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Do you receive free lunch at work? The IRS wants to tax it...

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:23 UTC
IRS
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The IRS. There are few agencies more hated, corrupt, and degraded in the entire nation, and that's saying a lot.

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past couple of years, you are well aware of the fact that the IRS was caught consistently abusing its extraordinary power in order to selectively target groups with which leadership disagreed with politically.

We also know that the IRS, and its former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit, Lois Lerner, subsequently destroyed evidence of misconduct by claiming emails had been lost and are unrecoverable, in a ludicrous series of purported events.

I thought the following Tweet summarized my sentiments as well as anything else I have seen.
One thing the celebrity nude pictures story shows us is the only thing ever permanently deleted from the internet is Lois Lerner's emails.

- Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) September 2, 2014
So with the scandal now behind the IRS, and nobody held accountable as usual, at least we can rest assured that the tax agency has finally gotten its priorities straight.
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Top web companies to join internet slowdown protest for net neutrality


RT
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:03 UTC
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Leading web companies like Mozilla, Foursquare and reddit will take part in the Internet Slowdown protest next week to urge US authorities to change their view on a proposal that allows the creation of "fast lanes" on the internet for some companies.

The protesting companies will display a widget with a "loading" symbol on their websites to show how the internet would look should the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) impose the law, thus overturning "net neutrality" rules.

The FCC proposed rules will allow cable giants like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to create a two-tiered internet, with "slow lanes" for most internet companies, and "fast lanes" for corporations that are willing to pay extra for a faster service.

According to the new rules cable companies would have the power to discriminate against online content and applications, shake sites down for fees, block content for political reasons, and make it easier for internet users to view content the cable companies own.

Some of the world's largest internet companies, including Etsy, Kickstarter, Mozilla, reddit, imgur, Foursquare, Vimeo, and Wordpress announced on Thursday they will join more than 35 advocacy organizations and hundreds of thousands of activists on September 10 to show how the internet might look if the FCC's proposed rules go into effect.

However the FCC has left open the possibility of reclassifying internet service as a telecommunications service, and require internet service providers to deliver all content at equal speeds.

The protest comes just five days before the FCC's next comment deadline on September 15th.
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Irony RIP: Tony Blair wins Philanthropist of the Year

Damian Thompson
The Spectator
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 12:11 UTC
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© (Photo: GQ/Getty)Me? Really?
Satire died when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, said Tom Lehrer. Now irony has followed it to the grave. GQ's Philanthropist of the Year is Tony Blair. And no, this isn't some cunning wind-up by the magazine. They gave the former PM a bauble at a ceremony last night. I'd like to say that Blair looks suitably embarrassed holding it, but nope. Neither he nor the lady wife 'do' embarrassment.

Even nice Gary Lineker had a go at GQ on Twitter. 'People will be greatly concerned and wonder if this was the right decision,' he tweeted when the news came through. They will indeed wonder. Employing four-letter words, I suspect.

I would love to have been at the Condé Nast meeting at which this one was agreed. I won't risk a libel action by speculating about the conversation, but please let your imaginations roam. The tribute to the winner on GQ's website reads: 'In 2007 Tony Blair stepped down as prime minister, but his surging momentum's shown no signs of slowing.' So that's another ceremony to look forward to: Private Eye awards Dylan Jones the Order of the Brown Nose (OBN).

Comment: How obscene! A more appropriate award would have been 'Hypocrite of the Year'! Or 'Psychopath of the Year' (backdated for 2003 in particular - Iraq War turkey shoot!)

Tony Blair is a psychopathic war criminal. For more articles on this generous 'peace envoy' and philanthropist, see here and here and here!

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Ten mind control techniques used today to create non-thinking automatons

Nicolas West
Newswatch.us
Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:17 UTC
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The more one researches mind control, the more one will come to the conclusion that there is a coordinated script that has been in place for a very long time with the goal to turn the human race into non-thinking automatons. For as long as man has pursued power over the masses, mind control has been orchestrated by those who study human behavior IN ORDER TO bend large populations to the will of a small "elite" group. Today, we have ENTERED a perilous phase where mind control has taken on a physical, scientific dimension that threatens to become a permanent state if we do not become aware of the tools at the disposal of the technocratic dictatorship unfolding on a worldwide scale.

Modern mind control is both technological and psychological. Tests show that simply by exposing the methods of mind control, the effects can be reduced or eliminated, at least for mind control advertising and propaganda. More difficult to counter are the physical intrusions, which the military-industrial complex CONTINUES to develop and improve upon.

1. Education -

This is the most obvious, yet still remains the most insidious. It has always been a would-be dictator's ultimate fantasy to "educate" naturally impressionable children, thus it has been a central component to Communist and Fascist tyrannies throughout history. No one has been more instrumental in exposing the agenda of modern education than Charlotte Iserbyt - one can begin research into this area by downloading a FREE PDF of her book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, which lays bare the role of Globalist foundations IN SHAPING a future intended to produce servile drones lorded over by a fully educated, aware elite class.
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West Bank: Orphanage dairy factory demolished by Israeli army


Global Research News
Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:00 UTC
Dairy factory destruction
© twitter.comIsraeli forces destroying Arrahma Dairy Factory in Hebron City
Israeli soldiers invaded on Tuesday, at dawn, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and initiated the destruction of a dairy factory that belongs to the Islamic Charitable Society for Orphans, in the city.

Eyewitnesses said that dozens of soldiers, accompanied by armored bulldozers, broke into the dairy factory in the ar-Rahma neighborhood, east of Hebron, and declared the area a closed military zone, preventing journalists and residents from entering it.

Sheikh Hatem al-Bakri, head of the administrative board of the Islamic Charitable Society, said the factory provides the needed means for caring for the orphans in the Hebron District.
"What is happening is an attack on the orphans themselves: several months ago, the army confiscated various machines with an estimated monetary value of $2 million," al-Bakri told the Maan News Agency. "This factory is essential for the services, and charitable aid we provide."
He added that the society contacted its legal advisor, lawyer Jawad Boulos, who informed them that Israel alleges the factory, and the charitable society are "run by Hamas".

orphans, destruction
© www.maannews.netIsrael targets orphans with acts of terror.
"However, the children, the orphans, are the ones who pay the price for Israel's assaults and allegations," Boulos stated.

The Charitable Society decided to open this factory in order to fund services it provides to the orphans, especially with the rising costs amidst the tough conditions in the Palestinian territories, under Israel's illegitimate occupation.

Comment: If you think Israel targeting Palestinian orphans is new, think again. In 2008, for example, hundreds of Israeli occupation troops stormed a Palestinian orphanage and boarding school in Hebron and looted millions of dollars worth of food, dairy products, clothes, shoes, refrigerators, kitchen equipment, crates of frozen meat, sanitary supplies, sports equipment, blankets and mattresses...used by as many as 7,000 orphans, run by the Islamic Charitable Society. They forced open the main gate and loaded everything on trucks in order to liquidate social and educational infrastructures at the price of innocent children. On this same rampage, Israel confiscated several school buildings, an orphanage, a supermarket, several apartment buildings, school busses and destroyed other businesses - - looting computers, cabinets, furniture, appliances and even taking the windows. This was organized robbery. Gestapo style. Heartless. Pathological.

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The destruction of higher education in 5 basic steps

Debra Leigh Scott
Alternet.org
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:56 UTC
Higher education is not what it used to be, and that's no accident.
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A few years back, Paul E. Lingenfelter began his report on the defunding of public education by saying,
"In 1920 H.G. Wells wrote, 'History is becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' I think he got it right. Nothing is more important to the future of the United States and the world than the breadth and effectiveness of education, especially of higher education. I say especially higher education, but not because pre- school, elementary, and secondary education are less important. Success at every level of education obviously depends on what has gone before. But for better or worse, the quality of postsecondary education and research affects the quality and effectiveness of education at every level."
In the last few years, conversations have been growing like gathering storm clouds about the ways in which our universities are failing. There is talk about the poor educational outcomes apparent in our graduates, the out-of-control tuition and crippling student loan debt. Attention is finally being paid to the enormous salaries for presidents and sports coaches, and the migrant worker status of the low-wage majority faculty. There are movements to control tuition, to forgive student debt, to create more powerful "assessment" tools, to offer "free" university materials online, to combat adjunct faculty exploitation. But each of these movements focuses on a narrow aspect of a much wider problem, and no amount of "fix" for these aspects individually will address the real reason that universities in America are dying.

Comment:
  • The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

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Another two New York school districts drop Michelle Obama's lunch program

Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:42 UTC
Another two bite the dust.
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Central New York's Fayetteville-Manlius and Baldwinsville school districts are the latest to ditch the National School Lunch Program, which was revamped in 2010 under the guidance of First Lady Michelle Obama in an effort to fight childhood obesity.

Strict limits on calories, fat, sugar, carbohydrates, sodium and other aspects of the school lunch imposed by the federal government on schools participating in the free and reduced lunch program has not only increased cafeteria costs, they've resulted in a drastic drop in the number of participating students.

At Fayetteville-Manlius, Baldwinsville, and thousands of other districts the new regulations resulted in a sharp downturn in students who eat school lunch and a sharp increase in food waste. The lost sales are threatening the viability of cafeteria programs in schools across the country, prompting many to do without federal subsidies to serve students food they'll actually buy and eat.

"Grilled cheese and tomato soup was a very popular lunch," Baldwinsville Superintendent David Hamilton told WRVO public media. "We couldn't offer that under the new guidelines of the federal government. Spaghetti and meatballs, we couldn't offer that either."

As a result of last year's school lunch menu high school lunch sales in Baldwinsville plummeted from about 600 to 430 students per day.
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Hospital in Liberia runs out of protective equipment to keep staff safe from Ebola

Mike Stobbe, Denise Lavoie and Krista Larson
Breitbart
Thu, 04 Sep 2014 01:41 UTC
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The hospital in Liberia where three American aid workers got sick with Ebola has been overwhelmed by a surge in patients and doesn't have enough hazard suits and other supplies to keep doctors and nurses safe, a missionary couple told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The latest infection -- of Rick Sacra, a doctor who wasn't even working in the hospital's Ebola unit -- shows just how critical protective gear is to containing the deadly epidemic, and how charities alone can't handle the response, they said.

Nancy Writebol and her husband, David, called for reinforcements during the AP interview, which followed her first news conference since recovering from Ebola disease. They work for North Carolina-based SIM, the charity that supports the ELWA hospital in Monrovia, Liberia.

About 250 staffers at the hospital use thousands of disposable protective suits each week, but that's not enough to fully protect the doctors and nurses who must screen people entering the emergency room or treat patients outside the 50-bed Ebola isolation unit, they said.
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Arizona forces statuary rape victim to pay child support


RT
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:12 UTC
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A 24-year-old Arizona man is being asked to pay more than $15,000 in child support for a daughter he fathered at the age of 14 - and didn't know existed until two years ago.

The Arizona Republic reported this week that the man, Nick Olivas, is legally a victim of rape since he was younger than 15 when he engaged in a sexual relationship a decade ago with a women who was 20 at the time.

According to the paper, Olivas only learned two years ago that his daughter existed when he was served with legal papers demanding he pay child support for the six years he wasn't around for a daughter he never heard of.

"It was a shock," he told the paper. "I was living my life and enjoying being young. To find out you have a 6-year-old? It's unexplainable. It freaked me out."

The Republic reported that Olivas ignored the paperwork when he was first asked to pay up two years ago, and failed to take a paternity test to confirm his relationship with the daughter. The Arizona Department of Economic Security division of Child Support Services has since tracked him down, however, and now tells the paper he's been compelled to pay around $15,000 in back child support, as well as the hospital bills for his daughter's birth, with 10 percent interest added on top. To collect the funds, the state is now taking $380 each month from his paycheck.

Olivas told the Republic for an article published on Tuesday this week that he has no issue with making payments to help with his daughter moving forward, but doesn't think he should be held accountable for the six years in which he was never told he was a father.

"Anything I do as an adult, I should be responsible for," he said. "But as a teenager? I don't think so."
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Celebrity nude photos hack turns into child porn case


RT
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:35 UTC
Kirsten Dunst
© AFP Photo / Carl CourtUS-German actress Kirsten Dunst
Investigations into the hacking of celebrities' iPhone accounts, which resulted in the leak of nude or semi-nude photos of various female personalities, have turned into a child abuse case, as one alleged victim was under 18 when some photos were taken.

Lawyers for US Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney have served a legal demand on porn.com, which has hosted the photos originally released on the online forum 4chan, according to The Guardian.

The demand came even after Maroney denied the pictures were actually of her.

Anyone who owns or shares - this includes all views or downloads - photos of anyone under the age of 18 is subject to prosecution pursuant to US law. The FBI announced Monday that it was "addressing" the leak of around 400 images of about 100 female celebrities.

A vulnerability in Apple iCloud - which backs up photos taken on iPhones - allowed a hacker to access photos in protected celebrity accounts. Apple said Tuesday that "we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the internet" and that "we are continuing to work with law enforcement to help identify the criminals involved."

In a message to supporters on Monday, the person who claims to have led the photo hack-and-dump operation said he had to move to a new location to avoid authorities. He asked for bitcoin donations to aid further photo leaks by his group.
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