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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
DC Suburb Dem Pol & Dem Pol Skank Wife Busted
Post Date: 2010-11-12 16:38:40 by Happy Quanzaa
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P.G. executive taken into custody Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife have been taken into custody by federal agents, sources tell The Washington Examiner. Earlier this year, the state reportedly began investigating allegations that Johnson elicited bribes and favors while considering a $1 million lease for the county Department of Housing complex in New Carrollton. Johnson had served as the county government’s chief since 2002. His term ends in January, and he will be replaced by Rushern Baker. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/blogs/capital-land/pg-executive-Jack-Johnson-taken-into-custody-10 ...
Gonzalo Lira And The Boiling Frog: Effects Of QE2 On The Bottom 80% Of The U.S. Population [SOCIALISM IN ACTION]
Post Date: 2010-11-12 11:58:48 by Capitalist Eric
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The Boiling Frog: Effects of QE2 On The Bottom 80% of the U.S. PopulationAn old metaphor: If you take a frog and drop it into a roiling pot of boiling water, it’ll jump right out, unscathed. But if you put that same frog in a pot of cold water, and then slowly raise the heat, that frog won’t move. It’ll stay in that pot of water, calm as can be, right up until it is boiled to death. I’ve been arguing that the unpayable Federal government debt, coupled with irresponsible Federal Reserve policies, will inevitably lead to a hyperinflationary event and currency collapse. In order to prepare for a web seminar on hyperinflation in America, I’ve been looking at the issue ...
Caught: Justice Department Probes GOP Governor For Lavish Spending On Cars, Hotels
Post Date: 2010-11-09 11:33:32 by Brian S
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The Republican governor of New Jersey spent big money on luxury hotels without proper justification, a new Justice Department report reveals. As a US Attorney, Gov. Chris Christie "provided insufficient, inaccurate or no justification," in 14 of the 15 trips in question, the Department of Justice report (.pdf) said. The review found that most US Attorneys rarely sought reimbursement above the government rate but Christie surpassed the rate by a total $2,176 over 23 trips. The rate was exceeded by as much as $242 per night. "In terms of the percentage of travel, U.S. Attorney C was the U.S. Attorney who most often exceeded the government rate without adequate ...
Global Obamanomics Number of the Week: $10.2 Trillion in Global Borrowing
Post Date: 2010-11-08 06:46:51 by Happy Quanzaa
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$10.2 trillion: The amount of money advanced-nation governments will need to borrow in 2011 As the debts of advanced countries rise to levels not seen since the aftermath of World War II, it’s hard to know how much is too much. But it’s easy to see that the risk of serious financial trouble is growing. Next year, fifteen major developed-country governments, including the U.S., Japan, the U.K., Spain and Greece, will have to raise some $10.2 trillion to repay maturing bonds and finance their budget deficits, according to estimates from the International Monetary Fund. That’s up 7% from this year, and equals 27% of their combined annual economic output. Aside from Japan, ...
Moderate Dems Line Up in Opposition to Pelosi's Bid for Minority Leader
Post Date: 2010-11-06 21:26:30 by Murron
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Moderate Dems Line Up in Opposition to Pelosi's Bid for Minority Leader In the wake of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's stunning announcement on Friday that she will seek to remain as leader of the diminished House Democrats, moderate members of the party are beginning to line up in opposition. Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., said he was "disappointed that Speaker Pelosi is going to seek the position of Minority Leader." North Carolina Rep. Larry Kissell's office said he hopes Pelosi "will change her mind and step aside." Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma told Fox News that voters sent a message Tuesday that they want the Democratic Party to move in a new direction. ...
Did Harry Reid Steal the Election? (SEIU - voting machine fraud, bogus registrations, etc)
Post Date: 2010-11-03 21:02:46 by Hondo68
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After what some have called a suspicious win for Harry Reid over Sharron Angle by a 5% margin, the favorite of the Tea Party, Sharron Angle has filed a complaint in the Nevada Attorney General Agency against Harry Reid, accusing him of forgery. Because of the pre election polls showed Angle ahead by 4%, and then Reid won by 5%, there is a suspicion that Reid cheated. At the start of voting, Clark County, where more than half of Nevadans reside, confirmed that the reports of voting machines were automatically checking Harry Reid’s name. An additional report stated that Reid has given out gifts and goodies to voters in return for their support. Many are pointing to Rory Reid, the son of ...
Paki haji hijinks: Saudi prince accuses religious affairs ministry of corruption
Post Date: 2010-11-03 10:28:49 by Happy Quanzaa
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Supreme Court of Pakistan. — Photo by AP ISLAMABAD: In a letter to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Saudi Prince Bandar bin Khalid has alleged that the Pakistani government rejected the most economical Saudi offer pertaining to the accommodation of Pakistani hajis. Taking a suo motu notice on the letter, the apex court has directed the ministry of religious affairs to file a reply in this regard within 15 days. Prince Bandar, in his letter, complained that although his company had offered to provide residential facilities to Pakistani hajis on very economical rates, the Pakistani government decided on a less economical option. According to the PPI news agency, the letter ...
Fed Will Probably Start $500 Billion of Bond Buys, Survey Shows [We're gonna' PRINT, baby, PRINT!!!]
Post Date: 2010-11-03 02:24:51 by Capitalist Eric
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The Federal Reserve will probably introduce an unprecedented second round of unconventional monetary easing tomorrow by announcing a plan to buy at least $500 billion of long-term securities, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Policy makers meeting today and tomorrow will restart a program of securities purchases to spur growth, reduce unemployment and increase inflation, said 53 of 56 economists surveyed last week. Twenty-nine estimated the Fed will pledge to buy $500 billion or more, while another seven predicted $50 billion to $100 billion in monthly purchases without a specified total. The remainder said the Fed would buy up to $500 billion or didn’t quantify ...
Government Motors Could Be Free of Taxes for Years
Post Date: 2010-11-02 17:33:23 by Happy Quanzaa
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GM Could Be Free of Taxes for Years BY RANDALL SMITH AND SHARON TERLEP General Motors Co. won't have to pay up to $50 billion in taxes under an unusual provision of its government-funded bailout, giving the car maker an added boost as it prepares to return to the stock market this month. GM may use so-called tax-loss carry-forwards ... For full article LOG IN
Voters encounter problems at North Providence polling station (malfunctioning repair techs)
Post Date: 2010-11-02 15:35:05 by Hondo68
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Some voters were turned away at a polling station in North Providence because of problems with voting machines. The problems happening at the polling place at the Marieville Fire Station. A repair technician had to be called three times within five hours to deal with malfunctioning machines. Police were on hand to monitor the repairs. However, some voters couldn't wait for repairs to be made and left, saying they'd try to come back later. "This is disgusting," an angry voter told ABC 6 News. "It shouldn't be happening."
Prosecutors Say Ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Laundered Money To Increase Power, Influence
Post Date: 2010-11-01 13:43:03 by Brian S
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay took part in a scheme to illegally give corporate money in Texas legislative races in order to strengthen his power and political influence, prosecutors told jurors Monday in the ex-politician's money laundering trial. During opening statements, Travis County prosecutor Beverly Mathews said DeLay and two associates — Jim Ellis and John Colyandro — illegally funneled $190,000 in corporate money, which had been collected by a group DeLay started, through the Washington-based Republican National Committee to help elect GOP state legislative candidates in 2002. Under Texas law, corporate money cannot be directly ...
Director George Hickenlooper Dies (Denver mayor, gubernatorial candidate cousin says no foul play)
Post Date: 2010-10-30 20:05:19 by Hondo68
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Filmmaker George Hickenlooper was found dead Saturday in Denver. The Mayor of Sunset Strip and Factory Girl director was in Colorado to promote his latest film, Casino Jack, at the Starz Denver Film Festival. The Denver Post reports that Hickenlooper appears "to have died of natural causes" and that no foul play is suspected. Hickenlooper's cousin, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, said in a statement Saturday, "Shock and sadness do not begin to describe our emotions. We are devastated. George had immense creative talents and cinematic gifts, but he was so much more than that to us and all of his family." Hickenlooper's credits include the making-of Apocalypse ...
Tom DeLay's Money Laundering Trial To Begin
Post Date: 2010-10-26 18:28:50 by Brian S
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(CNN) -- Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the trial of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is charged with illegally funneling corporate money to help elect GOP candidates to the Texas legislature. The Republican was indicted in 2005 on charges he illegally sent $190,000 in corporate money through the Republican National Committee to help elect GOP Texas legislative candidates in 2002. DeLay, who resigned in 2006, has pleaded not guilty to money laundering and conspiracy. He has said the trial will clear him. His attorney, Dick DeGuerin, told CNN in August that the case was "highly political" and should have been heard in DeLay's home county of Fort ...
The Tea Party movement: deluded and inspired by billionaires
Post Date: 2010-10-26 10:43:59 by go65
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The Tea Party movement is remarkable in two respects. It is one of the biggest exercises in false consciousness the world has seen – and the biggest Astroturf operation in history. These accomplishments are closely related. An Astroturf campaign is a fake grassroots movement: it purports to be a spontaneous uprising of concerned citizens, but in reality it is founded and funded by elite interests. Some Astroturf campaigns have no grassroots component at all. Others catalyse and direct real mobilisations. The Tea Party belongs in the second category. It is mostly composed of passionate, well-meaning people who think they are fighting elite power, unaware that they have been organised ...
The Biggest Bank Robbery In History? More Quantitative Easing = Backdoor Bailouts For The Big Banks Without Having To Go Through Congress
Post Date: 2010-10-21 17:33:37 by Capitalist Eric
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The U.S. Federal Reserve is getting ready to conduct another gigantic bailout of the big banks, but this time virtually nobody in the mainstream media will use the term "bailout" and the American people are going to get a lot less upset about it. You see, one lesson that was learned during the last round of bank bailouts was that the American people really, really do not like it when the U.S. Congress votes to give money to the big banks. So this time, the financial "powers that be" have figured out a way around that. Instead of going through the massive headache of dealing with the U.S. Congress, the Federal Reserve is simply going to print money and give it directly ...
CPS denies it violated law in busing students to vote
Post Date: 2010-10-20 17:45:39 by Rudgear
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The sides agree that partisan politicking involving Cincinnati Public School students shouldn't occur on school time, but they disagree if that really happened. "I think CPS believes CPS stubbed their toes, got caught, whatever," attorney Chris Finney said. He sued the school district Monday, saying Hughes High students were sent to vote on school time last week and, when they arrived at the Hamilton County Board of Elections, were handed a sample ballot that listed only Democrat candidates. Mark Stepaniak, an attorney representing CPS, admits students were taken on school time in donated church vans to vote last week and were given sample ballots listing only Democrat ...
Lawsuit: CPS pushing Democrats
Post Date: 2010-10-20 17:43:28 by Rudgear
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Three van loads of Hughes High students were taken last week – during school hours – to vote and given sample ballots only for Democratic candidates and then taken for ice cream, a Monday lawsuit alleges. The complaint was made by Thomas Brinkman Jr., a Republican candidate for Hamilton County auditor, and the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending & Taxes against Cincinnati Public Schools. “They plan to bring four more high schools (to vote) this week,” Christopher Finney, COAST attorney, said Monday after filing the suit. • UPDATE: CPS denies it violated law It seeks a temporary restraining order to prevent school officials from participating or helping ...
Democrats struggle to defend Obama's stimulus scam
Post Date: 2010-10-20 13:30:20 by Happy Quanzaa
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Democrats struggle to defend stimulus DENVER — A photo of President Barack Obama hangs on the wall in CoraFaye's Cafe, a short walk from the Denver museum where Obama signed into law the most sweeping U.S. economic package in decades in an attempt to put people back to work and end the worst downturn since the Great Depression. But the folks tucking into fried chicken and cornbread at CoraFaye's roll their eyes when asked whether the 2009 stimulus made a difference. "Are you kidding?" said Donn Headley Sr., a 61-year-old whose heating and air conditioning company closed last year because of slow business. Republicans nationwide are attacking Democrats with a ...
Pa. Democrat admits helping Tea Party candidate {Desperate}
Post Date: 2010-10-20 13:25:31 by Capitalist Eric
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A Pennsylvania Democratic House candidate on Tuesday admitted to helping a third candidate get on the ballot in the hopes he would siphon votes away from his Republican opponent. Bryan Lentz, the Democratic nominee running for the seat being vacated by Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), said he knew that volunteers from his campaign helped Tea Party candidate Jim Schneller. "If somebody's already made the decision to run, I didn't think that 'helping' with the process of signature petitions was improper," Lentz told told the Delaware County Daily Times editorial board in an interview. Republicans have accused Democrats of helping set up Tea Party candidates as spoilers ...
Obama Stimulus Weatherization Redistribution Program buys fraud in Homeboy's Chicago
Post Date: 2010-10-20 07:35:31 by Happy Quanzaa
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Report: In Obama's Chicago, stimulus weatherization money buys shoddy work, widespread fraud Projects to weatherize homes are a key part of the Obama administration's fusion of stimulus spending and the green agenda. But a new report by the Department of Energy has found serious problems in stimulus-funded weatherization work -- problems so severe that they have resulted in homes that are not only not more energy efficient but are actually dangerous for people to live in. The study, by the Department's inspector general, examined the work of what's called the Weatherization Assistance Program, or WAP, in Illinois. Last year, the Department awarded Illinois $242 million, ...
AIDS Activists In Boston Heckle An Angry President Obama
Post Date: 2010-10-19 05:05:41 by Murron
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AIDS Activists In Boston Heckle An Angry President Obama President Barack Obama was in Massachusetts today helping out Governor Deval Patrick’s reelection effort. Speaking at a campaign rally earlier today, however, he was met with a bit of a road bump– hecklers who objected to the amount of AIDS research funding his administration has so far provided. To which an angry President Obama retorted: “look at what the Republican leadership has to say about AIDS funding.” The President appeared uncharacteristically upset as, mid-sentence, a group of folks in the crowd began to loudly object to his speech as he described the work his administration had done for AIDS ...
Stimulating Hypocrisy: Scores of Recovery Act Opponents Sought Money Out of Public View
Post Date: 2010-10-17 19:21:31 by Skip Intro
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Rep. Pete Sessions, the firebrand conservative from Dallas, Texas, has relentlessly assailed the Democratic-passed stimulus law as a wasteful "trillion dollar spending spree" that was "more about stimulating the government and rewarding political allies than growing the economy and creating jobs." But that didn’t stop the Republican lawmaker from reaching his hand out behind the scenes to seek stimulus money for the suburb of Carrollton after the camera lights went dark and the GOP campaign against the 2009 stimulus law quieted down. The affluent city’s rail project is “shovel-ready,” Sessions wrote Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in ...
$hady Rangel zone-Nonprofit dodgy on spending
Post Date: 2010-10-17 09:50:33 by Happy Quanzaa
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Us Rep. Charles Rangel's pet nonprofit, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, controls hundreds of millions in taxpayer cash but defiantly refuses to explain its spending. The group's tax forms are incomplete, and it has yet to release its 2009 annual report. Questions are stonewalled. Asked about its $2.7 million loan to the troubled Alianza Dominicana for its delayed multimillion-dollar Triangle Building headquarters, UMEZ's lawyer said it was "an internal matter." The note came due Oct. 9, but Blair Duncan would not say whether the loan was paid -- only that the UMEZ "was working with the borrower." The UMEZ last spring approved a separate $2.6 ...
FIRST LADY CAMPAIGNS INSIDE POLLING PLACE
Post Date: 2010-10-14 18:39:15 by WhiteSands
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First lady Michelle Obama appears to have violated Illinois law -- when she engaged in political discussion at a polling place! The drama began after Mrs. Obama stopped off at the Martin Luther King Center on the south side of Chicago to cast an early vote. After finishing at the machine, Obama went back to the desk and handed in her voting key. She let voters including electrician Dennis Campbell, 56, take some photos. "She was telling me how important it was to vote to keep her husband's agenda going," Campbell said. According to a pool reporter from the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES at the scene, the conversation took place IN the voting center not far from the booths. Illinois ...
Prayer Group Linked to GOP Lawmakers Took Money From Alleged Terrorist Source
Post Date: 2010-10-14 15:08:42 by sneakypete
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A group of activist ministers in Ohio has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax status of an outfit that sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast, saying that it took money six years ago from an alleged Islamic terrorist financier. ClergyVoice said in a letter to the IRS that the Fellowship Foundation violated its standing as a tax-exempt group when it accepted two $25,000 checks in May and June of 2004 from the Islamic American Relief Agency, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The Islamic charity turned up on the Senate Finance Committee list of terrorist financiers in January 2004. The Fellowship Foundation told the Post it has tightened its vetting of donors and ...
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