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College Admissions Scandal: Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2019-03-13 16:05:28 by Hondo68
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Fifty people in six states were accused by the Justice Department on Tuesday of taking part in a major college admission scandal. They include Hollywood actresses, business leaders and elite college coaches.CreditA teenage girl who did not play soccer magically became a star soccer recruit at Yale. Cost to her parents: $1.2 million.A high school boy eager to enroll at the University of Southern California was falsely deemed to have a learning disability so he could take his standardized test with a complicit proctor who would make sure he got the right score. Cost to his parents: at least $50,000.A student with no experience rowing won a spot on the U.S.C. crew team after a photograph of ...
College Admissions Scandal: Actresses, Business Leaders and Other Wealthy Parents Charged
Post Date: 2019-03-13 15:57:57 by Hondo68
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Fifty people in six states were accused by the Justice Department on Tuesday of taking part in a major college admission scandal. They include Hollywood actresses, business leaders and elite college coaches.CreditA teenage girl who did not play soccer magically became a star soccer recruit at Yale. Cost to her parents: $1.2 million.A high school boy eager to enroll at the University of Southern California was falsely deemed to have a learning disability so he could take his standardized test with a complicit proctor who would make sure he got the right score. Cost to his parents: at least $50,000.A student with no experience rowing won a spot on the U.S.C. crew team after a photograph of ...
Grand Jury Filing Over Use of Explosives on 9/11 ‘Names Names’ of Who May Have Blown Up Towers
Post Date: 2019-03-13 12:53:36 by Deckard
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A bombshell grand jury filing was announced this week naming those who had access to WTCs before 9/11 and those who benefited from their destruction. As TFTP reported, a monumental step forward in the relentless pursuit of 9/11 truth took place in December when a United States Attorney agreed to comply with federal law requiring submission to a Special Grand Jury of evidence that explosives were used to bring down the World Trade Centers. Now, the group behind the submission, the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, announced the filing of a “petition supplement” naming persons who may have information related to the use of said ...
Party Guests Suing Over Mass Arrest for Less Than An Ounce of Marijuana
Post Date: 2019-03-13 10:23:12 by Deckard
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On Dec. 31, 2017, Nija Guider finished her waitressing shift and headed to a friend’s 21st birthday party in Cartersville, Georgia. She had been at the party for less than an hour when, suddenly, the police arrived. Without a warrant or permission, they entered the house and detained everyone inside. Guider and more than 60 other guests’ wrists were zip-tied. “Boom, we were all going to jail,” Guider, then 21, recalled. Each guest was charged with possessing less than an ounce of marijuana that had been found in the home. Some spent days in jail, held under harsh conditions, Guider and other party guests allege. The district attorney’s office would eventually drop ...
How States/Empires Collapse in Four Easy Steps
Post Date: 2019-03-13 09:48:24 by Deckard
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Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith The promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies. There is a grand, majestic tragedy in the inevitable collapse of once-thriving states and empires: it all seemed so permanent at its peak, so godlike in its power, and then slowly but surely, too many grandiose, unrealistic promises were made to too many elites and constituencies, and then as growth decays to stagnation, the only way to maintain the status quo is to appear to meet all the promises by creating money out of thin air, i.e. debauching the currency. This political expediency works most wonderfully for a time: people don’t ...
Massive college admissions cheating scandal snares Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman
Post Date: 2019-03-13 09:33:25 by Deckard
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Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and a slew of chief executives are among 50 wealthy people charged in the largest college cheating scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice, federal officials said Tuesday. Those indicted in the investigation, dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues," allegedly paid bribes of up to $6.5 million to get their children into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said. "This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud," Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney ...
Florida officer resigned after accused of using police database to find women to date
Post Date: 2019-03-13 09:18:31 by Deckard
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The ex-officer allegedly used law enforcement resources to contact around 150 women, including finding their social media accounts and visiting some at their homes.A former Florida police officer is accused of using police databases while he was on the force to find women whom he could potentially date, authorities say.Officer Leonel Marines of the Bradenton Police Department allegedly misused his access to law enforcement resources to contact around 150 women, finding their social media accounts, calling them on the telephone, and even visiting the homes of some under the guise of police business.Marines, who was a 12-year employee with the department, often targeted Hispanic women, and ...
Feds to Unseal Epstein Documents Revealing Scope of Billionaire’s Int’l Child Sex Trafficking Ring
Post Date: 2019-03-13 07:50:53 by Deckard
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On Monday, a Manhattan appeals court gave billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s former alleged partner in crime, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, until March 19 to establish good cause as to why documents detailing the scope and size of their international child sex trafficking operation should remain sealed. Failing to do so would mean these documents will be made public. “We’re grateful that the court ruled the summary judgment papers are open and they are moving to expedite having them unsealed,’’ said Sanford Bohrer, the attorney representing the Miami Herald. “This is very unusual for a court to do this.” The Herald reports ...
Mainstream Media Finally Admit Venezuela Aid Trucks Torched by Protesters—NOT Maduro’s People
Post Date: 2019-03-13 07:46:16 by Deckard
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US Vice President Mike Pence said that “the tyrant” Maduro “danced as his henchmen...burned food & medicine.” But he was lying.(RT) The outrage of burning a truck with ‘humanitarian aid’ for Venezuela galvanized western opposition to President Nicolas Maduro. However, now that mainstream media admit they were ‘misled’ on this, don’t expect any change of heart. For the Venezuelan opposition and its backers in Washington, the needless torching of an aid truck bound for crisis-stricken Venezuela last month was a made-for-TV moment. How could a heartless dictator willingly destroy aid for his needy people? And when can we do something about it? ...
The Drive to Tame the ‘Administrative State’
Post Date: 2019-03-13 06:44:31 by CZ82
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The Drive to Tame the ‘Administrative State’ While Senate Democrats and much of the public have spent the past two Supreme Court confirmation battles obsessing over abortion, judicial conservatives quietly have been laying the groundwork for an assault on the “administrative state.” That is the buzz phrase to describe the nameless and faceless bureaucracy responsible for most of the rules that now govern America. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch went out of his way as an appeals court judge to call attention to the issue, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh has given indications that he, too, is willing to re-examine court precedents that have helped grow the power of ...
Pity the Nation: War Spending Is Bankrupting America
Post Date: 2019-03-13 06:43:59 by Deckard
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“Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity the nation that raises not its voice Except to praise conquerors And acclaim the bully as hero And aims to rule the world By force and by torture… Pity the nation oh pity the people who allow their rights to erode and their freedoms to be washed away…” —Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet War spending is bankrupting America. Our nation is being preyed upon by a military industrial complex that is propped up by war profiteers, corrupt politicians and foreign governments. America has ...
Casualties of Official Safety (They include fun)
Post Date: 2019-03-13 04:53:59 by Deckard
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Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety has cost us a lot – and not just money.It has sucked almost all of the the fun out of driving – especially for those who were born after the Safety Cult established itself as mainstream state religion. The Millennials, god help them. And us. It happened during the ’90s, when strange rituals which had previously been practiced by a few neurasthenic people – fearful of everything – became state policy, enforced upon everyone.These things are now unquestionable dogma.For example, cossetting kids in saaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety seats for the duration of every drive.Every drive has thus become a time-consuming chore for the parents – no more just ...
Facebook Reverses Zero Hedge Ban, Says It Made A "Mistake"
Post Date: 2019-03-12 21:34:31 by buckeroo
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It has been a strange 24 hours. On Monday, we first learned that for the previous two days, Facebook had banned all Zero Hedge content across its various mediums, as it went against Facebook's "Community Standards" (which to the best of our knowledge, neither we not anyone else has any idea what they are), a decision which - as we noted yesterday - surprised us for two reasons: not only do we not have an official Facebook account, but Facebook did not approach us even once with a warning or even notification. While we were in the dark about what had triggered Facebook, or what was the company's motive, we were humbled and delighted not only with the media coverage this ...
Why True Conservatism Means Anarchy
Post Date: 2019-03-12 13:51:25 by Deckard
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For the sake of preserving liberty and tradition, conservatives should reject the state’s legitimacy.“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.” These words are Patrick Henry’s, uttered in the course of his famous oration known for its powerful closing words “give me liberty or give me death.” Although Henry probably did not intend it as a sociopolitical axiom, the Anglo-American conservative tradition has adopted it as such. Conservatives rightly look to the past to influence their views of the future. Change in the basic structure of society’s ...
The Most Interesting Man In The World´s BIG SECRET
Post Date: 2019-03-12 13:44:18 by Liberator
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Poster Comment:Remember that worldly "STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS" guy in the TV Dos Equiis beer commercial? He was that older guy guy with the tan and silver beard who was portrayed as having figured it all out in life -- women, wine, wealth, etc. It turns out he's not who you thought he was; And neither was his message. I guarantee you'll find this video interesting on a number of levels. (Wait until the end for the twist.) Brilliant breakdown and analysis.
Miguel Cabrera pulls off hidden-ball trick in Tigers win over Twins
Post Date: 2019-03-12 11:11:16 by Deckard
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TIGERS 3, TWINS 0Detroit first baseman Miguel Cabrera slyly pulled off the hidden-ball trick, trapping Ehire Adrianza in the third inning. Tyson Ross made a pickoff throw that sent Adrianza diving into the bag, and Cabrera pretended to toss the ball back to the mound. But he kept it and when Adrianza stood up and stepped off the base to shake away the dust, Cabrera tagged him.The Twins' first base coach, by the way, was Toby Gardenhire -- son of Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire. Toby Gardenhire is a minor league manager in Minnesota's system. Ross pitched four innings and struck out five. JaCoby Jones homered and Grayson Greiner had two hits.
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Why Does Most of Today's Music Suck So Much?
Post Date: 2019-03-12 08:57:59 by Deckard
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1960s 1970s 1980s It's personal Retro music Retro rants3 years ago I really didn't want to write a "get off my lawn" title for this blog post. I really wanted to call it, "Why I'll Always Be Old School When It Comes to Music" or something equally as gentle. However, for SEO purposes, most people are going to be asking Google, "Why does today's music suck so much?" (By the way, the two clowns in the photo on the right above call themselves Twenty One Pilots. I'm not even going to get into why they suck so much, but if you can stand the auditory torture, look up the video to a song of theirs called "Car Radio" and you'll ...
We Are Being Lied Into War Again
Post Date: 2019-03-12 08:31:09 by Deckard
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I was 23 when we invaded Iraq, and I wasn’t sure it was based on lies, but something deep down in me—just behind the spleen—told me it was based on lies. Kinda like if your blind date shows up and you notice he has a 2004 flip phone. It seems vaguely worrisome, and no explanation he can haltingly supply will put you at ease. Plus, anyone else who acts like it’s normal also becomes suspect. The invasion of Iraq just felt like it was a lie to me. And it turned out that I was right, that it was a lie, and that the entirety of the mainstream media and our government were either wrong or lying and, most of the time, both. Now our government and our media are trying their ...
Bipartisan Attacks on the Second Amendment
Post Date: 2019-03-12 08:12:32 by Deckard
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The House of Representatives recently passed legislation that would expand the national background check system to require almost everyone selling firearms, including private collectors who supplement their incomes by selling firearms at gun shows, to perform background checks on the potential buyers. The bill has a section purporting to bar creation of a national firearms registry. However, the expanded background check system will require the government to compile lists of those buying and selling guns. In other words, it creates a de facto national gun registry.Similar to the experience with other types of prohibition, making it more difficult to legally buy a gun will enhance the ...
Cop Caught Throwing Nails in Family’s Driveway for Filing a Complaint Against Him
Post Date: 2019-03-12 08:07:14 by Deckard
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St. Petersburg, FL — A deputy with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office was allowed to quietly resign last month amid an investigation into his retaliatory actions against an innocent family. Deputy Lance Chambers was caught on video throwing nails into a family’s driveway over a feud and a series of complaints they filed against him. Documents released from the sheriff’s office last month show that Chambers submitted his resignation notice to Sheriff Bob Gualtieri on February 8, while the investigation was still underway. Resigning during an investigation is common tactic among police officers attempting to escape accountability—because it often works, as the ...
Rutherford Institute Defends Rappers Charged With Terrorism for Sharing Song Critical of Police on Facebook and YouTube
Post Date: 2019-03-12 08:00:42 by Deckard
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Weighing in on a First Amendment case that could have significant ramifications for online communications and controversial art forms, The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of a rap artist who was charged with making terrorist threats after posting a rap song critical of police on Facebook and YouTube. Police had been actively monitoring rapper Jamal Knox’s (a.k.a. “Mayhem Mal”) social media presence when they discovered the song titled “F**k the Police” and charged Knox and his rap partner with multiple counts of terroristic threats and witness intimidation. The Rutherford Institute’s amicus brief in Knox v. Pennsylvania, ...
Columbus Cop Kidnapped Women, Demanded Sex for Their Freedom: DOJ
Post Date: 2019-03-12 07:31:27 by Jameson
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COLUMBUS - Columbus police vice detective Andrew Mitchell is facing federal charges after he allegedly held women against their will and forced them to engage in sexual acts for their freedom. A grand jury indicted Mitchell on March 7. He was arrested Monday morning by federal agents. Mitchell is being charged on seven counts: three counts deprivation of rights under color of law, two counts witness tampering, one count of obstruction of justice and one count false statement to a US agency. Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:One of CBUS' finest? Very serious charges, including lying to the FBI...........
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Pleads Guilty in Sham Drug Warehouse Search Case
Post Date: 2019-03-12 05:56:46 by Deckard
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He faces at least a dozen years behind bars at sentencing.A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty today to federal charges stemming from the armed robbery of more than a half-ton of marijuana and $645,000 in cash and money orders from a downtown Los Angeles warehouse.Deputy Marc Antrim, 41, of South El Monte, entered his plea in Los Angeles federal court to five felonies, including conspiracy, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and deprivation of rights under color of law.He faces at least a dozen years behind bars at sentencing, according to his plea agreement, but the penalty is ultimately up to the judge.U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips set sentencing ...
Eric July: What libertarianism IS
Post Date: 2019-03-11 12:01:23 by Hondo68
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Our Eric July breaks down the concept of libertarianism.
Poster Comment:Eric July will be speaking with Ron Paul, Ben Swann, Judge Nap, Larkin Rose, Mark Passio and others at AnarchApulco in Acapulco, Mexico - February 2020. https://anarchapulco.com/all-2019-speakers/
As anti-vax movement gets weirder - and dumber - Facebook announces crackdown [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2019-03-11 10:02:49 by Tooconservative
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Facing scrutiny for allowing anti-vaccine lies and conspiracy theories to fester and spread on its pages, Facebook announced Thursday a set of steps it will take to rid its platform of misinformation—which has seemingly become even weirder and more idiotic recently. The move follows a letter sent to Facebook from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) last month, raising concerns that anti-vaccine information spread on the site could corrupt anxious parents’ views of safe, life-saving immunizations. Schiff also questioned the popular social media site about accepting payments from anti-vaccine advertisements. Facebook wasn’t the only media giant questioned; Schiff sent a similar ...
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