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Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying
Post Date: 2015-06-10 15:44:37 by nolu chan
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Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying Justice Department’s national security chief cites six-month transition period in the USA Freedom Act as a reason to turn the bulk surveillance spigot back on Spencer Ackerman Guardian (UK) Tuesday 9 June 2015 07.00 EDT The Obama administration has asked a secret surveillance court to ignore a federal court that found bulk surveillance illegal and to once again grant the National Security Agency the power to collect the phone records of millions of Americans for six months. The legal request, filed nearly four hours after Barack Obama vowed to sign a new law banning precisely the bulk collection he ...
How did political polls become so inaccurate? Blame our obsession with data.
Post Date: 2015-06-10 12:26:06 by Tooconservative
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When Nate Silver, the undisputed king of election forecasting, declares that "The World May Have a Polling Problem," it's time to take notice. Why are public opinion polls increasingly proving unreliable? It seems clear that two things could be happening. Either those who agree to cooperate with the pollsters are unrepresentative of the population, or they are deliberately lying to pollsters about their preferences. Why on Earth would either of those, or both, be happening? Because there are so many polls in the field that few "normal" people are willing to answer questions honestly, leaving responses to oddballs or those eager to have a little fun at the expense of ...
Author: Jade Helm about winning civilian trust
Post Date: 2015-06-10 11:17:40 by Deckard
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By Paul Bremmer The Jade Helm 15 military training exercise slated to hit the American Southwest this summer may be the military’s attempt to “master the human domain,” according to one reporter who’s been digging into the matter. The U.S. Army Special Operations Command, which will organize and oversee the exercise, created an electronic presentation about Jade Helm 15 that includes a logo with the motto “Master the Human Domain.” Author and reporter Cheryl Chumley says that will involve some unconventional tactics. “My interpretation is it’s less bombing, less boots on the ground, less tanks, and a lot more psychological-type warfare,” ...
Jerry Seinfeld says comedians avoid college gigs, students are 'so PC'
Post Date: 2015-06-10 10:24:30 by Deckard
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In a recent interview on ESPN Radio with Colin Cowherd, Jerry Seinfeld discussed the growing trend of comedians avoiding college campuses for fear of backlash over political correctness. “[The younger generation] just want to use these words,” Seinfeld said. “‘That’s racist, that’s sexist, that’s prejudice.’ They don’t even know what they’re talking about.” The topic came up when Cowherd mentioned to Seinfeld that Conan O’Brien made a Caitlyn Jenner joke two days before her interview with Diane Sawyer. Cowherd believes that, had Conan done the joke two days later, he would have been labeled a “bigot.” This ...
Friday Vote: Congress Rushing the TPP Through Even Though They Know Americans Will Lose Their Jobs
Post Date: 2015-06-10 09:54:31 by Deckard
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There’s nothing free about free trade. The tagline on the story on this up at Politico is “They’re trying to resolve a last-minute hangup over aid for workers who lose their jobs to free trade”: House leaders, confident but not yet certain they have the support to pass sweeping trade legislation, are aiming to bring the package to a floor vote by the end of this week — even as they rush to resolve a last-minute hangup over how to pay for aid to displaced workers. The vote to grant President Barack Obama fast-track authority to negotiate a massive Pacific Rim trade deal will be extremely tight by all accounts. Senior aides and lawmakers in GOP leadership are intent ...
Army Gen. Randy Taylor introduces his husband at Pentagon Gay Pride event
Post Date: 2015-06-10 05:15:26 by Gatlin
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A married Army general on Tuesday introduced his spouse at a Pentagon event that featured lots of top brass, including Defense Secretary Ashton Carter as the keynote speaker. What made this seemingly routine introduction noteworthy is that Brig. Gen. Randy S. Taylor introduced his husband, Lucas. “My husband Lucas is sitting up front here,” Gen. Taylor said of the man in the same row as Mr. Carter, Army Secretary John McHugh and other senior officials. He said Lucas has subjugated his own career to support the general’s frequent moves over an 18-year relationship. “We bet everything on my Army career,” said Gen. Taylor, whose 27 years of service spanned an ...
NYPD working to increase ranks of Muslims in department
Post Date: 2015-06-10 05:01:47 by Gatlin
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department is working to recruit more Muslims, and is asking for help within the community to better refine outreach aimed at stifling the lure of overseas terror groups, officials said Monday. Right now, there are about 800 Muslim uniformed police officers out of about 35,000, according to the NYPD Muslim Officers Society. Of those, only about 20 are higher ranked officials. Lt. Adeel Rana, commanding officer of the community affairs immigration outreach unit, said there has been a slow increase over the past decade, but it has been rapidly changing in the past year and a half."It's changing every day; we are getting more and more ...
Clearing your browser history can be deemed 'obstruction of justice' in the U.S.
Post Date: 2015-06-10 04:51:43 by Gatlin
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Next week, a 24-year-old man who knew Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev is scheduled to appear in U.S. Federal Court for sentencing on obstruction of justice charges related to the 2013 attacks. Khairullozhon Matanov, a former taxi driver, did not participate in or have any prior knowledge of the bombings, according to U.S. authorities. What could land him 20 more years in prison — where he has been since his arrest — are the charges that he deleted video files from his computer and cleared his browser history in the days following the attacks. A ...
Baltimore court rejects Mosby’s request for gag order in Freddie Gray case
Post Date: 2015-06-10 04:41:32 by Gatlin
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We’ve been following the events in Baltimore coming out of the Freddie Gray case pretty closely and, as usual, the story seems to be swinging further and further away from the original incident and focusing on the city government. As you may recall, State Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby recently asked for a gag order preventing the release of the autopsy in the case, as well as barring any discussion in the media of relevant information. It didn’t take long for an answer to come down, and the court has declined her request. But the reason is probably not what you were first thinking. This wasn’t some comment on the strange nature of asking for the gag order itself… it was ...
Email: Marilyn Mosby ORDERED Cops To Ramp Up Drug Patrols In Area Where Freddie Gray Was Arrested
Post Date: 2015-06-10 04:37:40 by Gatlin
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In March, Marilyn Mosby directed Baltimore police to ramp up narcotics patrols with increased “targeting” at an intersection near where Freddie Gray was later arrested, according to an email from an official in the Baltimore city state’s attorney’s office. “State’s Attorney Mosby asked me to look into community concerns regarding drug dealing in the area of North Ave and Mount St,” wrote Joshua Rosenblatt, the division chief of Crime Strategies Unit, in a March 17 email to Western District police commander Major Osborne Robinson, a Western District police commander. The Baltimore Sun reported the email, which was contained in a motion filed Tuesday by the ...
The Government Wants Names of Online Commenters Who Trashed the Silk Road Judge
Post Date: 2015-06-10 04:14:34 by Gatlin
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The Department of Justice has ordered libertarian website Reason.com to turn over the information of six commenters after they made threats against the federal judge who presided over the Silk Road trial.Ken White of the blog Popehat obtained the grand jury subpoena issued by the Department of Justice last week, which demands "any and all identifying information” the website has pertaining to the threatening commenters. This includes email addresses, telephone numbers, IP addresses, and billing information associated with the accounts. The subpoena targets users who commented on an article published on May 31st regarding a letter from Ross Ulbricht, the creator of online drug ...
"The Girl Was No Saint Either": Fox Jumps To Defend McKinney Police Officer's Brutal Manhandling Of Teen Girl At Pool Party
Post Date: 2015-06-09 20:34:34 by Gatlin
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Fox hosts and guests rushed to the defense of a police officer suspended after video surfaced of his brutal treatment of teenagers outside a pool party in McKinney, Texas. The video showed the officer pulling his gun on two teenage boys, then slamming a girl down onto her face. Video Shows Texas Police Officer Pulling Gun On Teenagers, Manhandling Teen Girl Wash. Post: "Video Shows Texas Police Officer Pulling Gun On Teenagers At Pool Party." The Washington Post reported on a video showing white police officer in McKinney, Texas brutally detaining and pulling a gun on black teenagers following a pool party: A white police officer in McKinney, Tex., has been suspended ...
Who Just Arrived In McKinney, Texas, Means Things Could Soon Get Explosive
Post Date: 2015-06-09 19:56:20 by Gatlin
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At least a few social media commenters warned any activists looking for trouble... McKinney, Texas, the latest hotbed of racially motivated civil unrest, is now the scene of increasingly intimidating protests after the reported arrival of New Black Panther Party members. The city’s police department has been under nationwide scrutiny after video surfaced of one officer handling a teenage suspect at the scene of a public disturbance. Several media outlets reported an uptick in disruption this week with demonstrators gathering in the middle of streets to impede traffic. [...] [...] Article is here.
Operation Jade Helm: All Your Texas Are Belong To Us!
Post Date: 2015-06-09 19:22:08 by Gatlin
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Jade Helm is all the rage. We've gotten dozens of emails and messages and links from all fronts. Like the usual message traffic, they range from RFI's, complaints (from all sides), to moon bat. Well, in today's OP-ED, Hernandez is here to bring you his insights on the plenary plan. Read up. Mad Duo Grunts: Plenary Operation Jade Helm: All Your Texas Are Belong To Us!Chris Hernandez Curses! Our sinister plot has been discovered! Somehow Jade Helm, our “training exercise” [wink wink], has been revealed as a plan to wage war on Texas. We tried to trick the public into believing it was just training, but the sheeple didn't buy it! Astute internet investigators, none ...
McKinney chief: Eric Casebolt was 'out of control' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-06-09 19:15:24 by nolu chan
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McKinney chief: Eric Casebolt was 'out of control' Rebecca Lopez WFAA 5:50 p.m. CDT June 9, 2015 McKINNEY — The McKinney police officer whose actions at a pool party disturbance last Friday went viral in a YouTube video resigned from the force on Tuesday. "The actions of Eric Casebolt are indefensible," police Chief Greg Conley told reporters at a news conference late Tuesday afternoon, saying the officer was "out of control during the incident." "I had 12 officers on the scene, and 11 of them performed according to their training," Conley added. Casebolt's resignation was confirmed about one hour earlier by attorney Jane Bishkin, who ...
Federal judge orders last 'Angola Three' inmate released
Post Date: 2015-06-09 10:41:11 by Willie Green
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The last of the "Angola Three" inmates, whose decades in solitary confinement on a Louisiana prison farm drew international condemnation and became the subject of two documentaries, was ordered released Monday. The ruling would free 68-year-old Albert Woodfox after more than 40 years in solitary, which human rights experts have said constitutes torture. U.S. District Judge James Brady of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, ordered the release of Woodfox and took the extraordinary step of barring Louisiana prosecutors from trying him for a third time. A spokesman for the Louisiana attorney general said the state would appeal Brady's ruling to the 5th U.S. ...
Transgender people should use bathroom of gender they identify as, U.S. urges
Post Date: 2015-06-09 09:32:35 by A K A Stone
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That is what the fedeal government is suggesting. I would suggest putting them in mental institutions. If that fails a bullet to the head. It is for morons to fall in line and change their views for a freak that wants to cut their own dick off.
The Full Story of The McKinney Texas, Pool Mob – Inside The “Craig Ranch” Subdivision…
Post Date: 2015-06-09 04:18:34 by out damned spot
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Here’s The Story of The McKinney Pool Fiasco The Origin – The woman who organized the event in McKinney, Texas is named Tatiana Rhodes (or Tatyana Rhodes). She is approximately 19-years-old; however, she retains a fake id and has began scrubbing most of her social media accounts, so her exact age is undetermined. Update: confirmed profile DOB 04/02/1995, so Tatiana Rhodes is 20. Tatiana had been promoting a party via twitter under the hashtag name “Dime Piece Cookout” for approximately a month. She planned the event at a sub-division called “Craig Ranch” in McKinney Texas. Tatiana (pictured below left) lives in the sub-division with her mother Lashana Burkes ...
National Bar Association Demands Texas Cop Be Fired Over Pool Party Incident
Post Date: 2015-06-08 23:39:38 by GeorgiaConservative
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The National Bar Association, the nation's largest organization of black attorneys and judges, has called for the firing of a white Texas police officer who drew his gun and slammed a black teenaged girl to the ground while responding to a complaint at a pool party. A seven-minute video shows the officer, who has been identified as McKinney police corporal Eric Casebolt, grab a teenage girl by the arm and slam her to the ground. When two people approached Casebolt, he drew his gun to chase them away. He then forced the girl face down onto the grass, placed his knees on her back and handcuffed her, the video shows. She was detained temporarily before being released, according to ...
BLACK RADIO HOST THAT WITNESSED MCKINNEY POOL INCIDENT: ‘I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS ABOUT RACE’
Post Date: 2015-06-08 23:15:12 by out damned spot
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In an appearance on CNN’s “Outfront” on Monday, Benét Embry, host of the “Benét Embry Radio Show,” explained that it was his view that a pool party that went awry and led to a confrontation between several black teenagers and local police wasn’t about race. He blamed “seven knuckleheads” for ruining what was about kids “there just having a good time.” “I do not believe that this was about race,” Embry said. “What this was a teenage party that got out of control. It was about 130 kids there, 100 good kids there just having a good time. Out of the 130, predominantly African- American, seven knuckleheads ruined ...
Convicted Murderers Who Escaped New York Jail Left a Note
Post Date: 2015-06-08 21:08:52 by GeorgiaConservative
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Two convicted murderers scrawled a short message on a Post-it Note before escaping a maximum-security prison, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Saturday, as authorities continued to search for the men and announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to their capture. A Post-it Note with the words “Have a nice day” and a smiley face was left on a pipe that officials say Richard Matt and David Sweat cut open when they fled the Clinton Correctional Facility, about 25 miles south of the Canadian border, either late Friday or early Saturday, NBC News reports. New York State Police say the escapees are a danger to the public and should not be approached. Click for Full ...
Can Gays And Christians Coexist In America? Part 1
Post Date: 2015-06-08 21:08:39 by A K A Stone
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Can gays and Christians co-exist in America? As the saying goes, “Can this marriage be saved?” I still hope the answer is yes. But for now, it is very much up in the air—and the answer is no longer in Christians’ hands. This is a provocative thesis on a sensitive topic, one many of us would rather not face. I had long hoped not to return to writing at any length about this issue, especially not when conservatives are winning so many other arguments these days, and this is one that persuades few people who have not already made up their minds. While I have written repeatedly on efforts to enact same-sex marriage through the courts, I have never lifted a finger on fights ...
Owner of house blown apart by SWAT says: 'This is an abomination. This is an atrocity'
Post Date: 2015-06-08 13:25:17 by Deckard
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SWAT was trying to flush out shoplifting suspectGREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. - "There was one gunman with a handgun and they chose to turn this house into something that resembles Osama Bin Laden's compound."Leo Lech is more than a little upset, and he is not afraid to express it with colorful language.After all, the house he purchased for his son now has gaping holes where it once had walls and windows. Past the exposed studs and insulation of the condemned structure, you can see artwork on the wall of a 9-year-old boy's bedroom."In any civilized nation ... this is the act of paramilitary thugs," he says he told the chief of the Greenwood Village Police ...
Black Union soldier finally receives recognition nearly 100 years after his death in Nevada
Post Date: 2015-06-08 09:06:16 by cranky
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John Riggs of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, left, and Linda Clements of the Historical Society of Dayton Valley pay their respects to Pvt. Scott Carnal of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry during a ceremony Sunday, June 7, 2015, at his grave in Dayton, 30 miles south of Reno, Nev. Carnal, a runaway slave who joined the Union Army during the Civil War and lost a leg after being wounded in battle, finally received recognition during a military funeral Sunday, nearly 100 years after he died in Nevada.A runaway slave who joined the Union Army during the Civil War and lost a leg after being wounded in battle finally received recognition Sunday, nearly 100 years after he died in ...
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