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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Social Security and the Trust Fund
Post Date: 2015-06-17 19:19:40 by nolu chan
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Social Security and the Trust Fund nolu chan June 17, 2015 Note that the source here is the SSA itself, putting their best shine on it. Further below I quote extensively from an SSA Actuarial Note and two Congressional Research Service reports. http://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/fundFAQ.html#a0=6 Money flowing into the trust funds is invested in U. S. Government securities. Because the government spends this borrowed cash, some people see the trust fund assets as an accumulation of securities that the government will be unable to make good on in the future. Without legislation to restore long-range solvency of the trust funds, redemption of long-term securities prior to maturity would ...
800 Years of English Rule of Law
Post Date: 2015-06-17 11:33:36 by tpaine
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http://pjmedia.com PJ Media Twenty miles west of London, in Surrey, lies a quiet meadow along the Thames River. It is a centuries-old place deep in the heart and soul of England, though no formal memorial to it was placed there until the middle of the last century by (ironically) the American Bar Association. Almost a century ago, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about it: At Runnymede, at Runnymede, Your rights were won at Runnymede! No freeman shall be fined or bound, Or dispossessed of freehold ground, Except by lawful judgment found And passed upon him by his peers. Forget not, after all these years, The Charter signed at Runnymede. That charter, the so-called “Great Charter” ...
America being governed by corporations
Post Date: 2015-06-17 09:50:16 by Willie Green
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I am reminded of the calming advice of David Nicklaus a couple of weeks back that the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal was nothing really to worry about, dismissing anxiety about secret trade courts that can overrule national sovereignty. We see now the very compliant Republican House of Representatives has passed legislation to overturn rules that require labeling meat products with country of origin. Although this simple bit of consumer information is favored by 90 percent of Americans, if this legislation becomes law, it will be prohibited. Why? Because one of those secret trade courts ruled that our country’s country-of-origin law adversely affected someone’s profits. So ...
The Disposable Life of a 20-Year-Old Confidential Informant
Post Date: 2015-06-16 10:27:30 by Deckard
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Andrew Sadek was bullied into becoming an informant by an unaccountable drug task force. When he turned up dead, police washed their hands of him. On June 27, 2014, the body of 20-year-old Andrew Sadek, a promising electrical student at the North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS) in Wahpeton, North Dakota, was pulled from the Red River bordering North Dakota and Minnesota. Missing for two months, the young man was found shot in the head, wearing a backpack filled with rocks. The grisly death of a college student in one of the safest towns in the state, where violent crime is extremely rare, did not lead to a sweeping investigation. In fact, ...
Prisons Without Walls: We’re All Inmates in the American Police State
Post Date: 2015-06-16 07:26:57 by Deckard
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“It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free—to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation wants him to think, feel and act. . . . To him the walls of his prison are invisible and he believes himself to be free.”—Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World Revisited “Free worlders” is prison slang for those who are not incarcerated behind prison walls. Supposedly, those fortunate souls live in the “free world.” However, appearances can be deceiving. “As I got closer to ...
Mother Faces 30 Years in Prison for Using Cannabis to Treat Crohn’s Disease
Post Date: 2015-06-11 11:23:10 by Deckard
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By Carey Wedler Last month, Kansas mother Shona Banda made headlines when her son was removed from her custody after he defended her use of medical marijuana to treat Crohn’s Disease. He had spoken up about her use at an anti-drug presentation at his school. This prompted the school to call to Child Protective Services and authorities, which led to a raid on her home on March 24. The raid found what local Garden City authorities described as “‘1.25 pounds of marijuana in plant, oil, joint, gel and capsule form and drug paraphernalia’ along with what was characterized as a ‘lab used for manufacturing cannabis oil’” (it should be noted that at the time, ...
State Permission Slips
Post Date: 2015-06-11 05:49:49 by Deckard
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Licenses are chicken and egg. To qualify for, say, a road racing or heavy truck (commercial) license, one must already have attained the necessary skill. The license is a kind of after-the-fact “yep, he can do that.” But the fact is he could already do that. Was he any less able as a road racer or heavy-truck driver the moment prior to the state’s conferring of its seal (and permission slip)? Does possession of the permission slip make him more able? Of course not. Learning – and acquiring additional skills – that’s great. Whether we’re talking reading more books or attending Bob Bondurant’s school of high-performance driving. But this granting of ...
Snowden: “The Balance of Power Is Beginning to Shift” (resilience and reason)
Post Date: 2015-06-07 17:00:15 by Hondo68
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Two years after Edward Snowden first leaked information about the National Security Agency's illegal domestic spying programs, the once-cynical whistleblower is now striking a more optimistic tone about what he sees as a rising "post-terror" America. In an op-ed published Thursday in The New York Times, whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden reflected on how circumstances have changed on the two-year anniversary of his first leaks. “Two years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records ...
“The FBI is Responsible for More Terrorism Plots In the United States Than Any Other Organization. More Than Al Qaeda, More Than Al Shabaab, More Than the Islamic State, More Than All Of Them Combined”
Post Date: 2015-06-05 13:48:21 by Deckard
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Investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson- executive director of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism – has spent years researching and writing about FBI terrorism “stings” on mentally retarded and destitute Muslims orchestrated by informants convicted of rape and child molestation, who make some $100,000 per sting. Aaronson notes: The FBI is responsible for more terrorism plots in the United States than any other organization. More than al Qaeda, more than al Shabaab, more than the Islamic State, more than all of them combined. *** I’ve spent years pouring through the case ...
Land of the Unfree – Police and Prosecutors Fight Aggressively to Retain Barbaric Right of “Civil Asset Forfeiture” [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-06-05 10:21:58 by Deckard
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Efforts to limit seizures of money, homes and other property from people who may never be convicted of a crime are stalling out amid a wave of pressure from prosecutors and police. Their effort, at least at the state level, appears to be working. At least a dozen states considered bills restricting or even abolishing forfeiture that isn’t accompanied by a conviction or gives law enforcement less control over forfeited proceeds. But most measures failed to pass. – From the Wall Street Journal article: Efforts to Curb Asset Seizures by Law Enforcement Hit Headwinds googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1403197269028-0'); }); >"" ...
The Inconvenient Truth about Ghetto Communities’ Social Breakdown
Post Date: 2015-06-04 18:09:44 by cranko
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Among the many painful ironies in the current racial turmoil is that communities scattered across the country were disrupted by riots and looting because of the demonstrable lie that Michael Brown was shot in the back by a white policeman in Missouri — but there was not nearly as much turmoil created by the demonstrable fact that a fleeing black man was shot dead by a white policeman in South Carolina. Totally ignored was the fact that a black policeman in Alabama fatally shot an unarmed white teenager, and was cleared of any charges, at about the same time that a white policeman was cleared of charges in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. In a world where the truth means so ...
Blackwater Trained Some of World’s Top Terrorists
Post Date: 2015-06-04 08:01:16 by Deckard
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The International Business Times reports that the head of special forces chief in Tajikistan was trained by American mercenary company Blackwater, but has now joined ISIS. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill notes that Zacharias Moussaoui – the so-called “20th 9/11 hijacker” – had Blackwater’s number in his notebook. Blackwater often works for the U.S. government. For example, the Atlantic noted in 2012: President Bush gave the CIA permission to create a top secret assassination unit to find and kill Al Qaeda operatives. The program was kept from Congress for seven years. And when Leon Panetta told legislators about it in 2009, he revealed that the CIA had ...
Explosions rock Michigan neighborhood as US Army urban military training exercise begins
Post Date: 2015-06-03 11:21:03 by Deckard
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Residents angry after urban military training shakes neighborhood with explosions ahead of Jade Helm 2015 By Alex Thomas (INTELLIHUB) — A ten-day US Army urban military training exercise has begun in Flint, Michigan with explosions rocking neighborhoods and scaring residents who had no idea what was actually happening. With less than three hours between a city press release and the beginning of the exercise, residents were left in the dark about the urban military training until the last possible moment. Most had no idea what was happening as their homes shook from the force of the simulated explosions. “It was like a big huge explosion, it shook my whole house, it shook the ...
Police Brutally Slam Man To The Ground and Raid His House Over Parking Ticket! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-06-03 10:32:23 by Deckard
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If it wasn’t caught on video, few would have believed it. “I think we all know what would have happened if he wasn’t there,” Octavius Johnson said about the video. It was his childhood friend who had secretly recorded four police officers abusing him in the video. “It would have been swept under the rug,” Johnson said without hesitation. Is he right? He certainly seems to be. But now, because of the quick-thinking of his buddy, all of the four officers involved have been fired. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer was very animated when he talked reporters at a press conference about the “embarrassing” incident. “Many of the police actions that ...
After One Day Without NSA, Senate Passes Bill to Restore Domestic Spying Powers
Post Date: 2015-06-03 09:54:05 by Deckard
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The American people’s life without the NSA’s prying eyes thanks to the PATRIOT Act’s section 215 expiration on Monday was short-lived. After just one day, the Senate passed the USA FREEDOM act, which “ends bulk data collection as we know it,” but in no way reduces the amount of data collected. The bill was promptly signed by President Obama hours later. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The USA FREEDOM Act is simply a transferal of spying duties over to phone companies and data providers. Essentially, what the bill accomplishes is a privatization of the NSA’s domestic spying program, bringing up new concerns to the state of privacy ...
CIA is a Secret Government, Involved in Domestic Assassinations: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2015-06-03 05:26:52 by Deckard
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Former US congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has said that the Central Intelligence Agency is a “secret government” that may be involved in “domestic assassinations.” “They are a secret government,” he said during his program “Ron Paul Liberty Report” on Monday. The CIA is “way out of control.” Paul said Americans should recognize the “corrosive nature of the CIA” and “what we don’t know that they’re involved in.” He noted that when he was in Washington, there was “a black budget, we never knew exactly how much money was spent, that I imagine there is not one person that brings it all ...
Armed Robbers With Badges: 'They Took Everything'
Post Date: 2015-06-01 21:31:40 by Deckard
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When the cops raided Ginnifer Hency's home in Smiths Creek, Michigan, in July, "they took everything," she told state legislators last Tuesday, including TV sets, ladders, her children's cellphones and iPads, even her vibrator. They found six ounces of marijuana and arrested Hency for possession with intent to deliver, "even though I was fully compliant with the Michigan medical marijuana laws," which means "I am allowed to possess and deliver." Hency, a mother of four with multiple sclerosis, uses marijuana for pain relief based on her neurologist's recommendation. She also serves as a state-registered caregiver for five other ...
US top court rules for Muslim woman denied job over head scarf
Post Date: 2015-06-01 17:34:57 by rlk
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US top court rules for Muslim woman denied job over head scarf LAWRENCE HURLEY Jun 1st 2015 1:27PM Reuters -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who sued after being denied a job at an Abercrombie & Fitch Co. clothing store in Oklahoma because she wore a head scarf for religious reasons. On an 8-1 vote in an important religious rights case, the court handed a victory to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency that sued the company on behalf of Samantha Elauf. She was denied a sales job in 2008 at an Abercrombie Kids store in Tulsa when she was 17. The legal question before the court was whether Elauf was required to ...
10 Real Victims Of The CIA’s MKULTRA Program
Post Date: 2015-05-30 11:20:16 by Deckard
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Project MKULTRA is one of the most famous undertakings relating to the CIA’s efforts toward mass mind control. There were many different tests conducted as a part of the project, including some conducted on volunteers, inmates, and unsuspecting targets. The project involved several different drugs—most famously LSD—and the participants involved had very different reactions to the testing, with some being inspired by it and others becoming terrified of just the notion of any possible future exposure. Some fatalities evem stemmed from Project MKULTRA, and what follows are 10 of the most interesting figures to have involvement with this CIA-sponsored testing. 10 Ken Kesey ...
Ex-Cop to Americans, “I’m a Black Ex-Cop, and this is the Real Truth About Race and Policing”
Post Date: 2015-05-30 10:48:52 by Deckard
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A former black police officer with the St. Louis Police Department, Reddit Hudson, penned an amazing article laying bare some startling revelations about the state of policing in America. As a former cop, Hudson claims that most of the men and women that he served with actually joined the force with the intent of making their community a better place. “On any given day, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending upon who they are working with,” said Hudson, attributing the theory to his friend K.L. Williams, who has ...
'It was sex': Law enforcement says Dennis Hastert hush-money scandal is about sexual misconduct with a male during his years as a high school wrestling coach [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-05-29 16:14:24 by cranky
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Hastert was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on felony charges of hiding large cash bank withdrawals and lying to the FBI Washington is abuzz with guesses about the nature of the $1.7 million in payoffs he allegedly made to atone for 'prior misconduct' Now law enforcement sources say the case is about sexual misconduct with a male while Hastert was a high school wrestling coach Federal indictment said 'Individual A' who received the cash lived in the town where Hastert coached and taught high school history Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert's hush-money scandal stems from sexual misconduct he committed during the years he was a high ...
Washington Protects Its Lies With More Lies
Post Date: 2015-05-27 05:43:03 by Deckard
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My distrust has deepened of Seymour Hersh’s retelling of the Obama regime’s extra-judicial murder of Osama bin Laden by operating illegally inside a sovereign country. That Hersh’s story, which is of very little inherent interest, received such a large amount of attention, is almost proof of orchestration in order to substantiate the Obama regime’s claim to have killed a person who had been dead for a decade. Americans are gullible, and thought does not come easily to them, but if they try hard enough they must wonder why it would be necessary for the government to concoct a totally false account of the deed if Washington kills an alleged terrorist. Why not just ...
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: None Are Safe from the State's Plundering Parasites
Post Date: 2015-05-25 19:45:32 by Deckard
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All aboard Amtrak -- in Germany, circa 1938. (Still from "The Mortal Storm.")“Is anyone present carrying more than ten marks, or planning to take out of the country any foreign money, gold, jewels, or other valuables?” demanded the German customs inspector after boarding the Innsbruck-bound train. “Any violation of the law will be punished with penal servitude --special cases by death.”Freya Roth, a single woman in her 20s traveling with her mother and younger brother, produced her passport and handed it to the inspector. After the document was stamped, the truculent bureaucrat noticed the young lady’s luggage. “Whose suitcase is that?” he ...
State Department Releases 1st Batch of Clinton Emails (Available Online)
Post Date: 2015-05-22 21:03:55 by out damned spot
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The State Department has released 296 emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, in the first batch of emails to be made public. The emails, just a fraction of what the department has in its custody, show internal communications before and after the Benghazi terror attack in 2012. One email to Clinton, regarding one of then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice's TV appearances the Sunday after the attack, appeared to praise her for reflecting their "view" that the attack started "spontaneously." Despite this email,other guidance has emerged showing Clinton and others were warned shortly after the attack that it may have been planned by Al Qaeda-tied ...
Why The $5.7 Billion Dollar Fine On Big Banks Is Actually A Joke
Post Date: 2015-05-22 17:21:53 by Deckard
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Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced that 5 major banks will be fined a total of about $5.7 billion. The banks plead guilty to manipulating global currency and interest rates as far back as 2007. Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Swiss bank, UBS, will pay fines that symbolize the government’s desire to reign in the power of the financial elite. The New York Times painted the fines as a win because while banks have entered guilty pleas before, they have always been from subsidiaries of the parent companies. This time, the parent companies themselves plead guilty. While symbolically, the move appears to ...
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