:29 PDT 2013

Suspects hit hot dog vendor with hammer at local Home Depot

Police are hoping surveillance video will help catch four suspects after a hot dog vender was robbed and attacked with a stolen hammer at a Ferguson Home Depot on Wednesday. view full article

Video at the page link:

The media has been having a field day with the story of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by St. Louis police. As the black community protests his death with violent riots and unlawful looting, civil rights activists from around the country have come forward because they will not stand for a black man dying at the hands of a white cop. But what if the tables were turned? Would Al Sharpton care if Michael Brown had been white? The answer, of course, is no.
While the death of Michael Brown was tragic, perhaps the greatest injustice of all is the fact that if he were white, nobody would care about his story. Case in point: you probably have no recollection of an incident which occurred in Ferguson, Missouri – the location of the Michael Brown shooting – in which a white man was assaulted with a hammer by four black men. You probably don’t remember this brutal hate crime because it never made national headlines, despite being a worthy story. Unfortunately, when a white person is attacked by blacks, it doesn’t fit the Left’s racist agenda, therefore, it gets ignored.
On August 24, 2013, a white hot dog vendor was attacked with a hammer by four black men outside of the Ferguson Home Depot store. The black individuals had stolen the hammer from inside of the store. When they exited the facility, they swiped the white man’s cell phone. He attempted to chase after them, at which point they hit him in the head with the hammer several times and fled to their car, then drove away. The bloodied victim was transported to the hospital with serious injuries.

Tell us what you think of the media’s biased repotting of racial hate crimes in the comments section, but know that if you do, you will probably be labeled a racist.
H/T: Mr. Conservative

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In Which Stealing Swisher Sweets Becomes a Capital Offense

By: Leon H. Wolf (Diary) | August 15th, 2014 at 01:35 PM | 133


Update: Via Thomas Crown in the comments, the Ferguson chief was clear that the officer who shot Michael Brown did not even know of this incident at the time of the shooting and it had nothing to do with the reason Michael Brown was stopped. Which means it is, of necessity, completely irrelevant to whether the officer reasonably believed that Brown posed a sufficient threat to justify the use of lethal force. Which raises the very obvious question: why did they release the information at all, other than playing blame-the-victim?

Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow

Police chief repeats multiple times: Officer who shot Michael Brown was not aware of robbery when he made initial contact
3:16 PM - 15 Aug 2014

Wesley Lowery ✔ @WesleyLowery Follow
The reason Michael Brown was stopped initially was cause he was walking down the "middle of the street blocking traffic."
3:29 PM - 15 Aug 2014

Despite saying for almost a full week that the altercation between Michael Brown and the police officer who shot him was the result of the officer telling Michael Brown to move out of the road, the Ferguson PD has decided to release a video of what they say is Michael Brown engaging in “strong arm robbery” of a convenience store. The truth, if you watch the video and read the shopkeeper’s report of the incident, is that Brown was shoplifting a pack of Swisher Sweets and got into a scuffle with a store clerk who caught him.
This is being presented by people who have a vested emotional interest in exonerating the police in this incident as evidence that Michael Brown was a “thug” and that therefore the officer who shot him was justified in doing so. This is absurdity of the highest order, and is no more compelling than the picture that has floated around the Internet over the last several days showing Brown holding money in his mouth and a gun in his hand while a buddy nearby is smoking what appears to be weed. Apparently the theory for some people is that that if you ever do dumb stuff as a teenager like smoke pot, shoplift, or pose for dumb pictures with your buddies, it is okay for the police to shoot you to death in the street.
Moreover, there is good reason to question all the details in a police report instead of assuming that they are the absolute truth. Why do I say that? No reason:

A missed email and an inaccurate police log helped keep an officer-involved shooting under wraps for more than two days this week, records obtained by NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune show.
* * *
Also to blame, however, was a misleading police log that described Officer Lisa Lewis as hearing shots fired about 1:20 a.m. while she happened to be in an Algiers neighborhood. It failed to mention that anyone had been shot, and that the gunfire she heard came from her own gun, according to Serpas.

Completely understandable how that information could have been omitted, really. Doesn’t really shed any additional light on the situation.

The police log the department sends daily to the news media is often the only way reporters find out about major crimes that happen during early-morning hours.
It’s unclear who wrote the inaccurate narrative, and the department is “working to get to the bottom” of how the truth was misconstrued, said city spokesman Tyler Gamble. Usually the investigating officer radios a gist to the NOPD’s command desk, which compiles the log, he said.

In other words, based on some level of familiarity with police reports of similar quality and accuracy particularly where details that might embarrass a cop are concerned, I am less than willing to put full faith in a police report that was issued a week after the incident in question and that contradicts the narrative that has been on offer from the police this entire time.
However, even if I did, nothing in them would suggest that the use of lethal force by the officer in question was justified in this circumstance. Lifting a pack of cigars that costs less than $5 does not constitute a capital offense in America and hasn’t in civilized society for several hundred years.
One other story that has been making the rounds but has not been confirmed (at least that I’ve seen) by a major news source is that the cop who shot Michael Brown is allegedly black himself. This is being presented as evidence in opposition to the point made by me yesterday and Erick today that black people, especially black males, get extra scrutiny from the cops, which is part of what leads to frustration and despair with the cops in general and in particular with the notion that cops should be trusted to investigate themselves. Of course, people who are familiar with logic know that it’s just as possible for a black cop to give extra scrutiny to a black teenager as it is for a white one. Anyone who doubts this proposition in even slightly need only look at how Glenn Greenwald obviously feels about Jews.
This particular exercise in gaslighting is shameful, both on the part of the Ferguson PD and on the part of those who are sucked in by it.

http://www.redstate.com/2014/08/15/s...pital-offense/

Michelle Malkin

Armed citizens defend shop in Ferguson, Mo. ==> http://bit.ly/1v0RW09