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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Grassley Presses for More Answers on Operation Fast and Furious, Allowing Guns to “Walk”
Post Date: 2011-03-26 20:54:08 by Wood_Chopper
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Grassley Presses for More Answers on Operation Fast and Furious, Allowing Guns to “Walk” WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley continues to press the administration for answers about the policy that allowed guns to “walk” over the Mexican border. Grassley began questioning the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in January. His requests for information about the involvement of various agencies, including ATF, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection have been stonewalled by the administration. Grassley is now asking Customs and Border Protection for ...
ATF let hundreds of U.S. weapons fall into hands of suspected Mexican gunrunners
Post Date: 2011-03-26 20:47:01 by Wood_Chopper
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ATF let hundreds of U.S. weapons fall into hands of suspected Mexican gunrunners Whistleblower Says Agents Strongly Objected to Risky Strategy By John Solomon and David Heath and Gordon Witkin | March 03, 2011 Gen. Antonio Erasto Monsivais holds up a seized .50 caliber Barrett model 99 single-shot rifle in the seized weapons warehouse at the headquarters of the Secretary of Defense in Mexico City. Mexican authorities have repeatedly complained that most of the weapons used by drug cartels there — including Barrett rifles — are coming from the U.S. The ATF’s Fast and Furious probe allowed guns to be trafficked south of the border in an effort to nail high-level cartel ...
REPORTER CONFINED IN CLOSET DURING VEEP'S FUNDRAISER (Biden's Gitmo)
Post Date: 2011-03-26 18:23:21 by Hondo68
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The Joe Biden detention facility Staffers with Vice President Joe Biden confined an Orlando Sentinel reporter in a closet this week to keep him from mingling with high-powered guests gathered for a Democratic fundraiser. Reporter Scott Powers was the designated "pool reporter" for the vice president's Wednesday visit to the massive Winter Park, Fla., home of developer and philanthropist Alan Ginsburg. The veep hadn't arrived yet but most of the 150 guests (minimum $500 donation) had. They were busy noshing on caprese crostini with oven-dried mozzarella and basil, rosemary flatbread with grapes honey and gorgonzola cheese and bacon deviled eggs, before a lunch of grilled ...
Obama's spokesboy defends embrace of Gov't Electric CEO despite report company didn't owe taxes in 2010
Post Date: 2011-03-26 08:45:20 by Happy Quanzaa
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White House defends embrace of G.E. CEO despite reportcompany didn't owe taxes in 2010 In January, President Obama named General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, an economic advisory board focused on job creation. In his State of the Union address that same month, meanwhile, he called for the closure of corporate tax loopholes in conjunction with a lowering of the corporate tax rate, which stands at 35 percent. "Over the years, a parade of lobbyists has rigged the tax code to benefit particular companies and industries," he said. "Those with accountants or lawyers to work the system can end up paying no taxes ...
Obama says he didn’t inform Mexico of U.S. gun smuggling operation because he didn’t know about it
Post Date: 2011-03-25 21:56:08 by Wood_Chopper
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Obama says he didn’t inform Mexico of U.S. gun smuggling operation because he didn’t know about it Posted on 03/24/2011 by Richard Dunham, Bureau Chief Under fire for an operation that allowed smuggling of U.S. weapons across the nation’s border with Mexico, President Obama said in an interview that neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the controversial “Operation Fast and Furious.” The Mexican government has complained that it didn’t know about the U.S. operation that allowed guns to illegally cross the southwestern border so they could track the weapons. Obama Polaroid 225.jpg AP photo Obama told Univision‘s Jorge Ramos that ...
Government Electric’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether
Post Date: 2011-03-25 13:37:42 by Happy Quanzaa
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A PRESIDENT’S BUSINESS LIAISON In January, President Obama named JeffreyR. Immelt, General Electric’s chief executive,to head the President’s Council on Jobs andCompetitiveness. “He understands what ittakes for America to compete in the globaleconomy,” Mr. Obama said. General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010. The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. That may be hard to fathom for the millions of American business owners and households now ...
Big Government wants to tax us by the mile now
Post Date: 2011-03-25 12:35:42 by Happy Quanzaa
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CBO Sees Benefits in Taxing Motorists Based on Miles Driven (CNSNews.com) - A new Congressional Budget Office study says taxing motorists based on the number of miles they drive would be a fair and "efficient" way to charge motorists for the real cost of using the nation's highways. "Vehicle-miles traveled" taxes (or VMT taxes) also would provide a strong incentive for people to drive less. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood floated the idea of a VMT tax one month after President Obama took office, but Obama’s spokesman immediately shot it down. "It is not and will not be the policy of the Obama administration," White House press secretary Robert ...
Anybody but Jamie Gorelick for FBI director
Post Date: 2011-03-25 09:01:04 by Happy Quanzaa
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Jamie Gorelick has displayed nothing that shows she's theright choice for FBI director. Movie patrons recall Forrest Gump's remarkable presence in an amazing succession of notable historical events. Gump's innocence and simple wisdom amid those times made for a delightful two hours of cinematic escapism. But there is no escaping the damage that would result if President Obama appoints Jamie Gorelick to succeed Robert Mueller as FBI director. Like Gump, Gorelick was present at a remarkable series of recent historical events during the past two decades, but through them all she displayed nothing that could be called either innocent or wise. So let us count the ways in which ...
More ObamaCare trickery
Post Date: 2011-03-24 10:18:40 by CZ82
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Poster Comment:You've got to be kidding me......... Most colleges offer some kind of health insurance and dental insurance to their students, and it's cheap. I don't see the relevance of this video they made, other than it's lying to people......
White House Guest List: How Obama Pulled a Fast One on the American People--In the Name of 'Transparancy'
Post Date: 2011-03-23 14:45:57 by Happy Quanzaa
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President Barack Obama has won praise from the media — and from himself — for putting the White House visitor logs online. Yet the visitor logs may hide more than they reveal. The White House is still holding back “tens of thousands” of visitor logs, according to congressional testimony last week by Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, who also added that “the Obama administration is less transparent than the Bush administration.” We also know that some of the most important presidential visitors don’t even walk into the White House. The administration meets K Street lobbyists at Caribou Coffee, and holds secret meetings in Jackson Place townhouses ...
Clinton Official Gorelick Involved in 9/11 & Subprime Loan Crisis Controversies Shortlisted to Run FBI
Post Date: 2011-03-23 12:20:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration reportedly is considering former Clinton administration official Jamie Gorelick, among others, to become the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez first reported the news last week, citing “U.S. officials” familiar with the situation. Gorelick served as vice chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) when the government-sponsored enterprise began bundling subprime loans into securitized financial instruments. Prior to that, she served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton Justice Department under then-Attorney General Janet Reno from 1994 to ...
ObamaCare: they don't like the dog food
Post Date: 2011-03-23 10:48:37 by Happy Quanzaa
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A year later, they still hate Obamacare. Or so says the latest CNN poll, conducted March 18-20, almost precisely a year after the bill was passed. CNN’s analysis makes much of the fact that about one-quarter of those who disapprove of Obamacare do so because they think the bill does not go far enough. But, the reaclearpolitics.com average of recent polls shows, most Americans continue to favor repeal of this landmark legislation, by an average of 52%-41%. It’s like the old story about the advertising agency and the dog food which I wrote about last June. The best ads in the world won’t produce sales if the dogs won’t eat the dog food. "We have to pass the ...
TOLDJA!! The Dollar Broke Lower—So Now What?
Post Date: 2011-03-22 14:22:54 by Capitalist Eric
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Like Nikki Finke always says whenever a scoop of hers gets confirmed: TOLDJA!!Picture of my girlfriend and the fish I caught. Honest!A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that we were about to enter a crucial phase for the dollar. Then last Thursday, I wrote that the dollar was about to break through a key support level on Thursday or Friday. And what happened on Friday? Even after massive Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan intervention on Thursday night? The dollar broke through! I was right!—TOLDJA!!(Yes, I know: I’m an insufferable shit. But I’m also right. So you’ll just have to resign yourself to taking the good with the obnoxious.)Now it’s all ...
US Approaching Insolvency, Fix To Be 'Painful': Fisher
Post Date: 2011-03-22 12:40:34 by Happy Quanzaa
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The United States is on a fiscal path towards insolvency and policymakers are at a "tipping point," a Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday. "If we continue down on the path on which the fiscal authorities put us, we will become insolvent, the question is when," Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said in a question and answer session after delivering a speech at the University of Frankfurt. "The short-term negotiations are very important, I look at this as a tipping point." But he added he was confident in the Americans' ability to take the right decisions and said the country would avoid insolvency. "I think we are at the ...
Breaking: Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Failed to Pay $287,000 in Property Taxes on Aircraft
Post Date: 2011-03-21 17:13:47 by Happy Quanzaa
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In a conference call with reporters, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill just disclosed that she failed to pay $287,000 in property taxes related to her co-ownership of a private aircraft. This scandal comes quickly on the heels of recent revelations that McCaskill improperly billed taxpayers for use of the same private aircraft, for which McCaskill reimbursed the Treasury $88,000: Sen. Claire McCaskill is selling the personal plane that has caused her turbulence in recent weeks after POLITICO revealed she used taxpayer money to cover the cost of political travel. The first-term Democrat said she was very happy she was able to convince her husband to "sell the damn plane." In a ...
Ill. state Senator leaves for Texas: 'I'm tired of subsidizing crooks.'
Post Date: 2011-03-21 16:52:08 by Happy Quanzaa
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Roger Keats, a former Illinois state senator and Cook County Board president, is packing up and leaving the Land of Lincoln for good. The 62-year-old Keats was a good government reformer who helped clean up the rampant corruption in the Chicago-area courts uncovered by Operations Greylord and Gambat. But now he’s throwing in the towel, and he and his wife are heading for Texas. “I am tired of subsidizing crooks," Keats told the Wilmette Beacon. In “Good Bye and Good Luck,” a letter to all the friends and political supporters he’s leaving behind after 60 years, Keats says he is leaving what he calls “the most corrupt big city…and most corrupt state ...
Government Kiddie Train Inspector Fakes Report, Kills a Kid & Injures Dozens
Post Date: 2011-03-21 16:19:35 by Happy Quanzaa
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Agency says SC train ride inspector faked report COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A state inspector falsified a safety report and never tested a children's train ride that crashed over the weekend, killing a boy and injuring dozens, officials said Monday. Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation chief Catherine Templeton told reporters that Donnie Carrigan could not have tested the ride March 16 because a battery in the train was dead, making it inoperable. Carrigan marked the train's operation at proper speed as "satisfactory," according to the agency's report. "Unfortunately the inspector did not complete his job," Templeton said. Carrigan, a 20-year agency ...
U.S. Government Backs Libyan Al-Qaeda While Hyping Terror Attacks Inside U.S.
Post Date: 2011-03-20 16:21:53 by Hondo68
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Achieving new heights of hypocrisy, the U.S government is hyping the threat of Libyan-backed reprisal terror attacks inside the United States, while launching air strikes in support of so-called "protesters" who have commandeered fighter jets and tanks, and are in fact Islamic fundamentalist Al-Qaeda cells who want to impose sharia law in Libya. The New York Times reports that Libya may "lash out" against the Orwellian "no fly zone," which in reality represents constant bombardment, by sending terrorists to carry out attacks against U.S. interests. "Asked if American officials feared whether Colonel Qaddafi could open a new terrorism front, President ...
Obama’s Interior Department Gives Final Approval to Brazilian Oil Company’s Gulf of Mexico Deep Water Floating Facility
Post Date: 2011-03-20 05:20:57 by Happy Quanzaa
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Yes, as he continues to hold up drilling permits for U.S. oil companies in the Gulf. (Reuters) — The U.S. Interior Department said on Thursday it gave final approval for Petrobras to use the first ever deepwater floating production storage facility in the Gulf of Mexico. The facility will be used when the company begins oil and natural gas production at its Chinook-Cascade project in the near future, the department said. Petrobras is based in Brazil. A Petrobras official who asked not to be identified told Reuters that production would begin in May. The floating facility has a daily production capacity of 80,000 barrels of oil and 16 million cubic feet of gas. It can be ...
Government Railroad: Amtrak CEO ditches broken train to travel by car to ribbon cutting of Wilmington’s Joe Biden station
Post Date: 2011-03-20 03:32:43 by Happy Quanzaa
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Today’s the big day for Amtrak’s Wilmington train station. It is being renamed in honor of Vice President and former Delaware Senator Joe Biden following major renovations made possible with stimulus funds. One problem: the CEO of Amtrak got stuck on the train. ABC News Deputy Political Director & Political Reporter Michael Falcone tweeted at approximately 10 a.m. that the Acela train he was riding had been “delayed” in Baltimore and that he was sitting next to Amtrak CEO Joe Boardman. Falcone tweeted, “Acela to NY delayed for ‘unknown period’ Should I feel better that the Amtrak CEO is sitting next to me?” It quickly became apparent that the ...
CBO: Supreme Leader lowballs his deficit by $2.3 trillion
Post Date: 2011-03-18 19:53:11 by Happy Quanzaa
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CBO: Obama understates deficits by $2.3 trillionCBO: Obama budget underestimates deficits by $2.3 trillion over upcoming decade WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new assessment of President Barack Obama's budget released Friday says the White House underestimates future budget deficits by more than $2 trillion over the upcoming decade. The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that if Obama's February budget submission is enacted into law it would produce deficits totaling $9.5 trillion over 10 years -- an average of almost $1 trillion a year. Obama's budget saw deficits totaling $7.2 trillion over the same period. The difference is chiefly because CBO has a less ...
Obama's justice dept. tells white male bullying victims: Tough luck
Post Date: 2011-03-18 19:42:58 by Happy Quanzaa
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DOJ to white male bullying victims: Tough luck The viral video sensation showing a bullying incident at an Australian school has brought the issue of bullying back into the spotlight. Here in the United States, the Obama administration has made school bullying a federal issue. Last week, President Barack Obama addressed an anti-bullying conference with First Lady Michelle Obama at his side. The administration's anti-bullying campaign has been ongoing since the beginning of Mr. Obama's term. The Department of Justice announced in December 2010 its intention to hold liable school districts that fail to protect students that are bullied. DOJ’s website states: The Civil Rights ...
Inside classified Hill briefing, administration spells out war plan for Libya
Post Date: 2011-03-18 17:22:13 by Hondo68
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Several administration officials held a classified briefing for all senators on Thursday afternoon in the bowels of the Capitol building, leaving lawmakers convinced President Barack Obama is ready to attack Libya but wondering if it isn't too late to help the rebels there. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns led the briefing and was accompanied by Alan Pino, National Intelligence Officer for the Near East, Gen. John Landry, National Intelligence Officer for Military Issues, Nate Tuchrello, National Intelligence Manager for Near East, Rear Adm. Michael Rogers, Director of Intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Rear Admiral Kurt Tidd, Vice Director of ...
2 ex-Dem leaders charged in fake tea party scheme
Post Date: 2011-03-17 10:49:17 by Happy Quanzaa
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Pontiac— Two former high-ranking members of the Oakland County Democratic Party are facing various election corruption charges in a bogus tea party scheme, Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper and County Sheriff Michael Bouchard announced Wednesday. Former Democratic Party Chairman Michael McGuinness and ex-operations director Jason Bauer, both of Waterford Township, were arraigned Wednesday before Oakland Circuit Judge James Alexander. They face charges related to Independent Tea Party filings, false affidavits and forged documents that occurred between July 23 and July 26 last year. Both stood mute to the charges and were released on $25,000 personal bond each, pending an ...
SC GOP lieutenant gov faces 92 state ethics charges
Post Date: 2011-03-16 21:47:01 by go65
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Lt. Gov. Ken Ard faces 92 state ethics charges alleging he used campaign money for personal purposes and failed to disclose campaign spending. The State Ethics Commission on Wednesday said it would release details of the charges in the next few days. The ethics agency said it found probable cause to bring charges on 69 counts of converting campaign money to personal use. It also found probable cause for 23 counts of failing to disclose spending. Commission executive director Herb Hayden said he would not comment on the case. Ard's lawyer didn't immediately respond to a cell phone message. The commission had already asked Ard to explain nearly ...
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