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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Deputy Lied About Drugs to Illegally Obtain Warrant Leading to Raid that Blew Apart Baby’s Face
Post Date: 2015-07-22 21:42:18 by Deckard
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Habersham County, GA — In May of last year, Bounkham “Baby Bou Bou” Phonesavanh, 19-months-old, was asleep in his crib. At 3:00 am militarized police barged into his family’s home because the sheriff’s department claimed that an informant had purchased $50 worth of meth from someone who once lived there. During the raid, a flash-bang grenade was thrown into the sleeping baby’s crib, exploding in his face. Baby Bou sustained severe injuries and may have possible brain damage. Prior to obtaining the warrant, Nikki Autry, a Habersham County sheriff’s deputy and a special agent with the Mountain Judicial Circuit Narcotics Criminal Investigation and ...
“Apache Stronghold” Arrives in Washington D.C. to Protest Sale of Sacred Land (McCain, Flake, Gosar, Kirkpatrick)
Post Date: 2015-07-22 19:00:36 by Hondo68
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On Tuesday the Apache Stronghold activist community arrived in Washington D.C. for two days of ceremony and protest in front of the White House. The Apache Stronghold is made up of members of the San Carlos Apache tribe as well as supporters from across the country.The tribal members are protesting the sale of 2400 acres of sacred land at the Oakflat campground in Arizona. The sale was done under the Southeast Arizona land exchange, a bill that has failed several times over the last few years but was ultimately attached to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015. The NDAA 2015 was passed into law by the U.S. House and Senate with the support of Arizona Representatives Paul Gosar and ...
Florida Cops Laundered Millions For Drug Cartels, Failed To Make A Single Arrest
Post Date: 2015-07-21 15:22:33 by Deckard
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police-corruption BAL HARBOUR, Fla. — Posing as money launderers, police in Bal Harbour and Glades County, Fla. laundered a staggering $71.5 million for drug cartels in an undercover sting operation, according to an in-depth investigation by The Miami Herald. With fake identities, undercover officers made deals to pick up cash from criminal organizations in cities across the country. Agents then delivered the money to Miami-Dade storefronts and even wired cash to banks overseas in China and Panama. After laundering the cash, police would skim a three percent commission fee, ultimately generating $2.4 million for themselves. “If you think of all the money that’s made from ...
Donald Trump rips John McCain and calls him a 'dummy'
Post Date: 2015-07-20 12:54:49 by Pericles
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Donald Trump rips John McCain and calls him a 'dummy' Colin Campbell Jul. 16, 2015, 4:54 PM Real-estate developer Donald Trump is furious at Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) for dismissing the supporters of his presidential campaign. McCain, the Republican Party's 2008 presidential nominee, was quoted in a Thursday article in The New Yorker criticizing Trump's heated rhetoric against illegal immigration. The senator also said Trump's big rally last weekend in Phoenix, Arizona, was supported by the "crazies" in his state. "This performance with our friend out in Phoenix is very hurtful to me," McCain said. "Because what he did was he fired up ...
Why the GOP Primary Is Doomed by the Free Market
Post Date: 2015-07-20 12:21:44 by Pericles
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Why the GOP Primary Is Doomed by the Free Market By Gabriel Sherman July 19, 2015 8:38 p.m. ...snip.... In the old days, the path to profiting from politics led politicians into the corner offices of banks, corporations, and lobbying firms. Many still go that route. But with her 2008 breakout, Sarah Palin disrupted the GOP nominating process and made being a potential primary contender a full-time job. Her decision to cash in by quitting the Alaska governor's office for Fox News and tea-party stardom established a new business model. As this year’s ballooning GOP field shows, there are many long-shot candidates who are seeking to follow her path. Since January 2014, Ben ...
Despite Spike in Accidents Officials Accept Bribe from Traffic Camera Vendor to Keep Program Alive
Post Date: 2015-07-19 15:41:45 by Deckard
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Accidents are up at the intersections with red light cameras in Hollywood, Florida, but American Traffic Solutions (ATS) is desperate to keep the troubled system alive. City commissioners last week unanimously approved an ordinance to dump the controversial devices, only to back away from the resolution after ATS proposed a last-minute deal. The company will, in effect, pay the council to ignore the city police chief’s warning about the impact of automated ticketing since January 2011. “Just so we’re clear, we looked at empirical data, we did a lot of thorough research on accidents and fatalities,” Chief Tomas Sanchez said on Wednesday. “We have also seen a dramatic ...
Single Mother Arrested For ‘Abandoning’ Kids At Food Court, While Interviewing For Job 30 Feet Away
Post Date: 2015-07-19 15:26:01 by Deckard
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A Houston mother was just arrested for allegedly “abandoning” her children, even though they were never even out of her sight. The single mother was arrested by Houston, Texas cops after she told her children to sit at a table in a mall food court while she interviewed for a job only 30 feet away. Local KHOU reports that Laura Browder took her 6-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son to the mall for an abruptly-scheduled job interview, that she didn’t have time to find a babysitter for. She was never “abandoning” her children, and they never left her sight. She bought them lunch at McDonald’s and sat them at a table, where she could see them ...
House Backs Monsanto and BANS GMO Labeling
Post Date: 2015-07-19 13:29:27 by Deckard
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By Kristen Anderson On Tuesday, US food companies and Monsanto sealed a critical victory as the House Agricultural Committee approved a measure that bans the mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods and prevents cities and counties from banning GMO crops within their jurisdictions. Several counties in California and Oregon already have bans in place, and this threatens those restrictions. The measure also paves the way toward preventing food companies from even telling you that their food is GMO free. While dozens of countries around the world ban GE crops and have ousted Monsanto after citizens protested, petitioned, and took to the streets, the United States seems to want to do ...
Wesley Clark Calls for Interning “Disloyal” Americans
Post Date: 2015-07-18 21:23:30 by Hondo68
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Retired US Army General and the former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe for NATO Wesley Clark advocates rounding up “radicalized” and “disloyal” Americans and putting them in internment camps for the “duration” of the war on terror. “In World War II if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that was freedom of speech, we put him in a camp, they were prisoners of war,” Clark told MSNBC. The difference is that World War II was a war declared under Article I, Section 8, Clause II of the Constitution whereas the war on terror is undeclared and thus illegal. Clark is in essence advocating a life sentence ...
Obama collecting personal data for a secret race database
Post Date: 2015-07-18 19:41:23 by cranky
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A key part of President Obama’s legacy will be the fed’s unprecedented collection of sensitive data on Americans by race. The government is prying into our most personal information at the most local levels, all for the purpose of “racial and economic justice.” Unbeknown to most Americans, Obama’s racial bean counters are furiously mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites. This Orwellian-style stockpile of statistics includes a vast and permanent network of discrimination databases, which Obama ...
Goldman Bankers Are Jeb Bush’s Top Backers for White House
Post Date: 2015-07-16 15:20:43 by nativist nationalist
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Important people at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. want Jeb Bush to be the next U.S. president. And they’re giving him a lot of money to make it happen. More than 50 Goldman Sachs executives and employees gave the Republican more than $144,000 in the second quarter, with most of them sending $2,700, the maximum allowed, according to Federal Election Commission filings. The company that was the next-best source of money for the former Florida governor, Neuberger Berman, is run by George Walker, Bush’s second cousin. Employees at the money manager gave more than $63,000. It once was part of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., where Bush was an adviser. Goldman Sachs management committee ...
Police Dept Caught Giving Preference to Job Candidates who Said they Wouldn’t Arrest Fellow Cops
Post Date: 2015-07-16 13:27:58 by Deckard
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Methuen, MA — In what can only be described as a “see, I told you so” moment for those in the police accountability sector, a police department in Massachusetts has been caught in a perfidious hiring scheme. They were giving preference to job candidates who said they wouldn’t arrest fellow cops. In other words, the Methuen police department was only hiring cops who promised to be corrupt and cover for their fellow corrupt officers. According to the Boston Globe, A Civil Service Commission official wrote that he was dismayed to learn that the city gave higher points to applicants who said they wouldn’t arrest a family member or an officer they knew, while ...
Cops Illegally Break into Innocent Woman’s Home While She’s Naked, Assault and Arrest Her [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-07-16 05:51:34 by Deckard
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In March, Esmeralda Rossi was in the shower when two cops came to the door. “I was in the shower,” Rossi said. “My daughter came to the shower and said there are two officers at the door. So I just grabbed a towel.” Rossi had committed no crime, the police had no warrant, and they were only responding to a call about an argument between her and her estranged husband. However, these cops acted like they were raiding the home of a mass murderer. Upon answering the door, Rossi was met by two police officers as she stood there in a towel. Not wanted to be gawked at while naked by two strangers, Rossi turned around to go put on some clothes. “It made me very ...
Freedom or the Slaughterhouse? The American Police State from A to Z
Post Date: 2015-07-16 05:43:00 by Deckard
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Despite the best efforts of some to sound the alarm, the nation is being locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive, legalistic, self-righteous, goose-stepping antithesis of every principle upon which this nation was founded. All the while, the nation’s citizens seem content to buy into a carefully constructed, benevolent vision of life in America that bears little resemblance to the gritty, pain-etched reality that plagues those unfortunate enough to not belong to the rarefied elite. For those whose minds have been short-circuited into believing the candy-coated propaganda peddled by the politicians, here is an A-to-Z, back-to-the-basics primer of what life in the ...
Obama Scolds Reporter for Asking Tough Question: 'You Should Know Better'
Post Date: 2015-07-15 17:46:20 by Rufus T Firefly
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Barack Obama scolded a reporter at his Wednesday briefing after getting a critical question about the nuclear deal with Iran. CBS News's Major Garrett pressed the president on the imprisonment of Americans in Iran. "As you well know, there are four Americans in Iran—three held on trumped-up charges, according to your administration, one whereabouts unknown. Can you tell the country, sir, why you are content, with all the fanfare around this deal, to leave the conscience of this nation, this strength of this nation, unaccounted for in relation to these four Americans?" Garrett asked. "I've gotta give you credit, Major, for how you craft those questions," ...
Comedian Takes Out Full Page Ad In Local Paper After Being Ticketed For 'Parking The Wrong Way'
Post Date: 2015-07-14 21:15:27 by Deckard
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Comedian Eugene Mirman took out a full page ad in a local New Hampshire paper after he was ticketed by police in Portsmouth for "parking the wrong way." We covered a similar incident earlier this month where a cop told a woman there's "no excuse" for parking the wrong way, then proceeded to get the law wrong himself telling her it's "illegal" to film him, which is evidently perfectly excusable. If you can't see the image above, here's the full text: Dear Portsmouth, NH, and Especially the Parking Clerk’s Office, Last June I had a wonderful day walking around your historic downtown with my girlfriend. I bought two puppets, who turned out ...
Dem judge orders psych counseling for D’Souza
Post Date: 2015-07-14 13:27:44 by Rufus T Firefly
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NEW YORK – At a hearing Monday in Manhattan in which he ruled filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza must continue community service for four more years, U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman said he considers D’Souza’s violation of federal campaign-finance laws to be evidence of a psychological problem and ordered further counseling. D’Souza’s defense counsel Benjamin Brafman provided evidence to the court that the psychiatrist D’Souza was ordered to see found no indication of depression or reason for medication. In addition, the psychologist D’Souza subsequently consulted provided a written statement concluding there was no need to continue the consultation, ...
$2,446,920,000,000: Federal Taxes Set Record Through June; $16,451 Per U.S. Worker—Feds Still Run $313B Deficit
Post Date: 2015-07-14 11:20:27 by Deckard
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The federal government raked in a record of approximately $2,446,920,000,000 in tax revenues through the first nine months of fiscal 2015 (Oct. 1, 2014 through the end of June), according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released today. That equaled approximately $16,451 for every person in the country who had either a full-time or part-time job in June. It is also up about $178,156,270,000 in constant 2015 dollars from the $2,268,763,730,000 in revenue (in inflation-adjusted 2015 dollars) that the Treasury raked in during the first nine months of fiscal 2014. Despite the record tax revenues of $2,446,920,000,000 in the first nine months of this fiscal year, the government spent ...
SWAT Team Raided Off-Grid Garden And Destroyed Legal Crops, Suit Says
Post Date: 2015-07-14 11:18:30 by Deckard
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A SWAT team kept members of an off-grid community in handcuffs for several hours while code enforcement officers confiscated and destroyed their organic crops, a new lawsuit alleges. The suit arises from an incident in which police with automatic weapons and armor raided the Garden of Eden, a commune and organic farm in Arlington, Texas (a Dallas suburb) on August 2, 2013, but never showed residents a warrant,Off The Grid News reported two years ago. The cops were looking for marijuana which they never found, and which residents said never existed. Residents filed suit this month in federal court, alleging their constitutional rights were violated. After the raid, police called in ...
Suit: Baltimore SWAT Planted Evidence, Shot Dogs During Raid
Post Date: 2015-07-13 14:28:33 by Deckard
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A Baltimore woman is alleging in a lawsuit that officers with a city police tactical unit shot her dogs and framed her boyfriend during a trumped up drug raid, all in order to help their informant friend get back at her for breaking up with him. Jennifer Catalano says a seven-man squad from Baltimore’s Violent Crimes Impact Division raided the home she shared with her boyfriend near Grindon Avenue on the night of June 13, 2012.According to the lawsuit, the raid was contrived by a confidential police informant with a criminal record with the help of his friends and handlers, Detectives Timothy Johnson and Edgardo Hernandez, in order to ruin the woman. Catalano claims she ended a ...
Another Court Loss for Obama’s Amnesty… Not That it Matters
Post Date: 2015-07-12 19:58:41 by cranky
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If the rule of law still meant anything in Obama’s America, the President’s agenda of amnesty for illegal aliens would be in big trouble. It doesn’t, so the Administration just keeps pumping out amnesty documents, no matter how often federal courts order them to stop. Team Obama even stooped to flat-out lying to a federal judge about the need for a temporary injunction to stop the amnesty printing press. Later they made a “surprise filing” to the judge disclosing that their previous statements were false, and – whoopsie! – they had already tossed 100,000 amnesty packages out. So the news from Politico that “President Barack Obama appears likely to ...
Here’s how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
Post Date: 2015-07-11 08:31:17 by CZ82
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Here’s how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill Critics of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership are unlikely to be silenced by an analysis of the flood of money it took to push the pact over its latest hurdle C Robert Gibson and Taylor Channing Wednesday 27 May 2015 08.30 EDT Last modified on Thursday 25 June 2015 07.18 EDT A decade in the making, the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is reaching its climax and as Congress hotly debates the biggest trade deal in a generation, its backers have turned on the cash spigot in the hopes of getting it passed. “We’re very much in the endgame,” US trade representative Michael ...
Donor Class Panicked: Priebus Pleas for Trump To Tone It Down on Immigration
Post Date: 2015-07-10 09:02:58 by cranky
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump Wednesday and pled with the real estate mogul – who’s soaring in the polls – to tone down his comments on immigration. But according to Trump’s campaign manager, Trump will not comply. Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said he was unaware of the exact contents of the phone call, but, “There’s no question in my mind that Mr. Trump’s fortitude on [immigration] will be unshaken, whether it’s a phone call from Reince Priebus or whether it’s [a business cutting its ties.]” Trump’s comments on illegal immigration have ...
Cop Shoots and Kills 'Attacking' Miniature Dachshund
Post Date: 2015-07-09 07:37:38 by Deckard
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'To Protect and to Serve...and to Overreact' If you're a police officer, Hollywood has blessed (or cursed) you with a rich history of role models, decades worth of fictionalized examples to follow on TV and in film. Today, Joe Friday is frowning beneath his fedora. Sonny Crockett just lowered his Ray-Bans to take a second, quizzical look. Even Detective Jimmy McNulty is appalled, and when he isn't inventing serial killers, he's drunk. All because a Virginia cop pulled his gun and killed an aggressive miniature Dachshund that was carrying a menacing 12 pounds on its stubby 11-year-old legs. The Danville (Va.) Police Department officer was walking back to his squad car ...
The New Totalitarians Are Here
Post Date: 2015-07-08 14:59:21 by CZ82
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The New Totalitarians Are Here Totalitarians want their rule, and their belief system, to be accepted and self-sustaining - even if it takes bludgeoning every last citizen who disagrees. By Tom Nichols July 6, 2015 There’s a basic difference in the traditions of political science between “authoritarians” and “totalitaritarians.” People throw both of these words around, but as is so often the case, they’re using words they may not always understand. They have real meaning, however, and the difference between them is important. Simply put, authoritarians merely want obedience, while totalitarians, whose rule is rooted in an ideology, want obedience and ...
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