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Residents in a Sunnyvale neighborhood say a secretive Apple facility is changing the face of their neighborhood, for the worse.
"At three in the morning, they have deliveries. It's very dark, very secretive. We don't know what's going on, but almost every night there is noise that wakes the dogs up," Joann Porter said.
Neighbors on Bartlett Avenue near the facility said security guards tail them when they walk their dogs. "You have security guards following you in their cars," Porter said.
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Now, it appears we have our answer. On Tuesday, an apparent attempt at satirical understatement in actuality proved to be nothing less than a blatant propagandistic fluff piece touting Clinton's ostensibly stellar career.
It didn't work.
"Female Presidential Candidate Who Was United States Senator, Secretary Of State Told To Be More Inspiring," read The Onion's not-at-all-opaque headline. And the nauseating attempt at tongue-in-cheek praise didn't stop there.
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The EU is experiencing extensive political threats and upheaval from left and right of centre political groups angry at EU imposed austerity. Greece is being raped by its so-called partners and it is just one of several other EU states en-route to ruin.
The declining global economic picture provides all the more reason for the corporations to look for new avenues of revenue. But which businesses are pushing most for the proposed EU-US trade deal TTIP? And who is really influencing EU negotiators? And just how are the rights of European citizens represented in the biggest trade deal in history?
Just in Brussels alone, there are now over 30,000 corporate lobbyists, shadowy agitators as The Guardian puts it, who are responsible for influencing three quarters of legislation in the EU. But even they are left in the shade when it comes to the power being afforded to corporations in the TTIP negotiations.
Comment: The lack of transparency and closed door meetings is a huge red flag, highlighting the fact that the TTIP represents a huge endowment to multi-national corporations and will further erode any rights that individuals and countries now have to fight these behemoths.
- TTIP is boring, but very sinister
- How the TTIP will violate your human rights
- Still in the dark: UK MPs can view TTIP files - but only take a pencil and paper with them
- The TTP and TTIP trade agreements: "A dystopian future in which corporations rather than elected governments call the shots"
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will destroy jobs, not create new ones
- The Truth behind the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
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If by now you still have any lingering doubts about the widening disconnect between police and civilians — or the culture of violence and contempt rampant in police culture — this footage could tip your opinion. Though the incident was captured on video by dash camera and audio by body cam, it was only released on Thursday following a Freedom of Information Act request by the Record-Journal.
Officer John Slepski arrived on the scene on September 19, 2015, and approached the sleeping man — whom he immediately referred to as a "f***ing a**hole." Officer John Slezak, already standing over the clearly intoxicated individual, seems as if he's attempting to mitigate the potential that Slepski might go overboard in the interaction.
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Comment: Or so they hope.
The Cygnus cargo vessel was first launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in December to take supplies such as food, clothing and scientific equipment to the station.
On Friday, two months since arriving at the station, the unmanned craft was filled with garbage and launched back into space while the station was in orbit over Bolivia.
The incident occurred in January of 2014 when the company spilled a coal cleaning agent into the Elk River in Charleston. The chemical ended up getting funneled into the drinking water for nine different counties.
Company owner Dennis Farrell and company president Gary Southern were the only executives to receive any jail time.
It is the ultimate monopoly game, but there are those who are willing to put up a fight to keep cash in the game.
The powers that be on Wall Street and in the central banks are aiming to eliminate paper money in large part to continue "sustaining and even intensifying the central banks' nightmarish experiment with negative interest rates" - a doubly dangerous effort for economic
And banks stand to have all the control as digital transactions flow through their institutions, closely monitored and accumulating fees, penalties and charges that enrich the banks and hold customers hostage.
Despite this ruling, Americans from sea to shining sea continue to call for the arrest, or even death, of those who'd dare express their opinion through the use of the Old Glory.
The very essence of freedom is tolerating peaceful forms of expression, no matter how uncomfortable they make us feel. Sadly missing the point, however, are folks who fail to understand that burning or desecrating a flag without fear of punishment from one's government, is what liberty is all about.
That being said, when police are called in to investigate a photo of a high school student standing on a flag, as if a crime has taken place, liberty for all is under attack.
Comment: More examples of blind adherence to a piece of cloth that most certainly does not represent freedom and liberty.
- Teacher could be fired for stomping on U.S. flag
- Florida man's upside down flag protest upsets neighborhood on Veterans Day
© MALDEF / YouTubeRobert F. Kennedy and Paul Schrade
Letter from RFK Jr. Supports New Investigation
The ban on video and audio recordings at Sirhan Sirhan's parole hearing on February 9 meant the world depended on the one reporter allowed inside the hearing to tell us what happened. He had to condense "more than three hours of intense testimony" into 854 words.
Elliot Spagat's lively account of the proceeding for the Associated Press omitted one very important document that shooting victim and Kennedy family friend Paul Schrade presented to the parole board. This was a letter from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to US Attorney General Eric Holder, dated September 25, 2012, supporting Schrade's request for a new investigation of his father's murder:
Paul was a close friend and advisor to my father. He was standing beside my father when Daddy was killed and Paul was himself wounded by a bullet. With boundless energy and clear mind, Paul continues to pursue my father's ideas, an endeavor to which he has devoted his life. He organized with the support of my mother and my family the building of the new Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools on the former Ambassador Hotel site. Paul and his team...strongly believe this new evidence is conclusive and requires a new investigation. I agree and support his request for a new investigation.
Comment: For a deeper look at how the 'Deep State' constructs and perpetrates assassinations and the myth of the 'lone nutter,' watch the profoundly insightful must-see documentary: 'Evidence of Revision: The Assassination of America'.
© Umit Bektas / ReutersCars of emergency services arrive after an explosion in Ankara, Turkey February 17, 2016
The TAK, which is a splinter group of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), vowed to continue its attacks, Reuters reported, citing the group's statement published on Friday.
It identified the perpetrator of the Ankara bombing as a 26-year-old Turkish national born in the eastern city of Van.
The militant group operates in Turkey and northern Iraq and is regarded as a terrorist organization by Ankara and the US. It has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks since 2004. The latest one was the December mortar attack at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport that killed one man and damaged five aircraft.
The TAK has said that it severed links with the PKK. The latter, in turn, has reportedly denied having any control over the TAK.
Comment: So much for Erdogan's hysterical "Those damn dirty Syrian Kurds done it!" ranting and raving. (Not that it was believable in the slightest.) As for TAK, they seemingly came out of nowhere in 2004. No one seems to know who started the group. Which is curious, to say the least. Who pulls their strings?
In all probability, 'splinter group' is here code for 'intelligence outfit pretending to be the opponent', or 'pseudo-gangs' as the British counter-insurgency operatives called them. Whether or not the Turkish government was directly involved, the Ankara bombing was very probably a NATO operation.
It is simply far too convenient that 'terrorist attacks' are happening in Turkey at a time when the 'Mad Mullah' in charge there is exterminating Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iraq - for which he badly needs Western public support - and his direct involvement in funding and arming ISIS has been exposed to all the world by Russia.
Comment: See also: Did the Onion just sell out? Top Killary supporter and Zionist now controls satire outlet
Not surprisingly, the Onion also published an article lambasting Killary's main competition in the presidential
racefarce:'I Can't Do This Again,' Shaking, Sweating Donald Trump Says After Nervously Vomiting Before Rally
R.I.P Onion. Thanks for the laughs.