A new leaked document reveals the exact layout and plans for the next Formula One circuit, the Grand Prix of America in New Jersey. The map explains some of the many challenges in bringing F1 to the New York metro area.

You can view the master plan in full here.

The track runs clockwise, starting along the Port Imperial Ferry Terminal on the Hudson in what will be the pit straight. The cars make a 90 degree left for Turn One, then quickly transition into the right-handed Turn Two. The cars then turn up to the great feature of the track: thePalisades.

The Hudson is banked on New Jersey by this massive rock formation — up past the George Washington Bridge, it forms a sheer cliff of exposed rock looking down on the river. Down at the track, it accounts for 150 feet of elevation change. Elevation change, traditionally, is what makes a track great and it has been seriously lacking from Formula One circuits built in the past fifteen years.

CONTINUED at Jalopnik. More photos at link.

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, the Associated Press reports. Manning is most famous for allegedly leaking troves of classified documents, including State Department cables and Military files, to WikiLeaks. He was arraigned last week in Ft. Meade, Maryland and is being charged with “engineering the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.”

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks who allegedly received the leaked information from Manning, wasnominated last year for the award, though he did not ultimately receive it.

The AP notes that “Being nominated doesn’t say anything about a candidate’s chances. A wide range of submissions come in every year from lawmakers, university professors and others with nomination rights, but the decision rests solely with a five-member panel appointed by Norway’s parliament.”

Manning’s nomination places him along side Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, and other international figures, who have been nominated for this year’s award. The Norway committee awards the prize annually.

President Barack Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, his first year in the executive office.

Source: The Weekly Standard.

Documents published online this month show that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an organization known for its uncompromising animal-rights positions, killed more than 95 percent of the pets in its care in 2011.

The documents, obtained from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, were published online by the Center for Consumer Freedom, a non-profit organization that runs online campaigns targeting groups that antagonize food producers.

Fifteen years’ worth of similar records show that since 1998 PETA has killed more than 27,000 animals at its headquarters in Norfolk, VA.

In a February 16 statement, the Center said PETA killed 1,911 cats and dogs last year, finding homes for only 24 pets.

“PETA hasn’t slowed down its slaughterhouse operation,” said Rick Berman, CCF’s executive director. “It appears PETA is more concerned with funding its media and advertising antics than finding suitable homes for these dogs and cats.”

In a statement, Berman added that PETA has a $37 million dollar annual budget.

His organization runs PETAkillsAnimals.com, which reports that in 2010 a resident of Virginia called PETA and asked if there was an animal shelter at the group’s headquarters. PETA responded that there was not.

The Virginian, the website reports, then called his state’s agriculture department. Dr. Daniel Kovich investigated, and conducted an inspection of PETA’s headquarters.

“The facility does not contain sufficient animal enclosures to routinely house the number of animals annually reported as taken into custody,” Kovich concluded in his report.

Kovich also determined that PETA employees kill 84 percent of the animals in their custody within 24 hours of receiving them.

“[PETA’s] primary purpose,” Kovich wrote, “is not to find permanent adoptive homes for animals.”

PETA media liaison Jane Dollinger told The Daily Caller in an email that “most of the animals we take in are society’s rejects; aggressive, on death’s door, or somehow unadoptable.”

Dollinger did not dispute her organization’s sky-high euthanasia rate, but insisted PETA only kills dogs and cats because of “injury, illness, age, aggression, or because no good homes exist for them.”

PETA’s own history, however, shows that this has not always been the case.

In 2005, two PETA employees described as “adorable” and “perfect” some of the dogs and cats they killed in the back of a PETA-owned van. The two were arrested after police witnessed them tossing the animals’ dead bodies into a North Carolina dumpster.

PETA had no comment when the Daily Caller asked what sort of effort it routinely makes to find adoptive homes for animals in its care.

Source: The Daily Caller.

Alleged fraud at JP Morgan.  Who could have guessed?

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A federal class action lawsuit is making some strong allegations against JPMorgan Chase, claiming the  lender routinely fabricates documents to deceive bankruptcy judges into believing Chase is the beneficiary in bankruptcy cases, and goes so far as to Photoshop documents to “create the illusion” of standing “in tens of thousands of bankruptcy cases.”

According to the JPMorgan Chase bankruptcy fraud class action lawsuit, “Chase is engaged in the business practice of deceiving bankruptcy judges, Chapter 7 trustees, Chapter 11 trustees, Chapter 13 trustees, the Office of the United States Trustee, creditors, creditor attorneys, debtors in possession, debtors and debtors attorneys as to Chase’s status as a secured creditor in tens of thousands of bankruptcy cases filed nationwide.”

Among the numerous allegations in the Chase bankruptcy fraud class action lawsuit, Chase is alleged to have:

1. engaged in perjury, fraud and intentional misrepresentation by manufacturing a chain of title transfer evidence in order to falsely prove it stands in thousands of bankruptcy matters; and

2. used manufactured evidence to deceive the bankruptcy court and other bankruptcy players as to the identity of the true beneficiary or creditor of Class Members’ non-negotiable promissory notes (MLNs).

A copy of the Chase Bankruptcy Fraud Class Action Lawsuit can be read here.

The case is Ernest Michael Bakenie v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Case No. SACV12-0060 JVS (MLGx), U.S. District Court, Central District of California.

CONTINUED at Top Class Actions.

*Written by Rob Rimes.

Welcome to the moterfucking Terrordome kids! We have hit 2012 and the country as we know it is changing. In fact, there are over 40,000 new laws that take affect on January 1st. Yes, Forty-fucking-thousand! The nanny/police state is out of control and we’ve never been faced with so much legislative garbage and restraint. The fact that we can’t do anything without the government checking our assholes is pretty twisted. We are definitely stuck in the world that the Founding Fathers warned us about a few hundred years ago. They fought hard for true freedom and entrusted us with carrying the ball but we have all squandered our fortune and have devolved into a country that follows the same blueprint of all the countries we aspired to never be. We have gone from the greatest nation on Earth to one of the all-too-typical government controlled statist states in bloom. And that was just the beginning! On New Year’s Eve, while the citizens of the world were distracted staring into the bottoms of champagne glasses, President Barack Hussein Obama signed something into law that takes this whole thing to another level. Essentially, we’re all fucked.

While on his holiday vacation in Hawaii, Barack Obama signed the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) into law. Despite claiming that he had “serious reservations” about the bill, that didn’t stop him from wiping his ass with the Bill of Rights. Just like the 93 out of 100 senators that voted for this law, our president also championed in an endless era of police state tyranny. If you don’t know what this law is, you deserve to be sent up shit’s creek without a paddle. If you do know about this law, even though it has passed, it is damn time that you better stand up and get ready to fight this shit until it is overturned and wiped from the books. Otherwise you have no right to complain about it when the proverbial shit hits the proverbial fan.

To even begin to explain this law is really complicated. Just like every other monstrous law that is passed these days, this one is so massive and full of so much random crap that the full effect of it won’t be known for years. All I can really do is break down the basics of it, which are enough to piss off any true American. If you thought the PATRIOT Act was bad, this law just magnifies it and makes the whole police state we are living in much more powerful while making us, the people, more powerless to stop it.

In a nutshell, the NDAA allows the government to detain American citizens on American soil without due process. Essentially, if you are deemed a “threat” to national security, you can now be treated in the same manner as a terrorist. You can be detained indefinitely and sent to God knows where to be interrogated and locked up without any rights whatsoever. Who knows, maybe they’ll waterboard you for good measure. On the positive side, if you go to Gitmo, at least you’ll be treated to ice cream and a library full of Harry Potter and Twilight books.

Now you may be thinking, “Well heck, I’m not a terrorist!” and you may be right but that doesn’t matter. If you have ever read the criteria used by groups like the FBI, CIA and the Department of Homeland Security for what constitutes what is a potential threat, you’d understand that the description is so broad that it encompasses nearly every person in America. Read about the MIAC Report and how the criteria used in that report has gone on to essentially be the blueprint that all these agencies use to determine who might be a threat.

Also, when you have presidential candidates like Newt Gingrich freely throwing around the term “enemy combatant”, it makes you wonder how someone like that would use this new power if given the opportunity. Barack Obama who promised not to sign this into law but did said, “I have the power to detain Americans… but I won’t.” Okay, well considering that he just killed an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, and his 16-year-old son because the father was a terror suspect, makes one have to question if this guy should be able to even make these sort of calls. Yes, al-Awlaki was an al-Qaeda dickbag but he was still an American citizen and our president killed him and his teenage American son. If you don’t see something incredibly wrong with this, you are lower than shit. If the president can assassinate an American without due process and without the law allowing him to do so, just imagine what he could do with the law now making such insane actions legal!

The NDAA eliminates our constitutional rights and gives the president the power of a dictator over his subjects. This fundamentally goes against everything the Founding Fathers wanted for us! Congress should be outraged, right? Nope, except for Rand Paul, Justin Amash and a few others, everyone almost unanimously voted for this thing! Hell, every single GOP candidate for president, except Ron Paul, supports this monstrous step towards tyranny. What the fuck kind of world do we live in when these assholes that claim to be pro-Constitution are so quick to shred the sacred document because of some hypothetical boogeyman?! Our leaders are nutless fucking pussies that should be wiggling around in the dirt because they don’t have spines! If your elected officials claim to be constitutional conservatives and they support this, guess what? They are fucking liars and you need to throw them on the fire and not just their feet!

I hope that Ron Paul starts bringing this issue up in debates because so far, this issue has gone pretty much unmentioned in the GOP debates. As with anything real, the mainstream media turns a blind fucking eye. You can best believe that if it was George W. Bush that signed this into law and not progressive pissant Barack Obama, the mainstream media would be outraged. However, since it was signed into law by their hero, the tyranny goes unchecked. Why doesn’t Fox News mention it then? Well, they are all in support of it too! Everyone is fucking insane!

If Ron Paul were to change the discussion and pound this issue into the debates, the GOP contenders would be forced to have to discuss it. Hell, this could be the tipping point that pushes Dr. Paul into the top spot, as it truly sets him apart from not only the rest of the GOP but with Barack Obama. Most people, once educated, would most likely be vehemently opposed to this tyranny. At least I hope so; I don’t think that the people are as far gone as our leaders.. not yet anyway.

The point is, this is the biggest move towards tyranny in a very long time. Hell, this is basically the nail in the coffin. If you don’t stand up and fight the NDAA, you have no right to fight for anything else. To not hold your elected officials accountable is to turn a blind eye to this. You are surrendering your freedom to these dictators who have proven once again, that they will not stop until we are all ruled over by an iron fist. Truth be told, if you vote for anyone else but Ron Paul, you are throwing it all away. This isn’t some bullshit scare tactic to garner votes for Paul, this insane power grab has already happened! Now start fighting back or get out of the way and shut the fuck up.

Welcome to 1984.

*Written by Rob Rimes.

While everyone is partying in the New Year and has their eye off of the ball (not TheSwash.com, we are always watching) President Obama has signed into law the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) despite his own personal “reservations”. Essentially what this does, is it allows Americans to be detained indefinitely, without their constitutional rights, if the government feels that they are potentially a terrorist or a threat. As has been covered many times here on TheSwash.com, the definition of what the government considers to be a potential threat is now so broad that it literally covers all bases and can be used against anyone, anywhere.

And while I watch Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and Bill Hemmer laugh like goofs while introducing crappy country bands to sing us out for the New Year, they have completely failed to mention any of this.

UPDATE: Here’s what the Associated Press wrote:

President Barack Obama signed a wide-ranging defense bill into law Saturday despite having “serious reservations” about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.

The bill also applies penalties against Iran’s central bank in an effort to hamper Tehran’s ability to fund its nuclear enrichment program. The Obama administration is looking to soften the impact of those penalties because of concerns that they could lead to a spike in global oil prices or cause economic hardship on U.S. allies that import petroleum from Iran.

In a statement accompanying his signature, the president chastised some lawmakers for what he contended was their attempts to use the bill to restrict the ability of counterterrorism officials to protect the country.

Administration officials said Obama was only signing the measure because Congress made minimally acceptable changes that no longer challenged the president’s terrorism-fighting ability.

“Moving forward, my administration will interpret and implement the provisions described below in a manner that best preserves the flexibility on which our safety depends and upholds the values on which this country was founded,” Obama said in the signing statement.

Signing statements allow presidents to raise constitutional objections to circumvent Congress’ intent. During his campaign for the White House, Obama criticized President George W. Bush’s use of signing statements and promised to make his application of the tool more transparent.

Obama’s signature caps months of wrangling over how to handle captured terrorist suspects without violating Americans’ constitutional rights. The White House initially threatened to veto the legislation but dropped the warning after Congress made last-minute changes.

Among the changes the administration secured was striking a provision that would have eliminated executive branch authority to use civilian courts for trying terrorism cases against foreign nationals.

The new law now requires military custody for any suspect who is a member of al-Qaida or “associated forces” and involved in planning or attempting to carry out an attack on the United States or its coalition partners. The president or a designated subordinate may waive the military custody requirement by certifying to Congress that such a move is in the interest of national security.

The administration also pushed Congress to change a provision that would have denied U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism the right to trial and could have subjected them to indefinite detention. Lawmakers eventually dropped the military custody requirement for U.S. citizens or lawful U.S. residents.

“My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens,” Obama said in the signing statement. “Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a nation.”

Despite the changes, officials cited serious concerns that the law will complicate and could harm the investigation of terrorism cases.

For example, FBI Director Robert Mueller has said the measure would inhibit his bureau’s ability to persuade suspected terrorists to cooperate immediately and provide critical intelligence. He told Congress it wasn’t clear how agents should operate if they arrest someone covered by the military custody requirement but the nearest military facility is hundreds of miles away.

Other officials have said agents and prosecutors should not have to spend their time worrying about citizenship status and whether get a waiver while trying to thwart a terror attack.

The administration also raised concerns about an amendment in the bill that goes after foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran’s central bank, barring them from opening or maintaining correspondent operations in the United States. It would apply to foreign central banks only for transactions that involve the sale or purchase of petroleum or petroleum products.

Officials worry that the penalties could lead to higher oil prices, damaging the U.S. economic recovery and hurting allies in Europe and Asia that purchase petroleum from Iran.

The penalties do not go into effect for six months. The president can waive them for national security reasons or if the country with jurisdiction over the foreign financial institution has significantly reduced its purchases of Iran oil.

The State Department has said the U.S. was looking at how to put them in place in a way that maximized the pressure on Iran, but meant minimal disruption to the U.S. and its allies.

This week, Iran warned that it may disrupt traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – a vital Persian Gulf waterway. But on Saturday, Tehran seemed to back off that threat when a commander of its Revolutionary Guard said such discussion is a thing of the past and “belongs to five years ago.”

Iran also said Saturday that it had proposed a new round of talks on its nuclear program with the U.S. and other world powers. The invitation would come after the U.N. has imposed four rounds of sanctions. Separately, the U.S. and the European Union have imposed their own tough economic and financial penalties.

The $662 billion bill authorizes money for military personnel, weapons systems, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and national security programs in the Energy Department for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.

The measure also freezes some $700 million in assistance until Pakistan comes up with a strategy to deal with improvised explosive devices.

Obama signed the bill in Hawaii, where he is vacationing with his family.

UPDATE: Government censors document revealing plans to wage war on Americans. READ HERE.

NOTE: Within an hour of posting this article and linking to the pertinent document, the feds atFBO.gov have pulled the link and implied that it was a classified posting. We believe this was public and of interest to American citizens, taxpayers and peoples of the world and are in the process re-establishing an archive link of the material. Obviously, however, this information is revealing and certain parties do not wish it to be widely known. If you believe this material is important, please archive it and share it with your contacts. In the meantime, here are links to many of the pages:Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11

Infowars has discovered new FEMA documents that confirm information received from DoD sources that show military involvement in a FEMA-led takeover within the United States under partially-classified Continuity of Government (COG) plans. It involves not only operations for the relocation of COG personnel and key officials, population management, emergency communications and alerts but the designation of the American people as ‘enemies’ under a live military tracking system known as Blue Force Situational Awareness (BFSA).

Further, this Nov. 18, 2011 FEMA-released plan National Continuity Programs (NCP) Program and Mission Support Services (PAMSS) [PDF] linked at the FedBizOpps.govwebsite outlines a scenario that overlays with eerie accuracy the bigger picture sketched out by concurrent calls for troops to keep order in the streets of places like New Orleans, as well as other bombshell documents like those released from KBR seeking to activate contracted staff for emergency detention centers and for services like fencing and barricades, as well as numerous agencies andthink tanks who’ve prepared for civil unrest and economic breakdown in America.

Hold onto your seats. The plan for the takeover of the United States has not only been drafted, but activated. Our sources and independent research make this abundantly clear. Martial law scenarios preparing for a breakdown of order under the ongoing economic collapse are underway, even as pretexts for control are initiated in locales across the country. Bold individuals like Ron Paul have warned that dangerous legislation like the NDAA designate the American population as potential enemies. Now, there is more evidence this targeting of the people is sadly taking place.

A laundry list of operations organized under FEMA’s National Continuity Programs (NCP) provides a base of technical support for the deployment of national emergency plans and the logistical tracking of all personnel incorporated under what Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano has lovingly termed the big “federal family.”

CONTINUED at Infowars. Written by Alex Jones & Aaron Dykes.

As we postulated when the scandal broke, the Fast and Furious program that saw the ATF deliver guns into the hands of Mexican drug gangs was admittedly exploited to demonize the second amendment and push new gun control regulations.

“Documents obtained by CBS Newsshow that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation “Fast and Furious” to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.”

Emails obtained by the network show ATF agents discussing how they could tie guns involved in Mexican violence to gun dealers based in the U.S. to justify the implementation of Demand Letter 3, a regulation that would require U.S. gun stores to report the sale of multiple rifles.

One of the emails states, “Bill – can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same (licensed gun dealer) and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales. Thanks.”

The emails show ATF members congratulating each other for blaming border violence on guns bought from U.S. dealers despite the fact that the feds were the ones delivering them straight to Mexican criminals under the program.

Other emails document how gun dealers involved in the program expressed concern that their firearms were ending up in the hands of “the bady guys,” only to be reassured by the ATF “there’s nothing to worry about.”

One law enforcement source told CBS News that the emails suggested the ATF created the problem itself as part of a political ploy.

“It’s like ATF created or added to the problem so they could be the solution to it and pat themselves on the back. It’s a circular way of thinking,” the source said.

Source: Prison Planet.

Infowars.com has received a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provides details on a push to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States. Entitled “Project Overview and Anticipated Project Requirements,” the document describes services KBR is looking to farm out to subcontractors. The document was passed on to us by a state government employee who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.

Services up for bid include catering, temporary fencing and barricades, laundry and medical services, power generation, refuse collection, and other services required for temporary “emergency environment” camps located in five regions of the United States.

Internment Camp Services Bid Arrives After NDAA

KBR’s call for FEMA camp service bids arrives soon after the Senate overwhelmingly passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which permits the military to detain and interrogate supposed domestic terror suspects in violation of the Fourth Amendment and Posse Comitatus.

Section 1031 of the NDAA bill declares the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allows American citizens to be arrested on U.S. soil and incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay.

CONTINUED at Infowars.

The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has begun releasing sensational information on the multi billion dollar global spying industry. The database contains hundreds of documents shining a light on the methods being used by secret services all over the world.

Here’s the video of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaking to journalists and students at a press conference at City University London in central London on December 1, 2011. Along with a number of other guest speakers, Mr Assange spoke of the Wikileaks ongoing investigation of surveillance software companies and their alleged use by governments around the world.