Year: 2015

USA Today

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Prosecutors in the Los Angeles suburb responsible for a huge share of the nation’s wiretaps almost certainly violated federal law when they authorized widespread eavesdropping that police used to make more than 300 arrests and seize millions of dollars in cash and drugs throughout the USA.

The violations could undermine the legality of as many as 738 wiretaps approved in Riverside County, Calif., since the middle of 2013, an investigation by USA TODAY and The Desert Sun, based on interviews and court records, has found. Prosecutors reported that those taps, often conducted by federal drug investigators, intercepted phone calls and text messages by more than 52,000 people.   Continue reading “Police used apparently illegal wiretaps to make hundreds of arrests”

Judicial Watch

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that Barack Obama and family had a busy 2015 vacationing on the American taxpayers’ dime. The unnecessary travel included an Obama Palm Springs golf trip in June, a trip to New York City in July and a family trip to Martha’s Vineyard in August – all of which cost taxpayers $3,115,688.70 in travel expenses alone. The documents regarding the Obama travel expenses came in response to three Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the first filed on June 30, 2015, the second on July 23, 2015, and the third August 24, 2015.   Continue reading “President Obama’s 2015 Golf and Family Vacation Trips Cost Taxpayers $3,115,688.70 in Travel Expenses Alone”

DownTrend – by Donn Marten

The irrational exuberance and giddy optimism expressed by the establishment GOPe and their pocket media that the Paris attacks would spell the end for Donald Trump has already gone up in smoke. Now that America is gripped by hysteria after a solid week of 24/7 media fear-mongering that ISIS may soon be mowing down Black Friday shoppers, attacking New York City and even blowing up Barry’s crib it is looking as though Trumpzilla has only become stronger. While RINOs like Jeb!, Marco the plastic Cuban and New Jersey Governor Porky Soprano have ratcheted up their rhetoric, the public sees them as the cynical, phony, bloviating windsocks that they have always been. Their bluster only helps to shore up the support for Trump, the outsider with his own money who speaks directly to the people sans focus groups and think tank generated talking points.   Continue reading “Hell Freezes Over as Washington Post Admits that Trump May Win Nomination”

The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause

It’s been well over a decade since the SARS virus captured the attention of the world, and very nearly devastated the global population. Between 2002 and 2003, the virus managed to infect over 8000 people across 37 countries, nearly 10% of who were killed before the outbreak was fully contained. Now scientists have created a highly potent hybrid of the virus which has since been dubbed “SARS 2.0.”   Continue reading “Scientists Just Created A Dangerous New Form Of SARS”

RT

The number of Mexicans living in the US has dropped by more than a million in less than a decade, marking a historic shift: more Mexican migrants now leave the States than enter. In most of those cases, rejoining family was the reason to move back home.

Between 2009 and 2014, 1 million Mexicans, including their US-born children, have left America. During the same period, an estimated 870,000 Mexicans came to the United States, Pew Research Center’s latest analysis of government data from both the US and Mexico showed.   Continue reading “More Mexican migrants leave the US than enter – study”

RT

Police have arrested a former Army reservist for stealing 16 military weapons from a Massachusetts armory. Evidence from surveillance video, DNA, and an electronic monitoring bracelet led to his quick arrest. He was already facing child rape charges.

James Walker Morales, 34, was arrested on Wednesday in New York and charged with unlawful possession of a machine gun, two counts of possession of stolen firearms, and the theft of government property, according to court documents.   Continue reading “Child rape suspect arrested for Massachusetts military weapons theft”

Activist Post – by Nick Giambruno

Central planners around the world are waging a War on Cash. In just the last few years:

• Italy made cash transactions over €1,000 illegal;
• Switzerland proposed banning cash payments in excess of 100,000 francs;
• Russia banned cash transactions over $10,000;
• Spain banned cash transactions over €2,500;
• Mexico made cash payments of more than 200,000 pesos illegal;
• Uruguay banned cash transactions over $5,000; and
• France made cash transactions over €1,000 illegal, down from the previous limit of €3,000.

Continue reading “The World’s First Cashless Society Is Here – A Totalitarian’s Dream Come True”

RT

Residents of four US states – Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee – have anxiously reported a loud blast. Their first suggestion was a meteor, but more frightening versions followed.

Some said, though, that they saw the actual meteor, and in some pictures, one can see a bright flash of light in the sky.   Continue reading “Is it a meteor, or…? US social media explodes after huge blast is heard in four states”

Mail.com

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The latest in the investigation into the fatal shooting of a black man by Minneapolis police that has sparked days of demonstrations (all times local):

12:45 a.m. Two people were arrested after police say they spray-painted walls and windows of a precinct building with profane messages during a protest over the fatal shooting of a black man by a Minneapolis police officer.   Continue reading “2 arrests during night of protests in Minneapolis”

Mail.com

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Men shouting “God is great” and armed with guns and throwing grenades stormed into the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali’s capital Friday morning and seized 170 hostages.

The U.S. Embassy in Mali asked citizens to shelter in place amid reports of an “ongoing active shooter operation” at the hotel in Bamako. People in the area ran for their lives along a dirt road as a soldier in full combat gear them to safety.   Continue reading “Radisson hotel in Mali attacked; 170 hostages taken”

Yahoo News

Washington (AFP) – America’s use of drones to kill suspected jihadists around the world is driving hatred toward the United States and causing further radicalization, four former airmen have said.

In an open letter to President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and CIA Director John Brennan, the four former drone operators said they were involved in the killing of innocent civilians, and had gone on to suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.   Continue reading ““Cowardly murder”: Ex-drone operators speak out about their jobs”

Exit and Support Network – by H. Michael Sweeney

Built upon Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression by David Martin, the following may be useful to the initiate in the world of dealing with veiled and half-truth, lies, and suppression of truth when serious crimes are studied in public forums. This, sadly, includes every day news media, one of the worst offenders with respect to being a source of disinformation. Where the crime involves a conspiracy, or a conspiracy to cover up the crime, there will invariably be a disinformation campaign launched against those seeking to uncover and expose the truth and/or the conspiracy. There are specific tactics which disinfo artists tend to apply, as revealed here. Also included with this material are seven common traits of the disinfo artist which may also prove useful in identifying players and motives. The more a particular party fits the traits and is guilty of following the rules, the more likely they are a professional disinfo artist with a vested motive. People can be bought, threatened, or blackmailed into providing disinformation, so even “good guys” can be suspect in many cases.   Continue reading “Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation”

New York Times – by Peter Baker

WASHINGTON — Jonathan J. Pollard, the American convicted of spying on behalf of Israel, will walk out of prison on Friday after 30 years, but the Obama administration has no plans to let him leave the country and move to Israel as he has requested.

Mr. Pollard, who as a Navy intelligence analyst passed classified documents to Israeli handlers, was due to be released from a federal prison in Butner, N.C., after receiving parole on a life sentence, ending a long imprisonment that has been a constant irritant in relations between the United States and Israel.   Continue reading “After 30 Years in Prison, Jonathan Pollard to Be Freed — but Not to Israel”

Salon – by JARED FLANERY AND BEN NORTON

The State Department devoted itself to, in its own words, “deferring” U.N. action on Israeli war crimes, “reframing the debate” about the atrocities, and “moving away from the U.N.”, according to numerous emails from former Secretary of State HillaryClinton. The messages, some of which are written by high-level State Department officials, expose the role of the U.S. government in undermining the international response to the 2009 United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Report — which the U.S. admitted was only “moderate,” but still opposed.   Continue reading “Deferring Justice: Clinton emails show how State Dept. undermined U.N. action on Israeli war crimes”