Year: 2016
(Chuck Ross) The State Department is “pausing” its review of 22 “Top Secret” Hillary Clinton emails while the FBI finishes up its investigation of the former secretary of state’s private email system, an agency spokeswoman announced on Friday.
It is not certain that the review, which was announced on Jan. 29, will continue after the FBI concludes its probe, spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said. Continue reading “State Dept. ‘Pauses’ Its Review Of Hillary’s 22 ‘Top Secret’ Emails”
Frisco, TX — After an ongoing FBI investigation revealed incriminating information, Brad Harris, CEO of Novus Health Care Services, is being accused of ordering nurses to hasten the deaths of patients.
Novus Health Care Service is a company based in Frisco, Texas that provides in-house care for terminally ill and elderly patients. The company’s website indicates clearly that Novus prides itself on the quality of care and “improved patient outcomes” as a result of the services its employees provide. However, an affidavit released by the FBI suggests Brad Harris has failed to comply with the principles of his own company. Continue reading “Healthcare CEO Told Nurses to Fatally Overdose Patients to Increase Profit”
Global Research – by Richard Silverstein
The Yediot Achronot conference attacking BDS has become a veritable carnival of hate. Everyone from delusional Hollywood celebrities (Roseanne Barr) to cabinet ministers, to the leader of the Opposition have pledged fealty to the cause.
But the apogee same yesterday when Transportation Minister Israel Katz [image left] called for the “civil targeted killing“of BDS leaders like Omar Barghouti. The phrase he used (sikul ezrahi memukad) derives from the euphemistic Hebrew phrase for the targeted killing of a terrorist (the literal meaning is “targeted thwarting”). But the added word ” civil” makes it something different. Katz is saying that we won’t physically murder BDS opponents, but we will do everything short of that. Continue reading “Israel Minister Calls for “Civil Targeted Killings” of BDS Leaders”
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the Trans-Pacific Partnership may well be the worst trade agreement ever negotiated, and he recommends Canada insist on reworking it.
“I think what Canada should do is use its influence to begin a renegotiation of TPP to make it an agreement that advances the interests of Canadian citizens and not just the large corporations,” he said in an interview with CBC’s The Exchange on Thursday. Continue reading “TPP ‘worst trade deal ever,’ says Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz”
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Specifically, the Inspector General said they were unable to verify the accuracy of 72 US Army Central Command ACSA orders valued at more than $202 million “due to a lack of supporting documentation.”
US commanders “do not have assurance that deployed forces are obtaining the [logistics support, supplies and services] necessary to effectively and efficiently sustain US and coalition forces during contingencies and operations,” Assistant Inspector General for Contract Management and Payments Michael Roark said. Continue reading “Pentagon Cannot Account for $223Mln in Anti-Daesh Operation Orders”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Albuquerque, NM — The city of Albuquerque has paid out a settlement in the amount of $6.5 million this week, to one of their own officers who was repeatedly shot by a fellow cop.
As we previously reported, Officer Jacob Grant was critically wounded after being shot multiple times by Lieutenant Greg Brachle during an undercover drug bust. Both officers were undercover at the time of the shooting. Continue reading “Horrific Body Cam Footage Shows Cop Gun Down Fellow Officer During a $60 Meth Bust”
WEB Notes: This is what we have been talking about. Incrementally they are blaming Iran various issues. We have seen this kick up since the start of the year. They are bringing Iran into the negative spotlight once again. Bloomberg reported the judge mentioned in this article placed a $10.5 billion dollar judgement against Iran citing them as a cause for the 9/11 attacks. Read this line from Bloomberg: “Daniels found that Iran had failed to defend claims that it aided the Sept. 11 hijackers and was therefore liable for damages tied to the attacks.”
Continue reading “New York Court Lists Khamenei As The Second Defendant In The September 11 Attacks”
Personal Liberty – by Sam Rolley
Pro-immigration groups have successfully pressured the United States Library of Congress to remove the words “illegal” and “alien” from materials because the words are considered “pejorative” to people who enter the country illegally. The move will affect all U.S. libraries. Continue reading “Words ‘illegal’ and ‘alien’ banished from public libraries”
Chemo as a treatment for cancer has always been controversial, with patients as well as medical professionals doubting its efficacy and safety as a cancer treatment. Bottom line: It seems to have more harmful side effects than healing effects.
Now researchers are admitting that chemotherapy can actually worsen deterioration in cases of late stage cancer who still have the mobility and energy for daily activities. The study, published in JAMA Oncology, also showed that cancer patients with limited or moderate functioning ability feel worse when undergoing chemotherapy. Continue reading “Researchers admit: Chemo worsens quality of life with no benefit of overall survival in advanced stage cancer”
Police in the US are continuing to raid the homes of people who operate exit nodes for the Tor anonymity network, most recently searching the condo belonging to a pair of outspoken privacy activists in Seattle.
On 30 March, Seattle Privacy Coalition cofounders Jan Bultmann and David Robinson were woken up at 6.15am at their condominium by a team of six detectives from the Seattle Police Department with a search warrant looking for child pornography, according to Seattle’s alternative weekly newspaper The Stranger. Continue reading “Seattle police raid home of privacy activists who maintain Tor anonymity network node”
EFF’s efforts to fix holes in oversight of the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) are paying off.
New data and records released by California Department of Justice (CADOJ) show a steep increase in the number of agencies disclosing cases of abuse of the state’s network of law enforcement databases—a major victory for transparency and law enforcement accountability. Continue reading “EFF Pressure Results in Increased Disclosure of Abuse of California’s Law Enforcement Databases”
The NYPD lieutenant who supervised the cursing plainclothes cops who arrested an on-duty postal worker in Brooklyn earlier this month has been stripped of his badge and gun, the Daily News has learned.
Lt. Luis Machado was placed on modified duty in connection with the embarrassingly volatile clash between cops and postal employee Glen Grays in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Continue reading “NYPD lieutenant who oversaw postal worker’s rough arrest stripped of badge and gun”
In the present state of mankind, and of conducting war, the government of every nation must have power to raise and keep up regular troops. The question is, how shall this power be lodged? In an entire government, as in Great Britain, where the people assemble by their representatives in one legislature, there is no difficulty; it is of course properly lodged in that legislature. But in a confederated republic, where the organization consists of a federal head, and local governments, there is no one part in which it can be solely, and safely lodged. By Art. 1. , Sect. 8. , “congress shall have power to raise and support armies,” etc. By Art. I. , Sect. 10. , “no state, without the consent of congress, shall keep troops, or ships of war, in time of peace. ” It seems fit the union should direct the raising of troops, and the union may do it in two ways: by requisitions on the states, or by direct taxes. The first is most conformable to the federal plan, and safest; and it may be improved, by giving the union power, by its own laws and officers, to raise the state’s quota that may neglect, and to charge it with the expense; and by giving a fixed quorum of the state legislatures power to disapprove the requisition. There would be less danger in this power to raise troops, could the state governments keep a proper control over the purse and over the militia. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 41-43B – “The Quantity Of Power The Union Must Possess Is One Thing; The Mode Of Exercising The Powers Given Is Quite A Different Consideration””
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved a proposal to expand a telephone subsidy for low-income Americans to include Internet access, after a deal to cap the cost of the plan collapsed.
The commission voted 3-2 to approve a proposal by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, unveiled earlier this month, to expand the $9.25 monthly mobile phone subsidy to include broadband Internet access. The agency’s three Democrats voted yea and its two Republicans nay. Continue reading “FCC Approves Plan to Expand Low-Income Subsidy to Internet Use”
