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Best Government Money Can Buy
Post Date: 2018-10-06 08:14:11 by Deckard
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Very few Americans know who Sheldon Adelson is and fewer still appreciate that, as America’s leading political donor, when he speaks the Republican Party listens. By virtue of his largesse, he has been able to direct GOP policy in the Middle East in favor of Israel, which might well be regarded as his true home while the United States exists more as a faithful friend that can be produced at intervals whenever Israel finds itself in need of a bit of cash or political cover. Adelson’s recent successes in translating his political donations into policy favorable to Israel have included shifting the US Embassy to Jerusalem, cutting aid to Palestinians, ending the Iranian nuclear ...
Cops Breaking Facebook Rules, Creating Fake Accounts to Watch You—Here’s How to Spot Them
Post Date: 2018-10-05 19:37:21 by Deckard
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Despite it being a violation of policy, law enforcement across the country continues to get busted creating fake social media accounts to monitor citizens. A scathing new report shows that Facebook is teeming with face accounts—created by police officers to track their adversaries. According to Facebook’s official terms of use, they are against the rules, but cops seemingly couldn’t care less and keep making them anyway. A recent case out of Memphis exposed the trend of fake law enforcement accounts when protesters reacted to the police killing of 19-year-old Darrius Stewart. A lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Tennessee uncovered evidence that the police used what they referred ...
"Do Not Frighten The Policeman"
Post Date: 2018-10-05 10:17:37 by Deckard
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Palin’s son to spend year in custody after third assault allegation
Post Date: 2018-10-05 09:31:46 by Deckard
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© GettyFormer vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s son, Track, will reportedly spend a year in custody after being arrested on domestic violence charges for the third time in recent years. A judge ruled Wednesday that the 29-year-old must report to a halfway house by the end of October following allegations that he hit a woman on the head on Friday, the Associated Press reported.According to the outlet, the Department of Corrections will determine whether Track Palin will serve time at the institution or in jail. Anchorage District Attorney Richard Allen said it is unlikely he will receive jail time. ADVERTISEMENTAnchorage District Court Judge ...
Downtown LA Hit With Outbreak Of Flea-Borne Typhus
Post Date: 2018-10-05 09:31:34 by IbJensen
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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — An outbreak of flea-borne typhus has hit downtown Los Angeles, the county Department of Public Health said Thursday. Health officials say they are investigating several cases of flea-borne typhus, a disease that infected fleas can spread to humans. While the fleas can come from cats, rats, and opossums, pets and animals do not get sick from typhus. In people, however, typhus can cause high fever, chills, headache, and rash. It is not transmitted from person to person and can be treated with antibiotics. “Although typhus normally occurs throughout L.A. County, we are observing several cases in the downtown Los Angeles area,” Los Angeles County Health ...
Officials claim police drones will revitalize downtown and "create a community connection"
Post Date: 2018-10-05 07:38:01 by Deckard
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Source: Mass Private I If you are having trouble digesting the headline, just imagine how much trouble I am having trying to write about it.In what has to be the most ludicrous excuse ever made by police to spy on citizens, this one is at the top of my list.Last month the Riverhead Police Department in New York and town officials claimed that drones, increased foot patrols and surveillance cameras would help revitalize downtown.The headline reads, "Drones, police foot patrols, more floated to uplift Riverhead's downtown."“We’re concerned about revitalizing downtown, and part of the revitalization of downtown is also public safety,” Supervisor Laura ...
TSA Confiscates Bullet-Shaped Ice Cubes, Even Though Unusable Bullets Are TSA-Approved
Post Date: 2018-10-05 06:03:29 by Deckard
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"These of course are not dangerous," the TSA admits. So why did they seize them?The Transportation Security Administration's Instagram page is a nightmarish mash-up of national security state propaganda and bad dad jokes. The fact that the TSA has captured more social media awards than it has terrorists says something about what the agency is actually good at. Sometimes the account serves up a truly maddening cocktail of earnest obedience to nonsensical rules while simultaneously demonstrating just how silly those rules are. That's what happened Wednesday when the TSA Instagram account posted a picture of six bullet-shaped whiskey stones agents had confiscated from an ...
City Now Offering Man Either Money or Arrest in Driveway Drama
Post Date: 2018-10-05 05:53:51 by Deckard
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018, 8:00 am By: Alice DregerAbove: An image of the driveway while the paving was torn out. Take our money and shrink your driveway, or else we’ll have you arrested. That’s now the message from City of East Lansing’s Planning staff to a man whose contractor built a driveway that is bigger than the law allows. Why would the City offer money to Michael Zydeck, an individual the City says is in such flagrant violation of the zoning law that he is deserving of arrest? Because the City now admits it made mistakes that led to the driveway being larger than is allowed for Zydeck’s property. Zydeck is a radiologist who lives in Plymouth, ...
Immigrant Girl Will Be Deported Because Adoptive Father Missed Deadline While Serving in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2018-10-05 05:48:24 by Deckard
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Is this the America you really want to live in?Here's the sort of story that should never happen, especially in a country that prides itself on its humanity and openness to newcomers. In 2013, Army Lt. Col. Patrick Schreiber and his wife put off officially adopting their teenaged daughter, Hyebin, who was born in the Republic of Korea. The reason? He was about to deploy to Afghanistan for a year. When he returned, they put through the paperwork, adopted her, and then started working on her citizenship. But Hyebin had turned 17 in the interim, which is a problem: The U.S. immigration law cutoff for a foreign-born adopted child to become a naturalized citizen is 16, and on Friday a U.S. ...
Mitch McConnell VS Chuck Schumer EXPLOSIVE Senate Debate on Kavanaugh Nomination to Supreme Court
Post Date: 2018-10-04 19:22:37 by buckeroo
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Well, how about that publick discussion?
New Rules for Men
Post Date: 2018-10-04 09:37:29 by Deckard
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And so we have arrived, in the Brett Kavanaugh affair, the inevitable and ultimate apotheosis of #MeToo – the vilification of men qua men. Now, one accusation alone – no matter how unsubstantiated and uncorroborated – is enough to ruin a man’s reputation, nullify his accomplishments and erase his opportunities...for life. This is apparently the standard set, and accepted, by roughly half of the country as represented by the Democrat party. We have thus entered something new and dangerous. And in light of this new reality, new rules for men vis a vis the opposite sex are required. Here are some baseline suggestions: ...
Senate Unanimously Passes S. Res. 610 To Declassify Tens Of Thousands of Documents on Saudi Arabia and 9/11
Post Date: 2018-10-04 09:34:54 by Deckard
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The US Senate has unanimously passed S. Res. 610, which calls for the declassification and release of tens of thousands of pages of documents relating to Saudi Arabia and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The “28 pages” from a 2002 Congressional Joint Inquiry report on the attacks was declassified on July 15, 2016, but large portions of the release remained redacted. This move pushes to finally remove the redactions on these and other documents related to 9/11. The documents seem to point the finger at the highest level of the government of Saudi Arabia as being responsible for the financial backing for the attackers on 9/11. S.Res. 610 Resolution Reads as follows: Urging ...
Trump Lawyer Warns New York Times of Tax Story ‘Defamation,’ ‘Substantial Liability (Just Do It!!!!)’
Post Date: 2018-10-03 11:31:21 by IbJensen
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The lawyer who won a multi-million dollar libel settlement for Melania Trump is now warning The New York Times about a story suggesting her husband, President Donald Trump, may have committed tax fraud. On Tuesday, the Times published a story, “Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches from His Father,” in which it claims to have obtained confidential tax records and says Trump committed “outright fraud”: “President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.” .... “But ...
Kavanaugh Gang-Rapes Collie in Satanic Ritual: College Boys in KKK Robes Chant “Hitler! Hitler! Hitler!”
Post Date: 2018-10-03 10:34:21 by Deckard
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Oh God. Oh God. Is there no surcease? I know, silly question. Squalling protesters: Half of the country seems fifteen years younger than its chronological age. Staged ire. Sordid passion of the herd. Hysteria. Irrationality. Weird accusations. Savage feminists. As per custom, it is all about how horrible men are. One of the sillier sillinesses of feminists regarding us men, of whom they seem to know little, is that we hate women, scorn them, want to abuse and hurt them and, most especially, gang-rape them. See, men view rape casually. It’s just something to do in a moment of boredom. Like scratching, or wondering where we left our keys. It’s because of our misogyny. The ...
BLASEYGATE: A Democrat Deep State Scandal Also Designed as a HUGE Distraction from…
Post Date: 2018-10-02 11:50:37 by Deckard
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State of the Nation“The Democrat’s Russiagate scandal has been closing in on them from day one. It’s gonna catch up with them sooner than later. The FISA docs alone prove a highly organized conspiracy against Trump by Obama himself. Some of the emails yet to be released are so damaging they will hang. Countless crimes were committed in the conduct of this coup—serious crimes of treason and sedition. The Democrats knew they had to change the public discourse—FAST! Otherwise a whole bunch of them are going to prison fairly soon. No matter what, the perps will be prosecuted and punished severely.”— Intelligence ...
"I Don't Know What He Did" - Kavanaugh Accuser Backtracks On Key Assault Claims In NBC Interview
Post Date: 2018-10-02 09:22:27 by Deckard
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Third Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick just validated claims that she should be criminally prosecuted for lying in her initial sworn account alleging that Trump SCOTUS pick Brett Kavanaugh participated in "gang rapes" with his high school buddies back in the early 1980s. In an interview with NBC news, Swetnick said that while she saw Kavanaugh aggressively hit on women at parties, she denied that she actually witnessed him participate in the rapes. She also said Kavanaugh wasn't a member of a group of boys who assaulted her during one of these parties. "I cannot specifically say that he was one of the ones who assaulted me," Swetnick told Snow. "But, before ...
Military and U.S. Law Enforcement Establishing Joint Communication Network for Biometric Databases
Post Date: 2018-10-02 09:09:32 by Deckard
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By Nicholas West Does anyone remember that it used to be considered a conspiracy theory to warn people about biometric databases? Well, now that it is an accepted reality, we should be looking even farther down the slippery slope for new signposts indicating even greater plans to track, trace and database all human beings. Apparently it is neither sufficient — nor efficient — to have the myriad databases currently at the disposal of agencies like the Department of Defense, FBI or Homeland Security. According to a release from Biometric Update, these agencies currently use different computer languages that have difficulty communicating with each other as seamlessly as the U.S. ...
Government Surveillance: Those Signs Showing Your Speed May Be Spying On You
Post Date: 2018-10-02 09:03:59 by Deckard
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By Mac Slavo Those signs that show you how fast you are traveling may be a part of a United States government surveillance program. That sign might not only be there to remind you what the speed limit is but a part of a dystopian “Big Brother” spy network. “There used to be an old police saying, ‘If you robbed a bank, please drive carefully,’” former NYPD Detective Sergeant and Bronx Cold Case Squad commander Joseph Giacalone told Quartz. Giacalone that if a getaway driver didn’t do anything to attract the attention of police and get pulled over, they usually had a half-decent chance of fleeing. “But that’s no longer in effect ...
5 Major Questions Which Still Remain 1 Year After the Vegas Shooting
Post Date: 2018-10-02 06:43:04 by Deckard
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Las Vegas, NV — It has been exactly one year since Stephen Paddock allegedly busted out the windows of his suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Casino Hotel and opened fire on concert goers below. In total, 58 people would be slaughtered and hundreds of others injured. Sadly, in 365 days and all the police state tactics and technology at their fingertips, investigators are still unable to even come close as to why Paddock did what he did. The Vegas massacre, which is now referred to as 1 October, has only gotten stranger as things progress. Following the tragedy, law enforcement engaged in a series of narrative changes, deliberate blocking of information, and appear to be ...
What Tailgaiting in a Police State Looks Like, Police Helicopter Rains Down Hell on Tailgaters
Post Date: 2018-10-02 06:39:08 by Deckard
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State College, PA — In all of our years reporting on police conduct and activity at the Free Thought Project, we have never seen anything like we are reporting today. Several utterly insane videos show police officers from Penn State University using their helicopter to rain down hell from above on hundreds of students and parents alike who were tailgaiting for the game. According to police, a group of college students involved with a fraternity were told to move from one area and relocate to another. However, according to police, this did not happen, so they escalated their tactics. As StateCollege.com reports:Penn State parent and tailgater Scott Olson said that early Saturday ...
The Kavanaugh Confirmation Carnival and Its Real Implications
Post Date: 2018-10-02 05:32:08 by Deckard
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The most immediate takeaway from last week’s Kavanaugh Confirmation Carnival was that the 1980s must have been one helluva of a time to be a student. To hear their schoolmates tell it, both Brett and Christine were a beer vendor’s dream and knew a thing or two about the joys of getting blitzed long before they had reached the legal age. And both went on to earn at least a college minor in beer pong and bar-hopping and, apparently, those other extracurricular endeavors which frequently follow fast thereupon. Then again, why is the Senate of the United States (and now the FBI, too) wasting its time investigating the antics of a handful of party kids from among the tens of millions ...
Giancarlo Stanton tips cap to fan who hit slugger with own HR ball
Post Date: 2018-10-01 11:17:42 by Deckard
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BOSTON -- Giancarlo Stanton has been plunked plenty of times. But by his own home run ball?The New York Yankees star homered over the Green Monster on Saturday, connecting in the seventh inning against the Boston Red Sox. Stanton then got quite a surprise from a strong-armed fan while rounding second base at Fenway Park.A man wearing a black T-shirt heaved the souvenir from his first-row seat on top of the Green Monster, and the ball took a hop and bounced off Stanton. The slugger continued his home run trot but turned his head, smiled and appeared to tip his cap to the fan."That's the idea when you're an opposing fan, but I don't think that's what he meant to do," ...
Grandfather and Grandsons Detained by Officer, Kicked Out of Park for Drinking Kombucha Tea
Post Date: 2018-10-01 08:52:36 by Deckard
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Chesapeake, VA — Sid Tatem was trying to enjoy a picnic at Chesapeake’s Northwest River Park last week, but an overzealous park ranger quickly ruined the family outing. The ranger approached Tatem and sons inquiring about what they were drinking. Turns out the trio was enjoying some of grandpa’s homemade Kombucha, a fermented tea that has been around for thousands of years. Ranger Michael Peters was informed by Tatem the mixture might have residual alcohol from its fermentation but it could hardly be considered an alcoholic beverage. Kombucha is the fermented tea that is sold in nearly every store across the country and which has an alcohol content so low that children ...
Air Force Colonel Takes a Knee on NFL Sideline Because Cops Killed His Son
Post Date: 2018-10-01 08:42:00 by Deckard
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Retired Air Force Colonel, combat pilot, and veteran Michael Bell Sr. understands why Colin Kaepernick would take a knee during the National Anthem. He should. His son, Michael Bell Sr., was killed by his hometown police, the Kenosha Wisconsin Police Department (KPD). As TFTP previously reported, Bell became an activist for police use of force reform after his son was killed—shot in the head execution-style, when a KPD officer shouted his gun had been taken during a violent police encounter with Bell Jr. in the 21-year-old’s driveway. The killing happened in 2004 but Bell is still fighting for justice, reform, as well as awareness. On Sunday, Bell Sr. traveled to ...
HIT & RUN BLOG Brett Kavanaugh's Illegal Beer Consumption Highlights the Perversity of Drinking Ages
Post Date: 2018-10-01 05:25:38 by Deckard
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The Supreme Court nominee's teenaged tippling was typical, although the law pretends otherwise.Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh mentioned beer 28 times during his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday, inviting mockery and semiotic speculation. The reason the subject came up was pretty clear: Christine Blasey Ford, the California research psychologist who says he tried to rape her when they were both in high school, described him as very drunk at the time, and one possible explanation for his seeming sincerity in denying her charge (in addition to the possibility that he is innocent) is that he honestly does not recall the episode because alcohol clouded his ...
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