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Trump has not built a single mile of new border fence after 30 months in office
Post Date: 2019-07-21 08:38:41 by Deckard
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And Hillary STILL not in prisonSAN DIEGO, California — The Trump administration has not installed a single mile of new wall in a previously fenceless part of the U.S.-Mexico border in the 30 months since President Trump assumed office, despite his campaign promise to construct a “big beautiful wall.” In a statement last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency overseeing border barrier construction, confirmed that all the fencing completed since Trump took office is "in place of dilapidated designs" because the existing fence was in need of replacement. The agency said that it had built 51 miles of steel bollard fence with funding that was set ...
Family Gets $750k After SWAT Raided and Destroyed Their Home, Killed Their Dog—Over Unpaid Utility Bill
Post Date: 2019-07-20 09:34:19 by Deckard
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St. Louis, MO — Nothing says Police State USA quite like a SWAT team raiding a family home and killing their dog because they are unable to pay their gas bill. The woman whose dog was killed and home destroyed by SWAT officers is Angela Zorich, and her story about her police state experience will shock the conscience. After fighting the system for nearly 5 years, Zorich’s family is finally being compensated. According to the lawsuit, which was settled this week, Zorich was the victim of a massive military-style raid and subsequent puppycide. The raid was carried out because police said they needed “to check if her home had electricity and natural gas ...
Hating America After 9/11
Post Date: 2019-07-19 11:23:38 by Deckard
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Listening to President Trump accuse Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of supporting al-Qaeda reminds me of how conservatives behaved toward libertarians who dared talk about motive immediately after the 9/11 attacks.At the time of those attacks, some of us libertarians understood that this was a watershed event in U.S. history, one that would inevitably adversely affect the rights and liberties of the American people. Fueled by deep anger and fear, the overwhelming sentiment among the American people was to support the desire of federal officials to lash out against “the terrorists” anywhere and everywhere they could be found in the world. That’s, of course, how we got the ...
The CIA Wants To Make It Easier To Jail Journalists And No One In Congress Is Stopping It From Happening
Post Date: 2019-07-19 10:21:28 by Deckard
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from the CIA-wondering-why-we-just-can't-go-back-to-zero-accountability deptWed, Jul 17th 2019 12:06pm — Tim Cushing The CIA is pushing for an expansion of a 37-year-old law that would deter journalists from covering national security issues or reporting on leaked documents. Thanks to a disillusioned CIA case officer's actions in 1975, there are currently a few limits to what can or can't be reported about covert operatives working overseas. In 1975, Philip Agee published a memoir about his years with the CIA. Attached to his memoir -- which detailed his growing discontentment with the CIA's clandestine support of overseas dictators -- was a list of 250 CIA agents or ...
Jeffrey Epstein: CFR and Trilateral Commission Member
Post Date: 2019-07-19 10:19:02 by Deckard
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Back in 2003, before it was known Jeffrey Epstein had a penchant for exploiting underage girls, The Harvard Crimson ran an article telling its readers what a good guy Jeff was. In addition to linking Epstein to a number of notables, including then Harvard president and future US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, the article notes Epstein was at the time a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Described as “one of the most pleasant philanthropists” by professor Martin A. Nowak of Harvard’s mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program, Epstein was said to have a “bevy of eminent friends that includes princes, presidents and ...
Robert Mueller Should Be Arrested for Conspiracy to Overthrow the President of the United States
Post Date: 2019-07-19 08:46:56 by Deckard
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The Mueller report, which had no choice as there was no evidence, but to clear Donald Trump of conspiring with Russian President Putin to steal the last US presidential election from Hillary Clinton, nevertheless managed to keep an aspect of the manufactured hoax known as “Russiagate” alive by indicting some Russian intelligence officers and a Russian Internet clickbait operation for attempting to discredit Hillary with Internet postings. At the time I noticed that Muller’s indictments were based only on his assertion and not on any evidence. As there was no prospect whatsoever of the fake indictments coming to trial, I did not comment on them. I ...
"It's Going To Be Staggering": Epstein Associates Prepare For Worst As Massive Document Dump Imminent
Post Date: 2019-07-19 08:14:52 by Deckard
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As the Jeffrey Epstein case continues to unfold, a laundry list of celebrities, business magnates and socialites who have flown anywhere near the registered sex offender's orbit are now tainted with pedo-polonium. Many of them, such as Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, and Victoria's Secret boss Les Wexner have sought to distance themselves from Epstein and his activities - however their attempts have fallen on deaf ears considering their extensive ties to the pedophile. As Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman notes, "The questions about Epstein are metastasizing much faster than they can be answered: Who knew what about Epstein’s alleged abuse? ...
Rush Limbaugh Abandons Fiscal Conservatism
Post Date: 2019-07-19 07:20:43 by Deckard
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The pundit heavily criticized President Obama for excessive spending. Now he says it doesn't matter. (ALEXIS C. GLENN/UPI/Newscom) Rightwing icon and firebrand radio host Rush Limbaugh once cared about reining in the federal deficit and the national debt, but not anymore. On his radio show Wednesday, Limbaugh characterized talk of the country's financial insolvency as unfounded worrying and a dead issue:Caller: In 2019, there's gonna be a $1 trillion deficit. Trump doesn't really care about that. He's not really a fiscal conservative. We have to acknowledge that Trump has been cruelly used.Limbaugh: Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern ...
Police called on boy holding 'ice cold beer' sign
Post Date: 2019-07-18 11:39:14 by Deckard
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BRIGHAM CITY, Utah -- At just 11-years-old, a Utah boy is somewhat of an entrepreneur.His name is Seth and he's drawing in the crowds with his stand in Brigham City.Seth is also turning some heads with his "Ice Cold Beer" sign.Of course, as KSTU-TV reports, he's not actually selling beer."And I thought of the hilarious joke - ice cold beer. Some people think it's funny because it's root beer," Seth said.It certainly is getting a lot of attention."We received three calls in two days," Lt. Tony Ferderber of the Brigham City Police Department said.However, Seth says, "The people who called the cops don't have a sense of humor."Taking ...
What Was It All for For: Vets Have Finally Turned on America’s Endless Wars
Post Date: 2019-07-18 09:48:06 by Deckard
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It is undoubtedly my favorite part of every wedding. That awkward, but strangely forthright moment when the preacher asks the crowd for any objections to the couple’s marriage. No one ever objects, of course, but it’s still a raw, if tense, moment. I just love it. I suppose we had that ubiquitous ritual in mind back in 2007 when Keith – a close buddy and fellow officer – and I crafted our own plan of objection. The setting was Baghdad, Iraq, at the start of the "surge" and the climax of the bloody civil war the U.S. invasion had unleashed. Just twenty three years old and only eighteen months out of the academy, my clique of officers had already decided the war ...
Republicans Defending Trump Are 'Hurting Themselves and They're Hurting the Country'
Post Date: 2019-07-18 09:25:15 by Deckard
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In a new book, Rep. Justin Amash (I–Mich.), the libertarian-leaning former Republican lawmaker who left the party earlier this month, says the contemporary Republican Party is full of liars.In interviews conducted a year ago but not published until now, Amash says President Donald Trump's ability to shamelessly lie to the American people is his "superpower," and accuses his former congressional allies of "lying through their teeth" to protect the president."They believe in a cosmic battle between the right and the left, good and evil, and they think any criticism of Trump is helping the other side," Amash told Politico reporter Tim Alberta in a ...
Elderly robocall scam victim committed suicide after 'fraudsters' stole life savings
Post Date: 2019-07-17 20:36:50 by A K A Stone
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he Senate Aging Committee Opens a New Window. heard testimony Wednesday from witnesses and government officials explaining the impact of criminals that are unseen – but heard – over phone lines. * snip * One of those people on the other line was Marjorie Jones, an 82-year-old woman who committed suicide after giving up her life's savings to phone scammers. “They told her she had won a large cash prize, and all she had to do was pay the taxes and fees,” Angela Stancik, Jones’ granddaughter, explained to lawmakers.
SHOCK: Portland ANTIFA Holds Memorial For ICE Firebomb Terrorist
Post Date: 2019-07-17 16:35:46 by A K A Stone
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Portland Antifa is planning a memorial for the terrorist, who attacked a migrant detention center with an AR-15 rifle and Molotov cocktails, tonight calling him a “fallen comrade”. After the horrifying attack on a migrant detention center that, had it not been foiled by local authorities, could have resulted in the deaths of law enforcement as well as migrants, Portland Antifa has sided with terror and is planning a vigil for Willem Van Spronsen. The pro-Antifa Twitter account @OccupyICEPDX posted information about the memorial today, inviting residents of Portland to “Stand with us to honor our fallen comrade, #WillemVanSpronsen, this Wednesday, 8:30pm” at the local ...
FBI To Ramp Up Social Media Surveillance
Post Date: 2019-07-17 10:03:12 by Deckard
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The FBI plans to step up its efforts to gather information from social media - issuing a call last week for a new tool to monitor Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other platforms "in a timely fashion." Citing the use of social media by terrorist groups, domestic threats, criminal organizations and foreign intelligence services, the FBI "needs near real time access to a full range of social media exchanges in order to obtain the most current information available," according to the request for proposal. In addition to information such as user IDs, the feds are interested in "emails, IP addresses, telephone numbers, and likely aliases" ...
Trump May Appoint Fringe Neocon to Head Intelligence
Post Date: 2019-07-17 09:14:40 by Deckard
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It keeps getting worse. The neocons have burrowed termite-deep inside the Trump administration and rumor has it the president will add yet another one to an important cabinet position. If there is any substance to the latest rumors, DNI Dan Coats will be replaced by Fred Fleitz, former NSC executive secretary, CIA analyst, Trump Chief of Staff, Bolton enforcer, and CEO of the Center for Security Policy. This last one should send up a huge red flag. CSP is a project launched by Frank Gaffney Jr., an Islamophobe way out on the neocon fringe. During the Trump presidential campaign, I wrote a short ebook (Donald Trump and the War on Islam) about Gaffney, among other neocons and rabid ...
What Would a Free Society Actually Look Like?
Post Date: 2019-07-17 07:46:42 by Deckard
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It is a common occurrence at sporting events. Someone is singing the U.S. national anthem — “The Star-Spangled Banner” — and when he gets to the last line of the first verse (although the song has four verses, the first verse is the only one that is ever sung), the crowd starts cheering and shouting after the singer utters the phrase “the land of the free.” Most of those same people have an equally high regard for the country song by Lee Greenwood, “God Bless the U.S.A.,” and especially the beginning of the chorus that says, “And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free.” Greenwood has sung the song at Republican ...
Red Flagging Drivers
Post Date: 2019-07-16 06:15:03 by Deckard
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The outrages being perpetrated by arbitrary Authority upon the citizenry are made possible by several things but perhaps the thing most responsible for them is that there are people who think the outrageousness – and arbitrariness – will never be applied to them. Therefore, it isn’t outrageous. One of the most outrageous examples of this Wheel of Misfortune – spun by some of us, hoping someone else will hit “bankrupt” – are so-called Red Flag laws, which vitiate the laws which used to protect law-abiding gun owners.On the basis of “someone” – it can be almost anyone – expressing “concern,” the gun owner who hasn’t done ...
Conservatives Against Liberty
Post Date: 2019-07-16 05:55:25 by Deckard
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Recently several prominent social and populist conservatives have attacked libertarianism. These conservatives, some of whom are allies in the fight against our hyper-interventionist foreign policy, blame libertarianism for a variety of social and economic ills. The conservative attack on libertarianism — like the attack on the freedom philosophy launched by leftists — is rooted in factual, economic, and philosophical errors.Libertarianism’s right-wing critics claim libertarianism is the dominant ideology of the Republican establishment. This is an odd claim since the Republican leadership embraces anti-libertarian policies like endless wars, restrictions on civil liberties, ...
The Death of Privacy: Government Fearmongers to Read Your Mail
Post Date: 2019-07-13 18:33:37 by IbJensen
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It is discouraging to note just how the United States has been taking on the attributes of a police state since 9/11. Stories of police raids on people’s homes gone wrong are frequently in the news. In one recent incident, a heavily armed SWAT team was sent to a St. Louis county home. The armed officers entered the building without knocking, shot the family dog and forced the family members to kneel on the floor where they were able to watch their pet struggle and then die. The policemen then informed the family that they were there over failure to pay the gas bill. Animal rights groups report that the shooting of pets by police has become routine in many jurisdictions because the ...
Real Hedge-Fund Managers Have Some Thoughts on What Epstein Was Actually Doing
Post Date: 2019-07-12 15:53:08 by Hank Rearden
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The thesis is that Epstein has similarities to Madoff, except that he might be blackmailing people into "investing" with him by providing young girls and keeping records. Man, wouldn't that be fun to fully reveal - it's probably all democRats. ---------------- Long before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in Florida more than a decade ago, his fellow Palm Beach resident and hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass was intrigued by the local gossip about his neighbor. “I’m hearing about the parties, hearing about a guy who’s throwing money around,” says Kass, president of Seabreeze Partners Management. While stories about young girls ...
Nellis AFB security forces anti-terrorism squad commander relieved of duty following 1 October massacre. But why?
Post Date: 2019-07-12 07:30:12 by Deckard
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Eyewitnesses told police they saw a shooter in a helicopter during the 1 October attack. Did Lt. Col. Jearl Allman fail to act?Lt. Col. Jearl Allman (travis.af.mil) (INTELLIHUB) — 99th Security Forces Squadron Lt. Col. Jearl Allman was released from his duty at Nellis Air Force Base just weeks following the 1 October massacre after his superior cited “loss of confidence” as pointed out in a recent video posted to the John E Hoover YouTube channel and local outlets. The narrator points out in the video how the Route 91 concert venue area (where the shooting occurred) is only 12 miles away from the base which is where Allman was in-charge of providing “flight-line ...
Was Jeffrey Epstein a “State Department cut out”?
Post Date: 2019-07-12 07:17:04 by Deckard
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Alexandra Bruce, publisher at Forbidden Knowledge TV has done it again! She parses Citizen Journalist [1] George Webb’s dissertation about Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement with the State Department. – Webb says, “I do believe Jeff Epstein was involved in running drugs. I do believe a lot of the money was laundered into luxury real estate, luxury companies, corporate takeovers by [Les] Wexner I don’t know if [Les] knew that the money was drug money out of various places like Kosovo and and conflict areas in Turkey. etc.”– Jeff Epstein’s plane in 1996/7 was registered to the State Department or the CIA and the ...
Book: Paul Ryan Slammed Trump for Calling Stormy Daniels ‘Horse Face’
Post Date: 2019-07-12 06:31:33 by IbJensen
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An upcoming book reveals former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has returned to attacking President Donald Trump’s character, taking particular offense to his dismissive nickname for pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. Politico Magazine’s Tim Alberta writes in American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump that Ryan “Now out of office and trading in his power suits for a blue vest” is once again criticizing the president and “saw retirement as the ‘escape hatch,'” according to an excerpt obtained by the Washington Post. “We’ve gotten so numbed by it all,” Ryan said. “Not in ...
Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren't Worth It
Post Date: 2019-07-12 06:18:30 by Deckard
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A U.S. Special Operations soldier returns fire while conducting multi-day Afghan-led offensive operations against the Taliban in Mohammad Agha district, Logar Province, Afghanistan, July 28, 2018. (U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Nicholas Byers) 10 Jul 2019Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk A majority of veterans taking part in a new research study says that the cost and burden of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan outweigh any successes or progress made in either conflict. A Pew Research Center report published Wednesday states that 64% -- or almost two-thirds -- of veterans polled in a new survey said the Iraq war "was not ...
US Fast-Food Drive-Thrus Will Soon Use License Plate And Facial Recognition Technology
Post Date: 2019-07-12 06:14:40 by Deckard
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License plate recognition could be the new big thing at American drive-thrus, according to FT. Chains are now looking to deploy cameras that recognize license plates and help identify customers, personalizing digital menus and speeding up sales. Starbucks began a pilot program in Korea last year with customers who voluntarily pre-registered their cars and now restaurants in the United States are looking to also give it a try. License plate recognition has existed since the 1970s but has mostly been associated with law-enforcement. Cameras attached to police cars or street fixtures read the license plates of passing vehicles and compare results to databases. But as the cost of the software ...
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