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'Stunning Rebuke to Predatory Wall Street Megabanks' as California Gov. Signs Law Allowing Creation of Public Banks
Post Date: 2019-10-03 10:58:44 by Deckard
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Members of the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition rally at San Francisco City Hall to demand the creation of a public bank. (Photo: Kurtis Wu)California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed into law historic legislation that would allow the state's cities and counties to establish public banks as an alternative to private financial institutions, a move advocates hailed as a "stunning rebuke to the predatory Wall Street megabanks that crashed the global economy in 2007-08." "Now is our moment in history to lead the nation by re-envisioning finance and recapturing our money to benefit our local communities by building a new system that works for the greater good." ...
A Florida Retiree's Uncut Lawn May Cost Him His House
Post Date: 2019-10-03 10:50:44 by Deckard
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The city of Dunedin, Florida, really wants Jim Ficken's house. Last year, the 69-year-old retiree left town to attend to his dying mother and then to sort out her estate. While he was away, he left a handyman in charge of his property. In a Shakespearean twist, the handyman also died, leaving Ficken's lawn unmowed and the municipality perturbed.Ficken returned home, learned that he was in violation of Dunedin's tall grass ordinance, and mowed his lawn two days later. The city then held a hearing at which it decided to retroactively fine Ficken for each day that his grass had exceeded 10 inches in height. Because he had let his grass grow too tall once before, in 2015, Dunedin ...
Editing bookmarks
Post Date: 2019-10-03 10:44:01 by Deckard
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I want to remove some of the bookmarks I have at LF.Any suggestions?
Another Narrative Collapse — Eating Meat is not Ritualistic Suicide
Post Date: 2019-10-03 10:37:45 by Deckard
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I’ve been on some form of low-carb diet since the 1990’s. If not for a few years of intense martial arts training and that dietary switch, I would have likely ended up with type-II diabetes. And well on my way to the grave. I know, some of you are thinking, “More’s the pity.” Fair enough. But, the truth is that once my wife and I started down that path and our health rapidly improved there was no going back. I clearly remember an early article in, of all places, the Gainesville Sun talking about how butter may not be bad for you. That planted a seed and things went from there. We started with Dr. Atkins. Then we moved on to books like Neanderthin ...
GOP demands 'equal playing field' ahead of former Ukraine envoy Volker's scheduled testimony
Post Date: 2019-10-03 08:30:28 by WWG1WWA
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House Republicans are demanding an “equal playing field” in the Democrat-led impeachment probe against President Trump after Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said ahead of Thursday’s scheduled testimony from former U.S. envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker that GOP members of the Foreign Affairs Committee will not be permitted to ask questions or have equal representation during the hearing. Volker is scheduled to be the first key witness to testify as part of a probe into an anonymous whistleblower’s complaint about a July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s ...
Russia’s Novaya Gazeta Drops Documents That Show Ukrainians Transferred $3.4 Million in Criminally Obtained Money to Hunter Biden’s Business Accounts
Post Date: 2019-10-03 01:53:48 by WWG1WWA
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Russia’s independent Novaya Gazeta published a devastating piece Tuesday on corrupt the Ukrainian oligarchs who are involved with the Burisma Holdings company in Ukraine. According to Novaya Gazeta corrupt Ukrainians transferred criminally obtained money to Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca accounts. Novaya Gazeta even produced a document that shows $3.4 million was paid out to Hunter Biden… $3.4 million! Two months after he was fired from the US Navy for drug use Hunter Biden was placed on the Burizma board and soon was making $50,000 per month. Here is the document of payment published by Novaya Gazeta. DOCUMENT (WITH TRANSLATION INTO RUSSIAN) “Between 11/18/2014 ...
Protesters Meet Liz Warren at Vegas Airport – Chant Their Support for Trump as They Follow Her Through Terminal
Post Date: 2019-10-03 01:25:21 by WWG1WWA
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Pocahontas landed in Las Vegas on Wednesday for a campaign event. The 70-year-old Democrat pulls her own bag now that she is running for president. There were ZERO supporters in the terminal to greet the fake indian who made a career out of lying about her heritage. But there were several Trump supporters! The Trump protesters chanted, “Don’t Impeach!” as they followed her out of the airport terminal. What’s funny is that she waved at the crowd at first until she realized they were Trump supporters. Then she took off with her little bag.
Americans Spent More on Taxes in 2018 Than on Food, Clothing and Health Care Combined
Post Date: 2019-10-03 00:00:10 by Deckard
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CNS News – by Terence P. Jeffrey Americans on average spent more on taxes in 2018 than they did on the basic necessities of food, clothing and health care combined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey. The survey’s recently published Table R-1 for 2018 lists the average “detailed expenditures” of what the BLS calls “consumer units.” “Consumer units,” says BLS, “include families, single persons living alone or sharing a household with others but who are financially independent, or two or more persons living together who share major expenses.” In 2018, according to Table R-1, American consumer ...
Stossel: Glenn Beck vs. Big Tech
Post Date: 2019-10-02 23:52:57 by Deckard
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Social media companies like Facebook don't show you all your friends' posts. You may think they do, but they don't. Instead, an algorithm picks which ones to show you—and which not to show you. How do they decide? The companies won't reveal the details.Glenn Beck, publisher of the major conservative outlet The Blaze, tells John Stossel that social media companies are biased against conservatives.Beck says Facebook reduces his posts' reach. And he notes that when a video made fun of Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi by slowing down her voice, Facebook put a warning on the post and reduced its reach.Beck mentions that while social media companies ...
Ohio Police Fired Blanks During School Shooter Drill, Needlessly Terrifying Students
Post Date: 2019-10-02 23:40:13 by Deckard
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Increasingly theatrical and frightening active shooter drills are surprisingly common, even though school shootings are not. (Victority | Dreamstime.com) Police officers outside of Dayton, Ohio, unsheathed their weapons and fired blanks in Franklin High School on Tuesday as part of a misguided effort to prepare students for a possible active shooter.The planned drill unnecessarily ratcheted up the intensity of school lockdown procedures, which routinely require students and teachers to barricade themselves in their classrooms. That the exercise was potentially traumatizing was not lost on the officials who planned it, as they came equipped with "Social-Emotional Activities," as ...
LETTER: McCaul Rejects Democrats’ Limitation of Republican Involvement in Volker Testimony Tomorrow
Post Date: 2019-10-02 23:04:34 by WWG1WWA
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Washington, D.C. – After learning today that the Democrat-led House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) will not allow Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans to have equal representation or the opportunity to question Kurt Volker at tomorrow’s scheduled interview, Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, demanded HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) allow Republicans and Democrats to participate on an equal playing field in their impeachment probe. Furthermore, Lead Republican McCaul expressed concern to Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) that the Foreign Affairs Committee’s oversight role over the State Department and the ...
Actor Randy Quaid ponders running against Schiff for Congress, says it’s time to empty the ‘sh***er’
Post Date: 2019-10-02 22:19:46 by Stoner
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Actor Randy Quaid is not happy with Adam Schiff following the California congressman’s bizarre behavior during a House Intelligence Committee hearing this week. The “Independence Day” star took to his Twitter account on Friday afternoon to threaten a possible political challenge against Schiff. “I’m thinking about running against Schiff for Burbank Rep. That swamp needs cleaning up big time. I should know. I have serious winning experience emptying the sh***ers for that district,” he tweeted. I’m thinking about running against Schiff for Burbank Rep. That swamp needs cleaning up big time. I should know. I have serious winning experience emptying the ...
The Reason for Barr and Durham’s Trip to Rome Last Week? To Hear a Secret Tape from the Mysterious Mr. Mifsud
Post Date: 2019-10-02 20:35:08 by Tooconservative
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Attorney General William Barr may have intended for his trip to Rome last week to go unnoticed, but it was pretty hard to keep it under wraps after he and U.S. Attorney John Durham showed up at the U.S. Embassy requesting a secure conference room. Several key events from the “Russian collusion” story took place in Rome. The Link University campus in the city provided the backdrop for many of those events. The faculty of Link University is closely connected to the British intelligence community. Moreover, the FBI held a training program at Link in the fall of 2016, an interesting fact which the Mueller report conveniently omitted. And it just so happened that in March 2016, ...
Left & Right Unite Against Speech!
Post Date: 2019-10-02 10:51:00 by Deckard
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I don’t like being wrong. But every now and then, I find myself ashamed to be right. Last month I made a prediction. There was a movie being distributed by Universal called The Hunt, and right-wingers were up in arms because they thought the movie “glorified” the murder of rightists. Such a movie is dangerous! It could inspire real-life violence, they wailed as they hiked their skirts and jumped on chairs like women in an Edison Kinetoscope. The screaming meemies were, of course, wrong. The film was actually a pro-“deplorables” actioner featuring cartoonishly villainous leftists. But Universal bowed to the right-wing mob and pulled the film, and the red-state ...
Legal experts say Amber Guyger guilty verdict signals major shift in how juries view police officers
Post Date: 2019-10-02 10:35:02 by Deckard
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Dallas Morning NewsFor some legal observers, there was only one word for the Amber Guyger guilty verdict on Tuesday: Stunning.That’s because a police officer likely never even would have been charged just a few years ago, they said. The case was far from straightforward. And portions of Guyger’s tearful and regret-filled account of her shooting of Botham Jean last year put her in a positive light, some felt.But not only did the jury give prosecutors the murder conviction they wanted — as opposed to a conviction on the lesser manslaughter charge — they did so after less than a full day of deliberations. Jurors convicted Guyger even after they were allowed to ...
Murray woman charged after letting cat lie on front lawn [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2019-10-02 10:23:29 by Deckard
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MURRAY, Utah – A Utah woman wants to see change after an antiquated ordinance led her to receive misdemeanor charges for allowing her cat to lie on their front lawn. When Kate Anderson was first approached by animal control, she thought something terrible had happened to their cat. Then, the officer gave her a citation, carrying the weight of two misdemeanor charges, for letting her cat lie on their own lawn. “Milo, come here!” Anderson said as she made kissy noises to her cat while it laid on their front lawn. In the Anderson household, Milo is treated like family. “He’s got a cat door, so he just comes and goes and is a cat,” Anderson said. However, they ...
In Today's America, Everybody Who Disagrees with You is a Traitor
Post Date: 2019-10-02 10:07:43 by Deckard
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Throwing the word "treason" around, unmoored from its actual meaning, is a weapon for delegitimizing political opposition and dissent.With a little over a year to go before the next presidential election, politicians, pundits, and political players have grown comfortable yelling "treason" in each other's faces. That's a problem. Except in those rare circumstances when the charge is accurate, tagging your enemies as traitors lazily bypasses debating their ideas and actions and goes straight for accusations of betraying the nation on behalf of its enemies to such a heinous degree that it warrants punishment with a bullet or a noose.It'll be interesting to see ...
The Price of ‘Freedom’? US Drone Massacres Dozens of Afghan Farmers as They Slept
Post Date: 2019-10-02 08:39:31 by Gatlin
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The Price of ‘Freedom’? US Drone Massacres Dozens of Afghan Farmers as They Slept. Jalalabad, Afghanistan — Imagine for a moment that you had just finished a long day’s work with two hundred other farmers. You were settling down to relax for the night, when out of nowhere, hell fire missiles rain down from drones in the sky and blow up dozens of your coworkers, maiming and tearing limbs from dozens more. Imagine if this happened inside the United States. Imagine the reaction from politicians and the US war machine looking to right this wrong. Would you, as an American citizen sit idly back and accept the excuse given by the country who carried out that attack? Would ...
Impeachment is regime suicide
Post Date: 2019-10-02 08:19:03 by WWG1WWA
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The ruling class still believes in a consensus that doesn’t exist. Their legitimacy is vanishing The Democratic party and the chattering classes are playing a dangerous game with impeachment. Their are two modern precedents — Nixon’s resignation before his probable impeachment in 1974 and Bill Clinton’s actual impeachment in 1998. But neither is comparable to the contemplated impeachment of Donald Trump. All impeachments are partisan, but this one is in doubly bad faith: it has no chance of succeeding in removing Trump, and it has no chance of acquitting him in a way that will strengthen faith in the country’s institutions. The only outcome possible is to confirm ...
All the president’s men now being dragged into the impeachment drama
Post Date: 2019-10-02 08:06:49 by WWG1WWA
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President Trump, now sounding a cautionary note about “civil war,” is obviously at the white-hot center of the impeachment drama, just as he’s been at the center of American political and cultural warfare for four years. But others in his inner circle are now being pulled, almost by magnetic force, onto the battlefield. Mike Pompeo is the latest the find himself in the line of fire, in the wake of a Wall Street Journal story and other revelations. The secretary of state hit back hard yesterday, tweeting that House Democrats are trying to “bully” and “intimidate” the State Department with deposition demands and he “will not tolerate such ...
Mark Levin blasts GOP Sen. Grassley for protecting anti-Trump 'whistleblower': 'Act like a serious senator'
Post Date: 2019-10-02 07:59:16 by WWG1WWA
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Radio talk show host Mark Levin had strong words for Sen. Chuck Grassley, R- Iowa, who defended the Ukraine whistleblower, saying that he and other Senate Republicans do not have a "clue" on the issue. Grassley "comes to the defense of an individual whom he doesn't even know, whose secrecy he believes should apply even though he's trying to bring down a president the United States," Levin said Tuesday on "The Mark Levin Show" on Westwood One. "Chuck Grassley doesn't have a clue what's going on around him and neither do most of the Republicans in the Senate, including Mitch McConnell." "Chuck Grassley doesn't have a clue ...
Trump did NOT commit an impeachable offense on call with Ukraine’s president – Here’s why
Post Date: 2019-10-02 07:46:22 by WWG1WWA
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In their delusive demands for the impeachment of President Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats are substituting partisan politics for the commands and intent of the U.S. Constitution. This became self-evident when Pelosi announced her impeachment folly the day before she even set eyes on the alleged evidence, which turned out to be no evidence at all. The usual gaggle of misanthropes like Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff of California and Jerrold Nadler of New York have been searching for a reason – any reason – to impeach Trump ever since his improbable election in November 2016. With a shove from the chronically vapid Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., ...
The Free Thought Project - Florida police seize a man's gun without due process
Post Date: 2019-10-02 01:51:16 by Gatlin
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After the Parkland school shooting, Florida lawmakers passed a so-called "red flag" law that aims to keep guns out of the hands of people deemed to be a threat to others or themselves. The new law went into effect March 9, quickly stoking concern among people about lost freedom. A March 18 headline posted on the Free Thought Project said, "It begins: Florida police now confiscating guns from people with no due process." The post went on to say a man in Lighthouse Point — in Broward County, like Parkland — had his guns taken away before he was determined to be mentally unfit and before he was accused of a crime, making him the first person in the state to ...
FBI Busts Massive Fentanyl Ring Running Out of Dept of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs in D.C.
Post Date: 2019-10-01 23:29:21 by Deckard
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Washington, D.C. — Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided a government agency last week to execute a search warrant looking for evidence of a fentanyl drug ring. During the raid on the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, FBI agents found the fentanyl they were looking for and discovered a massive heroin and fentanyl ring being run out of the government building just a few feet from an elementary school. According to investigators, undercover agents caught Darrell Marcellus Pope operating the massive drug ring in which thousands of dollars of fentanyl and heroin were being sold. The FBI reported that the drug ring stretched over multiple states from ...
Libertarian and Police Accountability Pages Deleted in Facebook Purge
Post Date: 2019-10-01 21:30:03 by Gatlin
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Hundreds of pages and accounts have been purged over accusations that they were "inauthentic." The page operators disagree. "I contributed to Facebook's success and growth!" Jason Bassler said with some frustration this morning, a day after the social media giant unpublished the page for a media site he founded, The Free Thought Project. "I decided to create content day after day. Now they piss on us."Facebook announced Thursday that it was deleting 559 pages and 251 accounts that it claims were breaking Facebook's rules against spam and "inauthentic" behavior. The Free Thought Project was one of the demolished pages, along with another of ...
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