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Star Wars Force Met with Police State Force as Movie Goers Stripped of 4th Amendment Rights
Post Date: 2015-12-16 09:12:03 by Deckard
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The force was most certainly awakened yesterday in Hollywood during the premiere of the new Star Wars movie, but this force was not of the fictional variety. In a stunning display of police overreach, the LAPD turned a portion of downtown Los Angeles into a pseudo martial law zone.According to reports, police cordoned off several blocks around the famed TLC Chinese theater in Hollywood. On Thursday, LAPD officers had already barricaded a stretch of Hollywood boulevard from from Highland Ave. to La Brea Ave. and installed metal detectors around the screening venues over the weekend.Security will be tight 4 the latest #StarWars premiere tonight. Metal detectors have been ...
Exclusive: Combat Vet Now Being Monitored by Police for Speaking the Truth in a Senate Meeting
Post Date: 2015-12-16 09:05:42 by Deckard
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Kicked out of a Senate Committee meeting last week while defending medical marijuana patients, U.S. veteran Dakota Serna received a phone call on Tuesday informing him that the Senate police are routinely checking his Facebook page. The state senator who had Serna’s mic cut off and ordered him out of the building now refuses to meet with Serna in his office and will only conduct any future meetings with him at the security desk.One day after the Free Thought Project published an exclusive interview with Serna, the former Marine received a phone call on Tuesday morning from the man who had escorted him out of the chambers. According to Serna, the man called to inform him that State ...
10-year sentence for Lakewood 'Prodfather' rabbi
Post Date: 2015-12-15 21:08:49 by cranky
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Rabbi Mendel Epstein, a self-described “tough guy” with a reputation for using strong-arm tactics to coerce Orthodox Jewish husbands to grant their wives religious divorces, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison. Rejecting pleas for leniency from Epstein’s daughter and attorney — and Epstein himself, who said he was a “broken man” — U.S. District Court Judge Freda L. Wolfson said the 70-year-old Lakewood resident “knew exactly what he was entering into here” when he agreed to accept $60,000 to orchestrate a kidnapping in 2013 on behalf of a woman and her brother who turned out to be undercover FBI agents. A well-known expert in ...
Who bought the Las Vegas Review-Journal? It's anybody's guess
Post Date: 2015-12-15 16:54:06 by Willie Green
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The Las Vegas Review-Journal has been sold for a profit, a fact that is in itself remarkable amid print media's declining fortunes. But with the sale comes a mystery: Who bought Nevada's largest newspaper? The $140 million sale, completed late Thursday, transferred ownership of the paper and smaller weekly newspapers from New Media Investment Group to the similarly named News + Media Group, which has so far refused to identify its owner. The lack of disclosure prompted rumors to fly about the Silver State, and even a presidential candidate wondered what was going on at the "R-J," as the paper is often called. "Just finished hour+ @reviewjournal ed board," ...
Marine Combat Vet Kicked Out of Senate Meeting for Speaking Too Much Truth About Medical Marijuana
Post Date: 2015-12-15 09:30:12 by Deckard
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Lansing, MI — After returning from Iraq, Dakota Serna found himself battling PTSD and taking prescription pills for roughly three years after leaving the service. Due to a botched hernia operation, doctors began prescribing painkillers along with his antidepressants, leading to ulcers in his stomach and intestines. With the prescription pills taking their toll on his body and mind, Serna abandoned the FDA-approved medications after a friend shared a joint with him. No longer suffering from incessant nightmares and insomnia, Serna found that his anxiety had decreased, and his patience had returned. Instead of making him more hostile, cannabis offered Serna a peace of mind that the ...
A Holiday Note to Congress: Half of Your Country is In or Near Poverty
Post Date: 2015-12-14 20:24:41 by U don't know me
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A Holiday Note to Congress: Half of Your Country is In or Near Poverty By Paul Buchheit December 14, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - Recent reports have documented the growing rates of impoverishment in the U.S., and new information surfacing in the past 12 months shows that the trend is continuing, and probably worsening. Congress should be filled with guilt — and shame — for failing to deal with the enormous wealth disparities that are turning our country into the equivalent of a 3rd-world nation. Half of Americans Make Less than a Living Wage According to the Social Security Administration, over half of Americans make less than $30,000 per year. That’s ...
Bergdahl to face desertion charge in general court-martial
Post Date: 2015-12-14 19:39:01 by cranky
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Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for five years and freed in exchange for five detainees in Guantanamo Bay, will face charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy in a general court-martial, the Army announced on Monday. If convicted, Bergdahl could get life in prison on the misbehavior charge and up to five years for desertion. He also could be dishonorably discharged, reduced in rank and made to forfeit all pay. Bergdahl, 29, of Hailey, Idaho, walked off his post in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province on June 30, 2009. He was released in the prisoner swap in late May 2014 that touched off a firestorm of criticism, with some in Congress ...
Herschel Walker, football great: I'm with Trump
Post Date: 2015-12-14 09:59:09 by A K A Stone
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'We have to quit being politically correct' Herschel Walker, the former NFL football great with Dallas, Minnesota and Philadelphia, who later made a star-studded appearance on "The Apprentice," weighed in on the upcoming presidential election by naming his candidate of choice: Donald Trump. Why? In part, because of Trump's controversial remarks about Muslims and the need to temporarily shut U.S. borders to them for security reasons. "Look, we can't build a wall and not let people in the country," Walker said to TMZ Sports. "But we do have to get this country safe. We have to quit being politically correct. We have to do what's right to save ...
Ted Cruz: I'm a Proponent of Immigration Reform
Post Date: 2015-12-14 09:48:57 by A K A Stone
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Texas senator and aspiring GOP presidential nominee Ted Cruz is widely depicted by liberal amnesty backers as a diehard enemy of their brand of immigration reform. While Cruz voted against the 2013 "Gang of Eight" immigration bill and has strongly opposed President Barack Obama's executive amnesty plans, he has also taken positions that sound strikingly different from those of staunch amnesty opponents such as Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions. Sessions, for example, has been sharply critical of expanding the number of H-1B visas, pointing to abuses in the program and arguing that it harms American workers. But speaking with Javier Palomarez, president of the United ...
The Ugly Truth Donald Trump Has Exposed
Post Date: 2015-12-14 08:41:59 by no gnu taxes
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The fear in both the GOP and Democratic party is visible at the surface when it comes to Trump, and it's not that he's any of what they've accused him of. No, it's really much simpler than that, and both Republican and Democrat parties, along with the mainstream media, are utterly terrified that you, the average American, is going to figure out what underlies all of these institutions in America. No, it's not that they're evil. It's worse, for evil frequently is recognized and fought back yet for decades America has not awakened to what has been going on in the political and media establishment. It was evident during the Vietnam war and has only gotten worse ...
Here is the TRUTH about Ted Cruz..On Immigration
Post Date: 2015-12-13 23:36:04 by A K A Stone
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Court Says Constitutional Violations By Law Enforcement Are Perfectly Fine As Long As They Happen Quickly
Post Date: 2015-12-13 14:10:27 by Deckard
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from the Easy-Drug-Busts-For-Lazy-Law-Enforcement-vol.-Whatever dept The federal government needs to start working on across-the-board legalization of marijuana. Until it unites the nation under THC, this sort of bullshit is going to continue. (via FourthAmendment.com) Any pretext can be used to make a traffic stop (thanks, SCOTUS!). Bad news is, driving a car opens a person up to a whole slew of warrantless searches under the "motor vehicle exception." Searches can be equally pretextual, perhaps even more so. And this particular search is the pretextualist. As long as the stop isn't extended for too long (a wholly arbitrary length decided on a case-by-case basis during ...
Jeb Bush's millions aren't buying votes. Will money not matter in 2016?
Post Date: 2015-12-12 11:37:05 by buckeroo
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A year ago, Jeb Bush's allies told reporters that they were preparing a "shock and awe" fundraising campaign in which they would amass such an intimidating pile of cash that other candidates might just leave the race lest they be crushed by Bush's gargantuan war machine made of money. True to their word, Team Jeb met its ambitious target of $100 million, then began to deploy it to sweep Bush's opponents aside on his path straight to the White House. But as you might have noticed, something went awry with the plan. As The Washington Post reported this week, Bush's super PAC Right to Rise has spent $50 million, which has brought Jeb from his peak suppport of 15 ...
Trump: I'm an evangelical, Cruz is Cuban [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-12-12 09:41:10 by Willie Green
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Donald Trump tweeted Friday morning that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was planning an attack on him. He then questioned Cruz's religion and ties to Big Oil in comments Friday night. "I am an evangelical. I'm a Christian. I'm a Presbyterian," Trump said to an Iowa town hall rally. In contrast, he said that while he personally liked Cruz, "not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness." Trump may be feeling pressure from Cruz after the Texas senator snatched first place from the billionaire in a Monmouth University Poll released Monday. Cruz is also ranked first in the Washington Examiner's power rankings.Trump went on to criticize Cruz's ...
Dear Abigail Fisher, I Didn’t Get Into UT Either–But I’m Not Suing Anybody
Post Date: 2015-12-11 17:58:28 by Justified
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I’m sure you’ve heard of Abigail Fisher. And if you have, I’m sure you’re tired of hearing about her. She’s like the cricket in the house who just won’t get the f–k out already. Fisher is the young woman with the ongoing discrimination lawsuit against The University of Texas at Austin, which she filed in 2008. She claimed that she was denied admission to the elite university, and was passed over while UT accepted other students based on their race. Students she deemed less qualified. As part of the admissions process, the University applies both an Academic Index, which focuses on the grades, activities and essays of a student, as well as a Personal ...
Police Officer Daniel Holtzclaw Cries Like a Baby As He’s Sentenced To 263 Years For Raping 13 Women
Post Date: 2015-12-11 10:21:39 by Deckard
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Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was just found guilty of rape and sexual battery on Thursday. Now, his sentence has been handed down, and he is coming to the harsh realization that being a police officer didn’t save him from the 263 year sentence that a jury just handed down to him. Prosecutors said he preyed on women who had trouble with the law, hoping that their word would not stand up against his. Daniel Holtzclaw, who turned 29 on Thursday, broke down in tears as the verdict was read in the case where he was charged with sexually assaulting and raping 13 women. He was also cleared of about half of the 36 counts against him. Sentencing was set for January and ...
Nearly Half of Youth Say 'American Dream' Is Dead: Harvard Poll
Post Date: 2015-12-11 08:40:04 by cranky
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The survey also found that young voters are more supportive of Bernie Sanders than Hillary Clinton.American's youth are down on the future, with nearly half of those ages 18 through 29 believing the "American Dream" is more dead than alive, a nationwide survey released Thursday by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics shows.Reflecting the sour mood of the overall electorate, 48 percent of those asked “For you personally, is the idea of the American Dream alive or dead?” responded “dead.” Those who picked “alive” accounted for 49 percent.While the race or ethnicity of the poll's respondents didn't significantly ...
Two very important acronyms to know and understand:
Post Date: 2015-12-11 08:37:02 by BobCeleste
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Two very important acronyms to know and understand: First, CINO: A CINO is a Christian in name only, a person, he, she or it, that while claiming to be a Christian either does not know what following Christ means or simply refuses to follow what Christ taught. In most instances it is a man, woman or it that does not even know that the God of the Old Testament is also the God of the New Testament, some even refute the Trinity, and other fundamental pillars of Christianity. Those that do not fully follow Christ, are not Christians, they are CINOs. The second is RINO: A RINO is a person, he, she or it, that while professing to be a Republican does not follow and/or agree with the planks ...
Pumped beyond limits, many U.S. aquifers in decline
Post Date: 2015-12-11 05:11:27 by Tooconservative
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SUBLETTE, Kansas – Just before 3 a.m., Jay Garetson’s phone buzzed on the bedside table. He picked it up and read the text: “Low Pressure Alert.” He felt a jolt of stress and his chest tightened. He dreaded what that automated message probably meant: With the water table dropping, another well on his family’s farm was starting to suck air. The Garetson family has been farming in the plains of southwestern Kansas for four generations, since 1902. Now they face a hard reality. The groundwater they depend on is disappearing. Their fields could wither. Their farm might not survive for the next generation. At dawn, Jay was out among the cornfields at the well, trying ...
Bowe Bergdahl: I Deserted My Unit to Save It
Post Date: 2015-12-10 17:53:40 by cranky
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Army Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl broke his silence about leaving his base in Afghanistan to NPR’s popular “Serial” podcast. In it, he claims he deserted his unit “to highlight poor leadership” and rapidly realized he was “in over his head.” “Doing what I did is me saying that I am like, I don’t know, Jason Bourne. I had this fantastic idea that I was going to prove to the world that I was the real thing,” he stated. “You know, that I could be what it is that all those guys out there that go to the movies and watch those movies, they all want to be that, but I wanted to prove that I was that.” He claimed he fled his unit in order to ...
NSA and CIA Contractor Says U.S. Mercenary Group Carried Out San Bernardino Attack
Post Date: 2015-12-10 08:39:14 by Deckard
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A former NSA and CIA contractor says he has to come clean about the San Bernardino shooting, which he says did not happen the way the media and law enforcement are claiming. The official narrative is that last Wednesday, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, stormed a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, shooting and killing 14 people and injuring 21 others. This marks the deadliest mass shooting in the US in three years. We are told that Malik pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist organization and pseudo-Caliphate. This pledge or “bayat” supposedly came via Facebook – during the attacks in question. The ...
It's the WALL stupid
Post Date: 2015-12-10 08:07:16 by BobCeleste
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It's The Wall! Why does Jeb Bush, Kasich, Fiorina, The Clinton's, the DNC, the RNC and both the ruling political class and the super rich donor class hate Donald John Trump? It is simple folks, it is the wall. Now, let us think for a minute, have not the Republicans running for office told us time and time again that to rid of obama, to get rid of obama care, to secure the borders, to reduce welfare, to reduce the number of terrorist coming into the United States of America, we needed to elect them? Then once elected have they not become just like the party of the democrat? Let me tell you a secret, nothing is going to change in Augusta or Washington, Boston or Albany, until ...
Plan To Build On Your Own Land? That’s Going To Cost You. (Control Freakery Meets Extortion)
Post Date: 2015-12-10 07:35:21 by Deckard
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Pete Nelson builds treehouses—big ones, for grownups. It's a sufficiently imagination-capturing business that the Washington-based builder landed his own show on Animal Planet. In a 2013 interview with Land8, a landscape architecture site, Nelson described the specific engineering challenges and building techniques peculiar to his small industry. Putting durable structures up in trees is pretty specialized stuff, and he's one of the few experts in the field."It is hard to convince the powers that be that a certain tree can withstand the weight of a substantial structure," Nelson told Land8, speaking of the knowledge gap between specialized builders like himself and ...
War on Drugs Ensnares Coffee Relative
Post Date: 2015-12-10 07:24:06 by Deckard
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Wisconsin becomes the fourth state to ban kratom, which is closer to caffeine than opium.Kerry Biggs needed help managing her chronic pain. Years of taking prescription medications to alleviate the pain caused by her fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and other ailments had left the mother of two "feeling foggy." Desperate to find an alternative, Biggs tried kratom. Derived from the leaves of the kratom tree, a close relative of the coffee plant, it has been used for centuries in Southeast Asia for its medicinal properties. In small doses, kratom acts as a minor stimulant similar to caffeine. In larger doses its works as a painkiller and can act as an antidepressant for some ...
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