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Obama to visit Chicago today

President Barack Obama is scheduled to return to Chicago on Wednesday afternoon for a pair of Democratic fundraisers.

The president is raising money for congressional Democrats as his party tries to retake the House in next year’s mid-term elections. Obama will be accompanied by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y., who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, according to an invitation obtained by the Tribune.   Continue reading “THE CAMPAIGN THAT NEVER ENDS: Obama goes home… Michelle goes to Boston… Fundraising: ‘Keep writing those checks. And if you havent maxed out, max out!’”

AlterNet -by Tana Ganeva

Another casualty of the drug war.

On May 16th, Forth Worth police entered the home of Jarmaine Darden, 34, in search of cocaine. The raid, which does not appear to have uncovered any cocaine,  ended with the 34-year-old father dead after police tased him multiple times.    Continue reading “Texas Police Tase Overweight Asthmatic to Death in Drug Raid That Uncovers No Drugs”

AFP Photo / Valery Hache RT News

New York City’s Parks Department is under investigation for forcing its part-time workers to strip and pole-dance at an agency holiday party in exchange for more permanent jobs. The workers allegedly teased as many as 10 men at a time.

“If you want a job, get on the pole,” a Parks Department employee allegedly told a female worker at last year’s Christmas party, according to an exclusive report by the New York Daily News.   Continue reading “NYC Parks Department executives allegedly forced female employees to strip and pole-dance”

fire holderUSA Today – by Jonathan Turley

Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to answer questions about the administration’s sweeping surveillance of journalists with the Associated Press. In the greatest attack on the free press in decades, the Justice Department seized phone records for reporters and editors in at least three AP offices as well as its office in the House of Representatives. Holder, however, proceeded to claim absolute and blissful ignorance of the investigation, even failing to recall when or how he recused himself.   Continue reading “Fire Eric Holder: Column”

This is hilarious and pathetic. Yea, and I’m sure someone didn’t plant that on the ride for false flag/gun control propaganda purposes and I’m sure AP just happened to have heard about it in passing and reported on it. What are the chances?

So does this mean they will have TSA and radiation chambers at amusement parks now? It never ends.   Continue reading “Disney World patron finds gun on ride”

People holds a placard reading 'Bankia thieves...Forbes – by Agustino Fontevecchia

While investors across the globe applaud Bernanke and other central bankers for pushing stock markets to record highs, retail investors and savers in Spain are facing massive losses.  Markets appear to have forgotten Europe’s sovereign debt crisis and the woes in Spain: on Tuesday, new shares in nationalized financial institutionBankia began trading, closing the day at €0.57 ($0.74), marking a more than 80% drop from their floating price in 2011 when the banking group was formed.  The average Spaniard is suffering, and the situation has gotten to the point where on Sunday, a police officer stabbed a former Bankia employee four times after a heated discussion related to the sale of preferred shares in the failed banking group.   Continue reading “Spain’s Bankia Decimates Savers As Stock Plummets; Police Officer Stabs Banker Who Sold Him Shares”

Update by Rita Hutchens below.

Pro Liberate, May 12, 2013

Sandpoint, Idaho resident Rita Hutchens is an opinionated 57-year-old quilt artist whose work has earned her international notoriety. Given that Hutchens is also an outspoken proponent of constitutionalist views, it’s possible that some people have taken issue with her political opinions.   Continue reading “The Persecution of Rita Hutchens with Update”

United Liberty – by Travis Thornton

In case you missed it, Senator John McCain took the opportunity this Memorial Day to cross the Turkey-Syria border and hang out with Syrian rebels. These are the same rebels with ties to Al Qaeda. These are the same rebels cutting out and eating the hearts of dead soldiers. According to reports, Senator McCain wanted to go further into combat but was not allowed.   Continue reading “Did Senator McCain Violate NDAA by Hanging Out with Syrian Rebels?”

This photo provided by Camp Lejeune Marine Base shows Lance Cpl. Esteban J. Smith. The 23-year-old Marine died Sunday, May 26, 2013, in a gunfight with Texas authorities after a shooting rampage that left one person dead and several hospitalized. Authorities believe Smith fatally stabbed his wife, Rubi Estefania Smith of Bakersfield, Calif., in a Jacksonville, N.C., motel room near Camp Lejeune before the shooting rampage. Photo: Camp Lejeune Marine BaseYahoo News

EDEN, Texas (AP) — A man suspected in a West Texas shooting rampage that left one woman dead and five others wounded was a Marine who was wanted for questioning in a slaying in North Carolina, officials said Monday.

The rampage Sunday morning ended when Esteban J. Smith, 23, of the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, N.C., died in a gunfight with an agency trooper and a state game warden, said Tom Vinger, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.   Continue reading “Officials: Gunman in Texas rampage was Marine”

Wall Street Journal – by WILLIAM MAULDIN

WASHINGTON—The purchase of Smithfield Foods Inc. SFD +29.23% by China’s Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. is unlikely to face serious opposition from the U.S. committee that reviews foreign acquisitions, according to former U.S. officials and trade experts.

In announcing their proposed combination Wednesday, the companies said the $4.7 billion deal is subject to approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS. Continue reading “U.S. Expected to Clear China Firm’s Smithfield Purchase”

On May 4, 2013, Israeli warplanes launch unprovoked attack on Syrian military as Syrian government forces reach the final stages of repelling US Israeli Al Qaeda mercenary invasion into that country.

On May 5, 2013, Israeli warplanes again launch an unprovoked airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus as allegations of chemical weapons being used by the Syrian Army fails to draw the US into the conflict.   Continue reading “Commander in Chief John McCain Commits the US to World War III”

Humans are tool users, and the best tool for life and liberty preservation is a gunThe Examiner – by Kurt Hofmann

St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner has been very much caught up in the excitement about 3-D printed guns, but there is no denying that at the moment, and for the foreseeable future, printing an entire gun out of plastic is quite likely the least sensible approach for acquiring useful firepower. As a proof of concept, and as a shot across the bow of “government monopoly on force” advocates like the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), it’s perfect, but if you need to anonymously acquire a “regime change rifle” right now, don’t look for it to come out of a printer.   Continue reading “More than 10,000 80% complete AR-15 receivers already sold”

Driver's license photo of Jerry Wayne Waller, who was shot and killed by a Fort Worth police officer on May 28, 2013. (credit: Texas Department of Public Safety)CBS DFW

FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A grandfather checking on his neighbor is shot and killed by Fort Worth police. The shots rang out early Tuesday morning near Woodhaven Country Club, in east Fort Worth.

Those close to the family say the victim lived nearby and heard his neighbor’s burglar alarm. Neighbor Jerry Wayne Waller then apparently went outside to see what was going on.   Continue reading “Police Shoot & Kill Grandfather While Responding To Burglary Call”

GM cornNatural News – by Mike Adams

When it comes to protecting the public from GMOs, Hungary knows how to get the job done: set fire to the fields growing GM corn!

Although environmentalists might at first argue about the ramifications of burning so much organic matter right out in the open, the deeper truth is that genetic pollution poses a vastly more serious threat to our world, and burning GM corn is the one sure way to destroy the poisonous genetic code contained in plant tissues. In fact, I hope to see the day when the U.S. courts order the destruction of all GM corn fields across America. And I suspect that if the courts won’t rise to the occasion, the People will sooner or later find a way to get it done on their own. Think “Army of the 12 Monkeys” but with a GMO slant.   Continue reading “Hungary torches 500 hectares of GM corn to eradicate GMOs from food supply”