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Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan
Donald Trump ripped into Bill Kristol today during his rally in Anaheim, saying “all the guy wants to do is kill people and go to war.”
Kristol has been trying to organize the launch of a third party to undermine Trump and help Hillary get elected, though he claims it’s because he wants a “real conservative” to be president. Continue reading “Trump Rips Bill Kristol: “All The Guy Wants to do is Kill People and Go to War””
Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, is asking a federal judge to order a conservative group not to release audio or video recordings of a deposition Mills is scheduled to give Friday about Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
Mills’ attorneys filed a motion Wednesday afternoon saying they fear that the group that sought Mills’ deposition in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Judicial Watch, will use any recording to distort Mills’ testimony and advance the group’s anti-Clinton agenda. Continue reading “Hillary Clinton aide moves to block release of deposition video”
LA Times – by Michael A. Memoli and Christi Parsons
President Obama is racing against the clock to cement a massive Pacific Rim trade deal that all of his potential successors oppose, with his administration eyeing a looming fight on Capitol Hill while starting to implement as much of the complicated pact as it can.
The effort begins in Vietnam, where Obama spent the last three days touting the merits of the 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership, which would link 40% of the global economy, and reassuring Vietnamese leaders key to the deal that Congress will ultimately overcome the thorny politics of trade and ratify the agreement. Continue reading “Obama races to cement the big Pacific Rim trade deal that all his potential successors oppose”
Sovereign Man – by Simon Black
Just days ago, in the midst of the Puerto Rico debt morass, 24 members of Congress introduced the “No Bailouts for State, Territory, and Local Governments Act.”
The title pretty much sums it up.
Congress knows there’s a massive wave of defaults looming at the city and state level. Continue reading “Wow. Congress wants to prohibit the Fed from bailing out bankrupt states.”
19 April is the 241sth anniversary of the “shot heard ‘round the world” at Lexington and Concord. The British regulars who started the fracas were following an age-old government tradition of seizing powder, munitions and property for a pretentious King who had assumed such wide distribution of the tools of resistance should be available only to the government-approved groups such as soldiers despite the danger on the frontier. Continue reading “Freedom Betrayed: The Constitution is Lexington’s Tombstone”
Russian military analyst Sergei Ishchenko comments on the US military’s apparent plans to increase their presence on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, and the possible threat to the Crimean peninsula this may pose.
“We’re looking at a very significant increase as we go forward to next year, not just in exercises and training but also in rotation of units and equipment from NATO allies here to ensure that there’s a constant ability to learn how to work together, to train together, within NATO, and that includes the Black Sea,” the ambassador said, according to Sofia News Agency.
Continue reading “US Navy SEALs Training in Bulgaria to Storm Russia’s Crimea”
From December 2012 to March 2016, 94 Fast and Furious weapons were seized; Fast and Furious weapon found in “Chapo” Guzman hideout
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today released Justice Department documents showing that weapons sent from the U.S. into Mexico as part of the Obama administration’s Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning program have been widely used by major Mexican drug cartels. According to the new records, over the past three years, a total of 94 Fast and Furious firearms have been recovered in Mexico City and 12 Mexican states, with the majority being seized in Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa. Of the weapons recovered, 82 were rifles and 12 were pistols identified as having been part of the Fast and Furious program. Reports suggest the Fast and Furious guns are tied to at least 69 killings. Continue reading “Judicial Watch: Justice Department Documents Reveal Widespread Use of Fast and Furious Weapons by Major Mexican Drug Cartels – Linked to at least 69 Killings”
Even though the big revelations about Big Pharma’s science paper research fraud came out years ago, most people are still not aware of this. Here’s the scoop: Drug companies routinely pay P.R. firms to ghostwrite clinical science papers which are published in medical journals and forwarded to the FDA to “prove” the drugs are safe and effective. But it’s all a farce: The papers are pure fiction, dreamed up by what are essentially marketing firms for the sole purpose of getting drugs approved even when they don’t work. Continue reading “Big Pharma’s medical research papers are total bunk… hundreds were fraudulently ghostwritten by a P.R. firm called ‘DesignWrite’”
As readers know, I have seen some optimism in voters support for Trump and Sanders as neither are members of the corrupt Republican and Democratic political establishments. Members of both political establishments enrich themselves by betraying the American people and serving only the interest of the One Percent. The American people are being driven into the ground purely for the sake of more mega-billions for a handful of super-rich people. Continue reading “Americans: A Conquered People: The New Serfs”
(BEECH GROVE) Many Beech Grove residents were woken up early Tuesday morning by the sound of gunshots at the former St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove.
Beech Grove Police say the U.S. Army Special Operations Command was conducting military training in urban terrain.
At least 100 military personnel were involved in the exercise which started around midnight. Continue reading ““Military exercise” startles Indianapolis residents”
Paulette Brown, Partner and co-chair of the firmwide Diversity & Inclusion Committee at Locke Lord LLP, is president of the American Bar Association.
California’s inability to introduce a statewide voter registration system, despite it being mandatory, means that 212 people who are officially dead in LA County, could vote in next month’s primary elections following an investigation by CBS2/KCAL9.
The station took millions of voting records from the California Secretary of State’s office and compared them with the death records from the Social Security Administration. The results certainly proved to be an eye opener as it found that hundreds of people were voting despite having died. Continue reading “Over 200 Californians could be voting from the grave in June primaries”
ST. LOUIS (AP) — An 8-month-old boy was shot to death in his mother’s arms Tuesday, and the suspected shooter – the boy’s father – remained at large, St. Louis police said. The deadly shooting occurred shortly after 1 p.m. by an Interstate 270 exit ramp near the city limits, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said. The baby, Reign Crockett, was shot once as his mother attempted to escape a slowing car in which two other young sons were passengers, Dotson said. Police believe Diata R. Crockett, 34, was aiming at the mother, Dotson said. Continue reading “Father sought after boy killed in mother’s arms in St. Louis”
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan Taliban confirmed on Wednesday that their leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week and that they have appointed a successor — a scholar known for extremist views who is unlikely to back a peace process with Kabul.
The announcement came as a suicide bomber struck a minibus carrying court employees in the Afghan capital, killing at least 11 people, an official said. The Taliban promptly claimed responsibility for the attack. Continue reading “Afghan Taliban appoint new leader after Mansour’s death”
MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) — It is the unavoidable Achilles’ heel in the reputation of George Washington and so many other Founding Fathers: that men who risked their lives to protect their nation’s liberty were also slaveholders.
That dichotomy will be explored in a new exhibit at Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, in a museum space previously dedicated to exhibitions featuring Washington’s furniture, fineries and his penchant for dining on syrupy hoecakes. Continue reading “Mount Vernon exhibit looks at Washington as slaveholder”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year after the brutal shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a Charleston, South Carolina, church, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday its intent to seek the death penalty against the man facing federal hate crime charges in the killings.
The decision means that both state and federal prosecutors are seeking the maximum penalty against Dylann Roof, 22, in the June 17 Emanuel AME Church shooting, which contributed to a national conversation about race relations and ultimately led to the removal of a Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse. Continue reading “Suspect in Charleston church shooting faces highest penalty”
DHS’s ‘Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments‘ or VACCINE as it’s commonly referred to is being taught to school kids. Teachers instructed by DHS are teaching K-12 students that spying on innocent Americans is ok.
“VACCINE’s mission is to educate current homeland security stakeholders and the next generation of talent… Our educational initiatives span the entire career development pipeline ranging from K-12 programs through undergraduate and graduate level work, to professional education and training programs.” (for more info. see the Teacher Tutorial section below) Continue reading “School kids from K-12 are being indoctrinated into accepting DHS’s ‘VACCINE’ spying program, Part 2”