April 11, 2011
City Council Hires Experts
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/11/city-gallop-planning-study/
City Council Votes to Research Development in Kendall, Central Squares
By Rediet T. Abebe,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Monday, April 11, 2011
Ed Koch: War On Jews Continues
March 21, 2011
The War Against the Jews Goes On
The latest Palestinian violence against Israelis, and the continuing abandonment of Israel by most of the international community, inevitably bring to mind the abandonment of the Jews during the Holocaust. Just this past week, a document emerged which raises disturbing new questions about President Franklin Roosevelt’s response to the Nazi mass murder of Europe’s Jews.
The document was brought to my attention by Dr. Rafael Medoff, a Holocaust scholar and director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, in Washington, DC. Several years ago, Dr. Medoff collaborated with me on my book “The Koch Papers: My Fight Against Anti-Semitism.” It was based on my writings and speeches about the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, during the course of my nine years in Congress and twelve as mayor of New York City.
The document which Dr. Medoff sent me last week, concerning FDR and the Holocaust, was frankly shocking. It had to do with the Allies’ occupation of North Africa, which they liberated from the Nazis in November 1942. At the time, President Roosevelt publicly pledged the Allies would do away with the anti-Jewish laws that had been in force in the region. But when FDR met in Casablanca with local government leaders in January 1943, he took a very different line. The transcript of those discussions, which Dr. Medoff cites, reveals what FDR said about the status of the 330,000 Jews living in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia: “The number of Jews engaged in the practice of the professions (law, medicine, etc) should be definitely limited to the percentage that the Jewish population in North Africa bears to the whole of the North African population...The President stated that his plan would further eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore toward the Jews in Germany, namely, that while they represented a small part of the population, over fifty percent of the lawyers, doctors, school teachers, college professors, etc., in Germany, were Jews.”
Hard to believe a president would say such a thing? Maybe, but the source is unimpeachable: the transcript appears in Foreign Relations of the United States, a multivolume series of historical documents published by the U.S. government itself. The Casablanca volume was published in 1968, but did not attract much notice at the time. Dr. Medoff has done a public service by bringing it to our attention again.
Fortunately, U.S. policy in occupied North Africa in the end did not follow FDR’s line. When it became clear that the administration was stalling on getting rid of the old anti-Jewish laws, American Jewish leaders loudly protested. (If only they had been so vocal throughout the Holocaust years!) One of the most memorable critiques came from Benzion Netanyahu --father of Israel’s current prime minister-- who in those days headed up the American wing of the Revisionist Zionist movement: “The spirit of the Swastika hovers over the Stars and Stripes,” he wrote. The protests eventually forced the White House to back down. North African Jews were gradually released from forced-labor camps and the anti-Jewish quotas and other laws were rescinded.
The American Jewish community reveres the memory of FDR. He will always be remembered and rightly so for leading us through the Great Depression and is responsible for this country not ending up in the column of fascist nations, as did Germany and Italy.
We had 25 percent unemployment in a nation of 132 million. We had Father Coughlin and Charles Lindbergh beating the drums of fascism and support of Adolf Hitler and his ideas, particularly those blaming the Jews of the world for the ills of the world. We had the German-American Bund led by Fritz Kuhn in Yorkville with signs stating “No Jews Allowed.” I saw such signs as a small boy on the beaches of Coney Island.
And, of course, FDR led us to victory in World War II. So the feelings of support for him held by much of the country’s Jewish citizens was highest then and still among the highest for his memory. To this day, Jews overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party. The Jewish community gave President Barack Obama 78 percent of its vote in the presidential election in 2008.
I appreciate FDR’s contributions to the survival of our country. At the same time, I have never forgiven him for his refusal to grant haven to the 937 Jewish passengers on the SS St. Louis, who after fleeing Nazi Germany had been turned away from Cuba and hovered off the coast of Florida. The passengers were returned to Europe, and many were ultimately murdered in the Nazi concentration camps before World War II ended. I have said that I believe he is not in heaven, but in purgatory, being punished for his abandonment of the Jews. The concept of purgatory is Catholic. I am a secular Jew, but I am a believer in God and the hereafter, and I like this Catholic concept. The Casablanca document reinforces my conviction that President Roosevelt was, at heart, not particularly sympathetic to the plight of the Jews.
Today, the war against the Jews continues. While Palestinian terrorists murder Israeli children in their beds and fire rockets into Israeli towns, the international community rages against Israel. To his credit, President Barack Obama vetoed the recent United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel--yet in the same breath, the administration spokeswoman and U.N. ambassador emphasized the U.S. agreed with the substance of that one-sided resolution. That’s no way to treat an ally.
Why can’t Jews live on the West Bank? More than one million Arabs live in Israel now, about 20 percent of its population. When Israel and the Palestinian Authority settle their differences, shouldn’t Jews be able to choose to live in the new Palestinian state as citizens, or at least resident aliens? I don’t see why not.
Of course, Israel has made mistakes in its dealings with the Palestinians. The Israelis are no less human in that respect than other nations, including ours. But the intransigence, unwillingness to compromise, is far greater on the part of the Palestinian leaders, who fear for their lives threatened by the Arab radicals, fundamentalists and terrorists. Where are the Arab voices of moderation? I don’t hear them. But I do hear the voices of those threatening the destruction of Israel, of those seeking to delegitimatize Israel at the United Nations.
Yes, the war against the Jews is still going on, 66 years after World War II. But, thank God, there is now a Jewish state that will not be cowed and will do what is necessary to protect the Jewish people.
Boston Uses Thermal Imaging
If devices exist and are sold to government officials, they be used by criminals. Police and FBI use criminals to do their unlawful acts.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/04/11/thermal-cameras-show-too-much/#comment-84537
Thermal Cameras Show Too Much?
CBS News Boston MA
April 11, 2011 2:35 PM
Skin Bleaching Raises Racial Identity Questions
Skin bleaching a growing problem in Jamaica slums
By DAVID McFADDEN
Associated Press
Mon Apr 11, 5:58 am ET
April 10, 2011
Did Psychiatric Drugs Cause Shooting in Brazil School?
"Now the questions are being asked. How did this happen? Where did the killer get his guns? And why did Wellington de Oliveira, a 23-year-old, unemployed former student of the same school, carry out his appalling rampage?"
Question that needs to be asked is, "What psychiatric drugs was he taking? In USA the drug-company-controlled FDA requires a warning on these drugs that may cause violent thoughts and suicidal thoughts. Does Brazil require such a warning? Instead of blaming guns try blaming the cause of much violence, drugs pushed by psychiatrists.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-09/brazils-school-shooting-what-happened-inside/2/
Brazil's School Shooting: What Happened Inside
by Dom Phillips
April 9, 2011
Daily Beast
Sidney Lumet Tribute, 5 Clips
5 Classic Sidney Lumet Movies
by The Daily Beast
April 9, 2011
US Judge, 103, Still Working
Apr 10, 1:58 PM EDT
Federal judge, 103, still hearing federal cases
By ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press
FBI Runs Organized Crime
The FBI now runs organized crime. The largest crime family is the witness protection program. Feds use these people to commit burglaries, to steal, to harass, and to conduct character assassination of civilians for personal and political purposes. FBI criminals are the greatest danger to safety of civilians. When will citizens realize that the government is run by criminals? Are journalists part of the problem?
[Tried again with this comment]
FBI continues to target one ethnic group on behalf of the privileged groups that run the FBI. They recruit new members for its witness protection program, the largest organized crime family in the history of the world. Protected criminals are employed by government thugs to harass, to steal from, and to assassinate the character of civilians for personal and for political purposes. Government criminals run free and are out of control. Journalists refuse to write about these egregious abuses.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/fbi_tactics_toppling_mafia_clan_lvrZ45drrP27qx0od6E2WJGoodbye Colombos!
FBI tactics toppling Mafia clan
By MITCHEL MADDUX
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:14 AM, March 28, 2011
Posted: 1:35 AM, March 28, 2011
Misguided Priorities
[Reply to post]
Your personal attacks show limited knowledge and vocabulary. Police and FBI waste resources watching and harassing civilians for political and personal reasons rather than targeting people like this serial killer. Obama sends military to Libya to protect critics of Ghadafy. Try a course in logic. It will help your reasoning ability.
[Another reply]
garydchance
You've raised a critically important point that is not sinking in with respect to innocents abused by surveillance while criminals are ignored. A key element of this has to do with economics on a personal and national scale. Those who cannot do a proper job as individuals concentrate on the innocent easy targets just like terrorists in order to fake it to make it. On the grand scale oil is at the heart of Libya not human rights. That oil is critically important to Europe and the overall world oil price. The stability sought in dictators for oil supply has been lost in Libya's Colonel Gaddafi who has gone berserk. He would destroy his own country and who knows what he would do with the oil now.
There is also an alternate government at work in the US and elsewhere hidden under the guise of intelligence, protection against terrorism, state security and law enforcement. The Washington Post exposed this last summer as Top Secret America with a revolving door between the military and civilian security activity. These people have to earn a living when they get out of the military at all levels, and they have no skills. They can carry out surveillance in conjunction with law enforcement however. What do they do? They fake it against innocents to make it and ignore the real criminals. They are fraudsters seeking to milk the system.
In a very strange and quite complex way this all fits together under greed, glory and power where those without skills can make a living and wealth by faking it. It is quite independent of the elected government and out of control by either Democrats or Republicans. I've been one of these surveillance targets in London by former US Marines who fake it to make it since February 2001. I thought Obama's election would change this. Nope. He is caught in it and cannot establish standards just as he cannot close Guatanamo since it is such a mess now. He has to go along with the alternate government created by the US military and the intelligence community.
I have the very same complaint you voiced: why aren't these efforts and sophisticated surveillance tools being used against real criminals instead of being used against the innocent by people who are criminals themselves? Going to Libya under the guise of ensuring some form of democracy results is just an option for keeping the oil supply open in the future because Gaddafi has gone off the deep end. Against his people, yes, but also against the economic interest of the West and world.
The common denominator in all of this is the abuse of power for self serving reasons which is at the heart of misuse of surveillance and even the ultimate objective for the action in Libya. Humans still operate on the basis of self interest. The question is: are we moving away from this toward altruistic motivations and objectives in a meaningful way? I don't know yet. I'll let you know if the indefinite surveillance torture abuse against me stops. There's no reason for this to be done at all.
Grim Sleeper Indicted
by Christine Pelisek
Daily Beast
March 24, 2011
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New York City Population Statistics 2010
Sidebar to this story on Page 4 of the print edition has the following population figures. New York City total according to these figures is
City Total: 8,175,133
White: 2,722,904
Non-White: 5,452,229
Bronx
Total: 1,385,108/+3.9%
White: 151,209/-21.9%
Black: 416,695/+0.09%
Asian: 47,335/+22.8%
Hispanic: 741,413/+15.0%
Other: 28,456/-
Brooklyn
Total: 2,504,700/+1.6%
White: 893,306/+4.5%
Black: 799,066/-5.8%
Asian: 260,129/+41.2%
Hispanic: 496,285/+1.7%
Other: 55,914/-
Manhattan
Total: 1,585,873/+3.2%
White: 761,493/+8.2%
Black: 205,340/-12.5%
Asian: 177,624/+24.0%
Hispanic: 403,577/-3.4%
Other: 37,839/-
Queens
Total: 2,230,722/+0.06%
White: 616,727/-15.9%
Black: 395,881/-6.4%
Asian: 508,334/+30.6%
Hispanic: 613,750/+10.3%
Other: 96,030/-
Staten Island
Total: 468,730/+5.6%
White: 300,169/-5.1%
Black: 44,313/+11.6%
Asian: 34,697/+40.0%
Hispanic: 81,051/+51.4%
Other: 8,500/-
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/feds_take_leave_of_their_census_V2COEhWeThWDCp2c27tbJJ
Feds take leave of their census
Bloomberg rips NYC diss-count
By DAVID SEIFMAN and BOB FREDERICKS
New York Post
Last Updated: 11:40 AM, March 25, 2011
Posted: 1:03 AM, March 25, 2011
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Misguided Liberal Speechifiers
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/2011_0327is_michele_the_brightest_bulb_in_gop_race/
Is Michele Bachmann the brightest bulb in GOP race?
By Margery Eagan
Boston Herald
Sunday, March 27, 2011 Updated 3 hours ago
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Dirt Bags Still Run FBI
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1326340
Old agents rally around corrupt, murderous ex-colleague John Connolly
By Howie Carr
Boston Herald
Sunday, March 27, 2011 Updated 3 hours ago
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Misguided Police Priorities
[From article]
"Santos had 14 prior arrests, for gun possession, assault, drug-dealing and auto theft. In 1999, he was sentenced to two years at Sing Sing after ramming two people with a stolen car.
His sentence was extended after he was caught with contraband in jail.
Santos' family gathered together yesterday to grieve. Jennifer Velez, 26, his longtime girlfriend and the mother of one of his four children, said he went to White Castle at 10 p.m. to pick up food.
[. . .]
Velez said Santos, who was working as a livery driver, might have been fleeing the cops because his license had expired. He was driving a car rented from an illegal livery-cab company in The Bronx, police said."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/thug_shot_dead_on_deegan_DHztEkj4qdnAnoJIAsmBFK
Cops shoot fugitive dead after harrowing chase through The Bronx
By LARRY CELONA, DOUG AUER, JENNIFER BAIN and ANNIE KARNI
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:35 AM, March 27, 2011
Posted: 12:32 AM, March 27, 2011
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Woman Admits Being Taught To Hate Jews
"You're supposed to hate Jews, you're supposed to hate America, you're supposed to hate Western culture," said Darwish, who grew up and was educated in Egypt and came to the United States in 1978.
[. . .]
"This, obviously, is her assessment how she was brought up in her life," he said. "It doesn't have anything to do with the good Muslin Americans who live in this country."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/koran_grandstand_at_security_meet_HMxHPpoP8Er9g4GP7KZepO
Koran grandstand at security meet
By DAVID SEIFMAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:05 AM, April 9, 2011
Posted: 1:19 AM, April 9, 2011
April 9, 2011
More Concerns Than Obama's Birth Credentials
"With all due respect to Donald Trump, he has not “legitimized” the eligibility issue, as the matter far exceeds the existence of the birth certificate and has adversely affected the lives of many patriotic Americans who have long fought for full disclosure of all of Obama’s records. Promising to be the “most transparent” president in history, Barack Hussein Obama is the most deliberately opaque president who has withheld many more records than his birth certificate. Not only has he withheld his records, he has fought to keep them hidden from public view, amassing legal fees that some claim to exceed a million dollars of his own money, and perhaps twice that amount if pro-bono and other legal work is counted.
[. . .]
The majority of Americans alive today do not recall the WW II postwar era beyond the revised history contained in textbooks that rarely reflect the truth of that time. Today’s well-coiffed but intellectually deficient anchors who deliver the news to ordinary Americans know little to nothing of the gritty reality of the origins of the “cold war” between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, and the infiltration of communist agents into American government. It is that very infiltration that has paved the way for Obama.
[. . .]
As painstakingly revealed by M. Stanton Evans in his extensive work Blacklisted by History, important documentation well beyond the Klaus memo relevant to exposing the level of communist infiltration into the U.S. government is not limited to government sources such as the National Archive, but also to private data sources and repositories. He lists a number of instances where records were scrubbed and consequently, created a much different and much less accurate picture of that era of U.S. history."
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/35298
The unraveling of Barry Soetoro, a/k/a Barack Hussein Obama II
Doug Hagmann & Joseph Hagmann
Canada Free Press
Friday, April 8, 2011
April 8, 2011
Limited Diversity at Harvard
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/8/assistant-hammonds-new-people/
Professors Talk Diversity In Higher Education
By Jennifer T. Soong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
Published: Friday, April 08, 2011
Judges Want More Laws?
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20110408mass_judges_want_lawmakers_to_change_wiretap_law/srvc=news&position=recent_bullet
Mass. judges want lawmakers to change wiretap law
By Associated Press
Boston Herald
Friday, April 8, 2011
April 7, 2011
Obama's Media Bribes
Obama’s Bribes to the Washington Post and CBS
by Warner Todd Huston
Apr 7th 2011 at 4:58 am
BigJournalism.com
AMGEN CEO, $21M in 2010
Amgen CEO got $21 million in 2010 compensation
Apr 7, 2011 09:26 PM US/Eastern
By ALEX VEIGA
AP Business Writer
US Rep. King Attacked As Jewish
"The rambling note accompanying the porcine parcel proclaimed that "white bitches" would soon be naming their sons Mohammed, said a Capitol Hill source.
The note contained anti-Semitic slurs, called the pig's foot a "Jew foot," taunted "kiss my black Muslim ass," and said King -- who is Catholic -- was targeted because of hearings he held on the radicalization of Muslim Americans."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/pig_poke_rep_king_threat_racist_26m3EqGxJlMq27U8tA9ClO
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/pig_poke_rep_king_threat_racist_26m3EqGxJlMq27U8tA9ClO
Pig & a poke: Rep. King threat racist, too
By S.A. MILLER Post Correspondent
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:21 AM, April 6, 2011
Posted: 3:09 AM, April 6, 2011
Harassment Caused Heart Attack
Harass caused heart attack: suit
By BRUCE GOLDING
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:06 AM, April 6, 2011
Posted: 2:18 AM, April 6, 2011
Single Parent Homes
"Most telling was the link between single-parent households and childhood poverty in the five boroughs.
[. . .]
Overall, the stats reveal a public-health crisis of today and tomorrow because too many poor children with only one parent involved never catch up. Yet Mayor Bloomberg's nanny squads duck the topic of out-of-wedlock birth and its impact on children. They'd rather focus on whether New Yorkers eat french fries instead of whether parents are condemning their children to a stunted future."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bitter_eric_gitmo_trial_tribulations_Mh68N03gm8kjRB4Yv4SoaO/0
Bitter Eric's Gitmo trial & tribulations
Michael Goodwin
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:07 AM, April 6, 2011
Posted: 1:22 AM, April 6, 2011
Holder Must Resign
Why Holder must resign
AG's contempt for democracy
By PETER KING
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:12 AM, April 7, 2011
Posted: 10:25 PM, April 6, 2011
Wi-Fi Unsafe At Any Speed
"If a fake network like ours has a stronger signal than the café's computers, the surfers would naturally gravitate towards our passage to the Internet -- and if we were actual crooks -- we could have swiped their bank account numbers, their customer IDs and their passwords."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/crooks_ply_laptop_larceny_aPg22DgJhpEiFYUOzMEVUJ
Crooks ply laptop larceny
John Crudele
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:19 AM, April 7, 2011
Posted: 12:55 AM, April 7, 2011
April 6, 2011
Psychiatry as Excuse for Violence
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/columbia_student_who_attacked_female_R5TlcPZitKMiTT1Z3rZbZP;jsessionid=75F8394E101819DDB5E3272367D5BDC8#comments
Columbia student accused of attacking female may get no-jail deal
By LAURA ITALIANO
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:04 PM, April 6, 2011
Posted: 7:59 PM, April 6, 2011
Making Crime Into a Disability
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1328690&position=0
Suits paint picture of group home violence
Boston Herald
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Spinning the Government Numbers
"How'd we get into this mess? Well, it's simple: people fell asleep when Washington started talking about the numbers.
[. . .]
If Dudley keeps this up, pretty soon Diogenes will come looking for him."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/do_the_math_us_deficit_just_don_lvfCaAnu59jx2fKMjTeYcM
Do the math: US deficit $$ just don't add up
John Crudele
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:56 AM, April 5, 2011
Posted: 1:21 AM, April 5, 2011
Computer Tampering
[From article]
"estranged doctor wife -- who has accused him of criminally accessing her e-mail account, The Post has learned.
[. . .]
charges of computer trespass, eavesdropping and unauthorized use of a computer,"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/scene_of_the_time_dzVHEyJdos8LMMowfvh9kN
Scene of the 'time'
Watch VIP a 'snoop'
By JAMIE SCHRAM, LARRY CELONA and DAN MANGAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 10:19 AM, April 5, 2011
Posted: 1:01 AM, April 5, 2011
Book Rev: Ice-T and Love
"It wasn’t the stealing that appealed to him, it was the brotherly love, something he had not experienced since his parents had passed. “Yes, the first I really heard love expressed was with the Crips. Not only heard the word ‘love’ but saw it firsthand. Saw it manifested. Saw that if you f - - - with one of us, you f - - - with all of us. That’s very enticing.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/melting_the_ice_dvfaJSpKJhXigfXCCncApO
Melting the Ice
Success turned the gangsta into a cop. But regrets? He has none
By SUSANNAH CAHALAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:35 AM, April 3, 2011
Posted: 11:53 PM, April 2, 2011
Laws Are Applied Depending on Who Gets Elected
"Auto dealer and ex-Giant tackle Brad Benson -- who gave the clergyman a car in return for a vow not to torch the holy book -- labeled him "unpatriotic."
When George Bush was President the ACLU handed out buttons saying "Dissent is Patriotic." Is patriotism and dissent dependent upon who is President? Do all laws include application dependent on what politicians run the government? I know that Massachusetts applies laws that way but the ACLU too? What is the world coming to?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/more_koran_chaos_DSRPJKLNPNeRcj3jy9yV4N
More Koran chaos
10 slain over Fla. burning
By JENNIFER BAIN and CATHY BURKE
With POST WIRE SERVICES
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:46 AM, April 3, 2011
Posted: 12:42 AM, April 3, 2011
April 5, 2011
US Officials Scare Free Speech Advocates
Fired up over nothing
Book burning neither illegal nor interesting
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
April 4, 2011
Police, FBI and Crime Families Work Together
In 1973 government psychiatrists working at Harvard University drugged me using hallucinogens for 80 consecutive days. I was not a patient of any physician, nor did I volunteer for any human experiments. This was done because someone at Harvard believed that I was a spy. For two years I was unable to function. For 15 years the FBI used me to fight organized crime. They never paid me one cent. They did broadcast many false and defamatory allegations repeated for 35 years. The allegations were used by local police and the crime families who work with them to justify punishing me over and over again and again for the allegations. In 1988 the FBI abandoned me to two of their criminals in the witness protection program trying to get me to change my name and join them.
For 30 years these two FBI criminals (who said they were my friends) were highly paid by government criminals covering up what they did to me. Among the charming things they said about me was that I was a retired drug dealer. The FBI stirred up racial animosity, which was believed and acted on by no less than city officials, Harvard University professors, their campus cops and administrators.
At the same time other crime families and their police associates conducted total 24/7 surveillance, sleep deprivation, and brutal criminal harassment as I did errands and tried to create video productions. Tampering with my computer (second only to criminal psychiatric abuses) is a favored form of criminal harassment. This is one of many felonies committed by police criminals who work for Harvard and the local city government. The State of MA is run by one organized crime family and it explains why the state is so corrupt. In NYC there are 5 families who compete with each other and effectively keep each other honest. The NYPD has a few honest cops unlike the state of MA and the FBI.
[More to come]
Perverts Worshipped in Contemporary USA
[From article]
"David Patrick Columbia, founder of New York Social Diary. "The only thing that gets you shunned in New York society is poverty."
"In the Midwest, where I am from, he would be a social pariah," says Lorna Brett Howard, a political activist and wife of Irving Post Capital CEO and Aeropostale director John Howard. "What I see here is if you have big money or are famous then you get a pass."
[. . .]
"I and many others that know him describe him as brilliant," says Siegal. "His unique mind is what attracts the world's smartest people to his home."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-01/bill-clinton-katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsC2
Jeffrey Epstein's Society Friends Close Ranks
by Alexandra Wolfe
Daily Beast
April 1, 2011
Charity Fraud
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-03/madonnas-kabbalah-disaster-in-malawi-1/
Madonna's Kabbalah Disaster in Malawi
by The Daily Beast
April 3, 2011
Fake Harvard Test For Gambling Addiction
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-03/gambling-addiction-harvards-new-diagnostic-tool/
Are You a Gambling Addict?
by Kate Dailey
Daily Beast
April 3, 2011
Hackers Continue Attacks on Corporate Data
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110403/bs_nm/us_citi_capitalone_data
More customers exposed as big data breach grows
By Jonathan Spicer and Maria Aspan Jonathan Spicer And Maria Aspan
Sun Apr 3, 7:27 pm ET
Reuters
April 3, 2011
Ads Opposed by CAIR In Detroit Legal
"SMART was saying that our ads offering help to those threatened for leaving Islam were political. They were effectively admitting that Islam was political -- an admission that had immense implications (far beyond, I'm sure, what Detroit imagined). If Islam is political, it ought to be subject to the restrictions and scrutiny to which all political entities in the U.S. are subject. This could open the door to a reevaluation of the unthinking assumption that Islam is simply a religion like Judaism or Christianity, and transform anti-terror efforts that are now hamstrung by the all-too-common idea that all that goes on in mosques is purely "religious."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/04/a_victory_for_free_speech_and.html
April 03, 2011
A Victory for Free Speech and Free People
Pamela Geller
American Thinker
UN, Obama Blame Israel, Defend Islamic Terrorists
"The OIC is successfully conning members of our government and liberal Americans into fixating on the so-called problem of Islamophobia. Never mind that the latest FBI hate crime statistics show that Jews were the targets of 71.9% of all religious hate crimes reported in the U.S. While hate crimes against Muslims was at 8.4%. Despite such statistics Democrats are clamoring to show their concern over the "spike" in anti-Muslim bigotry. Senate Majority Whip, Richard Durbin opened hearings this week regarding the "problem" of Islamophobia in America by saying, "Today, addressing anti-Muslim discrimination is an important civil rights issue of our time."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/the_organization_of_the_islami.html
April 03, 2011
The Organization of the Islamic Conference Propaganda Machine
By Camie Davis
American Thinker
April 2, 2011
NATO At Harvard
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/1/richardson-nuclear-libya-iop/
Bill Richardson Discusses Libya
By Monica M. Dodge,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Friday, April 01, 2011
Fake Labor Statistics
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/unemployment-drops-to-88-percent/relief/?cid=cs:comments3#commentarea
Unemployment Drops to 8.8 Percent
Associated Press
Daily Beast
April 1, 2011
Unions Threaten Think Tank
http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2011/04/01/think-tank-receives-death-threats-over-labor-related-foia-request-to-universities/
[From article]
Think Tank Receives Death Threats Over Labor-Related FOIA Request to Universities
by Liberty Chick
BigGovernment.com
April 1, 2011
Incompetano Thwarts FOIA Requests
Investigations Find ‘Unprecedented’ Political Review of FOIA Requests by Homeland Security Department
Friday, April 01, 2011
By Fred Lucas
CNSNews.com
April 1, 2011
Sports As a Diversion
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/3/31/baseball-league-sports-howard/
Panel Discusses the Role of Sports in Society
By Claire K. Dailey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Disability At Harvard
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/1/disability-housing-disabled-color/
Disability, Race Discussed
By Linda M. Buehler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
Friday, April 01, 2011
Who Laughs?
[From article]
“Intelligence is significantly lacking if humor is absent; we would make significantly more mistakes without it,” Hurley argued in an interview. People are right to use a sense of humor as a sign of intelligence."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-31/april-fools-day-the-neuroscience-of-humor/
The Neuroscience of Humor
by Sharon Begley
Daily Beast
March 31, 2011
Harvard Construction Co. Pays $20M For Minority Hiring Scam
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/construction_giant_skanska_to_pay_9cvd2ICENmAT75HFqgdxtM
Construction giant Skanska to pay nearly $20M in minority-hiring scam
By BRUCE GOLDING and TOM NAMAKO
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:37 PM, March 31, 2011
Posted: 4:37 PM, March 31, 2011
March 31, 2011
US Government Is Run By and For Upper Class Elitists
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/mar/31/breaking-does-office-civil-rights-investigate-yale/
BREAKING: DOE's Office for Civil Rights to investigate Yale for "hostile sexual environment"
By Jordi Gassó
Yale Daily News
March 31, 2011 at 4:46 p.m.
updated March 31, 2011 at 4:54 p.m.
Obama Secretly Sends CIA to Identify the Libyan Rebels
[From article]
"If CIA paramilitary operatives were linked up with rebel leaders, “we’d be providing the intelligence on the location of the bad guys and saying, ‘Don’t you realize they’re just down the road here, and you’re going to get whacked if you go too far?’ ” said a U.S. official with access to intelligence on the fighting in Libya. “These guys don’t seem to be following any common-sense military advice.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-libya-cia-is-gathering-intelligence-on-rebels/2011/03/30/AFLyb25B_story.html
In Libya, CIA is gathering intelligence on rebels
Washington Post
By Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller,
Wednesday, March 30, 9:32 PM
Obama Signs Order Allowing CIA Into Libya
Libya: Barack Obama 'signed order for CIA to help rebels'
Barack Obama signed a secret order authorising covert US government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, according to government officials.
Telegraph (UK)
10:08PM BST 30 Mar 2011
Mohammed Uncovered
Wilders: ‘It’s Time to Unmask Mohammed’
Posted by Diana West
Mar 30th 2011 at 1:46 pm
BigPeace.com
Obama Contradicts Himself Again
"Barack Obama, as an Illinois state senator in 2002, said that using military force to topple a murderous dictator amounted to a “dumb war” and should be opposed."
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-2002-toppling-brutal-dictator-dumb
Obama in 2002: Toppling Brutal Dictator a ‘Dumb War’
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
By Matt Cover
CNSnews.com
March 30, 2011
Man Shot Sunday, Big Pot Bust Wednesday
"The hip-hop DJ murdered near his Staten Island home over the weekend was out on a pot-buying run and talking to a pal on the phone when he was gunned down, law-enforcement sources revealed yesterday.
Corey McGriff, a k a DJ Megatron, was chatting with a friend, telling him he was buying marijuana, at 2 a.m. Sunday when the line suddenly went dead, a source said." [See link below]
Any connection?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cops_bust_pot_ring_E69jaR1pD6vSkwZANDCBAN
Cops arrest 16 people in $8M marijuana ring
By LARRY CELONA
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:06 PM, March 30, 2011
Posted: 10:11 AM, March 30, 2011
* * *
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/staten_island/dj_slain_scoring_pot_cops_s7jY2QAmhreMPzw0VO0EVI
DJ slain scoring pot: cops
By IKIMULISA LIVINGSTON and JAMIE SCHRAM
New York Post
Last Updated: 10:15 AM, March 29, 2011
Posted: 2:16 AM, March 29, 2011
Marines and Sailors Headed for Libya
Lejeune Marines prepare to deploy off Libyan coast
Shae Crisson
ABC News Raleigh-Durham NC
March 28, 2011
Dwight Eisenhower on NATO
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news%2Flocal&id=8039326
No ground troops?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/perplexed_over_saber_prattling_KTGY1TLtuWye2zzfwUF0gP
Perplexed over saber 'prattling'
Michael Goodwin
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:52 AM, March 30, 2011
Posted: 1:24 AM, March 30, 2011
Anti Semitism From Roseanne Barr
http://bigjournalism.com/huffwatcher/2011/03/29/huffpocracy-watch-huffpos-history-of-uncivil-discourse/
HuffPocracy Watch: HuffPo’s History of Uncivil Discourse
Posted by HuffWatcher
BigJournalism.com
Mar 29th 2011 at 1:46 pm
Rolling Stone Distorts Facts in Afghanistan
Calling BULLSHIT on Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Yon
BigPeace.com
Mar 29th 2011 at 2:57 pm
Marines Sent to Libya
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8039326
Lejeune Marines prepare to deploy off Libyan coast
ABC News Raleigh-Durham NC
March 28, 2011
Shae Crisson
More: Bio, News Team
Police Watch Civilians and Ignore Dangerous Criminals
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0329cops_say_hands_are_tied_on_homeless_sex_offenders/
Cops say ‘hands are tied’ on homeless sex offenders
By Chris Cassidy
Boston Herald
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Don't Blame Unions? Huh?
Don't blame unions for budget woes
By Paul Toner
Wicked Local Cambridge
March 29, 2011
Does WGBH Deny Access to Persons With Disabilities?
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1608500504/Letter-WGBH-workers-are-our-greatest-asset#axzz1HsniSj3X
Letter: WGBH workers are our ‘greatest asset’
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Mar 29, 2011 @ 11:40 AM
Jon Abbott, President and CEO, WGBH
Censoring Journalism
incident. Vinfen Corporation is the largest provider of human services in the New England states. Their President earned in 2003 $325,000 plus benefits. I called inquire why his salary was so high. The first two calls were referred to their PR flack, who did not reply to my voice mail messages. The third tie I called he spoke with me saying "Vinfen is non profit." I said I knew that but what does that have to do with such high salaries. He repeated the fact that "We're non profit." Then he told me to stop calling because I was annoying the secretaries. It is one way of discouraging exposing abuses by non profits, and of covering up racial incidents by democratic politics.
http://biggovernment.com/driehl/2011/03/28/blackburn-college-and-police-intimidate-press-over-ken-snider-racial-incident/
Blackburn College and Police Intimidate Press Over Ken Snider Racial Incident?
by Dan Riehl
BigGovernment.com
March 28, 2011
March 29, 2011
People Attract Rodents
Residents critique rodent hotline, seek more regulation of leaf blowers
By Nicholas K. Tabor,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Sunday, November 04, 2007
The Last City Council Meeting
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/homepage/x1059919133#axzz1HsniSj3X
Mayor questions whether public should be quiet
By Erin Smith/Chronicle Staff
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Mar 27, 2008 @ 08:00 AM
Last update Mar 27, 2008 @ 08:29 AM
Pat Boone's Accurate Observation
http://www.ajr.org/article_printable.asp?id=4706
AJR (American Journalism Review)
February/March 2009
Pat Boone Was Right
Letter by Roy Bercaw
Lawyer Murdered in Guatemala
[From article]
"Criminal networks have infiltrated virtually every government and law-enforcement agency, and more than half the country is no longer believed to be under the control of any government at all.
[. . .]
Incredibly, the death rate in Guatemala is now higher than it was for much of the civil war. And there is almost absolute impunity: ninety-seven per cent of homicides remain unsolved, the killers free to kill again. In 2007, a U.N. official declared, “Guatemala is a good place to commit a murder, because you will almost certainly get away with it.”
[. . .]
In 2007, Colom, representing a social-democratic coalition, won the Presidency—the first time in five decades that a left-of-center leader had ruled Guatemala. The election was one of the bloodiest in the country’s history: more than fifty local candidates and party activists were murdered, and Colom’s campaign manager was nearly killed by three grenades thrown at his motorcade.
[. . .]
Since Colom took power, two of his interior ministers have been indicted for corruption (a third died in a mysterious helicopter crash), and four consecutive heads of the national police have been dismissed, indicted, or jailed for alleged malfeasance.
[. . .]
In the nineteen-fifties, the C.I.A. had contemplated an assassination campaign against left-wing Guatemalan targets and disseminated a treatise on the art of political murder: “The subject may be stunned or drugged and then placed in the car, but this is only reliable when the car can be run off a high cliff or into deep water without observation.”
[. . .]
Castresana realized that he could not bring criminals to justice before he had removed at least some of the most corrupt officials.
[. . .]
Castresana seized upon a rule in CICIG’S charter that permitted the organization to petition local officials to punish unethical officials. Through this process, his team began to remove more than fifteen hundred corrupt police officers, including fifty police commissioners and the deputy director of the national police. CICIG also “invited” nearly a dozen prominent prosecutors to leave their posts,
[. . .]
Anita Isaacs, a political scientist and an expert on Guatemala, who knows Castresana, told me that the networks traditionally relied on three ways to remove an enemy: “The first is to bribe you—but they could not bribe Castresana. The second is to kill you—but they could not kill Castresana. Finally, if all else fails, they destroy your reputation. And that is what they did to Castresana.”
[. . .]
At a press conference announcing his decision, Castresana, in a final salvo, denounced Colom’s new Attorney General for alleged ties to “parallel powers,” including organized crime.
[. . .]
He said of the attacks on his reputation, “They have hurt my image forever.”
[. . .]
The proliferation of counterfeit realities underscored the difficulty of ascertaining the truth in a country where there are so few arbiters of it.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_grann?currentPage=1
A Murder Foretold
Unravelling the ultimate political conspiracy.
by David Grann
New Yorker
April 4, 2011
Is Alex Jones Corrrect?
"Glenn Greenwald, the liberal Salon columnist, argued that some of the most destructive conspiracy theories “emanated from the very entity Sunstein wants to endow with covert propaganda power: namely, the U.S. government itself, along with its elite media defenders.”
[. . .]
“The fact that Alex Jones is becoming widely accepted,” says Alex Jones, “that’s prima facie evidence right there that we’re in deep crap.”
http://nymag.com/news/media/alex-jones-2011-4/
A Strange Man Is Following You
Shouting about mind-control assassins, the 9/11 conspiracy, and the Bilderberg Group, radio host Alex Jones has cornered the bi-partisan paranoia market.
New York Magazine
By Joe Hagan
Published Mar 27, 2011
Eric Holder Demeans Black People
"The U.S. Department of Justice, led by Attorney General Eric Holder, rejected the results of Dayton's Civil Service examination because not enough blacks passed. The DOJ has ordered the city to lower the passing score.
[. . .]
Keith Lander, chairman of the Dayton chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Dayton NAACP president Derrick Foward condemned the DOJ actions.
Mr. Lander said, "Lowering the test score is insulting to black people," adding, "The DOJ is creating the perception that black people are dumb by lowering the score. It's not accomplishing anything."
http://www.creators.com/conservative/walter-williams.html
Department of Injustice
Walter Williams
COPYRIGHT 2011 CREATORS.COM
Libya Woman Raped, Disappears
newsie,
Obama's fault is the vacuum created by his NOT explaining the mission. As for the woman, I want some corroboration that her claim is true. You may recall years ago, there were claims of all sorts of atrocities done to babies in Kuwaiti hospitals by Iraqis, only those claims turned out be false. And if she was telling the truth, will we ever know?
5:02 pm, Mar 27, 2011
menckenlite
Everything bad that happens is Obama's fault. He's President now. Before it was Bush's fault. To those with Bush Derangement Syndrome it is still all Bush's fault. When will Obama stop raping women?
6:43 am, Mar 28, 2011
kognyc
Pathetic!
3:20 pm, Mar 27, 2011
newswoman
You are right, menckenlite. The President is repsponsible for all the bad things that happen in this world. He caused the earthquake in Japan, the tsunami, the nuclear reactor meltdown, the uprisings in the ME. Let's see, what else has he done? Give me a minute, I'll make something else up!
8:32 am, Mar 28, 2011
menckenlite
Obama caused the earthquake too? Did he make the tsunami happen using the Halliburton Hurricane Machine? You don't have to make any up. He's doing great all by himself. He needs some common sense to go along with all of that credential worship.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-27/eman-al-obeidis-rape-accusations-against-gaddafis-regime/
Eman al-Obeidi's Rape Accusations Against Gaddafi's Regime
by Eliza Griswold
Daily Beast
March 27, 2011
Teen Accepted to Ivy League Colleges Pistol Whips Mother
Rachel Anne Hachero / Lee County Sheriff's Office
New-Press (Ft. Meyers FL)
March 28, 2011
March 28, 2011
Multi Millionaire Policeman Suffered Discrimination
[From article]
"in a federal race-discrimination lawsuit Lamison filed in 2005. Lamison claimed he was denied a promotion because he is black. He eventually settled for $25,000 and got the promotion."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/southampton_millionaire_cop_3fmpJoYs2SCsVU90pA9LrL
Southampton's millionaire cop
170G detective's biz & real estate empire
By SUSAN EDELMAN and FARRAH WEINSTEIN
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:14 AM, March 27, 2011
Posted: 2:36 AM, March 27, 2011
Islamic Intolerance
"Intolerance may not promote progress but it can promote survival. An intolerant Islamic world may outlast the Western world that seems ready to tolerate anything, including the undermining of its own fundamental values and threats to its continued existence."
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell032211.php3
Jewish World Review
March 22, 2011 /16 Adar II, 5771
Random Thoughts
By Thomas Sowell
Feds Want to Use ECT to Treat Terror Suspect
Shocking JFK-plot testimony
By MITCHEL MADDUX
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:17 AM, March 27, 2011
Posted: 1:24 AM, March 26, 2011
Liberal Character Assassination Exposed
[Two articles]
[From first article]
"Color of Change has been a leader in the practice of repeating false information over and over again, until it becomes truth. Of all of the arguments I’ve personally had with individuals who to this day insist that it’s a proven fact the Tea Party spit on and hurled the “N-word” at members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the majority have shown me a Color of Change email as undisputed proof. (The email of course dually served as a fund-raiser)."
http://bigjournalism.com/libertychick/2011/03/27/breibart-vs-huffpo-the-dirty-tea-party-secrets-of-color-of-change-and-credo/
Breibart vs. HuffPo: The Dirty Tea Party Secrets of Color of Change and Credo
Posted by Liberty Chick
BigJournalism.com
Mar 27th 2011 at 4:58 am
* * *
2nd Article
http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/03/26/aolhuffpo-writer-romanticizes-history-of-admitted-marxist-and-cop-killer-supporter/
AOL/HuffPo Writer Romanticizes History of Admitted Marxist and Cop Killer Supporter
Posted by Dana Loesch
BigJournalism.com
Mar 26th 2011 at 4:58 am
State Dept. Wastes Taxpayer Funds
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/25764282/index.html
Arizona's Immigration Law Explained
Way to go Jan!! Maybe this is a language he can understand. The
owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team, Robert Sarver,
opposes AZ's new immigration laws. Arizona's Governor, Jan Brewer, released the
following statement in response to Sarver's criticism of the new law:
What if the owners of the Suns discovered that hordes of people
were sneaking into games without paying? What if they had a good idea who the gate-crashers are, but the ushers and security personnel were not allowed to ask
these folks to produce their ticket stubs, thus non-paying attendees couldn't be ejected. Furthermore, what if Suns' ownership was expected to provide
those who sneaked in with complimentary eats and drink? And
what if, on those days when a gate-crasher became ill or
injured, the Suns had to provide free medical care and shelter?"
-
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
Try going to any other country without ID.
March 27, 2011
Obama's Move to One-World Government
One World Government Obama
American Spectator
By Ben Stein
3.22.11 @ 6:09AM
Reporter Locked in Closet at Biden Fund Raiser
Vice President's staff lock journalist in a closet for hours during a fundraiser to stop him talking to guests
Daily Mail (UK)
By Simon Neville
Last updated at 3:37 AM on 27th March 2011
Public Employee Union Abuses
March 27, 2011
Even Worse than British Unions
By Robert Feneron
American Thinker
Raped Woman Accused of Mental Illness
[Two articles]
[From first article]
"Musa Ibrahim, a government spokesman, said he had been told Obeidi, apparently in her 30s, was drunk and suffered from "mental problems".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/26/libya-woman-silenced-accusing-gaddafi-forces-rape
Libyan woman is brutally silenced after accusing Gaddafi's forces of rape
Journalists try to intervene as Benghazi woman fleeing sexual assault is taken away by government officials
Ian Black in Tripoli
guardian.co.uk
Saturday 26 March 2011 16.34 GMT
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2nd article
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-27/eman-al-obeidis-rape-accusations-against-gaddafis-regime/?cid=hp:mainpromo3
Eman al-Obeidi's Rape Accusations Against Gaddafi's Regime
by Eliza Griswold
Daily Beast
March 27, 2011
2 US-Trained Palestinian Arrested in Killing of Jewish Family
Two US-Trained Palestinian Officers Arrested in Bloody Slaughter of Jewish Family
Your Tax Dollars at Work
by Jim Hoft
Human Events
03/26/2011
Therapeutic State In Action
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1326298
Sex fiends sheltered by loophole Alarmed neighbors join forces with authorities to seek solution
By Jessica Fargen
Boston Herald
Sunday, March 27, 2011 Updated 4 hours ago
March 26, 2011
Nonsensical Obamacare
"three internal rules of the Social Security Administration that make receipt of Social Security retirement benefits contingent upon enrollment in Medicare. Plus, a person who withdraws from Medicare would not only have to give up Social Security retirement benefits, but repay all benefits previously received.
[. . .]
whether they want it or not, seniors will now be forced into Medicare, a program that even Judge Collyer asserts "may bankrupt all of us." Indeed, she also noted, rightly, that people on Medicare are not treated as well in hospitals as those with private insurance.
[. . .]
We appealed our case, Hall v. Sebelius, to the US Court of Appeals this week. Let's all hope that the higher courts strike a blow for common sense and good law"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/entitled_to_chains_tqyOh9TXW49SLG5xwS3kvJ
'Entitled' to chains
Bureaucrats' health-care horror
By KENT MASTERSON BROWN
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:03 AM, March 25, 2011
Posted: 11:23 PM, March 24, 2011
Ridiculing What is Real, Typical Liberal Cluelessness
[Reply to Post]
Oh my goodness, you really don't know how to read too well do you Ty Jones. By your logic you must be the spokesperson for the Rev. Jim Jones from Guyana. On December 4, 1920, T. Samsonov head of a secret department of the Checka wrote to Dzherzhinsky saying "communism and religion are mutually exclusive." Stalin used churches as a means of directing attention to him as the new god succeeding Lenin. So this is nothing new. Ordinary civilians are being misled by government criminals and the state-run media. What history do you promote?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-26/minnesota-michele-bachmanns-loony-state/?cid=hp:mainpromo3
Minnesota: Michele Bachmann’s Loony State
by John Avlon
Daily Beast
March 26, 2011
Stossel on Pigford Scandals
John Stossel reports on Pigford Scandals. US Dept. of Agricultuer was accused of discrimination against black farmers. Each farmer was entitled to $50,000 compensation. But thousands of black people claimed to be farmers for trying to farm. Their lawyer who reportedly earned $40 to 50 Million for his lawsuit.
March 25, 2011
Hurricane Carter and Racism
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1325888&position=1
‘Hurricane’ Carter airs his thoughts on racism
Boston Herald
Friday, March 25, 2011
Justice Dept. Appears to be Protecting Medicaid Fraud
http://psychrights.org/PR/
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 24, 2011
CONTACT
Jim Gottstein
Department of Justice Moves to Protect Medicaid Defrauders: Court Sets Hearing for April 7th
Due to the massive amount of harm inflicted on children and youth, in July of 2009, the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights®) launched its Medicaid Fraud Initiative with a model Qui Tam Complaint for people to use around the country. This initiative combines Medicaid's coverage restriction of outpatient drugs to those that are for a "medically accepted indication" and the right of people to sue on behalf of the government and share in the recover, if any under the False Claims Act.
The Department of Justice has recovered billions of dollars from drug companies for causing false claims at Step 1 of the Fraudulent Scheme, but have declined intervention involving defendants at Steps 2 & 3 in two Alaska cases, as well as the ex rel Nicholson case in Illinois.[1]
In a surprising action, however, on March 7th, the Department of Justice actively moved to protect alleged defrauding defendants at Steps 2 & 3 by asking the judge to dismiss the ex rel Nicholson case for what appears to be disingenuous reasons. Randy Kretchmar, Ms. Nicholson's attorney, said, "We have offered to address their concerns through agreement and they have thus far failed to respond. This reinforces the view stated in our opposition that the motion to dismiss is disingenuous."
As background, in 2007-2008, there were two suspicious letters on the letterhead of the agency charged with administering the Medicaid program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), that assert Congress did not limit outpatient drug coverage under Medicaid to those used for a medically accepted indication.[2] This is directly contrary to the formal position of the United States Government, taken in a number of False Claims Act cases against drug companies.[3]
Law Project for Psychiatric Rights president Jim Gottstein in speaking with a US Attorney was told that even though they are false claims, the government would decline to intervene in that jurisdiction if a case was brought against a doctor or pharmacy as a matter of prosecutorial discretion. In the Alaska cases, the local US Attorney's office appeared to be taking its direction from CMS.
In light of this, PsychRights asked Eric Pruitt, the Assistant United States Attorney who filed the motion to dismiss on behalf of the United States Government, the following questions:
- Why shouldn't it be concluded the Department of Justice and CMS are protecting prescribers and pharmacies for their participation in this continuing massive fraudulent scheme?
- Does CMS take the position that prescriptions not for a medically accepted indication are covered under Medicaid?
- Is CMS calling the shots on the Department of Justice's response to the qui tam cases against prescribers and pharmacies for causing and presenting false claims to Medicaid for psychotropic drugs used on children and youth that are not for a medically accepted indication?
- Do the Department of Justice and CMS consider only the economic point, i.e., the drug companies have deeper pockets, or are they attempting to make an independent judgment that somehow psychiatrists and pharmacists are less culpable for the same fraud?
- Even if so, why is CMS still paying these false claims on a massive scale?
Mr. Pruitt declined to answer, saying "We do not comment on pending cases:"
In response, Mr. Gottstein said, "The public is entitled to know the answers to these questions. Obtaining large recoveries from drug companies is an ineffective sanction, because the fraudulent prescribing practices are continuing unabated. It appears the Department of Justice is now actively protecting doctors and pharmacies committing Medicaid Fraud ."
The court has set a hearing on the government's motion for April 7th at 9:25 am, Room 1725, 219 S. Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois.
[1] United States ex rel Linda Nicholson v. Lilian Spigelman, M.D., Hephzibah Children's Association, and Sears Pharmacy, USDC, ND Illinois Case No. 10-cv-3361.
2 See pages 6-8 of the Opposition to United States Motion to Dismiss at pages 6-8.
3 For example, see the United States' Statement of Interest in United States of America ex rel Polansky v. Pfizer, Inc., EDNY, Case No. 1:04-cv-0074-ERK-ALC, which can be found on the Internet at http://psychrights.org/States/
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The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights is a public interest law firm devoted to the defense of people facing the horrors of forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock. PsychRights is further dedicated to exposing the truth about psychiatric interventions and the courts being misled into ordering people subjected to these brain and body damaging drugs against their will. Due to the massive growth in psychiatric drugging of children and youth, PsychRights has made attacking this problem a priority. Extensive information about these dangers, and about the tragic damage caused by electroshock, is available on the PsychRights web site: http://psychrights.org/.
[1] United States ex rel Linda Nicholson v. Lilian Spigelman, M.D., Hephzibah Children's Association, and Sears Pharmacy, USDC, ND Illinois Case No. 10-cv-3361.
[2] See pages 6-8 of the Opposition to United States Motion to Dismiss at pages 6-8.
[3] For example, see the United States' Statement of Interest in United States of America ex rel Polansky v. Pfizer, Inc., EDNY, Case No. 1:04-cv-0074-ERK-ALC, which can be found on the Internet at http://psychrights.org/States/
TSA Wants to Scan You In Your Neighborhood
"the Transportation Security Administration, which has reportedly been contemplating expanding its controversial X-ray body-scanning program from airports to public events, mass transit and possibly even the streets where you live.
[. . .]
The Fourth Amendment states explicitly: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated."
Hard to square that with the mission of the Homeland Security Department and its intrusive TSA, which treat every American equally -- as a potential criminal and terrorist.
[. . .]
And unless the Constitution no longer means anything, it's way past time to insist that our government stop treating us as potential bombers and murderers."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_worst_homeland_security_menace_4SysOzYn7m9JqxNBEjQ2hP
The worst homeland-security menace
Michael A. Walsh
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:54 AM, March 24, 2011
Posted: 10:54 PM, March 23, 2011
ACLU Goals
"Irony is defined as "the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning." The term doublespeak means "evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse."
[. . .]
The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
Now contrast that depiction with ACLU founder Roger Baldwin's candid vision:
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
http://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2011/03/25/aclu_communism_is_the_goal/page/full/
Matt Barber
ACLU: 'Communism is the Goal'
Is Huffington Post NPR?
[This attempted censorship is reportedly what started the interchange.] "Breitbart reacted to a campaign by activist group Color of Change that demanded that he not be featured on The Huffington Post’s front page. The organization called Breitbart “a liar and a race-baiter” and threatened that blacks would not visit the site if his content was prominently featured."
[From Article]
"Breitbart called Jones, who resigned from his position in the Obama administration following a series of revelations, including that he had once signed a 9-11 “truther” petition, ”a cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak. And a commie. And an eco-fraudster.”
[. . .]
The decision has yielded criticism from several online bloggers. “I’m disappointed and annoyed to see The Huffington Post buckling under a pressure campaign,” wrote David Weigel of Slate. “A strict prohibition on ad hominem attacks! (‘Against Arianna’s friends,’ is the big of that sentence that spokesman Marco Ruiz left out),” wrote Alex Pareene of Salon.
Breitbart is far from the first prominently featured contributor to The Huffington Post that has made ad hominem attacks (though unlike others who had their ad hominem attacks published in posts on The Huffington Post, Breitbart’s comments were not made in posts on the site)."
http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/25/breitbart-banned-from-front-page-of-huffington-post-for-ad-hominem-attacks-despite-huffpo-history-of-printing-ad-hominem-attacks/
Breitbart banned from front page of Huffington Post for ‘ad hominem’ attacks despite HuffPo history of printing ad hominem attacks
By Steven Nelson
The Daily Caller
12:21 AM 03/25/2011 | Updated: 1:13 AM 03/25/2011
Feelings Rule Research at MIT
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-24/mits-emotional-report-on-women/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsL2
MIT's 'Emotional' Report on Women
by John Leo
Daily Beast
March 24, 2011
March 24, 2011
Palin Has More Experience Than Obama
Jewish World Review
Oct. 17, 2008 / 18 Tishrei 5769
Record versus rhetoric
By Thomas Sowell
Brief History of Anti Semitism Among Muslims, Arabs
Revolution and Antisemitism in the Arab World
Posted by Roni Drukan
BigPeace.com
Mar 23rd 2011 at 12:43 pm
Lawyer Arrested for Laundering Money
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0324hub_legal_peers_in_shock_over_top_attorneys_arrest/
Hub legal peers ‘in shock’ over top attorney’s arrest
By Laurel J. Sweet
Boston Herald
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Believing in Science
Liberals: They Blinded Us With Science
by Ann Coulter
Human Events
March 23, 2011

