Naked Capitalism – by Lambert Strether

No doubt Los Angeles County’s VSAP (“Voting Solutions for All People”) rollout will not be covered as a debacle. The real question is: If there were a debacle — like, say, a case of election fraud — would we even know? Doubtful. Just what we want in a voting system! In this post, I’ll give a brief overview of issues with electronic voting. Then I’ll look at VSAP as an institution. Next, I’ll show why the VSAP system is not only insecure, but likely to make money-in-politics even worse than it already is.  Continue reading “Los Angeles County to Intoduce VSAP E-Voting System: NOT Hand-Marked, NOT Paper, NOT Hand-Counted in Public”

Activist Post – by Tim Pool

California’s growing homeless crisis has made headlines over the past year. Diseases are rampant and state and local governments have failed to do anything to solve the problem.

A new state law would allow the state to forcefully “conserve” people with mental illness meaning that if you are homeless and determined to be not “self sufficient” the state can detain you and seize and control your finances until you prove yourself to be “self sufficient.” Continue reading “California Plans FORCED Internment And Asset Seizure To Solve Homeless Crisis”

USA Today

A shooting rampage near the famed French Quarter of New Orleans early Sunday left 10 people wounded, revelers from an annual football game scrambling for cover and police in pursuit of at least one “cowardly” gunman.

New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said the shooting erupted on Canal Street near Bourbon Street, an area crowded with tourists and police officers – even at 3:20 a.m. Two of the injured were hospitalized in critical condition.  No officers were among the wounded,  he said. Continue reading “10 wounded in ‘cowardly and senseless’ shooting rampage at New Orleans French Quarter”

Courthouse News

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) – A onetime informal adviser to the Trump campaign who is charged with bringing a 14-year-old Czech boy to the United States for sex failed to persuade a federal judge that the crime is too old to prosecute.

In a three-count indictment unsealed in July, prosecutors alleged that George Nader brought the boy to Washington in 2000 after being introduced by way of a European pimp. “Night after night,” the indictment alleges, Nader assaulted and exploited the boy while withholding his passport to keep control over him.  Continue reading “Child-Sex Charge Upheld Against Trump Campaign’s Nader”

“CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH,OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.”

MY DICTIONARY DEFINES “RELIGION AS,“A STRONG BELIEF THAT SUPERNATURAL POWER CONTROLS DESTINY”. Continue reading “CATHOLICISM AND JUDAISM ARE UNLAWFUL UNDER US LAW.”

The Daily Beast – by Spencer Ackerman

For the 18-year lifespan of the war on terrorism, an obscure provision of the PATRIOT Act permitting the indefinite detention of non-citizens on U.S. soil has gone unused. But to keep a Palestinian man behind bars even after he finished serving his sentence, the Trump administration has fired this bureaucratic Chekhov’s gun. Continue reading “Trump Is First to Use PATRIOT Act to Detain a Man Forever”

Breitbart – by Amy Furr

A senior citizen brought home the prize of her life this week after a hunting trip with her son in Phillips, Wisconsin.

Bill Teeters said his 104-year-old mom, Florence, told him last year she wanted to get a hunting license. This week, she got her wish and accompanied him during a hunt on their land in Price County, according to NBC 15.  Continue reading “104-Year-Old Wisconsin Mom Bags Her First Buck”

Zero Hedge – by Gordon G. Chang

On January 1, China’s Cryptography Law becomes effective. The legislation follows the December 1 implementation of the Multi-Level Protection Scheme 2.0, issued under the authority of the 2016 Cybersecurity Law.

Together, these measures show Beijing’s absolute determination to seize from foreign companies all their communications, data, and other information stored in electronic form in China.  Continue reading “China Adopts Malicious “Cybersecurity” Rules”

Where are the REAL social justice warriors? Who’s willing to tackle the big problems in our world? The discrimination is blatant and cruel. The injustice is obvious. The unfairness has no place in a civilized society, and yet Americans continue to ignore the undeserved privileges that our barbaric culture has granted to beautiful women at the expense of everyone else.

To prove our claims scientifically, we gathered a team of experts from various topless bars and strip clubs. We asked them to determine exactly what characteristics define a woman as “beautiful”, and only then were we able to begin crunching the numbers.  Continue reading “Pretty Privileged”

Miami Herald

Johnnie Ridgeway III, a former Miami-Dade police officer who served two years in federal prison for a civil-rights violation, worked hard to put his life back together.

The 51-year-old drove a tanker truck, delivering fuel overnight to gas stations. A few years ago, he’d finally saved up enough money to buy a home in Sunrise for him and his longtime wife, Sonia. Continue reading “Ex-Miami-Dade cop rebuilt his life after prison. Then, a nephew had him murdered, police say”

Military.com

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador warned Friday he would not allow the United States to conduct cross-border armed operations, after Donald Trump vowed to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.

The U.S. president has been talking tough on the powerful drug cartels since one was allegedly responsible for the massacre of nine women and children from a U.S.-Mexican Mormon community in northern Mexico on November 4. Continue reading “Mexico: We Will Not Allow US Military Operations Against Cartels”

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

A fundamental pillar of true free markets is the existence of choice; the availability of options from production to providers to purchase mechanisms without interference from governments or corporate monopolies. Choice means competition, and competition drives progress. Choice can also drive changes within society, for if people know a better or more secure way of doing things exists, why would anyone want to stay trapped within the confines of a limited system? At the very least, people should be allowed to choose economic mechanisms that work best for their particular situation. Continue reading “The Rush To A Cashless Society Only Serves Globalist Interests”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Alexandria, LA — A therapy dog was shot and killed by inept police officers in Rapides Parish after they served a no-knock search warrant on the wrong address. The family pet, a boxer, served as an alert dog for the family’s son when he was having seizures.

Laura Lavergne posted on Facebook the news her family’s beloved boxer was shot and killed by overzealous Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Department deputies who could not even find the correct home to invade. Not only was the family’s dog shot but they were all detained for several hours, imprisoned in their own home. She wrote:  Continue reading “Autistic Boy Heartbroken After Cops Raid Wrong Home, Kill His Boxer Service Dog”

The American billionaires who think that they are somehow important to America should re-think, hard. You keep billions of American dollars in offshore banks, hire traitors to America while off-shoring your business, gravely hurting Americans and you think you’re wanted here?

I have news for you American traitors, it’s time you pack your bags and get the hell out! American Nationals have been decimated by your greed and consider you nothing more than enemy pond scum.  Continue reading “American Billionaires Who Offshore American Jobs And Offshore American Money – Get Out Of America, You’re Not Wanted Here”