For our apologist Dagger quislings....The law creates a Superintendency of Information and Communication, with the power to regulate the news media.......It creates a five-member Council for the Regulation and Development of Information and Communication, led by a representative of the president, to oversee the news media.
Putin Rules Out Extradition for Leak Suspect in Russia Airport
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia offered the first direct confirmation on Tuesday that Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive American national security contractor, was in a transit area at a Moscow airport, and he appeared to rule out American requests for his extradition to the United States.......
WASHINGTON — Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency, said on Tuesday that American surveillance had helped prevent “potential terrorist events over 50 times since 9/11,” including at least 10 “homeland-based threats.” But he said that a vast majority must remain secret to avoid disclosing sources and methods......
Where else but Maricopa County, ArpaioLand: 'A Maricopa County Superior Court jury on Monday found Michael Turley guilty of knowingly giving a false impression and endangerment steeming from hoax in which he sent his 16-year-old nephew into a street with a fake grenade launcher where he pointed it at oncoming traffic. While Turley, 40, filmed the incident, the 16-year-old draped his body in a sheet and wrapped his head in a scarf. The action was suppose to evoke a stereotype of a Middle Eastern terrorist.' .....
For any of you that have followed this for the last 5-7 years, Myriad Genetics in Utah was charging women thousands for a patented test for BCRA genes (genes Myriad did not even discover) related to breast and ovarian cancer, when running your entire genome would be far less. Academics and the ACLU sued them years ago, that Myriad couldn't stop researchers from studying the genes and their actions, which were found to affect many other functions and tissues in the body.
"I'm worried about, somebody in our government might kill him with a cruise missile or a drone missile," said Ron Paul a former Texas congressman who twice ran for the Republican presidential nomination, in an interview Tuesday with Fox Business Network. "I mean, we live in a bad time where American citizens don't even have rights and that they can be killed, but the gentlemen is trying to tell the truth about what's going on."
Greetings from the Federal Correctional Institution at Loretto, Pennsylvania. I arrived here on February 28, 2013 to serve a 30 month sentence for violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982. At least that's what the government wants people to believe. In truth, this is my punishment for blowing the whistle on the CIA's illegal torture program and for telling the public that torture was official US government policy. But that's a different story. The purpose of this letter is to tell you about prison life.
.....Russia has said it will supply one of its most advanced anti-aircraft missile systems to the Syrian government, hours after the EU ended its arms embargo on the rebels, raising the prospect of a rapidly escalating proxy war in the region if peace talks in Geneva fail next month.
Can they keep this going until 2016? 2020? 2024? They can, as long as 60 million
Americans keep voting them back into office. For the GOP the nation has no higher needs, problems, issues or priorities to act upon, for them it is partisan politics 24/7.
From his interview on Fox News: “Here’s the distinction — I have never argued against any technology being used against having an imminent threat an act of crime going on,” Paul said. “If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and $50 in cash, I don’t care if a Drone kills him or a policeman kills him, but it’s different if they want to come fly over your hot tub, or your yard just because they want to do surveillance on everyone, and they want to watch your activities.”
Dallas News: The fertilizer plant that exploded Wednesday night in West, Texas, reported to the Environmental Protection Agency and local public safety officials that it presented no risk of fire or explosion, documents show.
West Fertilizer Co. reported having as much as 54,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia on hand in an emergency planning report required of facilities that use toxic or hazardous chemicals.
But the report, reviewed Wednesday night by The Dallas Morning News, stated “no” under fire or explosive risks....
His name is Carlos Arredondo, and he lost two sons in the war in Iraq. He came to the US as an 'illegal' in the early 80's. He has since gained citizenship.
After he lost his son Alex to the war, he participated in anti-war protests, and was beaten to the ground and assaulted in Washington, DC during one demonstration in 2007. Link
First they bail them out with 0% free money to goose the stock market and bank stock, now they refuse to release documents (can't says the Fed, it's 'trade secrets we must protect') on illegal banking practices, letter to the Fed:
Rand and 11 other Republican Senators threaten to filibuster any new gun laws, such as tightening of background checks to exclude felons or the insane, or limiting magazine size.
The 12 Angry Senators:No new gun/background check/magazine size laws now, none tomorrow, none ever.....and God Bless every gun, assault weapon and massacre magazine!
City parks named after the Klan's first Grand Wizard and other leaders of the Confederate States of America are being renamed in Memphis, 'bout time I suppose, KKK'ers can still honor the Stars and Bars on their pick-ups, alongside NRA stickers and the popular mudflaps with the chrome babes:
-Less government means more 'economic liberty', so why are rich tycoons spending billions on electing these guys? If government is drown in a bathtub, does Senator Rand Paul get the Golden Ducky? Why not start with liberating Kentucky?
The Republic | azcentral.comWed Mar 27, 2013 1:16 PM
NOGALES - During a tour of the Arizona-Mexico border Wednesday, four members of the bipartisan group working on a comprehensive immigration bill watched as a woman “successfully climbed an 18-ft bollard fence a few yards from us,” said Sen. John McCain.
McCain, R-Ariz., one of the members of the so-called Gang of Eight who was on the tour, said in a Twitter message that the Border Patrol apprehended the woman......
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young
I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.
The current Vatican standard for Pope: 'he was never charged with anything', Federico Lombardi, Director of the Holy See Press Office. Pope or Mayor of Chicago?
In 2011, Obama played the fight the deficit game with the GOP, by signing the 'Budget Control Act of 2011". It mandated across the board spending reductions of 5% or so for non-entitlement spending of the government, not evaluating or specifying where or how the cuts were to be made. Just an ax to every discretionary program.
Nothing like this had ever been done before. Obama gambled it wouldn't happen. Doing so may have helped him win the election. Or maybe not.
Obama now calls the sequester "Just Dumb". Maybe his making this deal with the GOP in 2011 was dumb, and thinking they would back out of it now was also dumb. The GOP is the Party of dumb. Obama should know that by now.
