The Steady Drip – by Sam Sewell

Going Postal
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/blum.asp
The husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein chairs a company that brokers sales of USPS facilities.

It was recently learned that the United States has entered into a contract with one firm to sell 56 buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. The government has decided that it no longer needs these buildings (many of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country).    Continue reading “Going Postal”

Business Insider – by KIRSTEN ACUNA

Last weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” opening skit poked fun at the difficulty people had gaining access to the Obamacare HealthCare website.

In the skit below Kate McKinnon portrayed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in the cold open joking the site “was only designed to handle six users at a time.”   Continue reading “Here’s The ‘SNL’ Skit That Correctly Predicted How Few Users Would Sign Up For Obamacare”

Activist Post – by Michael T. Winter

What is truth? Not a simple question. Is it as you feel it to be? (Subjective truth). Is it based on what you perceive to be facts, uninfluenced by your feelings? (Objective truth). Is it only what your five senses confirm to be real? (Empirical truth). Even within these three very basic concepts of truth, there rests a plethora of subtleties upon the definition of truth – correspondence, coherence, constructivist, consensus, and many more. It is within these subtleties we find a foundational dichotomy between the ‘truth’ of MSM and the ‘truth’ of the alternative press (Alt. P).    Continue reading “The Dichotomy of Mainstream Media vs. the Alternative Media”

Activist Post – by Chris Dougherty

NSA hacks Google. How could it affect you? Emails? Online searches? Think bigger…

Recently it was leaked that the National Security Agency tapped into primary overseas communication links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world. According to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the agency has access to raw data from hundreds of millions of Internet users, and many of them are Americans.   Continue reading “NSA Hacks Google, You Need To See The Bigger Picture”

fred.jpgFacebook

An Arizona Highway Patrol officer stops a Harley for traveling faster than the posted speed limit, so he asks the biker his name. ‘Fred,’ he replies.

‘Fr…ed what?’ the officer asks.

‘Just Fred,’ the man responds.

The officer is in a good mood, thinks he might just give the biker a break, and write him out a warning instead of a ticket. The officer then presses him for the last name.   Continue reading “I am just Fred”

Huffington Post

One British man recently learned a hard life lesson while drooling over photos of a model in lingerie online: fantasize all you want, but never comment about how you’d totally leave your wife for a one-night stand with the woman in the photos.

That’s what happened Tuesday, when a Manchester man named Tom got all hot and bothered over photographs showing model and TV presenter Kelly Brook in sexy lingerie on the Daily Mail’s website, including this photo:   Continue reading “Lingerie Photos Land Drooling Husband In Hot Water”

St. Louis Today – by Robert Patrick & Jennifer S. Mann

Shannon Renee McNeal was torn from her screaming children by police who were seeking a woman with a similar name — a woman who they should have known had been murdered seven months before.  A clerical mistake set up the arrest, sloppy attention to fingerprints put her behind bars and months of indifference to the error cost McNeal her home, $15,000 and, for a while, her job driving a Metro bus.

Yet she may be luckier than scores of others who have been wrongfully arrested and spent weeks, even months, trapped behind bars in a broken St. Louis city justice system.   Continue reading “Jailed By Mistake – Wrongful arrests jail 100 people for over 2,000 days”

axe shuts down schoolHuffington Post

A school in Brooklyn was shut down this week following reports of a noxious odor, which turned out to be Axe body spray.

In a statement, the Department of Education said eight students were taken to the hospital Wednesday for reactions to a hazardous substance at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, according to the Smoking Gun. Two other students of the Crown Heights school were also evaluated by private doctors.   Continue reading “Axe Body Spray Shuts Down School, Sends 8 Students To Hospital”

Orig.src.Susanne.Posel.Daily.News- VaccinesOccupy Corporatism – by Susan Posel

The new Personal Belief Exemption (PBE) form is available for Californians who want to opt out of vaccinations for their children.

Jonathan Fielding, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) explains that the new rule will make parents “take a careful look” before they opt out of vaccinating their child.   Continue reading “California Parents Incriminated For Not Vaccinating Children”

Paul Daugerdas convictedHuffington Post

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — A Chicago lawyer and certified public accountant was convicted Friday for his role in a 10-year tax fraud that generated $7 billion in phony tax losses, a scheme authorities have called the largest tax fraud in history.

Paul Daugerdas, the 63-year-old former head of the Chicago office of the now defunct Texas-based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist, was found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, evade taxes, commit mail and wire fraud and other crimes after a seven-week jury trial in federal court in Manhattan, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.   Continue reading “Paul Daugerdas, Chicago Lawyer, Convicted In ‘Largest Tax Fraud In History’”

Boiling Frogs – by Sibel Edmonds

Have you ever come across an imperialist who was keen on activists challenging the establishment?

British establishment mouthpiece BBC leads the way again. This time it is about the biggest threat to democracy today. No, it is not terrorists. No, it is not Islamism. And, no, it is not the Western-Installed Dictator Regimes around the world. No, no, no, no, no. The new enemy is the conspiracy theorists. It is those who question their governments. It is those who find facts and confront the mainstream lies and liars such as BBC. Basically, it is you … and me.   Continue reading “Conspiracy Theorists Are the Greatest Challenge to Democracy … According to … Here’s who …”

The Steady Drip – by Sam Sewell

Former basketball player describes visit to his friend’s private island: ‘Just normal people, drinking cocktails and laughing’

theguardian.com, Saturday 2 November 2013 09.08 EDT

Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, is a “good guy”, a “good-hearted kid” who offers the best tequila to his guests on his private island, according to the former basketball player Dennis Rodman.   Continue reading “Dennis Rodman: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is a ‘good-hearted kid’”

Kitchen espionage: Kettles imported to Russia from China with hidden microchips which can send spam data and possibly steal information have allegedly been found by authorities in St PetersburgDaily Mail – by SIMON TOMLINSON

Russian investigators claim to have found household appliances imported from China which contain hidden microchips that pump spam data and malware into wi-fi networks.

Authorities in St Petersburg allegedly discovered 20 to 30 kettles and irons with ‘spy microchips that send some data to the foreign server’, according to Russian media.   Continue reading “China is spying on you through your KETTLE: Bugs that scan wi-fi devices found in imported kitchen gadgets”

Joseph CallahanFreedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Connecticut Police raided the home of Joseph Callahan, 69, confiscated more than 270 guns and he was charged with several felonies, including 11 counts of illegal possession of explosives and six counts of first-degree reckless endangerment. Was Callahan really endangering anyone or planning some sort of terrorist attack? No, he was not.

According to Callahan’s attorney, Richard Meehan, he is just a collector, a gun aficionado, and a hoarder. Meehan also claims that Callahan is a retired chemist and collector who had no “nefarious intent” when items were discovered at his upscale Fairfield home.   Continue reading “Connecticut Man Joseph Callahan Arrested for Having ‘Too Many’ Guns & Model Rockets”

Russian SS-18 rocket (AP)Washington Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

Russian strategic forces carried out a large-scale surprise military drill on Wednesday, launching four nuclear missiles that were closely monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies, U.S. officials said.

The drill began around 9:00 am ET and included the test launch of two land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and two submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).   Continue reading “Moscow Conducts Large-Scale Nuclear Attack Drill”