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examiner.com

November 22, 2013

An internal memo within the Department of Justice (DOJ) has surfaced which confirms that the Obama administration had plans for gun registration and confiscation in the aftermath of the Newtown school shooting.

According to Bob Owens, the NRA obtained the memo in February. But apparently there were questions as to the veracity of the information. Owens says that the existence of the memo, and its outline of a plan for gun registration and confiscation, can now be confirmed. The document, which can be viewed here, was not released to the public via the news media.

RT

November 14, 2013

On a mission to detect untrustworthy employees, nearly 30 government agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans, many of whom had no ties to the federal government.

A list of 4,904 people was created by US officials investigating two men for allegedly teaching people how to pass polygraph tests. This list was shared with agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, the CIA, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Security Agency (NSA), who then entered the names in their database. They are keeping the list in the event that one of the flagged individuals submits to a lie detector test for a federal job. As McClatchy reports, however, a large number of names on the list belong to individuals who don't work for the government. Some were firefighters, nurses, police officers, Rite Aid employees, American Red Cross employees, a cancer researcher, and more.

thefreethoughtproject.com

November 11, 2013

The increase in police brutality in this country is a frightening reality. In the last decade alone the number of innocent people murdered by police has reached 5,000.

What went wrong? In the 19070's SWAT teams were estimated to be used just a few hundred times per year, now we are looking at over 40,000 military style "knock and announce" police raids a year. The police presence in this country is being turned into a military with a clearly defined enemy: anyone who questions the establishment.

RT

November 10, 2013

The US government wants Bank of America Corp to fork over $863.6 million in damages after a federal jury found it guilty of selling subprime mortgages, the defective securities largely responsible for triggering the Great Recession in 2008.

The US Justice Department argued that Countrywide, which was bought by Bank of America in 2008, committed fraud by selling shoddy home loans over a two-year period to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) designed to enhance the flow of credit to targeted sectors of the economy. The government also demanded penalties against Rebecca Mairone, a former executive at Countrywide unit who was cited in the lawsuit as having repeatedly ignored warnings about the "Hustle," otherwise known as the "High Speed Swim Lane."

realfarmacy.com

November 10, 2013

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement determined trooper Daniel Cole's "use of force" was justified.  The 267 lb trooper tasered 100 lb, 20 year old Danielle Maudsley, while in handcuffs from a ridiculously short range.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol's policy on Electric Control Devices: "Fleeing cannot be the sole reason for the deployment." and "A member should not use the device on a handcuffed prisoner..." "What were you thinking? What are you, stupid?," Cole asked after she fell to the pavement. "I can't get up," said Maudsley. "I don't want you to get up," said Cole. "I can't get up," Maudsley said again, which were the last words she spoke.

mychal-massie.com

November 9, 2013

Though I have long-held the theory that, when not in public, President Obama wears a beanie with a little propeller on top, the events that continue to unfold under his administration have convinced me I am correct and never need to see an actual photo.

There's a grab-bag of fumbled theories, failed policies, ill-conceived ideas, and nearly five years into his presidency he still comes across as a carnival barker instead of a leader or an executive, baring the reality that he is the trophy of a successful marketing campaign and nothing more than an apparition somebody, someway, somehow convinced Americans was a reality. Forget smoke and mirrors, the fact that he claims to be black instead of Muslim. This guy is pure vapor. It would be easy to take another shot at his corrupt pathology and the scandals that continue to rock him daily, or to mock appointees like Kathleen Sebelius, or the Munchkin spokes-boy Jay Carney, the criminally insane and complicit Hillary Clinton during her tenure, ordering the IRS to illegally overreach to steal an election by impeding the opposition the right to even assemble, allowing an attorney general to "investigate" himself, and an NSA that not only spies on Americans, but remains fixated on our allied leaders to such an extent that it files reports on the bathroom habits of Germany's Angela Merkel.

khou.com

November 8, 2013

Dave Wilson chuckles as he talks about his unorthodox political campaign. "I'd always said it was a long shot," Wilson says. "No, I didn't expect to win."

Still, he figured he'd have fun running, because he was fed up with what he called "all the shenanigans" at the Houston Community College System. As a conservative white Republican running in a district whose voters are overwhelmingly black Democrats, the odds seemed overwhelmingly against him. Then he came up with an idea, an advertising strategy that his opponent found "disgusting." If a white guy didn't have a chance in a mostly African-American district, Wilson would lead voters to think he's black.

youtube.com

November 8, 2013

Lisa Martinson called customer service after she forgot her password. That's when she was told three different people were given the password to her account, her address and her Social Security number. Then she was told it would take up to five days to get her personal information offline.

commentarymagazine.com

November 7, 2013

At times it seems like the sheer magnitude of bad news about ObamaCare can redound to its own benefit. It's easy for individual pieces of bad news to get lost in the sea of failure that has characterized the Obama administration's signature "achievement."

The paper reported that the Obama administration has ruled that the federal health-care program be exempted from the category of laws considered "federal health care programs." Now, this is obviously dishonest: the federal government is running insurance exchanges, funding health-care subsidies under the law, and employing federal workers to help manage the law-all of which are clearly "federal health care programs." So why would the administration choose not to label them according to observable reality? Because, as the Times explained, this decision-believe it or not-exempts ObamaCare from kickback restrictions and anti-fraud protections: The surprise decision, disclosed last week, exempts subsidized health insurance from a law that bans rebates, kickbacks, bribes and certain other financial arrangements in federal health programs, stripping law enforcement of a powerful tool used to fight fraud in other health care programs, like Medicare.

RT

November 2, 2013

High-ranking Pentagon officials told members of Congress this week that the United States is in dire need of billions of dollars' worth of upgrades to the country's arsenal of antiquated atomic warheads.

Before a meeting of the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, United States Department of Defense officials said the US must spend at least a decade working to revitalize the high-power weapons, and insisted that doing otherwise could be detrimental to the country's national security. Madelyn R. Creedon, the assistant secretary of defense for global strategic affairs, insisted to lawmakers that the US is obligated to move forward with plans to invest a tremendous amount of time and money into the program, because the repercussions of not doing so would be not worth risking. "Modernization work of this kind is expensive, but there is no doubt that the investment ... is necessary," Creedon said, according to Reuters' David Alexander.

      
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