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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Denver Cashes in by Seizing Cars for Low-Level Crimes, Even Without Convictions
Post Date: 2017-11-15 05:47:28 by Deckard
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Denver Police body camera footageDenver cab driver Semere Fremichael got caught up in an undercover prostitution sting. He was innocent—he thought she wanted a ride, not sex for pay—and was acquitted by a judge. His taxi, however, got taken for a rough ride. Denver's Fox affiliate has an excellent two-part investigation showing how the city attorney's office is using civil asset forfeiture to cash in by snatching vehicles like Fremichael's for even low-level crimes, and even when their owners aren't convicted. In 2016, Denver made more than $2.4 million, seizing more than 1,800 vehicles enforcing the civil forfeiture component of its public nuisance abatement laws. ...
Why is Kansas government so shrouded in secrecy?
Post Date: 2017-11-13 10:42:36 by Willie Green
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Kansas must have more sunlight. That’s the inescapable conclusion its citizens will reach this week, as an investigation by The Star is published. The stories reveal a concerted and disturbing effort by officials at all levels of Kansas government to keep the public’s business secret. The Legislature. The executive branch and state agencies. Police departments. Courtrooms. City halls and county commissions. From Tonganoxie to Topeka and beyond, The Star has uncovered a culture that seeks to hide critical facts from the very people the government is meant to serve. Top to bottom, Kansas government may be one of the most secretive in the nation. The public should be deeply ...
How Russian Twitter trolls worked to deflect bad news around Trump's campaign
Post Date: 2017-11-10 09:56:20 by Willie Green
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Disguised Russian agents on Twitter rushed to deflect scandalous news about Donald Trump just before last year's presidential election while straining to refocus criticism on the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton's campaign, according to an Associated Press analysis of since-deleted accounts.Tweets by Russia-backed accounts such as "America_1st_" and "BatonRougeVoice" on Oct. 7, 2016, actively pivoted away from news of an audio recording in which Trump made crude comments about groping women, and instead touted damaging emails hacked from Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta.Since early this year, the extent of Russian intrusion to help Trump and hurt ...
Declassified Docs Show CIA Poisoned Entire Town with LSD in Massive Mind Control Experiment
Post Date: 2017-11-06 10:29:08 by Deckard
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For decades after a French village was struck by mass insanity and hallucinations in 1951, it was widely believed that a local bakery’s flour had become contaminated by ergot, a poisonous fungus that occurs naturally on rye and causes hallucinations. However, a discovery by an investigative journalist doing research for a book about the incident uncovered damning evidence that the village’s food was intentionally contaminated with LSD as part of a secret CIA mind control experiment. On August 16, 1951, numerous locals were suddenly stricken with horrifying hallucinations of fire, dragons, and snakes, with dozens being committed to asylums and hundreds left with varying degrees of ...
Massive Leak Reveals New Ties Between Trump Administration and Russia, Implicating Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Jared Kushner
Post Date: 2017-11-05 14:26:58 by Willie Green
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The leak of over 13 million documents related to offshore accounts has revealed secrets of politicians worldwide, including new links between the Trump administration and Russia. A trove of more than 13 million documents was leaked on Sunday, the contents of which implicate top officials and associates of President Donald Trump, as well as foreign politicians, with shady business relationships tied to offshore financial accounts.The documents, referred to as the “Paradise Papers,” were leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung—the same publication that obtained the so-called Panama Papers—and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative ...
'Trump is f***ed' after former campaign chief Paul Manafort charged in Russia investigation, says ex-aide
Post Date: 2017-11-02 08:33:02 by Willie Green
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Donald Trump "is f***ed" after his former campaign chief was charged as part of an investigation into Russian interference in last year's election, an ex-aide has said. Sam Nunberg, an adviser to the Republican's presidential campaign, said Paul Manafort's indictment showed special prosecutor Robert Mueller would "go over every financial dealing" of Trump's businesses and allies. He suggested the President may not be able to survive the probe alongside dwindling approval ratings. Mr Manafort and business associate Rick Gates are under house arrest after pleading not guilty to 12 charges including money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the ...
'I want to quit': Fox News employees say their network's Russia coverage was 'an embarrassment'
Post Date: 2017-10-31 18:34:36 by Willie Green
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Some employees at Fox News were left embarrassed and humiliated by their network's coverage of the latest revelations in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to conversations CNN had with several individuals placed throughout the network. "I'm watching now and screaming," one Fox News personality said in a text message to CNN as the person watched their network's coverage. "I want to quit." "It is another blow to journalists at Fox who come in every day wanting to cover the news in a fair and objective way," one senior Fox News employee told CNN of their outlet's coverage, adding that ...
Kelly Supports Appointing Another Special Counsel
Post Date: 2017-10-31 08:36:45 by Tooconservative
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White House chief of staff John Kelly reluctantly supported the appointment of an additional special prosecutor to look into the alleged misdeeds of Democrats during an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Monday. Ingraham interviewed Kelly on the debut night of her new show the “Ingraham Angle.” “I think the president has made it clear what he thinks about the Uranium One story and the Fusion GPS Story,” Ingraham told Kelly. This is in reference to President Donald Trump’s angry tweets about the Clinton campaign funding a dossier alleging ties between Trump and Russia and an Obama-era uranium deal that Republicans have criticized. The Fox News host ...
13 Wire Transfers Focus Of FBI Probe Into Manafort [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-10-30 08:25:25 by Jameson
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The FBI's investigation of Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, includes a keen focus on a series of suspicious wire transfers in which offshore companies linked to Manafort moved more than $3 million all over the globe between 2012 and 2013. Much of the money came into the United States. These transactions — which have not been previously reported — drew the attention of federal law enforcement officials as far back as 2012, when they began to examine wire transfers to determine if Manafort hid money from tax authorities or helped the Ukrainian regime close to Russian President Vladimir Putin launder some of the millions it plundered through corrupt ...
CIA Agent Blows the Whistle: 'We Supply Elite Pedophiles with Children' Read more at: http://www.nnettle.com/news/3029-cia-agent-blows-the-whistle-we-supply-elite-pedophiles-with-children
Post Date: 2017-10-30 07:13:33 by Deckard
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A decorated 14-year veteran CIA agent has blown the whistle and made a public statement to expose the Central Intelligence Agency for operating a child trafficking ring that procures children for global elite pedophiles.Former spy John Kiriakou, who also has deep ties to Hollywood from working as an advisor to the movie business, has revealed how the agency provides child sex slaves to powerful oligarchs in the entertainment industry, Washington D.C. and beyond.Kiriakou says that they have "sources" installed in the upper echelons of society, politics and the movie business.In return for information, the CIA provides these elite sources with a steady ...
Navarro Grants Govt Everything, Defendants Nothing (Bundy - Bunkerville Trial #3)
Post Date: 2017-10-28 19:07:17 by Hondo68
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On Tuesday, October 24, Judge Gloria Navarro issued a number of rulings in the Bundy case, granting the government almost everything they asked for while denying the defense almost any means to defend themselves in the upcoming trial. With a sweep of her pen, Navarro has wiped multiple motions off the docket with arbitrary rulings that only benefit the government. Shockingly, Navarro even ruled that the prosecution can introduce Cliven Bundy’s 2014 speech in which he reportedly said “I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro. . . .” Cliven’s remarks were taken out of context from a wide-ranging discussion of over-regulation, the negative impacts of ...
WaPo: Congress Has Special U.S. Treasury Fund to Payout Sexual Harassment Victims
Post Date: 2017-10-28 17:13:34 by cranky
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As the response to sexual harassment allegations against Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein spreads to America’s most public industries, the Washington Post reported Thursday on Congress’s unique system of handling sexual harassment claims from interns and staffers. The Post describes Congress as playing by different rules — a workplace where “interns have limited harassment protections under the unique employment law that Congress applies to itself” and where a special U.S. Treasury fund has been established just for settlement payouts. From Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Elise Viebeck in the Washington Post: Congress makes its own rules about the handling of ...
WSJ to Mueller after dossier exposé: RESIGN!
Post Date: 2017-10-26 12:34:57 by Tooconservative
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“Strip out the middlemen,” the Wall Street Journal’s editors argue this morning, “and it appears that Democrats paid for Russians to compile wild allegations about a US presidential candidate.” The editorial demands a “full investigation” into the FBI’s activities during the previous presidential cycle, saying that collusion may have taken place — only in a completely different direction than previously thought. And that puts the special counsel in an impossible position, the editorial concludes: The more troubling question is whether the FBI played a role, even if inadvertently, in assisting a Russian disinformation campaign. We know the agency ...
Gag order lifted: DOJ says informant can speak to Congress on Uranium One, Russia bribery case with Clinton links
Post Date: 2017-10-25 23:03:46 by Tooconservative
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The Justice Department said Wednesday night that it had lifted a gag order on a former FBI informant involved in a high-profile Russia bribery case, clearing the individual to speak to Congress about Moscow’s Obama-era uranium deals in the U.S. market and other schemes. In a statement, the department said it had authorized the informant to speak to the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Oversight Committee, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in addition to select staffers. The department said the informant could provide “any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium ...
Former Presidents Come Together for Photo-Op As Internet Forgets They’re ALL War Criminals
Post Date: 2017-10-24 07:59:59 by Deckard
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Five former presidents of the United States came together for a hurricane relief benefit, and their photo-op with musician Lady Gaga led to a surprising reaction—the Internet loved it! Not only did the public put politics aside, it also seems to have forgotten about all of the things these men have done to give them a very different title: War Criminal. “Nothing more beautiful than everyone putting their differences aside to help humanity in the face of catastrophe. #OneAmericaAppeal,” Gaga wrote on Twitter. Here are a few of the highlights from each presidency: Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) After the CIA-sponsored assassination of the first democratically-elected prime minister ...
Bannon blasts George W. Bush’s presidency (FR wises up) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-10-21 13:52:50 by Hank Rearden
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It wasn't very long ago that Hopalong was banning people for saying what's now pervasive in the comments sections. I was one of them. The almost-always grift is running at about the same slow pace as usual, FYI. The last grift-free break between grifts was 8 days at the end of September. --------------- Former White House adviser Steve Bannon says there has not been a more destructive presidency than George W. Bush’s. Bannon delivered a scathing criticism of the former president after Bush this week denounced bigotry in Trump-era American politics, warning that the rise of “nativism,” isolationism and conspiracy theories have clouded the nation’s true ...
Judging by Mueller's staffing choices, he may not be very interested in justice
Post Date: 2017-10-20 08:18:01 by cranky
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Much has been written about the prosecutorial prowess of Robert Mueller’s team assembled to investigate allegations of Russia’s involvement in the Trump campaign. Little has been said of the danger of prosecutorial overreach and the true history of Mueller’s lead prosecutor.What was supposed to have been a search for Russia’s cyberspace intrusions into our electoral politics has morphed into a malevolent mission targeting friends, family and colleagues of the president. The Mueller investigation has become an all-out assault to find crimes to pin on them — and it won’t matter if there are no crimes to be found. This team can make some.Many Americans despise ...
Veteran Bucks the Former Mayor of Phoenix, City Makes Him Pay for More Than a Decade
Post Date: 2017-10-14 11:44:07 by Deckard
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Robert Stapleton says his troubles began when he refused to sell to an influential developer.Robert Stapleton was a United States Marine in Vietnam. The war left him injured, and with a desire to be alone, and far away from people. When he came back to the States, he moved his then-wife and their young son out to a small house on a half-acre plot of land on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. "I was just spent when I got done with the whole thing," Stapleton tells Reason of his experience. "I came to the desert to rest and regroup. And this was fine, this little house." For thirty years, Stapleton raised horses and plied his trade as a blacksmith while the city slowly ...
Mencken on Government
Post Date: 2017-10-12 05:53:05 by Deckard
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any ...
Hundreds Of Cases Dismissed Thanks To Baltimore PD Misconduct
Post Date: 2017-10-07 18:58:56 by Deckard
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from the perp-walkers dept After years of listening to tough-on-crime legislators and the tough-on-crime lawmen that love to hear them talk about filthy criminals beating the system by getting off on technicalities, it's somewhat funny to discover lots of what's complained about is nothing more than good old-fashioned due process and/or the collateral damage of crooked, inept, or lazy cops. We've seen a lot of en masse criminal case dismissals recently. Thousands of convictions and charges were dropped in Massachusetts as the result of a state crime lab tech's years of faked drug tests. All over the nation, cops are letting perps walk rather than discuss law ...
DEA Agents Sold Opioids, Stole Cash, and Falsely Identified Drug Suspects, Say Feds
Post Date: 2017-10-05 08:28:19 by Deckard
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Seize the drugs. Sell the drugs. Arrest the buyers. Repeat.Four former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) operatives face federal corruption and conspiracy charges after allegedly engaging in all sorts of shady behavior, from selling drugs themselves to lying under oath, falsifying records, falsely identifying drug suspects, accepting bribes, and stealing cash and other property from the people they arrested. In at least one instance, their behavior led to someone being wrongly imprisoned for more than two years. The dirty drug warriors—special agent Chad Scott, with the DEA since 1997, and former task force officers Rodney Gemar, Karl Newman, and Johnny Domingue—worked with ...
“No Intent To Prosecute” – Jason Chaffetz Shares Talk With AG Jeff Sessions…
Post Date: 2017-10-01 17:31:58 by Stoner
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“No Intent To Prosecute” – Jason Chaffetz Shares Talk With AG Jeff Sessions… A rather disturbing revelation from former congressman Jason Chaffetz during an interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro. About half-way through the interview Judge Pirro asks Chaffetz about ongoing examples of DC corruption. Mr. Chaffetz shares a personal conversation he had with Attorney General Jeff Sessions where the attorney general informed Chaffetz there would be no investigation or prosecution of any prior DC corrupt and illegal behavior from Obama-era administration officials. According to Chaffetz none of the unlawful activities of former DC officials will be investigated, prosecuted or ...
Tom Price gets the axe
Post Date: 2017-09-29 18:02:28 by Willie Green
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's health secretary resigned Friday, after his costly travel triggered investigations that overshadowed the administration's agenda and angered his boss. Tom Price's regrets and partial repayment couldn't save his job. The Health and Human Services secretary became the first member of the president's Cabinet to be pushed out in a turbulent young administration that has seen several high-ranking White House aides ousted. A former GOP congressman from the Atlanta suburbs, Price served less than eight months. Publicly, Trump had said he was "not happy" with Price for repeatedly using private charter aircraft for ...
Happy Birthday CIA: 7 Truly Terrible Things the Agency Has Done in 70 Years
Post Date: 2017-09-20 08:27:49 by Deckard
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On Monday, President Trump tweeted birthday wishes to the Air Force and the CIA. Both became official organizations 70 years ago on September 18, 1947, with the implementation of the National Security Act of 1947. After spending years as a wartime intelligence agency called the Office of Strategic Services, the agency was solidified as a key player in the federal government’s operations with then-President Harry Truman’s authorization. In the seventy years since, the CIA has committed a wide variety of misdeeds, crimes, coups, and violence. Here are seven of the worst programs they’ve carried out (that are known to the public): Toppling governments ...
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