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Wednesday January 28th, 2015

Tuesday January 27th, 2015

Supreme Court Ends Lawsuit Against 'Shirtless Judge' Who Had An Affair With Woman Whose Child Support Case He Was Overseeing posted 01/27/2015, 4:43 PM (The Daily Mail)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]

Justices said judges are immune from suits stemming from judicial actions.... (more)

Monday January 26th, 2015

Woman Says Dershowitz 'is Lying' in New Court Filings by U. Professor posted 01/26/2015, 12:41 PM (KSL)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
SALT LAKE CITY — A 31-year-old woman who claims she was a teenage sex slave and forced to service high-profile clients such as Prince Andrew and attorney Alan Dershowitz has now repeated those claims under oath.

On Wednesday, the woman — referred to in court documents as Jane Doe No. 3 — made a declaration that was filed by her attorneys, including Paul Cassell, a University of Utah law professor and a former federal judge, in a Florida court. ... (more)

Sunday January 25th, 2015

Senator Wants DUI Charges Dismissed Citing that Lawmakers are "Privileged from Arrest" posted 01/25/2015, 2:23 AM (The Free Thought Project)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Frankfort, KY — A Kentucky state senator is having no reservations about proclaiming his political privilege. In fact, he’s simply citing a section of the Kentucky constitution that claims politicians are in fact, above the law.

Sen. Brandon Smith (R) was charged with driving under the influence and wants the case dismissed citing that lawmakers are “privileged from arrest.”
... (more)

Friday January 23rd, 2015

Compare and Contrast: Obama's Reaction to the Deaths of King Abdullah and Hugo Chavez posted 01/23/2015, 2:54 PM (The Intercept)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]

Hugo Chavez was elected President of Venezuela four times from 1998 through 2012 and was admired and supported by a large majority of that country’s citizens, largely due to his policies that helped the poor. King Abdullah was the dictator and tyrant who ran one of the most repressive regimes... (more)

Friday January 16th, 2015

State Department Rep. On Flogging Of Saudi Blogger: US "Not In The Business Of Demanding Things" From Other Countries posted 01/16/2015, 9:13 AM (RT)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Reporters on Monday grilled State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf on the government’s response to Saudi Arabia’s commencing of 1,000 lashes for blogger Raif Badawi, questioning why the US is not taking a more active role in trying to stop the brutal punishment. CNN’s Elise Labott repeatedly pressed the representative to clarify what, if any, actions are being taken to force the close US ally to change course, prompting Harf to respond that the State Department is “not in the business of demand... (more)

Thursday January 15th, 2015

Reporter Absent From Armada of Secret Witnesses in CIA Leak Trial posted 01/15/2015, 9:35 AM (Courthouse News Service)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) - With prosecutors no longer trying to make New York Times reporter James Risen testify about his sources, defense counsel for former CIA agent Jeffrey Alexander Sterling opened the leak trial Tuesday by blasting the lack of evidence.

The trial's start comes four years after prosecutors labeled Sterling as the source of confidential CIA information published in Risen's 2006 book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration."... (more)

Power-Hungry Judge Threatens Courtroom and Jury in Ross Ulbricht Trial Over Jury Outreach posted 01/15/2015, 9:35 AM (Free Keene)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Liberty activists are reluctantly backing down from their jury outreach projects outside the Manhattan federal courthouse, but not because an insane robed person threa... (more)

Wednesday January 14th, 2015

Dianne Feinstein, Strong Advocate of Leak Prosecutions, Demands Immunity For David Petraeus posted 01/14/2015, 9:31 AM (Glenn Greenwald)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
She wanted Julian Assange – who isn’t even a U.S. citizen and never served in the U.S. Government – prosecuted for espionage for exposing war crimes, and demanded that Edward Snowden be charged with “treason” for exposing illegal eavesdropping which shocked the world. But a four-star general who leaked classified information not for any noble purpose but to his mistress for personal reasons should be protected from any legal consequences.... (more)

Rapper 2 Chainz Takes On Nancy Grace In Pot Debate posted 01/14/2015, 9:31 AM (YouTube)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]

"On Nancy Grace‘s show tonight, the rapper 2 Chainz made some very sensible arguments about legalizing marijuana and how it would be less of a burden on the economy and the criminal justice system. Grace’s response was to shout at him about THE CHILDREN."

Friday January 9th, 2015

James Clapper Claims That Sony Hack 'The Most Serious Cyberattack On The US Yet'; Which Suggests No Serious Cyberattacks posted 01/09/2015, 7:09 AM (Techdirt)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
At a cybersecurity conference at Fordham university, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper apparently claimed that the Sony Hack was "the most serious cyberattack" made to date against the US. If that's true (and it's likely not), then that really kind of undermines all the claims about just how "serious" cyberattacks are to national security. Ye... (more)

So Much for Freedom of Speech in France posted 01/09/2015, 7:09 AM (Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
“French President FranÃ§ois Hollande on Tuesday backed attempts to ban shows by a controversial French comedian who the government accuses of threatening public order with his anti-Semitic comments.

“Hollande's call for local officials to ban Dieudonné M’bala M’bala from theatres comes after the French cities of Nantes, Marseille, Bordeaux, and Tours banned his forthcoming ... (more)

New Jersey Police Captain Snaps, Attacks City Councilman in Her Car posted 01/09/2015, 7:09 AM (The Free Thought Project)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]

Newark, New Jersey – 43-year-old police captain Monique Smith is facing multiple charges after she attempted to run Newark City Councilman John Sharpe James off the road with her car.

She is now facing charges for aggravated assault, stalking, harassment, and criminal mischief. The officer is also facing multiple weapons charges, but the specifics on these charges have not been made clear.... (more)

Obama to Propose Two Free Years of Community College for Students posted 01/09/2015, 7:09 AM (Politico)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
President Barack Obama will need the approval of Congress to realize his proposal for making two years of community college free for students.

So far, that plan doesn’t have an official price tag — other than “significant,” according to White House officials. If all 50 states participate, the proposal could benefit 9 million students each year and save students an average of $3,800 in tuition, the White House said.... (more)

Wednesday January 7th, 2015

Maryland Politician Says Local Paper Can't Use His Name Without Permission posted 01/07/2015, 5:54 AM (Techdirt)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
All Frederick County (MD) Councilman Kirby Delauter knows is that he doesn't like unfavorable press. Literally, that appears to be all he knows -- at least as far as press relations go. He apparently believes that he holds the power to decide whether his name appears in print, rather than the other way around. Delauter blew off a phone call from Frederick News-Post writer Bethany Rodgers seeking comment on a story and then turned around and called her out on Facebook for using his name without p... (more)

Monday January 5th, 2015

Secret Docs Reveal Dubious Details of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan posted 01/05/2015, 6:02 AM (SPIEGEL.de)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Death is circling above Helmand Province on the morning of Feb. 7, 2011, in the form of a British Apache combat helicopter named "Ugly 50." Its crew is searching for an Afghan named Mullah Niaz Mohammed. The pilot has orders to kill him.

The Afghan, who has been given the code name "Doody," is a "mid-level commander" in the Taliban, according to a secret NATO list. The document lists enemy combatants the alliance has approved for targeted killings. "Doody" is number 3,673 on the l... (more)

Friday January 2nd, 2015

U.S. Hits North Korea With Huge New Sanctions In Response To Sony Hack posted 01/02/2015, 8:36 PM (BGR)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
The United States just struck back against North Korea for its alleged role in the hack of Sony Pictures. In official statement released on Friday, U.S. president Barack Obama said he was signing an executive order authorizing stiff sanctions against North Korea for its “ongoing provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions and policies, particularly its destructive and coercive cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment.”

Bloomberg reports that the order targets 10 indi... (more)

No evidence? No problem!

Monday December 29th, 2014

Soldiers Relocate Wedding to Accommodate Obama's Golf Game posted 12/29/2014, 3:29 PM (Bloomberg)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Natalie Heimel and her fiancé, Edward Mallue Jr., a pair of captains in the Army, were walking from their wedding rehearsal on Saturday at the 16th tee box at Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course in Hawaii when they were informed they'd have to move their wedding, scheduled for the next day.

President Barack Obama wanted to play through.... (more)

Tuesday December 23rd, 2014

Major Chicago Study Finds Red Light Cameras Not Safer, Cause More Rear-End Injuries posted 12/23/2014, 1:22 PM (Ars Technica)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
On Friday, the Chicago Tribune released the results of a study it commissioned on injury crashes and red light cameras, revealing that while right angle crash incidents have been reduced, rear-end crashes that resulted in injuries went up 22 percent. The results of the study throw cold water on the booster efforts of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration and raise questions ... (more)

And yet politicians the world over embrace them fully, showing they're happy to trade the lives of their slaves in exchange for more revenue. - Chris

Thursday December 18th, 2014

Tennessee Town Passes Policy Banning Negative Comments About The Town's Government posted 12/18/2014, 9:42 AM (Techdirt)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
The commissioners of a small Tennessee town have just voted to ban negative comments about it from social media. This stupid move was prompted by "criticism and lies" being posted online, which supposedly "hampered" the town's government from performing its duties.

South Pittsburg City is a town of 3,000. This fact will limit the damage done by its city commissioners' new policy (which passed with 4-1 vote), but only because the town itself is tiny. The ban, however, is super-broa... (more)

Michelle Obama: America Is So Racist, A White Lady At Target Asked Me To Reach The Top Shelf posted 12/18/2014, 9:39 AM (The Daily Caller)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
The current People will sell better than the Hillary Clinton issue, because Hillary Clinton isn’t on the cover. And when readers turn to the magazine’s latest hard-hitting look at the Obamas, they’ll learn that even the First Lady of the United States isn’t immune from racism.

Remember when Michelle went to Target to prove she’s just like anybody else? She talks about that harrowing experience in a very serious story titled, “The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences... (more)

Tuesday December 16th, 2014

On Marijuana, Congress Giveth and Congress Taketh Away posted 12/16/2014, 11:15 AM (StoptheDrugWar.org)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
With final approval by the Senate Saturday night, the Congress has successfully approved a massive, $1.1 trillion dollar omnibus spending bill, and the president has signaled he will sign it. The bill includes two provisions that illustrate Congress's currently schizophrenic approach to loosening marijuana laws.

On the one hand, the bill contains an amendment that will effe... (more)

Los Angeles Porn Actors Must Wear Condoms, Appeals Court Rules posted 12/16/2014, 11:06 AM (Reuters)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
(Reuters) - A regional U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Monday that pornographic movie actors in Los Angeles must wear condoms during sex scenes, upholding a lower court decision that was challenged by the adult film industry.

Lawyers for the industry challenged the regulations in U.S. District Court, arguing that the condom requirement went against their clients' right to freedom of expression under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

[...]The panel sa... (more)

Monday December 15th, 2014

Karl Rove Defends Rectal Feeding posted 12/15/2014, 9:19 AM (Huffington Post)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]

Karl Rove defended the CIA and former President George W. Bush on Sunday in the wake of the devastating Senate report on torture.

Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Rove claimed the brutal forced rectal feedings -- which the report said were not medically necessary -- were used out of medical necessity.

All of the tactics the CIA used, Rov... (more)

"I do it all the time!"

Thursday December 11th, 2014

Protests Begin As Congress Tilts Toward Upending D.C. Law Legalizing Pot posted 12/11/2014, 5:57 AM (Washington Post)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
D.C. officials and activists for marijuana legalization launched a long-shot bid Wednesday to halt a federal budget deal that appeared poised to upend the city’s successful ballot measure last month to legalize the drug.

The day after Congress came to a tentative budget deal that included language intended to block the city’s measure, proponents chanted and marched to Capitol Hill, held a sit-in at the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and promised to keep u... (more)

Wednesday December 10th, 2014

Bush Administration Paid Gruber $1,248,000 to be 'Expert Witness' posted 12/10/2014, 4:35 AM (CNS News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
(CNSNews.com) -- For the $2.2 million MIT economist Jonathan Gruber has been paid by the federal government since 2000, he collected $516,000 during Clinton’s presidency, $1,248,000 during the Bush administration, and $452,600 after President Barack Obama took office.

An assistant economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by 1992, Gruber’s career with the federal government started in 1997 when he took a leave of absence from MIT to serve as deputy assistant... (more)

Tuesday December 9th, 2014

Boehner Broke Pledge to Give Americans 'At Least 72 Hours' to Read Every Bill posted 12/09/2014, 2:21 AM (CNS News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
House Speaker John Boehner has broken his pledge to give Americans “at least 72 hours” to read every bill taken up by the House before it is brought to a vote on the floor.

In his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference held in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 18, 2010, Boehner vowed that if he became speaker members of Congress and the American people would be given “at least 72 hours” to read all bills before they were brought to a vote.... (more)

Monday December 1st, 2014

Sharpton Working With Obama To Co-Opt Anti-Police Brutality Movement... posted 12/01/2014, 4:21 PM (The Daily Mail)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
President Barack Obama will meet with controversial black pastor Rev Al Sharpton on Monday at the White House, and plans to demand $263 million from Congress to put 50,000 body-worn cameras in U.S. police departments in response to the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Brown's parents have pushed the cameras as one solution to the distrust between police and criminal suspects following physical encounters. The White House said in August that it agreed with th... (more)

Just what cops need, more taxpayer money!

Tuesday November 25th, 2014

IRS Finally Examines Backup Tapes, Recovers 30,000 'Missing' Lois Lerner Emails posted 11/25/2014, 10:25 AM (Techdirt)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Whether or not the IRS is subjecting certain politically-affiliated groups to an unfair amount of attention remains to be seen. What is indisputable is that the agency's document retention policies are an unenforced joke. As citizens, we're required to hold onto pertinent financial records for 2-7 years... (more)

Wednesday November 19th, 2014

Obamacare Facebook Page Comments Mostly From Small Group Of Supporters posted 11/19/2014, 7:24 AM (Washington Times)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
60 percent of site’s 226,838 comments attributed to fewer than 100 unique profiles.... (more)

Tuesday November 18th, 2014

Obama in 2006: I Have Stolen Ideas From Jon Gruber Liberally posted 11/18/2014, 5:52 AM (Infowars)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Despite his recent claim that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber was just “some adviser who never worked on our staff,” President Obama said in 2006 that he had “stolen ideas” from Gruber “liberally.”

Then U.S. Senator Obama made reference to Gruber while giving a speech at the Brookings Institute, a D.C.-based liberal think tank, on April 5, 2... (more)

Video: Romney Praises Gruber at 2006 RomneyCare Signing Ceremony posted 11/18/2014, 5:52 AM (Infowars)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]

MIT professor Jonathan Gruber’s influence over government-run healthcare appears to be even more far-reaching than previously thought.

Video posted by GotNews.com reveals Gruber’s direct involvement in Massachusetts’ healthcare bill under Governor Mitt Romney.

"Jonathan Gruber at MIT devoted hours and hours to an essential econometric model," Romney said.
... (more)

Friday November 14th, 2014

Anti-Piracy Boss Spent $50K in Brothels to 'Protect Copyright' posted 11/14/2014, 9:11 PM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
A former copyright chief at music collections society SGAE has been jailed for 30 months. The former anti-piracy boss ran up brothel bills totaling $50K, but failed in his attempt to pass off the VISA card expenditure as legitimate copyright protection costs.... (more)

Tuesday November 11th, 2014

Obama's AG Nominee Has Seized $904 Million In Private Property Through "Civil Asset Forfeiture" posted 11/11/2014, 5:49 PM (Poor Richard's News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
In recent months, much has been written about the concept of "civil asset forfeiture," in which police routinely steal billions of dollars worth of private property without even so much as criminal charges. As it turns out, Loretta Lynch is all for it, and her US attorney’s office has benefited from it to the tune of nearly a BILLION dollars.

from Wall St... (more)

Monday November 10th, 2014

Obamacare Architect: "Lack of Transparency" Was Key to Fooling 'Stupid Americans' posted 11/10/2014, 4:26 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
In a newly uncovered video, Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber admits that a “lack of transparency” was key in getting the Affordable Care Act passed because "the stupidity of the American voter" would have otherwise killed the bill.

From 2009-2010 Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, served as a technical consultant to the Obama Administration during which time he helped craft the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonl... (more)

George W. Bush: I Don't Regret Waging War Against Iraq posted 11/10/2014, 4:26 PM (Common Dreams)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]

In an interview that aired Sunday, the former two-term president told Bob Schieffer of CBS News, "I think it was the right decision [to go into Iraq]."

"My regret is that...a violent group of people have risen up again," he continued. "This is 'Al Qaeda plus'...they need to be defeated. And I hope we do...I hope the strategy works."

Bush reiter... (more)

Ex-MI6 Chief Named As Sexual Abuser Of Boys At Dolphin Square posted 11/10/2014, 4:26 PM (ExaroNews)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]

One of the VIPs who sexually abused boys at an apartment complex near Parliament has been identified as a former deputy director of MI6.

The disclosure of his identity to Exaro by a key witness has also been provided to Scotland Yard for its new investigation into historical allegations that MPs and other prominent people carried out child sex abuse at Dolphin Square and elsewhere.... (more)

"If You Like Your Internet"... Obama Calls For Regulation To Keep "Internet Open" posted 11/10/2014, 4:26 PM (ZeroHedge)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
"An open Internet is essential to the American economy, and increasingly to our very way of life," begins the President as he explains why the FCC should regulate the internet for Americans' own good.... (more)

Thursday November 6th, 2014

Judge Says City of Philadelphia Can Take Artist's Studio, Turn It Into Grocery Store posted 11/06/2014, 2:25 PM (Huffington Post)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
James Dupree is a world-renowned artist and native son of Philadelphia, who is about to see his art studio turned into a grocery store, thanks to the rubber-stamp review that passes for judging when his city exercises the power of eminent domain. ... (more)

Monday November 3rd, 2014

Security Guard Who Rode Elevator With Obama While Carrying A Gun Says Firing 'Unjust' posted 11/03/2014, 1:06 PM (Yahoo News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
The security guard fired after accompanying President Barack Obama in an elevator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta while carrying a gun says his dismissal was "unjust" -- and media coverage of the event has been "a nightmare."

"From the reports, I was some stranger that entered the elevator," Kenneth Tat... (more)

Saddam Hussein regularly walked through crowds of people armed to the teeth shooting their guns off into the air. The "leader of the free world" demands all slaves in his vicinity (including even his own army) be disarmed. Who exactly is the dictator here? - Chris

Thursday October 30th, 2014

During Cold War, CIA And FBI Hired Over 1,000 Nazis As Spies, Limited Investigations Of Those Nazis posted 10/30/2014, 12:11 PM (Techdirt)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
A new book by Eric Lichtblau, The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men, apparently details how the FBI and CIA hired over 1,000 Nazis during the height of the cold war, forgiving them their past sins, so long as they might help spy on the Soviet Union.

At the hei... (more)

Friday October 24th, 2014

Federal Prosecutors Break Rules, Wreck Lives, and Get Promoted posted 10/24/2014, 8:42 AM (John Stossel)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
A group of Washington overlords—federal prosecutors—sometimes break rules and wreck people's lives. President Obama may soon appoint one of them to be America's next Attorney General.

The prosecutorial bullying is detailed in a new book by Sidney Powell, Licensed to Lie. She reports that the Department of Justice's (DOJ) narcissistic and dishonest prosecutors destroy people by doing things like deliberately withholding evidence.... (more)

Tuesday October 21st, 2014

Obama Repeats: You Can't Get Ebola on a Bus--Day After Bus Quarantined in D.C. posted 10/21/2014, 5:49 AM (CNS News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
(CNSNews.com) - On Saturday--one day after a bus that had departed from the Pentagon was quarantined on Capitol Hill in an Ebola false alarm--President Barack Obama issued a video message to Americans telling them that "you cannot get it [Ebola] from just riding on a plane or a bus."

"Ebola is actually a difficult disease to catch. It's not transmitted through the air like the flu," Obama said in his weekly video message. "You cannot get it from just riding on a plane or ... (more)

Friday October 17th, 2014

Joe Biden's Son Hunter Was Kicked Out Of The Navy For Cocaine Use posted 10/17/2014, 12:48 AM (Business Insider)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter was kicked out of the Navy Reserve this year after he tested positive for cocaine, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.... (more)

Wednesday October 15th, 2014

How Chicago Turned Yellow Lights Into Cash posted 10/15/2014, 10:37 PM (Chicago Tribune)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Confronted with questions about a flurry of red light camera tickets stamped with yellow times below the 3-second minimum, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration said the fluctuation of hundredths of a second was normal — imperceptible to anyone behind the wheel of a car.

It turns out that fraction of a second makes a big difference to drivers and to the city's coffers.... (more)

Statist Freaks Wish To Ban Things They Already Made Illegal posted 10/15/2014, 10:36 PM (CBS News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
TURLOCK, Calif. - The City of Turlock, Calif. spent months debating whether to ban smoking in public parks, only to discover the city council banned it years ago, reports CBS Sacramento.... (more)

Obama Administration Has Put Media Leakers In Jail For Nearly 50 Times As Long As All Other Administrations In History posted 10/15/2014, 10:36 PM (Techdirt)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
We've been among those who have pointed out that the "most transparent administration in history," the Obama administration, has prosecuted media leakers more than all other Presidents in history combined (eight prosecutions in this administration, compared to three total in all previous administrations). Gabe Rottman, over at the ACLU, decided to dig into another stat: how much time has the Obama administration been able to lock up media leakers in jail compared to all other administrations. Th... (more)

Obama tells CDC he wants Ebola 'SWAT team' ready to go anywhere posted 10/15/2014, 10:36 PM (LA Times)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
President Obama said Wednesday evening that he directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create a “SWAT team” to be ready to deploy anywhere in the country to help local healthcare systems respond to any Ebola cases.... (more)

Ready to go anywhere and kill anyone!

'Nurses are not protected, they're not prepared to handle Ebola': Angry nursing union says posted 10/15/2014, 10:36 PM (The Daily Mail)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Nurses at the Dallas hospital where the first patient died of Ebola in the US insisted there were no protocols in place for dealing with the virus - and claimed that no hospital in the country was prepared to deal with the deadly virus.... (more)

Don't worry, Obomber's "SWAT teams" will fix everything!

Tuesday October 14th, 2014

NBC Dr. Nancy Snyderman -- DODGES Responsibility In Ebola Quarantine Violation posted 10/14/2014, 8:31 PM (TMZ)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
It's shocking ... NBC News has dug an even deeper hole for itself in it's self-created Ebola scandal. Brian Williams just read Dr. Nancy Snyderman's tepid, vague mea culpa in which she never takes personal responsibility for violating the quarantine after being exposed to the Ebola virus.... (more)

Monday October 13th, 2014

"Just Get Your Damn Vaccine" Doctor Violates Ebola Quarantine posted 10/13/2014, 6:33 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
A doctor who made headlines back in 2010 during the swine flu scare when she told MSNBC viewers, “just get your damn vaccine” didn’t show such concerns for public health when she was caught violating an Ebola quarantine in order to pick up her favorite soup.

NBC Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman was spotted on a food run in New Jersey despite being under a 21 day quarantine order after her return from West Africa during which Snyderman and her team were exposed to E... (more)

Monday October 6th, 2014

NSA Mission Creep: It's for the Children posted 10/06/2014, 4:05 PM (The Beacon)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
In the aftermath of Edward Snowden’s, and numerous other credible whistleblowers‘ irrefutable revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies are capturing and indefinitely storing million of innocent Americans’ phone calls, emails, internet transactions, and even movements and whereabouts at any given time--App... (more)

Monday September 29th, 2014

Is Former Head of Homeland Security Peddling Fear for Profit? posted 09/29/2014, 1:52 PM (Common Dreams)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Michael Chertoff, the former head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under the Bush administration, has been paid a "modest sum" by a Virginia-based company trying to retain a profitable government contract for routing millions of phone calls and texts in and out of the country, the New York Times reports on Monday.... (more)

Brooklyn Speed Camera Generates $77,550 In Just One Day posted 09/29/2014, 1:52 PM (New York Post)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
That’s the ticket!

A speed camera in Brooklyn tallied a bank-busting 1,551 tickets in a single day this summer, according to the Department of Transportation. At $50 a pop, the July 7 ticket blitz generated $77,550 for city coffers.... (more)

Fully automated extortion!

Wednesday September 24th, 2014

Retired Army Officer: Success Is 'Acres and Acres of Dead Terrorists' posted 09/24/2014, 10:55 AM (CNS News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]

It's great that President Obama "put together this miniature coalition of Sunni Arab States" to fight terrorists in Syria, but the analysts are missing something important: The measure of success should be "acres and acres of dead terrorists," not "knocking out windows," Retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters told Fox News's Sean Hannity Tuesday night:

"These strikes (Monday) night w... (more)

Greenwald: Syria Becomes the 7th Predominantly Muslim Country Bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate posted 09/24/2014, 10:55 AM (The Intercept)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
The U.S. today began bombing targets inside Syria, in concert with its lovely and inspiring group of five allied regimes: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Jordan.

That means that Syria becomes the 7th predominantly Muslim country bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama—after Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Iraq.... (more)

Monday September 22nd, 2014

New Zealand Whistleblower Reveals He Was Told To 'Bury' Unflattering Info About The Gov't Spying On Dotcom posted 09/22/2014, 11:20 AM (Techdirt)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
A former high-ranking New Zealand Customs lawyer has said that he quit his job after he was ordered to "bury" information that made the New Zealand government look bad. ... (more)

Tuesday September 16th, 2014

DOJ Investigates Law Enforcement Agencies All Over The Nation But Can't Be Bothered To Police Itself posted 09/16/2014, 2:24 AM (Techdirt)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
The Justice Department will be investigating the Ferguson PD in the wake of an unarmed citizen's shooting by Officer Darren Wilson. Already, news has surfaced that the police force has a histor... (more)

Monday September 15th, 2014

California Deems Carpooling Via All Ride-Share Services Illegal posted 09/15/2014, 5:29 AM (CNET)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Uber, Lyft and Sidecar are told to halt any carpool features. The California Public Utilities Commission confirms it sent two copies of a warning letter to all three peer-to-peer car services.... (more)

James Foley's Mother Claims She Was Threatened With PROSECUTION If Family Paid Ransom posted 09/15/2014, 5:29 AM (The Daily Mail)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Speaking to CNN's Anderson Cooper, Diane Foley said that she felt cut off at every avenue by US officials and were threatened with prosecution should they try to pay for her son's return - a move that left her feeling 'horrified'.

Still startled by this aggressive enforcement of official US policy, Mrs. Foley said she couldn't believe it because 'no one has ever been prosecuted for trying to get their child back.'... (more)

The Kim Dotcom "Big Reveal" Is Out - Email Purports To Show NZ PM Worked With Warner Bros. To Extradite Kim To US posted 09/15/2014, 5:29 AM (NZ Herald)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
The Kim Dotcom "big reveal" is out - and has almost immediately been dismissed as a fake.

The "reveal" is an email which purports to show Prime Minister John Key involved in a plan to get the internet entrepreneur into New Zealand so he could be extradited to the United States.

It is the evidence which Dotcom is planning on producing at the Moment of Truth event tonight. It is also contrary to every assurance the Prime Minister has ever given about his knowledge of ... (more)

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