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States are more than happy to receive their annual share of $450 million in federal cash used to run speed traps and roadblocks, but they are now actively resisting efforts to increase the transparency and accountability of the programs being funded. Congressional lawmakers attached a provision requiring states to clarify how automated ticketing machines are used within the 558-page law that provides transportation grants (view law). The surveys are to be conducted at federal expense.   Continue reading “States Resist Speed Trap Transparency”

It’s been said that Facebook has been used as a medium for Russian hackers to run roughshod over the largest social medium site in history, controlling and instigating immigration rallies, political rallies, American elections and whatever else Putin and his cronies can get their hands on. It’s also been theorized that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been used for ads inside Facebook by fake names, entities or whatever you want to call them from god knows where around the globe. These entities are enemies to America and not a goddamed thing is being done about it.

Mark Zuckerberg, being the liberal Bill of Rights killer that he is, might be allowing this to happen, or is he? Has the hacking problem worldwide become such a problem that it can’t be controlled? Facial recognition, world class algorithms and bar none security precautions be damned? I’m guessing yes, Facebook has become commiebook and Zuckerberg, in my opinion lets it happen. Hackers from all over the world have Mark Zuckerberg by the Matzo Balls!     Continue reading “How Much Control does Zuckerberg Really have over Facebook? – Commiebook?”

The Great Recession Blog

It is widely believed that World War II gave us the end of the Great Depression. As a result, people have said for decades there is nothing like a wartime economy to bring recovery from economic recession. War blows apart a lot of things, so you have to make a lot of things, which puts a lot of people to work building a lot of things, which puts a lot of other people to work digging a lot of things from the ground in order to build those things. Hurricanes blow apart a lot of things, too.

If that logic held completely true, however, the best thing we could do whenever we are trying to come out of economic collapse would be to blow up every city in the nation so we could build it all over again. While WWII did end the Great Depression, logic tells us there is a more complex tale to tell.   Continue reading “Hurricanes Harvey and Irma May Lend Helping Hand to Economy, but Hurricane Iniki and Katrina Tell More Complex Longterm Tales”

Free Thought Project – by Jay Syrmopoulos

In the aftermath of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, and Hurricane Jose brewing in the Atlantic, many people are looking for answers as to the increasingly volatile weather being witnessed.

And while climate change is one potential cause, there are other lesser known activities that could potentially be playing a role in the manifestation of these weather anomalies.

While weather modification and geo-engineering are still somewhat taboo subjects to the mainstream, often considered to be in the realm of conspiracy theory, there is a significant body of academic research and science that confirms that these technologies not only exist but are being operationalized.   Continue reading ““We’re Firing Trillion Watt Lasers into the Sky”: Top Scientist Admits to Weather Modification on CBS”

RT

The US could impose economic sanctions on China if it does not implement the new sanctions regime against North Korea, the US Treasury Secretary has warned. Steven Mnuchin said the restrictions could involve cutting off Beijing’s access to the US financial system.

“North Korea economic warfare works,” Mnuchin said Tuesday at the Delivering Alpha Conference in New York City. “We sent a message that anybody who wanted to trade with North Korea – we would consider them not trading with us.”   Continue reading “US threatens to ‘cut China off’ from dollar if it does not uphold sanctions against N. Korea”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Volusia County, FL — The state of Florida has made headlines recently about how they were treating people at hurricane shelters. Last week, as the Free Thought Project reported, Florida police announced that they would arrest people for outstanding parking ticket violations if they tried to seek refuge in one of the shelters. However, that was just the beginning. A video taken of Volusia County, Florida, shows that it wasn’t just people with warrants the government was treating as second-class citizens — it was the homeless too.

In the disheartening video, several homeless people who were simply trying to seek refuge in a local shelter during the storm — after being told to go there by police — were seen being turned away by police for no other reason other than the fact that they had no house to live in.   Continue reading “Police Turn Away Homeless People at Hurricane Shelters—Because They’re Homeless”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

When retired Georgia Tech professor Judith Curry penned a blog post on her “Climate Etc.” website suggesting that it was scientifically irresponsible to tie the intensity of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma directly to climate change, she probably didn’t expect that she might trigger 1,000’s of progressives to call for her immediate imprisonment.  Unfortunately, for both Curry and society at large, that is exactly what happened.

Here is part of Curry’s post that potentially resulted in this latest ‘mass-triggering’ event:   Continue reading “Calls To Imprison “Climate Change Deniers” Grow In The Wake Of Hurricane Irma”

Breitbart – by John Carney

The trade pact between South Korea and the United States has proven to be one of the most one-way global trade deals ever signed.

Just five years old, the South Korea-U.S. trade deal known as KORUS has led to a huge rise in imports from South Korea with no reciprocal rise in exports from the U.S. Prior to the deal, the U.S. exported around $43.6 billion in goods to South Korea, while South Korea sent around $56.6 billion, producing a trade deficit of around $13 billion. Last year, the U.S. exported $42.3 billion to South Korea and imported $69.9 billion from South Korea. The trade deficit was around $27.6 billion.   Continue reading “South Korea Trade Deal: ‘It’s Like NAFTA on Crack’”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice will not bring charges against Baltimore police officers over the fatal injury of a black man in custody in an incident that stoked tensions between African Americans and law enforcement, federal officials said Tuesday.

A Justice Department criminal civil rights investigation into the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray has found “insufficient evidence” for any charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.   Continue reading “No federal charges for Baltimore cops in Freddie Gray’s death”

When most people take a hard loss, whether it be a professional athlete, a huge stock loss, a losing poker hand or whatever, you get over it and move on, take your loss and shut your yap, you don’t continue to tell the world that you were cheated or screwed out of that big win. What Hillary doesn’t or refuses to understand is that she never had a chance; she was a looser before she brushed her teeth the morning she decided to run for president. No way on God’s green earth was she ever going to win a presidential election. Wasn’t in the cards, never has been, never will be. The Clinton family has been involved in too much controversy, mayhem and debauchery, simple as that.

Hillary just can’t keep her mouth shut. It’s like listening to a freshly incarcerated prison inmate, the jibber jabber that never ends, innocent as hell, how did this happen to me, why am I inside this place, I’m innocent! America has had to hear this crap now more than ever, if for nothing more than to circus bark her pathetic book.   Continue reading “Hillary Continues to Cry – Won’t Let it Go”

Yahoo News

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation Tuesday after a fifth man — one of his cousins — came forward and accused him of sexual abuse decades ago.

Murray, who had already announced that he would not seek a second term even as he denied wrongdoing, said he would step down effective 5 p.m. Wednesday.

“While the allegations against me are not true, it is important that my personal issues do not affect the ability of our City government to conduct the public’s business,” the Democrat said in a statement.   Continue reading “Seattle’s mayor resigns after 5th sex abuse claim emerges”

WMUR 9 News – by KC Downey

LEBANON, N.H. — A suspect has been taken into custody after an active shooter alert was issued Tuesday at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s main campus in Lebanon, state police said.

The hospital was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after an “active shooter” alert was issued, but there was no immediate confirmation of a shooting.   Continue reading “Suspect in custody after active shooter alert at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center”

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The Weekly Standard – by John McCormick

Earlier this year, the LA Times reported: “TSA quietly launches new ‘enhanced’ pat-down procedure.” The Times noted that TSA would not describe precisely how the new procedure is different from the old one: “TSA officials declined to detail the new universal procedure or the previous pat-down tactics, but the industry is bracing for passenger unhappiness about more invasive searches.”

For those curious about what the “enhanced” pat-down involves, I had a first-hand experience (no pun intended) Sunday evening September 10 in the Kansas City airport. (This is going exactly where you think it’s going, so feel free to stop reading right now.)  Continue reading “Hands On with the TSA’s New ‘Enhanced’ Pat-Down Procedure”

Anti-Media – by Darius Shahtahmasebi

A top Israeli general tasked with writing his country’s defense policy has admitted that Israel cannot take on Iran’s military alone if the day should come that the regional powers face off in a direct military confrontation, Defense News reports.

“We cannot fight Iran alone,” Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, a former IDF deputy chief of staff and a candidate to become the next Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, told a think tank gathering on September 7. “They can affect us; we can affect them. It’s all about attrition. But if you want to gain something which is deeper, we cannot do it alone. This is a fact of life. It’s better to admit that.”   Continue reading “Top Israeli General Admits the Truth About Israel Going to War With Iran”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is urging Congress to “promptly” reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) scheduled to expire at the end of this year.

The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats also signed the letter, addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.   Continue reading “Trump Administration Urges Congress To Renew Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)”

Daily Mail

Walt Disney World in Florida has been accused of price-gouging for charging guests high prices while they were stuck in their hotels during Hurricane Irma.

Jennifer Bruns from Northbrook, Illinois, lashed out at the owners of the Orlando entertainment complex, whose sister park in California is known as the ‘happiest place on earth’, for selling expensive drinks and snacks to stranded people.

The theme park closed on Saturday following the forecast that the hurricane, which has left up to 4.5million Florida residents without electricity, would hit the state as a Category Five.   Continue reading “Disney accused of price-gouging water and food for residents stuck at their hotels while the park is closed”