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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Scott (R-SC) Introduces Empower Employees Act-Public Sector Workers Disproportionately Targeted by Organized Labor
Post Date: 2011-06-15 07:09:35 by Happy Quanzaa
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Scott Introduces Empower Employees ActPublic Sector Workers Disproportionately Targeted by Organized Labor Washington, Jun 3 - Rep. Tim Scott (SC-01) today introduced The Empower Employees Act to give federal employees the power to consciously decide whether or not to contribute to a union by prohibiting the automatic deduction of union dues from any federal government employee’s paycheck. “Federal union employees enjoy benefits far greater than those in the private sector and the unions’ power to bargain is supported by the dues they automatically collect from employees’ paychecks each month,” Scott said. “This bill does not prohibit federal workers from ...
EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Claim Intelligence on Bin Laden, al-Qaeda Targets Withheld From Congress' 9/11 Probe [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-06-14 14:50:29 by Brian S
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On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, just as he has done in years past, a top military intelligence analyst identified by the US government only as "Iron Man" will hunker down in front of his television and watch a particularly gruesome scene of the carnage left behind on that fateful day. "Although I try to avoid it, I glimpse a film clip, a scene, of people throwing themselves from a burning tower, people who deserved better protection from their country, from me and the men I worked with, and I hear the sounds of the lobby in the [World Trade Center] on tape," said the man, whose alter ego chosen by the government appears to be paying homage to the flawed Marvel Comics ...
Obama Jokes at Jobs Council: 'Shovel-Ready Was Not as Shovel-Ready as We Expected'
Post Date: 2011-06-14 08:58:07 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama Jokes at Jobs Council:'Shovel-Ready Was Not asShovel-Ready as We Expected' Obama Laughing Off Dismal Economy: Video President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met today in Durham, NC at Cree Inc., a company that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting. One of the Council's recommendations to President Obama was to streamline the federal permit process for construction and infrastructure projects. It was explained to Obama that the permitting process can delay projects for "months to years ... and in many cases even cause projects to be abandoned ... I'm sure that when you implemented the Recovery Act your staff briefed you on many of these ...
Missing Iraq Money May Have Been Stolen, Suditors Say
Post Date: 2011-06-13 10:53:51 by Brian S
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After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born. Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. They sent an initial full planeload of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12-billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time This month, the Pentagon and the Iraqi government are finally closing the books on the program that handled all those ...
Obama rubs elbows with regulatory robber barons
Post Date: 2011-06-13 09:52:28 by Happy Quanzaa
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Then-Rep. Max Sandlin (D-TX) (L) drinks Tabasco sauce onApril 24, 2002 during a 'Chile Pepper Eating' contest onCapitol Hill in Washington, DC. Sandlin ate 8 jalapenos in 5minutes and won the contest without any other competitorsshowing up. Sandlin of Texas is now Cree Inc.'s leadingoutside lobbyist. President Obama on Monday was scheduled to give a pep talk for American manufacturing at a factory in Durham, N.C., where Cree Inc. makes LED light bulbs. Cree embodies Obama-era capitalism: profiting from government grants, political connections, revolving-door lobbyists and regulations that force people to buy your product. Cree deals mostly in light-emitting diode technology. ...
Crony Capitalism and Obama's Anti-Coal Crusade
Post Date: 2011-06-13 06:42:38 by CZ82
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Crony Capitalism and Obama's Anti-Coal Crusade By Ed Lasky Barack Obama has long sought to bankrupt the coal industry. But, Cook County politician that he is and always will be, the relevant question is: who benefits from his plans wreck a major portion of our economy while also boosting electricity prices across America? A clue: he and his pals from Chicago have incestuous ties to the one company whose prospects will be boosted by Obama's policies. While Barack Obama has broken many promises he made along the campaign trail to the Oval Office, one promise seems close to whatever heart he may have: to bankrupt the coal industry. He told the editorial board of the San Francisco ...
Taxpayers on the Hook for Retiree Costs for Federal Contractors
Post Date: 2011-06-12 15:40:59 by CZ82
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Taxpayers on the Hook for Retiree Costs for Federal Contractors By Elizabeth MacDonald & Kathryn Glass, Published June 10, 2011 A surprising new government report shows that taxpayers have been footing the bill for retiree benefits not just for federal workers, but for independent freelance contractors who do work for the government as well. And no one is watching the store to see if your tax dollars are being wasted. Taxpayers for years have been covering private contractors' retiree costs for things like pensions and health care, even though these workers are not on the federal payroll. Taxpayers also cover these retiree costs for contractors' spouses, too, and in some ...
Kasich plans golf outing with Obama, Biden, Boehner (Golf Summit)
Post Date: 2011-06-12 11:02:21 by Hondo68
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Gov. John Kasich has a special round of golf coming up. Kasich will join President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. House Speaker John Boehner as the fourth member in a golf foursome that will take to the links June 18. Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols confirmed Kasich's place in the foursome, and the Cincinnati-area Republican Boehner said as much on his Twitter account. Obama and Boehner, both avid golfers, scheduled the golf outing to smooth over some of their differences as they seek a compromise over raising the national debt limit and cutting spending. The Democrat Obama picked Biden as his vice golfer in chief, while Boehner tabbed the Republican Kasich, himself ...
TSA pervert government thugs admit "bad judgement" after molesting mentally disabled man
Post Date: 2011-06-12 08:41:11 by Happy Quanzaa
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TSA Admits ‘Bad Judgment’After Disabled ManSubjected to Airport Pat-Down A Detroit father said agents with the Transportation Security Administration singled out his special-needs son for a pat-down while the family was headed to Disney World, MyFoxDetroit.com reported, an incident that the TSA admitted was a “case of bad judgment.” David Mandy said agents at Detroit Metro Airport took his son Drew, 29, and asked him about the padding underneath his pants, which turned out to be adult diapers. Drew, who is severely mentally disabled, had trouble understanding the agents’ orders because his family said he has the mental capacity of a 2-year-old. When the father ...
US Dollar Death Spiral, Economy Hurtles Toward System Failure
Post Date: 2011-06-10 16:44:05 by Capitalist Eric
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The combination of $trillion bond fraud, dependence on inflating home equity for economic development, oversized cars, oil dependence, constant market intervention, insolvent banks, insolvent homes, outsourced industry, endless war, budget deadlock amidst runaway deficits, raided US gold treasury, mammoth future benefit obligations, and handing over the keys at USDept Treasury to Goldman Sachs has left the United States to fend off systemic failure. The creeping price inflation that stems from US Fed hyper monetary inflation and total ignorance on basics of capitalism like business formation have left the US vulnerable to disorder and chaos. The chaos in fact grows with the passage of time ...
QE2 Unmitigated Failure – The Bernanke Chronicles
Post Date: 2011-06-10 16:33:11 by Capitalist Eric
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Our self proclaimed “expert” on the Great Depression, Ben Bernanke, seems to be feeling the pressure. His theories worked so well when he modeled them in his posh corner office at Princeton. He could saunter down the hallway and get his buddy Krugman to confirm his belief that the Federal Reserve was just too darn restrictive between 1929 and 1932, resulting in the first Great Depression. I wonder if there will be a future Federal Reserve Chairman, 80 years from now, studying how the worst Federal Reserve Chairman in history (not an easy feat) created the Greatest Depression that finally put an end to the Great American Military Empire. Bernanke spent half of his speech earlier ...
California Family Hit With SWAT Raid . . . Ordered By The Department of Education
Post Date: 2011-06-08 22:05:02 by sneakypete
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In Stockton, California, Kenneth Wright was at home with his three young children ages 3, 7, and 11 when a SWAT team burst into his home at 6 a.m., dragged him out on the lawn, threw him to the ground, and put the family (including the kids) in squad cars. His alleged crime: default on student loans. On top of the overkill in using SWAT teams to target defaulting students, the city got it wrong. They were looking for Wright’s estranged wife. The D.O.E. now insists that it was not just about loans but part of a criminal investigation that it was carrying out. There has been an expansion of SWAT teams with the infusion of federal funds, often connected to anti-terror programs. ...
Daniel Ellsberg: All the crimes Richard Nixon committed against me are now legal
Post Date: 2011-06-08 21:03:50 by Skip Intro
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In the 1960s, Ellsberg was a high-level Pentagon official, a former Marine commander who believed the American government was always on the right side. But while working for the administration of Lyndon Johnson, Ellsberg had access to a top-secret document that revealed senior American leaders, including several presidents, knew that the Vietnam War was an unwinnable, tragic quagmire. Officially titled "United States-Viet Nam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense,"–the Pentagon Papers, as they became known–also showed that the government had lied to Congress and the public about the progress of the war. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000 ...
Re-Open The USS Liberty Case: 44 Years After Attack, US Politicians Still Cover For The "Bastard State" Some Call Israel
Post Date: 2011-06-08 21:02:30 by Brian S
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(PORTLAND, Ore.) - A year after the bloody Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara, the Turkish humanitarian aid ship bound for Gaza, I am reminded of an earlier Israeli attack on another ship that took place several decades ago. The 8th of June marks a little noticed anniversary date that should live in infamy in the annals of modern US history. It was the day, during the 1967 war, that the Israel attacked the US spy ship, the USS Liberty, off the coast of Egypt. Thirty four US servicemen were killed and one hundred seventy two were wounded in this well documented, unprovoked attack. “Accidental” is what Israel, and her defenders proclaim. It was an Egyptian ship, they ...
10 Myths That Politicians Want You to Believe
Post Date: 2011-06-08 17:07:50 by Capitalist Eric
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The financial system is on the brink of collapse after trillions in bad loans were issued by greedy bankers. If you were a U.S. political figure, would you: A.) Tell everyone to suck a lemon, and (maybe) let the economy implode. B.) Fire the bankers who made the bad loans, prosecute the guys who broke the law and guarantee a portion of the loans in a grin-and-bear-it show of good faith. C.) Reward the bankers who made the bad loans with billions of dollars in bonuses and guarantee every loan with U.S. taxpayer money (with interest, because we borrowed the money from China). If you answered C, then maybe you should run for office, support laws that funnel billions to ...
China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self-Sustaining City South Of Boise, Idaho
Post Date: 2011-06-08 11:11:42 by Hondo68
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Thanks to the trillions of dollars that the Chinese have made flooding our shores with cheap products, China is now in a position of tremendous economic power. So what is China going to do with all of that money? One thing that they have decided to do is to buy up pieces of the United States and set up "special economic zones" inside our country from which they can continue to extend their economic domination. One of these "special economic zones" would be just south of Boise, Idaho and the Idaho government is eager to give it to them. China National Machinery Industry Corporation (Sinomach for short) plans to construct a "technology zone" south of Boise ...
SWAT Team Busts Into House Over Student Loan Default
Post Date: 2011-06-08 10:33:30 by Brian S
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Acting on orders from the U.S. Department of Education, a S.W.A.T. team broke into a California home Tuesday at 6 a.m. and reportedly roughed up a man — all because of his estranged wife’s defaulted student loans. She wasn’t there. Yet, Kenneth Wright of the city of Stockton was grabbed by the neck by handcuffed before he and his three young children were put in a police car as the officers searched his house, he told ABC News10. He said he was in his underwear the whole time. “They busted down my door for this. It wasn’t even me,” Wright told the local news station. “All I want is an apology for me and my kids and for them to get me a new door.” ...
Mullen Says Pay, Benefit Cuts 'On the Table'
Post Date: 2011-06-07 09:54:11 by sneakypete
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The Pentagon's top officer said Thursday that servicemembers will likely see cuts in pay and benefits as the military plumbs its budget for nearly half a trillion dollars in savings over the next 12 years. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen warned against taking the "relatively easy" choice of cutting hardware while maintaining the increasing costs of paying and providing ongoing health care to troops and retirees. "Two of the big places the money is, is in pay and benefits," Mullen told defense reporters at a June 2 breakfast meeting in Washington. "And so when I say all things are on the table, all things are on the table." In May, ...
True Cost of Fannie, Freddie Bailouts: $317 Billion, CBO Says
Post Date: 2011-06-06 19:08:55 by CZ82
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True Cost of Fannie, Freddie Bailouts: $317 Billion, CBO Says Monday, June 06, 2011 By Matt Cover CNSNews.com) – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the real cost of the federal government guaranteeing the business of failed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is $317 billion -- not the $130 billion normally claimed by the Obama administration. In a report delivered to the House Budget Committee on June 2, the CBO said a “fair value” accounting of guaranteeing the two defunct mortgage companies – known as Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) – was more than twice as high as the Office of Management and Budget had accounted for. ...
Fed Lawyer Alvarez: “The Federal Reserve Does NOT Own Any Gold at All”
Post Date: 2011-06-06 18:46:47 by Capitalist Eric
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Thats right. The Fed owns NO gold. Zero, zip, ziltch. For those of you who did not watch yesterday’s monetary policy hearing in the house of representatives, you most likely missed this bombshell exchange between Federal Reserve lawyer Scott Alvarez and committee chairman Dr. Ron Paul. My jaw literally dropped when I heard the Fed’s general counsel declare that the Federal Reserve owns no gold. After 1934, Alvarez explains that the Fed handed its gold over to the Treasury in exchange for gold certificates. When pressed further, Alvarez noted that the gold certificates do not represent any interest whatsoever in the gold itself. He explained the gold certificate listings on the ...
Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding homeless
Post Date: 2011-06-06 14:19:58 by Hondo68
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Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park.Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin Markeson, 49, and Jonathan "Keith" McHenry, 54, were arrested at 6:10 p.m. on a charge of violating the ordinance restricting group feedings in public parks. McHenry is a co-founder of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which began in the early 1980s.The group lost a court battle in April, clearing the way for the city to enforce the ordinance. It requires groups to obtain a permit and limits each group to two permits per year for each park within a 2-mile radius of City Hall.Arrest papers ...
U.S. gives billions of dollars in foreign aid to world's richest countries - then asks to borrow it back
Post Date: 2011-06-04 00:03:01 by Sebastian
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The U.S. is providing hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign aid to some of the world's richest countries - while at the same time borrowing billions back, according to report seen by Congress.The Congressional Research Service released the report last month which shows that in 2010 the U.S. handed out a total of $1.4bn to 16 foreign countries that held at least $10bn in Treasury securities. Four countries in the world's top 10 richest received foreign aid last year with China receiving $27.2m, India $126.6m, Brazil $25m, and Russia $71.5m. Around the world: Barack Obama on the Great Wall of China. Last year China received $27.2m in foreign aid from the U.S.Mexico also ...
Christa and Danny Schultz Hate People Praying.
Post Date: 2011-06-03 07:12:04 by A K A Stone
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A federal judge has ordered a Texas school district to prohibit public prayer at a high school graduation ceremony. Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery’s order against the Medina Valley Independent School District also forbids students from using specific religious words including “prayer” and “amen.” The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by Christa and Danny Schultz. Their son is among those scheduled to participate in Saturday’s graduation ceremony. The judge declared that the Schultz family and their son would “suffer irreparable harm” if anyone prayed at the ceremony. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said the school district is in ...
Obama Administration Calls Indiana's Ban of Planned Parenthood Illegal
Post Date: 2011-06-02 18:53:12 by CZ82
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Obama Administration Calls Indiana's Ban of Planned Parenthood Illegal FoxNews.com The Obama administration has declared Indiana's new law that withholds some public funding for Planned Parenthood of Indiana illegal and is warning other states that some of their Medicaid funding will be in jeopardy too if they pass legislation barring any qualified health care provider. In a letter sent to Indiana's Medicaid director, Medicaid Administrator Donald M. Berwick said Indiana's plan will improperly bar beneficiaries from receiving services. Federal law requires Medicaid beneficiaries to be able to obtain services from any qualified provider. "Medicaid programs may not ...
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