Friday, May 18, 2012
Breaking: Romney Has Officially Dropped Out!
Fed up with lack of support for their Chosen One, “establishment” operatives have decided to bypass the Nevada Republican Party apparatus in favor their own “shadow state party.” In other words, they’ve dropped out of the official Republican race and are launching a new highly exclusive minority party in support of Mitt Romney.
This is the first overwhelming public display we’ve seen that the establishment believes Romney is losing the nomination race and the first ever indication that he would consider running through a third party. The short term problem however, is an extension of the longer term problem that has plagued the entire Republican nomination process; “establishment” cheating.
Indications are that they will want the new third party in Nevada recognized by the RNC as a replacement for the existing Republican Party. Things didn’t go their way so they want to construct a fake body with fake results and just drop it in place of the real thing. It’s a very strange and extremely public attempt at stuffing the ballot box. Just bring your own box, complete with whatever you want inside and set it down in place of the real one.
Their reasoning has already gotten tiresome for most. Without any serious interest in what voters want, they’ve chosen Romney to run against Obama and they’re tired of going through any sort of honest process that doesn’t guarantee that result.
The move may actually get RNC support. It occurs amidst calls for RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to resign for treating Romney as the “presumptive nominee,” violating party rules against supporting any individual candidate who has not yet secured nomination.
Palm Beach Sheriff targets deputies, blogger who expose corruption
Former Palm Beach County Deputy Mark Dougan was a law enforcement officer that upheld the oath he took to support and defend the Constitution of the State of Florida and the United States. That’s why, according to Dougan, “all hell broke loose” when he refused an order to commit felony misconduct. Dougan soon resigned.
Since that time, Dougan has embarked on a personal quest to expose corruption in the PBSO on his website, http://www.PBSOtalk.com. Because of his contacts as a former deputy, he has cultivated an informant network of current PBSO deputies and employees who blow the whistle on corruption in confidence.
Dougan has reported several examples of corruption committed directly by Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and by his subordinates under his command. These allegations are not the run-of-the-mill government corruption. They include a long list of misappropriation, civil rights violations, forcible felonies, and a widespread cover up.
Some of Dougan’s allegations include:
- Sheriff Bradshaw ordered the falsification of police reports to justify arrests, and specifically target minorities
- Sheriff Bradshaw stole a firearm from evidence, and then altered records to conceal it
- Sheriff Bradshaw blocked an internal affairs investigation into a PBSO lieutenant accused of stealing a firearm and prescription drugs from the home of a fellow deputy who had terminal cancer and died days later
- Sheriff Bradshaw spent as much as $89,000 in county funds to purchase three large barbecue grills that he planned to use for his re-election campaign, but after Dougan filed a complaint, the grills were not used for the campaign
- Sheriff Bradshaw used his Palm Beach County credit card to wine-and-dine campaign contributors, including one with suspected mob connections
- Sheriff Bradshaw covered for deputies who used excessive force and bragged about it online
- Sheriff Bradshaw carried a picture of a black man who had his testicles bitten off by a West Palm Beach Police K-9 for “bragging rights.”
Did the Fed’s Emergency Lending Prop Up “Too Big to Fail”?
he Obama administration arrived in Washington in early 2009 facing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression — and an American public outraged by bailouts for the financial institutions that had gotten them there.
To build confidence in the banking system, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, the man tasked with the economic turnaround, hinged his plan on what were called “stress tests” to determine the biggest banks’ fiscal health and, if necessary, provide “capital support” to those that were the most in trouble.
On May 7, the results were in: The nation’s 19 largest banks were fundamentally healthy, the administration announced, and would soon repay the loans they had taken.
For more than a year, many of these same banks had turned repeatedly to the Federal Reserve to tap a vast reservoir of cash in order to keep their daily operations from freezing up.
Late last year, Bloomberg News broke the story of the Fed’s unprecedented intervention in the financial markets — under which it made trillions of dollars in loans, commitments and guarantees to financial institutions around the world. After two years of legal wrangling, the news organization obtained thousands of pages of documents, which revealed critical details about the emergency lending, including how much money went to which banks, when and at what interest rates.
What Did the Documents Reveal?
“What we found out, really, was that Wall Street was in much deeper trouble than we ever imagined,” Bob Ivry, one of the Bloomberg reporters investigating the loans, told FRONTLINE. In a series of reports, Bloomberg laid out three main calculations:
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Ron Paul’s MN Convention Speech Drawing 5th District Interest
Ron Paul is set to speak at the Minnesota Republican convention Friday, and party activists in the Fifth District are preparing for a possible Paul win—with one local activist saying “I get the feeling I’m witnessing history.”
Paul is poised to make a strong showing in Minnesota after congressional-district conventions gave him 20 of 24 available national delegates. The Texas congressman was denied a speaking slot at the 2008 state convention, but has proven a popular candidate and speaker here since—turning fans away, for example, from an over-capacity speech in Arden Hills shortly before Minnesota’s 2012 caucus night.
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Adam J. Weigold, chair of the Fifth Congressional District MNGOP, said by email Tuesday Paul has a supermajority of support from the district:
Federal court enjoins NDAA
A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one which preliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial indefinite provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Obama last December. This afternoon’s ruling came as part of a lawsuit brought by seven dissident plaintiffs — including Chris Hedges, Dan Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir — alleging that the NDAA violates ”both their free speech and associational rights guaranteed by the First Amendment as well as due process rights guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution.”
The ruling was a sweeping victory for the plaintiffs, as it rejected each of the Obama DOJ’s three arguments: (1) because none of the plaintiffs has yet been indefinitely detained, they lack “standing” to challenge the statute; (2) even if they have standing, the lack of imminent enforcement against them renders injunctive relief unnecessary; and (3) the NDAA creates no new detention powers beyond what the 2001 AUMF already provides.