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Agents admit filter to screen private attorney-client emails had holes


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October 28 2015
FBI agents didn't filter out attorney email addresses, law firm Internet domain names or the names of associate attorneys and support staff when processing emails seized from the accounts of indicted St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson, according to testimony in federal court on Thursday.

And an agent on the team prosecuting Johnson said he went through a database that contained emails even before those involving at least two of Johnson's attorneys were filtered out.

The agents testified Thursday at a federal court hearing called to gather evidence about whether the prosecution had access to, or read, private emails between Johnson and his attorneys after gathering them up through a sealed search warrant.

Communications between attorneys and their clients are considered privileged in the U.S. legal system, meaning they are normally supposed to be private, so prosecutors, investigators and outside parties are not to have access to them.

But in Johnson's case, where he and three other officers in his online marketing company face charges related to bank fraud, the FBI used a May 17, 2013, search warrant to obtain emails from Johnson's Gmail accounts, including thousands between Johnson and his attorneys.

FBI Special Agent Randy Kim, who works at the agency's local computer forensics lab, said after receiving the emails from a member of the prosecution team he filtered out those that contained the names of attorneys from a list provided by another agent. But under questioning from Johnson attorney Rebecca Skordas, Kim said he filtered out emails using names only.

"So if there were email addresses associated with these individuals you didn't do a search of those addresses?" Skordas asked.

"Correct," Kim responded, answering the same way when asked about the domain names of law firms and names of others associated with those firms such as paralegals.

Skordas is expected to file a motion to dismiss the case based on assertions the team of prosecutors and investigators violated Johnson's attorney-client privilege by gathering and then having access to thousands of his emails with attorneys.

FBI Special Agent Jason Henrikson, who obtained the warrant that sought evidence of alleged witness tampering by Johnson, testified that he was aware that the search warrant would gather up all Johnson's emails from those accounts, including ones with attorneys.

Henrikson said he provided Kim with discs from Google and a list of attorneys for filtering that he had obtained from the U.S. attor

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Texas DPS says FBI agent 'accidentally shot' during investigation in Crosbyton
Posted: October 30, 2015 - 7:51am | Updated: October 30, 2015 - 12:46pm


A Lubbock-based FBI agent was accidentally shot by a member of a state law enforcement agency Thursday evening while helping apprehend a suspect during an investigation in Crosbyton.

Mike Orndorff, an FBI special agent assigned to the Lubbock Resident Agency, was part of a group

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A Halloween Trick and A Challenge To The FBI:
October 31, 2015Uncategorized

I cannot but help hearing echoes of J. Edgar Hoover. I wonder if Director Comey his reincarnation? He is sure up to Hoover’s old tricks.

In doing research for my planned book I have studied the involvement of J. Edgar Hoover in various historical moments in our country’s history. It was back in 1919 or 1920 when he was running the Justice Department’s radical bureau that he came out with a warning to all police departments in the nation that the Reds were planning major disturbances throughout our county on the 4th of July. The cities went to great lengths preparing and the day came and went and nothing unusual occurred. It was after that sanity returned to America and the Hoover’s creation known as the “Red Scare” pretty much went into the history books. Hoover, the man behind much of the scare at age 24, would go on to become director of the FBI for 48 years.
This is a preview of "A Halloween Trick and A Challenge To The FBI:". Read the whole post here

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Average Secret Service Agent Had Just 25 Minutes of Training in 2013
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By Eric Katz, Government Executive
February 13, 2015

An independent panel investigating the recent failures of the Secret Service told Congress on Thursday that agents were trained at “unacceptable” levels, drawing outrage from lawmakers who mostly agreed on the need to overhaul the agency.

The panel, which issued its initial findings in December, told members of the House Oversight and Government

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Ben Carson
Ben Carson: Egyptian pyramids were grain stores, not pharaohs' tombs

Republican presidential hopeful stands by remarks made in 1998, but criticised ‘scientists’ who he said claimed pyramids were built by ‘alien beings’

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Rightwingers push 'moral' coal only after they doomed a truly moral alternative



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Even discounting climate change, coal is less cost-effective for the developing world. A well-financed leap to renewables is the way forward
‘The much-touted idea of ‘clean coal’ has proved to be a fantasy.’
‘The much-touted idea of ‘clean coal’ has proved to be a fantasy.’ Photograph: Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images

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Around the developed world, the age of coal is drawing to a close. Coal-fired power plants are closing down just about everywhere. They are being replaced by renewables and gas-fired plants, or rendered unnecessary by improved energy efficiency. Some jurisdictions, including Ontario in Canada and Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, are already coal-free.
There is no 'moral case for coal' in Australia, just an imported PR line
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Others will follow, including whole nations like the UK, which is likely to close its last coal-fired station sometime in the 2020s. Even China, where new coal-fired power stations were opening on a weekly basis until recently, is reducing its use of coal. Many Chinese coal mines are closing, but the biggest effect has been to slash imports, down by around 30% so far this year.
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The reasons for this development are not hard to find. Rapid reductions in the burning of fossil fuels are necessary if we are to prevent catastrophic climate change. Calculations of the “carbon budget” consistent with holding global warming to 2C show that global emissions of greenhouse gases must peak by around 2025 and decline thereafter.

Of all the fossil fuels, coal is by far the worst. It is twice as carbon-intensive as gas, its main competitor in electricity generation. And, in addition to its effects on the global climate, coal is responsible for toxic emissions of mercury, sulphur dioxide and other pollutants, estimated to cause millions of deaths every year.

The much-touted idea of “clean coal” has proved to be a fantasy. Carbon capture and storage, in which the exhaust gases from coal-fired power stations are captured and sequestered underground, is hopelessly uneconomic. One hugely expensive pilot project opened in Canada last year. Many others have been abandoned, such as Zerogen in Australia, White Rose in the UK and FutureGen in the US.

The idea implicit in the moralist case for coal is that India should recapitulate the Industrial Revolution.

Even research on the technology has largely dried up. Australian “clean coal” funding, once in the billions, has slowed to a trickle. Coal is, and always will be, dirty and dangerous.
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The implication is obvious: the phasing out of fossil fuels must begin with coal. The world needs to stop opening new coal mines, and close existing mines in line with declining global use of coal.

This obvious message is not one that coal mining companies and the Australian government want to hear. Faced with the end of coal in the developed world, and even in China, they have switched to a new argument, notably propounded by Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg.

Frydenberg and others argue that we have a moral obligation to supply coal to poorer countries like India, in order that they can take the cheapest possible path to meeting their needs for more energy.

It is far from obvious that coal is in fact the cheapest source of energy for India. Large parts of the country have yet to be connected to the electricity grid, and might do better to move straight to renewables. And the health effects of burning coal, serious in developed countries, are far worse in India. Pollution from coal is estimated to kill more than 100,000 people in India each year.

These health effects could be mitigated, and many lives saved, with modern pollution control technology but that would eliminate m

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Can the Government Put a Price Tag On Your Right to Choose Your Lawyer?
Posted: 11/12/2015 11:07 am EST Updated: 2 hours ago


When, if ever, can the government effectively prevent a criminal defendant from using their legitimate assets to hire a lawyer? That's the fundamental question that the Supreme Court confronts in Luis v. United States--a question that implicates the integrity of the criminal justice system. The Court should squarely hold that the government cannot "freeze" legitimate assets a defendant needs to hire the advocate he or she believes will best represent them at trial, simply because there is probable cause to believe that the defendant has committed a crime.

In 2012, the federal government charged Sila Luis with conspiracy to commit Medicare fraud. The scope of the alleged fraud was staggering--over $45 million, stemming from claims for home health services that were neither medically necessary nor actually performed. The government invoked the Fraud Injunction Act, a federal statute that authorizes a "restraining order" against assets when a person is "alienating or disposing of property, or intends to alienate or dispose of property" that is "obtained from" or "traceable to" certain federal offenses. In such cases, § 1345(a)(2)(B) permits a court to prohibit the use of either tainted property "or property of equivalent value" before trial in order to ensure that sufficient assets are available to satisfy any judgment. But rather than just freeze the allegedly tainted property, the federal government asked the district court below to freeze all of Luis's assets, including those that were not even allegedly obtained through fraud. The district court did so.

It is highly questionable whether the Fraud injunction Act authorizes the restraint of all of Luis's assets. As an amicus brief filed by Americans for Forfeiture Reform points out, the relevant statutory provisions are written in the present tense, strongly suggesting that the statute is designed "to stop fraudulent conduct before or while it is happening." The district court, however, concluded that Luis "has alienated or disposed of property, and

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NYPD officer pleads guilty to shooting wife to death


November 17 2015



Former police officer Kevin Canty with his attorney Mark Pollard (l.) at Queens Supreme Court.

Former police officer Kevin Canty with his attorney Mark Pollard (l.) at Queens Supreme Court.

An ex-NYPD officer admitted to viciously gunning down his wife in front of their two young children because he thought she was having an affair.

Kevin Canty, 44, pleaded guilty Tuesday to hitting his wife Jessica, 40, with seven bullets as their 6 and 9-year-old children watched in horror inside t

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REALLY?!
Government Compares NSA Whistleblower to Ft. Hood Shooter, Soviet Spies

11.18.151:15 PM ET

A U.S. government espionage task force is advising its defense industry partners that whistleblowers can be as dangerous as terrorists and spies.

During a “webinar” on Tuesday, an official from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s National Insider Threat Task Force showed a PowerPoint slide with examples of “insider threats.” Thomas Drake, who exposed part of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program in 2005, is next to Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, Navy Yard killer Aaron Alexis, and FBI-agent-turned-Soviet-spy Robert Hanssen.

Not only is Drake not a murderer or spy, the government was forced to drop all 10 of the original espionage-related charges against him after he rejected numerous plea deals. Drake did plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and since leaving the NSA has actively campaigned for government transparency and accountability.

Drake told The Daily Beast that government is “still ticked that I escaped prison or any conviction as a felon, giving others hope because I kept my freedoms when under the gun after so many years — albeit at a very high professional and personal price.”

More than just sour grapes, Drake says, this kind of blacklisting is a tacit personal threat.

“Apparently I have damaged the U.S. more than the likes of Alger Hiss, the Walkers, Pollard, the Falcon and the Snowman, and even Ellsberg—none of them are listed. There is no question and it's chilling — I am on a National Threat List. And a clear warning to me with respect to the exercise of my First Amendment rights.”

“Apparently I have damaged the U.S. more than the likes of Alger Hiss.”

Patricia Larsen, an ODNI official, gave a history of “insider threats” during the webinar beginning with Daniel Ellsberg, whose copying of the Pentagon Papers she characterized as patently criminal. (Charges against Ellsberg were dropped in 1973 when it was revealed the FBI used warrantless wiretaps on him.)

The webinar was entitled “Simple Steps and Guidance to Secure Classified Networks” and is part of defense industry publication C4ISRNET’s (C4ISR is a military acronym for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence) “Thought Leadership Series,” and purported to teach participants information security skills and to familiarize them with threats to documents and networks.

Larsen emphasized that any employees and contractors who damage an entity’s reputation, be it government or business, by exposing inside information should be considered insider threats, as they “would be in the business world.”

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NRA Defends Americans From Obama’s War On Due Process
Posted by Bob Owens on November 23, 2015 at 3:59 pm

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The Obama Administration is attempting to use the Paris terrorist attacks to scare American citizens into giving up their constitutional rights.

Josh Earnest, President Obama’s Press Secretary is attempting to argue that nearly one million people who have not be charged with any crimes—including 300,000 who have no ties to any known terrorist groups at all—should be stripped of their basic constitutional due process rights in their latest scheme to undermine the rights of American citizens. The National Rifle Association quickly fired back with both barrels.

Unlike the White House’s attempts to scare American citizens into giving up their basic right to due process, the NRA then went in depth and explained why the current system works, without compromising our civil liberties.

The claim driving these media assaults on the NRA i

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Why is the largest Earth science conference still sponsored by Exxon?
Posted on 6 January 2016 by Guest Author

Ploy Achakulwisut is a PhD candidate in atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University. Ben Scandella is a PhD candidate in environmental science at MIT. Britta Voss earned a PhD in Earth science from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

“Thank You to Our Sponsors: ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell...” This was the first message to greet us upon arrival at the 2015 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting - the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists.

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AGU 2015 fall meeting “Thank you to our sponsors” board.

As aspiring and early career environmental scientists, this was a dismaying welcome, for we are immensely disturbed and angered by the well-documented complicity of these companies in climate denial and disinformation. For example, recent investigative journalism has shed light on the fact that ExxonMobil,informed by their in-house scientists, has known about the devastating global warming effects of fossil fuel burning since the late 1970s, but spent the next decades funding disinformation campaigns to confuse the public, slander scientists, and sabotage science - the very science conducted by thousands of AGU members. Even today, ExxonMobil and Chevron continue to fund the American Legislative Exchange Council, a lobbying group that routinely misrepresents climate science to US state legislators and attempts to block pro-renewable energy policies.

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Latest data shows cooling Sun, warming Earth
Posted on 5 January 2016 by MarkR

Lots of studies into the Sun-climate link have reported that recent changes in the heat output by the Sun are simply too small to explain much of the recent global warming. Even 5 years ago it was clear that Earth's temperature isn't tracking solar activity very well.

And now including data up to 2015, that pattern is even clearer. In each case the 2015 result is based on slightly incomplete data: up to end-November for temperature and mid-October for solar activity. It shows that in the 5 years since we first published a version of the figure below, Earth's surface has continued to warm despite declining solar activity.

Temperature versus solar activity with PMOD

Data sources: temperature, solar activity pre-1978, solar activity 1978-onwards.

The temperature record is from NASA and the solar heat output arriving at the top of Earth's atmosphere, the "Total Solar Irradiance" comes from two sources. From 1978 we have satellite measurements, in this case from PMOD (data here). Before that, the heat output was not measured directly, but instead it has to be estimated from measurements of sunspots, which look something like this.

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January 25, 2016
Stock Buybacks and the Wall Street Sharktank: “A Whole Lotta Stealin’ Goin’ On”


Let’s say you lend your brother-in-law, Pauli, 5,000-bucks so he can get his fledgling construction business off-the-ground. Then, you find out a week later that ‘good-old Pauli’ has shot the wad playing the horses at Long-acres and buying cocktails for his loafer-friends at Matt’s Mad Dog tavern? Would you feel like you’d been ripped off?

Sure you would. But when some slick corporate fraudster pulls the same scam, no one even raises an eyebrow.

What am I talking about?

I’m talking about the way that corporate bosses are allowed to take the hard-earned money from Mom and Pop investors and divide it among their freeloading shareholder friends via stock buybacks. You see, buybacks

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Shootings and racist messages prompt DoJ inquiry into San Francisco police



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Major Wildfire Outbreak in Central and Western Africa as Drought, Hunger Grow More Widespread
The major news organizations haven’t picked it up yet, but there’s a massive wildfire outbreak now ongoing over Central and Western Africa. These wildfires are plainly visible in the NASA/MODIS satellite shot — covering about a 1,400 mile swath stretching from the Ivory Coast, through Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon and on across the Central African Republic, the Congo, and Gabon.



(Very large wildfire outbreak in Central Africa in the February 10 LANCE-MODIS satellite shot. For reference, bottom edge of frame covers about 350 miles. Image source: LANCE MODIS.)

Smoke from these fires is extremely widespread — stretching over almost all of Western and Central Africa, blanketing parts of Southern Africa and ghosting on out over the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Together with these massive fires we have what appears to be a rather significant CO2 plume showing up in the Coperinicus monitoring system (see below). It’s a signature reminiscent of the amazing Indonesian wildfires that, during a few weeks of the Fall of 2015, matched the CO2 emission of Germany. The satellite representation of these fires is so strong that it’s difficult to believe that no news of the fires has hit the mainstream media. But, so far, there hasn’t even been a peep.

The intensely burning fires now rage across a region of Africa experiencing both severe heat and drought with temperatures hitting well over 40 C in Nigeria and over 36 C throughout the broader region today. An extreme heatwave occurring in tandem with a new kind of flash drought event that’s becoming more and more common as human fossil fuel emissions keep forcing the world into higher and higher temperatures ranges.



(The Copernicus CO2 monitor shows an intense CO2 plum issuing from very intense wildfires over Central and Western Africa on Wednesday, February 10th. Other CO2 hotspots include China, the Northeast US, Northern South America, Southeast Asia, and a region stretching from Siberia through to the Arctic. It’s worth noting that Northern Hemisphere CO2 levels now range from 400 to 414 parts per million. Image source: CAMS CO2 Monitoring.)

Central Africa is but the most recent region to feel the effects of extreme drought and related risks to food security. For through 2015 and on into early 2016, both drought and hunger grew in scope and intensity across Africa. An impact that is almost certainly related to the combined influences of a near record El Nino and global average temperatures that are now in the range of 1.1 degrees Celsius hotter those seen at the end of the 19th Century.

El Nino + Global Warming’s Impact on African Drought Risk

As a human-forced heating of the globe warms the world’s airs and waters, the rate of evaporation and precipitation intensifies. On the wet end of the spectrum, the added heat and atmospheric moisture provides more available energy for storms. But on the dry end, droughts can appear more rapidly, become more intense and, in many cases, become longer-lasting. Effects can generate entirely new weather patterns — as seen in increasing instances of heat and drought appearing over the US Southwest or the progressively more stormy conditions showing up over the North Atlantic. Or they can intensify an already prevailing pattern.



(Large sections of Africa suffering from severe drought as of February 7th in the Africa Flood and Drought Monitor graphic above. Widespread areas in red show soil moisture levels hitting their lowest possible rating in the monitor over widespread regions during recent days.)

In the case of the latter, it appears that just such an event may be happening now across Africa. During typical strong El Nino years, heat and drought were already at risk of intensifying — particularly for regions of Southern and Eastern Africa. But now, with global temperatures 1.1 C hotter than those seen during the late 19th Century, the drought risk is amplified. Added average atmospheric heat sets base conditions in which water evaporates from the soil more rapidly — so a pattern that would typically result in drought risk becomes far more intense and dangerous.

Over the past year, intense drought has impacted widespread regions across eastern and southern Africa. Sections of South Africa experienced its lowest levels of rainfall since record-keeping began in 1904 even as widespread drought from the Horn of Africa and regions south and westward put millions at risk of a growing hunger crisis.

Hunger Crisis Spreads, Fear of Famine Grows

According to The World Food Program and a February 10 report from VICE News, the widespread and growing drought is taking its toll. Skyrocketing local food prices, mass displacement due to political instability, and failed crops due to the driest conditions in 35 to 111 years are all having an impact. Now, more than 20 million people are at risk of hunger across Africa.

In Zimbabwe, President Mugabe declared a state of emergency as more than a quarter of the 13 million population struggled to access food. Many families were reported to have gone more than a week without a meal amidst heightening concerns over potential food riots. In Somalia, more than 3.7 million people faced acute food insecurity even as 58,000 children were at risk of dying during 2016 due to lack of food. Nearly 10 million people in Sudan were reported at risk of going hungry even as 40,000 were identified as potential immediate casualties due to the growing crisis. In Ethiopia, massive livestock losses due to drought are resulting in the worst food crisis since 1984 — a year that saw an estimated 1 million die due to famine.



(A food emergency — shown in red — emerges in East Africa even as food crises erupt across Central and Southern Africa. Food emergency regions indicated in red on this map are just one level below famine. Image source: Famine Early Warning System.)

Meanwhile, according to the Famine Early Warning System, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Yemen, Zambia, Mozambique and Madagascar all faced potential food crises through March. Risk of hunger is also compounded by a large number of displaced persons throughout Africa with East Africa alone hosting over 5.1 million refugees across South Sudan, Burundi, and Yemen.

Rain patterns are expected to shift eastward, bringing some relief to sections of the Horn of Africa even as drought is predicted to expand into the regions of Central Africa now experiencing intense wildfires.

Links:

LANCE MODIS

Famine Early Warning System

The World Food Program

VICE News

South Africa Experiences Its Lowest Rainfall Levels in 111 Years

CAMS CO2 Monitoring

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Speaking of candidates. Here’s a little Hillary trivia for the readers:


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DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?



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He is Edward “Ed” Mezvinsky, born January 17, 1937. Then you’ll probably say, “Who is Ed Mezvinsky?”

Well, he is a former Democrat congressman who represented Iowa’s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977.

He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon.

He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to politics and the nation and should be impeached.

He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for many years.

Ed Mezvinsky had an affair with NBC News reporter Marjorie Sue Margolies and later married her after his wife divorced him.

In 1993, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, then a freshman Democrat in Congress, cast the deciding vote that got President Bill Clinton’s controversial tax package through the House of Representatives.

In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 counts of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.

Ed Mezvinsky embezzled more than $10 million dollars from people via both a Ponzi scheme and the notorious Nigerian e-mail scams.

He was found guilty and sentenced to 80 months in federal prison.

After serving less than five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008 and remains on federal probation.

To this day, he still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims.

About now you are saying, “So what!”

Well, this is Marc and Chelsea Mezvinsky.



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That’s right; Ed Mezvinsky is Chelsea Clinton’s father-in law.

Now Marc and Chelsea are in their early thirties and purchased a 10.5 million dollar NYC apartment (after being married in George Soros’ mansion).

Has anyone heard mention of any of this in any of the media?

If this guy was Jenna or Barbara Bush’s, or better yet, Sarah Palin’s daughter’s father-in- law, the news would be an everyday headline and every detail would be reported

over and over.

And yet say there are no double standards in political reporting.

And people are already talking about Hillarious as our next President!

And then there is possibly Chelsea for president in our future!

Chelsea Clinton earned $600,000 a year when working for NBC and now works for the Clinton Foundation and sits on many boards.

The cycle never ends!

Lying and corruption seem to make some candidates more popular.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~~ Thomas Jefferson

“ America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” ~ ~Abraham Lincoln

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Saturday, 26 March 2016
BRUSSELS; CIA MOSSAD FALSE FLAG INSIDE-JOBS; GLADIO

Salah Abdeslam, or a Mossad body double.

Salah Abdeslam is alleged to be a planner of the 22 March 2016 attack in Brussels.

Salah Abdeslam was allegedly involved in the Paris Attack of 13 November 2015.

While Salah Abdeslam was on the run, he was stopped and let go by police, 3 times.

Salah

On 7 December 2015, a Belgian police officer told his bosses exactly where Salah Abdeslam was living - at 79 rue des Quatre Vents, Molenbeek, in Brussels.

dailymail

It was not until 18 March 2016 that 'Salah Abdeslam was arrested' at 79 rue des Quatre Vents.


The arrest of the man said to be Salah Abdeslam

'Salah Abdeslam was questioned for only one hour in the four days before the Brussels massacre.'

Israeli daily Ha’aretz revealed that Belgian intelligence had precise information on when the attacks would occur and what their targets would be.


Theresa May (responsible for MI5) and Jan Jambon (responsible for the Belgian security services)

The conclusion must be that certain security services organised both the Paris and Brussels attacks.

Salah Abdeslam would be the ideal recruit for the security services, as he drank alcohol and worked as a boy prostitute.

Certain security services are alleged to be heavily involved in the trade in child sex slaves, guns and heroin.

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American wreckage

“Buckle up, America. The voting demolition derby that was the New York primary on Tuesday was merely the crash test for the coming voting wreckage in November: a carefully planned pile up…..”

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automated death
May 14, 2016 Uncategorized “shadow work”, artificially intelligent autonomous weapon systems, automated death, automation, conversation, existential implications, Facebook, intention gone awry, Internet of Things, Nafeez Ahmed, social robots, targeting, The Terminator, Twitter
automated death

You thought torture was over the top?

“An unclassified 2016 Department of Defense (DoD) document, the Human Systems Roadmap Review, reveals that the US military plans to create artificially intelligent (AI) autonomous weapon systems, which will use predictive social media analytics to make decisions on lethal force with minimal human involvement.

Despite official insistence that humans will retain a “meaningful” degree of control over autonomous weapon systems, this and other Pentagon documents dated from 2015 to 2016 confirm that US military planners are already developing

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First 7 Students Graduate with Newly Created Minor in Homeland Security

The College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the State University of New York in Albany.



The first seven students graduated with a newly created minor in homeland security and other emergency fields at a New York state college, the Washington Times reports.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the students may play an important role in responding to emergencies that range from terrorism to extreme weather.

The first academic year at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the State

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Nichols says bombing was FBI op
Detailed confession filed in S.L. about Oklahoma City plo

Published: Wed, Feb. 21, 2007, 12:00 a.m. MST



The only surviving convicted criminal in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is saying his co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, told him he was taking orders from a top FBI official in orchestrating the bombing.

A declaration from Terry Lynn Nichols, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, has proven to be one of the most detailed confessions by Nichols to date about his involvement in the bombing as well as the involvement of others. However, one congressman who has investigated the bombings remains skeptical of Nichols' claims.


The declaration was filed as part of Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue's pending wrongful death suit against the government for the death of his brother in a federal corrections facility in Oklahoma City. Trentadue claims his brother was killed during an interrogation by FBI agents when agents mistook his brother for a suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.

The most shocking allegation in the 19-page signed declaration is Nichols' assertion that the whole bombing plot was an FBI operation and that McVeigh let slip during a bout of anger that he was taking instruction from former FBI official Larry Potts.

Potts was no stranger to anti-government confrontations, having been the lead FBI agent at Ruby Ridge in 1992, which led to the shooting death of Vicki

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Police Have A New One: Caretaking An Autistic Patient While Black
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Police Have A New One: Caretaking An Autistic Patient While Black
byAbby Zimet, staff writer

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Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump belong in prison.


news from the whisper stream



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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
The Moral Majority is Dead


The Moral Majority was founded in 1979 by Baptist televangelist Jerry Falwell and conservative political activist Paul Weyrich. Falwell moved against the traditional Baptist separation of religion and politics, because he said he was concerned about the moral decay of America. Eventually the organization was incorporated into a larger conservative Christian group, the Liberty Foundation, and officially disbanded in 1989. Falwell proclaimed, “Our goal has been achieved…The religious right is solidly in place and … religious conservatives in America are now in for the duration.”

Falwell was hardly a model for modern American politics. He blamed the 9-11 attacks on domestic political opponents. "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'" Pat Robertson said he completely agreed with Falwell. Falwell said that the AIDS epidemic was “God's punishment for homosexuals”, one of this major themes. In 1977, he asserted, “so-called gay folks would just as soon kill you as look at you.” He predicted in 1999 that the Antichrist would arrive within ten years and “of course he'll be Jewish”.

The so-called Moral Majority themselves were never what they claimed to be. Conservative Protestants are more likely to divorce than other Americans. Evangelical teenagers are more likely to have premarital sex than other Christians or Jews. Women are more likely to be killed by men in the conservative South than anywhere else. Like Falwell himself, the so-called moral majority were less concerned with morality than with promoting conservative politics by attacking liberals.

Now the moralists of the right are confronted by a conservative candidate who is anything but moral. Trump had an extramarital affair with Marla Maples before his divorce from Ivana Trump. He had little to do with his daughter with Maples. Trump’s public life in business and politics models the opposite of the Golden Rule – do unto others only that which benefits me.

Yet Trump has been treated as a hero by Falwell’s Liberty University, and Falwell’s son compared Trump to his father. Trump defeated his Republican rivals by winning among evangelical voters.

There is little new here. Newt Gingrich was popular with Christian conservatives in the 2012 campaign. Yet he had multiple affairs. After cheating on his first wife, he brought up divorce proceedings to her while she was in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He cheated on his second wife while he was trying to get Bill Clinton impeached for his behavior with Monica Lewinsky and proclaiming the importance of “family values”.

Leaders of the Christian right are divided about Trump. A number have pointed out his moral failings in the starkest terms. The Christian Post, which had never taken a position on a political candidate, editorialized in February that Trump is “a misogynist and philanderer”, who prefers “insults, obscenities and untruths”, whose “questionable business practices” have defrauded working Americans, and who is “unfit to be president.”

Russell Moore, public policy spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention, wrote in February about Trump’s “spewing of profanities in campaign speeches, race-baiting and courting white supremacists, boasting of adulterous affairs, debauching public morality and justice through the casino and pornography industries.”

In May, the two warring wings of Republican religious conservatism wrote conflicting messages to their national constituencies. A long list of Christian church leaders used an open letter to detail Trump’s offenses against morality, and said, “Donald Trump directly promotes racial and religious bigotry, disrespects the dignity of women, harms civil public discourse, offends moral decency, and seeks to manipulate religion.”

David Lane, the leader of the American Renewal organization, wrote an email to 100,000 pastors supporting Trump. Lane’s message was not about morality, but politics, focusing on “political correctness” and the danger of progressives on the Supreme Court. Lane’s email showed the confusion of the religious right. He prophesied that “Donald Trump can be one of the top four presidents in American history”, but admitted that “I don't have a clue” about what Trump will actually do.

Religion and politics don’t mix well. The claim that conservatism was inherently more moral than liberalism was always merely another political argument. Now that Donald Trump has forced conservatives to choose between moral behavior and political convenience, most Republicans, voters and political leaders, have shelved their moral consciences in favor of their politics. The Moral Majority is dead because it never really existed.

Steve Hochstadt
Jacksonville IL
Published in the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, July 12, 2016

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Tim Kaine’s Unlikely Biography
Posted on July 31, 2016 by Daniel Hopsicker
Tim Kaine isn’t shy about trading on his year in Honduras as a Catholic missionary.

Accepting the V.P. nomination, he said, “My faith  is my North Star for orienting my life.” He had gone to a Jesuit high school, he explained, with the motto “men for others.” It led him to volunteer as a missionary in Honduras.




“Aprendí los valores de mi pueblo: fe, familia y trabajo. Los mismos valores de la comunidad latina aquí”—I learned the values of my town: faith, family and work. The same values of the Latino community here.”

It’s a story he’s been telling a long time.

While running for the Senate in Virginia, Kaine aired radio ads detailing his experience as a missionary. He became the first U.S. senator to deliver




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Secret Service Corruption



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A stay-at-home home in Dallas forked over $100,000 in legal fees for thousands of Secret Service records that “expose a culture of corruption,” The Dallas Morning News reports. 

Malia Litman filed 89 request for records, and the information she received was shocking.

Here are some of the highlights, as reported by the Dallas Morning News:

A culture of “wheels up; rings off” meant even married agents could party on

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Teens accused of breaking into cars, stealing guns from FBI agent
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Police arrested teens they believe to be part of a car burglary ring.
They said the teens stole guns from an FBI agent.
They said there may be as many as 15 teens involved in the ring.
 


Tulsa police arrested three teens over the weekend accused of going on a major crime spree involving multiple cities.

The suspects are between the ages of 15 and 16.

Tulsa police detectives say the suspects admitted to breaking into cars often.

They said they go out around three times per week and break-into multiple cars during those times.

Because of that, Tulsa police say they suspect the teens in multiple car break-ins, but they can only prove one for now.

Detectives say the teens broke into a FBI agent’s car Friday night while they were in Bixby and stole multiple guns.

After that, police say, the group came back to Tulsa where they reportedly used the agent’s guns to victimize other people.

Detectives say they tried to rob a couple who were at Zinc Park near 31st and Trenton.

The group then went to the 61st and Mingo area where they allegedly robbed a pedestrian at gunpoint.

Not long after, a Tulsa police officer

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Accused Anarchist Can See More of His FBI File
Courthouse News Service-


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In 2011, Jeffrey Labow learned that an FBI agent had identified him as an anarchist extremist in its investigation of anarchists protesting a


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FBI Uses 930 Club to Train for Active Shooting Situations
NBC4 Washington-

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The FBI used a well-known Washington, D.C., nightclub as a training spot in an effort to better respond to active shooter situations. Heavily-armed agents and


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Affidavit: FBI agent told gunman to 'Tear up Texas' before 2015 art ...
cleveland.com-

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CLEVELAND, Ohio — More than a week before two gunmen opened fire in a controversial art exhibit in a Dallas suburb, an undercover FBI agent apparently ...



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Louisiana police officer convicted for lying to FBI in civil rights case
Willie Fred Knowles pleaded guilty and faces five years in prison for pushing and hitting woman, and lying to FBI about use of force in incident

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FISA Court Says FBI Must Review Its NSL Gag Orders Every Three ...
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After some in camera presentations to the FISA court, along with some discussion between the NSL recipient and the FBI, it was agreed that the gag orders ...


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Police will be required to report officer-involved deaths under new ...
The Guardian-

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The methodology of the new system, which aims to replace a discredited count by the FBI, mirrors that of The Counted, an ongoing Guardian effort to document ...

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Will DNC Email Hacking Make Legislators More Friendly To ...
Techdirt


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The proposed Rule 41 changes will likely slide on through at the end of this year, allowing the FBI to break into computers all over the world. Another solution ...


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702 shootings by Chicago police, zero federal civil rights charges ...
Chicago Tribune-


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To many, the FBI — and, with it, the U.S. attorney's office — are law enforcement agencies of last resort, federal authorities to whom victims of police abuse or ...


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The Many Lies of FBI Agent Robert Fitzpatrick Exposed: Part One
August 8, 2016Uncategorized
Robert Fitzpatrick who was the assistant agent in charge (ASAC) of the Boston FBI Office was sentenced on Friday to two years probation. It seems sort of silly putting him on probation. I know he had to be sentenced so why not give him a small fine and send him on his way. The point was made. He lied about some very important things.

The judge at the sentencing hearing said: “Mr. Fitzpatrick has earned his punishment; he perhaps earned more. I don’t pretend to understand how he got into this position, but he is here; he admitted to the crime.”

That he pleaded guilty to these charges makes it easy to understand. Fitzpatrick had created a fiction as the one honest FBI man. He did this even though he betrayed his highest obligation as an

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These 25 Cities Are Warming the Fastest
We analyze what cities in the U.S. have warmed the most in the last 50 years, both nationally and regionally.…

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'The Mother of All Risks': Insurance Giants Call on G20 to Stop Bankrolling Fossil Fuels
Multinational firms managing $1.2tn in assets declare subsidies for coal, oil, and gas 'simply unsustainable'



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An aerial photograph of Baton Rouge, Louisiana after historic flooding destroyed much of the city, August 18, 2016. (Photo: Thomas Cizauskas/cc/flickr)
Warning that climate change amounts to the "mother of all risks," three of the world's biggest insurance companies this week are demanding that G20 countries stop bankrolling the fossil fuels industry.

Multi-national insurance giants Aviva, Aegon, and Amlin, which together manage $1.2tn in assets, released a statement Tuesday calling on the leaders of the world's biggest economies to commit to ending coal, oil, and gas subsidies within four years.

"Climate change in particular represents the mother of all risks—to business and to society as a whole. And that risk is magnified by the way in which fossil fuel subsidies distort the energy market," said Aviva CEO Mark Wilson. "These subsidies are s