Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Oklahoma City and Sandyhook, ATF false flags?

Oklahoma City was most likely a false flag. The ATF was to get its budget cut, then came the bombing. Any officials who talked seeing charges being planted inside the building were killed. [link and video]

What is the Hillary and Bill Clinton body count in covering up their cocaine trafficking ring?: [link and video]

If Barack Obama and Eric Holder were somehow involved in the ATF plot called, "Fast and Furious" to attack the Second Amendment where anywhere from 400 people, to thousands died, then Holder and Obama are guilty of being accessories to murder and other crimes. Tax dollars were used to get legal guns into the hands of Mexican drug gangs. So, was Sandyhook schoolyard shooting just the most bang for the buck if the government killed just 20 kids to end the 2nd Amendment?: [link and videos]

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Getting US Public used to Military Machine Gun fire over roads?


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The Government and Mainstream Media painted Sovereign Citizens as Terrorists. If police will murder citizens and then make it look like they were the culprits who shot at cops, anything is possible. What it the truth? What are lies? You decide.

"Fast and Furious" ATF Cop Murders Cover-up?


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http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2012/03/fast-and-furious-atf-cop-murder...
Were Jerry Kane and his 16 year old son Joey murdered by SWAT to cover
up for the ATF "Fast and Furious" gun running program where Mexican Drug
Gangs got guns for the US Government could attack American's Right to
bear arms, the 2nd Amendment?

Were they murdered to make the Sovereign Citizens Movement look like domestic terrorists.

ABC News Nightline is allegedly about skewing the news and international corporate owner and banker propaganda: http://www.opednews.com/Diary/ABC-News-paints-upset-US-C-by-Steven-G-Erickson...

Steven G. Erickson interviews Bob Hurt of Tampa, Florida

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ALERT - Classified Military Drills In Miami / Houston


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ALERT - Classified Military Drills In Miami / Houston


Classified Military Drills Conducted In Miami

Twice in the past week, Miami residents have been treated to the nighttime sound of Blackhawk helicopters thundering between downtown Miami skyscrapers.

Federal authorities say that Special Operations military units in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security and Miami-Dade County law enforcement officers conducted two ‘military’ drills special operations drills this week. The statement said that, ‘the drills were a part of a joint emergency preparedness exercise.’

The statement added that the remaining purposes of the drills are ‘classified’.

More
http://www.powerlinenewsnetwork.com/?p=18411

Classified Military Drills In Miami (Video Report)
http://youtu.be/fOgaotH6uDk (Skip To 1Min 30Sec)

Military Drill Scares Residents In Houston
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8971311

Military Drill Scares Residents In Houston (Video Report)
http://youtu.be/RgJSuGPob_w

DHS To Purchase 7000 Assault Weapons
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/26/if-assault-weapons-are-bad-why-does-the-dhs-want-to-buy-7000-of-them-for-personal-defense/

DHS To Purchase 7000 Assault Weapons (Backup Link 1)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/27/homeland-security-seeking-7000-assault-weapons-per/

DHS To Purchase 7000 Assault Weapons (Backup Link 2)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-28/department-homeland-security-purchase-7000-assault-weapons

Emanuel Pressures Banks Over Gun Manufacturers
http://www.inquisitr.com/498893/rahm-emanuel-pressures-banks-that-do-business-with-gun-manufacturers-op-ed/

Emanuel Pressures Banks Over Gun Manufacturers (Video Report)
http://youtu.be/czFWN0ngaLk

Emanuel Says "You Have No Rights If You're On Our List"
http://youtu.be/uJBZZKlvrP4

Nebraska Lawmakers To Limit Drone Use
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20130128-nebraska-lawmakers-look-to-limit-police-drone-use

Milwaukee Sheriff Tells Residents To Arm Up
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/sheriff-clarke-urges-residents-to-arm-themselves-with-guns-o38h47h-188375091.html

United States Sheriffs Against Tyranny
http://youtu.be/2r0PTFh9lKc

The End Of America By Naomi Wolf (Lecture)
http://youtu.be/RjALf12PAWc

Wake Up Call (Full Movie)
http://youtu.be/yT1GavDtiwM

Monday, January 28, 2013

Is talking about the US Constitution now a Terrorist Act?

If you complain about the police state, you may face indefinite detention. More of my thoughts are posted as blogs and videos [here on liveleak.com]



The above photo and below text was originally found here.

Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest
[/*][/list]BY DAVID KRAVETS[/*]01.25.13[/*]7:36 PM[/*][/list]

A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.

Aaron Tobey claimed in a civil rights lawsuit(.pdf) that in 2010 he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International Airport after he began removing his clothing to display on his chest a magic-marker protest of airport security measures.

“Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,” his chest and gut read.

In sending the case to trial, unless there’s a settlement, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 and reversed a lower court judge and invoked Benjamin Franklin in the process. According to the opinion by Judge Roger Gregory:

Here, Mr. Tobey engaged in a silent, peaceful protest using the text of our Constitution—he was well within the ambit of First Amendment protections. And while it is tempting to hold that First Amendment rights should acquiesce to national security in this instance, our Forefather Benjamin Franklin warned against such a temptation by opining that those ‘who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ We take heed of his warning and are therefore unwilling to relinquish our First Amendment protections—even in an airport.

Tobey didn’t want to go through the advanced imaging technology X-ray machines, or so-called nude body scanners, that were cropping up at airports nationwide. Instead, when it was his turn to be screened, he was going to opt for an intrusive pat-down, and removed most of his clothing in the process.

Among other things, the federal lawsuit claimed wrongful detention and a breach of the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment. Tobey was on his way to Wisconsin for his grandmother’s funeral. Despite his detainment, he made his flight.

According to the suit, while under interrogation, the authorities wanted to know “about his affiliation with, or knowledge of, any terrorist organizations, if he had been asked to do what he did by any third party, and what his intentions and goals were.”

Two weeks later, Henrico County prosecutors dropped the misdemeanor charge against him, and he sued the Transportation Security Administration and others.

In dissent, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote:

Had this protest been launched somewhere other than in the security-screening area, we would have a much different case. But Tobey’s antics diverted defendants from their passenger-screening duties for a period, a diversion that nefarious actors could have exploited to dangerous effect. Defendants responded as any passenger would hope they would, summoning local law enforcement to remove Tobey—and the distraction he was creating — from the scene.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/4th-amendment-chest-trial/


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My gripes against the police state [found here]

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

RT: Max Keiser Asks Alex Jones when Americans will Revolt?

Infowars.com

Jan 22, 2013
Max Keiser talks to Alex Jones about his appearance on Piers Morgan’s
show on CNN. They also discuss the targeting of activists and the role
of new media taking on the dinosaurs of media.


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Criminal Obama Criminalizing the US Constitution



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Glaxo Smith Kline and Baxter Pharmaceuticals - Murders & Poisoners?

Do you need any more reasons to conclude that Big Pharma, international bankers, and corporate pirates are out to steal, confine, harm, sterilize, and kill us? [click here and click links within] for a horror story about the bio-weapon, Lyme Disease. What happens to scientists and other whistle blowers?



The above photo and story below was cut and pasted from here.

Emelie Olsson falls asleep as he watches television in her apartment in Stockholm, January 17, 2013. Emelie is one of around 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being immunised in 2009 with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine made by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline. Picture taken January 17, 2013. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

Insight: Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent, Reuters Jan. 22, 2013 12:03AM PST

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Emelie is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she's often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school or having fun with friends. She is only 14, but at times she has wondered if her life is worth living.

Emelie is one of around 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being immunized with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine made by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in 2009.

Finland, Norway, Ireland and France have seen spikes in narcolepsy cases, too, and people familiar with the results of a soon-to-be-published study in Britain have told Reuters it will show a similar pattern in children there.

Their fate, coping with an illness that all but destroys normal life, is developing into what the health official who coordinated Sweden's vaccination campaign calls a "medical tragedy" that will demand rising scientific and medical attention.

Europe's drugs regulator has ruled Pandemrix should no longer be used in people aged under 20. The chief medical officer at GSK's vaccines division, Norman Begg, says his firm views the issue extremely seriously and is "absolutely committed to getting to the bottom of this", but adds there is not yet enough data or evidence to suggest a causal link.

Others - including Emmanuel Mignot, one of the world's leading experts on narcolepsy, who is being funded by GSK to investigate further - agree more research is needed but say the evidence is already clearly pointing in one direction.

"There's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that Pandemrix increased the occurrence of narcolepsy onset in children in some countries - and probably in most countries," says Mignot, a specialist in the sleep disorder at Stanford University in the United States.

30 MILLION RECEIVED PANDEMRIX

In total, the GSK shot was given to more than 30 million people in 47 countries during the 2009-2010 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Because it contains an adjuvant, or booster, it was not used in the United States because drug regulators there are wary of adjuvanted vaccines.

GSK says 795 people across Europe have reported developing narcolepsy since the vaccine's use began in 2009.

Questions about how the narcolepsy cases are linked to Pandemrix, what the triggers and biological mechanisms might have been, and whether there might be a genetic susceptibility are currently the subject of deep scientific investigation.

But experts on all sides are wary. Rare adverse reactions can swiftly develop into "vaccine scares" that spiral out of proportion and cast what one of Europe's top flu experts calls a "long shadow" over public confidence in vaccines that control potential killers like measles and polio.

"No-one wants to be the next Wakefield," said Mignot, referring to the now discredited British doctor Andrew Wakefield who sparked a decades-long backlash against the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot with false claims of links to autism.

With the narcolepsy studies, there is no suggestion that the findings are the work of one rogue doctor.

Independent teams of scientists have published peer-reviewed studies from Sweden, Finland and Ireland showing the risk of developing narcolepsy after the 2009-2010 immunization campaign was between seven and 13 times higher for children who had Pandemrix than for their unvaccinated peers.

"We really do want to get to the bottom of this. It's not in anyone's interests if there is a safety issue that needs to be addressed," said GSK's Begg.

LIFE CHANGED

Emelie's parents, Charles and Marie Olsson, say she was a top student who loved playing the piano, taking tennis lessons, creating art and having fun with friends. But her life started to change in early 2010, a few months after she had Pandemrix. In the spring of 2010, they noticed she was often tired, needing to sleep when she came home from school.

But it wasn't until May, when she began collapsing at school, that it became clear something serious was happening.

As well as the life-limiting bouts of daytime sleepiness, narcolepsy brings nightmares, hallucinations, sleep paralysis and episodes of cataplexy - when strong emotions trigger a sudden and dramatic loss of muscle strength.

In Emelie's case, having fun is the emotional trigger. "I can't laugh or joke about with my friends anymore, because when I do I get cataplexies and collapse," she said in an interview at her home in the Swedish capital.

Narcolepsy is estimated to affect between 200 and 500 people per million and is a lifelong condition. It has no known cure and scientists don't really know what causes it. But they do know patients have a deficit of a brain neurotransmitter called orexin, also known as hypocretin, which regulates wakefulness.

Research has found that some people are born with a variant in a gene known as HLA that means they have low hypocretin, making them more susceptible to narcolepsy. Around 25 percent of Europeans are thought to have this genetic vulnerability.

When results of Emelie's hypocretin test came back in November last year, it showed she had 15 percent of the normal amount, typical of heavy narcolepsy with cataplexy.

The seriousness of her strange new illness has forced her to contemplate life far more than many other young teens: "In the beginning I didn't really want to live any more, but now I have learned to handle things better," she said.

TRIGGERS?

Scientists investigating these cases are looking in detail at Pandemrix's adjuvant, called AS03, for clues.

Some suggest AS03, or maybe its boosting effect, or even the H1N1 flu itself, may have triggered the onset of narcolepsy in those who have the susceptible HLA gene variant.

Angus Nicoll, a flu expert at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), says genes may well play a part, but don't tell the whole story.

"Yes, there's a genetic predisposition to this condition, but that alone cannot explain these cases," he said. "There was also something to do with receiving this specific vaccination. Whether it was the vaccine plus the genetic disposition alone or a third factor as well - like another infection - we simply do not know yet."

GSK is funding a study in Canada, where its adjuvanted vaccine Arepanrix, similar to Pandemrix, was used during the 2009-2010 pandemic. The study won't be completed until 2014, and some experts fear it may not shed much light since the vaccines were similar but not precisely the same.

It all leaves this investigation with far more questions than answers, and a lot more research ahead.

WAS IT WORTH IT?

In his glass-topped office building overlooking the Maria Magdalena church in Stockholm, Goran Stiernstedt, a doctor turned public health official, has spent many difficult hours going over what happened in his country during the swine flu pandemic, wondering if things should have been different.

"The big question is was it worth it? And retrospectively I have to say it was not," he told Reuters in an interview.

Being a wealthy country, Sweden was at the front of the queue for pandemic vaccines. It got Pandemrix from GSK almost as soon as it was available, and a nationwide campaign got uptake of the vaccine to 59 percent, meaning around 5 million people got the shot.

Stiernstedt, director for health and social care at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, helped coordinate the vaccination campaign across Sweden's 21 regions.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the 2009-2010 pandemic killed 18,500 people, although a study last year said that total might be up to 15 times higher.

While estimates vary, Stiernstedt says Sweden's mass vaccination saved between 30 and 60 people from swine flu death. Yet since the pandemic ended, more than 200 cases of narcolepsy have been reported in Sweden.

With hindsight, this risk-benefit balance is unacceptable. "This is a medical tragedy," he said. "Hundreds of young people have had their lives almost destroyed."

PANDEMICS ARE EMERGENCIES

Yet the problem with risk-benefit analyses is that they often look radically different when the world is facing a pandemic with the potential to wipe out millions than they do when it has emerged relatively unscathed from one, like H1N1, which turned out to be much milder than first feared.

David Salisbury, the British government's director of immunization, says "therein lies the risk, and the difficulty, of working in public health" when a viral emergency hits.

"In the event of a severe pandemic, the risk of death is far higher than the risk of narcolepsy," he told Reuters. "If we spent longer developing and testing the vaccine on very large numbers of people and waited to see whether any of them developed narcolepsy, much of the population might be dead."

Pandemrix was authorized by European drug regulators using a so-called "mock-up procedure" that allows a vaccine to be authorized ahead of a possible pandemic using another flu strain. In Pandemrix's case, the substitute was H5N1 bird flu.

When the WHO declared a pandemic, GSK replaced the mock-up's strain with the pandemic-causing H1N1 strain to form Pandemrix.

GSK says the final H1N1 version was tested in trials involving around 3,600 patients, including children, adolescents, adults and the elderly, before it was rolled out.

The ECDC's Nicoll says early warning systems that give a more accurate analysis of a flu strain's threat are the best way to minimize risks of this kind of tragedy happening in future.

Salisbury agrees, and says progress towards a universal flu vaccine - one that wouldn't need last-minute changes made when a new strain emerged - would cuts risks further.

"Ideally, we would have a better vaccine that would work against all strains of influenza and we wouldn't need to worry about this ever again," he said. "But that's a long way off."

With scientists facing years of investigation and research, Emelie just wants to make the best of her life.

She reluctantly accepts that to do so, she needs a cocktail of drugs to try to control the narcolepsy symptoms. The stimulant Ritalin and the sleeping pill Sobril are prescribed for Emelie's daytime sleepiness and night terrors. Then there's Prozac to try to stabilize her and limit her cataplexies.

"That's one of the things that makes me feel most uncomfortable," she explains. "Before I got this condition I didn't take any pills, and now I have to take lots - maybe for the rest of my life. It's not good to take so many medicines, especially when you know they have side effects."

(Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Will Waterman)


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[click here] for a story about one of the biggest Big Pharma, UN, bankers, and corporate pirate enablers.

Decent People are out there

I went to a Mobil Gas Station near a semi-rotary in Malden, Massachusetts this past Sunday. I spent the last of my paper money to buy $25 of gas. John, the clerk, without my asking, offered me a cup of coffee after talking to me a bit.

He asked if I was going home to watch the game. I did not seem excited. He said from my response that I must not be a sports fan.

I talked about not being allowed to watch sports with my father. I was told I was being lazy for watching television with me. So, I never became a sports fan.

John, said I came out well even though my childhood was not the best. I agree. I will get gas in that Malden gas station just to go in to talk to John. That is if I don't have to sell my vehicle and providing I get some sort of work and pay.

I have prospects so I have no big worries yet. 

stevengerickson AT yahoo.com

Thursday, January 17, 2013

1932 - A History of the United States

How much history that is taught is pure BS? At least some of the below is probably accurate. It would be nice to have been a fly on the wall for at least some of it.

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This is something I came across and decided to upload. I do not completely agree with this video but it is worth a watch. BTW. MBUK and other British monarchists should be warned that this video definitely made a good case for the British interfering in our internal affairs.



Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Murder Mayhem Monopoly

"Soul Torture" art found here.


Are US Taxpayers paying for foreign citizens to be kidnapped, tortured, and then turned into suicide bombers to further instability and for the international bankers to occupy nations? I have seen some interesting stuff on RT America live.

Are these type of CIA/Mossad type operations occurring in the US?

Is the internet being restricted in the US to get ready to soften up the US population for invasion? What are Alex Jones and Oliver Stone warning? Is talking about their warnings an excuse to be banned from Facebook having your account terminated? Opednews.com, without warning blocked me, Steven G. Erickson, from posting or commenting. The excuse was that I listen to Alex Jones. I listen to various sources and consider the content, line item. I think it had more to do with my support of the US Constitution and 2nd Amendment.

I questioned the Connecticut State Police version of the Newtown Sandy Hook Schoolyard Shooting, and that alone might make me subject of investigation and possible arrest.

Questioning the judge nomination process, bribes, and public corruption might also be detrimental to one's health. I notified Connecticut Judiciary Committee member in Hartford about an individual who is to be nominated to be a Justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court, Andrew J. McDonald. McDonald, or his partner, may have taken 100's of thousands or even millions in no-bid contracts to taint him.

I check the pulse of the day at the Kenny's Sideshow blog for his posts and the bloggers that he puts in the right panel with links to them. I complain about being blackballed at Opednews.com here.

My main blog is found here. I post here about Judicial Abuse and Misconduct.

If you would like to give me any type of news tip, on the record, or off, please email me at:
stevengerickson AT yahoo.com

I also like to do audio interviews and then post them on video upload sites like LiveLeak.com

Enjoy the internet while you can.

We all can be put on the Secret Police Arrest on Sight and Abuse Target List.

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I found the below video in this blog post. Were there more than one shooter in the Sandy Hook incident. Is there lying about the type of guns used? Is there something fishy about the shooting? How does the Sandy Hook shooting look like it connects to the 9/11 type false flag domestic attack on American's peace of mind?





The below was found on the Sherrie Questioning All blog:

There is a lot of proof to both of those that the official story could not be as told by YOU the media. There are great blogs, alternative news sites and forums that are now doing the job of telling the truth of what is happening in the world.

 This Professor has laid out a lot of information about Sandy Hook and many questions: http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/01/06/sandy-hook-school-massacre-timeline/#more-1504

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9GxXYKx_8 (Great video that puts a lot of the shooting information/questions together)

 I have written a lot about it.:

 http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2012/12/absolute-proven-outright-media-lie.html (reporter saying she spoke with Nurse and Nancy Lanza was a Loving Kindergarten teacher)

 http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2012/12/proof-smoking-guns-sandy-hook-school.html (two rifles from the trunk, pictures)

 http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2012/12/sandy-hook-research-teachers-listed-as.html (Teachers/Victims not on School list of Staff)

 http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-sandy-hook-newtown-connecticut-2nd.html (Things not adding up in Story)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpdjFV6nYB4 (Bush says he saw first plane hit tower)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jPzAakHPpk (Larry Silverstein says "Pull It" building 7)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YphhhR47JiU (missile hitting pentegon) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZRFvavH_vk (9/11 Commissioner screws up.... says Missile hit Pentegon during interview on MSM - CNN)






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Are Cops entitled to take anyone's daughter, girlfriend, or wife?





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Child Molester Cop still free?

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The investigation began after a 15-year-old Weston boy told one of his high school teachers about his sexual relationship with Cummings, a source close to the investigation said.
That teacher contacted a Westport detective, who reported the allegation to Norwalk police. The probe was turned over to investigators in state Superior Court in Stamford.
Three months after the investigation began, Cummings was charged with having sex with two other 15-year-old boys and trying to lure another to his Dreamy Hollow condominium in Norwalk (Connecticut).
Cummings, a 24-year department veteran ... [click here for more]

Was Norwalk Officer Mathew Morrelli murdered by police and made to look like a suicide to cover-up across the board police misconduct in Norwalk? Former Norwalk Mayor Bill Collins talks about police wearing ski masks, were abducting citizens to beat them at abandoned waterfront warehouses, were putting police union stickers on his house and throwing their beer bottles up on his porch. [video]


Officer is laid to rest
NORWALK - In a solemn ceremony bound by tradition and honor, hundreds of police from as far as Canada lined up behind the flag-draped casket of patrolman and combat veteran Matthew Morelli, who died while on duty last week in an apparent suicide.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

53% of Taxes to Occupy, Kill, & Destroy?



Image was found here.

Would you vote for 53% of your US tax dollars to be used to keep building up an offensive war machine? Should we pay to occupy, kill, torture, detain, and rip off vast populations globally? Are international bankers and corporation owners the beneficiaries? Are elected officials profiting while they pretend to represent us, but don't really care what we want or what we the people think?

Should defense and spy on us funding be less than 10% of our taxes? If, so will you contact your elected officials by phone, email, and by regular postal mail right now? Word search your officials names and please contact them, right now. 

Would the economy be tanking and would we be slaves to debt if we were not forced to pay at least 53% for drone bombing and other war crimes? Should we pay for spying on ourselves and for black operations against our own people? Who is really being served here? I spout off further on LiveLeak.com and my blog

WHERE THE HELL IS YOUR TAX MONEY GOING?



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Based on a "Flashpoints" interview with Dennis Bernstein & Dave Lindorff.

directed & animated by
Chris Fontaine

produced by
Softbox

Drone/Gitmo protest closes entrance to CIA headquarters



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On Jan 12, 2013, about 100 protesters against CIA drone strikes and
"enhanced interrogations" stood blocking the Dolly Madison Blvd entrance
to the CIA. No attempt was made by police to remove them, that entrance
was simply shut down.

Since the beginning of the year, there have been 7 drone strikes into
Pakistan, killing dozens of people, after a relative lull late last
year. Meanwhile, John Brennen, author of the "kill lists," has been
nominated by Obama to become Director of Central Intelligence.


Do you want to see your tax dollars in action? Watch the below video. Journalists and children are slaughtered for fun using your tax dollars. Is the below okay with you? According to RT American 5,000,000 children die under age 5 every year, mostly in war zones. The most common form of death is starvation. If Bradley Manning helped expose the below, should he suffer or be lauded as a hero? Should Julian Assange suffer too, or be lauded as a hero?

Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq



Armed drones are flying overhead in the US. Military checkpoints are being set up. How long will it be before you and your family have to worry about the above happening to you inside the US?

More of my OpedNews.com posts can be found here.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Interview With a Gold Miner, Born in 1888

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This is footage that I came across a few years ago. It was a college film project / interview from the 70's. I was truly amazed by the story & IMO spot on views of Mr.Cleary. With that I have done a little editing & background music with the hopes that his story can be shared. After all it's not everyday we can step back in time & hear from someone born back in the 1800's.

Michael Cleary was born in 1888 and served in World War ONE. From everything I have found in looks like he passed at the age of 94 back in 1982.

Interview With a Gold Miner, Born in 1888. Footage from the 70's


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Steven G. Erickson's LiveLeak.com video uploads are [found here]

9/11 Government Hoax predicted by Reporter beforehand?

I have not been able to verify any of the below. Will viewers let me know if the below can be debunked by commenting to this post, or emailing me at stevengerickson AT yahoo.com?



9/11 predicted by Bill Cooper June 28th 2001. Warns of gun confiscation.

9/11 predicted by Bill Cooper June 28th 2001 before he was killed November 5th 2001 by Apache County Sheriffs serving an arrest warrant.


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I post real stories of judicial abuse and police brutality, especially regarding the State of Connecticut, [here]. I post reasons that I think the Sandy Hook, Newtown, Connecticut, schoolyard shooting was at least partially contrived [here]. I ask Connnecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy if abuse within the police state is okay with him [here]. Steven G. Erickson's Opednews.com writing can be [found here].

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Corruption in the U.S. Government

FORMER CIA OFFICER ROBERT STEELE ON US GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

Wednesday, January 09, 2013

I believe Sandy Hook Shooting was a Set Up

The below was placed as comment in this Opednews.com piece.

Whitey Bulger, the FBI, Mass State Police were all in bed together. The Mafia, the FBI, and the State Police would commit murders and then blame innocent citizens. It happened and it went on for years. People who got in the way got killed. What is the body count in the Clintons Arkansas drug ring? [Corbett Report]

The book, "Squeal" by Les Coleman tells how various Mafia, the Connecticut State Police, FBI, members of the courts, and government do murder for hire, gambling rackets, prostitution, extortion, loan sharking, drug running, and sex slavery. Hartford Jai-Lai was where you could hire police to commit murders. The Florida State Police would allegedly follow Connecticut State Police officers around Florida to make sure they did not commit crimes. There is a 168 page report on the Connecticut State Police when they were put on probation. Over 200 armed officers descended on the Judiciary Committee legislators and started yelling and acting like Jr. High students saying how they abuse each other whining.

An high ranking officer drove drunk the wrong way in Massachusetts for miles on the highway causing a major accident. Murder/suicides of Connecticut State Police Officers is an embarrassment. A trooper flying a helicopter made threats to blow up aircraft at the airport and kill officers and remained flying. Lying, committing perjury, and manufacturing evidence has made the Connecticut State Police famous. When aren't they lying and being complete douchebags? Yes, I believe Sandy Hook was a set up.

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There were reports that the .223 Bushmaster rifle was left in the car, then it wasn't. So which is it. The alleged shooter was a problem the day before. So, he was buzzed in the next day or the door was unlocked, really?

Was there a mask or bullet proof vest involved. Why are there no photographs or video of the shooter or of any of the victims? An event was predicted to occur right when it did.

The Department of Administrative Services and the Connecticut State Police Intelligence Unit are allowed to break laws, manufacture evidence, frame people, assault, terrorize, and even murder citizens according to insiders. Two divorced women, Kathleen Dickson and Lisa Masterson, both scientists and mothers, one in Connecticut, the other near London. Both informed on the Lyme Disease scam of treatment and testing costing Yale University, Glaxo Smith Kline, Baxter and others possibly more than a billion in lost revenue. One was listed an expert witness by the FDA. CT State Police and CT Admin Services saw to it both women were seized, put in mental hospitals, and their kids taken away in retaliation. A dangerous drug and escaped bio-weapons warfare exposed.

US Attorney, then Connecticut State Police Commissioner, now Judge John A. Danaher III allowed Tomas Foral at the height of the Anthrax Hoax to get secret probation and have his case erased after being in possession of a large amount of military grade Anthrax at the time of the Anthrax deaths. Is that fishy? 

Tuesday, January 08, 2013

The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend

We have been played. The old game of Republican against Democrat, Conservative against Liberal is a farce. It is a European style football game. The fans go at each other as the owners rake in the profits. It is a show.

Goblins hide in caves. That strategy has fallen apart. But, it lasted long enough so that international bankers have their US UN troops on American streets to claim the property they have stolen. They can sell our eyeballs, organs, and our blood on the open market. We are that big of fools.

The head of the CIA can put any American on the torture and kill list and no one will do anything that matters to stop it. The CIA is a cabal of international bankers and corporate pirates. They dictate to Obama. To them he is an unspoken joke.

Mr. Reich, you can use big words and make it look like it is some big math equation and a few criminals acting alone, but we have been pissed on and then been told it is raining. We the people can figure out that simple math.

The above text was placed as a comment in this Opednews.com article

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Dirty bombs of radioactive material are B.S. as they really aren't viable. The US and those who could be actually considered terrorists would agree.

Anthrax is really just a hoax. Big Pharma was lobbying so all of us would have to get Anthrax vaccinations. I glad they were not able to pull that scam off.

We the people, are stupid enough, that we all put up with this, including me.

Every documentary producer and writer has his, or her, own agenda. Don't believe even one word of the below, but see how you can be manipulated. I agree with a good portion of what is presented.


Wednesday, January 02, 2013

UN Whore, Obama






[This] is what the UN, Obama, and Monsanto are up to.

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Judicial Watch: List of top 10 Most Corrupt Politicians


Judicial Watch: List of top 10 Most Corrupt Politicians
(Only 10? No, i can;t believe it either. ~H.I.A.)

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2012 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:

Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice
Attorney General Eric Holder
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL)
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
President Barack Obama
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)
Rep. David Rivera (R-FL)
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius

Dishonorable Mentions for 2012 include:

Former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC)
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY)
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
Gen. David Petraeus
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)

Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL):

In July 2012, the House Ethics Committee, after a haphazard investigation, reported that Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) had omitted information on his financial disclosure forms over four years. However, the ethics committee took no action because once caught, Rep. Buchanan evidently corrected the “errors.” What, exactly, were the errors? In his disclosure statements for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, Buchanan failed to report all of his positions or ownership interests in six entities and income received from the entities.

In a separate matter, the committee continues to investigate findings of the Office of Congressional Ethics, Congress’s independent ethics review board, that there is “substantial reason to believe that Representative Buchanan attempted to influence the testimony of a witness in a proceeding before the FEC [Federal Election Commission].”

The alleged violation occurred during an FEC probe of Buchanan’s former business partner, Sam Kazran. According to Kazran, during the FEC probe, Buchanan offered him a $2.9 million settlement in a separate lawsuit if Kazran would lie about his role in a campaign cash laundering scheme involving Buchanan’s Florida car dealerships. CNN reports that the FBI is now conducting its own investigation into possible federal witness tampering.

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu:

“The final decisions on Solyndra were mine,” said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight Committee on November 17, 2011. And this should be his political epitaph. Chu’s decision to pour $528 million tax dollars into a failing green energy boondoggle that went belly-up in 2011 is indefensible and corrupt, especially in light of the fact that Solyndra’s key investor (Tulsa billionaire George Kaiser) also happens to be a major Obama campaign donor.

On March 12, 2012, Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) Energy and Oversight Committee exposed the full extent of Chu’s incompetence and corruption in a report citing “numerous examples of dysfunction, negligence and mismanagement by DOE [Department of Energy] officials, raising troubling questions about the leadership at DOE and how it has administered its loan guarantee programs.” The report accused Chu’s DOE of having “turned a blind eye to the risks that have been glaringly apparent since the inception of the program.”

Whether Chu indeed made the “final” decision on Solyndra, or is simply protecting the president and his donor, this is a scandal of a major magnitude. And yet, it is only the tip of the iceberg. As Peter Schweizer, author of the book Throw Them All Out wrote, “According to the Department of Energy’s own numbers ... In the 1705 government-backed-loan [green energy] program, $16.4 billion of the $20.5 billion in loans granted … went to companies either run by or primarily owned by Obama financial backers—individuals who were bundlers, members of Obama’s National Finance Committee, or large donors to the Democratic Party.”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice lied about the events surrounding the Benghazi massacre. Hillary Clinton, the only First Lady to have been the subject of a grand jury investigation, is a regular visitor to our Most Corrupt list, while this is a first-time appearance for Ms. Rice.

One day after the attack, on September 12, 2012, Sec. Clinton said the following: “Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior, along with the protest that took place at our embassy in Cairo yesterday, as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. America’s commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear — there is no justification for this, none.” She then joined President Obama in taping a television ad apologizing to the Muslim world for the obscure video, spending a reported $70,000 in taxpayer funds on the ad buys.

And then Rice repeated the Benghazi lie, over and over again on every major television news network. Hillary Clinton’s and Rice’s lies about one of the most significant terrorist attacks since 9/11 are, perhaps, the scandal of the year out of this administration. Little wonder that in his October 2012 testimony Eric Nordstrom, a former a top security official in Libya who was criticized for seeking more security in Benghazi, felt compelled to tell the House Oversight Committee that conversations he had with people in Washington led him to believe that it was "abundantly clear we were not going to get resources until the aftermath of an incident. How thin does the ice have to get before someone falls through?"

He said he was so exasperated at one point he told a colleague that "for me the Taliban is on the inside of the building."

Attorney General Eric Holder:

A regular on our annual Top Ten Corrupt list, Holder shamelessly operates the most blatantly politicized Department of Justice (DOJ) in a generation. And, with the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, it is no exaggeration that his agency has blood on its hands.

Fast and Furious was a reckless DOJ/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “gun-running” scheme in which guns were sold to Mexican drug cartels and others, apparently in the hope that the guns would end up at crime scenes. Well, they did – and it appears that the guns were involved in the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens, as well as the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed in a shootout with Mexican criminals in December 2010. On December 5, 2012, CBS News reported that 17 DOJ and ATF officials had been faulted in an Inspector General investigation of the Fast and Furious scandal. But, the man at the top remains unscathed, even after becoming the first attorney general in history to be cited for criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to divulge documents about DOJ lies to Congress about Fast and Furious.

Every day that Eric Holder remains at the helm, the Department of Justice sinks further into the abyss of cronyism, corruption, and deceit. And it is well past time for him to go.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL):

On November 21, 2012, Rep. Jesse Jackson resigned from Congress in disgrace, acknowledging in his statement that he had made his “share of mistakes.” This may well be the understatement of year. Jackson has been under federal investigation for alleged campaign finance improprieties, including reportedly using donor dollars to remodel his home and purchase personal gifts, a potential criminal violation. Add to that the fact that Jackson was one of the major figures implicated in the massive scandal involving jailed former Illinois Governor Rod “Blago” Blagojevich, who was brought to justice in 2011 for a number of crimes, including his efforts to “sell” President Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder. The evidence strongly suggests Jackson was one of those bidders.

Because Jackson refused to resign before the November elections, Illinois taxpayers will now be faced with costs of a special election: estimated to cost $5.1 million.

The late great Chicago newspaperman Mike Royko famously said that the official motto of Chicago should be "Ubi Est Mea -- Where's mine?" Clearly, Jackson and his cohorts have taken this motto to heart.

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ):

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) joins the Judicial Watch’s list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians for 2012” in what might be considered a sort of “Lifetime Achievement Award.”

As far back as 2007, Sen. Menendez was investigated by a federal grand jury for illegally steering lobbying business to his former chief of staff Kay LiCausi, with whom he was also romantically linked. In just a few years, her firm reported $1.3 million in business with nearly $300,000 coming from a New Jersey medical center that was later awarded government funding thanks to a push from her former boss and lover.

In 2010, Menendez and his colleague in corruption, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), allocated $8 million for a public walkway and park space adjacent to upscale, waterfront condos built by a developer whose executives have donated generously to their political campaigns. The veteran legislators have received about $100,000 in contributions from the developer, according to federal election records. Perhaps not so coincidentally, the developer’s Washington D.C. lobbyist was a longtime senior aide to Menendez.

And to top it all off, in October 2012, The Daily Caller broke the story that two women from the Dominican Republic claimed that the senator had procured their services while on Spring Break at the luxurious Casa de Campo. Then in mid-December, the Associated Press revealed that Menendez employed an illegal immigrant as an unpaid intern in his Senate office who was a registered sex offender.

President Barack Obama:

Were there a “Hall of Fame” for broken promises, here is one that would get in on the first ballot: "Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency" (President Barack Obama, January 21, 2009). Instead of transparency and the rule of law over the past four years, we have witnessed the greatest expansion of government in modern political history and, consequently, an explosion of government secrecy, scandals, and abuses of power. Among the low-lights:

• Illegal recess appointments: Perhaps former Attorney General Ed Meese and Todd Graziano summed it up best in their January 5, 2012, Washington Post guest commentary: “President Obama’s attempt to unilaterally appoint three people to seats on the National Labor Relations Board and Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (after the Senate blocked action on his nomination) is more than an unconstitutional attempt to circumvent the Senate’s advice-and-consent role. It is a breathtaking violation of the separation of powers and the duty of comity that the executive owes to Congress.”

Illegal immigration: In mid-June, Obama announced that by executive decree – and in apparent violation of his oath of office – his administration would stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. According to The AP, “the policy change … bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan …” Lest anyone doubt that Obama knew he was overriding the law of the land, in March, 2011, he said, “There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply, through executive order, ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President.”

Unprecedented secrecy: Judicial Watch has had to file almost 1,000 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and nearly 100 lawsuits against the Obama administration on issues ranging from Obamacare to the continued funding of the criminal ACORN network; from tracking Wall Street bailout money to the unconstitutional use of czars; to White House visitor logs; to the attacks on the integrity of our nation’s elections. This president touts transparency but condones law-breaking of open records laws by his administration.

Unconstitutional czars: As far back as 2009, Reuters reported, “Name a top issue and President Barack Obama has probably got a ‘czar responsible for tackling it.” By the time the Judicial Watch Special Report President Obama’s Czars was published in October 2011, the number of Obama czars had skyrocketed to 45. Largely unconfirmed by and unaccountable to the Senate, many of Obama’s czars are often outside the reach of FOIA. Some of these czars exercise unprecedented and unconstitutional control over major aspects of government policy and programs. And a number of the czars have been linked to scandals, thefts and kickbacks, flagrant and offensive statements, conflicts of interest, and radical leftist political ideologies and policies.

Use of Executive Privilege to protect Eric Holder: On June 20, 2012, Barack Obama acquiesced to a plea from Attorney General Eric Holder and asserted “executive privilege” to protect the Attorney General from being prosecuted for failing to provide Congress with Fast and Furious documents. On March 22, 2011, when asked by a Univision TV if he had been informed of the Holder gunrunning program, Obama bluntly stated, “Absolutely not. This is a pretty big government, the United States government. I’ve got a lot of moving parts.” So, as Judge Andrew Napolitano said on Fox News, “They can’t have it both ways. If the President was not personally involved, executive privilege does not apply.” To this day, President Obama refuses to detail the specific documents he is withholding from Congress.

The list could go on ad infinitum – with Benghazigate, bailouts, abusing the perks of office for luxury vacations for his family, and, of course, his personal involvement in the Solyndra scandal. But the bottom line is this: The federal government under Barack Obama is off the rails and out of control. And now, with Obama having been given the “flexibility” of a second term, it can only be expected to get worse.

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV):

A July 30, 2012, headline in the Las Vegas Review-Journal alerted Nevadans to Sen. Harry Reid’s latest influence-peddling scandal – this one involving ENN Energy Group, a Chinese “green energy” client of the Nevada law firm of which Reid’s son, Rory, is a principal.

As Reuter’s reported on August 31, 2012, “Reid has been one of the project's most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.”

“Well below appraised value” is a considerable understatement. The deal Rory Reid put together for the firm his dad brought to town saw ENN purchase the site for just $4.5 million – a mere fraction of separate appraisals that valued the property at $29.6 million and $38.6 million. Even with all of that, however, the project has failed to move forward as rapidly as Harry and Rory Reid would like – for the simple reason that there is currently no market in Nevada for the green energy ENN claims it could produce.

But, of course, funneling money to the Reid family is nothing new for the Senate Majority Leader. As the Washington Post reported in a February 7, 2012, story titled “Public projects, private interests:”

In 2004 and 2005, the Senate majority leader secured $21.5 million to build a bridge over the Colorado River, linking the gambling resort town of Laughlin, Nev., with Bullhead City, Ariz. Reid owns 160 acres of undeveloped land in Bullhead City.

And according to Peter Schweizer, writing for Fox News on December 12, 2012, “Sen. Reid has sponsored at least $47 million in earmarks that directly benefitted organizations that one of his sons, Key Reid, [RW1] either lobbies for or is affiliated with.

Needless to say, the well-entrenched Sen. Reid has been a repeat Top Ten offender.

Rep. David Rivera (R-FL):

On October 24, 2012, the Florida ethics commission found "probable cause" that Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) had committed 11 violations of state ethics laws during his time in the Florida legislature. This comes amidst reports that Rivera remains under federal investigation over his personal and campaign finances. And, in a separate matter, the congressman is under investigation by the FBI for secretly funding the campaign of Justin Lamar Sternad, a candidate running against Joe Garcia in the Democratic primary earlier this year. Garcia defeated Rivera in the November election.

The “probable cause” findings stem from an investigation by the FBI and the IRS regarding Rep. Rivera’s dealings with the Flagler Dog Track, now known as the Magic City Casino. The basis for the investigation relates to payments reportedly totaling as much as $1 million made by the casino to Millennium Marketing in the guise of a consulting contract. Most of the money is said to have been paid in 2008. Millennium Marketing is owned by Rivera’s mother and godmother, and Rivera supposedly benefited from the arrangement, and is thus the subject of a tax evasion inquiry.

For a long time, Rep. Rivera denied ever receiving any income from the dog track, but just before heading to Congress, Rivera admitted receiving $132,000 in “undisclosed loans” from Millennium. He claims he paid the money back. Investigators are also taking a close look at Rivera’s campaign spending, including $75,000 he paid in 2010 “to a now-defunct consulting company owned by the daughter of a top aide.”

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius

On September 12, 2012, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius became the first member of the President’s cabinet in U.S. history to have been found guilty of violating the Hatch Act when she campaigned for the reelection of Barack Obama in her official capacity of Secretary of HHS. According to Politico, “During a speech to the Human Rights Campaign Gala in North Carolina in February, Sebelius . . . outlined the Obama administration’s accomplishments so far and said, ‘One of the imperatives is to make sure that we not only come together here in Charlotte to present the nomination to the president, but we make sure that in November he continues to be president for another four years.’”

After the speech, Sebelius tried to cover her tracks by reclassifying the event from “official” to “political,” and claiming her appearance was in her personal capacity. The scheme didn’t work.

According to the official statement put out by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel: “The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) sent findings to the President today from its investigation of complaints of prohibited political activity by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. OSC concluded that Secretary Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made extemporaneous partisan remarks in a speech delivered in her official capacity on February 25, 2012. The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from using their official authority or influence to affect the outcome of an election.”

Thoroughly unapologetic, Ms. Sebelius justified her transgression by informing the OSC that she simply “got a little caught up in the notion that the gains which had been made would clearly not continue without the president’s reelection.” In other words, her Obamacare agenda took precedence over the law. Normally, when a government official is found violating the Hatch Act, the punishment is termination. How did President Obama respond? There was no punishment whatsoever.

Dishonorable Mentions:

Former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC):

On May 31, 2012, a jury in the corruption trial of former U.S. Senator from North Carolina and presidential candidate John Edwards said that it could not agree on a verdict for five of six counts, and U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles was forced to declare a mistrial. But, while Edwards may have been partially exonerated (he was acquitted on one count), he was certainly not vindicated.

John Edwards conducted an illicit affair with campaign employee Rielle Hunter that resulted in the birth of their daughter. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Edwards reportedly persuaded his former political aide Andrew Young to claim that he was the father of the child, and not Edwards. The ruse failed and Edwards was forced to admit to the whole sordid mess. The focus then shifted to whether Edwards unlawfully diverted campaign funds to hide the affair.

Edwards denies the claim, but according to witness testimony Hunter and Young received nearly a million dollars in “hush” payments from philanthropist Rachel “Bunny” Mellon and Texas billionaire Fred Baron, two campaign donors who did not want to see the scandal derail Edwards’ pursuit of the White House. According to an excellent analysis by Hans Von Spakovsky at the Heritage Foundation, the money paid to Edwards’ mistress was “dishonest, dishonorable, and illegal:”

“Federal law…prohibits the conversion of campaign funds to any personal use (2 U.S.C. §439a). Most important, FEC regulations state that the payment of a personal expense by any person other than the candidate is considered a contribution to the candidate, unless the payment would have been made irrespective of the candidacy (11 CFR 113.1). As the FEC said in a prior advisory opinion (AO 2008-17), the key question is, ‘Would the third party pay the expense if the candidate was not running for Federal office?’”

In short, John Edwards may have eluded the reach of the law. But, in the courtroom of public opinion he remains one of the “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2012.

Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY):

Though Staten Island’s Rep. Michael Grimm managed to eke out a reelection victory on November 6, it wasn’t because he had failed to supply his opponent with serious issues of campaign corruption. During the race, Grimm was the subject of an FBI investigation into allegations that his 2010 congressional campaign had accepted contributions over the legal limit and from noncitizen donors via Ofer Biton, a former aide to a prominent Israeli rabbi, in exchange for helping Biton obtain a green card.

According to ABC News, “In early 2012, the New York Times reported that Grimm, a devout Catholic and former agent for the FBI, allegedly accepted illegal donations from members of an Upper East Side rabbi's congregation. Ofer Biton, an Israeli citizen and a top aide to the prominent Orthodox rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, came under investigation by the FBI over allegations that Biton embezzled millions of dollars from the congregation. It is said that while campaigning with Biton, the Grimm campaign collected over $500,000 in campaign contributions.”

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano:

According a Gallup Poll, a full 62 per cent of the American people believe that stopping illegal immigration should be a top priority of the U.S. government. Unfortunately for the American people, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is not numbered among that 62%. And she is the person who is supposed to be enforcing the law. Last year, Napolitano opened the floodgates of illegal immigration by having the Department of Homeland Security review all cases then before the immigration courts with an eye towards halting the deportation of many illegal immigrants allegedly with no criminal backgrounds. (JW uncovered records demonstrating this to be an utter lie. Many of the illegals let off the hook were convicted of violent crimes.)

Not satisfied with skirting the law in 2011, Napolitano decided to abandon it altogether in 2012. Accordingly, on June 15, 2012, she announced: “By this memorandum, I am setting forth how, in the exercise of our prosecutorial discretion, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should enforce the Nation's immigration laws against certain young people who were brought to this country as children and know only this country as home.”

In short, this amounted to blanket “temporary” amnesty for illegals under the age of 30. With her single statement, she simply declared upwards of one million illegal aliens entirely legal. Just like that. No legislation. No debate. No votes. No court rulings. The Constitution of the United States notwithstanding. And, in so doing, she violated the Oath of Office she had taken when sworn in as secretary of Homeland Security on January 21, 2009: “I, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

Gen. David Petraeus:

General Petraeus was forced to resign after news leaked of his long-term extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell, a writer and military analyst who penned a Petraeus biography. Compounding the scandal are questions involving whether Petraeus’ mistress had improper access to classified information from the nation’s top spy. At the University of Denver on July 28, Broadwell said, “I had access to everything, it was my experience not to leak it, not to violate my mentor, if you will.”

There is also a major question about whether Petraeus misled Congress about the Benghazi attack in his initial congressional testimony. On September 14, just days after the attack on the consulate, Petraeus briefed congressional intelligence leaders, reportedly telling them he believed the attack was spontaneous and not carefully pre-planned. Yet on Friday, November 16, in private hearings before Senate and House intelligence committees, Petraeus changed his story. According to Fox News: “Petraeus' testimony both challenges the Obama administration's repeated claims that the attack was a "spontaneous" protest over an anti-Islam video, and according to [New York Rep. Peter] King conflicts with his own briefing to lawmakers on Sept. 14. Sources have said Petraeus, in that briefing, also described the attack as a protest that spun out of control.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA):

Judicial Watch uncovered evidence that Elizabeth Warren gave false statements under oath regarding Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) activities when she served as the agency’s interim director. According to the records, Warren and the CFPB were intimately involved in brokering a 50-state settlement underway with the nation’s largest mortgage lenders related to alleged improper foreclosure procedures. This evidence seems to contradict Warren’s statements before Congress suggesting her office responded to requests for advice, but did not seek to push its views.

During a March 16, 2011, hearing of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Ms. Warren downplayed her agency’s involvement in the state settlement negotiations: “We have been asked for advice by the Department of Justice, by the Secretary of the Treasury, and by other federal agencies. And when asked for advice, we have given our advice.”

But this does not come close to telling the full story.

Emails obtained by Judicial Watch from several states suggest her agency’s participation was far more intense and aggressive. Warren called emergency meetings by phone and in person with attorneys general nationwide to contribute unsolicited input on the matter. The documents also indicate that Warren’s office insisted on keeping its contact with the state attorneys general secret. For example, in a February 25, 2011, email to the Executive Committee of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), Iowa Assistant Attorney General Patrick Madigan wrote: “Elizabeth Warren would like to present the CFPB’s view on loan modifications.” Two weeks earlier, a similar email was distributed to NAAG’s Loss Mitigation Subgroup on Warren’s behalf. In an email on February 15 regarding that meeting, Madigan points out that “The CFPB wanted me to stress the confidential nature of this briefing.”

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA):

In early December, Democrats chose the scandal-plagued Rep. Maxine Waters to be the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee despite her many transgressions over the years. The influential congresswoman has helped family members make more than $1 million through business ventures with companies and causes that she has helped, according to her hometown newspaper.

In August 2010, Waters’ influence peddling earned the attention of a subcommittee of the House Ethics Committee which charged Rep. Waters with three counts of violating House rules and ethics regulations in connection with her use of power and influence on behalf of OneUnited Bank. After a highly controversial investigation, plagued by accusations of impropriety and corruption, on September 12, the committee failed to hold Waters to account for steering a $12 million to OneUnited, in which she and her board member husband held shares.

The Financial Services Committee, among other responsibilities, has jurisdiction over all issues pertaining to; you guessed it, the banking system.


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