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Marijuana Advisor To Sessions Wants To Drug Test Everyone
Post Date: 2018-01-19 05:21:15 by Deckard
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It’s bad enough in 2018 that the war on drugs still exists in the deluded minds of government higher-ups, just as some states begin to legalize recreational marijuana. And just as they do, Attorney General Jeff Sessions dropped the bomb that the Federal Government ended its leniency toward states’ rights for medical marijuana. Thus, we devolve as a nation. But the biggest blow to Americans was when Sessions’ DEA, although going after marijuana as a dangerous substance – in essence gave a Pharma opioid maker the rights to a partial national monopoly on synthetic THC! What’s worse, it looks like the War on Drugs has just collided with Mad ...
Tennessee Deputy Who Suffered Panic Attack After Firing At Unarmed Man Had Track Record of Lying and Incompetence at Previous Police Department
Post Date: 2018-01-19 05:12:51 by Deckard
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Deputy Justin M. Johnson should never have been given a badge and a gun.How unqualified does an aspiring deputy have to be before the Sevier County Sheriff's Department won't hire him? In October Reason covered the story of Justin M. Johnson, a deputy in Sevier County, Tennessee, whose bodycam caught him firing wildly and without warning at an unarmed man who had been filming him. The footage then shows Johnson suffering a severe panic attack. The man doing the filming has since been charged with assault for causing the deputy's panic. The footage and subsequent fallout, first reported by the Knoxville News-Sentinel, is disturbing enough. What makes the tale even more upsetting ...
Data: Foreign-Born Workers Overwhelmingly Outnumber Americans in Silicon Valley Jobs
Post Date: 2018-01-19 05:12:37 by 3-Dee
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Data: Foreign-Born Workers Overwhelmingly Outnumber Americans in Silicon Valley Jobs by John Binder 18 Jan 2018 Foreign-born workers now overwhelmingly outnumber Americans in coveted high-paying, high-skilled, white-collar jobs in Silicon Valley, California, the hub of the tech industry. New data analyzed by the Seattle Times revealed that 71 percent of tech workers in Silicon Valley are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born tech workers. Though not specified in the analysis, a wide number of the tech industry’s foreign tech workers are imported to the United States through the H-1B visa, which ...
The Dow's 31% gain during Trump's first year is the best since FDR
Post Date: 2018-01-18 21:18:59 by buckeroo
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The 30-stock index has surged more than 31 percent since Trump's inauguration. That marks the index's best performance during the first year of a president since Franklin Roosevelt. "You've got lower taxes, less regulation and confidence in the economy is high," said one investor. The S&P 500 has surged 23 percent during Trump's first year in office. Donald Trump lifted the Dow Jones industrial average in his first year in office more than any other president since Franklin Roosevelt. The Dow has surged more than 31 percent since Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017. That marks the index's best performance during a president's first year since ...
Trump Lawyer Used Private Company, Pseudonyms to Pay Porn Star ‘Stormy Daniels’
Post Date: 2018-01-18 18:22:54 by Willie Green
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Michael Cohen created limited liability company just before $130,000 payment President Donald Trump’s lawyer used a private Delaware company to pay a former adult-film star $130,000 in return for her agreeing to not publicly discuss an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, according to corporate records and people familiar with the matter. The lawyer, Michael Cohen, established Essential Consultants LLC, on Oct. 17, 2016, just before the 2016 presidential election, corporate documents show. Mr. Cohen, who is based in New York, then used a bank account linked to the entity to send the payment to the client-trust account of a lawyer representing the woman, Stephanie Clifford, one of ...
Trump to ban Haitian immigrants after alleged ‘shithole’ slur
Post Date: 2018-01-18 13:10:04 by A K A Stone
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The Trump administration will ban immigrants from Haiti — which the president included in his “s–thole countries” remark — from applying for temporary visas given to low-skilled workers, the Department of Homeland Security said. The department said it would remove Haiti, Belize and Samoa from a list of more than 80 countries whose residents are eligible for H-2A and H-2B visas, which usually are granted for seasonal workers in agriculture and other industries. DHS cited “high levels of fraud and abuse” by Haitians and their “high rate of overstaying the terms” of their visas in its decision, announced late ...
Businesses forced to pay the police to let them spy on customers
Post Date: 2018-01-18 11:27:46 by Deckard
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MassPrivateI Last year police in Detroit, Michigan asked businesses to install real-time surveillance cameras that are connected to police departments. Which isn’t all that bad, right? Wrong. According to an article in Crain’s Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan wants to force businesses to install police surveillance cameras. “Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration is moving forward with a plan to eventually mandate every retail business in Detroit with late-night hours have surveillance cameras tied into Project Green Light, the Detroit Police Department’s real-time crime monitoring system.” “Duggan said the city will start with requiring the camera systems ...
Jeff Flake compares Trump's attacks on 'Fake News' media to STALIN in blistering speech to nearly empty Senate chamber as White House says he's 'looking for attention'
Post Date: 2018-01-18 11:04:54 by IbJensen
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Senator Jeff Flake delivered a scathing anti-Trump speech Wednesday He compared the president to Soviet despot Joseph Stalin for calling five news outlets 'the enemy of the American people' Flake slammed Trump for using 'words infamously spoken by Joseph Stalin to describe his enemies' The Republican announced in October he would no longer run for re-election under the Trump administration Only two fellow senators, both Democrats, attended Wednesday's speech White House fired back saying Flake 'has terrible poll numbers' and is 'looking for some attention' Press secretary noted that while Flake complained about despots, he defended Cuba's ...
Science panel backs lower drunken driving threshold
Post Date: 2018-01-18 11:03:30 by Deckard
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Most women would need to draw the line at two drinks, and men at two or three if states follow a blueprint by a prestigious scientific panel for eliminating the "entirely preventable" 10,000 alcohol-impaired driving deaths in the United States each year. The U.S. government-commissioned report by a panel of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine made multiple recommendations, including significantly lowering drunken driving thresholds. It calls for lowering the blood-alcohol concentration threshold from 0.08 to 0.05. All states have 0.08 thresholds. A Utah law passed last year that lowers the state's threshold to 0.05 doesn't ...
Advertisement By AdRecover Facts, Alternative Facts, & Inconsistencies In Marine Gun Case
Post Date: 2018-01-18 09:51:58 by Deckard
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EXCLUSIVE! The Gateway Pundit has obtained the stack of police reports filed in conjunction with the Joey Nelson case. Joseph Nelson is the active duty Marine who drew and fired on an armed intruder trying to break into his home, where his fiance and their 3 week old baby were. Nelson is currently in the Wayne County jail up on multiple felony charges. The door jamb to the front door of Joey Nelson and Amanda Smith’s home. This was no casual knock of someone who was there to have a coffee. This was no casual knock of someone who was there to have a coffee. Let’s start with the statements made by Michael Scott Wilson and Andrea Ward. Ward is Wilson’s girlfriend. Ward was at ...
Great Again:Jobless Claims in U.S. Plunge to Lowest Weekly Tally Since 1973
Post Date: 2018-01-18 09:15:19 by A K A Stone
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U.S. filings for unemployment benefits plummeted to the lowest level in almost 45 years in a sign the job market will tighten further in 2018, Labor Department figures showed Thursday. Key Takeaways The drop in claims shows that companies are increasingly holding on to their employees amid a shortage of skilled labor. Businesses are struggling to find workers to fill positions, particularly in manufacturing and construction, as cited in some anecdotes for the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book released Wednesday. The figures suggest the unemployment rate of 4.1 percent, already the lowest since 2000, could be poised to decline further. The latest week for claims includes the 12th of the ...
My Catholic Kid is Gay! Now What?? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-01-18 09:04:56 by A K A Stone
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In a previous article, I detailed my ongoing struggle with same-sex attraction (SSA) as I live out my vocation as a Catholic wife and mother. From that perspective, I'd like to share what I think is an authentically loving response to what strikes fear into the hearts of most faithful Catholic parents: your son or daughter coming out as a gay man or lesbian. As someone who knows this struggle intimately, I've thought a great deal about how I would respond to such an admission by my child. Obviously, I'd have a slight advantage over most Catholic mothers because I have my own SSA journey to share. But even beyond that, if my son came to me and confessed to SSA, I would: Listen ...
Suspended priest due to be sentenced on meth guilty plea
Post Date: 2018-01-18 08:58:28 by A K A Stone
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A suspended Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess and distribute methamphetamine and bought a sex shop to possibly launder his drug money is asking a federal judge for leniency at his sentencing Thursday in Connecticut. Monsignor Kevin Wallin, whose lawyer says was lonely and overworked when he turned to drugs and became an addict, agreed as part of his 2013 guilty plea to a possible prison sentence of 10 to 11 years. He's now asking for four years in prison and 500 hours of community service. The 63-year-old priest has been incarcerated for the past two years. Prosecutors say he headed the meth distribution conspiracy, and they are seeking a sentence of ...
57 Years Ago, Eisenhower Predicted the Rise of the Military-Industrial Complex—He Was Right
Post Date: 2018-01-18 06:56:09 by Deckard
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On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned the world about the rise of what can now be referred to as the ‘deep state.’ In his outgoing remarks from his farewell speech, Eisenhower bravely called out the shadow government who operates behind the scenes to promote war and profit from mass murder. He called this entity the military-industrial complex. Eisenhower, who was a retired five-star general, led the allies into Germany on D-Day. Being one of the few five-star generals in history, Eisenhower knew what he was saying when he warned that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial ...
Michigan House Passes Bill to Ban “Material Support or Resources” for Warrantless Federal Surveillance
Post Date: 2018-01-18 06:46:23 by Deckard
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Today, the Michigan House overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ban “material support or resources” for warrantless federal surveillance programs. This represents an essential step states need to take at a time when the federal government seems unlikely to ever end its own spying. Rep. Martin Howrylak (R-Troy) introduced House Bill 4430 (HB4430) on March 28. The legislation would prohibit the state and its political subdivisions from assisting, participating with, or providing “material support or resources, to a federal agency to enable it to collect, or to facilitate in the collection or use of a person’s electronic data” unless one of three conditions ...
Marine JAILED After Shooting Armed Home Invader
Post Date: 2018-01-18 05:28:07 by Deckard
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A Marine is behind bars for defending himself and his family from an armed thug. It was an ordinary evening for Joey Nelson. He was at home with his fiance, their 3 week old child, and a couple of friends. Then, all of a sudden, they were startled by violent pounding on the front door, and someone trying to force their way in. Nelson grabbed his gun and told the thug to leave. That’s when things turned violent. According to Fox 2 Detroit: Westland police say the man outside was 39-year-old Michael Wilson of Detroit. “I don’t know (who he is), my son doesn’t know him, the owner of the home doesn’t know him,” said Steve Nelson. ...
The Republican Supreme Court Gave Us The Police State
Post Date: 2018-01-18 05:09:40 by Deckard
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The Republican Supreme Court Gave Us The Police State Paul Craig Roberts When the US Supreme Court consisted of civil libertarians such as William Douglas, William Brennan, and Thurgood Marshall, Republicans argued that the Supreme Court was coddling criminals and inventing rights. To prevent legislation from the bench, it was necessary, Republicans said, to elect Republican presidents who would appoint a different court that would respect the Constitution. Law and Order Conservatives were particularly upset by the Miranda decision. These conservatives were too naive to realize that often police are more interested in “solving” a case than they are in justice. Coerced ...
Officer shot at dog in room full of children, wounding 9-year-old and alarming mom (Once Again, Never Call the Cops)
Post Date: 2018-01-18 05:04:17 by Deckard
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On the evening of Dec. 30, Danielle Maples was making nail polishes with her children. The atmosphere in her home changed when her husband threatened to hurt himself. Maples called 911 to get help. Then after police arrived – as she and her husband stood outside their home unarmed – she heard two gunshots from inside. A Wichita police officer fired at her dog – in a small living room occupied by her four children, ages 6 to 10. Suddenly, the already stressful evening turned into a nightmare. When the officer shot at the family dog in the same room where her four children were gathered, a bullet fragmented and ricocheted off the concrete floor beneath the carpet ...
A(nother) funny thing happened on the way to California’s bullet train paradise
Post Date: 2018-01-17 21:40:10 by Tooconservative
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Stop us if you’ve heard this before. And you have, you have. The price for the first leg of the California high-speed rail system has gone up 35% over earlier projections, adding nearly $3 billion to the cost of connecting Bakersfield to Fresno — or more accurately, points just outside both towns, neither of which are exactly destination centers in the Golden State. The reasons offer a bleak look at the sustainability of cost projections for the entire LA-San Francisco route, too: The estimated cost of building 119 miles of bullet train track in the Central Valley has jumped to $10.6 billion, an increase of $2.8 billion from the current budget and up from about $6 billion ...
CIA-Connected Amazon Turns Over A Record Amount Of Data To U.S. Law Enforcement [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-01-17 08:07:06 by Deckard
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Amazon’s fifth transparency report has revealed that the company provided more customer data to U.S. law enforcement in the first half of last year than in its history with a shocking 1,936 different requests between January and June 2017, ZDNet reported. Of those 1,936 requests, Amazon complied and replied to 1,200 subpoena requests, 189 search warrants and 76 other court orders – for a whopping 1,465 requests they responded to. That’s 42 percent of all subpoenas, 44 percent of search warrants and 52 percent of other court orders. That’s an incredible rise from the year prior where Amazon received: 1,618 subpoenas, which the company fully ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center Scam
Post Date: 2018-01-17 05:49:47 by Deckard
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There are dangerous hate groups in America. So a group called the Southern Poverty Law Center promises to warn us about them. They release an annual list of hate groups in America. The media cover it, but John Stossel says they shouldn't. It's a scam. It lists Ayaan Hirsi Ali—who grew up Muslim in Somalia and suffered female genital mutilation—as an "anti-Muslim extremist." Just because she now speaks out against radical Islam. They also list the conservative Family Research Council as a "hate group." That listing led a man to go to the Council's office to try to gun down their workers. The shooter later told law enforcement that he picked the ...
Revealed: Hawaii’s emergency missile alert interface is unspeakably terrible
Post Date: 2018-01-16 16:11:45 by Tooconservative
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This is not a drill. Per the governor’s office, this is the real screen that technicians see when they’re deciding whether to alert a U.S. state that a nuclear apocalypse is imminent. Now that I’ve seen it, the only surprise is that there isn’t a false alarm about a North Korean launch every other week. This is the screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday. The operator clicked the PACOM (CDW) State Only link. The drill link is the one that was supposed to be clicked. #Hawaii pic.twitter.com/lDVnqUmyHa — Honolulu Civil Beat (@CivilBeat) January 16, 2018 Everyone scoffed when the governor claimed that someone had triggered Saturday’s false ...
Marijuana legalisation causing violent crime to fall in US states, study finds
Post Date: 2018-01-16 11:35:55 by Deckard
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Rates of assault and murder decreasing in regions near Mexican border where cannabis use has been partially legalisedThe legalisation of marijuana for medical purposes has led to a significant reduction in violent crime in several US states bordering Mexico, according to new research. The study, published in The Economic Journal, found that the rate of violent crime – including robberies, murders and aggravated assaults – fell by 12.5 per cent in counties close to the border after the introduction of medical marijuana laws (MMLs). “MMLs allow people to grow and cultivate marijuana plants legally within the US,” Professor Evelina Gavrilova, one of the study’s ...
Ex-CIA Officer: Deep State Is ‘TERRIFIED’ Of Trump And ‘Want Him TAKEN OUT’
Post Date: 2018-01-16 09:12:12 by Deckard
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Kevin Shipp, a former top CIA officer, says that Donald Trump is rattling the deep state to the point that they’ve demanded the media to just blatantly attack him. On top of that, they are so terrified of the president that the deep state wants Trump taken out. “Donald Trump is questioning the Deep State and the shadow government,” Shipp says in an interview with USAWatchdog‘s Greg Hunter. “He’s rocking that place left and right. The news media is terrified of that. Their editors are telling them to attack him just like they are attacking him from the inside. It’s just dirty pool because they want him taken out.” Of course, that isn’t ...
Cops Raid Park, Arrest a Dozen People, Including a Child—For Helping the Homeless
Post Date: 2018-01-16 09:02:52 by Deckard
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El Cajon, CA — In spite of the myriad of stories over the years, in which police and governments across the United States have been exposed as tyrants, cities and their armed agents continue to persecute good people who help those less fortunate than them. The latest case of police oppressing those who’d dare to help the homeless comes out of El Cajon, California this week in which more than a dozen good Samaritans were arrested. In October of last year, the El Cajon City Council unanimously voted to ban the act of sharing food on city-owned property. This ban was put in place for the ostensible purpose of preventing the spread of hepatitis A. While the government held the ...
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